what we’re being presented with isn’t a twist cause the writers were bored, it’s a scenario where what all the eyewitnesses say did happen, but something is deliberately off, hence the tell-don’t-show method of recounting events.
rose appeared out of nowhere, sword in hand, and seemed to stab pink diamond from the front. that’s what everyone saw, and we’re now slowly being told that it may not have been that simple… which it never should have been, because while we’ve been told that, we’ve also been shown things that don’t add up: pearl’s reaction. bismuth’s pride in describing the purpose of the sword. rose’s feelings about every life’s worth. moreover, presenting such massive, conflict-shaping events in purely tell-don’t-show terms is inherently suspicious. the observant audience is drawn towards not believing things they haven’t seen for themselves. this is a visual medium, and that’s very important. the truth isn’t going to be told, it’s going to be shown.
tl;dr: whatever happened to pink diamond, i’m really relieved this didn’t happen exactly like we were told it did. that would have been a strange, un-emotional way of presenting the full truth.
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