LOBSTER CLAWS

So Star gets to be the good conscience on the poster despite believing in Lobster Claws only in the last minute, huh?

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- Being held from behind: mewman’s only weakness?





- While this is Star misunderstanding history, she still doesn’t miss a chance to say how cool Earth is.

It’s going to hurt a lot when we’ll get to “I have to go back to Mewni” episodes ahahah.







- Marco is usually harsher than this with his enemies / people he can’t stand. Either they just needed to balance Star’s hate for monsters (likely), or Dr. Marco, Phd, can’t turn away from emotional trauma.





- Despite having different portals, Ludo’s castle is still on Mewni, probably quite near to the royal Castle (at least judging from the shot in Fortunce Cookies)





- Allusions to stereotyping as subtle as an exploding truck.

Also, look at that bird.





- We’ve seen monster princesses from other dimension in St. Olga, and on of them was even from the same species as one of Ludo’s monsters. Maybe they just reused the design, or monsters on Mewni came from other dimensions and are descriminated just on Mewni (but in Mewnipendence Day it looks like the monsters were natives, so I really don’t know and it’s just probably cartoons not having to be 100% consistent since kids are not as sick in the head as people like me.)





- Star’s eagerness to have a reason to kick monsters’ asses is… concerning.







- …then again she’s probably been struggling with monsters targeting her since she was a little girl? Or, before the wand, was she the one actively hunting them down? That’s grim…







- The piano music was literally in the soundtrack for the scene. Who needs a fourth wall.





- It’s always the same guy.





- At least Star is not being malevolent in her Disney© branded take on racism, she’s just “Hahaha to mewmans all monsters are evil and its not their fault, they can’t even fight it! It’s just how they are”.







- Hearts where Marco has the mole… did Star make those plushies? Are they teddiaz bears*?

*joke shamelessy stolen from 4chan’s threads







- For being a non-serialized show, the attention to details is commendable. They never forget to make the wand neigh when used to bludgeon.





- I already filled my quota of wobbly theories with Mewberty, so I won’t write too much on the wand, but Lobster Claws clearsly wasn’t willing for the wand to transform, so to “activate” it you apparently don’t have to “claim” it. At least if you are a monster/bad guy.







- It may be due to his being stuck between good and evil (or his being an idiot), but Lobster Claws was clearly confused and suffering while holding the wand, as if under its power.







- Note Queen Moon’s warning about it in the first episode. In Storm the Castle the wand is barely strong enough to destroy a magic cage even with Star’s power up. Here, by simply being in the hand of a monster (that didn’t even want nor try to use it), the sky darkens and rubble floats. It’s likely that the wand is much more effective, or can use its full power, when used for and by evil.







- Did I miss something, or does this line make little sense? I mean, Star did try to help Lobster Claws, but just to go back to be his enemy…





- Good Wand = takes after the wielder’s appearance/characteristics

Bad Wand = is it bringing out the “real power” of the wielder, morphing Lobster Claws’ body, or is it imposing its power on the wielder? Only the arm holding the wand transforms, and the crystal becomes a definitily not lobstery eye.





- Sure, in the end Lobster Claws managed, if only for a moment, to resist the wand’s corruption, but honestly I don’t think that they did a good job in portraying a monster showing Star that they don’t have to be evil.

Well, they make up for this with Mewnipendence Day.





SLEEP SPELLS





- Not complaining about wet socks this time?





- These are the important details that completely change how the whole show is interpreted that I’m trying to highlight.







- The episode could be titled “Emotional Insecurities”. Star is stressed out by the duty of being a queen-to-be, Marco has low self esteem and doesn’t want to be a burden to star/doesn’t want to feel useless next to her (I wasted more time writing about the subject in this post)







- Marco’s parent may be slightly fond of Star.





- At least the Queen is worried enough about Star to call everyday. To stress Star, but still…

After this line she says something while offscreen, but I can’t understand it under Marco’s cries for help.







- So… Star thought that Marco literally meant “digging in her brain” since that’s how they do it on Mewni? And… she was ok with it?







- This girl has no mewberty wings despite having her back uncovered, but she’s just a random background character (despite being used in Matchmaker and Fortune Cookies too, she’s, like, a grade A background chatacter), so it’s not enough to say for sure than only Star/females from the royal family grow wings.





- “When you are lowkey shocked by your best friend’s barbaric heritage”





- If Marco has to ask maybe he’s not gifted at psychology…

They painting was supposed to be about childhood, so I wonder if Star had to fight off Ludo and his monsters even before getting the wand. They probably just used them to make the whole thing immediatly understandable.





- Sometimes it looks like Star enjoys her royal heritage. This episode is not one of those times. I hope that we are getting a future episode on how she truly feels about being a princess.







- Blabla Marco wanting to prove himself blabla





- Getting on a bus makes Marco motion sick. Doing this doesn’t?







- I considered Star half faking helplessness after being kidnapped to give Marco the chance to save her, but as cute as the idea is, I think she really couldn’t shake free: she dropped her wand after being grabbed, and she looked pretty scared during the whole thing (after all she was being brought to St. Olga, and we know how she feels about that place). Maybe the monster princess is just really strong.





- I know that this is just a gag, but are non-humanoid races called “monsters” even outside Mewni? Is the newspaper from Mewni?





- Not much to say about this whole scene, it’s pretty much self explanatory. Star sees that Marco has a “problem”, they talk it out, truckloads of cuteness.

I don’t know if this was done on purpose, but this episde is right before Blood Moon Ball, where Marco, in a way, tries too hard to have Star’s back.

And after what happened in Storm the Castle Marco is probably going to relapse into his insecurity…







-This is DEFINITELY just me trying to hard to write something more about this episode, but Marco often seems to be immediatly “punished” when he gets cocky.











ADDENDUM TO PREVIOUS EPISODES

DIAZ FAMILY VACATION

- Star didn’t know about her father’s fondness for fighting monsters, and in Storm the Castle she couldn’t read her mother’s expression. She probably didn’t spent much time with her parents.







MEWBERTY

- I sound like a broken record with “frienship here, friendship there”, but right after getting her wings Star tries flying for the first time with Marco, without even trying it alone first.





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