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The fact that Rose says "my Pearl" to Pearl... A lot of people wonder, "oh, she belonged to Rose". No one calls their Pearl "my Pearl", people only say that to their superiors. So there's actually a lot more going on in that scene.

Q: Do you feel that Rose forgot about Spinel? if not, did she ever think of going back one day?

Rebecca Sugar: Well, so much of the show is about how—and this is something that I think was was really ultimately captured in the end credits song—when you don't think of yourself as someone with power, you know, Pink had so much less power than everyone that was around her. She didn't understand how much she mattered to other people. And that meant that she did things to them that that she didn't really think twice about because her importance to others was not—it didn't register to her. I think in feeling that she didn't matter, that radiated out to other people as well. Her relationship to Spinel, it is— Spinel was a sort of a toy to her. And when she saw an opportunity to her to to grow up and be, you know, what she thought of as a better person, the collateral of that was not registering to her. I will say that the version of Pink in the show is a softened version of what she was originally like, if you can believe it. So, you know, I think the sympathetic side of that and her own self depreciation, that was something that grew as we developed the character over time. And I see that influencing a lot of her actions. And in aspiring to be a better person than she felt like she was, that made her the person that she was, if that makes sense.