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an oldie I forgot I had lying around
I love that one of the main themes in SU isn’t that love transcends death and/or love redeems–as tends to be implied, if even only subconsciously, in a lot of media with similar themes in Christian-normative cultures–but rather, that love in healthy relationships transcends fatalism. That love empowers.
We see countless examples of this throughout the series. How Ruby and her love for Sapphire “changes fate”–i.e. allows Sapphire and Garnet to see multiple futures, ultimately choose which one she wants to bring to fruition and act accordingly–as we see in both The Answer, and in Sapphire’s speech in Reunited. How Pearl’s love for Rose ultimately allows her to transcend her programming. (Sometimes. Though because it’s not entirely healthy relationship because of their unhealthy power dynamic, this doesn’t always work–as the Gag Order dramatizes particularly well…) We even see this in Lion 4, in how Rose’s message of love for Steven/Nora (and Greg’s loving way of interpreting it) totally dismantles the idea of a “Magical Destiny,” i.e. of fatalism. And in Change Your Mind, it’s the love that Steven has felt from his family throughout his life to recognize that how Blue Diamond was treating him was “not normal” and call her out on it.
This applies to the Diamonds too. It’s not that their love for Pink redeems them. It’s that their love for Pink–and for each other–empowers them to begin to dismantle the cycle of abuse that they’ve inherited and that they’ve perpetrated. Empowers them to recognize that what has been doesn’t have to dictate what will be. In short, it empowers them to act.
It’s an important message, I think. A refreshing one. (And, if I say so myself, one that incorporates some of the Jewish themes that Sugar has herself stated as inspiration for the theming.)
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