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[skygiants]

OK, so I spent two hours standing outside on a volunteer shift with "It's Over" stuck on loop in my head, and then allchildren suggested that this episode might be foreshadowing Rose's return, which has led to the following over-analysis:

war and glory reinvention fusion freedom her attention
out in daylight my potential bold precise experimental

I'm not adding punctuation because I kind of like the mess of words/concepts, which could mean a whole bunch of different things; ‘this is a list of things that have happened to Pearl’ / ‘this is a list of things that Pearl was or believed she was fighting for’ / ‘this is a list of things that Pearl is still fighting for’ all have very different (though not mutually exclusive) implications

but then

who am I now in the world without her
petty and dull with the nerve to doubt her

is INCREDIBLY interesting, because while Pearl obviously seems to be thinking ‘the nerve’ as in ‘the UNMITIGATED GALL,’ boldness, we already know, is one of the things that Pearl has gained/fought for/is fighting for

SO

now I am suddenly desperately hoping for an arc in which Rose does return, and Pearl (and Garnet and Amethyst, but especially Pearl) finds, to her horror, that she has grown past the point where she can unquestioningly follow Rose; suddenly she's doubting Rose, and defying Rose, and maybe getting into enormous fights with Rose??

If we're very lucky, this will happen in song!

Comments

[batyatoon]

THIS EPISODE, MAN

I don't know how I feel about Rose Quartz actually coming back in any fashion, but I do love the idea of Pearl realizing she has reached the point of being able to disagree and argue with her.

[skygiants]

Honestly, it's kind of a mark of how good the writing on SU is, and the length of the character arc, that it didn't even strike me that that was the key end point until this episode. Because, like, obviously, and yet!