Almost ten months… and the first episode is already over… sigh.

But it was worth the wait.

MY NEW WAND

More after the KEEP READING to avoid spoilers!

- No new intro. Sigh. Not that important, obviously, I’d trade a good gag for a new intro any day of the week, but still disappointing.





- New “splash image”, though (season 1′s one had completely irrelevant characters such as Lars or Manfred, so a couple of those in the new one might still be background or one times characters).

• Buff Frog is smiling now, and has his tadpoles

• Jackie has even shinier eyes. Give her a “DREAM GIRL” sign, won’t ya?

• A huge reptilian guy with a gem for an eye and a different colored/mechanic/armored left arm. Toffee’s older, buffer brother? The gem eye looks like the one that the dogs in St. Olga had. See this post for more details. He could be Heinous’ mercenary.

• The new character from Mr. Candle Cares (the smooch buddies scene), likely the school’s career counselor

• A walking bush. With fancy shoes.

• Ludo with the crystal piece. WAY TO SPOIL THE EPISODE, INTRO.

• Janna is shifty as hell.







- Don’t know if this is Star directly ‘skyping’ with Starfan13, or if it’s her vlog. Probably just a (clever) way to quickly recap Storm the Castle.





- This first episode dramatically lacks Starco. C’mon Star, don’t downplay Marco not being dead like that!





- This is Star’s “stalker” girl from Brittney’s Party, Starfan13. Clearly a Starco shipper, a nod to the watchers. I mean, she has the same pic from Star’s mirror in Storm the Castle, she’s shocked by the video feed stopping right after showint that Star was in the bathroom while Marco was taking a shower. And amon all the star-themed paraphernalia she has the poster from Star Comes to Earth.





- The computer. No problem with Star.





- We have no timeframe to know how much has passed since Storm the Castle. The wand acting only now, for the first time, suggests it being recent, but it could obviously just be a plot device. Can’t have the wand going crazy offscreen.





- So the wand has some connection to the spell’s book, it’s not just an old book. The pages shown are the same from Freeze Day, nothing new here.





- Not even in pain. Being the butt monkey for a whole season sure made Marco sturdy.





- I tried to predict Star’s determination to open the closet shown in the promos as “she’s worried for Marco”, but I guess that she was more worried about Marco findining the diary in the closet.





- I… I know that this is just a gag. I laughed.

But it hurt.





-…but Marco is Star’s stuff, apparently. And she wants him back.

Among, you know, the other things.





- Marco really is genre- savy. He can peek through the fourth wall!







- = strong emotions trigger the “dip down” state.







- She kept Marco’s hair from Marco Grows a Beard. And the waterslides from Royal Pain.

Episode about Star’s hoarding problem when?





- “OMG just like Lobster Claw’s eyes when the wand possessed him”

“Star possessed by the wand!”. And I believed it too!

That’s why I said that we can’t trust promos. That we can’t trust “smooch buddies”.





- Still not clear what the wand’s deal is. It’s often referred as the most powerful item in the universe, but now it seems to be someting that just “skims” the magical power of the user.

Maybe it just enhances the user’s power, and monsters/evil are inherently more powerful than Mewmen, that’s why the wand in Lobster Claws hand looked so dangerous.





- Ahah mother issues and complexes, amirite?





- We now know the name of one laser puppy.





- Compared to Mewberty, Glossaryck looks strangely kind with Marco. Maybe he’s just using him to make him find the diary –> trigger Star’s emotions, though.





- A bone and a spine. This piñata was a living being.





- “Oh the mysterious box from the poster surely it holds-” nope.

And when Marco drops the box a “squish” sound can be heard. I think that he granted the narwhal its death wish.







- Tom’s picture is in poop shaped hair.

I guess that the show makers are trying to tell us something I mean that’s funny.





- Callback to Marco’s “superpower” already shown in Quest Buy. Maybe he no longer is “the Safe Kid”, but he’s still a neat freak.





- The Sea Captain’s portrait is still there.





- Jeez I wonder if the missing piece has something to do with evil and corruption!





- Despite last season’s warming moment Star is always anxious about calling her mom





- Star’s need for validation is always there.





- So…

• Glossaryck has been serving the royal family at the very least for the last two generations (was more or less obvious, now comifrmed)

• He’s always cryptic

• Star is, somewhat, getting taught how to use the wand. So maybe she really is on Earth just to train. Still doesn’t make much sense (unless the King and Queen just wanted her to wreck havoc far away from home, but that sounds a bit iil spirited…)





- Star’s secrets, according to Marco. Don’t know why they should be secreter than, I don’t know, the souls trapped in a crystal that he put in the “Not Secrets” pile, but whatever.





- A gag, sure, but this is not the first time Star shows remarkable skills concerning the art of war, even without using magic (like setting up the booby traps in School Spirit)





- Always proud about his organizational skills.





- Glossaryck enjoys being cryptic, but I guess that he really doens’t know much about what’s going on with the wand. I mean, anyone would have guessed that a green eyed buff unicorn turning his head 360° is not a good thing.





- Genre. Savy.





- Star is uncharacteristically out of energy and unresponsive.. Failing when she wanted to prove herself to be “better than her mother” drained her?

Same thing happened in St. Olga, and in that case it probably was her extreme fear for the school & Pony Head’s change to (temporarily) make her give up.







- Glossaryck knew that Star’s secret, the key to opening the door, was the diary, and he gets away as soon as Marco gets to the important part. He probably knows what’s in the journal, and he knew that Marco reasing it would have triggered a strong enough reaction in Star to make her “dip down”







- DUN DUN DUUUUN.

What is that Star doens’t want Marco to read? This show has always avoided the easy drama trope, and I think that Star and Marco are waaay to close for their friendship to be strained by something stupid like a “I didn’t like him at first” entry.

Maybe there are multiple entries about Star complaining every time Marco did something that she didn’t like.

Maybe even something as drastic as Star “complaning” about having sacrificed her wand to Save Marco (obviously not “I should have let him be crushed”, but something more in character and more along the lines of “If he wasn’t such a stick in the mud we wouldn’t have fought and he wouldn’t have been kidnapped…”.

Just my opinions and idea, could be anything. coughcoughStarexpressingsemiromaticfeelingsforMarcocough let me dream cough

Edit: she calls Marco “her best friend” since the beginning. That’s cute.







- I don’t think Marco read anything compromising, but he was surprised for sure about having a dedicated chapter. He may come to question it in the near future.



He had a few seconds before Star opened the door, though, so maybe he did read something.





- Same “power up” thing that happened in Storm the Castle (it even uses the same music), but this time it looks more “complete”, with Star’s eyes completely lighting up (and no need for the wand).

Both times it’s been triggered by strong emotions pertaining Marco (wanting to save him in Storm the Castle, wanting to stop from reading what could have ruined his relationship with Star now).





- And once again we know nothing. But the wand is officially broken.





- After the “Grab your Wands” promo I (and many others) thought that “normal magic” made only half the crystal light up, making the heart-shaped magic we see in what’s probably going to be the blackhole scene from the promo something special. This time, however, the whole crystal lights up while Star barely uses the wand…





- Green seems to be the color for “corrupted” magic.





- “It’s the wand’s fault, Marco, not mine!”





LUDO IN THE WILD





- Just as the promo more or less showed, Star randomly threw Ludo in outer space (in another dimension? Earth, maybe, hence the satellites?). Brutal.

Like really, he could have died.





- So Ludo grew that beard in one day? He should give Marco lessons.





- Space junk (maybe Earth, maybe other dimensions have the same technology) and what looks like dimensional scissors (or regular scissors. Who knows). The shape is different from all the ones e’ve seen so far in the show.





- Green light. Maybe this is the wand’s fragment, but why would it be in another dimension, in space?

Also, the green meteor/fragment pushes Ludo into the portal, but isn’t seen getting out of it.





- Same portal as those used to get to the monsters’ side of Mewni. Who opened it, though? The scissors floating near it? And Mewni’s two moons can be seen







- Doesn’t know what… rain… is, And calls a fish “sushi”. Ludo might be a little bit spoiled.





- A diaper? Is Ludo that old? Does Star hit a poor elder?







- I have a list of things to expect from season 2. Ludo eating a sentient bug thing’s ‘inside droplets’ wasn’t on it.





- I don’t know how accurate the “title cards” are, but the beard is way longer. So Ludo slept for more than a month under the snow and survived?





- In the “Grab your Wands” promo this scene had a “It’s time” voiceover.

Don’t. Trust. Promos.





- Oh hey. Hi, hell-dwelling cockroach.





- A green “falling Star” precedes Ludo’s allucination. I don’t think the wand’s fragment really took 90 days before falling (likely after being propelled by the castle’s explosion), maybe it just “sensed” that Ludo was ready, and it lured him to itself…

Note: the ‘allucination’ has the new wand, and Ludo should have no way to know what it looks like. But this is a cartoon. Maybe it’s the fragment projecting, maybe it’s just a way to not confuse younger viewers suddenly showing the old wand again.







- …or Ludo himself subcounsciously felt that he was growing content with his new life, forgetting about the wand, and a last “spark” guided him to the missing fragment.







- Ludo’s naming skills remained the same.





- The fragment is under the snow, with no sign of recent impact, so I really do think that the green falling Star seen by Ludo was an allucination/vision (he even says so himself, in a way), and the real fragment was there since day one, after having pushed Ludo in the portal, waiting for 90 days to be found.





- The last shot in Storm the Castle showed a similar bone, on a similar looking ground, near the fragment. Is it the same bone? They “retconned” the previous shot, ‘cause showing back in the season finale the whole arm would have spoiled way too much, or someone / something (the crystal itself?) formed this creepy wand?

Maybe Toffee is slowly, slowly regenerating from being completely destroyed by the explosion.







- Missing phalanx. If this is not Toffee’s arm then the show is made by trolls bigger than Skullnick.

[Crack theory ON] Maybe Toffee is somehow IN the fragment, and he lured Ludo to it? [Crack theory off]

Also Toffee is, technically, the one holding the “wand”, not Ludo, then it’s even more likely for him to have, somehow, lured Ludo to the fragment with the allucinations, to get closer to Mewni while he’s in an incapacitated (understatement of the week) state.







- As I said the portal and the moons kind of gave it away. One of the promos shows a future episode where Ludo is still in another dimension, maybe trying to get dimensional scissors on Mewni?





- “The real game starts now” “Ludo is back” “Everything happened in one day and it was all a fragmnet induced allucination (don’t think so though, he grew a beard and tamed animals)”?