Steven Selects: I Am My Mom (ep. 7)

The Steven Universe Podcast

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4.8 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2017

⏱️ 23 minutes

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"I Am My Mom" is the focus of discussion with Steven Universe writers Ben Levin and Matt Burnett. Discover how they worked in the callback to "Marble Madness," what inspired Aquamarine and Topaz, where the hostage scenario idea originated, and who would win in a fight between Lapis and Aquamarine. Plus, Storyboard Supervisor Hilary Florido returns with some college advice, movie tips, and the reason why "Beach City Drift" was the hardest episode she ever boarded.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Steven Selex, our deep dive look into some fan favorite pivotal episodes
0:08.7	of Steven Universe.
0:09.7	I'm Mackenzie Atwood and we're going behind the scenes of I Am My Mom.
0:13.6	Very nice meeting you all and your compliance is appreciated.
0:18.8	But our jump here is done.
0:23.4	So...
0:27.4	So Steven Universe writers Ben Levin and Matt Burnett are here again.
0:31.2	Thank you guys so much for coming back and talking to me.
0:33.8	Hey, thanks for having us.
0:36.6	Yeah, thanks for having us.
0:37.8	Yeah, for sure.
0:38.8	So to kick it off, the classic question is just like, how did this one change from conception
0:43.8	to the final product?
0:45.6	Well, I think that there are several things that changed.
0:50.4	We wanted this to be an episode where Steven is pushed to the brink and he's his guilt
0:56.4	to just wang on him from so many other episodes and specifically when he finds out he might
1:00.8	be the cause of this and so he decides he's going to take a stand and just give himself
1:07.0	up.
1:08.0	If it weren't for me, the diamonds wouldn't have come for my friends.
1:10.6	We also wanted this to be a sort of breaking port for Lars and Sadie building up to this.
1:14.8	Lars and Sadie seemed to be getting along better and there was this potluck that they
1:18.8	almost went together but then Lars just backed out the last moment and we wanted it
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