This wasn't even an accident, a case of someone taking a friend for granted without even thinkin and accidentally overstepping their boundaries or crossing a line. It's specific, directed, deliberate, concerted action. That's actively hurting someone who trusts you unconditionally. That's more than just passively being a squishy, fallible, vulnerable person. She used Garnet like a tool, or a drug, to make herself feel better. Pearl knowingly, deliberately, and repeatedly violated, used, and abused Garnet's feelings, and her space, and her self in the most personal, intimate possible way. Pearl's failing was having knowingly, and repeatedly, abused the trust of one of her oldest friends - and not even "just" her trust, but also her body. William Dewey's only failing was not being a thousand feet tall. His achievement - crossing the sea and founding Beach City - means "more" because he struggled to get there, because it wasn't easy, because it took effort and risk, because he was in danger, because he could have failed, because he confronted his own mortal fallibility to get there.īut this episode came in the Week of Sardonyx, and there are specific parallels being drawn between William Dewey and Pearl.Īnd this is where things start to fall apart. William Dewey was "more" of a hero because he wasn't a thousand-foot-tall invincible superhero - he was just a squishy, vulnerable human being who was sincerely trying his best. Mostly because it features the Crystal ndoning the European colonization of the Americas? While also.implying that Native Americans don't even exist in this universe? What? What the fuck? This is one of those situations that just gets worse the more you think about it, and it was already fucking hideous on the surface layer.īut the ending moral of the episode is kind of rotten, too. Let's talk about Historical Friction - for my money, one of the worst episodes the show's ever put out. SoundCloud for Aivi and Surasshu, the show's composers
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