User blog:Meester Feesh/How to Fix Mixels

I've seen the petition to bring back the shorts, and I have my own thoughts on how to Make Mixels Great Again (Trumpsy 4 President!)

1. Go back to shorts

Mixels just makes more sense as a series of shorts. That doesn't mean there can't be specials, because it's nice to occassionally have a bigger story, but it should be mainly a 1-to-2- minute format (maybe 5 or 6 minutes at the longest). Maybe they could break the specials up into shorts like they did for Moon Madness. I came up with some short titles for QFM:

Return of the King

Egg Hunt

The Key

Sleepy Time

Welcome to the Jungle

Race for the Mixamajig

The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny

The reason Mixels works so well as shorts is because it's so fast-paced. It takes 2 minutes to do what takes most other shows 10, and 20 minutes to do what takes Steven Universe (which is known for having episodes directly follow each other) 5 or 10 episodes. Which brings me to number 2:

2. Character Development

Mixels is a series of 2-minute shorts about a bunch of cute little creatures, so they don't have to be that well developed, but at least make it so they're distinguishable from one another. They just need a little more screen time, and not that much actually: Series 4 (my personal favorite series) only had 20 minutes of screentime and they're some of the best, most well-developed characters in the whole show. A total of maybe 1 hour 45 minutes or so for the 6 series works well enough. (Which is rougly 26 more minutes than what we have now.) And finally:

3. Stories

Pig Goat Bannana Cricket has a better review on IMDB than Mixels. That's all I can say. The show's definitely improved over time, but the problem is there are only a couple of big stories instead of a ton of smaller ones (see 1.) Shorts help if you can figure out a good way to use them. There's a reason people are drawn to Steven Universe or Gravity Falls rather than a show about weird things fighting over cookies or trying to get apples from trees. Since Mixels is so much more fast-paced, they can build a bigger storyline provided they make a few more episodes. (This is why I believe QFM should be broken into shorts: the culmination of the whole show is at the end of the episode, but it starts out so simply. It makes much more sense to have it happen over a greater time than half an hour.)

So that's my thoughts, and I'll see you next time on....

MEESTER FEESH!!!!

(You know, I really should copyright that.)