https://twitter.com/cartoonnetwork/status/1334552969686224900?s=20
You'd think the Crystal Gems maybe would have noticed some parallels between their own struggle to break free from oppression and colonization from their homeworld and the same imperialist colonization and exploitation happening on Earth for literal millennia and maybe done something about it once they were left alone, being practically immortal and capable of raising armies. Rose should've been shattered, Pearl is a traitor, and Bismuth should've led their revolution. Rose is presented like she's Lenin but she's one of the fucking Romanovs.
Someone tweeted something similar to what you mentioned
AND THEN someone else said "If they showed what they did during the 1800s they'd give robert E lee a redemption arc" and i think the same logic applies here lmao
SU goes out of its way to show evidence of Diamond war crimes like fusing shattered gem fragments together into Cronenberg-esque abominations and using a giant cluster of said gem fragments as a bomb to nuke Earth from the inside. They terraform planets to drive out all traces of organic life. The power of friendship isn't gonna fix that shit, and to conveniently write the story such that the only solution to gem corruption entails mutual cooperation and reconciliation between the Crystal Gems and the Diamonds is peak class-collaborationist lib shit, and as Lily Orchard argued, de-facto apologia for genociders on the macro scale and apologia for abusers on the micro scale.
If literal kindergarteners can sit down and watch Episode 4 of Star Wars and get on board with rooting for Luke and his friends to kick Vader's ass and shoot at storm troopers after seeing the Death Star blow up Leia's home planet, even if they can't fully grasp the gravity and magnitude of that sort of violence, they can absorb the lesson that the Diamond authority can and must be violently smashed on every planet they've ever colonized. I've heard the "it's for kids" excuse already and it's bullshit. The message that everything can be fixed through love and mutual understanding is simply wrong and arguably harmful to internalize. If the Diamonds existed in real life they wouldn't change their fucking minds after a few short conversations just because one of them larped as a class traitor and ditched the others, when irreconcilable class antagonism is in the way.
TvTropes - Reed Richards is Useless
It's a pretty common plot hole in a lot of media, if you have someone super-powered in the real world then if you think about the ways they ought to be able to use their powers to solve real world problems, you will quickly find that your setting no longer resembles the real world very much at all. It also kind of trivializes real world problems and can be pretty tasteless. It's just something where you either have to suspend disbelief or reject the premise of super-powers in a real world setting entirely, which seems dumb since generally powers are metaphorical.
Rose is presented like she’s Lenin but she’s one of the fucking Romanovs.
No way in hell that's canon. Tsarist Russia at the turn of the 20th century would be a very different place with a giant hole where Siberia used to be.
No way in hell that’s canon.
Almost as if fanart isn't always supposed to be... :thonk: :thonk: :thonk:
