…as evidenced by her immediately shifting to alarm and concern as he fails the jump.
He failed the jump because of HER though. He was gonna make it… Until she made that face. Doesn’t she deserve a point off for that??
When your facial expressions manage to change somebody’s jump arc in midair, call me and I’ll dock points for her making Steven fail the jump.
He was surprised and stopped following through. If his center of gravity shifted, so would his momentum, and he wouldn’t go as far.
… Not that I’m certified in physics, of course, that’s just how I thought it made sense.
Nope; not physically possible. Once you’ve left the ground, your jump arc can only be changed by you hitting something or something hitting you. He didn’t jump far enough to make the jump. She turned around as he started to arc downwards.
The gems have exhibited the ability play around with their own gravity. The most obvious examples so far are in Alone Together, Secret Team and Keep Beach City Weird . If you watch closely in the dancing at the beginning of Alone Together you’ll see the gems jump into the air simultaneously. Wile they hang in the air, Steven somehow has time to run up to them jump almost as high as them and land all before they even hit the apex of their arc. In Secret Team when Amethyst literally cannonballs into the puddle in her room, she stops herself for a split second before hitting the water. At the end of the Steven tag portion of Keep Beach City Weird Garnet throws Amethyst into the air then jumps after her and smacks her extremely hard into the ground without apparently having an equal and opposite force working in reverse. Most of the time it’s played as stylistic flourishes but it’s clear the gems can make physics go wonkey when they want to.(not to mention the other gem related gravity shenanigans like that upside down pyramid or floating into the air when they reform after being poofed or the floating islands themselves.)
I think Steven was unknowingly using this power and then lost his nerve after seeing Pearl’s face. To be clear I don’t thinks Pearl deserves to be docked points for that. She couldn’t have known that would happen; she was also having a breakdown and didn’t have a lot of options or time to think.
This is ridiculous.
The Gems floating in Alone Together was a stylistic flourish at the end of a musical number, with Steven not staying up as long being a simple gag courtesy of cartoon physics. The Amethyst cannonball stopping frozen right before she hits so we can appreciate the characters’ expressions is an old, old cartoon gag going back at least to the original Looney Tunes. The Steven Tag example is just more cartoon physics, and a bit of a nod to anime combat.
If Steven were intended to be using this “power” and then have it fail, it would have been set up beforehand. The Crewniverse is really really good about foreshadowing, and this scene was too important to throw in a random, never-before-seen “power” just to vilify Pearl.
I’ve seen like six or seven of you asserting in the reblogs that this “power” is a thing and that Pearl is directly responsible for Steven almost falling to his death. Steven took a jump he couldn’t make. That’s all. She is absolutely to blame for not helping him up afterwards, but anybody who tries to pass off cartoon physics as an explicit power of the Gems just so they can condemn Pearl here is reaching.
You’re too involved in the real, this is art. Obviously Pearl didn’t cause him to fall by looking at him, she doesn’t have gravity vision, his sudden fall after her glace at him was symbolic of her attitude trying to drive him away.
