Talk:Steven and the Stevens (episode)/@comment-24990623-20141231035016/@comment-28584561-20141231052110

The pilot is non-canon. The pilot is just there as teaser or a testing episode. In the pilot episode, they think of time as linear and so if Steven goes back in time there will be no other Stevens because he is the only one in that specific timeline. In this episode, their concept of time now is branching and no longer linear, when Steven "travels back in time" he is actually traveling to an alternate timeline where another Steven exists. And Pearl's cycling of appearances when she regenerates can be easily explained. Pearl has said that their bodies are just physical constructs made by their gem so changing their appearance is easy for them. Pearl's "pilot appearance" is one of her former incarnations and need not be from the Pilot as they have been around for thousands of years, we have zero to no information about what they looked like thousands of years ago. The best assumption we can make is that Pearl looked like the one from the Pilot some point in her life. SATS might not have that many connections, but let us not forget, so did the Pilot.