Steven Universe: On the Run

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WARNING! SPOILERS AHEAD!

Is it just me, or did a MAJOR plot line just get dropped from this?

Okay, I did not expect this from a episode that was said to just be Amethyst and Steven running off. But, we learn that other Gems had plans for the Earth that would eventually destroy it. What actions? Well, I think I may have a theory.

Later in the episode, we learn that Amethyst is not from the Gem homeworld. But she was actually made on Earth. In a dark mountain range, surrounded by machines, in a...hole...surrounded by other person-shaped holes. Pearl stepped in before anything else happened, but we learn that Bad Gems used this area to grow and make new Gems. And Amethyst was one of those grown!

So what does that mean? Well, I theorize that Gems are not grown naturally, kind of like how Steven was made. But instead, their grown like regular gemstones would have. But, that means that the Earth was used as sort of a "breeding ground" for gems. Is this what Pearl was talking about? Using the Earth as a means to make more gems until...there was nothing left?

BTW, how come in the short battle of anger between Pearl and Amethyst we see new abilities? Like Pearl can shoot energy beams from her staff and Amethyst can use energy whips and roll into a ball?
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Yeah this episode started out bright and seemingly cheerful but then got surprisingly deep and complex fast. I'm glad we get episodes like this revealing small parts in a larger puzzle. 

My theory on this from what we've seen so far is that the homeworld gems travel from planet to planet with their large virus looking machines and inject something into the ground that when it comes into contact with a gem turns them into a crystal gem. This is done because they cannot reproduce with each other and have to make their own kind with gems from other planets. Once they got to Earth, Rose saw the beauty of the world and with Garnet and Pearl rebelled against their fellow gems to keep Earth safe so they stopped the machines from making more Crystal Gems at the Kindergarten and destroyed the warp pad the Peridot tried to fix and in the aftermath of their rebellion they found Amethyst and took her in.

Also another theory I'm throwing out is that the corrupted crystal gem monsters we've seen so far have originated from the Kindergarten along with Amethyst.