What do you think has been the biggest Starco moment so far? Othen than the confession...

Really hard to pick, so as always I’m not going to limit myself to one, but: as far as a more romantic Starco go, I’d definitely go with this scene from Camping Trip.

Barring the jealousy and sadness moments from Bon Bon The Birthday Clown and Just Friends (so non platonic moments, but also hardly “positive” ones, so I have excluded them), I think this is the only moment in the season where Star shows interest in Marco, beyond what one might expect from a simple friend. Sure, it’s not that explicit, but given the tone, all the glances she gave him during the episodes, and obviously the latter confirmation of a crush, I think that her expectant tone was on purpose, if unconscious on her side.

Still tragically one sided.

As far as Starco in a broader, friendship meaning go, there are a lot of important scenes. Among the main ones that I considered: Marco casually calling Star “the coolest girl I know” in Cheer Up Star; the ending of Mewberty and Sleep Spells; most of Storm the Castle; Star on Wheels, with the important theme of trust being brought up again and both Marco and Star managing to see things from the other’s perspective; Gift of The Card, for most of the episode, where their extreme friendship is played at times for laughs, but is still completely genuine; Bon Bon The Birthday Clown and Just Friends, with Marco thinking about Star and ‘rushing to her side’ even while understandably distracted by Jackie; Marco being convinced by Star’s words (”What about me!”) in Running With Scissors.

But, ultimately, since most of these scenes are either focused on one of the dorks, or happened in high tension moments - not that it lessen their values, if anything it means that the feelings were more “visceral”. So I chose these two scenes, both focused on Star and Marco getting to understand eachother, and themselves, a little better, strengthening their relationships not due to life or death situations, but just by talking:

In Blood Moon Ball the importance that Star puts in being trusted by her loved ones is explicitly established, and Marco understands it, showing at the same time that he’s ready to swallow his pride, and think about things with a cool mind, when it’s important for his bestie.

And Star undestand that he did it out of care, and while being irritated, still explains him her point of view.

In Mr. Candle Cares, Marco (after half a episode spent defending Star’s interests, and fondly thinking about her while risking his life playing ping pong with Tom) manages to calm a definitely irrational Star

He doesn’t tell her things he can’t be sure about, ‘sweet lies’, like “Maybe you won’t need to be queen!”, nor he tells her “It’s your destiny, can’t do anything about it, stop fighting” like her mother did in the same episode, he tells her what she needed to hear, that even if she has duties, she can still do things her own way, make the most out of an imposed obligation. And this calms Star, and helps her. To quote what Brian H. Kim, show’s composer, said about the music in this scene,

“It felt like this conversation was a building block in Star and Marco understanding each other, like their conversation at the end of the pilot. But this time, it was Star getting a new view on life from Marco, instead of the other way around.”



And just to drive the importance of the point home,