artemispanthar:

Something I liked in “Space Race” is that Pearl is clearly incredulous that Steven’s spaceship would work (considering its a wooden box on wheels with stuff taped to it) but also seems genuinely interested in seeing it work to the point of being a little surprised when it started falling apart. She assumed they did their research and calculations and that it was a legit attempt at building a spaceship so even if it didn’t look good to her she was still curious to see how it worked.

like she was like “Well its pretty rudimentary and doesn’t look space-worthy at all but human tech always looks shoddy to me so maybe this is a legitimate human spacecraft.”