Talk:Pink Diamond/@comment-44117830-20191016122106/@comment-26464526-20191030045232

I can't speak for most others, but I don't like Pink because her accomplishments are a little exaggerated.

People say that Pink "saved the Earth", but the only reason it was in danger in the first place was because she wanted a colony.

People say she tried to put her foot down against Yellow and Blue (White didn't seem to be involved with this), but she didn't actually do this. She tried to reason with the others and trying to reason with the other Diamonds isn't the same thing as actually putting your foot down and becoming your own type of leader. She tried to get their approval to stop the colony and tried to make excuses for why she couldn't keep doing it instead of going, "This is my colony and this is what I'm going to do with it. Deal with it." What's particularly frustrating about this is that if Pink had rebelled as herself, I believe she would've been victorious if things came to an actual fight since it's been shown that her defensive abilities can trump the other Diamonds' powers.

And about all the "good" she did for the other Gems... Only three (technically five) Gems benefited from anything: Garnet, Pearl, and Amethyst who hadn't even formed at the time. The other Gems couldn't enjoy their "freedom" because they were busy fighting in a war and got corrupted, shattered, or forced into artificial fusions afterwards. There's also the fact that even humans lost their lives in the war too, as Greg said in "The Return": "No such thing as a good war, kiddo. Gems were destroyed, people too..."

People may say that we can't blame the Corruption on Pink because the other Diamonds were the ones responsible for it, but that doesn't change the fact that it was Pink's poorly thought out decisions that led to the other Diamonds corrupting the gems and the fact that she didn't do much for Gems other than lie to them.

There's also the fact that the Cluster was created and embedded deep within the Earth's crust and Pink didn't know about that. She didn't actually save Earth, she only delayed its doom which she had unitentionally brought about herself.

Then there's her bubbling Bismuth and lying to the others about it instead of being honest about what really happened. And since Bismuth was the one who attacked, they would've understood.

And Pink didn't really mature that much, even after becoming Rose. She was still insensitive, immature, and needlessly kept secrets. Even after 6000 of being Rose, she still saw humans as beings to "play" with and liked "playing along" with them, not even knowing that a baby and a young adult were of the same species. So from the rebellion to the modern day, she didn't have much of an understanding or respect for the beings she claimed to love so much. Her fondness for humans had been superficial at best. And it really says a lot that even after falling in love with Greg, she didn't tell him who she really was. Even if she wanted to leave her past behind, there shouldn't be secrets in a relationship (especially heavy secrets like THAT), especially if you plan to have a child with your significant other.

AND ON SPINEL

I keep hearing "Pink was abused by the other Diamonds so she didn't know how to treat others properly!" and "Pink was just trying to emulate the other Diamonds!" But even with the way she was treated, Pink still knew how to be caring and compassionate towards others like her Pearls, other Gems, and the organic alien lifeforms she used to bring back to Homeworld. So there was really no excuse for Pink's behavior since she was capable of being kind, even with the other Diamonds putting her down. And if Pink really was trying to emulate the other Diamonds, she would've been firm and commanding and outright told Spinel not to follow her since that's what they would've done. It doesn't help that in the "Drift Away" scene after Pink tells Spinel to stay perfectly still, she smiles and turns away without looking back as she warped away.

Oh, and Rebecca Sugar said this is in response to that scene: "She wasn't really thinking about how that would affect other people because she tends to not think about that. [...] Pink, she grew out of her. It doesn't excuse what she did. It absolutely doesn't because it was very cruel, but she can be very cruel."

So... yeah. That's why I don't like Pink 😅