Yes, also the fact that I didn't want them to be good people, as strange as it is to say. Throughout the series we never really had a long standing villain who felt both prominent and threatening.



Ludo was prominent but he never really grew to the level of threat that season 2 was building up. Toffee was threatening but he spent 90% of the series working in the shadows, meaning he didn't have much of a presence. Meteora was great, but she was only a villain for half a season, and the way she was taken down... leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Her fight with Star was awesome, but it sort of takes away a lot of urgency when Star had an ally in her corner that could resolve the conflict in no time flat. That issue with Meteora would have been no problem if Eclipsa turned out to be a villain. "The hero, after a climactic battle with a tormented foe, falls. A new threat defeats the previous foe effortlessly, becoming a new goal for the hero to surpass." Instead, Eclipsa was a jovial friendly lady and the rest of the series was mostly about politics.



Eclipsa and Globgor being good also killed all the hype and buildup leading to them. Eclipsa was built up as this mysterious figure. An intelligent threat who convinced people to help her of their own free will. She looked like she embodied everything Star admired, but also everything wrong with these values she held. A healthy curiosity and a creative mind, but unrestrained to the point of creating spells that are too dangerous. A free spirit and a love for freedom, at the price of abandoning her home and everyone who depended on her. A disdain for forced responsibility, but doesn't acknowledge that someone has to do them.



The dynamic of Star vs Eclipsa look like "a free spirit who has grown to accept responsibility and carry it her own way" vs "a spirit of selfish freedom who rejects everything she didn't volunteer to". You could argue that in the end Eclipsa was the victim, she was never a bad person, but that's part of the problem. Moon and the Commission warned Star that Eclipsa was using her, and because they were wrong they lost their credibility. Moon, who was the experienced authority figure, looked like a complete fool for keeping her locked away. The Commission, who were strict figures who value their duties above all else, looked like jerks for sweeping everything under the rug. It's okay to write a morally grey narrative, but the way it was handled was so anticlimactic.