#once i eventually rewatch the show (in years?? probably???????) i'll be blown away all over again

[peridotite]

Asking this out of curiosity because I do kind of wonder about something relating to rose and pretty much part of why I was asking earlier about whether or not she could have convinced the diamonds. by the end of Future, are we supposed to consider the good she did and the bad more? The people who kind of feel rubbed off the wrong way by this are in the wrong and miss the point of and are invalid, especially rose fans? Was all that intentional to kind of drive further the whole tragedy surrounding her and that the good she did if she did is being overlooked due to how much bad she did in her life and how it hurt everybody, especially Steven and how realistic it was? Rose worse more then White?

Honestly I kind of feel like the whole story behind Rose in SU will make me think about her for a while due to how things was written and kind of makes me feel like Rose is one of those characters that kinda feels a bit more unique compared to other characters with massive complexity because these other characters while they did some fucked up stuff they....... I might be wrong about this but they kind of seem to be given some kind of treatment that isn't on the level of what Rose had? Even I kind of feel like Anakin/Darth Vader had a lighter treatment in his end despite being kind of the opposite of Rose/Pink.

It might be the best writing, there might be some criticisms surrounding that writing that I just can't simply wrote off as invalid or wrong, the point is I'll keep thinking about rose and I just don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing

OH BOY this is kind of a lot but i'll do my best to voice my opinion

rose is in fact a very complicated character, yes, but ultimately she started off as a bad person and later on became a good person, we just saw her "redemption arc" backwards. the rose who fell in love with a human and gave up her life to have a child who would grow up like she could not, is not the same person she was when she hurt pink pearl during a meltdown and abandoned spinel. while she didn't fix her mistakes or get closure on most of her issues, she did get better. i think we are supposed to take into account everything she did, the good and the bad, and just conclude that, like mega pearl said, she was someone who tried to change for the better, tried to do good, but sometimes failed in doing so and other times not. i don't think steven hates her in the end, and thus i don't think we are supposed to either. i know i joked that people who hate her didn't understand the show, but personal opinion is fine, i just think it's wrong when people call her the villain of the show or something. like you can't tell me that's the conclusion you came to after watching the entire series lol

anyway yeah its true she's one of those characters that give you food for thought for years. her story is pretty intricate and the way it was slowly unwrapped as the show went on definitely adds to that.