No shit Ruby's pissed. Sapphire basically called her insignificant to her face. Out of misplaced rage, but that's a freak out that's going to have a cost.
But on the more uplifting side, this overturns a little of the unsympathetic feels the Rose / Pink reveal. Instead of building a personality cult around herself based on lies, like Sapphire and a lot of the fanbase assumed, she actually attempted a small, (and doomed to fail from what we know of Sapphire's visions in The Answer) petty attempt to boogeyman the Gems away, but kept realizing that there were more worthwhile causes to fight for, and once the floodgates opened she couldn't stop latching onto people who also needed her support.
Or as Sapphire put it, she was following them rather than the other way around. Garnet and Pearl, and presumably all the gems to come after, were the real symbols of the rebellion. Which adds another tragic layer to the fight with Bismuth. Bismuth saw Rose as sanctimonious, but it's more likely she had no idea what to do about any of it (much like Steven often tends to) and was just caught between doing what she thought was right. I wouldn't be surprised if the Bismuth incident is what inspired Rose to "kill" Pink Diamond in the end.
And the whole chain of discovering life and realizing what she's doing is yet another similarity between Rose's arc and Peridot's, to the point where I'm really starting to suspect that's intentional.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Jul 2nd 2018 at 4:57:59 AM
I mean, it's really blatant: Peridot is to date the only Crystal Gem we know of who is one for the exact same reasons Rose did - because she loves life, and loves fostering it - plus the only one who really has that same devotion to the Earth itself and human culture, and a lot of the things she says about how much she loves Earth sound like they could come straight out of Rose's mouth.
But so far I've been wondering if they were intentionally meant to be counterparts, or whether it just kind of ended up that way through that also being a natural contrast of Peridot's original personality (callous, cold intellectual with no regard for non-Gem life going from Measuring the Marigolds to being intensely devoted to all life in all its details), because nobody ever brings up that Peridot's ideals are just like Rose's in-universe. I don't think Word Of God has made the connection to us, either.
But now we have Rose's Start Of Goodness even more clearly mirroring Peridot's (Rose's being much faster), so maybe they've just not thought it was something that beared pointing out.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Jul 2nd 2018 at 5:09:54 AM
The iced over place from the trailer is Rose's fountain, which is only iced over because of Sapphire, and I feel like an idiot for not recognizing that doorway.
We finally saw gems emerging. Wasn't that spectacular, but still neat.
Pearl was'nt lying about the 'not all Pearls' since she served Pink primarily she likely didn't interact with the other pearls so she couldn't have claimed to have 'known them'
Also,someone spotted Topazes alongside the Amethysts
Also,still waiting for 'White Diamond' to be name dropped
Edited by Ultimatum on Jul 2nd 2018 at 12:42:19 PM
have a listen and have a link to my discord serverSince I wasn't expecting an extended Pink/Pearl Origins Episode, I'm trying to remember the questions that were unexpectedly answered:
- The Zoo was Blue and Yellow's attempt at compromise, not Pink's. Pink's thought process went directly from "make a colony (don't think about the consequence)" to "save Earth outright", and never wanted the Zoo at all. Pearl said she visited at least once, which makes me really curious how she felt then.
- The biggest actual change to Pink/Rose's mission was Garnet inspiring her to also liberate some gems, and let them live on Earth.
- The previous makes it seems Rose and Pearl really were the only Crystal Gems by "The Answer". Either the "save Earth" message alone reached at least a few more gems, or Sapphire's description of a "Small, persistent group of rebels" was a massive underestimate.
- Pearl was given to Pink Diamond a while before they came to Earth, but they didn't really bond until after. Maybe the circumstance of them meeting were important, maybe not.
- The first gems didn't come from Earth's Kindergarten until after Pink took over the colony, but it seems a lot of the architecture was already built and being used by migrant gems.
- Pink's Rose Quartz persona, though not by that name, was made before trying to save the Earth, or even learning anything about it.
Edited by thatother1dude on Jul 2nd 2018 at 7:50:55 AM
I love it when fanart predicts the show.
Speaking of fanart, please look at this surprisingly beautiful comic
about Peridot gardening literally everywhere.
Man, what a great episode. Though maybe a little rushed at the start. There was barely time to breath between Sapphire freaking out and Pearl telling her story.
My favorite part was Pearl just kinda stumbling into the whole "personal agency" thing. As far as she was consciously aware, she was just following orders, but she actually had a lot more imput on everything than she ever realized. That also exposes one of Rose's biggest flaws: being unable to identify how much she effect others. I am not sure she ever quite realized, even after everything. She wanted so badly to just be pals with everyone that she missed how much people looked up to her. That might be the biggest difference, as a leader, from Garnet.

A very short Pearl and Pink Dimond flashback
No spoilers though
promo art by Christine Liu
Edited by Ultimatum on Jul 2nd 2018 at 11:19:29 AM
have a listen and have a link to my discord server