When Steven says "You don't poof easy, huh?" he's referring to Peridot. He's also noting, for the audience, that different gems have varying levels of resistance to being poofed. This will be important when the diamonds are eventually fought.
That is all.
Posted Aug 29, 2017, 3:37 PM UTC
I really think he's just trying to justify the Wile E. Coyote plot. For the episode to function, for the slapstick to work, there has to be a reason Peridot's not poofing.
Also a reason for the fans to wait even more for Peridot's star
Since Peri's VA already hinted at it
Eh, Peridot sustained the same type of damage in Keeping It Together and Catch & Release.
There are only two gemstones on Earth that form below the crust: peridots and diamonds.
Which makes me think that the only reason the Diamonds might be more resilient than Peridot is because they're gigantic.
An alternate perspective is that diamonds are brittle. You can shatter than with a hammer.
My sort-of crack theory is that the big secret is that the diamonds are glass cannons. All offense, no defense.
Can you shatter peridots with a hammer?
Let's try.
Hey Peri…
Wasn't think kind of obvious? It'd be weird if every Gem had the exact same level of physical resilience when some are soldiers and some are secretaries.
Not to mention we've seen varying degrees of poof-resistance already, like Jasper surviving a blow that poofed the thing she was riding, or how the Bird Monster split up when damaged instead of poofing, or Sugilite only poofing after being brained by her own weapon, or Alexandrite (barely) staying fused despite taking an impressive amount of damage from one of the show's strongest characters.
I thought it was pretty simple who shattered pink diamond, white did after rose poofed her, see pyramid mural from Serious Steven.
Well how a simple Quartz soldier managed to poofed and SHATTERED Pink Diamond?
I still not buying about Rose shattered PD because why would a member of high-ranking Gems easily get shattered by a sword that supposed to NOT shattered gems.
Thats the point. Rose didnt shatter pink. But someone did....
So what you're saying is... Peridot shattered Pink Diamond?!
Lol yeah with her hair.
But my theory is yellow, in a coup
Based on Yellow's reaction I agree, but the Zircon's arguments make me think it was Pearl in a traitorous assassination.
... or did they?
Plot twist: Gems can spontaneously shatter but the Diamonds were too proud to admit it happened to Pink so they blamed Rose.
Yep, this is totally what happened.
Dun dun dunnn!
I think it's possible that Rose DID shatter Pink. My theory is that the diamonds are very resistant to being poofed, just as diamonds are difficult to scratch. They would be easy to shatter in this case, (similar to how easy it it is to cut/break diamonds along their cleavage) and it may explain how Rose shattered Pink with the sword. It makes sense, but it's still unlikely.
I still think she did, because she had to have, since the series has been building her dark secrets for a while. It's just that her story doesn't totally add up, so there's something else going on. I doubt she really did do it with the sword.
But Bismuth says Rose's Sword wouldn't able to shattered a Gem.
That would causes a continuity error since why would Bismuth creates Breaking Point if Rose's Sword managed to shattered a member of high-ranking Gems?
That makes me think about something more... If Rose refused to use the breaking point, why would she shatter Pink Diamond?
But I think that the breaking point was created while the war was going on, so Rose already had shattered Pink Diamond and she didn't want to shatter anyone else...
I don't know, there are many posibilities...
Personally, I don't think the gem time has a bearing on being pooped, but being shattered. Diamonds are one of the strongest substances on the world, and can only be cut by other diamonds - I think this ties into their surprise at Pink being shattered by a quartz. Poofing the diamonds won't be too hard, shattering them is a different matter. The size and strength of the gems might also make them hard to bubble, and this isn't even including the amount of guards they're likely to have with them.
Haha... you said pooped!
The hardness scale is for scratching -- shattering a diamond is not as hard.
From wiki:
Unlike hardness, which denotes only resistance to scratching, diamond's toughness or tenacity is only fair to good. Toughness relates to the ability to resist breakage from falls or impacts. Because of diamond's perfect and easy cleavage, it is vulnerable to breakage. A diamond will shatter if hit with an ordinary hammer.
is a joke
Besides, high impact pokey stuff is pretty universal. I really don't think any gem will be able to shrug those off any time soon.
I do think it has to do with emotions tho. Amethyst has been poofed quite easily when she was feeling vulnerable before. Peridot in that episode was committed and dedicated. In my native language we call it "hard headed" meaning dead set on achieving it. Thus she would be harder to poof. Back when garnet did it, she was scared.
I honestly would't treat that episode as plot-heavy. It was literally just like those old cartoon shows with punching bag characters, and Peridot was the punching bag in it.
I refuse to belive that a boulder falling from a hill is weaker than a hug from Garnet.
Garnet is pretty strong tbf.
Still. Peridots are technicians and not fightning Gems, therefore they should't have that much resistence to things. While Garnet might be stronger than a boulder, a boulder should be just enough.
If they'd played it off like an old cartoon I'd agree but Steven specifically commented on how tough she is. For whatever reason Peridots (or 'our Peridot' or even just our Peridot in that specific situation) are tough.
*That will be all.
FTFY
Hasn't it been confirmed by one of the writers that Diamonds actually can't poof?
One of the writers implied that the Diamonds cannot be poofed, which implies that they can only be shattered. Someone asked if the diamonds have ever changed their forms after being poofed, and he responded with "A diamond poofing? HAHAHAHA" So who knows. My theory is that our Pearl accidentally shattered her with Rose's sword, thinking that she would be poofed.
I don't think this is as groundbreaking as you think it is considering they utilized the implied fact of this by having Jasper poof Garnet. The dramatics from that scene far outweigh any foreshadowing for getting the point across. Garnet is the tough one. It's obvious she doesn't poof easy but what's more important is how much stronger homeworld gems can be while still being more resistant to poofing.
Jasper did not poof Garnet on her own merits. She used a Gem Destabilizer which has the exact function to poof a gem. Strength had nothing to do with it.
Yeah, I just actually read his reply, and most of it doesn't make sense.
Fair but it's still a big moment that shows how their only upper hand is their feelings
How does it show that? It's more of a surprise because we've never seen a weapon like that before. In that moment specifically, we didn't even KNOW Garnet was a fusion at all. Sorry but this just doesn't add up.
Lol ok
I think this is exactly as groundbreaking as I think it is.
That's why it's a theory and not fact
UuuuuuuuUm, no.
So you're trying to pass it off as fact that there's foreshadowing in this instant?
This will also be interesting, when Peridot fuses. Assuming this also translates to her fusion or even get amplified, this would make for an extremely resistant beeing.
I mean... I thought that was already implied when Jasper exploded and ship without poofing... After that, Peridots comedic poof resistance wasn't all that impressive lol
I always thought it was just saying we'd have to wait a while for her to get her star
"You don't poof easy, huh?"
Even though Garnet popped her like a baloon
Yes, and Garnet has the strength of Ronaldo
Pretty sure that Garnet squeezing really hard doesn't sum up to the damage Peridot took in "The Kindergarten Kid"
Bear hug > 6-ton rock landing on your head from a 100yd drop
Gems in general are pretty immune to drops. Ruby, Jasper, and Lapis all fell out of orbit and the crystal gems regularly jumping across beach city, but none have been proofed from the falls.
well, Peridot on that episode has been beaten many times.
I've seen an interesting theory about this. Peridot is pretty resilient to PHYSICAL damage, which is very important for a Gem that deals with unstable terrain (like a kindergarten) and is one of the first to go to a new planet. However, she is not very resistant to GEM (hard light) damage, which is why she poofed so easily when Garnet grabbed her. The same thing happened to Lapis: she was poofed by Bismuth in a single punch (flashback in The Same Old World), but a ship crash merely stunned her for a few seconds.
Or maybe because the punch was on her gem.
It wasn't only Garnet squeezing her, that was just the finishing touch. Before that, Peridot got electrocuted and slammed into the ground with a whip.. That must be pretty painful. Plus, her limb enhancers were already damaged from previous attempts at capturing her. Still, that doesn't equal the amount of carnage she took in Kindergarten kid..