I was kind of hoping we might get a mini hiatus after the midseason episodes just so I could catch up on all the other things I need to do, but nope. So unpacking all day and SvtFoE at night I guess.

I ship it. Also, how dare they make Jackie’s bizarro world counterpart some kind of device.

Ludo 3.0 will f*ck you up.

That’s some wholesome shit right there.

Spinoff when?

This episode really put Ludo’s self-discovery/development in a weird place. He knows what he needs not to do, but between his own personality and his brother stupidly pushing him back while trying to push him forward it’s not hard to see why he stays stuck. At the same time I can’t say for sure what point he’s in at the end of the episode because the final scene makes him appear to be in a better place while the scene immediately before it with the rat in bed shows he still sees the wand as something important to steal. So who knows.

I guess Beauty and the Beast actually took place on Mewni. Which might actualy fill in some of the holes in that movie.

“Don’t talk to any ghosts, they’ll curse at you!”

If River and Moon had more fun lines like that in earlier seasons I might like them more as characters despite them being pretty terrible narratively.

I need to talk to whoever designed Mina so I can tell them how great and/or terrible they are.

This episode didn’t really do much for me. A) They made Mina’s helicopter ponytails too serious when they were perfectly comedic at the end of the Monster Bash, and 2) besides finding out who tried to yada yada Eclipsa all it amounted to was Moon being just as useless as normal. She actively shows concern about what Mina’s doing, but in the end she just shrugs it off as some else’s problem.

Do I spy a new best girl?

That’s a great crazy person wall, Marco.

Lots of Kellco for an episode that wasn’t about them.

I like how the one episode Star was in this week featured her not accomplishing anything, just like every time she’s tried to do junk for monsters (which is what, like three times?). You could argue that she indirectly helped the kids game get started since Katrina was the first monster asked to play, but kids are easily bored and they would have slipped off regardless. So good job Star, you brought back a character who’s only remembered because of a Wednesday meme on Reddit.

When you don’t know what someone wants so you just make noise until you can think of something.

All hail Queen Moe, who looks like some sort of pilgrim but the timing doesn’t add up unless there’s more time travel shenanigans going on with Mewni’s history.

Easy joke about how the pigeons got it in her hair. Though I do like when she wears her hair down.

This final episode was interesting to say the least. I’m glad they touched on the fact that the MHC are Gloss’s children, though if you haven’t read either of the books you could construe the way things were worded that only Reynaldo was his kid and not the others (fun fact, my post about the Magic Book of Spells is still the first image to pop up if you google Reynaldo the Bald Pate). Meteora was also pretty damn cute too. But there’s two important things to take away from this little time travel adventure. 1) The whole history of Mewni is basically a bootstrap paradox in that the first queen got her magic because Gloss was teaching a future queen about magic, and B) Gloss and Meteora could be considered responsible for the Septarian uprising in that the two of them showed all the other Septarians that Toffee was trying to convince that magic really was a threat. But considering that uprising is what ultimately led to Eclipsa being freed and Meteora being trained it would seem that Gloss has been playing a long game for over 300 years to get the right bloodline back on the throne.