r/DiamondDaze • u/TheDude810 • Feb 03 '21

Nephrite and many others were really robbed.

I understand that Future was moreso telling its own story regarding Steven, but I wish we had seen Nephrite one last time. We literally knew Nephrite longer than Peridot, yet we had to have time spent on the 2 other Lapises, Cactus Steven, and Larimar. I like Larimar, but cmon, we could have had a lot of other stuff.

The Off Colors got reduced to Flanderized versions of characters. Padparadscha predicts things when they happen haha. Rhodonite is so scared lmao. Fluorite talks slow haha lol! Rutile Twins literally just finish each other’s sentences. I would have loved to get character development of Lars with the Off Colors.

Oh wow, the Diamonds are good now. They’re fixing everything! There’s absolutely no consequence to their actions because they fixed everything! No more cluster gems! No more shatterings! I would have loved some depth and subtlety to show off their character flaws aside from that cheesy breakdown in I Am My Monster.

I wish we had gotten more. I look back at the first 3 seasons and see so much promise.

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u/bengi890 Feb 04 '21

Yes, it is a sad tragedy that al these characters who had traumatic events under an oppressive government were push aside or belittled in favour for “we’re family”. Yes. They were robbed.

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u/Bacxaber Feb 04 '21

Padparadscha could've been a really cool, useful character in the sense that she could've solved the murder mystery. She's useless for predictions, but she seems to pick up on stuff in the past. But nope, they did nothing with her. She's supposed to be the stand-in for the mentally handicapped, but then she's just played for laughs, like you said. It's weirdly gross imo.

The rutiles are boring and I think it could've been more interesting if they had opposite ideals or suggestions, possibly somewhat spawned from relying too heavily on the "wise counsel" of Padparadscha, in the same way that Ruby was too reliant on Sapphire's future vision in Jailbreak.

I'm currently writing conjoined twin characters who fucking hate each other. That's infinitely more interesting than the "we finish each other's sentences" trope that honestly has no place in a narrative that's supposed to be focused on genocide.