Fans of Cartoon Network's Steven Universe were disappointed to discover that the episode We Need to Talk,which first aired in the US in June 2015, was apparently re-edited for its UK broadcast, and removing the most intimate shots of the fusion dance between Pearl and Rose Quartz,replacing them mostly with Greg Universe's slackjawed reaction. Tumblr user officialkurapika has made a side-by-side video that displays the changes.
It's an odd move, because removing the shots doesn't accomplish anything to dissuade an attentive adult viewer that there's something going on between Pearl and Rose, or especially since the dance is motivated by Pearl's jealousy of Rose's growing closeness with Greg. And it's not as if they depart so far as to kiss in the moments that were excised,although as you can see in the screen shots, they accomplish seem to near very close.
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Source: comicsalliance.com