Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-3965346-20150904221653/@comment-26225030-20150905215142

Jaydom Studios wrote: If this episode explains how Steven went from not being able to summon his shield at all to being able to use it better than Pearl in under 4 episodes I will never complain about SU ever again. There already is a cannonical explanation. Rebecca Sugar said that Steven is growing in real time. That means even during hiatuses, even inbetween weekly episodes, Steven is growing. His frustration at not being able to use the shield in the beginning was motive enough for us to infer that he'd be practicing as much as possible. I mean..the kid doesn't go to school, and he was grounded from T.V. and video games for a while. I'm pretty sure he just figured it out. The gems already gave him every explanation that they could. It was up to him, and he figured it out. Hope that clears up any complaint.