Personally, I’m more for the second possibility because at one point Garnet kind-of tries to explain away Pearl taking so long, which feels sort-of suspicious unless there’s something more going on. Which is supported by something that is said in the Season 1 Finale. (creator) (201316) Steven Universe DVD Cartoon Network Ward. It’s mentioned later on that Pearl had to regenerate quite a bit during the war, so it’s possible that somehow that messed with her gem and now she just takes a stupidly long time to come back after a fatal hit. (1990) 'Dead Putting Society', The Simpsons, season 2, episode 6 DVD 20th Century.

Steven and Lars get to hang out with the cool kids in town, Buck, Jenny, and Sour Cream, but their teenage shenanigans get them into deadly magical trouble. The second and more interesting possibility is that Pearl is actually damaged in some way. 'Lars and the Cool Kids' is the 14th episode of the first season of Steven Universe, and the 14th episode overall.

Originally airing on Cartoon Network on November 4, 2013, the episode was. Kind-of like how if you have a high-quality game running on an older computer, it’s not going to be able to download stuff quickly while running the other thing. 'Gem Glow' is the first episode of the first season of the American animated television series Steven Universe. First is that it took so long because her magic was focused on maintaining the holo-Pearl instead of really regenerating and that’s why she doesn’t really come back until it was defeated.

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