Star vs. the Forces of Evil (seasons 1 & 2)

Star vs. the Forces of Evil (seasons 1 & 2) 🎵"It's gonna get a little weird, Gonna get a little wild. I ain't from 'round here, I'm from another dimension."🎵 Genre: Magical girl Action-Adventure High Fantasy Comedy Running Time: 22 minutes Country: United States Release Date: January 18 - September 21, 2015 (Season 1) October 11, 2016 - February 28, 2017 (Season 2) Network(s): Disney Channel Disney XD Created by: Daron Nefcy Distributed by: Disney-ABC Domestic Television Starring: Eden Sher Adam McArthur Alan Tudyk Grey Delisle Griffin Jeff Bennett Dee Bradley Baker Seasons: 2 Episodes: 65

Star vs. the Forces of Evil is an animated television show aired in January 18, 2015 and ended on May 19, 2019. It airs on Disney Channel and Disney XD.

Plot

Star Butterfly, the 14 year-old princess of the dimension of Mewni inherits her family's magic wand as part of her family's tradition. However her reckless nature forces her parents to send her away to our dimension to help her train. She enrolls in high school and befriends a 14-year old karate student named Marco Diaz and becomes his host sister. However, an evil, yet incompetent, monster named Ludo seeks Star's wand for ultimate power while an even greater evil in the form of Toffee seeks his missing finger.

Why These Seasons From Another Dimension Rock

1. The animation from Mercury Filmworks is very fluid, gorgeous, detailed and cute, with the first season having flash animation, the hand-drawn animation by Rough Draft Studios from season 2 onwards is also good.
2. Very memorable and likable characters, such as Star, Marco, their parents, Ludo and his minions, Ferguson, Karate Sensei, Oskar, Jackie Thomas, Tom, and more.
3. The story is very well written as it has a great mix of comedy and action.
4. The show is heavily inspired (or the tamed deconstruction of that genre) by the magical girl genre such as Sailor Moon.
5. There are lots of subtle dark fantastical comedy and funny moments.
6. Amazing, Heroic and catchy theme song.
7. The character designs are great.
8. It had a perfect introduction, as it explains who the characters are very well, it gets even better as the series continues.
9. Star and Marco have a pretty good chemistry, the contrast between Star's craziness and Marco's practicality is very interesting.
10. Plently of great and memorable episodes like:
    • Star Comes to Earth (Which started season 1 and the series on a high note)
    • Party With a Pony
    • School Spirit
    • Monster Arm
    • Quest Buy
    • Diaz Family Vacation
    • Brittney's Party
    • Mewberty
    • Freeze Day
    • Mewnipendance Day
    • Marco Grows a Beard
    • Storm the Castle (Which ended season 1 on a high note)
    • My New Wand! (Which started season 2 on a high note)
    • Ludo in The Wild
    • On the Job
    • Sleepover
    • Friendenemies
    • Into the Wand
    • Hungry Larry
    • Mathmagic

Bad Qualities

1. The show went severly downhill starting in season 3, as the show started to focus too much on the romance drama, the fantastical racism against monsters in Mewni became the series’ new main plot just suddenly, a bit right after Toffee’s death, without building up too much from the previous two seasons, and each episode had too many writers working on it, result few both old and new ideas becoming cut and mostly never used again, as pre-established in the first two seasons, as a result.
   • Multiple characters became flanderized in the later seasons with the Flanderization at its worst in the fourth and final season. The magical high commission, especially Rhombulus were flanderized in their bigotry to the point where they had all their redeeming qualities taken away and turned into one note villains.
   • Season 4 was extremely rushed because it only aired for 2 months and lasted for 21 episodes.
   • The four-part series finale, including the final episode, Cleaved is a bit rushed, as it just goes on too fast of Star destroying the magic, all due (also being a bad plot twist, as well) of her mother, Moon, is somehow literally can't let go of what Eclipsa did on her from the final couple Season 3 episodes, despite knowing that Eclipsa's daughter–then-now called by from her–Meteora (formerly Miss Heinous), was that giant monster, attacking Mewni; but basically ignores the consequences of destroying the magic, off-screen. Also, the ending comes out of nowhere, and treating it as a happy ending somehow.
2. Like Rough Draft Studios' work in Steven Universe, their work in this show (starting in season 2) while good, is considered a bit of a step down from that of the more fluid Mercury Filmworks and Toon City from season 1, though it does have the advantage of being the only studio to animate the series traditionally.
3. Star could occasionally be unlikable, an example being one episode where a Swedish exchange student (who's actually an American) gains the attention of Marco and his parents and Star gets so jealous, that she gets this ridiculous conspiracy theory that the boy is a cannibal who wants to eat her friends, and even later tries to kill him, until she actually starts thinking, and gets no comeuppance for attempted murder based on jealousy. In her defense, however, he was acting EXTREMELY suspiciously for most of the episode.
4. Even before the last two seasons, there are some bad episodes such as:
   • The Other Exchange Student

Reception

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Trivia

• The show was originally pitched to Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon before being pitched to Disney.

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