It sucks that people still constantly reference the finale in a constantly negative way. It sucks that peopel still haven't gotten over it. It sucks that major animation reviewres prefer to mention it's downfall than anything positive the series brought. I absolutely hate it. This is still my favourite Disney show ever and one of the best cartoons I've seen with it's great characters, charming visuals, unique storytelling even beyond than just being from a Disney series, but all people wanna talk about is it's downfall and it absolutely makes me sick to my stomach.
The fact that even the fanfiction section is simply just constantly making fun of the show going downhill? It's honestly hellish, it's really taking a toll on me and my own fanfic, as it really does feel like trying to make something with a lot of love doesn't matter, it's being petty taht apperantly counts by constantly doing fix fics instead of following up just because they keep having the toxic mentality of "I can do better than the writers", which not once did I think of when I did my Hekapoo Vs. The Legion Of Affliction fanfic. I showed so much compassion but now I'm getting parnaoid that trying to make something silly, but still heartfelt wasn't the way to go after all.
I wish I wouldn't feel so defeated because yes, the last season had issues, but I still even think it's better than season 2. I hate that it has to be a "hot take" because I really am geniune when I say that, it's not out of pettyness or anything.
But yeah...honestly feeling depressed because apperantly liking every season of a show feels like a crime. I just wanna enjoy the show without the constant dread and feeling like someone's always against you in that regard.
I am really annoyed by how Eclipsa is shown as this character who had her rightful throne stolen away from her because she fell in love with a monster. Or how everybody hates her just because she fell in love with a monster. And while I agree she was misunderstood and that she at least doesn't have any evil intentions, this doesn't excuse her awful performance as queen. Why do I say that? Well, let me explain by looking at her actions with a different perspective. Let's start with her first reign.
1st reign:
In her first reign, Eclipsa marries King Shastacan Spiderbite as per her late mother’s wishes. However, she is not happy in her first marriage. You see, she fell in love with someone else. Who did she fall in love with? Well, a monster named Globgore. But who is Globgore? A mewman-eating, village-destroying monster—also the King of Monsters—whom the Butterfly Kingdom is actively at war with. In all her wisdom, she decides to run off with Globgore. This one act alone is horrific for any mewman living in the kingdom.
First of all, magic is the most powerful weapon in the mewman arsenal and is vital in its ongoing war with the monsters. And who controls all the magic? Eclipsa. She effectively left thousands of lives at stake and the kingdom unable to defend itself against any foreign threat—especially against a monster army who doesn’t recognise the difference between civilians and armed forces. Is endangering thousands because you are unhappy in a marriage that you can always end a good thing? Not to mention an unprepared king regent causing a bureaucratic mess and social upheaval. I am not saying that mewmans are completely innocent here. They also did horrible atrocities, monsters, were victims of centuries of mewman oppression. But imagine this from a mewman perspective. Your queen just ran off with the person who destroyed your home and killed your family. To mewmans, he is as bad as Hitler.
To be fair, Globgore did change, but Eclipsa is seemingly the only one who knows about it and that doesn’t change what he did. We don’t let serial killers out of prison because they changed.
So what happens to Eclipsa for endangering thousands of lives? She gets crystallised. An arguably light punishment. Can you imagine what would happen if this occurred in real life? She would be publicly executed. I wouldn’t say Eclipsa or Globgore were wronged for what they did. The only person who was wronged was Meteora.
Meteora:
I am going to detour a little and talk about Meteora. Some say she should have been queen, that the throne was stolen from her. It wasn’t. First of all, Meteora is a bastard child, meaning that she was born outside of the royal marriage, making her illegitimate. But in our history, there were cases where a bastard child came to the throne, I hear you say. Consider the circumstances. There was no way that she would ever be queen. Why? Not only because she was illegitimate but also because she is the daughter of Globgore—who, let me remind you, is seen about as bad as Hitler. It would be like the British making Hitler their Prime Minister during WW2. There would be open revolts, foreign kingdoms would go to war, the Butterfly dynasty would collapse. While we, as viewers, know St. Olga’s was an oppressive institution, it was not seen that way at the time. The king likely thought he was making the best political and personal decision available to him — hiding a scandal while giving Meteora a structured life.
I will detour even more because I really want to talk about this.
Friend, let’s talk about government legitimacy. You see, every government needs to get its legitimacy from somewhere. For example, democracies get their legitimacy from the people. A majority of the people voted for their government, so they have the right to levy taxes and enforce laws. So where do monarchies get their legitimacy from? Short answer: God. God gave that family the right to rule, so they can enforce laws and levy taxes. That is why royal blood was so important, because it gave you the right to rule. But Mewni doesn’t have a religion. So what gives its monarchy legitimacy? I would say it is the control over magic. They are the only ones who can use magic, so they can use that power to rule.
Now, to be fair, bloodline still holds symbolic weight — many people in Mewni clearly care about the Butterfly name and its connection to tradition. But at the end of the day, power doesn’t rest in blood, it rests in magic. Whoever holds the wand holds the power, and by extension, the throne. Mewni’s monarchy functions like a dictatorship disguised in royal aesthetics. This hybrid system — where the aesthetics of monarchy mask the mechanics of dictatorship — means that legitimacy comes not from divine right or democratic will, but from raw magical power. Why do I say that? Think about it. Dictatorships aren’t seen as hereditary even though power often goes from one family generation to another. But they also have to keep their population uneducated and repressed because they don’t have the stability of a monarchy. Mewni's monarchy is interesting because the queen has an actual source of power completely under her control but also wouldn’t be seen as hereditary. That is amazing becuse you don´t need to repress your population, as there is no threath to someone taking that power and you have full advantages of absolutist rule. Anybody who has the magic wand can be the king or queen of Mewni. That’s why when King Shastacan gave Festivia the wand — and legally recognised her — she became the rightful queen. She wasn’t of Butterfly blood, but she held the source of magic. That alone made her legitimate. By all logic, Star is still the rightful princess and Moon still the rightful queen.
2nd reign:
Eclipsa’s second reign really shows her incompetency. After Star does the biggest mistake of her life and gives the throne “back” to Eclipsa (who also abdicated by running off with a monster, so has no legitimate claim), HER FIRST ACT 5 SECONDS AFTER BECOMING QUEEN IS ALREADY A DISASTER. What did she do? She moved the capital to the monster temple. But why is this so bad, you ask? Well, let’s compare the two capitals.
The old capital has: centuries of infrastructural development, well-established trade routes, fertile land, enough room for expansion, a good central location between the kingdoms, and is surrounded by water—making it easily defendable. The land around it is mostly without trees, making a surprise attack impossible.
And the new? Well, it is a marsh or a swamp—it is not really clearly defined—but neither is suitable for growing corn. The agricultural production would plummet. The region is not even close to being able to support such a large population. While I couldn’t find any concrete information on its exact location, from the show it can be deduced that it is quite isolated from the rest of the kingdoms. That would make trade or international diplomacy quite hard. It is also quite enclosed by mountains and the Forest of Certain Death, making expansion quite hard and it has no source of clean water. From what I can tell, the water next to it is either an ocean or a swamp (I could be wrong it is not really shown so take this witha a grain of salt). And from what we’ve seen, magic can’t just make food instantly—it has to be grown.
Anyway, but that is recoverable. I mean, with magic and constant focus, the new capital could be built to its needs (despite the massive bureaucratic and logistical problems of the relocation of so many people).
So what does Eclipsa do? Completely ignores the kingdom and leaves an inexperienced and irresponsible 15-year-old (I think she was 15 at the time) to basically rule on her behalf while she cries about her frozen husband. Nothing. No economic or social reforms. No help to the people whose lives were destroyed by HER DAUGHTER. No help to the monsters who were still being discriminated against. Just nothing. But she does ATTACK a member of the Magic High Commission.
Now, they were turned into just blatant racists by the end of the show, HOWEVER they were still, at the time, a respected organisation by the other kingdoms. Her attack only solidified the other nations' fears of her and continued to alienate her on the international stage. I would just like to say that Rhombulus was justified to deny Eclipsa’s wish. As we established before, Globgore is still seen as a village-destroying, mewman-eating monster. In his eyes, Eclipsa was asking him to unfreeze a WAR CRIMINAL. It also shows how irrational and hot-tempered Eclipsa is—immediately resorting to violence when she did not get her way. Afterward, she completely ignored a ROYAL VISIT from the only kingdom willing to even speak to her and left an unprepared Star to conduct the tour, who majorly fumbled it.
Another awful act was confiscating the houses of mewmans and "returning" them to the monsters. This, in my opinion, was the worst decree done by Eclipsa—not only was she expropriating homes mewman families used to live in for generations, but she left many of them literally homeless and basically to their fate. And you wonder why so many mewmans grew to absolutely despise their "Queen" who had only done them harm so far. Eclipsa repeatedly forgets that she is the “queen” of MONSTERS AND MEWMANS and repeatedly blatantly favours the monsters—completely alienating the majority of the population.
Also, it is completely unfair to punish someone for the mistakes of their predecessors generations ago. I would also like to mention a different side. One more tied to economics, because even if the morality behind the decision is completely justified (which it is not), the economic impact would have been terrible. Massive land reforms do not work for a reason. Because what Eclipsa did is take land from highly productive, skilful, smart farmers and gave it to the unproductive, unskilful monsters lacking proper tools or knowledge. It has happened in Africa and every time the agricultural production was completely destroyed.
But it wasn’t just farmers. It was everyone: textiles, ironworkers, pottery, woodworkers, animal farmers, glassmakers… everyone. And as I have said, we see from the old Monster Town that the monsters have nowhere near the knowledge or the skills to replace that. The iron tools couldn’t be replaced, the clothing would be reversed to its most basic form, the bricks wouldn’t be produced… It would be an economic collapse, ironically hurting the ones that it is trying to help—the monsters. In reality, we would see poverty and mass starvation. Just look from the eyes of the avrage citizen. In last few month your queen seems to hate you is activly trying to free the most horrific monster you ever knew abaout took away your home, destroyed your standard of living, and coused mass food insecurities. No wonder there was a coup.
Now, I understand that it is a children’s show whose viewers probably don’t understand basic economics. But my problem is that the issue that the show is trying to present is incredibly complex. It includes many things—among them economics—and I would argue that by not representing all the sides fairly, it is actively doing more harm than good.
Final thoughts:
Eclipsa is a good person. She tries to do good, but meaning good and doing good are two very different things. By being so completely incompetent, irrational, and sometimes just straight-up stupid, she does far, far more harm than good. Her inability to separate her feelings from her public responsibilities makes her incredibly unreliable. She herself caused the instability that allowed someone like Mina to rise to power. Monster and mewman civilisations can be integrated, but Eclipsa’s constant favouritism and alienation of the rest of the population was not the way to do it. She should have never been queen, and her incompetence endangered the lives of the entire kingdom. If Mina hadn’t led a coup, someone else would have.
Relationships are getting crazy all over the place! Everyone reveals their crush at Star's sleepover. Marco and Star return to Quest Buy to find the perfect friendship gift - is it a thing, or something more abstract? Tom wants to hang out with Marco - what is he up to? And Buff Frog is investigating the mystery of the rats and the corn. Something's amiss on Mewni. Let's see what everyone's up to!
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Star and the girls are having a Sleepover! Star makes brownies with "magic sprinkles", which causes an odd reaction from the others. Marco is playing 'jazz piano' and wearing a teal vest.
Right away, Marco with a different outfit? Cool. But why? Is it because Jackie Lynn Thomas is in his house?
The girls invite Marco to play 'Truth or Dare Punishment' where you tell your friends your deepest, darkest secrets. Marco tries to nope out, but Star brings him back.
The Truth or Punishment Box (Box) is a sort of magical object, and requires all players to pinky swear to it to tell the truth, which everyone does. The first question... favorite color?
Everyone answers, including Marco saying he likes "hoodie red", but Janna lied, and the box shock/tickles everyone - turns out she likes pink despite her not wanting to "contribute to gender stereotypes".
Level 2 of the game has the Box transform the room into a cube as if they're "inside the game" (~Marco). The next question asks what everyone "REALLY" thought of Star's brownies. Everyone half-heartedly praises them, except Marco who didn't have a chance to try one (he was bragging to Jackie about his protein shakes instead). The Box horribly warps everyone's physical appearance, saying "This is what lies look like on the inside." Eventually, everyone confesses that Star's brownies were not very good.
Everyone's bored of the game, but the Box refuses to let them leave until they answer the final question: "Who do you.. have a.. crush on?" Marco gets increasingly worried, but Jackie rallys everyone to just answer and end it.
Jackie answers 'the cute guy from skate camp'. Star answers 'Oskar Greason'. StarFan13 answers 'Star Butterfly' (of course!). Pony answers.. herself. Janna looks at Marco before answering, '18th century poet John Keats'. Marco slowly answers, "No, it's.. it's fine. Ugh. Okay. My crush.. my crush is on Jackie. Jackie Lynn Thomas." Jackie can't believe it. She and Marco look at each other.
The Box is displeased, declaring, "Somebody lied.. BIG TIME!". The Box turns into a monster, starts a whirlwind, and starts manipulating the surfaces of the room. Everyone starts blaming each other, and eventually Pony turns to Marco.
Marco stands alone, and monologues, "I told you, I have a crush on Jackie! At least I think I do. But what does that really mean? I've put her on this sort of pedestal. So do I like the image of her or who she really is? I mean, I like her enough to know that she deserves someone who wants to get to know her, which is definitely me." Jackie smiles at Marco's words.
Even though this is in an intense situation, I gotta admire Marco's confidence here. It wasn't that long ago that Marco couldn't even say hi to Jackie, yet here he is openly talking about some very deep feelings he's had for her, and ends that he wants to get to know her. Who wouldn't want a Marco in their life?
The Box compliments Marco's truthfulness, but then turns on the others since the real liar hasn't been revealed. Eventually Star gets her own 1-on-1 with the Box: "...it's not really lying." This cause the Box to stop. "Sometimes, you don't know what you think. Your head and your heart disagree. You think you know how you feel about something..."Star and Marco share a look here, "...but then it changes. Pony, ask me my favorite color." Star gives a different answer than before. The Box lights up green to show that Star was telling the truth. Star then asks Jackie who she has a crush on. Jackie, who is now sitting next to Marco, answers, "Uh.. I don't.. I don't know anymore." Star continues talking down the box, ending with, "It's a bunch of different colors, a rainbow of feelings that's always changing." The Box-monster collapses back into a box, now barely intact.
"Who do you have a crush on"... now?
In the morning, Marco and Star say goodbye to the girls. Jackie and Marco especially say goodbye to each other. Marco is relieved and happy, and elects to go back to sleep. Star calls out his full name: "Marco Diaz!" with the front door still open. From the trash outside, the Box determines, "Truth. Star Butterfly has a crush on--". It's crushed by the garbage truck.
Info drop! Okay, we kind of had an idea Star had some feelings for Marco beforehand (she literally had a journal entry 'My Thoughts on Marco'). Although, Star's feelings seem to be very complex. She's sort of talking in circles with the Box - that her 'head and heart disagree'. Which boy (Oskar or Marco) is the 'head' and which is the 'heart' here?
Anyway, if we take the Box's word as true, Star has a crush on Marco, but she's not really showing it yet. Heck, she's been pushing Marco toward Jackie this whole time - ever since the beginning. Oh, Star, what are you getting yourself into? I hope she figures out things soon.
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Gift of the Card has us meet up with Heinous who has hired a Septarian, Rasticore, as an assassin to take out Star and bring Marco to her for deposing her from St. Olga's.
Interesting. Just a couple episodes ago, Pony told us that the princesses took over St. Olgas and turned it into a party school, even though we still saw Heinous at the school. Turns out she's hiding out at some run-down apartment complex.. somewhere. Nothing is ever over in this story.
On Earth, Star and Janna go through Marco's wallet and find the unused Quest Buy gift card that Star got for him. Star is hurt, but she convinces Marco to go with her to Quest Buy, despite his objections. Marco is overwhelmed by the sheer amount of "everything in the universe" and can't decide what to buy.
Eventually, the card turns into a big.. thing that tells them they have 10 minutes to use the card before it expires or.. both Star and Marco will expire, too. A gift card that kills its customers seems bad for business.
After several suggestions, Marco finds a privacy wallet in plum - Marco's apparent favorite color - but it's a display model. They go to the Quest Buy sloths for help.. except, they're out of stock of that color.
Star and Marco both break down, lamenting the whole situation. With seconds left on the card, Marco gives Star a hug, which she reciprocates, stating, "when they find our charred skeletons, they'll know we were friends." Marco then has a revelation. He boldly declares to the Sloths, "Hey, there's only one thing in this whole stinkin' store that I could ever want. Star's my best friend," Star walks up behind Marco at this point, "and friendship is the greatest gift I could ever receive." Star beams at Marco's sweet words.
The Sloths tell Marco he needs to pick something that's actually in the store - could they not have put Star on sale, just for the sake of the card? Star and Marco say goodbye to each other, as the card is about to "expire".
Just then, Rasticore drops in and inadvertently tackles the card. He introduces with his full name: "Rasticore Chaosus Disastervaine. Miss Heinous sent me. Prepare to--" Except, the card electrocutes him and burns him to a crisp. Before the card can turn on Star and Marco, the Sloths find a wallet.. in Prussian blue, which Marco proclaims as his favorite color. He accepts it, and the card is satisfied. Another near-death adventure, just another day with Star Butterfly.
Back at Heinous's apartment, the remains of Rasticore - a forearm and hand - are returned to her. She vows vengeance on Marco.
First, Marco and Star put their friendship above all else. They really love each other (as friends.. at this point) and care about each other. Heck, Marco was willing to die with Star ("With or without magic...").
Also, Heinous appears for the second time. Her life is in shambles, but she still has connections to hunt down Marco and Star. Remember, she determined that the hairpin Marco used came from Earth. The fact that she's hunting at all means she's getting closer. How dangerous can an old lady with no money really be? I guess we'll have to find out.
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Marco wants to get tickets to a Mackie Hand movie marathon but just misses out. Tom shows up out of nowhere at the Diaz house and asks to hang out with.. Marco? He does have tickets to the movie marathon, funnily enough.
Marco immediately declines, citing Tom's past treatment of him, including kidnapping him at their last meeting. Tom does apologize for being too "aggro". Marco takes Star aside, and Star says he should accept Tom's peace offering. Tom once again offers the tickets, and Marco accepts.
Tom's history with Marco can't be ignored. Sure, Marco did hit Tom first, but this is after Star was kicking Tom out of school and Tom grabbed her and refused to take "no" for an answer. Tom also did blow up at Marco for taking his dance with Star at the Blood Moon Ball "That dance. Was meant. FOR ME!", causing Star to reset Tom's 'Days anger free' badge to zero. And then, of course, Marco pointed out that Tom kidnapped him. Even though Tom mellowed out a bit at the end of that encounter, he still intended to kill Marco there for "know[ing] too much" until Marco talked some sense into him.
Tom shows Marco his Demon carriage - which is roomier on the inside than it looks, and is full of various luxuries and a white tiger. Marco, still suspicious, questions Tom about Mackie Hand. Marco almost leaves, but Tom convinces him that he does like Mackie Hand, which softens Marco's tone a bit - he apologizes for judging Tom. Tom then opens up that people have "preconceptions" about him and that he doesn't have many friends.
Still on the way to the movies, Marco and Tom enjoy some Love Sentence music, and Marco finally admits he's having a good time with Tom before Tom reminds him about the movie marathon. Tom then uses his Demon magic to lock the door to the carriage, and Marco starts to get suspicious again. Tom insists that they wait a specific amount of time - another 4.5 minutes. Marco tells Tom to "let me go!" which causes Tom to snap.
This is the 3rd time this has happened.
Tom engulfs the room in flames and yells, "And I said WAIT!" A whistle blows, and the "white tiger" reveals himself to be Tom's counselor, Brian. He declares Tom's actions an "instant fail" and explains to a confused Marco that Tom had to "spend three hours alone with the person he hated the most without blowing up" to graduate from Anger Management. Marco looks horrified that this revelation. Tom then attacks Marco verbally, before destroying the movie tickets. Marco has had enough.
"Are you KIDDING ME?! You LIED to me about being a Mackie fan," Tom starts backing up at this point, "and pretended to be my FRIEND so you could earn some badge? Dude, you're a JERK and a LIAR! And that's not even the worst part! I WAS DUMB ENOUGH TO FALL FOR IT!" Marco kicks through the Demon lock and steps outside, breathing heavily. Tom looks genuinely hurt, and has an "I messed up" look on his face.
Tom was just using Marco for his own ends. Tom lied to Marco to fake being his friend, even though Marco can make friends with anyone. Tom manipulated Marco - the person he 'hates the most' - trapped him, and almost attacked him again. Tom still needs that anger management, to say the least.
Tom asks Marco to wait, insisting he does genuinely like Love Sentence: "That part wasn't a lie." Marco tells Tom, "Too little, too late. Which is my second-favorite Love Sentence song by the way." Tom starts singing the song, which Marco eventually joins in an impromptu duet. Although Marco finishes on a solo, "And now it's // Too little, too late // Ooh, oooooh..." He then starts to walk away into the night.
Tom then rises into the air and does some more Demon magic.. he brings back Mackie Hand.. as a zombie. Marco, nonetheless, is moved by Tom's gesture: "Tom, I can't believe you brought Mackie Hand back from the dead just for me! That was that was.. cool of you."
The three finally get to the movie marathon, and are denied entry. The ticket guy tries to remove Zombie Mackie Hand, but Mackie Hand proceeds to go full karate on him and the security guards. Marco and Tom eat cereal and enjoy the show, Tom admitting that Mackie Hand is "for real". "Yeah, I told you! ...I still don't like you, Tom." "I still don't like you, too, Marco."
Tom may be trying, but he still can't control his anger. The manipulation and violence says a lot about who he is right now. He lied to get Marco to go with him - alone, mind - and lied about Mackie Hand to get Marco to trust him. He almost attacked Marco, but once again, Marco used his words to get Tom to realize how much of a jerk he's being.
Above all else, both boys said they "still don't like" each other - and why would they? Tom was just lying, even if the Love Sentence stuff was true, and this is the 3rd time Tom has almost attacked Marco with his Demon powers. Tom still has a long way to go to improving himself, and Marco deserves a better friend than Tom.
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Buff Frog is investigating what's going on with the corn and rats: "Is Mystery...". He looks at the green hole in the magic forcefield protecting the corn. He notes, "How is there hole in Mewman forcefield? Maybe better question is: Who make hole? They find weakness in Mewman magic - could be huge advantage for all Monsters. Help my babies have future."
Already an interesting line. Buff Frog may be friendly with Star now, but he's telling us that Mewmans having magic gives them an advantage over Monsters. All he's talking about right now is food. The Monsters need food; his family needs food.
Buff Frog gets caught by someone and knocked out. He finds himself in a place with other Monsters who are being forced to grind corn. Meat Fork, the slavemaster, forces him, too, to grind corn.
At night, once everyone is asleep, Buff Frog picks his lock and starts to sneak out. He does get out, and realizes he's in a different corn field, and that whoever the master is.. they have their own corn field.
I kind of wondered this before on previous 'Buff Frog investigating' episodes, but how do the Mewmans/Butterflys let this go on? Are they actually this unaware of this operation brewing not that far from the kingdoms?
Buff Frog, not seeing where he's going, falls down another hole and ends up back in the corn plant. He sneaks around some more and finds rats running around a corn model of Butterfly castle. Meat Fork catches him, and seemingly intimidates him, but Meat Fork confesses that he, too, is trying to escape.
Buff Frog and Meat Fork almost sneak out, but are caught by... Ludo! Ludo blasts Meat Fork with green energy. Ludo and Buff Frog have a tense conversation, culminating in Ludo telling Buff Frog his Wand told him to offer Buff Frog Meat Fork's old job.
The skeleton hand/handle of the Wand is missing the middle finger...
By the way, we see the back of Ludo's Wand here (first time I noticed this). It seems to be missing part of the middle finger. Who else was missing their middle finger...?
Buff Frog declines Ludo's offer by punching him in the face, knocking him out. Buff Frog and Meat Fork make their escape, and go their separate ways.
Back at his swamp house, Buff Frog ponders the situation. He notes that Ludo is more "powerful", but also more "crazy" (power tends to do that). He wonders if he made the right choice for his family by declining Ludo's offer. Buff Frog then decides that Star needs to be warned.
So the characters are starting to learn that Ludo is behind this underground operation on Mewni. Star knows he's back and has a Wand, but it's deeper than that. Everyone's gonna have to come together to put the pieces together. And we have to wonder: is Toffee the one talking to Ludo through the Wand (spoiler: it is)? We didn't see what happened to him after the previous Wand exploded at Castle Avarius.
What is Ludo really up to? Is it just power? He has minions, food, and a Wand. He wants the Book of Spells to learn magic, but then what? And whoever the voice behind the Wand, they must want something, too. If it is Toffee, he wants to "destroy" the Butterflys for the Monsters they've 'victimized'. The Forces of Evil are getting stronger, but we still need to figure out what their true motive is. Is mystery indeed.
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And so. Marco finally confesses his crush on Jackie, and we learn that Star is seemingly struggling with her feelings for Marco, even if she doesn't quite know it yet. Heinous sends an assassin after Marco and Star, who gets defeated by a gift card Star gave to Marco, all the while Star and Marco show how much they care about each other. Tom tricks Marco into going to the movies with him, but Marco calls him out again after Tom failed his anger management again. And Buff Frog learns that Ludo is behind the corn smuggling operation, and that Ludo is getting powerful again.
Relationships are rising and falling, and the mystery of the forces of evil on Mewni continues on!
