Is this the best example of a show squandering its potential?

Is this the best example of a show squandering its potential?

The concept and design given to a team not made up of tumblerites could have incredible.

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Maybe, murdercock memes were worth it

I liked it. I don't really care about it's "squandered potential"

The tumblerites are the ones that came up with the cool ideas. I would imagine from the beginning, Sugar wanted to create a show that emphasized positive messages. Just look at the shorts that they made about body image issues and such.

They should make a show about Rose Quartz/Pink Diamond. Then you go along with her and the Crystal Gems in their war against homeworld. Then you put that on Adult Swim.

Dumb, no point in that, you know all the Gems are mainly static until Steven.

They should call it Rose Quartz Prime!

Yeah, no doubt they laid great foundations but then they blew it. Just look at the work of storyboard artists (anyone have that Garnet and Steven webm).

What about Emerald, or the chest or villains that don't become friends after a very serious chat?

It mainly seems like Rebecca couldn't handle a team. The storyboarders ended up having way too much say in the shows direction, and some of them were at complete odds with each other, and with Rebecca herself, most notably Zuke.

The biggest problem with SU is that Rebecca Suggar and the writers only really care about giving basic shitty mental health advice.
The characters, world building, the plot and everything else takes a back seat for the lesson of the day.

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Just the average SU fan enjoying an episode of Steven Universe

>The storyboarders ended up having way too much say in the shows direction
Was Zuke the one pushing the Peridot/Lapis relationship?

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Yes. Pdot and Lapis both got benched in the barn because Zuke wanted them to hook up.

You could literally say that about anything when you didn't get what you wanted. SU aimed to be a story about Steven growing up with his family and in that regard it succeeded. Whether or not the other aspects hold up are the stuff that's worth discussing, not whether or not it had "wasted potential". Cartoon Network forcing it into an eleven minute format, slashing the budget repeatedly and constantly putting it on hiatus does not make for a show that could ever live up to its "potential".

Like this show or not, it could've and should've been better. It held back from its true potential

based. singing, sparkles, emotions and tears is why people care about it, not muh hard sci fi worldbuilding

i would say the problem is they made up the show as they went along. and that is not exaggerating, that is literally what they did. notably the movie doesn't have this problem, it wrapped up everything it introduced quite neatly.

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>SU aimed to be a story about Steven growing up with his family and in that regard it succeeded.
I would say it still failed even in that though.

Steven Universe having 11 minute episodes is one of the things I like about it. When necessary, they just did double episodes. I wish more shows would have 11 minute episodes.

were steven bombs a mistake?

I never cared much how they released episodes. I'd just check every 6 months or so to see which episodes had come out and watched them as I wanted.

Yes because it made townie or otherwise filler episodes so much worse.

No, that was sugar
Sugar is pretty tumlbr but she is like the. 1% of Tumblr that has actual talent

Even for adult swim that's trash

most children show on cartoon network are basically for grown ups anyway tho

Yeah, it got so bad that the barn got uprooted after Zuke got told to fuck off for forcing her shipping in.

The good times. When Apollo Crews was still in WWE and there was only one season of SU.

He still is with wwe, he just hasn't been used for 2 years.

As someone who's been watching the show after the fact, I'm not sure where you are coming from. Sure, the character cry a lot, but the main character is a little kid at the start, it's understandable. And the worldbuilding is amazing.

I still hold out hope for a reboot one day spearheaded by someone competent who can streamline the narrative and improve upon the lore.

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They write purely from a place of emotional fulfillment. What's best for the overarching narrative may not necessarily result in an outcome where people feel good. If someone does something shitty and deplorable, you can bet there will be an emotional justification for it, and that justification will always be met with understanding so long as the plot no longer needs the illusion of tension.

That gif though I wish I could have Pearl gf