CN initially wanted Spinel to be shattered at the end of the Steven Universe Movie
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This is pretty crazy.
>The climax of “Steven Universe: The Movie” comes not when the hero battles the vengeful, superpowered alien atop the planet-destroying weapon. It arrives a beat later when the titular Steven and his adversary, Spinel, form a delicate friendship while standing in a smoldering crater of their own making. Steven helps Spinal see that although the trauma she’s suffered can’t be erased, personal growth is good and possible.
>Their rapprochement follows a slugfest as action-packed as any you’ll find on Cartoon Network.
>And creator Rebecca Sugar had to fight like hell for it.
>“I would get these notes that he should obliterate her and rid the universe of her evil,” says Sugar. “That’s really not what our show is about. But it’s what is expected from children’s programming — that if there’s a bad person, you kill them, and then everything will be fine. I just think there should be some alternative.”
>It was that kind of alternative thinking by the groundbreaking showrunner that went into creating a boy hero raised by three superpowered, female-coded, nonbinary space aliens — clearing fresh terrain in children’s programming.
Source:
https://variety.com/2020/tv/features/rebecca-sugar-cartoon-network-steven-universe-1203537231/
tl;dr Basically CN wanted Spinel to be shattered in the film. Rebecca didn’t want that and fought to not have it be that way. Instead, Steven and Spinel become friends on top of the Injector.
>The climax of “Steven Universe: The Movie” comes not when the hero battles the vengeful, superpowered alien atop the planet-destroying weapon. It arrives a beat later when the titular Steven and his adversary, Spinel, form a delicate friendship while standing in a smoldering crater of their own making. Steven helps Spinal see that although the trauma she’s suffered can’t be erased, personal growth is good and possible.
>Their rapprochement follows a slugfest as action-packed as any you’ll find on Cartoon Network.
>And creator Rebecca Sugar had to fight like hell for it.
>“I would get these notes that he should obliterate her and rid the universe of her evil,” says Sugar. “That’s really not what our show is about. But it’s what is expected from children’s programming — that if there’s a bad person, you kill them, and then everything will be fine. I just think there should be some alternative.”
>It was that kind of alternative thinking by the groundbreaking showrunner that went into creating a boy hero raised by three superpowered, female-coded, nonbinary space aliens — clearing fresh terrain in children’s programming.
Source:
https://variety.com/2020/tv/features/rebecca-sugar-cartoon-network-steven-universe-1203537231/
tl;dr Basically CN wanted Spinel to be shattered in the film. Rebecca didn’t want that and fought to not have it be that way. Instead, Steven and Spinel become friends on top of the Injector.
