Hey, everyone! CrossoverEnthusiast is just about to suggest a great idea for Padparascha!
(I do think that's a great idea.)
Edited by RedSavant on Nov 21st 2019 at 10:14:37 AM
It's been fun.Corrupted Steven Masterpost
for those interested in the theory
Edited by Crossover-Enthusiast on Nov 25th 2019 at 11:48:04 AM
Jawbreakers on sale for 99¢Apologies for double posting, but we got more details!!
Following December 7th, two episodes will air every week on Saturday. All of these episodes titles and synopses have been revealed, in addition to a picture
from "Little Graduation". This link to the article
also shows another picture that either isn't there or doesn't load on the page itself.
Edited by Crossover-Enthusiast on Nov 26th 2019 at 1:08:23 PM
Jawbreakers on sale for 99¢The DVD for the movie has a making-of documentary, which features some crew members I don't believe I've heard talk before. There's was also Rebecca Sugar pitching the third act (i.e. basically going through the first storyboards as a powerpoint while narrating it), and storyboard animatics of select scenes with commentary.
Miscellaneous
- A large part of the writing process was to "think about it from song to song".
- Because the story had to be approve before going to storyboarding, Sugar wrote fourteen song first drafts in six weeks. She acknowledges this kind of scheduling is ironic given the show's themes.
- Jones-Quartey describes a "looming threat... [as] intrinsic to Steven Universe". In earlier drafts, Spinel's memories returning was the threat, and Steven would use the Rejuvenator on her to reset her again. They didn't think that was enough (indeed, it would beg the question "Why not just bubble her?"), thus the Injector was added.
- Sugar writes songs for her cast members and so asks what kind of music they like.
- Sugar knows she can write notes out of her own range and Deedee Magno-Hall will still hit them.
- Because Garnet's songs are pretty different than Estelle's usual music, she joked that "any second I was about to start rapping".
- While spending the last third of his life playing Steven, Zach Callison has seen a lot of Steven's character arc of his own life.
- Michaela Dietz calls Callison "the little brother I always wish I had".
- Before getting the part of Spinel, Sarah Stiles knew of Steven Universe, but only second hand. She was surprised how big her character's part was in the story.
- Stiles notes part of voicing Spinel was laughing in every imaginable way.
- Spinel's sound effects include "scary rubber" (tires and snapping medical glove) and "funny rubber" (balloon animals).
- The Rejuvenator is drawn with "hidden heart shapes".
- The studio walls include character-labelled color swatches (e.g. there a different shades of pink labelled "Rose Quartz", another is "Tiny Floating Whale", etc.)
- With how long some of the crew were on Steven Universe, drawing him older felt right, especially when he acts so mature.
- Rebecca Sugar told the background artist to objects that are "unimportant but meaningful".
- Steven Sugar made the general outline of the new Beach House.
- Because the songs came first, the composers got to do more with the writing.
- Steven (chiptune, strings), Pearl (piano), Amethyst (drums), and Garnet (bass) form a jazz ensemble.
"Happily Ever After"
- Sugar thought the "Once upon a time" lyrics were the hardest. Liu accidentally played that part at double speed, which they kept it.
- It was basically an 11-minute episode unto itself that almost every storyboard artist contributed to. "It took a village."
- Sugar did Pearl's flashback to Rose because she had a bad day. (For some background, she's often drawn Rose in the storyboards herself because she thought drawing that hair was so much of a pain in the ass.)
- The storyboards give names to a few background gems from Little Homeworld. Several of them were designed for the movie and then added to pool scene in "Change Your Mind". Larimar
(the ice monster) was one design from the movie that didn't make it to "Change Your Mind".
- Earlier versions ended with everyone laughing (cut to keep the flow), while another ended gently instead of with a crescendo.
"Other Friends"
- It was pitched as Spinel's "tragic backstory song", which makes it sound like it was rewritten at some point to be more of her expressing anger.
- Miki Brewster misses drawing Spinel. "I drew so many teeth!"
- Takafumi Hori was pitched the scene before "A Single Pale Role" aired and didn't want to be spoiled, so he went off a vague description of Spinel's motive.
- Either Brewster or Katie Mitroff (couldn't be sure which) thought rubberhose animation was terrifying as a kid.
- Stiles spontaneously decided to sing the whole song in one take (previously it was done in pieces), and most of the final version comes from that take.
"system/BOOT.PearlFinal(3).info"
- The composer points out most Homeworld gems have synthetic instruments, while Rose's influence is why Pearl has a piano. That's why the song has no piano, it's all electronic.
"Who We Are"
- Bismuth's instrument (at least in the movie) was reversed electric guitar.
"Isn't It Love?"
- Part of the concept for the song was "'Stronger Than You' playing backwards", and the final result was closer to that than they expected it to be.
"No Matter What"
- Unlike Pearl, Amethyst kept her drums after immediately resetting, because she's more "there".
"Disobedient"
- Partly for time constraints, it was is adapted from an instrumental Mike Krol previously wrote but didn't publish.
"Drift Away"
- Kat Morris "is old school", and so did all her storyboards (at least for this sequence) on paper.
- Spinel has strings for "old timeness" and to link to Pink Diamond. It's meant to sound "broken".
- Performing "Drift Away" was part of the audition for Spinel. Sarah Stiles was played the song over the phone and it really affected her
"Found"
- The melody for "Found" was inspired by Sugar's dream where she thought it was already written.
"True Kinda Love"
- Steven's singing the part after the bridge was a late addition Estelle suggested
- Sugar only had two days with Macie Stewart and Chance the Rapper to make her first demo.
- Chance suggested the "true" in "True Kinda Love" be "like swinging your arms while going to school", which changed the way Sugar thought of singing one word.
- Johnston thought the Crystal Gems were beating Spinel too hard in the storyboarding, so it was changed to them fighting more defensively/reactively, mostly using her momentum against her.
- Johnston was the one who added Onion to a bunch of background scenes.
- Brewster sang the song herself as part of the pitch. "I practiced in the car driving home."
- That was Kevin's car that got smashed. Mitroff was confused because the doors were closed and thought that meant Kevin was in the car.
- Miki Brewster wanted the scenes to mix destruction of the city and people helping each other out.
"Change"
- Johnston looked at some K-POP "jacket videos" for reference for Steven's clothes billowing in the wind.
- Because of how much Hori would be doing, Johnston was told he didn't need to clean his boards up, but he ended up doing more than any of his other boards.
- The bubble fists was an old idea they didn't get around to because Steven rarely fist fights.
- Callison calls "Change" the first song where he had "100% of [his] power" in his natural register.
Third Arc Pitch
- Sugar gets really into pitching, even doing Steven's exhausted panting. She could be a narrator.
- Sugar's Spinel voice is hilarious. It's like Lady Skeletor.
- Steven's powers being restored originally made his life flash before his eyes.
- Sugar calls Steven's polygonal bubble a "diamond shield".
- Some cut lines:
- Spinel called Steven "punchline" instead of a "powerless loser".
- Spinel laments she was getting "Better and better at being worse."
- After Steven rolled up his sleeves to kiss the ground, Amethyst asked "How's rolling up your sleeves gonna to help?"
- After Blue Diamond and White Diamond said they wouldn't judge, Yellow Diamond added "But this smell is intolerable."
- Originally, Pearl greeted Steven after the fight was over with pictures of Bismuth and other gems trying to make the people of Beach City comfortable. At the start, Pearl told Steven "Please don't swipe left", and there was also a closeup of Bismuth making an odd face.
- Instead of Spinel saying "I wish I could just start from scratch with somebody.", she said "I have to go somewhere else."
- Spinel said she was only gone for five thousands years instead of six; the former would be many years into the rebellion. I don't know if they rewrote when Pink left her or just realized a mistake.
- Oddly, most of the animatic singing was scratch tracks, but the Diamonds seem to have their actual actresses recorded already.
- I don't think Sadie had her new haircut in the storyboard.
- The sudden cut to Takarazuka Revue got a good chuckle out of the board room.
- The goal was for the movie to be 72 minutes. Even cutting a bunch of stuff out, it was 82.
Someone already made recap pages, and I'm annoyed that they put "S1" in the titles when we know there's only going to be one season.
I'd say they could get someone even more qualified than Steven to teach, like how Vidalia is teaching art, but most of employed cast work in family businesses. I'd suggest Mr. Smiley.
Wonder if the rebuilt boardwalk is any bigger.
Even if they barely look like Rose, them having the same voice would probably freak the hell out of Steven. That could be related to replaying Rose's tape.
That said, I love the idea of Steven's human friends hanging out with specific fusions, especially ones that get that they're fusions.
Now I'm wondering if Rainbow Quartz 2.0 and Sunstone were late additions to "Change Your Mind" and their VAs recorded those and this episode at once.
It'd be cool if Future is set over the course of several years.
@Crossover-Enthusiast: Bluebird is another name for Azurite-Cuprite, so you were more-or-less right.
Jeez, even more than "Holly Blue", "Bluebird" is a baffling name for an alien, especially since it seems fusions are named after gem types that have been around before gems ever came to Earth.
Bluebird calling herself that is because she hadn't thought of a name before arriving, and when asked she sees a bluebird fly by and goes with that.
Regarding "A Very Special Episode" (sounds like an OK K.O. title with its bluntness, by the way), I saw a theory that it'd result in Steven fusing with Pearl and Garnet at the same time. Dunno if it'd happen, but since a scrapped flashback episode involved Garnet, Rose, and Pearl trying to fuse, I could see it.
Edited by Crossover-Enthusiast on Nov 26th 2019 at 11:16:31 AM
Jawbreakers on sale for 99¢So they just shadow dropped Unleash the Light:
Remind me, were Demantoids and Pyropes the Garnets Blue Diamond mentioned in "Together Alone"?
Edited by Crossover-Enthusiast on Nov 27th 2019 at 1:37:55 PM
Jawbreakers on sale for 99¢Hey could someone do me a favor and link SU Future on the franchise page? I did it once, but someone removed it, and I don't want to start an edit war.
Jawbreakers on sale for 99¢I'm trying to figure out if there's any practical way to use the Apple Arcade with a screen and controller when my only Apple device is an iPhone 5s.
EDIT: It appears not. Perhaps I can find some way to borrow an Apple TV for a week or so...
Edited by thatother1dude on Nov 27th 2019 at 11:23:37 AM

I've had the headcanon for a while that Padparadscha can control fire, to serve as another parallel to Sapphire. And y'know, 'cause she's orange?
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