So, since PROBABLY MAYBE APPARENTLY we are getting a fucking promo next monday, meaning that season 2 is (maybe) near, I started rewatching the first season while trying to pay attention to little details, taking a lot of screenshots. 99.9999% of the things that I’m going to say in these posts are probably already widely known, completely irrilevant or wrong, but it’s mostly a way for me to fill the wait for season two & to fix not having been on Tumblr when the first season aired (I joined it some weeks after the finale).

I probably won’t be over with it before season 2 premieres.



STAR COMES TO EARTH



Huge post below the “KEEP READING”

- First shot of Mewni, there is a huge “Corn!” billboard. Mewnipendence day’s dinner is corn based. Mewni must really like corn.

Maybe that’s why Star loves nachos.



- When Star barges into the throne room there is this woman with starred cheekmarks. Soooo…

There are more cheek marks than the card-suit themed ones



It’s make up

She’s just a background character and the artist didn’t know that cheekmarks were going to be a plot element

- After Star gets the wand, when her parents realize that “She can’t handle it”, they look tired have visible under-eye bags. Later in the episode Ludo acts like someone who has been trying to get the wand for some time now. So it’s likely that some days/weeks passed from Star’s fourteenth birthday to her being sent on Earth.



- WHAT ARE THEY HIDIIIIING



- The show takes place in Echo Creek, near Los Angeles. Confirmed by Daron and by the road signs in Brittney’s Party

- Skeeves sounded skeptic about the whole “from another dimension” thing. So… does Earth know about magic? Is this the first contact with being from another dimension? Is everyone just incredibly chill about the whole thing?



- The only wrong thing here is your opinion, Marco.



- That’s racist, Star.



- Star creates eight laser puppies.

The number is going to decrease soon enough.



- Foreshadowing! Star’s magic is going to kill Marco!



- Star freshly summoned room. Remember that Daron ““confirmed”“ how the voice talking to Marco during the Blood Moon Ball episode came from the sea captain’s portrait. No further explanation given.

According to the (obviously not canon) “Creature Capture” game from the Disney XD website Star’s creatures are stored in the top room, after being dismissed.

We know that’s just a lie. They go back to the oblivion.



- One of the puppies got sucked in the black hole. Bye bye, laser puppy.

Maybe they recovered it along with Marco’s furniture later,



- Do the laser puppies mimic Star’s emotions?

That’s friggin cute. And look how affectionate they always are with Marco…



- Some months ago I read something about how Marco asked Star to stay only after having discovered how she would have brought excitement and fights to his life. It’s only my opinion, but judging from his expression he was going to tell her even before being attacked by Ludo…

- Marco, who some hours earlier freaked out for Star’s magic, now jumped in front of her, not knowing how she’s more than able to fight, to protect her from an army of monsters.

Forgetting about the Starco implications, the Safe Kid got cohones.



- JUST LOOK AT IT.

Look how surprised and happy Marco is, when he realizes what he’s able to do when not thinking about the danger!

And look how happy Star is with having found someone her age that can fight like her!

I swear that this show may have many shortcomings, but the protagonists characterization is ridiculously top notch.



- “Mental memo: don’t mess with this girl.”

- Setting fire to a school building and destroying a car that then disappeared in another dimension. Not bad for the first day as far as property damage goes.



- Poor Marco needed Star in his life to get a much needed self-confidence boost.

- First time the dorks hug. Marco looks happy, even content, but he still needs to open up to the future girlfriend future wife woman of his life new exchange student, and he doesn’t hug back.



- Unfortunately in a few episodes the whole “Safe Kid” deal is going to be all but forgotten (it could be intentional, a way to show Marco’s growth and Star’s personality rubbing off on him, but it still feels a little sudden, they should have showed “the change” on screen). This time they still balanced his kickassiness with some good ol’ safeness.



PARTY WITH A PONY

These are supposed to be analysis, not review, so I won’t comment on the episodes themselves, but this one, while feeling somewhat weak for a pilot, at least drives the “Marco and Star are friends friendship is extremely important to Star” point home.

- “Super Awesome Nachos”… tsk, he doesn’t even bake the chips, he uses storebought ones.

And there is a picture of a baby on the fridge. Probably Marco, even though they forgot the mole. After all it’s just a minuscule detail in the background.



- The layout of the house changes a lot from episode to episode, but there is always this door from the kitchen to the backyard. Just a nice detail.

- This is a crucial detail: they are usually not drawn, but remember that there are olive slices as well in the nachos. It’s very important.

- They’ve known eachother for not more than some days, and Star probably already told him the story of her life on Mewni.



- As @skleero said, this looks like “someone jealous of the first friend that got a licensce”. Maybe Star & Pony never had dimensional scissors before? All the scenes from their youth shown in Freeze Day seemingly take place on Mewni.

Is Pony Head even from Mewni, or did she use to play with Star while her parents were visiting the Mewni dimension? We know next to nothing about dimensions and planets and kingdoms in this show…

- Poor Pony Head, she just wanted to spend her last night before St. O’s with her best friend, without a third weel…



But then again she tries to friggin’ push him onto deadly spikes. I’m feeling less emphatetic.

- I’M NOT THE OBSESSED ONE! IT’S THEM!

- Is… is he a dead customer, or just a sadic skeleton chillin’ on the spikes?



- Star doesn’t say “Oh shut up, you are just jealous!”, she immediatly believes Marco. That’s a nice divergence from a overused trope that always belittles the respect between friends.

- Have I mentioned how the theme of the episode is “friends”?



- So gore is okay in Disney’s cartoons as long as it’s pixelated.



- FRIENDSHIP.



- “Ahahah so silly. This St. Olga place can’t be that bad”

And then they used Clockwork Orange-style brainwashing techniques.



- Soooo do the parents know how strict St. Olga is, but they don’t know about the brainwashing, or is king Pony Head just an asshole?



He may be an asshole, yeah.

- I’m not going to use the Starco stamp again, but this is a Starco moment. A platonic one, but who cares. So far they are all platonic.

So far ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°).

Episode 2

Episode 3

Episode 4



