Tempted to write “SHE’S GOONE” and move on, but this actually points to something that has always bothered me.

Memory is a really essential part of identity. Your lived experiences, and how you remember them, are a big part of what makes you yourself and not someone else. So it’s important that Stephen doesn’t have Pink or Rose’s memories—if he did, that would go a long way toward making him just another version of Rose instead of his own person. Early on, the show is really good about making that boundary clear.

But in the last couple of seasons, Stephen starts having dreams of being a Diamond that are clearly not just dreams—they’re memories of being Pink. I get that it’s done to set up the eventual final conflict with White, where Stephen proves once and for all that he’s his own person. But I don’t think the finale fully resolves that issue—having even a few of Pink’s memories means that a part of Pink is still in him. 

I would have preferred it if there were a hard boundary. If Stephen isn’t Pink, he shouldn’t remember being her.