At the end of ‘Single Pale Rose’ you see Pearl and Rose discussing together the action they’re about to take. Its a decision that they’re making together. Rose is not ordering to do this as a servant, but asking her as a comrade and a friend.
Pearl most likely never broke her programming. the phrasing of “so, for my last order to you as a diamond, please, let’s never speak of this again. no one can know” that she’s taken this long to break, and even then, through successively buried memories, and even then not really if you count the loophole that if Steven is Pink, she hasn’t told anyone knew.
She’s still obeying her diamond’s orders, she’s never really rebelled against anyone. It even makes sense for a Pearl’s orders to include putting her diamond above anyone else, even homeworld, and rebelling against homeworld only on her diamond’s orders isn’t rebelling against anything. the worst part is that people were meant to relate with Pearl, but now with this new revelation it’s like she never actually had any character development at all. even Peridot rebelled against her diamond and meant it, and she’s been on the show for half the time.
i remember saying about a year or two ago something like, “I really wish it’s revealed that it was Pearl who started the rebellion first before Rose joins in, because I really hate the trope of a perfect servant who never thinks of freedom on her own until someone tells her about it. esp bc Pearl would have been in the best position to figure out the diamonds themselves aren’t perfect"
and as flawed as Pearl/Rose was, it was relateable (lesbians relate to pining for someone unavailable, who knew). Rose was the one who helped free her from a life of servitude, but no, plot twist, that’s now the relationship between a slave and her owner that she’s fallen in love with.
i know the show is going to going to go further with developing this, but at this point it’s really hard to see anything other than how they turned the rebellion itself into a royal’s pet vanity project, and turned a main character from a rebel and war hero into a servant who was only ever doing what she’s told,, and hasn’t disobeyed a single order from her diamond until now.
Steven might actually become friends with the diamonds???
“no one is truly evil”
“i dont know if that’s true in reality”
no offense but im seriously gonna square up with rebecca holy shit
are you fucking kidding me Rebecca sugar?????
Rebecca sugar probably thought that hitler should of been kindly talked to
rebecca sugar is jewish ya piece of shit
Wait but like…. do I need to remind you all that this is a kids show? Of course things are solved like this, the intent is to teach children how to healthily interact with problems. Of course its childish. Steven is a child on a show for children.
rebecca sugar: i want my childrens show to teach kids the value of settling differences by coming to understand and care for eachother. even if that isn’t always possible in reality i think they are important values to try and get across, especially in a childrens fantasy tv show
you weirdos: this is fascism apologism
[text reads:
Even amidst all of the seriousness, Steven Universe is
relentlessly, unabashedly childish. Steven is successful at protecting
Earth not through the use of his powers or through muscle, but by
following many of the simplest rules of a kindergarten class: listen to
others when they’re talking, try to be helpful, share your snacks. It’s
part of what Rebecca Sugar and Steven have in common – why the show is
so relentlessly positive, and so willing to welcome fans with open arms.
And it’s why, when asked if anyone on Steven Universe is truly
evil, she takes a breath and pauses before answering: “It’s a fantasy
show,” she says. "I think it’s a fantasy that no one is truly evil. I
don’t know if that’s true in reality, but it’s certainly true in my
fantasy. Why wouldn’t it be?”.
op has attached a picture of scooby-doo grimacing.]
Steven might actually become friends with the diamonds???
“no one is truly evil”
“i dont know if that’s true in reality”
no offense but im seriously gonna square up with rebecca holy shit
are you fucking kidding me Rebecca sugar?????
Rebecca sugar probably thought that hitler should of been kindly talked to
rebecca sugar is jewish ya piece of shit
Wait but like…. do I need to remind you all that this is a kids show? Of course things are solved like this, the intent is to teach children how to healthily interact with problems. Of course its childish. Steven is a child on a show for children.
rebecca sugar: i want my childrens show to teach kids the value of settling differences by coming to understand and care for eachother. even if that isn’t always possible in reality i think they are important values to try and get across, especially in a childrens fantasy tv show
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