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They colonized entire galaxies though. Complete with gem slavery, a militarized society, live experiments, and (likely) genocides.
I agree that the show portrays the diamonds as an analog to an abusive family, but I think it really fumbled it by trying to have it both ways. I mean, you can't make the 3 diamonds be Steven's estranged sister-moms and turbo Hitler if you want an ending where their relationships get repaired. Did they ever even address the gigantic trillion-gem mutant they created in the Earth's core?
Gems are von Neumann born into their roles -- yes, they did all those horrible things, but they did them thinking of themselves as tools for tasks, not people. Even the diamonds though of themselves in terms of the (very privileged) task they were born into. The gems' very existence is so prescribed, the thought to re-examine their roles does not occur to them. It's more speculative fiction than political analogy.
haha no, not really. (I think Yellow dimond has a offhand line in Future where she says she wants to try and help the cluster in some way?) I'll admit, i'm pretty apologetic for this show, cus I like it a lot. Cartoon Network really screwed them over, cutting them off from new seasons after freaking out over the gay coded Ruby/Sapphire wedding. There was supposed to be a whole season spent on homeworld, fleshing things out more. They realized the mistake after the finale, and hurriedly green-lit the Future series. But by that point a lot of material had died on the cutting room floor.
I guess it doesn't matter to me that the diamonds bought into their own propaganda - they still did what they did and for thousands of years. It's unbelievable that they went from diamond supremacists to cosmic Jesuses within like a week of meeting Steven. Or at all, tbh. Bismuth was right to shatter them.
And I like the show too! It's why I was so upset that all the political intrigue got abruptly dropped without any resolution. The invasions, the rebellion, the collateral damages, gem hierarchies, and fusion discrimination... Steve just had to chat with some giant women for a bit to solve everything. It felt insulting ngl