I think your point of her wanting to make sure there was a place for Humans if they lost the war is exactly right. Pink has been a naive, excited child for most of her existence. Now we see a side of her that is mature enough to recognize her faults, but is unable to move on from the trauma she caused everyone by rebelling.
apollo hada no they really couldn’t back when the gym more ended any kind of shit that was left on the planet was useless there was no work pads to get to the Zoo is only up until recently was there earth Advanced enough to be able to have appliances to build a spaceship and by that time there was no guarantee that the Zoo was even still aroundSo no they really didn’t have any means to get there after the war
I think the big issue is that if they had rescued the humans from the zoo, it would alert anyone still up there that the crystal gems had survived. There's a reason they broke the Homeworld warp.
Philweasel exactly my reasoning behind why Pearl said they couldnt go back for them. They did (secretly- who knows if anyone but Rose knew where it was) have Pink's ship but absolutely couldn't use it. The homeworld warps were broken at some point after the war to prevent anyone from returning easily. We've seen that be the go-to way to handle the issue when Peridot first came on the show at least. To simply warp in is the one of the least stealthy things ever, anyways. So thats off the board even if the huge warp pads on Earth werent broken.
I think Pink Diamond made the Human Zoo in an attempt to preserve humanity because she knew colonizing Earth would've wiped out all organic life so she made the Human Zoo as a sort of fail safe. Though I think this was before Pink became Rose but around the time Pink became fascinated with humans.
She wouldn't instantly go for a rebellion from the start at the first attempt of saving the Earth, it was likely a follow up to her eventual civil war when she saw no other options.
Agreed. Its was most likely her first attempt - but she then realized that the Humans in the Zoo werent free the same way they were on Earth. She then invented the Rose Quarz-Persona too attempt to annoy the Diamonds away from Earth by making it to much of a hassle - but this didnt work out either. So she staged her own death to start a full-blown Civil War, not only to free Earth but also Gem-Kind.
I think she made the zoo before she started to find out that there where far mor humans than the ones she tried to save. It was when she learned that the tribe she tried to save was only one out of many that she understood that she hade to save the whole earth from her own kind.
@@Thoralmir No, it was the other Diamonds who made the Zoo when she pleaded for the humans to be spared from the effects of her invasion. They were trying to ease Pink's mind about the humans she seemed to care for while preserving her colony efforts. Ultimately though, Pink interpreted this as them just waving her off and continuing the devastation, which lead to her rebellion. Honestly, a lot of problems in the story are derived from bad communication between loved ones. To any parent reading this, hug your kids and listen. Let them know you care. Same goes to the children about their parents.
Pink Diamond is the most complex character on the show. For the past while, she has been portrayed very negatively, and I believe this is because we will be seeing more of her double-life as a diamond and a rebel, showing her thought process and motivations. This plot point has been hinted at and concealed, which has left little positive that can be truly extrapolated on.
The reveal explained so much but it brought Rose to an even darker morally grey place. The way you presented things here made me understand her actions better. This is definitely so huge that it impacts everything we’ve ever thought to be true about the show so it’ll take time to re-evaluate everything nsbsgstauo
I would say rose was in grey morally but in still good I do not belive that she was love by her sister so faking her death could work in her mind because blue just say just sit there and smile and you win.
Even if Steven and the gems were to rescue all of the humans in the human zoo. They woulnt be able to adabt the todays human standards since everything was done for them and they would get homesick since the zoo was the only place that they saw as home.
I think they should be explained the situation and then left to decide if they want to stay or get out (kinda like Matrix :D ). They might act rather childish but they are still normal humans with the capacity to acclimatize and learn new things, espeicially the younger ones.
Yeah, they are not exactly prepared to live on Earth, but they aren't completely hopeless. I would compare them to children from orphanage - they aren't mentaly disabled, have some basic human skills (like talking) and have some level of socialisation, but they are completely dependent on authority fugure and don't know how to live on their own.
What if Steven and the Crystal Gems somehow brought the Human Zoo into Earth's orbit? That way, they could visit Earth via a Gem Ship, but can still return to the Zoo whenever they want.
In that episode (forgot the name of the episode) Pearl is Blue and Greg is yellow. i believe that's foreshadowing. Greg is still hurt, but he's pushing on because he has people depending on him. Pearl's emotions can get the better of her. they're similar to the Diamonds. Yellow is trying to push on forwards because her court needs her too, and Blue's feelings are getting the better of her. probably nothing, but still
Vegeta and Gajeel The episode is called Mr. Greg, and we can also see that Steven was Pink that time, perhaps foreshadowing that he IS Pink Diamond, or atleast has her gem.
Pink made a lot of mistakes, but from learning about her history in reverse, we learned that has come a long way and learned to love in every way that she could and form a romantic relationship and many friendships. Most importantly, she loved her son, Steven. My theory for the human zoo was to show Yellow and Blue the "facsinatingly cute life" she had found on Earth and try to convince them to let her spare the Earth.
Actually, I think Pink realized that her emotional growth as a person was stunted. When she met Greg, she still had the emotional maturity of a teenager. She couldn't "grow up" like humans could. That could be another reason she had Steven, so that a part of her WOULD be able to mature past the wall she'd hit. So far, I think it's worked: Steven has surpassed his mother in many ways, having discovered more mature, level-headed, and morally just solutions to problems than "Rose" ever did. Having Steven could very well be what allows Pink Diamond to fix at least some of her past mistakes.
Pink might have starte the zoo to save humanity but when they became domesticated Pink realized that what made their humanity was lost. It was probably better to leave them there and fight to preserve the humans on Earth,
That is both sweet and savage at the same time. x.x But it makes me wonder why Pink would bubble millions of innocent Rose Quartzes, when she was DISGUISED.
You know, the way Rose (PINK) tells the others about Garnet, makes me think that she hated herself to the point of creating this persona to the point of saying bad things about herself, to a point that she thought she didn't matter to the diamonds, to the point that she never wanted to see her true form again. Like Amethyst, she probably thinks of herself less than others, from diamonds, to the gems, to the humans themselves.
It's part of what's probably a long struggle for her to improve and become a better person. Hell, even having Steven may have been part of it, as I think she hit a wall somewhere in the evolution of her character. When she and Greg were dating, she seemed very much like a older teen with mild PTSD. And she's been like that for countless centuries since the War ended. She couldn't grow up. But Steven can, because he's part human.
I actually think bringing the zoomans to Earth is a bad idea. There is so much they'd need to learn and would never fully understand. It would be a life of hardship and 'hurt'. Like Greg said, it's all they've ever known. This is their reality, they're happy. I just feel taking them from what they consider to be home to be more cruel. At the very least they should be given the option and informed of how different the Earth is from the zoo, so they don't make the decision lightly.
Plus, the Zoomans will have little to no immunity from disease. e_e It's a wonder that they didn't get horribly sick from Greg and Steven. I wish we could see 'em again. I hope they're okay, but I don't know.
While this theory is really good, I believe Rose Diamond had the Human Zoo just in case the war was lost and the colony was completed. As a way to preserve the last of Earth’s lifeforms.
King millo Your fully right about that. Pink diamond creating a human zoo system facility of safe keeping for human begins life forms just in case of the rest of the diamond authoirty, causeing determination destroying of coloinzation for the planet earth. It really lines up of how she wanted to save the human life race of life instead of killing it because even she loved all human earthlings on earth from the start she had that colony of earth. much people thinking pink diamond was childest and evil which she isn't, rose quartz appearance of shapeshifted into pink diamond which is her originally of pink diamond is. basically they have the same personalilitys of rose being pink Diamond of corse and both liking humans beings. and it's not like she wanted to get rid of the humans on earth, she only did this to save the humans from earth of the diamonds either destroying it. and pink diamond really did loved human beings and which made her focus of keeping the humans safe in the human zoo from coloinzation from the diamond's plan from wiping earth of human life.
Considering her lack in interaction with humans and ease in withstraint on not playing with what she likes, I think she never if rarely went into the zoo but watched from afar/the hologram Lapis just found. (i.e. If she did interact with them throughout her time on Earth she'd of gotten relationships down or at least not be surprised by Greg's outburst in the dance scene. And not had that gate to keep humans away)
I do hope Steven free the famethyst, zoomen, and the Rose quartz gems from the Zoo, not only do they deserve a better life but the Rose quartz gems are essentially Steven's sisters when you think about it.
The fact that Greg and pearl are coloured yellow and blue respectively and Steven pink seemed like a major foreshadowing. Greg is yellow, like yellow diamond. He does not dwell for as long as pearl on the fact that Rose is gone, focusing on the present but still holding onto her memories. Where as Pearl, like blue diamond still openly grieves Rose/Pink Diamond, as close as they were to her. Pearl and Greg are the parently figures in Stevens life, and Steven is Pink Diamond.
Fictional Crystals, you made some pretty compelling and thought-provoking points in this video - even ones that the 'bigger' SU discussion channels made about Pink Diamond / Rose Quartz. I hope you know that and get some more views! You make quality content!
My theory is that Pink ' s zoo was a gift from the other Diamonds. At first she liked it that the selective humans were being treated well; But then when she spent more time on Earth, she realized that humans were beginning to evolve without being behind a closed fake utopia (and possibly one human became claustrophobic after figuring out their utopia is a zoo). And Pink began to hate her human zoo as time went on, but she couldn't release those kept & born at the zoo because they'll go mad and confused (like any zoo animal that's been released/escaped from their sanctuary). One episode did mentioned that she told Garnet and Amethyst that the zoo was terrible.
But with Homeworld's "function or die" mentality, I can't see the human Zoo being made for just amusement. Not to mention they're short on resources (thus Pink's height). That, and Pink must've had a job prior to Earth.
Well pearl said "pink tryd to stop the invation on earth an presirve its life so blue and yellow diamond maid a zoo" she tryed everything she can as pink plsss
I feel like when she asked for the zoo, yellow and blue decided to give her some life to keep her happy so there was still some of Earth left but she wasn't satisfied
You know I actually liked the plot twists, it was nice to see that for once the fans didn’t get it right and also, finally someone who isn’t just mindlessly ranting and saying the zoo makes no sense, just because they didn’t like the outcome of the episode.... these were the first things I thought of after I saw the episode.
i thought about this long and hard and i came to one of the same conclusions you did, i think that the zoo was the contingency plan for saving human beings if she couldnt win the war as the rebels, at least then she spared human life, the problem with getting them back however was that there was no way to get to them once the war was over as there were no ships, i know we saw he acting like a child in the jungle moon episode, but theres no time correlation as to that and when earth became her colony so we dont know how little or much she matured to make this idea accurate
It was all fun in game that ultimately, due the lack of actual control over her colony, became fail safe plan just in case the Earth's colonization was completed, to keep as many plants and humans alive and keeping on existing without the risk of facing extinction along with the planet.
FINALLY!! Someone gets it!!! So many people refuse to believe that Pink was simply a child!! She was a new diamond!! She was young and foolish. No one else gets that…
I love your videos so much❤️ the similarities between rose /pink and Steven are amazing . They both started to grow. I did believe Rose was pink diamond. I hope Steven can learn where she did wrong and help the gems and the humans still at the zoo
I think she had the zoo in her earlier years of serving as a diamond out of pure fascination, before she got all morally righteous and wanted to be on earth.
That's an interesting point about how Steven and pink having similar growth. I think it will be the difference of pink running when she faced responsibility and what Steven will do now he's facing this past responsibility
I think it's also possible that Pink was trying to show the other Diamonds the value of humans. After all, she didn't just keep them -- a zoo is a place where people go to look at animals.
My theory was that Blue and Yellow Diamond realized how much Pink cared about human life, and they wanted her to continue her colony so they established a zoo for a few humans to live in to appease her while she could still colonize Earth.
My personal theory about the zoo: it was Pink Diamond's harem. Now, the show can't confirm this explicitly because that's definitely not family-friendly but I think it makes sense, since Rose did say she liked the way human beings play and it had been stated many times that she often became involved with human men
I liked to think that the reason she had a zoo was that at first she tried to make things work the way the diamonds wanted it so she had the zoo so after everything was said and done she still had apart of the earth. She probably saw that the Zoo didn't work out the way she had hoped thus "Rose" was the next plan. My theory is still kinda iffy but thats what I thought
Cool, someone who didn’t act all butthurt over the reveal. I like ur points. The other thing that is possible is that pinks zoo might have been emptied when she realized it wasn’t right. Blue diamond might have restocked it as an attempt to deal with her grief.
The thing is while they can rescue them, is that really the best option? They've been there they're entire lives, born and raised there. Its basically their home and they're happy there. They wouldn't be able to survive on Earth either, they really are just like pets where everything is provided for them.
In pearls story it is revealed that yellow created the zoo because pink/rose was telling yellow how she wanted to shut down the colony (This is just for people who maybe haven’t seen episode 19 season 5)
Nabinoor Shahil Itd be like throwing a captive lion back into the wild..it wouldnt survive. Those humans have no insticts..no understanding of how life on earth works. They cant grow their own food, they cant build their own shelters..they do nothing without the voice telling them to. They are better off in the zoo where they are happy and cared for. They just should all be sterilized so that they dont breed anymore.
Another idea is that she thought hey I wanna save the humans when she started the gem war Incase she lost so she would still have a piece of earth to remember it.
theres an episode that coveres this. blue made the zoo for pink because she asked for the diamonds to let her stop the colony, but they refused and put a handful of humans in a zoo for her.
but the Zoo was more Dangerous than it seems! because Blue Diamond don't Care about Humans like Pink Diamond did and compared to the other Diamonds! she almost treated humans like equals ! ! !
Pink diamond probably needed to preserve their lives in any way she could seeing as how the diamonds wanted the colony to be finished and kill all life on earth. After the war they weren’t able to go back and save them so it was just a lost cause for her. I believe that it was an innocent mistake. At least the humans are happy up there.
[Nerding out long post] I'm pretty sure the humans Rose/Pink was described as collecting were referred to as possessing "unique qualities" (or something similar). She was probably looking to see if she could combine w/them the way she finally did with Greg knowing she had 1 shot at this (maybe she never even loved Greg, -but I'm sure she really liked him despite him having the unique properties required to make Steven). In a way isn't what she did like forced fusions? Sketchy! I'm pretty sure she had seen babies, because the HZoo chose mates for them. Baby Sour was potentially the first time she was hands on with some"thing" so delicate (though we already know Rose lied a lot, her behaviour seemed legit new at such a task as watching a baby). I agree she probably felt guilty about destroying parts of earth, & maybe that's why she initially started the zoo (just as I think you said). I think her reasons for creating Steven in a pseudo suicidal way was because she knew one day the diamonds would find him, & thusly see other living creatures as more than disposable. Also, - they're going to feel sooo bad knowing they pushed her to do this, though I don't know how white/yellow diamond would react. Blue is going to lose her mind about it I'm sure. Something like what she did would destroy the class system, & inspire a possible divide in the gem world leading to an interstellar space war in which zombie-esque space Lars will probably be super boss at. It seems like a long grift, a task meant to be passed on through her child left with gems the diamonds hated the most. Honestly, maybe White is the only one who knows about it & that might be why Earth hasn't been flattened to dust by now, & would explain her absence at the trial better. (Ps - Rose/Pink could only create sentient life in empty vessels, aka dead things she valued very much, or accidentally with saliva contamination like in foods -she had a whole pride of lions at one point, if lion is the only one left -maybe that means they can be corrupted like gems [but the only one left contains all of her secrets in a very literal sense, so maybe they aren't all gone]). Kinda see the foreshadowing of that fact with his obsession with living breakfast foods. [Ugh I know tl dr post, I'm too into this]
My idea of it was that the other diamonds created the zoo because pink might have explained to them how much she liked the humans. Blue or yellow gave her a zoo thinking that now pink would be okay with fully colonising it because she had what she liked about the planet safe and cared for. This obviously didn’t work and pink went on creating her rebellion
Its been revealed that apparently the zoo was make because she wanted them to stop the colonization, and save the organic stuff, so the diamonds made a zoo and just took some humans and threw em in.
Pink had a human zoo because after she saw what would happen to her collony once it was complete, she wanted to protect organic life if the earth was destroyed then she didn't want to be a diamond. She wanted to be a free gem and live with the humans, hence her becoming Rose and rebelling and causing a war.
The thought crossed my mind that the humans may have been "rescues." We've seen a lot about gems warring on Earth, but what about the humans? Perhaps the original humans that were placed in the zoo were refugees from their own wars, or displaced from the Gem War, or maybe they were the poor, the lost, and forgotten of their own societies. The unwanted and the homeless. So Pink offered them a utopia of their own.
Just guessing, but the Zoo was established during the interim period when Pink had begun to notice the wonders of Earth's life forms--especially humans--and wanted to preserve specimens for her curiosity and amusement, but before she felt enough empathy for them that she decided to end Homeworld's colonization plans. Perhaps it was her efforts to make the Zoo a reality and her studying of humans made her come to the decision to thwart Homeworld.
Wait a minute, if Blue Diamond was keeping close eyes on Pink Diamond in order to make sure the colony would go nice. I mean during the war it would make sense for the diamonds to keep a close eye on her. So, where did she find the time to be Rose Quartz?
We've only heard it called "Pink Diamond's Human Zoo", but we don't know if it was actually built BY Pink Diamond or FOR Pink Diamond. My theory is that when Pink first approached Blue and Yellow to talk about the humans, one or both of them completely misunderstood and setup the human zoo as a way to "fix the problem". In fact, that's basically what Yellow was trying to do for Blue. "Oh, you want humans? We can go get humans". Yellow is always looking to solve the problem as expediently as possible. "Here you are, Pink. Now you can play with humans all you like once your colony is back on track. Now go on, your gems need you to lead them!" So she did.
Just because pink diamond asked for a colony doesn’t mean they went and looked for one just for her, they probably were already planing the colonization of earth, it was probably gonna go to a different diamond, but they probably thought thought to give it to pink bc the figured it be easy for her.
My guess is, it was a Fail-Safe protocol initiated by pink diamond in case she wasn't granted her wish of ruling Earth by yellow diamond. She built it to save Humanity in case yellow said no and begun to create her own gems there, thus destroying Earth. It makes a lot of sense to me because she spoke of how much she loved Humanity and seeing how her three favorite things..pink,flowers and humans are all over the zoo, it makes sense to me. Perhaps in the zoo's infancy, it was some kind of research post to test the local wildlife and that's how pink diamonds love for Humanity and flowers came to be.
the reason she has a zoo is because she begged blue diamond to let her stop the colony and told her she wanted to preserve life on earth, so blue diamond made her the zoo instead. maybe thats also why blue karen lady is in charge of the zoo
Maybe the zoo was established during the transformation between Pink wanting to colonize her planet to trying to protect the earth. So mabye she still wanted to destroy the planet at the time but wanted to preserve some of her planets life.
Loved the new episodes so much!
Please do episode reviews, I miss hearing your thoughts and views
Fictional Crystals By far your best intro.
Why is there a DISLIKE?
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Because someone thinks our girl is secretly part of the diamond authority and she is lying to us 😂
Fictional Crystals I think I can answer your questions
I think your point of her wanting to make sure there was a place for Humans if they lost the war is exactly right. Pink has been a naive, excited child for most of her existence.
Now we see a side of her that is mature enough to recognize her faults, but is unable to move on from the trauma she caused everyone by rebelling.
Devin Johns but they did end up “winning the war.” She had an opportunity to free them
apollo hada no they really couldn’t back when the gym more ended any kind of shit that was left on the planet was useless there was no work pads to get to the Zoo is only up until recently was there earth Advanced enough to be able to have appliances to build a spaceship and by that time there was no guarantee that the Zoo was even still aroundSo no they really didn’t have any means to get there after the war
I think the big issue is that if they had rescued the humans from the zoo, it would alert anyone still up there that the crystal gems had survived.
There's a reason they broke the Homeworld warp.
Philweasel exactly my reasoning behind why Pearl said they couldnt go back for them. They did (secretly- who knows if anyone but Rose knew where it was) have Pink's ship but absolutely couldn't use it. The homeworld warps were broken at some point after the war to prevent anyone from returning easily. We've seen that be the go-to way to handle the issue when Peridot first came on the show at least.
To simply warp in is the one of the least stealthy things ever, anyways. So thats off the board even if the huge warp pads on Earth werent broken.
Devin Johns exactly what I thought, she just wanted to make sure in case the Crystal Gems lost the humans would still live on.
"she wouldn't shatter gems she didn't like, as they would. except herself"
Mmh that sass :>
Nope she had pearl do that
I think Pink Diamond made the Human Zoo in an attempt to preserve humanity because she knew colonizing Earth would've wiped out all organic life so she made the Human Zoo as a sort of fail safe. Though I think this was before Pink became Rose but around the time Pink became fascinated with humans.
She wouldn't instantly go for a rebellion from the start at the first attempt of saving the Earth, it was likely a follow up to her eventual civil war when she saw no other options.
Agreed. Its was most likely her first attempt - but she then realized that the Humans in the Zoo werent free the same way they were on Earth. She then invented the Rose Quarz-Persona too attempt to annoy the Diamonds away from Earth by making it to much of a hassle - but this didnt work out either. So she staged her own death to start a full-blown Civil War, not only to free Earth but also Gem-Kind.
I think she made the zoo before she started to find out that there where far mor humans than the ones she tried to save. It was when she learned that the tribe she tried to save was only one out of many that she understood that she hade to save the whole earth from her own kind.
The zoo was basically her hamster cage. :P
@@Thoralmir No, it was the other Diamonds who made the Zoo when she pleaded for the humans to be spared from the effects of her invasion. They were trying to ease Pink's mind about the humans she seemed to care for while preserving her colony efforts. Ultimately though, Pink interpreted this as them just waving her off and continuing the devastation, which lead to her rebellion.
Honestly, a lot of problems in the story are derived from bad communication between loved ones. To any parent reading this, hug your kids and listen. Let them know you care. Same goes to the children about their parents.
Pink Diamond is the most complex character on the show.
For the past while, she has been portrayed very negatively, and I believe this is because we will be seeing more of her double-life as a diamond and a rebel, showing her thought process and motivations.
This plot point has been hinted at and concealed, which has left little positive that can be truly extrapolated on.
The reveal explained so much but it brought Rose to an even darker morally grey place. The way you presented things here made me understand her actions better.
This is definitely so huge that it impacts everything we’ve ever thought to be true about the show so it’ll take time to re-evaluate everything nsbsgstauo
I would say rose was in grey morally but in still good I do not belive that she was love by her sister so faking her death could work in her mind because blue just say just sit there and smile and you win.
Even if Steven and the gems were to rescue all of the humans in the human zoo. They woulnt be able to adabt the todays human standards since everything was done for them and they would get homesick since the zoo was the only place that they saw as home.
They'd really struggle. It would probably be cruel.
I think they should be explained the situation and then left to decide if they want to stay or get out (kinda like Matrix :D ). They might act rather childish but they are still normal humans with the capacity to acclimatize and learn new things, espeicially the younger ones.
goblinwrecks Yeah, I also think that
Yeah, they are not exactly prepared to live on Earth, but they aren't completely hopeless. I would compare them to children from orphanage - they aren't mentaly disabled, have some basic human skills (like talking) and have some level of socialisation, but they are completely dependent on authority fugure and don't know how to live on their own.
What if Steven and the Crystal Gems somehow brought the Human Zoo into Earth's orbit? That way, they could visit Earth via a Gem Ship, but can still return to the Zoo whenever they want.
This is where she "choosens" the humans she loved ;)
In that episode (forgot the name of the episode) Pearl is Blue and Greg is yellow. i believe that's foreshadowing. Greg is still hurt, but he's pushing on because he has people depending on him. Pearl's emotions can get the better of her. they're similar to the Diamonds. Yellow is trying to push on forwards because her court needs her too, and Blue's feelings are getting the better of her. probably nothing, but still
Vegeta and Gajeel The episode is called Mr. Greg, and we can also see that Steven was Pink that time, perhaps foreshadowing that he IS Pink Diamond, or atleast has her gem.
Could also be symbolic to show that Pink still loves Yellow and Blue.
Can't wait for a family reunion episode.
Doesn't help Greg is his dad while Pearl is "the mom" among the gems.
Kouya Williams nah. Pearl is like step mom. Garnet is mom.
It was a Noah's Ark. In case all humans would be killed off some where safe.
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Pink made a lot of mistakes, but from learning about her history in reverse, we learned that has come a long way and learned to love in every way that she could and form a romantic relationship and many friendships. Most importantly, she loved her son, Steven.
My theory for the human zoo was to show Yellow and Blue the "facsinatingly cute life" she had found on Earth and try to convince them to let her spare the Earth.
Actually, I think Pink realized that her emotional growth as a person was stunted. When she met Greg, she still had the emotional maturity of a teenager. She couldn't "grow up" like humans could. That could be another reason she had Steven, so that a part of her WOULD be able to mature past the wall she'd hit.
So far, I think it's worked: Steven has surpassed his mother in many ways, having discovered more mature, level-headed, and morally just solutions to problems than "Rose" ever did. Having Steven could very well be what allows Pink Diamond to fix at least some of her past mistakes.
Pink might have starte the zoo to save humanity but when they became domesticated Pink realized that what made their humanity was lost. It was probably better to leave them there and fight to preserve the humans on Earth,
I think Blue Diamond don't wanna shatter rose quartzes because she don't wanna destroy Pink's bubbles.
That is both sweet and savage at the same time. x.x But it makes me wonder why Pink would bubble millions of innocent Rose Quartzes, when she was DISGUISED.
You know, the way Rose (PINK) tells the others about Garnet, makes me think that she hated herself to the point of creating this persona to the point of saying bad things about herself, to a point that she thought she didn't matter to the diamonds, to the point that she never wanted to see her true form again. Like Amethyst, she probably thinks of herself less than others, from diamonds, to the gems, to the humans themselves.
That sounds actually pretty believable
It's part of what's probably a long struggle for her to improve and become a better person. Hell, even having Steven may have been part of it, as I think she hit a wall somewhere in the evolution of her character. When she and Greg were dating, she seemed very much like a older teen with mild PTSD. And she's been like that for countless centuries since the War ended. She couldn't grow up. But Steven can, because he's part human.
omg. steven owns the human zoo
holly blue agate disrespected pink diamond
pink diamond was imprisoned in her own zoo LOL ME
True.....
I actually think bringing the zoomans to Earth is a bad idea. There is so much they'd need to learn and would never fully understand. It would be a life of hardship and 'hurt'. Like Greg said, it's all they've ever known. This is their reality, they're happy. I just feel taking them from what they consider to be home to be more cruel. At the very least they should be given the option and informed of how different the Earth is from the zoo, so they don't make the decision lightly.
Plus, the Zoomans will have little to no immunity from disease. e_e
It's a wonder that they didn't get horribly sick from Greg and Steven.
I wish we could see 'em again. I hope they're okay, but I don't know.
While this theory is really good, I believe Rose Diamond had the Human Zoo just in case the war was lost and the colony was completed. As a way to preserve the last of Earth’s lifeforms.
King millo Your fully right about that. Pink diamond creating a human zoo system facility of safe keeping for human begins life forms just in case of the rest of the diamond authoirty, causeing determination destroying of coloinzation for the planet earth. It really lines up of how she wanted to save the human life race of life instead of killing it because even she loved all human earthlings on earth from the start she had that colony of earth. much people thinking pink diamond was childest and evil which she isn't, rose quartz appearance of shapeshifted into pink diamond which is her originally of pink diamond is. basically they have the same personalilitys of rose being pink Diamond of corse and both liking humans beings. and it's not like she wanted to get rid of the humans on earth, she only did this to save the humans from earth of the diamonds either destroying it. and pink diamond really did loved human beings and which made her focus of keeping the humans safe in the human zoo from coloinzation from the diamond's plan from wiping earth of human life.
I love the idea of Pink Diamond going into the zoo and petting her Humans, it would be so cute.
Lol I know right
She probably thought humanity was gonna be extinct
I want to hyperdrive my battlecruiser directly pass to The Zoo
Considering her lack in interaction with humans and ease in withstraint on not playing with what she likes, I think she never if rarely went into the zoo but watched from afar/the hologram Lapis just found.
(i.e. If she did interact with them throughout her time on Earth she'd of gotten relationships down or at least not be surprised by Greg's outburst in the dance scene. And not had that gate to keep humans away)
aww that would be so cute like here kitty kitty but instead here human human
Finally! A video from Fictional Crystals!
Diamond in the rough indeed
That's a nice way to round things up, really connecting all the dots here. Good stuff!
I do hope Steven free the famethyst, zoomen, and the Rose quartz gems from the Zoo, not only do they deserve a better life but the Rose quartz gems are essentially Steven's sisters when you think about it.
Thank you, this is a rare explanation of why Pink did the things she did rather than just blaming her for them.
I love your voice so much, it’s so relaxing and smooth, nice to listen to 😊
The fact that Greg and pearl are coloured yellow and blue respectively and Steven pink seemed like a major foreshadowing. Greg is yellow, like yellow diamond. He does not dwell for as long as pearl on the fact that Rose is gone, focusing on the present but still holding onto her memories. Where as Pearl, like blue diamond still openly grieves Rose/Pink Diamond, as close as they were to her.
Pearl and Greg are the parently figures in Stevens life, and Steven is Pink Diamond.
And since Steven is actually Pink, the whole scene and the song can be seen a completely different way. Her singing to Blue and Yellow.
Fictional Crystals, you made some pretty compelling and thought-provoking points in this video - even ones that the 'bigger' SU discussion channels made about Pink Diamond / Rose Quartz. I hope you know that and get some more views! You make quality content!
My theory is that Pink ' s zoo was a gift from the other Diamonds.
At first she liked it that the selective humans were being treated well;
But then when she spent more time on Earth, she realized that humans were beginning to evolve without being behind a closed fake utopia (and possibly one human became claustrophobic after figuring out their utopia is a zoo).
And Pink began to hate her human zoo as time went on, but she couldn't release those kept & born at the zoo because they'll go mad and confused (like any zoo animal that's been released/escaped from their sanctuary).
One episode did mentioned that she told Garnet and Amethyst that the zoo was terrible.
She wanted to protect us in case the other diamonds completely destroyed earth
Really great of you to make parallels between pink and steven
at least Pink is not as the other Diamonds ! ! ! ! !
I like this theory but I like the thought she made the zoo to view how humans work and how they can be free and have freedom of thought.
I think pink built the zoo for keeping humans for her as she thought she'd be able to stop the colonisation process and leave the earth.
Good question.
Your voice is just...so good, I love it. Also awesome video
I been waiting for you to post!! Thank you! 💕💕💕
But with Homeworld's "function or die" mentality, I can't see the human Zoo being made for just amusement. Not to mention they're short on resources (thus Pink's height). That, and Pink must've had a job prior to Earth.
Well pearl said "pink tryd to stop the invation on earth an presirve its life so blue and yellow diamond maid a zoo" she tryed everything she can as pink plsss
I think the zoo was made before she started caring about the earth, but it was too late to free them when it all ended
I got a head image of tiny humans in a hamster terrarium [one running on a hamster wheel] with Pink Diamond watching like an excited grade school kid.
I feel like when she asked for the zoo, yellow and blue decided to give her some life to keep her happy so there was still some of Earth left but she wasn't satisfied
I’m glad I’m not the only one who noticed the new double meaning of *she always did what she wanted!*
You know I actually liked the plot twists, it was nice to see that for once the fans didn’t get it right and also, finally someone who isn’t just mindlessly ranting and saying the zoo makes no sense, just because they didn’t like the outcome of the episode.... these were the first things I thought of after I saw the episode.
Lmao the end “Thanks for watching and ‘That will be all’” 😂
i thought about this long and hard and i came to one of the same conclusions you did, i think that the zoo was the contingency plan for saving human beings if she couldnt win the war as the rebels, at least then she spared human life, the problem with getting them back however was that there was no way to get to them once the war was over as there were no ships, i know we saw he acting like a child in the jungle moon episode, but theres no time correlation as to that and when earth became her colony so we dont know how little or much she matured to make this idea accurate
It was all fun in game that ultimately, due the lack of actual control over her colony, became fail safe plan just in case the Earth's colonization was completed, to keep as many plants and humans alive and keeping on existing without the risk of facing extinction along with the planet.
FINALLY!! Someone gets it!!! So many people refuse to believe that Pink was simply a child!! She was a new diamond!! She was young and foolish. No one else gets that…
I love your videos so much❤️ the similarities between rose /pink and Steven are amazing . They both started to grow. I did believe Rose was pink diamond. I hope Steven can learn where she did wrong and help the gems and the humans still at the zoo
2:51
"Except herself"
IM DYING
1:03
Greg: Um...Dear?
Pink: I can EXPLAIN!
😂😂😂😂
This actually makes sence
(Also, FINALY someone who mention Pearl phrase about not be able to reach them After the War)
I think she had the zoo in her earlier years of serving as a diamond out of pure fascination, before she got all morally righteous and wanted to be on earth.
That's an interesting point about how Steven and pink having similar growth. I think it will be the difference of pink running when she faced responsibility and what Steven will do now he's facing this past responsibility
Really great video!
Steven is basically pink diamond as a kid. so pink diamond’s life just restarted.
I think it's also possible that Pink was trying to show the other Diamonds the value of humans. After all, she didn't just keep them -- a zoo is a place where people go to look at animals.
It was a failsafe in order to keep her favorite species from extinction
maybe in this way, becoming steven, she was finally able to be a child and grow up at her own pace.
My theory was that Blue and Yellow Diamond realized how much Pink cared about human life, and they wanted her to continue her colony so they established a zoo for a few humans to live in to appease her while she could still colonize Earth.
My personal theory about the zoo: it was Pink Diamond's harem.
Now, the show can't confirm this explicitly because that's definitely not family-friendly but I think it makes sense, since Rose did say she liked the way human beings play and it had been stated many times that she often became involved with human men
I liked to think that the reason she had a zoo was that at first she tried to make things work the way the diamonds wanted it so she had the zoo so after everything was said and done she still had apart of the earth. She probably saw that the Zoo didn't work out the way she had hoped thus "Rose" was the next plan. My theory is still kinda iffy but thats what I thought
2:44 omg, that foreshadowing though
Cool, someone who didn’t act all butthurt over the reveal. I like ur points. The other thing that is possible is that pinks zoo might have been emptied when she realized it wasn’t right. Blue diamond might have restocked it as an attempt to deal with her grief.
The thing is while they can rescue them, is that really the best option? They've been there they're entire lives, born and raised there. Its basically their home and they're happy there. They wouldn't be able to survive on Earth either, they really are just like pets where everything is provided for them.
Idk why but that ending when i thought you were about to say "that will be all" but instead it was Agate, made me laugh so hard 😂😂😂😂😂
That's what I thought. Pink wanted to keep the humans there to preserve them in case they lost the war.
A zoo is where children learn to love animals, she prolly thought homeworld could learn to love humans
In pearls story it is revealed that yellow created the zoo because pink/rose was telling yellow how she wanted to shut down the colony
(This is just for people who maybe haven’t seen episode 19 season 5)
I don't think it's such a good idea to rescue the humens from the zoo atleast not without their consent if they want to stay then so be it
Nabinoor Shahil Itd be like throwing a captive lion back into the wild..it wouldnt survive. Those humans have no insticts..no understanding of how life on earth works. They cant grow their own food, they cant build their own shelters..they do nothing without the voice telling them to. They are better off in the zoo where they are happy and cared for. They just should all be sterilized so that they dont breed anymore.
4:32 that explains why the bubbles are pink, that had confused me a lot. I thought either blue or yellow diamond had bubbled the quartz’s
Another idea is that she thought hey I wanna save the humans when she started the gem war Incase she lost so she would still have a piece of earth to remember it.
I think the zoo was a gift from another diamond, maybe that's why blue keep going there
Is anyone going to talk about how after "shattering" herself rose diamond attempted to assassinate blue diamond
I believe she had a zoo because she loved the humans so much she truly didn’t want to kill them all because the other demands did want them destroyed.
This was the first thing I thought when pink was revealed
I wonder what will happen to all those innocent rose quartz soldiers bubbled up
I kind of feel like Pink Diamond might have made the human Zoo hoping that Blue and Yellow would see the humans and love them like Pink did.
That cutoff was hilarious!!
theres an episode that coveres this. blue made the zoo for pink because she asked for the diamonds to let her stop the colony, but they refused and put a handful of humans in a zoo for her.
but the Zoo was more Dangerous than it seems! because Blue Diamond don't Care about Humans like Pink Diamond did and compared to the other Diamonds! she almost treated humans like equals ! ! !
You can also take note that there is now a parallel between Greg, and pearl to yellow, and blue.
i think she made the zoo as a failsafe for humanity
Pink diamond probably needed to preserve their lives in any way she could seeing as how the diamonds wanted the colony to be finished and kill all life on earth. After the war they weren’t able to go back and save them so it was just a lost cause for her. I believe that it was an innocent mistake. At least the humans are happy up there.
[Nerding out long post] I'm pretty sure the humans Rose/Pink was described as collecting were referred to as possessing "unique qualities" (or something similar). She was probably looking to see if she could combine w/them the way she finally did with Greg knowing she had 1 shot at this (maybe she never even loved Greg, -but I'm sure she really liked him despite him having the unique properties required to make Steven). In a way isn't what she did like forced fusions? Sketchy! I'm pretty sure she had seen babies, because the HZoo chose mates for them. Baby Sour was potentially the first time she was hands on with some"thing" so delicate (though we already know Rose lied a lot, her behaviour seemed legit new at such a task as watching a baby).
I agree she probably felt guilty about destroying parts of earth, & maybe that's why she initially started the zoo (just as I think you said).
I think her reasons for creating Steven in a pseudo suicidal way was because she knew one day the diamonds would find him, & thusly see other living creatures as more than disposable. Also, - they're going to feel sooo bad knowing they pushed her to do this, though I don't know how white/yellow diamond would react. Blue is going to lose her mind about it I'm sure. Something like what she did would destroy the class system, & inspire a possible divide in the gem world leading to an interstellar space war in which zombie-esque space Lars will probably be super boss at.
It seems like a long grift, a task meant to be passed on through her child left with gems the diamonds hated the most. Honestly, maybe White is the only one who knows about it & that might be why Earth hasn't been flattened to dust by now, & would explain her absence at the trial better.
(Ps - Rose/Pink could only create sentient life in empty vessels, aka dead things she valued very much, or accidentally with saliva contamination like in foods -she had a whole pride of lions at one point, if lion is the only one left -maybe that means they can be corrupted like gems [but the only one left contains all of her secrets in a very literal sense, so maybe they aren't all gone]).
Kinda see the foreshadowing of that fact with his obsession with living breakfast foods.
[Ugh I know tl dr post, I'm too into this]
My idea of it was that the other diamonds created the zoo because pink might have explained to them how much she liked the humans. Blue or yellow gave her a zoo thinking that now pink would be okay with fully colonising it because she had what she liked about the planet safe and cared for. This obviously didn’t work and pink went on creating her rebellion
Its been revealed that apparently the zoo was make because she wanted them to stop the colonization, and save the organic stuff, so the diamonds made a zoo and just took some humans and threw em in.
Pink had a human zoo because after she saw what would happen to her collony once it was complete, she wanted to protect organic life if the earth was destroyed then she didn't want to be a diamond. She wanted to be a free gem and live with the humans, hence her becoming Rose and rebelling and causing a war.
The thought crossed my mind that the humans may have been "rescues." We've seen a lot about gems warring on Earth, but what about the humans? Perhaps the original humans that were placed in the zoo were refugees from their own wars, or displaced from the Gem War, or maybe they were the poor, the lost, and forgotten of their own societies. The unwanted and the homeless. So Pink offered them a utopia of their own.
We later found out in the first episode of the latest StevenBomb. The Human Zoo was Blue Diamond’s idea, not Pink Diamond’s.
Even if Rose Quartz had not received Earth, it would fallen to Yellow's hands anyway.
I love the ending, and the way you talk
Just guessing, but the Zoo was established during the interim period when Pink had begun to notice the wonders of Earth's life forms--especially humans--and wanted to preserve specimens for her curiosity and amusement, but before she felt enough empathy for them that she decided to end Homeworld's colonization plans.
Perhaps it was her efforts to make the Zoo a reality and her studying of humans made her come to the decision to thwart Homeworld.
Thought #2, Pink complained that there were "too many organics" on Earth. Perhaps Blue/Yellow built the Zoo for Pink to store excess humans.
Wait a minute, if Blue Diamond was keeping close eyes on Pink Diamond in order to make sure the colony would go nice. I mean during the war it would make sense for the diamonds to keep a close eye on her.
So, where did she find the time to be Rose Quartz?
We've only heard it called "Pink Diamond's Human Zoo", but we don't know if it was actually built BY Pink Diamond or FOR Pink Diamond.
My theory is that when Pink first approached Blue and Yellow to talk about the humans, one or both of them completely misunderstood and setup the human zoo as a way to "fix the problem". In fact, that's basically what Yellow was trying to do for Blue. "Oh, you want humans? We can go get humans". Yellow is always looking to solve the problem as expediently as possible. "Here you are, Pink. Now you can play with humans all you like once your colony is back on track. Now go on, your gems need you to lead them!"
So she did.
Same reason we have zoos. To help educate and create appreciation for other animals on earth.
i agree with this theory it's good and makes sence
Just because pink diamond asked for a colony doesn’t mean they went and looked for one just for her, they probably were already planing the colonization of earth, it was probably gonna go to a different diamond, but they probably thought thought to give it to pink bc the figured it be easy for her.
My guess is, it was a Fail-Safe protocol initiated by pink diamond in case she wasn't granted her wish of ruling Earth by yellow diamond. She built it to save Humanity in case yellow said no and begun to create her own gems there, thus destroying Earth. It makes a lot of sense to me because she spoke of how much she loved Humanity and seeing how her three favorite things..pink,flowers and humans are all over the zoo, it makes sense to me. Perhaps in the zoo's infancy, it was some kind of research post to test the local wildlife and that's how pink diamonds love for Humanity and flowers came to be.
the reason she has a zoo is because she begged blue diamond to let her stop the colony and told her she wanted to preserve life on earth, so blue diamond made her the zoo instead. maybe thats also why blue karen lady is in charge of the zoo
"Then you really are better than her." Woah
Maybe the zoo was established during the transformation between Pink wanting to colonize her planet to trying to protect the earth. So mabye she still wanted to destroy the planet at the time but wanted to preserve some of her planets life.