It sounded like it was the first time Rose was proposing rebelling, and Pearl was choosing her over Homeworld. Looking at it now, knowing we’re supposed to accept Pink Diamond is stating that she’s going to stay and fight for the planet, you have to do a little bit of dancing around to get that to make sense. This scene is portrayed by Pearl in an honest setting that looks like a replay of actual events–I don’t believe it is edited for content by Pearl, because it came forth in such an authentic reveal of her pain. “But why would I ever want to go home, if you’re here?” “I’m going to stay and fight for this planet. Mostly, I’m just thinking of Rose’s words in “Rose’s Scabbard.” Now, though, I have to reconcile some of these other elements that don’t quite fit right. He threw the fan off the trail, so from this, I see that intentional misdirection is always a possibility when they talk about the show.Īlso, Matt Burnett once laughed dismissively at the concept of a Diamond being poofed, but we just saw it. I mean, he didn’t straight up say Rose IS a Quartz, but the way he said it, he implied it was very silly to believe otherwise. Now, Ian Jones-Quartey has expressed that “Can’t Go Back” and “A Single Pale Rose” are the culmination of one of their earliest plans, so according to him, they had always planned this.īut if I had had to create a list of evidence AGAINST Rose Quartz having been the same person as Pink Diamond, high on that list would be an old Twitter quote also from Ian, wherein he explicitly misled a fan who was questioning Rose’s status. Meaning both characters in the show and creators outside the show. I mostly take my cues for what I think will happen from how people act. So I knew it was something morally indefensible on most levels and extremely questionable. I thought the answer to the shattering mystery would turn out to be something like that because I pay attention to what the Crew says about their work, and Susan Egan once said in an interview that she was appalled by what Rose did–that she was still trying to swallow it. (If in fact she had that ability and it isn’t just Steven’s that’s also a possibility.) Now that we know this ability was not involved, I’d still really like to see that ability be important in some vital aspect of Rose’s dealings, because it’s accessed by dreaming and most Gems wouldn’t think to try sleeping, so using an organic Earth practice to bring down mighty Gems seems like the kind of thing that would fit with the narrative of the show. The closest thing I had to a theory about Pink Diamond’s alleged shattering was that Rose may have used the mental transference Steven has demonstrated with Lars and the Watermelons to bring Pink Diamond into a compromising position where she could strike her. Okay, see, I don’t really do much theorizing because I prefer to base my understandings of plot on my understandings of character, and mystery for mystery’s sake is not my bag. I outline past theories, review a few pieces of information that came from the Crew, identify common fan criticism that I don’t think is valid, identify common fan criticism that I DO think is valid, and share some lists about what the reveal has changed as well as what I still hope to see explained. My lengthy discussion of this topic is below. Mostly, though, I leaned toward thinking they were not the same person because of stuff the Crewniverse said outside the show. Ultimately, I thought we really did not have enough information about Pink Diamond to compare her with Rose Quartz, and most of the information we did have about her either came from Steven in altered states of consciousness or came from secondary sources that contradicted established content (mostly referring to Garnet’s simplistic telling of the Rose Quartz story–which irritated me because I thought it did not make sense for Rose to have been made on Earth). If you’d asked me before the reveal to declare a position, I would have said I did not believe Rose Quartz was secretly Pink Diamond, but I also would have said I did not believe it was impossible or improbable. I was never a strong “Rose Quartz = Pink Diamond” theorist. Lots of spoilers for “Can’t Go Back” and “A Single Pale Rose”!
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