There's a theme running through it about fighting and death and immortality: The Gems spar with each other for fun and to get to know each other, and the reason they can do that is that the stakes are low --- if their bodies get disrupted, they regenerate in a few minutes. (Also, they come into being pretty much fully capable, so they're not used to having to take things easy around kids.) The horror of a weapon that actually kills them, that's the horror of human war, the danger Connie faces in every fight. Gem war, Gem fighting, that's all a big game.
I feel like maybe the show is commenting on fight-related adventure stories in general. Yeah, it's fun to see actors wave lightsabers around and dodge blaster bolts, but they're actors. Real people get killed.
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There's a theme running through it about fighting and death and immortality: The Gems spar with each other for fun and to get to know each other, and the reason they can do that is that the stakes are low --- if their bodies get disrupted, they regenerate in a few minutes. (Also, they come into being pretty much fully capable, so they're not used to having to take things easy around kids.) The horror of a weapon that actually kills them, that's the horror of human war, the danger Connie faces in every fight. Gem war, Gem fighting, that's all a big game.
I feel like maybe the show is commenting on fight-related adventure stories in general. Yeah, it's fun to see actors wave lightsabers around and dodge blaster bolts, but they're actors. Real people get killed.