![]() While the show did an excellent job of foreshadowing the reveal, its many red herrings caused the theory to falter. Indeed, Rose Quartz and Pink Diamond being one and the same had been a popular theory ever since the first broken diamond insignia appeared back in ‘Sworn to the Sword’. She was Rose Quartz all along, and the assassination was faked.Īs shocking as this would all be, it isn’t wholly unpredictable. The answer to all of that: Pink Diamond was never shattered. Why get Pearl to do it? Why have her assume Rose’s identity? Why keep it a secret from all their friends? Why the compulsive mouth-covering? How could it be? There were too many unanswered questions. ![]() Pearl’s mimicry of Rose Quartz was almost perfect, but she couldn’t alter her slightly lighter color palette.īut it wasn’t over. Thus the episode’s title, “A Single Pale Rose”. Pearl had always shown an unexplained aversion to shape-shifting, and this explained why: she was the one who struck the final blow on Pink Diamond. Steven is confused about his mother’s presence in Pearl’s memories, but I wasn’t. Rose Quartz stands there, sword drawn, above the shards of Pink Diamond. Seems about as likely as putting it away in her repressed war memories.”Īs Steven is taken one level of memories lower, I already had goosebumps running down my entire arm. Or she left it on the dresser, or dropped it in the toilet. Steven gets one of the only comedic lines of the entire episodes here, and even that’s pitch black: “It better not turn out that her phone was in her pocket. Pearl of five thousand years ago, left on her knees in the aftermath of the war which stole nearly everything from her. The Pearl of fifteen years ago is heartbroken and grief-stricken about Rose’s looming death. Surface Pearl is upbeat, cheery, focused, and “very good at compartmentalizing”. There Steven encounters various versions of Pearl’s subconscious. ![]() It’s a premise filled with the promise being deeply metaphorical, stunning and unsettling, and it delivers. Immediately, he can tell there’s something weird going on here, but driven by curiosity and trust in Pearl, he ventures into her mindscape. Steven’s matured a lot from the goofy kid he once was. But I can tell you that I need my cellular phone.” With dawning realization she says, “There are many things I can’t tell you. The phone she stored in her gemstone goes missing. She used it here to devise a plan, buried so deep in her subconscious she hadn’t even realized she made it. One of Pearl’s greatest strengths, however, is her intelligence. Not because she didn’t want to: because she literally could not. Spurred by his vision in “Can’t Go Back”, he went to Pearl, demanding to know the truth: Did she kill Pink Diamond?Īnd Pearl choked on her own words, not able to answer. Desperate to share her experiences with Steven, yet so often left speechless whenever she tried.įinally, Steven truly ran out of patience for the secrets. But we also knew she had a paradoxical appreciation for her home society, a desire to see it again one day. We knew she had been enslaved by Homeworld, and that she had turned traitor against them. Pearl’s past has long been the most mysterious of the main characters’. In “A Single Pale Rose”, we delve deep into Pearl’s mind to discover the secret she was forced to keep.
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