So, the new Steven Universe episodes came out.

WOW!

Don’t read anymore if you haven’t seen it yet.

I mean it don’t.

I’m warning you.

Okay here we go.

So Rose Quartz was Pink Diamond. It feels weird to be sort of right. I say sort of because I was feeling that I was wrong when the last bunch of new episodes came out and we saw the new Pink Diamond and stuff. Joke is on me.

Now that we know Rose Quartz was Pink Diamond the question becomes where do we go from here. One the reasons, I thought I might have been wrong about Rose Quartz being be Pink Diamond was because I thought it would be too easy for the show to make up with the other diamonds if they found that.

However, after watch the episodes and looking around I realized no this is the hard path.

For one thing there is no guarantee that Yellow or Blue will ever believe the Crystal Gems or Steven. I’m sure there is a way for Steven to prove it somehow, but here is the thing.

Rose Quartz/Pink Diamond is gone.

The Diamonds are never going to be together again because Rose Quartz gave birth to Steven.

Their refusal to listen to their sister caused them to lose thousands of years of togetherness and they can’t fix it because she is gone.

There are questions the Crystal Gems have to ask themselves about whether or not they were truly being themselves or were they just listening to another Diamond.

And what about the corrupt gems? They were corrupted and hurt for nothing in the end. Even if they are healed now how are they going to feel at the end of the day about all that has happened.

The most tragic thing of all is probably Rose Quartz herself. I truly believe that she wanted Earth to be free and for the gems to be themselves. I recall the back story when Garnet first met Rose. She asked Rose, “I don’t upset you?”

“Who cares about how I feel. How you feel is bound to be much more interesting.”

Rose didn’t really want people to care about how she felt. She wanted gems to be themselves. She wanted the earth to be free. She wanted to be free.

Yet, was she ever? The Crystal Gems needed a leader and by all accounts she tried to be the best one she could be. She kept so many secrets that she probably didn’t share all to Pearl. After all, Pearl didn’t know about Lion. That would made anyone lonely. She never made up with her Diamond Sisters, and she never knew how much they loved her.

Rose made some bad decisions and probably didn’t know exactly what she was doing.

But it is like Garnet said, “She didn’t always do what was best for her. But she always did what was best for Earth.”

I can’t wait to see what happens next.