ok, so there’s a lot of problem that i have with the finale of svtfoe. it’s not just about the endgame pairing- well, that was a part of it, but that’s not what i want to talk about today.
the only positive thing that i will say about the finale is that the ending was very unexpected (at least for me). it wasn’t something predictable and it was unique- but it was still shit.
first of all- the whole “wiping out all magic” stuff. the writers portray this as the last and only solution that can stop the war, but at the cost of wiping out an entire race of sentient magical beings. mind you, beings that are capable of feeling emotions- that have friends and family- all wiped out in order to save another race, that is the monsters. that is literally mass genocide. so why isn’t there any potrayal of a moral conflict that the characters face through in the slightest?
like, first, star. she grew up with magic. she spent her whole life learning them. she loved and adored magical beings. yet she decided to kill it all in just a whisper of a spell? hello? did the writers have amnesia? magic was a big part of star’s life. this show is a show about magical princesses travelling from dimension through dimension using magic, after all. well, at least at first. yet there isn’t a conflict about this issue in the slightest??? instead, it was pushed aside for the dramatic & cliche starco conflict. she mourned for marco but didn’t feel any sadness about losing glossaryck (who was her mentor since she was an infant)? or MHC (some of them are assholes but she grew up with them)? or never seeing some of her friends ever again (kelly, uh. honestly i think that’s all besides kelly her friend is only tom, marco and pony-head)? how about her spells? she had an emotional bond with them. why can’t we get a conflict like in season one where she actually mourned for the loss of the unicorn inside her wand? that was a great conflict and the conflict portrays star as a character perfectly. she did grow up with magic, after all.
second, moon & eclipsa. why did they just gloss over the fact that they are going to commit mass murder- no, mass genocide to an entire race?? shouldn’t they experience atleast some kind of conflict about their descision? i know that there is no such thing as a clean war, blood will be shed in every war, but they really seem unapologetic and didn’t think twice about their descision.
third, marco. he had been friends with hekapoo for 16 years and is shown to be very close with her- but when she mentions that she’s gonna die he barely reacted. all she cared about was star. what?? “hekapoo’s going to die,, bUt I’M goINg tOoO bE SepERatEd fRoMm sTaRrrRr!1!1!! tHiS pRoBLeM is ClEarLY mOrE iMporTant tHanN mY FrIend’S dEaTh!!!”
another thing i want to complain about, why did mewni and earth cleaved together? did the writers made that up last second to shove starco to be together?? like there was NO explanation or foreshadowing. wow. just wow. this show is just like a fanfiction brought into life lmao.
also, star and marco’s unhealthy obsession with eachother. star and tom broke up yesterday. star and marco hook up the next day. star and marco are about to be seperated, and then they’re seperated, but when they’re seperated they decided that they wanted to be together and gave a big middle finger to their families and just. ran to meet eachother i guess. this just paints star and marco as very selfish people in my eyes.
i feel like as the story progressed the more and more the writers get amnesia and forgot all the plot and stories that was the core of this series when they first wrote it. season 1 & 2 was mainly about magic then season 3 came in with their plot about the injustice of bigotry against the monsters. this continued on until the last few episodes of season 4- where suddenly mina was suddenlly a villain and wanted to kill all monsters. …what?? WHAT???
it’s just… i’ve spent 4 years being invested in this show and for it to end in such a shitty way just breaks my heart. there’s just so many questions left unanswered. so many plotholes. i just hated this ending. honestly, i’m just glad this show ended… but it was not satisfying at all. i feel like the show’s writers doesn’t care anymore and just wants it to be finished. i’m just gonna pretend that the show ended in cornonation and… start obsessing over other shows i guess.
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