Well, I wanted to do a review about Battle of Mewni some time ago, but with all the stuff happening I didn’t have the chance or even the motivation to do it. But hey, these last episodes were strong enough to “jumpstart” my motivation. So let’s do this :)



RANT TIME, SPOILERS AHEAD!



Let’s begin with Demonicism, of course.

We start with Star calling Tom for whatever reason and I instantaneously suspected we were going to have some Tomstar vibe in this… but oh, boy, I never expected anything more than that X)





I can add this random comment here. What’s with Dog Glossaryck? How much time will we have him like that?

But ok, we see Star is still keeping her room “earth way shaped”. In past episodes we have her letting go stuff but of course she’s still stuck in Earth mode.

We see her kind of bored as if something was missing.

Then we have Ponyhead

Yeah, Ponyhead’s unreliability can be useful sometimes. This time for Star to know that Tom was into something potentially dangerous.

I can say that I like how they’re managing Star and Ponyhead here in Mewni. They really look like two close friends. Now I can see why she was jealous of Marco in season 1.

Now they needed to know where the super secret thing was because, you know, it was a super secret thing. Hm, who’s this guy and what happened to him? His behavior was very confusing. It was a joke about something?

Anyway, advancing a bit to the moment when they get to Tom’s demonic thingy.



Star complimenting out of nowhere Tom’s look. Yup, I knew Tomstar vibes will come. I dunno, this moment was cute and yes, Tom can rock that kind of suit for sure.

The thing that I liked about this scene was knowing that Tom is really trying to change and to be a better person. And not because he wants to impress Star. Not anymore. I dunno but since the first time he appeared I said that he wasn’t really a bad guy. Also, all of this, showed me why Tom was my favorite part of the new intro :3

And weeell, we reach the point where things got a biiit out of control and Star goes to the rescue. She looks really concerned and wow if I loved this scene. Tomstar everywhere again.

We had a recovery scene with a very worried Star and hey, the thing that Tom decided to deal with his own demons and accepting himself was neat. More points for him. Totally different of that “hated antagonist” people made of him in the first season.

Everything was going as I suspected yeah, and suddenly BAM! Actual Tomstar! No “vibes”, no “hints”, no “tips of the hat”. Star and Tom holding hands and I wasn’t unpleased at all ^ ^



Let’s see how this develops in the future.

Yeah, I know that the show, as much as I like it, tends to set things in a wonderful way but the resolutions sometimes can be a bit underwhelming. Let’s hope they can manage all of this the best way possible.





Now, now, with Sophomore slump… Oh boy.

We start setting the episode with a concerned Angie and Rafael because Marco looks obsessed with Mewni. Particularly, as I’ve mentioned before, I like things to be settled previously so props to the creators for that continuity handling, since we could see Marco wearing that cape in the quick look we had of him, when he was hanging out with Jackie and Janna in Rest in Pudding ^ ^

The thing is that Marco is making everyone sick with his constant talk and stuff about Mewni, so, we can see Marco is stuck in Mewni mode too.

So, each one of his friends is shown getting annoyed (with the exception of Janna because we never know what’s with that girl). And when I say friends I’m going to mention one of the things I loved about this episode. We had Alfonzo and Ferguson back! Thank you very much people of the cast! From the casual shot of Marco dating Jackie to showing them casually playing and talking in this episode, it looks like they were reading our rants, eh? :3

You don’t need to focus in every stuff but of course is very good to show something here and there to set how the things are and not looking like some stuff is just suddenly missing when it shouldn’t be like that.



Eh, Alfonzo has some moustache now X)

Then of course, Marco goes to Jackie for some support. I liked the fact that, finally, we could see some more of the closeness between those two, since the scenes were in Jackie’s house. Also, Marco was searching for Jackie’s approval. What I disliked? Again Jackie was being the supportive one for Marco’s let downs. But hey, this time at least, Marco realized he was messing up and decided to compensate her.

Then we have the date. The normal Earth date with no cape that Marco promised ^ ^

Yeah, finally another moment for them. Of course I will always say they could use the time better and spend other episodes showing some of this instead those ones like Trickstar that weren’t even that interesting or plot contributing (Sorry Preston ^ ^). But well, we take what we get and I wasn’t unpleased with this.

I loved how they just hanged around and we could see more of Jackie, like she’s very good at aiming. The cotton candy scene was cute and I really liked the surprised expression of her when Marco casually told her about how much money he had X)

The restaurant thing was great, they actually stole that lobster. Those two looked like having so much fun not caring about anything else besides their goal and also looked like partners in crime… That reminded me that time in Starcrushed when Rafael told Marco that Jackie was no partner in crime because she was a good girl. What do you think now Rafael? :3

The reactions of Jackie were lovely all the episode and we could see a side of her we never saw before when she answered Marco that she wanted to free all the lobsters. That rascal expression, she’s such a hippie! XD

Aaand then we have the episode ending. Oh, boy, Marco, what were you thinking? He had the cape all along under his hoodie! Yes he probably thought he could have both things but wow if it was a terrible idea… He lied to Jackie!

This action causes Jackie to go again in “mom” mode. I really like how calm she is and admired when she just sat down and patted the bench for Marco to sit. I dunno if until that moment things could be fixed somehow but Marco, trying to fix things and to show he really cared (After all the crap, he seemed to be really worried about them), he says to Jackie that she’s his best friend… Way to chose words, Marco…

This part broke my heart since, I dunno, what I saw here was a girl about to cry… but not.

And her answer was worst: “We both know that’s not true”. I think that was the last straw. Then she just put her helmet on and smiling (probably on the outside) says “Stay being awesome” to Marco before leaving on her skateboard. That looked very mature… and sad. I liked that they gave us a look at Marco with watery eyes showing he knew how big he messed up.

Finally, we have the last part of the episode. I accept that I didn’t get completely the intention of sending Marco back to Mewni but I can see what’s Angie’s point of view. Is something he needs to go through.

Well, I liked how all his friends were there to say goodbye. Alfonzo and Ferguson Included (Yeah, I will not get tired of this :P). Everyone was there except Jackie :(

I got a bit annoyed seeing the eagerness in Marco’s face, like wow, he’s really fixed with that in this moment but well, as his mom said, he needs to do that.

We ended with Marco in Mewnie, smiling and very expectant about the things he will meet there, like adventures, unusual creatures… and Tomstar ^ ^



Yes, this episode made me mad at Marco. Who told him that lying to his girlfriend would fix the things? Well, he’s not as mature, anyway. He’s what? 14-15? So I can understand but c’mon… (Yup, 14-15. We will never understand how those time shenanigans work since Marco as we see is full teenager, not 30 years old as some people said back then).

But on the other hand, I liked it too. Why? We could see the bad side of Marco. In the previous season we only saw him as this “perfect guy”, a complete husbando material and everyone shipped every girl (And Tom) with him. I don’t want perfect husbandos, I want good characters. And we finally saw another side of him.



What else I liked about this? It was different than so many love stories in, for example, many animes where they make the main love interest like the perfect piece who everybody wants but no one can get but the main girl. Here Marco messed up, clearly, even to the point I’ve read people saying “Jackie deserves better”. From my point of view, it’s not “deserves better”, she needs someone who really likes her and is not just confused and trying to please her. But yeah, I really liked that they made the characters like normal people. This just makes my search for Starco more interesting UuU

I can say that I liked these couple of episodes and I also can say that I’m liking this season a lot until this point. Of course, as not everything is flawless, now I can mention that the thing I didn’t like about it was Jackie and Marco ending that fast. It was handled better than I expected for sure but we got two shipping episodes in a row. The first one seemed to be Star getting with Tom and the second one Jackie breaking up with Marco BAM! Now we will have the opposite dynamic with maybe a jealous Marco. I thought the idea was to keep each one of them with different couples but well.



I would like that Marco could learn something from his trip to Mewnie. That he realizes something, just as his mom said and goes back to Earth for a while a bit wiser, and why not? apologizes with Jackie at least.

I dunno, I really don’t want this to be the last of her plot wise and, as an artist, I have some hope that they have something more there. After all, Jackie’s house has a design now. You do not simply make a design and waste it like that!

Well guys, I think I’ve ranted for a long while this time. Maybe it was all the steam accumulated through time, dunno. I hope you didn’t get bored or at least not so much and also hope that we can see us soon in another one of my crazy opinions about the shows episodes :P