<div class="quote"><i>Raidthecave 11 wrote:
I knew it a diamond shattered her but no one would listen i kept saying that for ages .... I am still shock at what happened does anyone know when the next episode is cat wait</i></div>
<p style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;font-family:'TrebuchetMS',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;"><span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Palatino;">I thought this as well a couple of weeks back. Forgive me if I quote from my other post about that:</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;font-family:'TrebuchetMS',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;"><span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Palatino;">The story of Pink Diamond is complicated by why Rose or the other Crystal Gems assumed the narrative of the events. Putting that asside, the motived for another Diamond (be it white or yellow) being involved is obvious. Fear of loss ing power or prestege in the face of Rose's Rebellion in home world is paramount. The rebelion was gaining and homeworld loosing. In addition, if Pink</span><span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Palatino;"> </span><span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Palatino;">Diamond was going soft, so would Blue Diamond. What better way to end the rebellion and it's corrosive effect on gem society then to set up Rose</span><span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Palatino;"> </span><span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Palatino;">as the straw man, create a martyr in PInk Diamond and eliminate a potential new power center around Pink Diamond and those who agreed with her. It would galvanize Homeworld, discredit Rose, her</span><span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Palatino;"> </span><span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Palatino;">philosophies, and her rebellion beyond redemption, and allow for a reaction out of proportion to everything that had happened up to that</span><span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Palatino;"> </span><span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Palatino;">point: corruption and then the cluster.</span><span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Palatino;"> </span></p>
<p style="font-family:'TrebuchetMS',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;"><span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Palatino;">The Corruption happened quickly, and before even loyal homeworld gems could fully evacuate (centepeedle). Pearl speaks of a climatic earth</span><span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Palatino;"> </span><span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Palatino;">battle, but it seams the corruption might have cut short that battle? Was it solely the work of Yellow and or White Diamond? We see three colors in Lapisis retelling: Yellow, white, and Blue. Perhaps done to silence any</span><span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Palatino;"> </span><span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Palatino;">remaining witnesses as much as an example of what happens to those who rebel and or fail to stop a rebellion, or just to simplify the situation?</span><span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Palatino;"> </span><span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Palatino;">As Hagrid says in Harry Potter</span><span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Palatino;"> Book 5, Order of the Phoenix, speaking of his meeting with the giants and their proclivity to kill when</span><span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Palatino;"> </span><span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Palatino;">confused: “...overload 'em with information an' they'll kill yeh jus' to</span><span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Palatino;"> </span><span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Palatino;">simplify</span><span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Palatino;"> things."</span><span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Palatino;"> </span></p>
<p style="font-family:'TrebuchetMS',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;"><span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Palatino;">The cluster is a later project, done when no other gems are thought to be left on earth. And if homewold recourses are dwindling, and there are</span><span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Palatino;"> </span><span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Palatino;">no crystal gems left on earth, why waste its valuable potential solely for weapon development? Is Yellow diamond's choice to destroy the</span><span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Palatino;"> </span><span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Palatino;">earth influenced by her desire to erase the memory of Pink Diamond (the whole "debacle") and </span><span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Palatino;">to finalize Blue Diamond's allegiance to her ? To make sure the remaining evidence is removed and there is no repeat of the earth's "corrupting"</span><span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Palatino;"> </span><span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Palatino;">influence on Homeworld and her remaining fellow Diamond[s]?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Palatino;font-size:14px;color:rgb(255,255,255);">Has colonization been put on hold in Era 2 out of fear of other such potential</span><span style="font-family:Palatino;font-size:14px;color:rgb(255,255,255);"> </span><span style="font-family:Palatino;font-size:14px;color:rgb(255,255,255);">influences from other worlds?</span><span style="font-size:14px;"> It is obvious that Homewold is hollowed out by gem production. What's become of all those other gems? How many more "off color" and sympathetic gems like Topaz are on homeworld. The Diamonds rule by fear (they can poof a lesser gem instantly) and a complacent priveleded class (like Aquamarine) and loyal henchman like the Ruby squad, Jasper, and ofr a while, Peridot (the former two who appear to be motivated by their anger at Pink Diamonds destruction as well as the unfailing Diamond Authority and (in Peridots case) wisdom and logic). How quickly could this Potempkin Village collaspe if it is discovered that a fellow Diamond was behind the destrcution of Pink Diamond? Has the currupting influcne of Earth and Rose Quartz already taken hold on homeworld, and it is just awaiting a catalyst in the forms of Steven and Pink Lars? </span>
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