Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-2175012-20171205173216/@comment-25617326-20171207063012

Well Mediawatcher I think the whole point of the show is friendship. Steven is a pure good character who detests violence and war so him trying to find peaceful resolutions to bring the war to an end without any loss probably will be the path he would take even if it's convoluted. Still despite this I find the show well written and the characters are all developed. I'm just saddened that CN treats it like garbage. But anyway this isn't about redeemed antagonists. This is about the surprise twist ones. The problem with this is they should at least give good motives behind the twist like provide hints to the viewers "Hey this guy might not be good and has ulterior motives." If you see a guy who is apparently a good guy then all of a suddden it is like "Ha ha he was the villain all along" just for the sake of a finale that is not really good writing. Disney/Pixar/Marvel/Lucas Arts should all do is the following. Establish an antagonist either a little bit into the movie or maybe part of the introduction like they did in their old films. Make the antagonist menacing and or intimidating especially as a stark contrast to the rest of the story. This is why characters like Maleficent are memorable. Sure Turbo was an exception. I think Disney handled him well as a main antagonist because there are already hints that he is a corrupt official then he goes full on evil when the jig is up all accumulating to an epic fight scene between him and Ralph atop the soda volcano. All the other twist villains not so much. I don't think Disney is that good at handling twist big bads and the ones that do work seem to be very far and few between. If you aren't good at writing a certain concept then maybe you shouldn't continue trying this approach in movie writing. Just saying.