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Yeah, it basically combines Magical Girl with Genki Girl and decides to be super self-aware about it.
Yeah, I can't watch it yet either.
"Monster Arm" sounds like it could be hilarious. The other one could go either way, but it's really more execution than premise.
Reaction Image RepositoryPremiere schedule and synopsis for the March 30 episodes
Tumblr is full of screenshots from the new episode.
Looks fun, but nothing epic. Just your average, non-Gravity Falls, colorful Disney XD series (and I'm OK with it).
Never really expected to be as intense as GF.Expecting something to that scale of awesomeness is getting your hopes too high.Even GF didn't get really intense till towards the end of the 1st season.I kinda expected something like Wander.2 cute,goofy 11 minute episodes that are really fun to watch.
Though maybe towards the end of the season we'll get something plot twisty.
edited 23rd Feb '15 2:21:20 PM by ScottPilgrim2013
My Tumblr "If theirs one thing I'm good at, it's blowing" Jesse Cox 2013OK. I saw the episodes.
Before we begin, I think that this show is a bit too… silent. And by silent, I mean that there’s little to no background music (save for the short action sequences) or even “sounds” sometimes. I don’t know how to explain it, but it’s quite weird for me. Anyway…
Monster Arm Really liked this one. It had the magical craziness I want to see from this show, and by craziness, I mean an evil tentacle-arm that might even come back. Enjoyed the climax and the “arm jokes” at the end were quite silly and fun to be honest. Star and Marco also interact a lot and that’s always a good thing. It also had a bit of Jackie, and that’s nice too I guess.
The Other Exchange Student This one, however, felt very predictable with very few magical elements. It’s a very unoriginal sit-com-ish plot that any show could do. You have a princess from another dimension: do something more whimsical and unpredictable! The show’s writing was very weak here and the climax was uninteresting. Despite this, Gustav was kinda fine I guess, but it’s just another one-shot character that added almost nothing to the main story. I also didn’t like how they didn’t even care about the fact that Scandinavia is not a country per se, but a peninsula (rule of funny I guess, but it was quite annoying). Star and Marco’s interactions were also limited, and that’s probably the worst aspect of the episode.
The show is also displaying a bit of continuity. The laser puppies are still with the Diaz family, the montser arm vowed revenge (foreshadowing a second appearance probably) and one of Ludo’s henchmen make a (rather funny) cameo in the second episode.
Just watched it on demand.Monster arm was great,had a lot of funny moments while Exchange Student was alright.Pretty predictable but had its moments.Not bad,but like I said,predictable.
And now I gotta wait till March 30th.God damn it Disney Channel,why do you have to make the cartoon release dates so long?Why does it have to be so far?
My Tumblr "If theirs one thing I'm good at, it's blowing" Jesse Cox 2013The show works much better when it has more fantasy plots like Monster Arm.Other Exchange Student I feels doesn't work as well since its a typical plot done many times before and the execution didn't really do anything different with it.
My Tumblr "If theirs one thing I'm good at, it's blowing" Jesse Cox 2013
The weak writing of that episode also reminded me of My Life as a Teenage Robot (a show I used to love), which had a wonderful pseudo-magical premise but mostly played it safe with lazy sit-com writing and plots.
I also find distracting that in SVTFOE there are long scenes without any kind of background music or musical score.
Oh yeah, if not Teenage Robot, then like Western Animation/Boyster perhaps.

So I caught the first episode of this on tv, and man - I was not expecting it to be such a off-the-wall parody of the Action Girlfriend trope. Which is interesting, because "extraordinary, badass female character(s) paired up with an awkward and comparatively inept male character(s) who mostly provide humor as the female character(s) kick butt" is becoming the template for female led action western series, especially animated series (speaking of which, Action Girlfriend could probably use a supertrope along those lines, since the basic premise doesn't necessarily involve romance and a lot of western examples aren't specifically romantic, a good current example being Steven Universe - though that always plays around a little with it) - and holy hell, is this series 100% aware of it or what (which makes sense, since Disney tv made one of the biggest examples of it)?
It seriously does address every aspect of that premise and screw around with it. The last time I've ever seen a Disney show so totally demolish the genre it was in is Kim Possible, and even so not to this extent. And as a result, the main characters were fun - the first episode made it clear that neither of them were going to be necessarily set in stone by a particular character type, so who knows what they're going to do?
When does this series officially start again?
edited 18th Feb '15 1:53:23 AM by KnownUnknown