Rewinding Rose's Tapes (Steven Universe)

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@AmpleSamuel 4 ай бұрын

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@toomanymonkeys21 4 ай бұрын

I think Rose wanted so badly to evolve past her own limitations and past actions that she thought having Steven was the only way to do it. I don’t think she still exists as a conscious being in any way. It was a negation of her past self: she was deeply ashamed of her acts and state of mind as Pink. She could love Greg, love Steven, but not forgive herself.

@newthejsterjacob408 4 ай бұрын

I find it really interesting to how this relates to Future. Rose both implores that she just wants Steven to be happy with himself and his life whatever that means, yet also puts this tremendous responsibility on Steven with that single line "Take care of them". She both is a root cause for the problem Steven has in Future and a huge advocate for Steven's well being above all else

@legodude146 4 ай бұрын

One thing I noticed recently that may not be intentional, is that in her tape Rose tells Steven, “you’re going to be a human being,” which is something that Steven struggles with coming to terms with throughout the show balancing his gem half of his life and his human half. The closing theme of Future that plays when Steven leaves Beach City is called Being Human, which I can’t help but think it may be a callback to what Rose said in the tape. It fits pretty nicely because at the end of Future Steven is finally able to embrace his human half and finally live his life as a human being without the expectations of others weighing down on him. It might just be a happy coincidence but Rebecca Sugar did write “Time Adventure” for the Adventure Time finale so it wouldn’t be the first time they reversed a phrase to have a double meaning.

@grumos8455 4 ай бұрын

Rose's tape is one of my favorite moments on all of steven universe, watching it after watching all of her character development in order is simply beautiful, like, all she fought for, it culminates there; it just makes me think she wouldve been an amazing mother

@GamerMage2k-kl4iq 4 ай бұрын

The tapes gives us the best look at Rose as a developed character at the point in the series she was at shortly before giving up her physical form to have Steven. We get to see the kind of person Rose has become compared to what we later learn about her father in the past, which was messy and legit sometimes messed up. But it doesn’t mean the good she has done/tried to do wasn’t for nothing/didn’t mean anything.

@alexcarrillo6804 4 ай бұрын

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@JoeArty 4 ай бұрын

All rose ever wanted was to be something else - to love and be apart of earth and to forget how she almost caused its destruction. She knew she would never be able to do that, so she created steven, because she knew he could. But she neglected to realize how much she meant to everyone else because she thought of herself in such a low regard for being the soul cause of the war. She created steven because she really didnt care about herself at all, but she knew that steven would be able to love himself, and also reciprocate the love the others gave him. Though she tried her best to *love like* everyone else, she never could, so she recycled herself into a being she already loved, a human.

@purplemagicstar 3 ай бұрын

Awww this is beautiful 🥹

@IAmBored347 4 ай бұрын

You know I feel Rose Quartz is my most hated yet loved characters in media. I despised her decisions and yet at the same time...I feel pity and sympathized her methods. I may not like how she abandoned Volleyball or Spinel, lied about her true identity being Pink, or left her own family and in turn started the events in the first place. Though afyer thinking about Rose the mother rather than her Pink I feel the show exclaims while her time as Pink was horrible as Rose she started to grow and mature. In my eyes she just wanted Steven to live a well deserving life. Do I wished Steven got to talk to Rose? Yes. Do I wished in Future he got to confront her one last time, yes. But perhaps Rose for is the end of the beginning and the beginning of the end is for Steven. Rose's story is done and now it's Steven turn to be born and start a new life. As if Rose is giving a second chance for Steven to live and breathe because she wants him to experience it even if she isn't by his side she hopes him the very best. Though Rose left behind tons of mistakes and now Steven is all alone without her care, and yet maybr Rose knew there was a likely chance she cannot make it so she hopes through messages Steven can learn what she wanted for him. I think that's why Rose wasn't upset in the tapes because she knew Greg and the gems will help Steven learn to live a fair life. Though at the same time she never changed the problems she did and in turn left Steven a lot of baggage. Rose truly loved Steven yet I feel she may have given Steven a traumatizing life rather than a fulfilling one. Which is why I think it's most likely Rose didn't want the events of the show to play out. Because she knows Steven is a young gem but also a human being and throughout the show Steven neglected his human side. The expectations and trauma placed upon him that in Future he realizes he has neglected so much on gem society he couldn't integrate normally. He breaks down when Lars and Sadie are leaving, he breaks when he learns more on his latest mother's mistakes involving Volleyball, he breaks down when Connie isn't interested in romance, he breaks down when he realized he spend the whole series traumatized by the events that unfold and he breaks down that Greg never gave him education at all. As a result, looking back on Rose Quartz I think Rose wish Steven the best to not be like her. To not suffer the same mistakes and to choose what he wants. I know people hated how Future ended "half baked" and wished the final fight was cool. No. I feel SU foreshadowed Steven's true arc...that he can choose to regain his ability to live and grow. Rose isn't the most perfect person and I feel that's okay. I feel Rose wasn't a horrible mother like say Lusamine from Pokemon or Ragyo Kiryuin from Kill La Kill but rather a person who had the best intentions yet misguided at best. She may not have done a great job yet she did love Steven based on the tapes. Despite everything she truly loved Steven and wanted him to choose what he wanted, which he does in the end of Future where I'm sure she appreciates him finding who he is now. Even if he may not have education or knowledge of living a normal life. At least Steven chosed to *Being human* as the first step.

@taratheshinyabsol768 3 ай бұрын

You are spitting nothing but facts.

@hypnoticskull6342 3 ай бұрын

I loved the episode where Steven was over-analyzing Rose's tapes, because it's so clear what he's missing. Rose was telling Steven to live as a human and to love his family and to be his own person while Steven thinks she wants him to do something. She wanted him to live.

@tzisorey 3 ай бұрын

"Hey, Mom? You know how I said you didn't have to make me those lunches anymore..."

@FatherSonandHolySpirit 4 ай бұрын

If Ample keeps making incredible videos like this he'll probably be canonized at some point

@look4thestarss 3 ай бұрын

Tbh i feel like Rose wasn’t entirely sure of how she would exist in Steven. I think she thought she would literally be half of him in terms of like emotions and some thoughts and didn’t expect to just not exist at all anymore. It kinda shows how Rose wasn’t fully sure what she was stepping into but still wholeheartedly decided to try it as an act of benevolence as that was basically the closest she could get to being what she loved (a being that can change and grow and experience life freely)

@jorgesandoval7558 4 ай бұрын

0:20 this might be a stretch, but did anyone notice the 3 diamond shaped couch legs, right before seeing the BROKEN picture of rose? That HAS to be rebecca foredhadowing something

@tinseltina 3 ай бұрын

if you're talking about the object to the left of steven, that's a surfboard and those are the rudders

@ANSHUMANSINGH-v7c 2 ай бұрын

Pink Diamond " SLAVE TO CHANGE " 😢❤❤

@bpie_ef3967 4 ай бұрын

I really needed to watch a SU video at 4:34. Yep. I really needed it :)

@prismaux5168 4 ай бұрын

Really, really great short and sweet video.

@mcg_18 4 ай бұрын

Rose only wanted to be seen in a good light and by doing so building this perfect image she made for herself. So it’s so powerful to see how much she wanted to be seen as a good person, but we later on see how good intentions go so far.

@t-eehee7057 3 ай бұрын

Ok White Diamond

@hueyfreeman6262 3 ай бұрын

Oh get out

@ri-ch-es 4 ай бұрын

Ah yes my weekly peak video essay perfect

@blacksesamecandies 4 ай бұрын

Something that always fascinated me about this was imagining the way in which Steven was born. I know CN probably didn't wanna show a birth in full but I really don't think that's how Steven was born. I could imagine it's kind of life the bright light you see when a gem is reforming- with Rose shifting down into infant Steven? I think that is the reason as to why Greg has that permanent pink sunburn on him - as he was there to witness it - he doesn't have this prior to Steven's birth ofc. I dunno, maybe it's something they could explore in an adult-spin off of SU if they ever decide to do it (Similiar to Adventure Time's Fiona and Cake.) ? I really enjoyed all the Rose and Greg segments and kind of wish we had more of that. Rose was one of the most interesting characters in the story after all.