Talk:Say Uncle/@comment-26978868-20150925163628

My theory is that this episode IS canon, and that Rose is both alive and can communicate to Steven through dreams. This episode is a dream, and Rose used Uncle Grandpa (possibly a cartoon Steven enjoys) to help him summon his shield. I think she does something similar in the form of DogCopter in "Lion 3", where DogCopter gives Steven some very parental-sounding advice in a dream (the episode was also VERY much about Rose).

I mean, why wouldn't they do this? There was never another episode where Steven actually learns how to summon his shield, and in "Cry for Help" when it's clear he knows how to summon it, he says "GOOD MORNING!" like UG to Peridot. UG appears as Rose at the start of Say Uncle, the whole episode makes a bunch of references to previous episodes ("It's like a mixed up movie"), and the episode is storyboarded by Joe Johnston and Jeff Liu, who are involved in many of the episodes based on the arc involving Rose. It was apparently even Rebecca Sugar's own idea!