STEVEN UNIVERSE: A TV-Show's Summary (By SimoTheFinlandized / Paul Palazzolo - 2022 CE)

======================================= STEVEN UNIVERSE: A TV-Show's Summary (By SimoTheFinlandized / Paul Palazzolo - 2022 CE) ======================================= "STEVEN UNIVERSE" is set in the fictional town of Beach City, Delaware, where the Crystal Gems live in an ancient beachside temple-complex and protect humanity from monsters and various other threats. The Crystal Gems are immortal alien warriors with seemingly supernaturally-gifted magic powers and abilities, who project hard-light feminine humanoid forms from magical gemstones which are at the core of their overall being. The Crystal Gems comprise Garnet, Amethyst, Pearl and Steven—a young half-human & half-Gem boy who inherited his gemstone from his mother, the Crystal Gems' former leader Rose Quartz. As Steven tries to understand his gradually expanding range of powers and abilities, he spends his days with his human father Greg, his best friend Connie, his magical pet lion (named Lion), other residents of Beach City, and the Gems. He explores the wide range of powers and abilities inherited from his mother, which include fusion—the ability of Gems to merge their bodies and abilities to form newer and much more powerful personalities. ======================================= The series' first season gradually reveals that the Crystal Gems are a remnant of a great highly technically-advanced and culturally-sophisticated intergalactic space-empire. During their various missions, they visit a myriad number of ancient ruins that were once important to the extraterrestrial Gem culture but have been completely derelict and left abandoned for millennia. The Gems are cut off from the Gem Homeworld, and Steven learns that many of the monsters and artifacts that they regularly encounter are either "corrupted" Gems (Gems who were corrupted by a Gem weapon of mass destruction and can no longer maintain either rational or humanoid form) or artifacts-and-relics that were made by them. By the end of the first season, Steven learns that, millennia ago, the Gem Empire intended to conquer and completely sterilize Earth in order to incubate new Gems, but a Gem named Rose Quartz led her supporters, the Crystal Gems, in a violent and apparently successful rebellion against this all-encompassing genocidal plan. The discovery and release of Lapis Lazuli, a Gem who was trapped in a magic Gem-made mirror on Earth for several millennia, puts the Crystal Gems at risk from the Gem Empire once more, leading to the arrival of hostile envoys Peridot (a brilliant yet egotistically- disoriented Gem scientist-engineer and inventor) and Jasper (a battle-hardy and brutally-efficient Gem super-soldier). ======================================= In the second season, Peridot allies with and eventually joins the Crystal Gems to prevent Earth's ultimate destruction by a Gem "geo-weapon" buried in the planet's core. During the third season, Lapis Lazuli decides to live on Earth with Peridot on a small farm near Beach City; Jasper is ultimately defeated and captured by the Crystal Gems; and Steven learns that his mother assassinated one of the Gem Empire's matriarchal paramount leaders, Pink Diamond. In the fourth season, as Steven wrestles with his conflicted feelings about his mother's actions, the Gem Empire's paramount leaders, Blue Diamond and Yellow Diamond, begin to turn their full attention to Earth once more. In the fifth and final season, Steven learns that in fact his mother was Pink Diamond, who faked her death to assume the identity of Rose Quartz; he uses this sudden revelation to persuade the other Diamonds to try to take responsibility for and fix the damage they have caused. ==========================================