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新幹線·8/9/2018 in General

Rainbow Quartz - A Glaring Continuity Error

The Rainbow Quartz fusion, together with the revelations of A Single Pale Rose, introduces a massive continuity error in the plot/lore of this series, and it baffles me that no one else has seemed to notice.

At the moment Pearl and Rose's bodies convert into light to form Rainbow Quartz in We Need to Talk, Rose's gemstone becomes plainly visible from various angles to both the viewer and all characters witnessing the fusion (Greg, Garnet, Amethyst, and also Steven viewing via the recording). Knowing what we know now, there is no reason why Rose’s gem should have appeared as anything but a large pointed pink diamond, but instead we only see a standard egg-shaped one with rounded edges. How?

Even if you write this off as a minor oversight that might deserve forgiveness for how it’s from a scene that came long before the pink diamond revelation was decided on, the same issue arises with the fusion of Smoky Quartz much later in the series. In Know Your Fusion, Steven and Amethyst fuse right in front of Garnet, meaning that for a brief moment, Steven’s gemstone should have become fully visible to her, pointy end and all. Come to think of it, in Mindful Education, Steven again fuses multiple times just inches away from Garnet’s face. How did any of this happen without Steven’s true gem identity becoming apparent to those in his surroundings? I would be very interested in hearing any proposed justifications for this, because it has been eating away at me for days.

(Edited by 新幹線)

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Anonymius·8/9/2018

I thought the same, so I rewatched we need to talk and noticed something. During fusion you don't see the entire gem, just the part that's always visible rather than the part that is inside the gem's physical form. I rewatched Rose's transformation into pink and when she's transforming you don't see her entire gem. If anything it's the transformation in 'now we're falling apart' that's the continuity error when we see Pink's entire gem as she transforms into Rose.

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Jolmev·8/9/2018

Remember that every memory showed is from Steven's point of view, he is imagining that, because everything happens from his POV

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Byriad·8/9/2018

Anonymius wrote:
I thought the same, so I rewatched we need to talk and noticed something. During fusion you don't see the entire gem, just the part that's always visible rather than the part that is inside the gem's physical form. I rewatched Rose's transformation into pink and when she's transforming you don't see her entire gem. If anything it's the transformation in 'now we're falling apart' that's the continuity error when we see Pink's entire gem as she transforms into Rose.

I agree. I saw every single fusion and shapeshifting parts of the show but none of them showed any gems back side. I only see that in "Now Only We're Falling Apart". Duh, what a long name, NOWFA.

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Jolmev·8/10/2018

Also, when a gem shapeshifts, the gemstone is covered by light, you only see one side of Amethyst's gemstones when she shapeshifts, it's not transparent

And Rose choose the "Rose form" when she reformed, so her gemstone will always look like that while shapeshifting

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Byriad·8/15/2018

I think if shapeshifting doesn't show the gemstone's inside part if shapeshifting includes rotating gemstone.

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Delivers·8/21/2018

We can however see Lapis gem through this light even though she's on the back?

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Herkimer Diamond·8/30/2018

Jolmev wrote:
Remember that every memory showed is from Steven's point of view, he is imagining that, because everything happens from his POV

Rainbow Quartz, however, was a video Steven was watching, not a memory or imagination like in "The Answer." The rest of "We Need to Talk" was Greg telling a story, so is subject to interpretaion, but the fusion itself was caught on tape.

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Jolmev·8/30/2018

Herkimer Diamond wrote:

Jolmev wrote:
Remember that every memory showed is from Steven's point of view, he is imagining that, because everything happens from his POV

Rainbow Quartz, however, was a video Steven was watching, not a memory or imagination like in "The Answer." The rest of "We Need to Talk" was Greg telling a story, so is subject to interpretaion, but the fusion itself was caught on tape.

Well, their mass-light isn't transparent

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