Star Vs The Forces Of Evil S3 E 29 & 30

I was fairly prepared just to talk about The Butterfly Trap because that's where the plot is, but damn if Ludo Where Art Thou didn't completely blow that one away.

"What did you do with my daughter?"

Eclipsa is held to trial, we learn things we already knew.

Also, that Festivia was neither a magical puppet created by the universe (Bums ME out!) or a distant Butterfly relative, but a peasant girl, traded at birth, and raised to probably believe that she was the rightful heir of Mewni.

So, technically, Star Butterfly is no Butterfly at all. Well, she is, it's not like, in history, entire royal families haven't been wiped out and replaced with some random tenth-cousin who is suddenly the King. After three hundred years, I think we can all accept that adopted matriarchy is still matriarchy.

It's hinted that Shastacan and the Magic High Commission never officially adopted Festivia and made her the true heir, just using her as a stand-in heir because he wanted nothing to do with Meteora, and Eclipsa was crystallized and couldn't do anything anyway.

I think the saddest part wasn't Meteora being sent to live with a peasant family (Hey, it was initially good enough for Festivia, right?), but Eclipsa not being related to Star and Moon at all. I hope we can see her again.

Thoughts of the week;

Some of Eclipsa's darkest spells never made the final cut of her chapter.

Rhombulus has a crush on Queen Moon, which is funny.

Bepipsa, the Baby-Eater, is mentioned in this canon instead of just the book. I say that because in the book, Moon has a different mother in Queen Skywynne and not Queen Comet like the show.

How old is the Magic High Commission? Sure, Rhombulous is up in the air, and Lekhmet was very old, and Omitraxus probably is too, and we know Moon is more or less humanoid...so the real question is, how old is Hekapoo?

Hell if I know.

Every Mewnian is inherently magical. That's pretty cool, considering royalty in the physical realm has been seen as a 'Divine right to rule granted by a higher force', which is extraordinary bullshit.  I like the idea that anyone can do it. And it's not even limited to Mewnians - Marco used the wand and got cheek marks too.

So, honestly, Star's statement - "We're no more royal than anybody else." - was true long before this event.

Eclipsa's statement - "Oh, I never learned wandless magic." - in "Total Eclipsa The Moon".

Some think this means she simply never stuck around to learn it, but does that make sense to you? This woman, who was highly proficient at magic, couldn't do it? It wasn't even a thing to 'learn' - all it is was "digging deep".



Anyway, in "Ludo Where Are Thou", Dennis is looking for his brother, aided by the weird eagle and spider that were once his henchmen.

He finds a pair of dimensional scissors in a box of propaganda from Ludo's time as King of Mewni, and finds his brother living on a desolate planet with various piles of trash decorated to be their seriously abusive parents.

Oh, and these trash piles are possessed somehow. And Dennis can't leave the house until he confronts them.

If it seems like I didn't say much about it - the episode is one of the show's best, and it's a lot more impactful if you just watch it.

Questions:

Does Hekapoo make Dimensional Scissors for evil people? Then again, Star's came from Pony Head, Easy to imagine someone else could have stolen them.