I’m not against the idea of Rose having a magic sword; I think the show botched its foreshadowing. Show us at any point that the weapon has magical properties of any kind and the “can’t shatter gems” reveal neatly slots into place. That was the one part of the whole shebang I thought was poorly done, but I did say that if I was proven wrong, I’d shrug, accept it, and move on.
Here’s the thing. I know you’re saying “we should be shown what the sword can and can’t do instead of relying on being told,” but what I’m hearing is “I don’t trust Bismuth’s assessment of her own craftsmanship.”
I trust Bismuth’s assessment of her own craftsmanship, but what she’s claiming it can do is physically impossible for a mundane weapon. Bismuth is claiming that the sword we’ve been seeing do nothing magical at all for the past fifty episodes has magical properties. It needs demonstration to establish its capabilities; it’s one extra step down the disbelief ladder. The sword can do something it shouldn’t be able to do, we’re told it can do something it shouldn’t be able to do…but we’re never shown that it can do something it shouldn’t be able to do until the moment that needed to be foreshadowed. All it needed was something–it didn’t even have to be the fact that it can magically pass through gems without harming them. Any magical property of the sword whatsoever would sufficiently establish that it wasn’t a mundane weapon.
The thing happened. I’m not gonna dispute canon. I’m disputing the way in which canon was relayed to us, which I believe was the only subpar part of this whole shebang.
I like the fact that the sword is like, 6ft long and pink did nothing for you.
I wonder though, if they had laid out something more on the nose if that would have provided too much of a clue for the Pink Diamond reveal.
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