I mean say what you will about Attack on Titan, but I still see people pump fan art from it, and they still seem to love the characters. I literally don't see the same for Star, and I've tried looking. Like, I was apart of the Fandom on Tumblr during the shows height, and at its end, people really seemed to drop it like a bad egg. People moved on real quick. I don't even think there was much of the usual fanart of people celebrating the show's end and thanking the creator.
But, I guess it should be reiterated that it wasn't just the finale that was controversial, but the decline that started from season 3 onward.
Characters became less likable for many. Star and Marco themselves became somewhat hard too really like at times.
Some characters just didn't change or develop much at all (River and Janna come to mind).
Jackie, who's been a major side character since season 1, was just dropped like a hot tamale, without us really getting to know her much better (and I remember the Fandom really seeing her as part of the main group in that interim between season two and three.)
Tom's treatment as a character was also pretty bad, and it made Star as a person look not good, especially when she quickly moved on to Marco.
If anything, the finale was the nail that broke the camels back. I myself used to defend and the previous seasons, but over time, I came to see how the show really did take a nose dive after the "movie".
If Starco was the endgame anyway and they were suppose to hook up in the end regardless, i fail to see the point in the show having Tom and Star date again at all and there were many moments in both season 3 and 4 (long before last episodes of the series) when they can break them up and have them remain just friends to make Star and Marco hooking up more natural and give their "romance" more time, but the show stubbornly decided to keep them together until last episodes of the series.
Marco and Kelly romance seems especially pointless.
It's a 7/10 show. The show remained hilarious throughout its entire run, which keep me coming back week after week even as other parts of the plot (the prolonged Starco romance subplot, the awkward execution of the main storyline) started to wear on me in the final season.
I think the energy of Season 2 was the height of the show. That second season has most of my favourites like "Ludo in the Wild" and "Bon-Bon the Birthday Clown". And while we lost some of the energetic and goofy fight scenes of S1 that I loved so much, S2 had a fantastic balance of comedy and drama, a lot of really fun dialogue and character moments, and a building undercurrent of "shit's about to get real" in both the main plot with Toffee and the love triangle subplot. The season ended on a great note that gave us a lot of dramatic energy and plenty of questions going into the third season, and while the payoff for all of that varied in quality, Battle for Mewni was still a great series of episodes to usher in the second phase of the show.
Edited by RacattackForce on Jul 4th 2021 at 10:49:47 AM
I also would rate the show with 7/10. It's last season faltered a lot, but I got to say the others were pretty good despite some hang-ups and even the last season has elements that I like such as Tom's entire character, Ludo's subplot, Eclipsa's family, etc.
Prettiest Meta Knight Gijinka, nglI liked the show overall. The ending was a bit of a crash, but it didn't, like, retroactively ruin the thing.
Suddenly I'm... still rotating Fallen London in my mind even though I've stopped actively playing it.In hindsight, I feel like the show was a C-, for me . While certain episodes and characters catch my eye, and I do have fond memories, in the end, the show has more boring or bad episodes, characters, and humor to it (for me). I was actually looking through a list of all the episodes, and I just realized that there are only a few that I really liked for various reasons. And quite a few that I disdain. Indeed, I remember thinking the show went through seasonal rot as early as season 2, because I didn't like much of the changes going on, though I later got over that.
Season 1 overall is the one with a high concentration of episodes that I actively like, which is due to the humor and the animation. You know it's weird, but I liked the show better when it was in its early installment weirdness phase.
That's the case of almost all animated shows I know of (case in the point,the simpsons),they start out loose because they're still trying to settle on a signature style for the show,also remember that animation can vary depending on who does their animation. I think new shows that start off get a decent budget to help them along before settling on something more affordable so they can produce more episodes,depending on how much faith the network has in them and how popular the show is justify having a decent budget
Edited by Ultimatum on Jul 5th 2021 at 10:32:19 AM
have a listen and have a link to my discord serverIIRC, Star vs. changed animation studios after Season 1, moving from Mercury Filmworks (which everyone at DTVA allegedly fought to get their stuff sent to at the time) and Toon City to Rough Draft Studios and Sugarcube for the remainder of its run. I also feel like the show shifted to a stronger emphasis on dialogue-based humor after S1, or at least diminished the amount of fight scenes considerably. (Which is a shame. Comedic fight scenes rock.)
I will said so far is a 7/10 for me two, what kind elevate is the casting: the show just have pretty damn memorable chararter that is easy to like and I will said it even beat SU in that regard, and while it dosent balance the silly with the serious like SU does, it pretty funny, battle fo mewni is awsome and toffe is one hell of a villian.
What it does suffer indeed is the last two season and it clear they need one more season to iron everything out, starco was always and issue, in part because it drag up, in part because maybe marco have often give a brother and sister vibe rather than love interest.
"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"I can't help but feel that this show should get a sequel series a la Steven Universe: Future, taking place immediately after "Cleaved", showing the benefits of the human and Mewni worlds merging together, while also showing the consequences of it, as well as Star's actions coming back to bite her.
If "Cleaved" was meant to be a teaser for a sequel series in the works, I think many people might've been more forgiving to it.
Edited by IvanovTroping97 on Jul 10th 2021 at 6:41:51 PM
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If "Cleaved" was a season finale instead of a series finale, then... well, I'd dislike it a bit less, at least. My big problem with "Cleaved", eclipsing "kill the magic", is that the entire thing feels like it's begging to be an hour-long episode. It has so many moments and emotional beats it wants to hit, but none of them have any room to breathe and make an impact on the viewer because there's only 22 minutes to accomplish everything.
I'd happily cut out episodes like "Out of Business" from the final season in order to give the grand finale a longer runtime. But yeah, if it remained as is but was intended to lead-in to a new season or series, then I'd be less disappointed by it. I'd at least have the knowledge that the story isn't ending on this note and we'll have 10-20 more half-hours addressing what just happened.
Edited by RacattackForce on Jul 10th 2021 at 7:21:05 AM

Not the guy you're responding to but whatever they're talking about Attack on Titian
have a listen and have a link to my discord server