Seriously, why couldn't they just make the reason to destroy magic is because the corruption is gonna destroy all multiverse if they didn't? Making Star having no other choice on the matter could've made the fandom less angry. Instead we got one where Star clearly had another choice (defeat Mina the old fashioned way as Moon and Eclipsa suggested) and destroying magic altogether is clearly overkill, and now she can come off more like a selfish bitch than a hero if you give it a 2nd thought.

[Strong wording in the post which is not meant to attack the Anon who sent the ask specifically, just a generic outlet of frustration and opinions]

She… literally had no other choice, though? Eclipsa had to use her strongest spell, one which left her unable to walk for some minutes and destroyed half the village, just to defeat one lone Solarian warrior, who had already brushed off Globgor’s and Star’s top fighting game. Eclipsa and Moon thinking that they could defeat her fighting together was clearly nothing more than wishful thinking, a last attempt from the old generation to latch to magic, symbolically speaking. And even if they managed to eventually win that wouldn’t have stopped Mina from killing as many monsters as she could in the meantime, and they’d have wrecked havoc across the kingdom and civilians.

“The show never said that though!” again they showed Doug-Doug, a literal no one, brush off enough magic to take down Monster Meteora while putting half of the support cast out of commission, did they really need to explain it in a more explicit way? To hire a Magic Tactics Evaluators team to tell them “it’s not going to work”? sorry for the sass but this is actually a rather important theme for me, “show don’t tell”, stories not spoonfeeding everything through direct exposition (not that it’s an excuse for every shortcoming a show might have, and it doesn’t apply to many of SVTFOE’s flaws, but it definitely applies in this specific case).



As for the part about corruption spreading though the Multiverse, that’s something I can agree with more, especially since I thought they were going for something like that after A Spell with no Name and Mama Star. Still, I don’t particularly mind what we got either: the show always focused on Mewni, and Magic has always been something inherently connected to the Butterfly family (The Magic ≠ Fantasy Elements in the series), so it makes sense for Star’s decision to destroy it to be mostly based on the situation at hand on Mewni and its long history of racism and abused powers.

Star is certainly not the best of planners and is one to act following her instincts, but she’s not selfish, absolutely. All her actions and decisions during the finale were aimed toward saving her wounded friends, the monsters, and Mewni, at the cost of her and Marco’s personal happiness even - obviously this got solved but she couldn’t have known it. Destroying magic altogether might be a bit of an overkill if we sit down and overthink it, maybe, but it’s definitely a consistent decision in the context of the series’ themes and the idea of breaking a centuries old circle of violence and segregation, and it was definitely the only way to save all the monsters lives that were in immediate danger.