I figured the gems called it magic to make it easier for Steven to understand, with it actually being Clarke's Third Law.
More fun posts from the past, correctly guessing major plot points several months ahead:
I figure that if Peridot does come back, she'll be back with a small team of other gems.
Edited by Snicka on Oct 7th 2019 at 3:04:25 PM
This post
, written after the Season 1 finale, speculates that Homeworld's leader is a fusion of 10 gems. It is, of course, the exact opposite of what actually happened in the show, but it's a fun speculation. I'm just imagining Fluorite in the place of White Diamond.
And the first person guessing Season 5's big twist
. Immediately booed two posts later because it "makes no sense".
EDIT: I'm probably (definitely) wrong about it being the first guess overall, but it's the first one bringing it up after "The Trial".
Edited by Snicka on Oct 7th 2019 at 3:56:42 PM
I remember theorizing that Yellow Diamond would someone fuse the shattered Gem monsters to become some sort of twisted fusion, a sort of Malachite-style perversion of fusion.
All the Cluster stuff wasn’t exactly relevant in the long term, though - not when Pink started to be brought into focus.
I do think that most of us thought that Rose was the Pink part of the Diamond sigil before we learned more about the Diamonds.
Edited by KarkatTheDalek on Oct 7th 2019 at 9:26:46 AM
Oh God! Natural light!There were a few people who thought Rose might actually be Pink. I thought this might be the case, but it never occurred to me that this might not be common knowledge. That is to say, I believed that Pink openly rebelled against the other Diamonds and changed her name to Rose Quartz, and everybody knew this. Thus, as soon as people started saying how Rose shattered Pink Diamond, I discarded that theory.
Rose being Pink Diamond was a theory everywhere. To the point where I recall people were throwing it out for being an obvious red herring.
Edited by LordVatek on Oct 7th 2019 at 9:55:23 AM
This song needs more love.The biggest objection to PD=RQ I believe was that it would've undermined the narrative of 'underdog gem rebelling against her natural instincts to rise against DA SYSTEM' which is still kinda what we actually got with Pink but... y'know Rebel Princesses still seemed a tad cliche
I remember being mighty ambivalent to the theory: my own personal take was that Pink Diamond committed suicide (which made sense in relation to revelations in "The Trial"), whether out of desperation from the rebellion or because she too was sympathetic to their cause but couldn't bear facing the other Diamonds. And I was the best kind of wrong about it in the end: technically correct!
The most impressive PD=RQ theorising I've seen so far is this
, note how its first draft came out on 13th Jan, 2017, which is before "Steven's Dream" happened
@Silent Colossus: I know we're repeating ourselves already, but how does calling biological abilities and advanced technology magic make them easier to understand?
I've honestly thought gems don't fit Clarke's Third Law as well as Sufficiently Analyzed Magic (which is basically the exact opposite concept). Sugar even recently said
"There are things about Gems that even Gems don’t understand."
Basically, people dismissed the hints of the truth (or at least the full meaning thereof) because they came so far ahead of any context that would make it meaningful (like "What was Rose's public rank before the rebellion?" or "What are the lives of Homeworld's leaders actually like?")
I think "Rose is Pink Diamond" was a theory formed way back when people noticed the 4-Diamond symbol on the floor of Jasper's hand ship during the season 1 finale.
Another funny thing looking back, someone guessed that Steven would accidentally fuse with Connie shortly after Giant Woman aired, except their prediction was that it would be a bad thing!
People guessed that used to be Rose's symbol and she was one of Homeworld's rulers, though many (including myself) didn't assume that included any kind of name change.
And the emblem on the floor of the handship was significant because it only had three diamonds and was missing the one Pearl wore. It was "Sworn to the Sword" that first showed gem ruins on Earth with the symbol with all four.
Edited by thatother1dude on Oct 7th 2019 at 10:38:26 AM
See for me the name change thing was kind of a given, but early on I'd thought that the fact that Rose was Pink Diamond was something that was open to the Crystal Gems, but hidden by the remaining diamonds. Like that the rebel diamond was unpersoned with her part of original symbol defaced and subsequently removed entirely.
It's funny how the symbol's removal was significant, but not as much as people had guessed.
People were thinking it meant Homeworld either hated Pink or was covering up that any of them could be killed. Really, they just changed it because she wasn't around—and so fast that Nephrite already knew the new symbol before the war ended, despite being on a mission specifically to avenge Pink.
People also figured the damage in the Sky Arena specifically to Pink's symbol (and one of the four statues) was vandalism in response to Pink (publicly) betraying Homeworld. It did symbolize/foreshadow her supposed death, but seems to just be a coincidence literally.

This outline
from 2013 (the series premiering in November) starts with "the gems are aliens".
I would guess it was something they came up with after some episodes were outlined, if not boarded.
@Snicka: Right click on the posts' timestamp and select "Copy link address" to link directly to that specific post.
Edited by thatother1dude on Oct 7th 2019 at 6:44:38 AM