What's the difference between the current Steven Universe cartoon and the original 80's version?

What's the difference between the current Steven Universe cartoon and the original 80's version?

Well the current series is a sequel to the 80's cartoon No Need For Greg. Obviously in the original Steven wasn't there, and Rose was one of the primary characters.

NNfG was so fucking good. I would've preferred a reboot over a sequel series.

Having to pretend we know nothing about the gems is the burden every NNfG fan bears for the newfags.

Also it was sissified to pander to the SJWs over at tumblr.

My favourite series has to be 1993's "Greg Universe an The Extreme Protectors of The Galaxy"

Sup Forums has excellent taste.

Well in the 80's version Connie was originally white and not Indian, changing her last name from Miller to Maheswaran. Still I would prefer to stay nerdy like in the original 80s show instead of making her a "tough action grrl". Also removing the glasses was a mistake.

Wait, what?

>Greg Universe an The Extreme Protectors of The Galaxy
The only good thing about that series was Greg's favorite guitar doubling as a literal axe.

Still hoping they bring that out for the SU series finale.

Also Garnet's rack in that series,
holy shit.

Well Greg was the best thing about the show, the Crystal Gems were great, even if Rose and Amethyst can be ditzy at times and Pearl can be a complete utter clingy bitch to Rose, bullying Greg for no reason but jealously. Garnet is still cool then and still is today, plus still hot.

They never brought back that last minute villains Dinobonoids. You know that last ditch effort to keep the toyline going before it was cancelled for good.

I want updated Dinobonoids! I don't care if they make crying sjw fags out of them in this series

I missed when Pearl was one of Greg's love interests. Now she hates him? And since when did she even like Rose Quartz? They were rivals.

Why'd they get rid of Lapis' sexy Russian accent?

Anyone else collect all 36 sneeples before they stopped making them?

You mean the Dino Men you fucking casual.

Dinobonoid was just some random ass shit they renamed them to in that horrible 1992 comic mini that everyone pretends never existed. Mattel rolled out a series of the Dino Men to be the next big villain group of the series.

Was anybody else shocked when the saw the movie as a kid and heard Steven swear in that one scene when he fought Yellow Diamond?

>It's shattering time, you BITCH!

Holy shit, they were the fucking DINO-MEN!

I wanted to punch this fat retarded fuck at the last Gemcom who kept calling Rex-Or a dinobonoid.

The original Pearl was more of a mother/daughter relationship, the reboot is pulling a risky move making it a crush.

Without the commies in Russia it no longer had a point.

With the whole Trump-Russia thing, that might change, though.

No, NNfG was the Japanese show that Mattel bought the right to but then reworked into SU G1.

I hears Steven Universe was a total ripoff of No Need for Greg, not the other way around.

Russia hates Trump for attacking Assad, though.

My family was poor as shit, so I only had three.

Scout Sneeple was the best, of course.

I was fucking thrilled. My mom was mortified, though.

It's true, Lion was originally white and could talk in NNFG, but they decided to make him mute and a side character. They keep claiming that it was just a total coincidence that both Lions look really similar. But the American team swear they invented Lion independently.

That doesn't stop guys like Colbert from making jokes about it and you know what crowd SU tries to appeal to.

>With the whole Trump-Russia thing, that might change, though.
>After the chemical attack in Syria.

I heard there was a banned episode. Can anyone remind me of that?

Back in the 80's, the Pearl/Rose thing was only implied. This new series has gone way past that. But there is some rumor back at Gencon 02' about actually recovering the hidden episode and it actually fleshed out the Pearl and Rose thing.

That's the one where the diamonds create a powerful drug and sneak it into Greg's food to turn him into an addict zombie that Steven has to fight. It was too intense for a syndicated cartoon at the time. It did air once on the USA network, though.

Is the Famicom game really as bad as people say?

Didn't it also have some little kid become addicted to the stuff too, and he did things for the Diamonds just to get more. Only he died at the very end of the episode.

I never got to see it, but the prevailing theory at my school was that Vidalia and Rose got into a fight over Greg and Vidalia was accidentally killed.

I can't prove it, but you'll notice that Vidalia pretty much disappears from the show after season 2.

Yeah. It was pretty rough.

They reskinned it to make the Silver Surfer game for NES, so...

>>Also Garnet's rack in that series,

Anybody have the screencap of that episode where they fight the gem mutants on the space resort station and she's weaing that bikini at the end of the episode?

Sweet Lord! I became a man that day.

Wait what the hell? This show had a lot of banned episodes? I just remember that one where Sadie forces herself on Lars.

A lot of the writers went on to do Captain Planet, so there were a lot of "topical" episodes that didn't air.

I have no idea as to what this thread is about....

Speaking of which, why'd they change Lars from a sadistic alien bounty hunter who was being mind-controlled by the diamonds to kill Greg to a cynical hipster human?

The show actually got pretty real a couple of times. I think at lest 2 side characters actually did die in the series.

I really wish they kept his earring weapons. Those were so cool when he took them out of his ear then threw them at people.

Probably because the new audience wouldn't be all too accepting of that. I mean he did almost scalp Greg on that one episode. Sadie even got a scar, which some may have noticed, from the banned episode.

For the same reason they changed Buck and the Rippers from laser wielding biker gang villains to random cool kid friends of Buck Dewey that hang out and have potluck dinners.

Modernized sjw bullshit...

>Kiki was changed from a gorilla alien with a chainsaw to a black girl

kek

>ywn own Sour Cream's chainsaw gauntlets
Kill me.

>Frybo is still in the show with the exact same design from the 80

you have to admit this was fucking amazing.

>Sadie even got a scar, which some may have noticed, from the banned episode.

I miss when Sadie was a tall, stacked, tough chick who could go to-e-to-toe with Jasper.

You gotta keep SOME nods to us oldfags.

What the fuck is with the character assassination of Kevin anyway? He was Stevonnie's fucking twin brother and now they turned him into some creeper?

Dude, you've seen the character. He wanted to pound Stevonnie so bad, his dick would have been used to break gems. I'm just glad they kept the characterization from before. Keeping them as twins wouldn't be good. Shit episode though, unfortunately.

>attacking Assad
>Bomb empty airfield after giving proper warning in advance
>attack

This was probably a plot between the two to take heat off the Russian conspiracy and get neocons to like him.

>He wanted to pound Stevonnie so bad, his dick would have been used to break gems.

That was just a fan theory some weirdo came up with on usenet 27 years ago.

Didn't Amethyst used to be a little furry critter that was like their mascot back in he original series? What the hell happened there?

Trump doing a complete 180 on his policy towards Syria and Putin and replacing Steve Bannon with (((Kushner))) is more than a show, user.

I didn like that they nade her Jenny's sister, though.

You're thinking of Onion and Yellowtail. They were little yellow Murmerings that said "murmur" over and over again and were meant to be the series mascots. But were just really fucking annoying instead.

>goons posting on Sup Forums

>80's toon fanfiction
>Complaining about Trump

What the fuck is this thread?

I'm glad they brought back J-10, but I'm not sure how making her into a naive slave girl instead of a seductive Space Pirate queen who steals gemtech from the diamonds and uses it against them is going to do anything for the story.

>fanfiction

You missed the part where she's a slaver. What the hell is this thread anymore?

You guys have your timeline all mixed up.

1983 - Japanese anime "Greg Universe and the Jewel Warriors"

which was adapted by Mattel into

1986 - "Steven Universe G1" where Steven is changed to the main character and Greg is changed to his father.

1987 - The G1 movie.

1993 - "Greg Universe an The Extreme Protectors of The Galaxy" is launched as a revamp of the show, ala "GI Joe Extreme" or "Transformers G2". There was also the four issue Malibu comics mini-series.

1995 - The Original japanese production company releases "No Need for Greg", which reworked the original anime as a romantic comedy.

2011 - CN buys the rights to SU from mattel, as well as the riights to the original anime, and begins work on the current incarnation, which includes elements from both.

I miss how in No need for Greg, the Gems would actually fight monsters more often, and humans could actually be useful. I mean, he wasn't as badass as he was in GUatEPotG with his Double-Axe, but he was still competent and capable of holding his own.

Now he's just a fat useless bastard and Steven's just a whiny crybaby.

Isn't it a little odd how Ian is going to make OK:KO?

>You missed the part where she's a slaver

That was what I was talking about. In the original she was so driven by her desire to destroy the diamonds that she became just as bad as them.

>humans are useless
This so much. Hell, that one episode in G1 had a bunch of humans ambush and beat this shit out of Pearl. But now?!?!

Oh, except for Connie, apparently. As if Gurl Power wasn't beat like a dead horse in the original series bad enough.

>Original: Complex character with a tragic backstory rebelling against the Diamond's interstellar rule any way he can.
>Reboot: A one off joke about a snack.
F

Someone link to me to this... thing, it's sounds great.

Original Cookie Cat deserved his own series.

Humans had biker gangs, cyborgs, and that one donut ninja. as well as guys like Ronaldo and Peedee who could cobble together any technology they wanted. Ronaldo made space ships and dimensional portals out of spare junk. While Peedee made that Drill Bot to fight Peridot. Marty could apparently breathe in space, and they kept retconning Vidalia all the time. Apparently she is magic, or an alien, or from the ancient past, or a goddess, or something very Earth-ish in the show. But other people that were not gems actually got to do things and be helpful all the time.

Shit, Mystery Girl beat the fuck out of Rose a couple times.

>tfw you were porn in the late 90s and can't keep up with Sup Forums

I was really surprised when they had Lapis rape Steven.

It's just one middle aged autistic samefag, nothing to be sorry over at all

>porn
Is there anything you want to tell us, user?

I heard a rumor a few months ago that DC was going to make a 6 issue mini crossing over with Thundercats. Original 80's G1 Steven Universe vs Thundercats with Yellow Diamond and Mumm-Ra teaming up. Is this true?

>being a downer in a fun thread

>Greg Universe and the Jewel Warriors
You clearly meant "Miyo! Gojiro Ucho soushite Senshi no Hoseki!" but I forgive you, baka.

>Fanfiction bullshittery on Sup Forums

what the fuck co

Almost. It's gonna be White instead of Yellow, which is why they're holding off on producing it until after White has been "introduced" in modern SU.

Not to mention his name is Glajo, not Greg. It was never Greg. Fucking westernized shit

That's how he was conceived

God I hope not. Crossover episodes always made zero sense. Remember Jasper fusing with Skeletor? I don't blame you if you wiped that from your memory.

Any news on the Shout Factory DVD set?

FUCKING UNDERAGE GET OUT

Harmony Gold are being cunts and tied up the international distribution rights.

I know a guy who has the original fansubbed VHS tapes. he got them from a convention in 84.

The original had a villain called Mr. Frowny who was the biggest human threat. He only appears in one episode of the new series and is just a depressed dude now.

Going back, the original 80's show is just fucking awful. Animation errors everywhere, ham-fisted morality lessons at the end of every episode, and really inconsistent ...everything. It's just a mix of nostalgiafagging and toy fandom keeping this shit alive because that show was terrible.

There was a goddamn echo in Rose's voice every time she talked. And the animation kept switching between really shitty choppy movements, until they switch to that same damn smoothly animated punch every time. It's jarring to look at.

Really? How they they still have the rights? That dub was worse than their Dragonball one, though Reba West wasn't a bad Pearl.

>he didn't like the Skeletor episode

Get some taste, faggot. That was pure kino.

The guy had the superpower of making people really sad.. Not sorry to see him dropped

But he was voiced by the late David Bowie, and that is obviously the only reason anyone ever remembered the guy.

Aww fuck, does someone have a webm of Jaspetor laughing? That shiut was fucking amazing

>Animation errors everywhere, ham-fisted morality lessons at the end of every episode

So just like now?

Sup Forums is somehow better at roleplaying than /tg/.

At least the diamonds have actual personalities now. Before they were basically three of the same character painted different colors. There were only three of them so that the toys could be sorted into different "factions".

>There was a goddamn echo in Rose's voice every time she talked.
That was intentional!

I heard they crapped out a few "original" OVAs that got released in like one town in Africa or some shit, just to cling on.

>Almost gets his face torn off from a Yellow Diamond's attack
>They turn it into strawberry and vanilla ice cream
Makes me mad just thinking about it.

Wasn't he Mr. Smiley's twin brother in the original, and now they're like interracial lovers? The fuck, tumblr?

What are you talking about. YD was an inhuman, living computer. BD was the treacherous, Starscream-like second-in command, and WD was their merged form at the end of the movie.

Fuck you guys for reminding me of him. That fucking mask he wore before he revealed his identity gave me nightmares as a kid!

>the movie.
There's your problem.

Go back and watch the pilot. You can clearly see the Diamonds in it and they look nothing like the movie versions. There's even a separate White Diamond.

The movie was in continunity with the show. That's why WD was the villain in season 2, and Sour Cream became a main character after Greg was killed off.

>Sour Cream became a main character after Greg was killed off.
LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU