i want to remix steven universe because it’s an up and coming tv show with less episodes than adventure time, my other choice – not only does it make it easier to find specific episodes or moments to remix, but it also gives me more room to play around with the plot and smaller details that haven’t been discussed – this way, i can also imagine the direction i’d like the show to take.
i’ve decided to do a newspaper article using indesign, something i’ve only used once or twice with assistance from a friend. i’d like to challenge myself by learning this software more extensively than before.
i’ve chosen to remix the last few episodes of the show that have aired. the first being “political power,” where the mayor of beach city must lie to everyone about the power going out in the city, which was a fault of the gems trying to protect earth and accidentally cutting off the power grid throughout the city while battling evil gems trying to destroy earth. i can feature stories both about the power outage and the deceitful mayor.
i also want to add a small anniversary announcement for garnet, one of the main characters. garnet is one of the crystal gems who protect earth, helping steven (the main character who is half magic gem, half human) learn his gem powers. throughout the series, you learn that gems can “fuse” with each other – creating a stronger, bigger, more powerful gem called a “fusion.” in one of the most recent episodes, “jail break,” you learn that garnet has been a fusion all along: of two femme-identifying characters so in love that they cannot bare to be apart – literally!
in the episode after jail break, “full disclosure,” the gems must clean up the city, which is covered in pieces from a giant spaceship they destroyed mid air as it plummeted to the ground. i could do a community column on the clean up process.
there’s also a character in the show that runs a blog called “keep beach city weird,” where he documents all the weird things that happen around the city because of the gems – but blames it on a spoof of the illuminati instead. with this, i could have an opinion piece from him about how it’s actually “the man” or “snake people” (as he thinks – what they call the illuminati spoof) who were coming to invade earth.
in one episode, “alone together“, steven fuses with his human friend and crush, Connie, who becomes the combination of both their features and ages (10+10=20 yrs old). she’s a beautiful, tall, brown-skinned, curvy genderless yet femme presenting fussion and everyone in the city in enamored by her. I’d love to do a missed-connections type piece on her!
many of these ideas will only make sense to those who have seen the show. a lot of them will also only be a very short reference – just a headline with no explanation – while others will be longer with entire columns and pictures to explain them.
