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BlackfootFerret wrote: WhatsYourExcuse wrote: BlackfootFerret wrote: Well.. no big change, in terms of my theories. Neither confirmed nor debunked.

It was a great movie. Change is something we have to do for ourselves.

I recently saw the Negative Man fight in Mother 3. A big rectacular guy who doesn't believe he can win, and doesn't even try, although he's got plenty of hit points and takes a long time to defeat.

That was more like me that I'd care to admit.

Guess I need to move forward too. Did you come up with any new theories watching the movie? I did wonder how Spinel, who was a simple jester until she saw Steven's broadcast, managed to find a planet-destroying bio weapon on short notice.

There was some brilliant engineering in that thing. And while it looks like similar technology to gem injectors, the Gem Empire colonizes life-rich planets to leech their life force to make gems. Simply destroying all organic life seems... wasteful for them?

While Spinel herself doesn't seem tied to The Enemy in Space, that still-unknown entity that Yellow wanted a planet-destroying cluster to fight, I have to wonder if they inspired her actions, somehow.

I have to go do a frame-by-frame breakdown for Easter Eggs now.

I did notice a few callbacks. Like a picture with Connie in her fantasy outfit, next to a bird, a callback to that story about how a bird became human, and married the heroine. I still think that's a stand-in for Steven.

That three-colored cat missing an eye shows up several times, too.

I was pretty surprised when Steven fused with Greg! I always figured that he could fuse with Connie because she was half-gem. So either Greg himself has gem ancenstry, or direct fusion with humans has always been possible.

Direct human fusion is possible specifically with Steven, because he's half human himself. Normal gems can't do it, like how Rose couldn't fuse with Greg.