Acebuckeye13 posted:

Holy poo poo I can't believe Glossaryck is loving dead

cant cook creole bream posted:

When does the rest of the season start anyway? I want more.

Acebuckeye13 posted:

At this point, the sense I get from Eclipsa is that she's almost a reflection of Star and Moon's worst tendencies. Like Star, she's impulsive and has moments of immaturity and childishness, and like Moon she's manipulative and controlling. Now at this point that doesn't mean she's a bad person, but she's certainly a self-centered one-and if anything, serves as an example of what Star may have grown up to be had she not been forced to improve as a person through her encounters with Toffee, her contentious relationship with Moon, and her friendship with Marco. Not being able to cast wandless magic could be seen as an extension of that, as it's reminiscent of Star's older tendencies to cut corners, procrastinate, and rely on her raw magical talent, as opposed to actually digging in and doing the work.

Philonius posted:

I still don't trust Eclipsa. She may not be a cackling villain, but she's up to something.

She casually strolls into Mewni castle, smelling roses and eating snickers. When attacked by the entire high commission, she doesn't defend herself, doesn't freak out, she's just calmly smiling. That's shady as gently caress.

Acebuckeye13 posted:

nerdman42 posted:

I'm curious how much Eclipsa knew, or at least suspected Star wasn't related to her. She had to at least know "well these guys don't have monster features so some poo poo has deffo gone down" but she could also have assumed that her ex just got a new wife, making the Butterfly still royals.

Acebuckeye13 posted:

Here's my take on the series:

Ultimately, while there were missteps, I think that Star was a somewhat bold and ambitious show and I commend it for that. There were a lot of themes they wanted to touch on: the journey of growing from a selfish teenager into an unselfish adult, the cruelties of attraction and love, the effects of systemic racism, the truth of past crimes affecting present injustices, and a whole host of other issues. They could have easily played it safe and gotten at least three seasons of Star and Marco fighting Ludo every week, but they wanted to have their characters and the world around them grow and evolve, and, to me, that made the show far more interesting and compelling.

The show had great characters, good jokes, good animation, an interesting overarching plot, and one of the very few romantic arcs in a show I could actually stand. I enjoyed it, and I'll miss it.


Magic was the root of the conflict in that it was magic that allowed the Mewmans to enjoy their unjust power structure over the monsters. Star tried to work within that system to reform it, but ultimately found that the only way to get rid of the injustices of the system was to destroy it entirely.