The Most Frustrating Steven Universe Secrets

[@thaumatomane]

Could "Moon Goddess" be a euphemism that they were using to refer to Blue Diamond so that they wouldn't have to tell Steven about other gems yet?

[@lokito7386]

Ooh that's really interesting!

[@thejaycrewsshow9827]

Oh I thought they were talking about rose for some reason

[@FosterF.]

the jay crews show Rose is his mother, ofc they talked abt her

[@thejaycrewsshow9827]

@@FosterF. I know but I thought the original people in the crystal gems built that for her at the time cause they worshipped her cause she was the leader of the war and pearl knew she was pink dimond so pearl didn't say to cover it up

[@tobysinbad]

the jay crews show that and the Moon Goddess statue has more of the Rose build than anything like Blue, though that might be an indicator of how long it had been since the Earth colony had had contact with her

[@lucid4271]

1:50 steven universe was censored in Russia so Rebecca sugar censored Russia (top 10 anime comebacks)

[@strawber3seal_77]

idontknowwhatimdoinghere In Russia, you censor Steven universe, in(wherever Steven universe creating is located) you censor russia

[@human5130]

😂

[@maixe13]

Rebecca: *Yeah this is big brain time*

[@jazmin7640]

Big brain moment

[@jinxfeetunder380]

Dora Bronshvayg Steven lives in Delmarva if that’s what you mean! I’m not sure where the production of Steven Universe is set though.....

[@izzymcgee2527]

I feel like a lot of season one's mysteries were just random things the Crewniverse thought of on the fly and didn't feel like making up an explanation.

[@awkwardorangedrawz5914]

I feel like that's probably it.

[@connorbeith3232]

It'd certainly be interesting if they made up an explanation on the fly too lol

[@cameoshadowness7757]

While true they could have still answered some of them.

[@adamnaameeazim6365]

Kinda why I love them. I enjoy stuff like that because it's mostly irrelevant background stuff, but is still interesting enough to theorize and think about. It keeps us thinking and talking about the show for years to come.

[@tumbke]

They probably treated it like Adventure Time, where a lot of them worked on before. Unfortunately, SU has a much more linear narrative that AT didn’t really focus on.

[@FritzyFreak]

But, Rebecca confirmed that lion and Lars both age just really, really, slowly. So they will die.

[@FritzyFreak]

@Jennetteish - What part of really, really, slow did you not read?

[@Naiadryade]

Also, if Lion was in the group that Buddy Budwick met, then he hasn't been alive for thousands of years. It's been about 200 years.

[@fairy5484]

@Katz Meowski No i think it was stated before that gems dont age, they live aslong theyr gem isnt cracked

[@enimo9241]

Maybe they're like gems and don't die from age but can die from physical causes

[@tarsile7985]

Right, the gems dont age, but Lars and lion do.

[@ZincFrog]

It would have been interesting to learn more about the caste system on Homeworld. There are so many gem types we barely know about.

[@Mirrorcomics24]

It intended to wrap everything up but it just made more secrets and didn’t even answer some already existing secrets Edit:(Sarcastic mocking voice) oh my god guys thank you for so many likes I’ve never got this much likes Please don’t unlike this is all I have

[@kittenmitten2948]

That's why it sucked (you can't change my mind)

[@Peridot5xg]

*[I wanna know if volleyball's eye is healed...]*

[@yoshietoo]

@@Peridot5xg it's not,it's possible to see a little crack on her head in "Everything's Fine"

[@izzymcgee2527]

That's what I found the most frustrating part. We're probably never going to get to see the SU world again and the Crewniverse would rather tease us than just give us answers. We didn't even get to know what Steven thinks of his mother at the end of it after they spent the time to set it up.

[@izzymcgee2527]

When we don't get answers to long running questions, it just seems like it was made to be a mystery box to string us along for the ride.

[@rhymebeat1142]

I think the "Moon Goddess" was meant to be Blue Diamond. She doesn't look much like her currently but early Blue Diamond designs (including the one seen on her Moon Base mural) had a very similar pallet to the Moon Goddess statue who indeed seems to be holding a Blue Diamond. Early on, the Gems were hesitant to go into the history of the invasion and of the Diamonds, so they replaced "Blue Diamond" with "Moon Goddess" and Steven didn't know enough to find that questionable.

[@madisenc5309]

Well idk if it was even a thing, the gems DID tell Steven it was just a test in maybe season 5

[@XDAverylilith]

I always figured that when Peridot talks about homeworld being low on resources contributing to why she doesn't have most gem powers it was because the diamonds don't have Pink's liquid essence anymore to add to the injectors. Sure, Peridot is green so she's probably primarily made from Yellow and Blue, but just like how they need all the diamonds to heal the corrupted gems, they probably need a little bit from all the diamonds to fill the injectors, and resources dwindling on homeworld means that they're either running out of what they have left over of Pink's essence from era one, or, they're finding it harder and harder to produce gems without it, thus leading to Peridots no longer having most magic abilities.

[@jjaa_joyjoyartist]

I always thought that homeworld must be running low on some resource that's unique to homeworld, and that the numerous kindergartens and mining areas on homeworld were to find it. You just connected the dots and now it all makes sense to me.

[@bruh-140]

The essence of a diamond only makes up the colour, personality of a gem.

[@itscznben8728]

and Steven can help fix that

[@Phizzy]

I don't think how exactly Lion died is a very important mystery. I'm sure if they wanted to, they could make an interesting story behind that, but I don't feel like it needs to be.

[@KeepCalmContemplateYourChoices]

He probably died of natural causes. Lions don't have as long lifespans as humans, let alone gems. But did Rose resurrect any of the other Lions in his pack? If so, where are they?

[@ToonRuinsOfficial]

Probably not, but I still wanna know honestly.

[@freak-chan9306]

@@KeepCalmContemplateYourChoices lions live for 10-14 years,but i doubt he died from natural causes

[@KeepCalmContemplateYourChoices]

@@freak-chan9306 And how long did you think Rose was wandering that desert?

[@warrmalaski8570]

lions live a ruff life. literally, everything is trying to kill them.

[@liran8799]

Homeworld was low on resources because Pink Diamond was gone, a quarter of their source for making gems was gone

[@toffeethehunter8290]

Finally someone who says it, it's pretty obvious lmao

[@sadlobster1]

I like to think they were low on resources because before they started siphoning from other worlds like Earth, they started making Gems on THEIR planet during the first two eras

[@brum1784]

pink diamond literally had a single colony, i highly doubt her gem production contributed that substantially

[@DeathKitta]

@@brum1784 It's more like, there needed essenses of four diamonds and without Pink there was second era gems like Peridot, who came out wrong.

[@brum1784]

@@DeathKitta I mean, that's a theory in of itself, I don't believe we know how gem production actually works

[@kingdmind]

I believe the chest was moreso a metaphor. Where was Lion’s chest? In Rose’s island. It was a metaphor for all the secrets Rose had kept from everyone, both literally (inside Lion’s mane) and figuritively (from everyone). The chest was open in SU: Movie because all of Rose’s secrets had finally come out, with the exception of Pink Pearl’s backstory. However I still would have loved to know if there was something actually important inside the chest and not just be a metaphor

[@thejaycrewsshow9827]

That's actually genius

[@cutiepie120048]

That's good.

[@blandon93]

just lazy/bad writing. timeskip both solved and created many questions.

[@SueWehkingPresents]

I often wonder if the pink jacket that Steven wears in Future was in the chest.

[@Buglin_Burger7878]

Well rather then use it as a metaphor simply all they had to do was have an item belonging to Pink, perhaps even related to a character that was introduced in the movie. An import item which is a metaphor alone is poor story telling. Beast's rose in Beauty and the Beast is a great example.

[@thatgoshdarnblep2726]

Don't forget that one episode where they said Gems have an entire language and Steven wanted to learn it but it was never mentioned again.

[@zweks]

It is mentioned in future the pamphlets to introduce hems to earth are in English and gemlish, the latter being the green language. Unless gemlish is a real language and I'm just ignorant lol Edit: I noticed I misspelled gem every single time lol, Im going to leave it like that tho

[@thatgoshdarnblep2726]

@@zweks Good spot. But I wish it was actually mentioned.

[@ohdeer8920]

I have a theory that English is actually a gem language, otherwise, why would they speak it before meeting humans? So maybe the gem language alphabet is just english (or whatever the show is dubbed in, whatever canon universal tongue) and our language is our adapted version?

[@thatgoshdarnblep2726]

@@ohdeer8920 that would actually be so cool🤩

[@ThePotatoSapien]

@@ohdeer8920my theory is that they all have a built in universal translation system, since they’re basically computers and would need to be able to understand different languages for basic communication, but that translator doesn’t carry over onto written language so the CGs had to learn how to write English.

[@KTChamberlain]

I got a couple: 1, Did Jenny and Kiki's mother abandon the family to become a model? In Beach Party, Steven hands Garnet a magazine called Foine and the woman on the cover looks almost exactly like a grown-up version of Kiki. The Cool Kids all seem to have this common ground of having single parents and perhaps Sour Cream's not the only one with a deadbeat parent. 2, Where on the map was Pearl's tree from Gem Glow? 3, Does Pearl know that her hologram cut down her favorite tree and if she did, did she fix it or did Steven get around to that?

[@ERCatPat]

For number 2 I thought pearls tree was on top of the temple was it later replaced with a light house on top of the temple? Or am I just confusing things

[@vecmendes]

I think the lighthouse was always there. The only thing that confuses me is how a gem got stuck inside of it (that episode where they think the lighthouse is haunted)

[@1SpeedyYoshi]

Maybe the Moon Diamond was just Blue Diamond but the gems didn't want to tell Steven about the diamonds yet

[@honeybunny8467]

Considering the shape of the diamond, I predict the diamond is whites, considering its colour, and because its the higher crystal, considering there is one on the bottom, which may be pinks, which white MAY have taken control of.

[@WeareLegion97]

Ur adorable ily ❣️

[@goodname7660]

OminousWind97 ?

[@WeareLegion97]

@@goodname7660 love u

[@hydreg]

Russia was removed, so it wouldn't disturb Ruby's and Sapphire's wedding.

[@johnd5149]

That opening was a comedic gem! This pun probably wasn’t tho

[@Jadzebra]

Made me laugh, out loud even, not just nose air 😂

[@Jadzebra]

I think gems were created as weapons, they were probably just doing what they were made to do long after they forgot why. Constantly creating armies without having any purpose can be damaging as hell, just millions of people milling around waiting for a war they didn't know was over. Then Pink Diamond comes along and gives them a war and they dove in with fervor.

[@PedanticPig]

That's my theory. Whoever created them made them as weaponised robots but they ended up turning against their creators and wiped them out, hollowed out the planet, and from then on they continue to expand because that's all they know. Cute alien SkyNet, basically.

[@menameh]

The goddess statue is holding a diamond. This is probably the origins of the people who made the diamonds. Also all dictators and tyrants have some kind of mythology to justify their rule over others. The reason the gems “needed” a geo weapon like the cluster is of course to help with their imperialist efforts.

[@cousinmajin]

Oohhhh that's really interesting! I was wondering what a diamond would see as a goddess since they are borderline godlike themselves. A creator makes perfect sense.

[@kawaiielephant7772]

Makes sense.

[@srrauf2791]

To be honest I really was disappointed when they decided to end the show because before future I was happy with the ending but with the show adding on future I’m left with a bigger cliffhanger

[@kawaiielephant7772]

Honestly same. I heard everyone talking about how they cried during the finale but I just kinda felt empty. Like there were still too many plot holes.

[@Ninetails2000]

@@kawaiielephant7772 Ending a series naturally with plot threads dangling is tolerable because it was a graceful ending. Picking the series back up with the claim of wrapping up loose ends for real-real only to do so by glossing over the majority of them to focus on a completely unrelated subject is insulting.

[@jmachero5852]

@@Ninetails2000 I don't think it's insulting. They would've end it better if they would resolve the plot points BEFORE having the show end.

[@bibarel5097]

The *REAL* most frustrating Steven Universe secret is... *IS ONION A HUMAN OR NOT?*

[@Peridot5xg]

*[That's a REALLY hard question, Beaver]*

[@Brydav_Massbear]

He is a human. He is just a very strange one.

[@thejaycrewsshow9827]

I think his dad is a gem and passed it on to onion and in the wedding episode Steven listed gems lions and onion so maybe he is his own species

[@tobysinbad]

the jay crews show I think Vidalia is part non-human, as she has the same weird naming convention of her offspring, as opposed to Keith(? I forget Sourcream’s crappy dad’s name). Yellowtail also seems like he is non-human, making Onion behave even less human than his brother and Vidalia. Of course, the names could just be something to do with the kooky hippie type lifestyle that Vidalia seems to have, like how some people have unusual (and often disparaged) names in our world. It could even just be that Vidalia’s family are a kind of allegory to immigrant people many English speaking people are unfamiliar with, whose cultures seem impenetrable to understand. Whatever the reason, I love that whole family.

[@ziyaokut8225]

Duh it's an onion.

[@widdershinnz]

Yeah in a way all of season one lead us to believe that there was so much more going on. I think the writers were still not sure what avenue they wanted to go down, season one seemed like it was gonna take the show in a magical diection, not sci-fi. Some theorize that this shift can be explained by the fact many dimensions were crossed via the time hourglass. Shifted from a magical universe with OG Steven into a science based universe with new Steven.

[@vecmendes]

Omg that makes so much sense!

[@ThePotatoSapien]

I think it was mostly about the shift in Steven’s perspective. When he was younger an more naive, he saw the gems as magical superheroes, but as he got older and learned more, he became more aware to the dark and more alien side of the gems. Since the show is always shown through Steven’s eyes, it makes sense that we would see things differently too. Of course, the writers were also probably trying to figure out what to do with the show, I’m just saying that they did have a lot this stuff planned and were just trying to reveal it in a more interesting and shocking way.

[@TheRawyan]

Russia censored Steven universe so Steven universe censors Russia

[@Peridot5xg]

*[Rebecca never fails to surprise us]*

[@kittenmitten2948]

That joke is getting old

[@yoshietoo]

@@kittenmitten2948 ikr,it's been 5 years☠☠

[@kittenmitten2948]

Fernando Araujo it was funny the first time but it's getting as stale as the vegetables at the back of my fridge

[@hueyfreeman6262]

@@kittenmitten2948 no one cares

[@CharmzEdge]

Who the heck is Emerald? We only see her for one episode and she's never seen ever since.

[@C-harles]

She was just a ship commander.

[@doggyspeak]

the crew talked her up as this huge big important gem like basically almost as rare and important as a diamond but then shes just this face on a screen

[@ninjafaceify]

@@doggyspeak She was a one off gag villain for Lars to rebel against, he needed his own villain and implied heroes journey to finish his character arc as a space pirate and have it feel like he actually changes. Emerald was Lars' fight and like his (lack of) relationship with Sadie, it was dealt with in private away from Steven and the audience

[@KevinMineCraftardo]

I feel like we could use a prequel series, each episode could take place in different timelines of the series, the episodes would have to be 44 minutes to flesh out the concepts they have failed to present in the original series

[@killlerkai18]

Then it would probably be on HBO max

[@jmachero5852]

What's the point of making a movie and epilogue series when they're not gonna resolve the hints that were left out.

[@StareachValcin]

Most frustrating mystery is without a doubt the contents of the chest in lion's mane. The biggest mystery I feel is the origin of the diamonds, which in turn extends to where Steven himself comes from, since his mother is Pink Diamond.

[@thejaycrewsshow9827]

To be honest I think white dimond was made by a human but he just ended up throwing her away but he didn't know she actually worked by herself she made blue and yellow who went on to make the powerful pink dimond then blue yellow and white went on making colonies but then they found a easier way to do it by using the earth to plant them instead for making them

[@FosterF.]

the jay crews show the gem species came into existence millions of years before humans even existed.

[@thejaycrewsshow9827]

@@FosterF. oh then maybe I was right but it just wasn't humans

[@swwetsour7697]

I feel like it's Stevens Pink jacket probably. Although I don't remember if he said he got it from somewhere else.

[@FosterF.]

@@swwetsour7697 I think it was said out of the show that he got it from the diamonds but death of the author- i like the idea he got it from the chest.

[@Cesar_M_Romero]

I’m afraid many of these are just the result of the show not being mature enough and not having figured itself out. Like, at first, the gems themselves call their stuff “magic”, but later on it’s “gem tech”. The writers, and Rebecca herself, didn’t have the whole thing figured out in the first espisodes. I love this show tho.

[@FosterF.]

Okay but like- Why the hell did they never expand on the concept of time travel. It was the pilot episode and in Steven and the Stevens episode- so clearly Rebecca thought about it a lot. Why the hell would the diamonds never use TIME TRAVEL to go back and just save Pink from her supposed shattering????

[@FosterF.]

@bryan diaz varela Almost everything on the list in the video was a plothole.

[@mr.mcknight9536]

Season one in itself was a plothole

[@cameoshadowness7757]

It could be because they would have to know the extact time and place? Or maybe they were sunstable? I mean it kinda sucks how it went ignored. Maybe you had to have already been there?

[@mr.mcknight9536]

Cameo Shadowness Who knows!

[@FosterF.]

@@cameoshadowness7757 Even if they had to already be there, they could have gone back to a time before Pink was killed (like before she got the earth) and then just... not give it to her.

[@Peridot5xg]

*[The gem kind was pretty much like the human kind in past times, our only purpose was to explore the vast and unknown universe and expand our gem empire, spreading the words of a divine authority. But now that it's era 3, our empire has turned into a liberal society]*

[@SleepyRaccoon]

Hmmmmmmm I recognize you from somewhere...

[@ImJustAComment]

mrnoobypoop Me too I have seen peridot somewhere HmMmMMMmMMm

[@gachame121]

Sup Peri

[@andrealeonardo417]

"Peridot! I really like you, Your my favorite Gem!

[@TheMightySceptile]

That still doesnt explain their cache of weapons. Yes some of the planets they colonized had somewhat dangerous organic life. But nothing that required a whole army of soldiers before the rose rebellion

[@tylerhackner9731]

I love the show but I really do wish there were more answers

[@Peridot5xg]

*[Indeed]*

[@thejaycrewsshow9827]

Yep but I have a explanation for some of them

[@kilaiyahgreer4320]

I would love to see the adventures of PD when she was formally a diamond up to when she first got her colony, Earth. Like how she shattered Volleyball's eye and how she discovered her destructive powers. I'd love to see the adventures of Lars and the Offcolors as well. Steven Universe was an amazing show I'm sad that it has officially ended but happy at the same time. Edit: Here's something I've always wondered since Rose is PD was confirmed, why didn't the diamonds ever wonder what happened to PD's new Pearl? (aka our Pearl) Did they just assume she ran away or magically got poofed? Did they recognize Pearl when they took a further look at her? This should be a question more people are asking.

[@noisykrickett7758]

It’s heavily implied that a lot of gems had pearls. Pearls also seemed to be more ornaments and not intended for combat. If Pink Diamond was assassinated, it’s not too far of a stretch to assume her pearl died in the fallout of that.

[@trinalps]

I was so disappointed that Emerald never reappeared

[@doggyspeak]

Pink just died because a rose quartz just shattered her you think they’d care about what some pearl was up to? they’re seen as objects they probably just assume she got stolen

[@patiencewallace8453]

Yes! Why didn’t they shatter her when they found out what happened. She wasn’t questioned or anything. Pearl shoulda been in some hot water and she wasn’t. Did they ever even tell the diamonds the whole story????

[@esquirroupetitossau-iraty2822]

Also... wtf is with the geode? It was that big spherical rock that had a big crater around it and Pearl said there was some storm locked inside that would be unleashed if the geode broke. At the end of rhe episode Greg taped the geode and that was it, the idea of the geode was never expanded on again. At least from what I remember...

[@doggyspeak]

Just another giant geoweapon i guess

[@esquirroupetitossau-iraty2822]

@@doggyspeak yeah but that's the problem with Steven Universe's awful writing. Things are left to people's imagination. Mysteries are set up but have no pay off.

[@esquirroupetitossau-iraty2822]

It shows another big issue I have with thr show, that being; Steven Universe has a habit of saying things but not showing them

[@mckai4717]

I really wanted more fusions

[@Peridot5xg]

*[And i wanted more Perisodes]*

[@thejaycrewsshow9827]

Yea but there were alot in the show

[@KichouKix]

I wanted to see mega green pearl

[@thejaycrewsshow9827]

@Laramie Tingle yea

[@patiencewallace8453]

Yeah, we shoulda gotten more combinations. Like what would opal and Steven look like together.

[@thejaycrewsshow9827]

Lion died from age but rose couldn't let him go and healed him

[@Peridot5xg]

*[Oh, that explains some stuff...]*

[@rakkivillar2766]

*But why just him? Why can't it be the other ones too?*

[@thejaycrewsshow9827]

@@rakkivillar2766 they can but then we would see 5 other of those things that rose put her stuff in so it doesn't add up

[@thejaycrewsshow9827]

@bryan diaz varela maybe...

[@thejaycrewsshow9827]

@bryan diaz varela but just cause a lion get healed doesn't mean it can live forever cause anything could have happened one of the lions could have got caught in the war anything could have happened so we don't even know if there alive

[@ramisalam2181]

I don’t think the giant bird in “Giant woman” was preying on corrupted gems. All those gems inside of it that Steven and Steven Jr. see are probably the gems that make up the Giant Bird, as in, it’s a big fusion. Becuase when Opal fires a shot at the bird, it splits into tinier birds, hence unfusing the monster. And then a second shot bubbles all the separated birds into individual gems

[@starkid4299]

The Moon Goddess statue resembles Blue Diamond, perhaps the Sea Spire was a place of worship for her?

[@aurorafuture8508]

Most of Steven Universe can be summed up in a single episode title “it could have been great”

[@allanandriel7448]

What about fluorite's components? I know they weren't important to the story but I wanted to know about them

[@esquirroupetitossau-iraty2822]

Yes! That's something that could've easily been written in. They could ve had some sort of friend anniversary or whatever and unfused so they could have a little party and that way we'd meet fluorite's components.

[@hued2542]

Probably would have happened, there was a scrappy suf episode that would’ve focused on the rutile twins

[@andrewvarney5687]

Great video, I have a few additional mysteries to consider...... 1) What was the purpose of the Geode? 2) Why didn't Nephrite get any screen time after corruption was healed? 3) Why didn't Lapis and Peridot ever fuse? 4) What was the point of bringing Jasper back to life after Steven shattered her?

[@thejaycrewsshow9827]

Lapis is traumatized by jasper with her experience with fusion peridot just not into fusion

[@skydragonslayer9820]

@@thejaycrewsshow9827 I was going to say a similar thing.

[@thejaycrewsshow9827]

Steven brought jasper back which started to make Steven realize that he can make as many mistakes as he wants but will always be able to fix it

[@HellfireComms]

Geode was a weapon, this was explained. They had no time due to the show ending Because they didn't. What would've been the point of leaving her dead? It serves not purpose and would be cruel considering gems can literally be put back together like jigsaw puzzles if you have the nessersary abilities.

[@SaiScribbles]

Because shattering Jasper permanently would send a pretty bad message, like as if she's the only one who "deserves' it. Also she just had to come back to be a complete psycho as usual and just make things worse by making Steven feel like a tyrannical Diamond lol.

[@penguinos5574]

My head canon is that the moon goddess created the diamonds and that’s why the statue is holding white diamonds gem so maybe the crystal gems found out about the moon godess’s existence from rose because the diamonds held this secret from everyone so they crystal gems made the shrine

[@esquirroupetitossau-iraty2822]

I doubt Rose/PD would know much about her creator. She was treated poorly by the other diamonds, as if she were a child. I doubt they'd let her in on who created them. Also I don't think it would make much sense for the crystal gems to build a sea spire for figures they never even met

[@thelastwindwaker7948]

It definitely felt like the show was a completely different thing in its earlier episodes. Nothing convinces me of that more than the haunted scroll from Together Breakfast. They can try to justify it all they want, but everything about it contradicts all that we know about gems. This is also the same episode where Pearl expressed interest in ordering pizza, so I can believe there was a good deal of retconning going on prior to the Lapis two-parter.

[@hued2542]

Think of gem shards but on a micro scale. It’s just crushed up gem ash smeared to make a picture

[@thelastwindwaker7948]

@@hued2542 That's what they used to explain it, but I'm not convinced. Especially when Garnet needed to burn Steven's phone because he took a picture of the thing. The closest thing to that we've seen in the later seasons was Steven's thoughts being projected onto electronics.

[@adriannaranjo4397]

Short answer: the crewniverse just wrote episodes on a whim with barely any plot points besides the diamonds. Which would explain the inconsistencies and why episodes go from dragging on with almost no progression to rushing though heavy plot points before inevitably dropping them again

[@HellfireComms]

Short answer: No, because that's not how writing works.

[@niveditasrinivasan7070]

Remember the first time we saw lion's mane? Take a look again and you might see a certain pink bubble floating around

[@SamuelSEdme]

It would be nice if there could be at least an official comic book series answering these questions.

[@katiehunter1214]

There is an official comic book series. It does not however, answer these questions.

[@zeb857]

Russia wasnt destroyed it was censored as payback to when russia censored ruby and sapphires kiss or thats what i like to think

[@enderwalkgang]

ThatGuyWhoKZbins that’s like a common known fact, so yeah, your right.

[@creepy_crawlygacha9489]

Isn't amethyst nationality technically Russian

[@PatchworkRose567]

Maybe Lion was the only surviving member of his pride that was able to be revived without looking like a mangled mess? His scar could be under his mane somewhere. I wonder if Lion was Rose’s first time reviving organic life and she could have revived him by accident while mourning over top of his corpse. Lion’s pride could have been killed by another pride, a group of corrupted gems, or even hunters/poachers that didn’t end up taking away the lions due to the pride fighting back and injuring them.

[@pearldab7781]

To me, the gems were originally implied to be more religious or spiritual beings in Season 1 rather than aliens, which is why the gem related things from Season 1 like the Moon Goddess and the temple murals are more “mystical” than technological. Honestly I would’ve preferred if the writers took this route with the gems instead of generic aliens.

[@elipsis7651]

2:53 Well, it was a giant bird monster, and most creatures, some birds in particular, just like and collect shiny objects Also, another question that isn't really dying to be answered, but would be nice to see is, what fusions do true rose quartz make? We've never actually seen a fusion between a rose quartz and another gem, it was actually pink diamond + another gem. Would rose + pearl still equal rainbow quartz?

[@DynaZ.3dsx]

I watching Steven Universe when phone ring "Russia is kil' "no"

[@drazzi]

The chest remains my biggest frustration. That and the fact I want a prequel series ABOUT Pink/Rose.

[@OldTimeyDragon]

I want to know what that weird scroll Garnet burned was in the episode "Together Breakfast".

[@hued2542]

It was just crushed gem stone put on to material

[@Fairiive]

I always assumed and am still pretty convinced that Homeworld didnt "make gems like they used to" because they didnt have Pink anymore, they needed her "extractions" (?) aswell with the other diamonds to make the perfect gems

[@beans6625]

I mean..... Seriously.... *_Wtf is onion?, And who names their child onion?_*

[@trinalps]

who names their child Sour Cream???

[@beans6625]

@@trinalps ikr???

[@kingdmind]

Maybe Onion is a metaphor for you being whatever you want to be

[@alizacelemcentauri986]

The creator of the diamonds, duh

[@randompineapple]

onion is onion he is all knowing and everlasting onion onion all hail onion oonnnnnioooooooooooon

[@12DAMDO]

i remember when back in season 1 i thought lion was steven's mom lol

[@RayenTheBuzzybee]

i think most season 1 mysteries should be ignored. i think rebecca once said that they put bubbled bismuth in lions mane just to put something. i think the reason for some of these mysteries is that the crewniverse jjust added stuff without thinking about the lore behind it.

[@LaydiNite]

My theory is that the crystal heart might be some different form of the bubbles used for the corrupted gems. If that's the case, it might be used to somehow stabilize the "dangerous areas" mentioned.

[@izzymcgee2527]

When we don't get answers to long running questions, it just seems like it was made to be a mystery box to string us along for the ride.

[@adamnaameeazim6365]

I feel like we got plenty of answers though? Most of these things in the video are interesting but not necessarily major. Mystery boxes usually suck if they stick around for too long, but for more minor details I don't think they're that big a deal, and can actually be interesting.

[@thefastrightptg5048]

@@adamnaameeazim6365 True. The whole chest thing wasn't even that important to me because the writers didn't even care lol. It's like a "don't press the red button" sort of thing

[@izzymcgee2527]

@@thefastrightptg5048 Exactly. The mystery box is the easiest way to string theorists a long for the ride. Just whip out a random closed box and fans will be writing for you in no time!

[@cobaltprime9467]

The creators of the gems has always been my biggest question. Especially after White’s breakdown about supposed to be perfect. Even if it was like a goddess or something would have been better than nothing. Like in Transformers Primus gave them life through the Allspark. It would have been nice to get some kind of answer.

[@Lee-hl2ol]

I wonder what that room on the moon was for... In the episode where Steven and the crystal gems visit the moon, while going upstairs, they pass through a room that has only what looks like a glass of water with a sphere in it but without the glass. Steven asks "What's this room for?" And Garnet says, "Not what we're here for."

[@Blue587EE]

Watch the season 5 episode "Can't go back".

[@simonsmith1455]

I thought the recourse shortage was made pretty obvious in the Diamond Days arc. All four diamonds used to hang out in the "extraction room" we see Blue using, where some of their essence was extracted for use in gem making (we see this work when steven creates a pebble). Since Pinks "shattering", they have obviously lost her as a source of essence and had to rely on what they had stockpiled. Due to White no leaving her head, they were likely down to just Blue and Yellow for gem making.

[@Pr0jectFM]

I think many of these were probably added without any resolution in mind. Having so many mysterious things makes the world of the story more intriguing. The hole in Russia is a good example of this. Other things like the chest could be red herrings to keep the fans guessing.

[@chaos4654]

I heard a theory that they leave moons intact due to religious reasons relating to the Moon Goddess, meaning moons are sacred ground to them. It's possible the Moon Goddess is/was Gemkind's creator ...or my own theory, White Diamond's original form prior to making the other Diamonds. Or Maybe the MG is what Gems believed was their creator.

[@pufferfishhhhh]

Makes sense

[@foadmoalem4908]

I just wanna clarify, Russia’s disappearance is because Russia censored Steven universe therefore Steven universe censored Russia removing Russia from the show

[@lostintranslation8550]

If I remember correctly, piecing together what I heard from comic con q and as and interviews, the mural was made at an early point in the show when specific plot details weren’t nailed down yet. There were gem language lore things too that ended up changing down the line.

[@danieljacobpearson]

"Why did the gem society need to conquer so many colonies to extract so many resources to build so many weapons to conquer so many colonies?" This is by far the most important mystery. We desperately need to figure out why human societies in the real world feel compelled to do the same.

[@cameoshadowness7757]

What pisses me off is how the Crewniverse says they never met intellegent life yet they make collenies and weapons for war and treated humans as if they were nothing (Human Zoo

[@Blue587EE]

"because of wanting a family since they don't have families and don't have the concept of bonding" Where did you get that information from? I thought it was very clear that relationships were part of their nature.

[@Blue587EE]

@Uka When did they say that it's not supposed to be like that?

[@Blue587EE]

@Uka I was hoping for an example

[@Blue587EE]

@Uka It made sense to me, relationships exist and are part of their nature, but the Diamonds won't allow them. I don't see any contradiction in that

[@ali773n]

The truth is that the writing on Steven Universe was not perfect. And that’s ok. This is our beloved series that shaped a lot of our childhoods, but there were definitely some oversights. The Crewniverse was under strict timelines which was very stressful, that’s why some moments in Steven Universe felt rushed and some things were overlooked. Also whenever you’re collaborating in any art form some ideas have to be sacrificed. Not only that but some ideas evolve and change for the better, or change completely. I think Steven Universe is perfectly unperfect, and I’m ok with that, unsolved mysteries and all :)

[@kauske]

For the 'low on resources' mystery, that's sort of answered if you read between the lines. Gems were revealed covertly to be made from fluids that the diamonds excrete during the arc where Stephen comes to homeworld after being revealed to be pink. The implication was the missing resource was Pink's fluid, meaning all abilities inherited from Pink, like shape-shifting are not present in Gems made after she faked her death. I'm going to take a wild guess on the majority of season one stuff being much like Adventure Time, stuff that doesn't fit into what the show became later. Sometimes you don't go in knowing what everything will be in the end when you write a story. Some of those earlier episodes might well have ended up contradicting where the story went later on, such as the moon goddess, or the temple. Or in other words, they are unresolveable plot threads.

[@lunathetrip3241]

A headcanon I have on how Lion died: Lion is actually, well, a lioness. Lion died during childbirth, and Rose revived her while simultaneously learning what mothers will sacrifice for their children, hence Steven.

[@ArendAlphaEagle]

I think there was another episode in Season 1 that revealed that Steven's first mission was actually a test that the Crystal Gems had made, to see if Steven is competent enough to go on a real mission. Steven got upset by this, so they sent him on another mission... which also turned out to be an artificial test. It's entirely possible that the moon goddess was just made up and never existed, and that the lunar spire was either an artificial place created by the Crystal Gems, or a random spire ruin they found.

[@mystic-malevolence]

Just because it was a test, though, doesn't mean that it wasn't a real place with consequences for its failure. Just that it was low-stakes enough that they were willing to risk it. After all there was still a divine sky-beam when they put the wrong thing on the pedestal, and the result was still the destruction of the temple. And when they made the test later, it was contained within the temple and could not hurt Steven at all.

[@warriorxheart]

About the bird gem collection thing: Maybe the bird was collecting gems, because birds like shiny things.

[@SeAnemony]

There were scenes that got me enraged mostly because of Steven, like when he started arguing about how he wanted the crystal gems to stop lying to him. It made me, slowly but surely, dislike Steven.

[@gensationaldraws]

About the moon goddess statue. I like to think, when steven was younger. The gems would give names to things from gem culture to keep Steven's innocent mind in the dark about things he.. just wasn't ready to handle yet.

[@widdershinnz]

Man, you brought me to a realization with Rose’s chest... remember the episode when Steven was trying to help Sadie and Lars and Shep? Steven says “What? When did this happen?? I didn’t see ANY of it” and then Sadie was like “because it was PRIVATE”. It’s like Rebecca wanted to give us that same feeling he had, only for us it was with the Chest. Its private, just for Steven. But then again I don’t think there was anything in the chest. Just like with season one, they wanted to tantalize the audience with mystery but didn’t have the resources to deliver answers to everything. Kind if immersion-breaking to find out that the sky on a set is just painted cardboard

[@Ekigane]

We do know from Buddy's book that we've probably visited Russia before, since Pearl marked it as one of the dangerous places to go and Garnet convinced him to go to each location and we saw that he ended up at the various gem locations they went to in the earlier seasons, and any new (to the audience/steven) locations he went to were later revealed to be in places other than Russia. As far as I know though, it wasn't revealed which gem structure is there. I suspect the Lunar spire, but the floating rocks and beetle gems' home are probably a fair guess too

[@ThatGurlXD-ti6zr]

It was shown the lunar sea spire was a test. For the reason it was made I’m sure it was made for more rare gems. Sapphires, Emeralds, aquamarines, etc for when they aren’t needed by the diamonds.

[@SaiScribbles]

Once we're shown Yellow and Blue's extraction chambers I think it's pretty clear "lack of resources" means they can't make Gems like they used to without Pink. Clearly some essence from the Diamonds is used to create them. As for stuff like the Cluster and the forced fusions, I feel like they were trying to find ways to make shattered Gems useful again. On another note: I've come to accept that many things in season 1 are just MacGuffins that don't have any real backstory. I also never really want to find out who "created" the Gems, if anyone. The Diamonds could have come to be through some cosmic means, since they're basically gods, and then Gems are a subspecies they created.

[@roseofhappilove6841]

The filler episodes should've been for answering these questions.

[@connorbeith3232]

I liked the Townies tho, it didn't need to be gems all the time. Plus they played a big part of Steven's character development since he's half human half gem.

[@nampizza6561]

@Uka love for the townies :DDDDDD

[@dominicbosko8375]

I honestly wondered two things in regards to fusion that were left unanswered. 1. Does Lapis ever get the confidence to fuse again? Seeing as how she was in a toxic fusion for so long, leaving her with that bad taste In her mouth, it just seems odd to leave it that way with her not knowing how a good fusion feels. 2. Could Peridot fuse? Though they said that resources were lacking on homeworld, I feel like she still could do it, even without her shape shifting ability. They already showed that she had the metal telekinesis, so I wonder if it was possible for her to still fuse. Just a few of my questions.

[@popsiiv]

Head canon: Crystal gems killed a giant Russia beast and used it’s heart to power their home

[@SoulFoxie]

Personally I feel like the Main section of the Pyramid Temple Mural is foreshadowing (and I know I might get flack for this) the end of the show when everyone confronts White Diamond in Change Your Mind and White takes Steven's Gem out and it switches through forms,including Rose Quartz

[@vinceczarneck2843]

Wait so if lion was apart of pinks sqaud did she revive the others and where are they????

[@occasionalfan-content4771]

I’m assuming the tears only work on alive beings and not gems?

[@stevenconnie5749]

@@occasionalfan-content4771 but there were more lions than just one

[@occasionalfan-content4771]

Steven Connie ohhh I thought you meant other members of the rebellion, maybe it was an accident? Like she was just crying and it came back and she didn’t put the pieces together- or she for some reason only got ahold of this ones corpse when she revived it

[@gh0st_hunterr]

The lunar sea spiral is actually a test created for Steven. The gems tell him when he finds it again. Steven felt bad that he failed so he made the make a new one.

[@HellfireComms]

The chest is a metaphor for secrets. It's closed before A Single Pale Rose and the next time we see it and know Rose is Pink (the movie) it's open. The heart of the temple was clearly something powering the doors, but that's less concrete so eh

[@theshockinglyeloquentdog9945]

"Hidden" a funny way of saying not thought through

[@TeodoroOsorio]

If the gems were indeed AI, then the Moon Goddess could have been part of the race that created the gems. I highly doubt the Moon Goddess is a reference to Blue Diamond, because neither Pearl nor Garnet would want to keep something related to one of their enemies

[@redpanda7914]

Why were the crew making Rose out to be such an evil character,sorry I can't hate Rose😅🌹

[@spinningninja2]

Personally I'm kinda cool with leaving some of these kidns of things up to the imagination. For example, I heard a theory once that White Diamond was simply naturally created in some kind of stellar event, and proceeded to make the rest of the gems herself. I'm not sure how canon something like that could be, but its nice to know hteres not anythign countering that cool theory

[@amauraoblige108]

Russia was “censored” because Russia censored Steven Universe and Resources where short because when pink left they lost the Pinks’s diamond essence

[@koromoro6682]

I thought it was implied that there was no try need for The Cluster as a geoweapon, but it was simply Yellow Diamond taking out her grudge on the earth by destroying it. Peridot was even saying that using The Cluster on the earth would simply destroy all potentially usable resources.

[@thejaycrewsshow9827]

Why did jasper throw away her whole mission just for rose and did she get in trouble with yellow diamond for her absence

[@Adul11100]

Because she thought that Rose shattered PD

[@rayvonistired]

I think it's because jasper was dealing with self loathing and thought that if she finally brought justice to the one who "killed" pink diamond that she could finally feel better about herself but that's just my theory

[@warrmalaski8570]

Jasper was out for revenge. Pink was her world and reason for living. Maybe even japers crush. The second question, yes she was in trouble with Yellow. That's why the rubies where sent.

[@thejaycrewsshow9827]

@@Adul11100 ik that but I mean did she get in trouble or was the real reason cause she ran away from homeworld

[@thurmanbaseballfuriesleade4302]

I’m glad there are still some mysteries/secrets left unanswered. That’s what makes the show good

[@thejaycrewsshow9827]

How was the temple even made???

[@thejaycrewsshow9827]

@@renderingqueuebismuth was shatterd rose when it was built so that's out of the question

[@thejaycrewsshow9827]

@@renderingqueue oh so if bismuth did build it how did she add the portal and how did she make that thing on top of the temple

[@Aaa33413]

yes because when you think about the door it has amethyst's gem and amethyst didn't pop out of the ground until five hundred years after the war and bismuth was bubbled during that time soo who built it and how ?

[@katiehunter1214]

@@renderingqueue First, no episode ever said that. Second, it had to have been built not only after the war but after they found Amethyst because the temple is modeled after Obsidian and you don't have Obsidian without Amethyst.

[@ohdeer8920]

The mural designs were explained! The designs for the diamonds just weren’t done yet which is why we have a lot of variations. My best guess is that it’s meant to be just them fighting. Rose using her shield, the crystal gems behind her, etc. A lot of the foreshadowing in early seasons was mostly just loose concepts, so it could actually be when the diamonds corrupted all the gems, before the crew-inverse decided that everyone would believe that the crystal gems were fully eradicated.

[@vd2485]

I always thought that Russia got hit by the diamond blast

[@Raverzdreams]

what type of kid when he finds a whole new world in his lion doesn't explore everything in there instead of just waiting and leaving it all in there

[@saccharinesilk]

"what's in rose's chest" PEARLS FACE, OFTEN! NYEHEHEHEHEHEHE

[@mariamqasem8569]

I think the mural is slightly obvious by now It’s showing the diamonds all using their corruption beam, while Rose holds out her shield in front of her. The two people next to her are Garnet and Pearl, while the others are all gems who weren’t able to be protected against the corruption rays.

[@manicwebb]

It seems like the writing team didn't have a 100% clear idea of where they were going during the first half of season 1. There's a lot of genuine mysticism, arcana, and time travel that just doesn't mesh with "alien rocks from space" stuff they started feeding us later on. This was a supernatural show at first, but it became a sci-fi show right around the time they introduced Lapis.

[@alwayswatching5545]

The contents of the chest was the movie Which is why it is opened during the movie, as a “this is what we’ve been saving up for you peeps, hope you enjoy” Of course this is just speculation from my part, but who knows.

[@robbiethecontroller9642]

Steven universe future disappointed with its unanswered, (did pearl make out with pearl Mystery woman who looked like Rose. Or the Frankenstein's wild dream that is the Clusters true Form a guy talked to me about how the arm seen in made of honour wasn't it's arm exactly but Rather it was its finger and this is proofed by a consent art in Rebecca S.U art book.

[@cousinmajin]

There's only one heart nosed lion in Rose's pride from Buddy's Book, so I think it's pretty solid proof that it was our Lion.

[@PH0SPH0PHYLL1TE]

Honestly season one is the most confusing season, there are so many questions, yet they are never answered...