johncribati:

So the reveal that Rose is Pink Diamond was pulled off masterfully. Not going to front there. But there are some issues I want to point put

1. Pearl/Rose already had this uncomfortable dependency dynamic. Now it’s worse.
2. Pink Diamond. Started a rebellion. Against. Herself.
3. She could have just least tried to go “actually I like the organics on this planet I don’t want to hollow it out.”
4. That whole human zoo. That’s mostly Black and Brown folk. Is still out there. She ain’t even try to bring it back first
5. Bismuth is even more screwed over by the narrative
6. Steven is now Super Duper Space Jesus, Prince of Homeworld

Hi, I hope you don’t mind that I give my two cents about some of these points:3

1. I think it’s on purpose that Rose and Pearl’s relationship is kind of bad, and it’s probably the reason why it didn’t work out; now that we know that Rose was Pink Diamond, we might get more info on that, but I think at the end of the day that Rose hated how Pearl couldn’t let go of their old dynamic. You can see traces of that in Rose’s Scabbard where the holo!Rose almost begs Pearl not to go through with it, but Pearl responds: “But I want to.”

2 & 3. I really don’t think that would have worked out. A lot of people have already talked about this, how if Pink Diamond tried to rebel like that, the other Diamonds would just take over the Earth colony and finish the job while keeping Pink locked away.

4. The human zoo was probably established before Pink started the rebellion, probably because she wanted to preserve some piece of humanity when she thought she had to destroy the Earth for her colony. Since it was at least five thousand years ago, most humans at the time were black and brown. The few humans there with blond hair and blue eyes are probably the result of a mutation. Pink couldn’t just stop her zoo without the other Diamonds getting suspicious; after all, the rebellion didn’t have ships so the zoo wasn’t in danger, and Pink was still being forced to go through with the colony plans, so why would she suddenly decide not to preserve those humans?

Maybe Pink thought after the Diamonds had fled, they would abandon the zoo, allowing her to sneak in and free the humans. Or maybe she wanted to rally her army and free them by force. But the Diamonds didn’t abandon the zoo, most of the rebellion was wiped out, and Pink had no other way to get to the zoo than wait for human space travel to advance far enough, so she was kinda stuck in a corner there.

I have nothing to say on 5 & 6, other than I agree with you there, especially on 5.