Rewriting Animated Series

Lord of the Large Pants said:
Same show, slightly different changes.

1.) The shipping was fine, even sweet at times, but it dragged out one season too long. Them getting together could've easily been part of the season 3 finale.
2.) Nut up and make Eclipsa the well intentioned but totalitarian dictator that she was implied to be. There were all these hints with her power of spying, mind control, etc, that she was running some kind of 1984 forced racial integration project... and then it turned out history just hated her for being a coalburner.
3.) In fact, just have more moral ambiguity between monsters and Mewmans in general. WHY were those unions feared so much? Is it possibly because, in the one example we have, it produced a child who turned out to be a total psychopath with dangerously unstable magic? Maybe those hybrids are inherently dangerous, and it ended up creating a racial tension that wouldn't exist otherwise? Because THAT would be an interesting story, much more than "wypipo colonizing muh sacred Native Americans".
4.) Not have Star destroy magic, which made no goddamn sense. Instead, democratize it so monsters can use it as well.
5.) Follow through on the "evil Marco" hints that we kept getting. Monster Arm, Toffee's mirror, his magic marks in Deep Dive... strong indications that he had both a hidden darkness and a sleeping power. I really thought Marco has going to lose his shit at some point over getting cucked and become a/THE villain, at least temporarily. Never followed up on. Maybe make him Eclipsa's student or something like that.
6.) Kill/remove Pony Head. She contributes NOTHING.

Season 2 had such amazing promise, but it just never quite delivered. There's probably more, but I've sperged about children's cartoons enough.
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I remember really liking Star Vs. when it came out because it reminded me of the Powerpuff Girls in how cutesy and very violent it was. Then I lost track of it, and later discovered the finale was having Star stop one genocide by committing another. Huh.
Tax: Give Elmer Fudd and Yosemite Same their guns back in the HBO Looney Tunes series. Th original theatrical shorts of Looney Tunes were made for all ages and it's HBO. You're telling me they'll show all manner of graphics stuff on that channel but draw the line at giving cartoon characters gun? Lame.
 
Angel Wars but make it ultra-violent and edgy, also have a episode where they legitimately fight Satan in hell.
 
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I remember really liking Star Vs. when it came out because it reminded me of the Powerpuff Girls in how cutesy and very violent it was. Then I lost track of it, and later discovered the finale was having Star stop one genocide by committing another. Huh.
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Despite everything, Star VS WAS a good show. It just could've been so much more.
 
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Mighty Max only it starts after the last episode where Max gets warped back to the first episode and in this rewrite Max prevents Skullmaster from getting the cap but fucks up in another way to the extend he gets sent back to the first episode again so now there can be a rewrite to the rewrite.
 
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Legend of Korra.
-Don't set it in the 1920's
-Don't make the next Avatar an ass-kicking girlboss who is holding the idiot ball so closely she's gonna get a traveling penalty
-Don't have a hackneyed romance triangle that turns the entire fandom off to the very idea of this show writing romance (except for a tiny tiny subset of fetishists who think the two female characters are cute)
-Don't kill your main character's connection to the avatars of the past and then handwave it away in less than 10 minutes of screen time
Better yet,
-Don't make it at all

Unironically I'd rather watch middle-aged Aang and the gang as a sequel series over the mess that was Korra.
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Damn, you got me.
Well, in that case, not rewriting but creating the sequel after all the clusterfuck was TLOK (and based on that, holy shit):
  • New Avatar isn't related to either Korra or Aang.
  • A orphan from the slums of Ba Sing Se (oh yeah, it's all coming together).
  • Can be either a silent justicar doing on its own before some elitist (idk, a new White Lotus) found it or basically learning all on its own by a understandable reason.
  • Half of the world was actually fucked of all the spirit portals opened... 50 years ago. They're actually closed thanks to Korra in 10 years after TLOK's events (in other words, a actual worthwhile sacrifice). Many old cities showed in both ATLA & TLOK are destroyed.
  • The fucking gay spirit of Korra appears often in its dream: either basically doing nothing more than acting like the comical relief (since she was like that in the original cartoon) or actually remembering situations happened in her era.
  • As 50 years ago passed, basically we're in the 70's/80's. Ba Sing Se is basically communist China but Fire Nation is 80's Japan; a big motherfucking economic bubble at the edge of exploiding. At this point the north pole & the south pole are more advanced technologically.
  • One of the reasons of the resurgence of this new entity is the Earth Republic trying to annex the territories the Air Monks are repopulating (i'm sure the reference is a bit obvious). A specific scene which one of the Air Monks is setting himself at the center of the capital on fire and even the news media covered that situation.
  • But the real reason is something more behind.
  • Maybe some relatives of TLOK characters can appear. I'm at least on a Varrik's sucessor, Prince Wu and the daughter of Zuko.
Well, more than that, i can't make my brain functional at this moment.
 
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Thundarr the Barbarian where it would largely be the same but without the crap about the runaway comet having destroyed civilization 2000 years earlier. It was obviously a post-nuclear war world, they just couldn't say it on Saturday mornings in the 1980s because the idea of nuclear war was (well, still is) too scary for kids.
 
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I like this topic and I've got a few more, so... Steven Universe. An almost good show buried underneath an absolute mountain of dogshit. Rather than a plot rewrite, this is more along the lines of "this retarded thing in the show, do less of it" and "this cool thing in the show, do more of it".
  • Seriously cut down on the Townie shit. Nobody cares.
  • Seriously cut down on the Lesbian Space Rock shit. Nobody cares. With a couple exceptions.
  • I'll allow Ruby and Sapphire because even though I don't personally give a shit, it's relevant to the story, Emphasize the slow development of their relationship rather than "love at first sight". There was a whole episode where Garnet talked about how that isn't a thing, and how true love needs development and understanding, which was a surprisingly mature message for a kids' show. Then later we found out that Garnet was born when Ruby and Sapphire accidentally fucksed and immediately abandoned their whole lives for each other. Fucking hell. Would've been far more interesting if they had slowly developed a relationship in secret while Ruby was acting as Sapphire's bodyguard or something like that.
  • I'll also allow Pearl and Rose Quartz because that one is honestly fucking fascinating. This one deals with the two things the show actually does well: The gems as absolute aliens, and the tragic heroes that Rose Quartz made through her own selfish actions. Pearl was literally programmed to love and serve Rose. And all Rose wanted was for her to be a free equal. Then Greg came along and not only stole Rose's heart (to the extent she had one), but took Rose away forever when they decided to have a child. Rose KNEW she would die in childbirth, and now there's Steven. The last remnant of Rose, and also the reason she's gone forever. While there are indications that she made progress, there's a strong argument to be made that Pearl never truly broke the programming and became her own individual independent of Rose, her master and unrequited lover. Being Pearl is suffering.
  • One thing I will give Sucrose credit for is xir ability to write tragic heroes. Pearl, as above. Garnet, who had to give up her home, her people, her entire life for the sake of love. Amythest, the earthborn Gem who fought for the land of her birth but never quite fit with either culture. Greg, who lost his wife so his son could be born. Rose, who knew she would die giving birth to Steven, and did it anyway. And Steven himself, torn between two worlds, the weight of both on his shoulders as he bears the consequences of his mother's selfishness and a war that ended before he was born. MORE OF THIS SORT OF THING
  • In other words, pretty much everything actually INTERESTING in the show is seeing how the Gem war touched the lives of individuals. Just make all of Steven Universe about that and it would actually be excellent.
  • Be more consistent in emphasizing the sheer otherness of the Gems. Half the time they're an utterly alien race who basically see humans as animals. Half the time they're just funny looking humans. They are MUCH more interesting as complete aliens.
  • Treat fusion consistently. Is it a thinly veiled metaphor for sex, or is it a battle tactic? Pick one, I don't care which.
  • Explain just the hell White Diamond actually IS. She's the progenitor of Gems, I guess? But that doesn't explain a damn thing.
  • Also explain Lion. Yeah, I get that he's a regular lion to whomst Rose Quartz did... something. Again, not an explanation.
  • The Gems are OBVIOUSLY an engineered race. Their reproductive processes are clearly artificial and could not possibly occur in nature. So. Who made them? That's a season or two right there.
  • Lars and Sadie. Just... fucking... Lars and Sadie. Mostly Lars. Am I supposed to sympathize with him? Because I don't. He's afraid of being lonely, which would be a legitimate fear, if people didn't treat him far better than he deserves. He's consistently a piece of shit to everyone around him, leaving a destructive trail that would put Bojack Horseman to shame. Which might be forgivable if, like Bojack, he was an interesting character. But he's not. He's just a fucking tool. I don't even know how I would fix him. I'd probably just remove him.
  • No Stevonnie. Holy fuck that shit was creepy.
There's probably more but holy shit that ended up being three times as long as I expected.
 
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Lord of the Large Pants said:
I like this topic and I've got a few more, so... Steven Universe. An almost good show buried underneath an absolute mountain of dogshit. Rather than a plot rewrite, this is more along the lines of "this retarded thing in the show, do less of it" and "this cool thing in the show, do more of it".
  • Seriously cut down on the Townie shit. Nobody cares.
  • Seriously cut down on the Lesbian Space Rock shit. Nobody cares. With a couple exceptions.
  • I'll allow Ruby and Sapphire because even though I don't personally give a shit, it's relevant to the story, Emphasize the slow development of their relationship rather than "love at first sight". There was a whole episode where Garnet talked about how that isn't a thing, and how true love needs development and understanding, which was a surprisingly mature message for a kids' show. Then later we found out that Garnet was born when Ruby and Sapphire accidentally fucksed and immediately abandoned their whole lives for each other. Fucking hell. Would've been far more interesting if they had slowly developed a relationship in secret while Ruby was acting as Sapphire's bodyguard or something like that.
  • I'll also allow Pearl and Rose Quartz because that one is honestly fucking fascinating. This one deals with the two things the show actually does well: The gems as absolute aliens, and the tragic heroes that Rose Quartz made through her own selfish actions. Pearl was literally programmed to love and serve Rose. And all Rose wanted was for her to be a free equal. Then Greg came along and not only stole Rose's heart (to the extent she had one), but took Rose away forever when they decided to have a child. Rose KNEW she would die in childbirth, and now there's Steven. The last remnant of Rose, and also the reason she's gone forever. While there are indications that she made progress, there's a strong argument to be made that Pearl never truly broke the programming and became her own individual independent of Rose, her master and unrequited lover. Being Pearl is suffering.
  • One thing I will give Sucrose credit for is xir ability to write tragic heroes. Pearl, as above. Garnet, who had to give up her home, her people, her entire life for the sake of love. Amythest, the earthborn Gem who fought for the land of her birth but never quite fit with either culture. Greg, who lost his wife so his son could be born. Rose, who knew she would die giving birth to Steven, and did it anyway. And Steven himself, torn between two worlds, the weight of both on his shoulders as he bears the consequences of his mother's selfishness and a war that ended before he was born. MORE OF THIS SORT OF THING
  • In other words, pretty much everything actually INTERESTING in the show is seeing how the Gem war touched the lives of individuals. Just make all of Steven Universe about that and it would actually be excellent.
  • Be more consistent in emphasizing the sheer otherness of the Gems. Half the time they're an utterly alien race who basically see humans as animals. Half the time they're just funny looking humans. They are MUCH more interesting as complete aliens.
  • Treat fusion consistently. Is it a thinly veiled metaphor for sex, or is it a battle tactic? Pick one, I don't care which.
  • Explain just the hell White Diamond actually IS. She's the progenitor of Gems, I guess? But that doesn't explain a damn thing.
  • Also explain Lion. Yeah, I get that he's a regular lion to whomst Rose Quartz did... something. Again, not an explanation.
  • The Gems are OBVIOUSLY an engineered race. Their reproductive processes are clearly artificial and could not possibly occur in nature. So. Who made them? That's a season or two right there.
  • Lars and Sadie. Just... fucking... Lars and Sadie. Mostly Lars. Am I supposed to sympathize with him? Because I don't. He's afraid of being lonely, which would be a legitimate fear, if people didn't treat him far better than he deserves. He's consistently a piece of shit to everyone around him, leaving a destructive trail that would put Bojack Horseman to shame. Which might be forgivable if, like Bojack, he was an interesting character. But he's not. He's just a fucking tool. I don't even know how I would fix him. I'd probably just remove him.
  • No Stevonnie. Holy fuck that shit was creepy.
There's probably more but holy shit that ended up being three times as long as I expected.
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At this point i can change the concept of artificial creation by just biological classic humanoid ones but with born gem crests (at least the original ones, not the Jaspers or Amethysts).
The concept of the Crystal Gems involving in many eras of human history was interesting. Sadly was like 1 or 2 episodes? Man, you can basically put Pearl teaching humans to do use spears and later Spartans refined their believes or a... male gem being the concept of both Greek & Roman Empire to both Ares/Mars respectively.
At this point... ok, let me do a list of rewriting SU:
  • Take everything OG filler + Steven. Gems in this rewrite haven't necessarily gems if they're cloned.
  • A male gem (called Diamond) which was basically the succesor of the throne with a queen called Adamantium (ah yeah, it's all coming together) in Mother Planet.
  • Born after a war against humanoid with male gems, she basically fighting pregnant. Society entirely mathiarcal and every man in big cities got out.
  • He basically spent his whole youth struggling between supporters & enemies in academia crap mixing with military training from experts. Had a personal female bodyguard called Rose Quartz.
  • Love between both flourish very slowly and never in a direct manner until years later.
  • Between, experimental clonation started. DNA of Diamond was taken by his own mother for a specific reason not actually related to the project. Was actually stolen.
  • Got his diploma, started working with specialized control agencies, and slowly learning about a "resistance" movement against the Empire.
  • A last mission ocurred in his final days. Found the leader of the movement and was spared in a interesting twist of consistent events.
  • With that "victory", the clonation experiment was a sucess: a group of 3 color diamonds (White, Blue & Yellow) taken action about what could happen if he earn the enough popularity between the people: a assassination.
  • The last worked, he's basically putted in a endless coma. Adamantium took entirely responsibility of that and started a resurrection project with a specific scientific called Peridot.
  • 5 years later, the project which can bring back to life worked perfectly. Awoken by Rose Quartz and she explained what happened: Adamantium was assassinated too and Diamond isn't pure anymore: have more than 500 "essences" between intelligent or warrior gems. A different name has taken between.
  • At this point forward, is just meeting the other gems; first Garnet and later Pearl. The last one is more interesting: at par with the canon, Diamond tries to set free Pearl in the first meeting but she refuses. Garnet is just Garnet in this version; not possibility of un-fusion but keeping the 3 eyes.
  • Finally, the group meet the leader of the resistance. She basically pardons Diamond and explain about his "liberation plan". Earth was the planet in question. Knowing is a point of no return, Diamond with the entire support of the group, accepts.
  • Well, this is the part when i'm sure everybody knows of SU: the big war in the planet, the big losses, the entire wastelands. Technically the group survived and many broken gems are either absorbed by Diamond or putted in those bubbles by Garnet.
  • Centuries later, as in the canon; the group found a clonation zone. Decision of shutting it down for good was real. Hundreds of Amethysts appears at front of the group. Diamond took the first movement and later the group followed. No enemy gem survived.
  • Minutes later, the male gem heard something in a hole (oh yeah, again). He looked at it and found a last Amethyst. She revealed about her identity: she's the original. A deep eye contact revealed to herself about the true nature of Diamond: an actual heart-driven doomed hero which was resurrected into a inmortal monster.
  • I can even imagine some episodes about the group teaching humans, like i said initially in the comment. At least one related to Diamond and maybe Rose Quartz being the initial concept of some gods at least Greeks and Romans have. Others can be between the crusades, renaissance, new world discovery (like in the canon), colonies, independencies, and maybe all the 1900's.
  • Well, the modern era is just the group supervising those alien monsters in the canon and sometimes dealing with the nearest town. Amethyst acts like the spoiled brat she is, Pearl the pseudo-clerk/maid with liberty, Garnet reserving his opinions and being quiet in general and Rose... well, direct love has started before the war. Basically his spouse.
Damn, i can't take it anymore. There's actually more but i don't lose more time rambling with my thoughts.
But actually, many of those ideas are taken in one of my drafts, mixing with SU's canon.
At this point, i'm sure this is a totally different take of the same base. Can function more a retold rather than a remake.
 
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Lord of the Large Pants said:
I like this topic and I've got a few more, so... Steven Universe. An almost good show buried underneath an absolute mountain of dogshit. Rather than a plot rewrite, this is more along the lines of "this retarded thing in the show, do less of it" and "this cool thing in the show, do more of it".
  • Seriously cut down on the Townie shit. Nobody cares.
  • Seriously cut down on the Lesbian Space Rock shit. Nobody cares. With a couple exceptions.
  • I'll allow Ruby and Sapphire because even though I don't personally give a shit, it's relevant to the story, Emphasize the slow development of their relationship rather than "love at first sight". There was a whole episode where Garnet talked about how that isn't a thing, and how true love needs development and understanding, which was a surprisingly mature message for a kids' show. Then later we found out that Garnet was born when Ruby and Sapphire accidentally fucksed and immediately abandoned their whole lives for each other. Fucking hell. Would've been far more interesting if they had slowly developed a relationship in secret while Ruby was acting as Sapphire's bodyguard or something like that.
  • I'll also allow Pearl and Rose Quartz because that one is honestly fucking fascinating. This one deals with the two things the show actually does well: The gems as absolute aliens, and the tragic heroes that Rose Quartz made through her own selfish actions. Pearl was literally programmed to love and serve Rose. And all Rose wanted was for her to be a free equal. Then Greg came along and not only stole Rose's heart (to the extent she had one), but took Rose away forever when they decided to have a child. Rose KNEW she would die in childbirth, and now there's Steven. The last remnant of Rose, and also the reason she's gone forever. While there are indications that she made progress, there's a strong argument to be made that Pearl never truly broke the programming and became her own individual independent of Rose, her master and unrequited lover. Being Pearl is suffering.
  • One thing I will give Sucrose credit for is xir ability to write tragic heroes. Pearl, as above. Garnet, who had to give up her home, her people, her entire life for the sake of love. Amythest, the earthborn Gem who fought for the land of her birth but never quite fit with either culture. Greg, who lost his wife so his son could be born. Rose, who knew she would die giving birth to Steven, and did it anyway. And Steven himself, torn between two worlds, the weight of both on his shoulders as he bears the consequences of his mother's selfishness and a war that ended before he was born. MORE OF THIS SORT OF THING
  • In other words, pretty much everything actually INTERESTING in the show is seeing how the Gem war touched the lives of individuals. Just make all of Steven Universe about that and it would actually be excellent.
  • Be more consistent in emphasizing the sheer otherness of the Gems. Half the time they're an utterly alien race who basically see humans as animals. Half the time they're just funny looking humans. They are MUCH more interesting as complete aliens.
  • Treat fusion consistently. Is it a thinly veiled metaphor for sex, or is it a battle tactic? Pick one, I don't care which.
  • Explain just the hell White Diamond actually IS. She's the progenitor of Gems, I guess? But that doesn't explain a damn thing.
  • Also explain Lion. Yeah, I get that he's a regular lion to whomst Rose Quartz did... something. Again, not an explanation.
  • The Gems are OBVIOUSLY an engineered race. Their reproductive processes are clearly artificial and could not possibly occur in nature. So. Who made them? That's a season or two right there.
  • Lars and Sadie. Just... fucking... Lars and Sadie. Mostly Lars. Am I supposed to sympathize with him? Because I don't. He's afraid of being lonely, which would be a legitimate fear, if people didn't treat him far better than he deserves. He's consistently a piece of shit to everyone around him, leaving a destructive trail that would put Bojack Horseman to shame. Which might be forgivable if, like Bojack, he was an interesting character. But he's not. He's just a fucking tool. I don't even know how I would fix him. I'd probably just remove him.
  • No Stevonnie. Holy fuck that shit was creepy.
There's probably more but holy shit that ended up being three times as long as I expected.
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You made me far less ashamed I used to like that show.
 
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I'd change the ending of Avatar to Aang actually has to kill Ozai (probably not outright show it).
In a story with a massive theme of responsibility, having a major conflict end with the main character getting a Deus ex machine power to circumvent it undermines the theme. The moral changed from having to face your responsibility and never run away into "just delay your responsibility until a third option appears that is superior to everything else".

With Korea... It had so much potential, and it quite literally did everything wrong. I'd remake it more an episodical metropolis story that's more akin to Batman Beyond than the retarded world politics it devolved into. Avatar already did an epic adventure, having low key adventures would have been a good change.
 
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You made me far less ashamed I used to like that show.
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Everybody shits on Steven Universe, and don't get me wrong, a LOT of it is deserved. But both fans and critics forget that, at its best, there's far more interesting stuff going on than lesbian space rocks. There are some genuinely amazing moments.

One other thing I forgot: Cut out about half the musical numbers. I was shocked when I heard that Sucrose wrote ALL of them, because they're all over the board in terms of quality. Some of them fucking slap (Do It For Him) and some are hot garbage (Here Comes A Thought).
 
Lord of the Large Pants said:
I like this topic and I've got a few more, so... Steven Universe. An almost good show buried underneath an absolute mountain of dogshit. Rather than a plot rewrite, this is more along the lines of "this retarded thing in the show, do less of it" and "this cool thing in the show, do more of it".
  • Seriously cut down on the Townie shit. Nobody cares.
  • Seriously cut down on the Lesbian Space Rock shit. Nobody cares. With a couple exceptions.
  • I'll allow Ruby and Sapphire because even though I don't personally give a shit, it's relevant to the story, Emphasize the slow development of their relationship rather than "love at first sight". There was a whole episode where Garnet talked about how that isn't a thing, and how true love needs development and understanding, which was a surprisingly mature message for a kids' show. Then later we found out that Garnet was born when Ruby and Sapphire accidentally fucksed and immediately abandoned their whole lives for each other. Fucking hell. Would've been far more interesting if they had slowly developed a relationship in secret while Ruby was acting as Sapphire's bodyguard or something like that.
  • I'll also allow Pearl and Rose Quartz because that one is honestly fucking fascinating. This one deals with the two things the show actually does well: The gems as absolute aliens, and the tragic heroes that Rose Quartz made through her own selfish actions. Pearl was literally programmed to love and serve Rose. And all Rose wanted was for her to be a free equal. Then Greg came along and not only stole Rose's heart (to the extent she had one), but took Rose away forever when they decided to have a child. Rose KNEW she would die in childbirth, and now there's Steven. The last remnant of Rose, and also the reason she's gone forever. While there are indications that she made progress, there's a strong argument to be made that Pearl never truly broke the programming and became her own individual independent of Rose, her master and unrequited lover. Being Pearl is suffering.
  • One thing I will give Sucrose credit for is xir ability to write tragic heroes. Pearl, as above. Garnet, who had to give up her home, her people, her entire life for the sake of love. Amythest, the earthborn Gem who fought for the land of her birth but never quite fit with either culture. Greg, who lost his wife so his son could be born. Rose, who knew she would die giving birth to Steven, and did it anyway. And Steven himself, torn between two worlds, the weight of both on his shoulders as he bears the consequences of his mother's selfishness and a war that ended before he was born. MORE OF THIS SORT OF THING
  • In other words, pretty much everything actually INTERESTING in the show is seeing how the Gem war touched the lives of individuals. Just make all of Steven Universe about that and it would actually be excellent.
  • Be more consistent in emphasizing the sheer otherness of the Gems. Half the time they're an utterly alien race who basically see humans as animals. Half the time they're just funny looking humans. They are MUCH more interesting as complete aliens.
  • Treat fusion consistently. Is it a thinly veiled metaphor for sex, or is it a battle tactic? Pick one, I don't care which.
  • Explain just the hell White Diamond actually IS. She's the progenitor of Gems, I guess? But that doesn't explain a damn thing.
  • Also explain Lion. Yeah, I get that he's a regular lion to whomst Rose Quartz did... something. Again, not an explanation.
  • The Gems are OBVIOUSLY an engineered race. Their reproductive processes are clearly artificial and could not possibly occur in nature. So. Who made them? That's a season or two right there.
  • Lars and Sadie. Just... fucking... Lars and Sadie. Mostly Lars. Am I supposed to sympathize with him? Because I don't. He's afraid of being lonely, which would be a legitimate fear, if people didn't treat him far better than he deserves. He's consistently a piece of shit to everyone around him, leaving a destructive trail that would put Bojack Horseman to shame. Which might be forgivable if, like Bojack, he was an interesting character. But he's not. He's just a fucking tool. I don't even know how I would fix him. I'd probably just remove him.
  • No Stevonnie. Holy fuck that shit was creepy.
There's probably more but holy shit that ended up being three times as long as I expected.
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Wow... great stuff. You honestly have some genuinely great ideas. This is what the show COULD'VE been. The biggest problem of the show is just how inconsistent it can be or how certain plot points get brought up but never touched again. I agree, the whole Lars/Sadie romance literally makes no sense at all... I always hated that back and forth "will they, won't they?". Though I will admit Lars becoming a space captain was pretty cool.

In fact, I would just make him a pink space alien captain to begin with. Confident, yet cocky and overemotional at times. He cares deeply for his crew because they're the only people he has left. Having a non-gem alien would be pretty cool. Maybe he could be a refugee after his home planet was colonized by the Diamonds?

My version of SU would be a cheesy 80's styled glam rock cartoon (think like Jem). The Crystal Gems could be a group of warriors from outer space, disguised as paranormal investigators on earth. The townies would be allies too and help them on their mission, give them something to do otherwise they're pretty pointless.

Then the later seasons have them travel to other planets to learn about the war and Homeworld, but most importantly, about themselves and who they want to be beyond the roles they are given... while strengthening the bond between them and building a new future. Also keep the art style from the pilot but mix it with a pseudo-anime style a la Avatar or Totally Spies.

This idea's pretty rough, but I would want to build more on it.
 
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I see your Western style DBZ and I'll raise you one Filmation style DBZ.
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I'd like to see those animated missing episodes of Doctor Who from the 60s, remade in the style of Hanna Barberra. There's a (probably false) rumor that the "Fonzie and the Happy Days Gang" cartoon was originally going to be a Doctor Who cartoon. I know it would've been a disaster, but part of me really wants to see how that would have turned out.
 
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