Some more (not particularly organized) points, and my apologies for the slow-motion nature of the conversation:
I very much doubt we'll ever get a single definitive account of who and what Rose Quartz/Pink Diamond was/were--that's the whole point about loss and memory, isn't it?
I'd been seeking real-world analogies for Rose; Lawrence of Arabia and David Attenborough, among others, came to mind; now it's looking as if Thomas Jefferson and Rachel Dolezal ought to join the list.
The Pearlception sequence demonstrated a gemologically informed Fridge Brilliance: what, after all, is a pearl but layer upon layer upon layer of defenses secreted in response to trauma? (Steven's addressing the "Pearl within the Pearl within Pearl's Pearl" also--and probably quite consciously--evokes a particular folkloric sort of cumulative storytelling.) A related question: now that Steven has pried out her secret, is Pearl freed from the geas?
The queue of Unfinished Business and collateral damage continues to lengthen--to Bismuth and the Zoomans, we can add the real Rose Quartzes, who found themselves rounded up (and would've been shattered, had Yellow had her druthers) in a put-down-all-the-pit-bulls panic.
(And just how many unintended consequences did Rose/Pink leave scattered around Earth's ecology, anyway? Consider the Strawberry Battlefield and the random crystal animals who keep popping up, for example. An interesting point I've noticed about Lion--who is strongly hinted to be an unintended consequence himself, if his story parallels Lars': the evidence so far is that as a hunter, he stays in his lane, preying only upon fellow crystal animals, such as the basilisk in "Lion 2: The Movie" and the rats in the comics story "Lion's Share"; there is no indication that he poses any threat to humans or mundane animals. As a pet, of course, he's perfectly happy to mooch whatever Steven's eating--see "Cooking with Lion.")
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I very much doubt we'll ever get a single definitive account of who and what Rose Quartz/Pink Diamond was/were--that's the whole point about loss and memory, isn't it?
I'd been seeking real-world analogies for Rose; Lawrence of Arabia and David Attenborough, among others, came to mind; now it's looking as if Thomas Jefferson and Rachel Dolezal ought to join the list.
The Pearlception sequence demonstrated a gemologically informed Fridge Brilliance: what, after all, is a pearl but layer upon layer upon layer of defenses secreted in response to trauma? (Steven's addressing the "Pearl within the Pearl within Pearl's Pearl" also--and probably quite consciously--evokes a particular folkloric sort of cumulative storytelling.) A related question: now that Steven has pried out her secret, is Pearl freed from the geas?
The queue of Unfinished Business and collateral damage continues to lengthen--to Bismuth and the Zoomans, we can add the real Rose Quartzes, who found themselves rounded up (and would've been shattered, had Yellow had her druthers) in a put-down-all-the-pit-bulls panic.
(And just how many unintended consequences did Rose/Pink leave scattered around Earth's ecology, anyway? Consider the Strawberry Battlefield and the random crystal animals who keep popping up, for example. An interesting point I've noticed about Lion--who is strongly hinted to be an unintended consequence himself, if his story parallels Lars': the evidence so far is that as a hunter, he stays in his lane, preying only upon fellow crystal animals, such as the basilisk in "Lion 2: The Movie" and the rats in the comics story "Lion's Share"; there is no indication that he poses any threat to humans or mundane animals. As a pet, of course, he's perfectly happy to mooch whatever Steven's eating--see "Cooking with Lion.")