Talk:Change Your Mind (episode)/@comment-27011284-20190127220437

Here are my thoughts on how things could have been instead. Maybe even better. Everything else in the special was great. Just the ending was iffy. What I picture is Steven does manage to still free the others from the brainwashing, and still can have that moment with his pink self. But white still doesn’t change. Luckily though Steven, the family and the other diamonds escape. This then leads to the plot for the next season.

The crystal gems are taken back to earth. But now they are worried that now a new phase of the war is a brewing. Luckily they now have Yellow, Blue, and their Courts now aligning themselves with the crystal gems. Giving them protection till they can find a way to cure the corruption and get their numbers backup.

Steven and the team as gratitude also are willing to go to space to help them with guiding their colonies and also in the process he bonds with the two diamonds with them now fully understanding that he’s not pink. Since he’s the greatest form of pinks legacy there is being her offspring. They have to help.

Half way down the road they come to an emotional resolve. This in turn allows them to cure the corruption without White’s help. Which really would have made the curing all the more triumphant. After all if only three diamonds made it then why can’t only three undo it. Not to mention they didn’t use the healing spring the first time. If their powers are effected by their state of mind and emotion then the right resolve could be enough.

During all this there’d be so many things to explore. Like the crystal gems would help with evacuating the zoo when white’s forces attack out of spite. Also to help the diamonds convince as many members of their courts to joins along when they are confused about the change.

Now in terms of if white would still change at the end. She could but it’d take time. If however she couldn’t be redeemed and had to be stopped permanently. Steven doesn’t have to be the one to end her. Someone else could who has already had experience in committing such violent acts. Like maybe even the other diamonds or another newly introduced but unknown powerhouse.

Yes it would be sad that white couldn’t be saved. But still with the dark parts of this show and with all the pain and death that can be laid at White’s feet. It wouldn’t have been that horrible. Yes this show promotes forgiveness and many great morals. But since it got so real with some of the depth, it’d be weird to not acknowledge the unavoidable fact that not everyone can be redeemed. You can’t have one thing without the other.

For the aftermath of White’s end it starts as a little somber and bitter sweet. But with the amount of joy that comes from the fact that the war is over and all the celebration helps lighten the mood. It mirrors how Rose and them managed to move on but with a lot more to be happy about afterwards. Pluss they can at least have some solace in the fact they really really tried to save her from herself.