>>116367661SU’s main problem is that it tried to be too many things and as a result it wasn’t good at being anything at all.
It was an homage to magical girl series, but also a space opera, but also an episodic monster of the week show, but also a serious drama dealing with issues like discrimination and abuse.
There was clearly some type of vision for SU (I will defend the pink diamond reveal because it had clearly been planned from the beginning), but it got seriously derailed because Sugar gave her storyborders way too much freedom. She needed to put her foot down more, especially with the Lauren Zuke lapis/peridot fiasco.
My personal opinion (and there is no solid evidence for this just my observations), is that Cartoon Network had been wanting to cancel the show for a while because it wasn’t very marketable. Sure it was getting rave reviews from critics and had a vocal
fanbase of teens and adults, but that wasn’t the demographic SU was originally made for. Actual kids didn’t really care for SU, they were still watching Teen Titans Go. And CN had a hell of a time figuring out how to market toys for it; the lead is a boy, but the other major characters are female, which means you can’t directly target boys or girls.
But CN knew they couldn’t just cancel SU because its merch didn’t print money like Powerpuff Girls did; SJWs would riot and call them bigots for canceling a show with so much LGBT clout.
So they ended it but gave the crew enough time to hastily wrap up the main plot of the series; if Change Your Mind felt rushed, it’s because it was.
