So my bf and I were discussing the first generation of humans to be abducted from Earth and placed in Pink Diamond’s zoo. Ideally (as messed up as that sounds) PD would’ve had to abduct at least 200+ humans to ensure genetic diversity and prevent inbreeding, assuming she snatched them from countries furthest away from each other.
Anything less than 50 people would not have survived this long, at least not without some major repercussions. (Some inbreeding might explain the green eyes, though.)
And I’m not sure just how advanced the gem technology was in that assimilation bay (where they sprayed Steven clean), but exposing Greg to that isolated group could potentially kill them all within a week by disease transmission.
Or perhaps I’m just overthinking this whole thing
Given the number of Rose Quartzes bubbled (and the theory going around that they were specifically designed to be human caretakers unlike the Amethysts who were supposed to be foot soldiers) I think it’s probable that Pink Diamond’s first generation of humans were a huge enough population to ensure genetic diversity.
I think, most likely, the amount of humans left in the zoo is either due to waning interest in the zoo itself (the other Diamonds don’t really care about preserving the species–or not as much as Pink Diamond must have), lack of skilled caregivers (Amethysts don’t have the healing powers or biology-based abilities that Rose Quartzes did) or the small group we saw in the episode was only one of many “habitats” of the over all zoo. For example, maybe siblings are deliberately separated to prevent inbreeding. Or pregnant humans are in a “maternity habitat” or (except for Steven) children are in a “nursery habitat” or something like that.
I suppose the disease issue might be circumvented if the liquid Steven and Greg were submerged in were like Rose Quartz’s fountain of healing?
My particular overthinking subject was how these humans descended from the original population stolen five thousand years ago were capable of understanding modern day language.
I mean… unless since the Voice in the earrings spoke that language that, technically, humans on Earth are speaking Gem language?
JackSGreyson Says 