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Adam ,when Shiro and Keith are about to do something hella dumb, and he wants them to stop, but he also wants to see how it ends.

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Okay all right give me ONE more SU post because I ADORED the space garden scene. God I love the device of a robot/immortal whatever standing and waiting in the same place for eons just because they were told to and when I realised that’s what this was I got so excited

Even the establishing shot is heartbreaking, it was obviously an intricate place of importance but it’s rotted to nothing, there’s visual motifs of it literally hanging by a thread

You can tell from the animation why Pink left her ‘toy’ behind. She was gonna be a real Diamond with her own planet and that meant she had to grow up. The garden and the neverending playtime with Spinel represent Pink’s childhood and you can see when she’s on the phone with Blue and Yellow and Spinel keeps bouncing into the shot, she’s embarrassed. She wants to be a proper Diamond with colonies and she won’t have time to play any more, but she doesn’t do the difficult thing and explain this. She strings Spinel along because it’s easier and she has her trust. Diamonds have trouble seeing non-diamonds as worthy of time or respect.

Then you get the refrain “Happily watching her drift away” with the extension, a full bar to itself before the key change, on ‘drift’, making you wait for it to conclude, just like Spinel, making you focus on the drift, the slow, gradual separation of something you don’t want to acknowledge, the three beats desperately holding on until the fourth one dives into the minor. 

Finally you get the impact: the years passing, hundreds of them. Hundreds, and her smile has only dimmed a little. Like all SU songs that explore relationships between magical mineral aliens, the lyrics are metaphorical and applicable to ourselves when taken out of context. 

“Happily wondering, night after night,  Is this how it works? Am I doing it right? Happy to listen. Happy to stay.  Happily watching her drift away.  You keep on turning pages For people who don’t care, people who don’t care about you. And still it takes you ages To see that no-one’s there, see that no-one’s there, see that no-one’s there Everyone’s gone on without you.”

It’s any relationship with a person who doesn’t give you emotional support. Leaving you thinking you must be doing something wrong and it’s up to you to figure it out and do better, on your own. It could be any relationship with a person who’s physically present, keeping you around, but isn’t interested any more and hints that it’ll all go back the way it was if you play their game correctly. You become an outsider to a life you thought you lived in as someone you love replaces you with others and doesn’t have the honesty to tell you things have changed. 

After 6000 years we catch up with the present day and connect to the foreshadowing at the beginning. The broadcast going out to a seemingly uninhabited wasteland. 

Spinel can hardly move, her feet are nearly merged with the ground. Pink said ‘stand very still’ and she never so much as unclasped her hands.

Spinel relives the memory of the emotional impact and we get to see it, when she realised nobody had thought about her for 6000 years, nobody was coming back, that she could have used the teleporter to leave any time and nobody was going to reward her diligence for trying so hard to play the ‘game’ of her last instructions. 

As usual, SU uses the framing of immortal, mentally-programmed gems to dig down into the extremely human problems of misusing power, and loving somebody more than they love you.

Then having relived the experiences that made her her, like the others, Spinel changes form to before she was reset. By losing her memories she was able to act without malice, but in order to start recovering, she has to allow herself to acknowledge that she was misused. She later says that nobody would want her in that form - the one in disarray, unkempt, with a mimicry of mascara streaks down her cheeks from crying. She’s ashamed to have loved and been hurt, implies she should have known better. 

The rest of the finale is trying to figure out how to help Spinel recover without erasing what she went through, so she can live with it and realise it wasn’t her fault. 

Steven starts a duet with her and tells her she can learn to love again and she deserves better, in which the line “You just need to find someone” ends on another elongated beat, and Spinel repeats the same drop in cadence from the “drift” in Drift Away, but the song has Steven lead her from that painful memory into a new tune. She can’t go back to the person she was before and she can’t remove the effects on her personality or appearance from being mistreated, but she can still have a future.

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Spinel's Fight

So, in Other Friends, it at first seemed strange to me Spinel fought so well for a Gem who was built for play fighting for the first time in her life, but when I looked back at it, I realized why. She's not fighting. She's playing.

Just look at how she moves.

She's bouncing around, stretching, contorting. She's bouncing them around, stretching out to grab them. She isn't fighting the gems, she's playing with them. That's why she's so at ease. She's treating the fight like a game. How much do you want to bet she and Pink played Tag and she used her powers exactly the same way to avoid being touched? Spinel might not have actual combat experience but she no doubt has experience evading around a larger gem. And the way she grabs things with her elongated arms? Practice from doing so with other objects, possibly heavier than Steven or the gems depending on Pinks taste. This even extends to her use of the scythe.

Again, it seems odd she'd be so good with a weapon she's never seen before. But then I realized, much like the fight, she's treating it like play or a game. I could easily see Pink having Spinel twirl a baton around for hours to entertain her. Spinel no doubt has ample experience twirling a large staff around so adjusting to a scythe was easy. All she had to do was adjust to the blade.

Spinel didn't fight so well because she's got any kind of skill for it. She fought so well because she was just doing what came naturally to her. And that's why she struggles so much in the final battle. She's fighting seriously and upfront. Instead of playing around, she tries direct confrontation. But that's not where her strength lies. And it ended up costing her.

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Abandonment

What it can do to you. This entire movie had me up a wall I dont even know where to begin.

They really got the details right when it comes to being abandoned. How spinel didnt want to be away from Steven even if it was for a second. How she got angry when he ask her to wait there.

I also noticed the small moments where spinel kept feeling like she was being left out or abandoned when she wasnt getting enough attention. The moment where she says "I just felt a bunch of feelings come back to me" which is exacly what happens there triggers from trama shes had

And can we PLEASE talk about how when they were singing "found" shes chosing steven!! As they say shell learn to love again with someone she follows his footsteps and reaches for him and Steven motions someone out there and points to the world. but shes looking at him...

What probably hit the most is once spinel and Steven were actually friends. And she disabled the thing that was going to destroy earth. She was sent in a state of panic paranoia and fear. Jumping to conclusions assuming no one wants her because of everything she has done.

And last but not least at the end where shes fighting Steven and says "I use to be just not good enough for pink, now I'm not good at all" is such a horrendous thought that people have when it comes to abandonment they blame themselves and ultimately self destruct.

But hearing her last words "Friendship isnt going to be easy for me, I'm gonna have to work at it. You make me wanna try I've already messed up bad with you I wish I could just start from scratch" hit home real hard

As someone who suffers from bpd every type of relationship I come across is difficult because of childhood trama/abandonment. And sometimes I dont even really realize what I'm doing that can harm others I just wanna say I really feel recognized like rebecca has touched every topic I've suffered with and I wanna say anyone suffering like me and spinel here we are not alone its gonna take alot of work to fix the mess other people caused on us but if we dont give up we can make it

THANK YOU REBECCA ❤

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