Oh boy, where do I start? (By apologizing that this is so long I guess.)

“Hekapoo, as best girl can you make it possible for me to put my half-thought out plan into motion? It’ll also probably kill you.”



“Sure, let me just cement myself even further as best girl by helping you kill me for the greater good.”



“But Hekapoo, if something happens to you who will be best girl? (And what will happen with all my weird 30s feelings?)”



“Don’t worry muscles, there’ll always be fan art to fill that itch.”



“See, here I am as a butterfly. Being awesome like I do.”

And that was where I stopped caring. But it’s not like I stopped watching because how would I rant otherwise.



Tom always has the best looks.

Marco’s spells are…unique.

Yes, unique.

And a very particular section of the fandom finally got to see Marco stuff something in Tom’s mouth.

Unfortunately that same section of the fandom had to settle for a horse poking Marco before Tom could.

Eclipsa proving she’s still the best butterfly and giving Tom a run for his money in the looks department.

And that fandom niche get’s to see Marco riding Tom too, what a day for them.

Never have I been so annoyed to see two dead jerks. Because it makes me think that back at the tavern there must be a black tiara and hair strap serving as the only evidence that H-Poo ever was (besides the fan art).

“I’ll just slide on in now that I’m the only option left”



Careful where you put those hands, Janna, it’s still a kids show.

“Like what you see?”

More than what happens next.

And sigh, I’ve never been so annoyed by the inclusion of a character that I actually like. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t care that she’s bi/pan, that’s fine and I think even fits, but her whole return and usage was just even more of a plot device than she was when she was actually a recurring character.

I know I’m in the minority when it comes many of my thoughts about this show, and I won’t be going anywhere with my thoughts on Cleaved. And those thoughts are that it wasn’t that good. Perhaps I’m too much of a grumpy realist, but before we get to that let’s just look at narrative. The entire finale was made up of “and then”/”just because” moments. It more or less works up until the four butterflies start chanting “and then” forceghost-Solaria is mad when Mina tries to interrupt (when just the episode before she appeared mad that Star was going to destroy the magic) “and then” the evil horse attacks Mina (the one person there who would have helped stop the magic destruction, even if just as a side effect of her real goals) and so on. We’re not given reasons for why most things that are happening are happening, but because they’re “good” we’re supposed to just like that they are indeed happening. Marco gets stabbed but it means nothing. A portal formed and seemed to be closing, but that was just to build tension because it combined two worlds just so a pair of teens could date without them doing anything.

And I know it was their “love” that made the last of the magic bring their worlds together or whatever, but I really feel that the lesson shouldn’t be that the feelings you have in high school are the most important in the world(s). But of course that’s probably mostly the realist in me. Which is also the part of me that has to point out that hundreds of thousands of humans and creatures of other races are basically screwed. Mewmans come from a (mostly) medieval corn-based society and now they’ve been thrown into modern day with technology and an economy (just to be brief) that they have no basis to use/participate in. The humans now have dangerous creatures and races they never thought were real to deal with and don’t get me started on the problems that bringing a cloud kingdom and demon realm to earth would cause.

“But Caden,” I hear you start, “it’s not that kind of world so just go with it.” No. Screw that line of thought. The show just spent a season and a half trying to drive home some kind of a point about racism and you want to ignore the fact that things could go so much worse for so many Mewni-residents now that they’re on Earth? That’s a bad takeaway.

What’s more is that so much as been left unanswered about “why” from a story point. Based on what we know from the show and books I can only surmise that Glossaryck has spent his time since coming into existence (something his own future actions caused) coming up with a way to kill himself. Which essentially means the whole show and history of an alternate reality has been one long suicide plot that required pulling the strings to get four butterflies of a certain power together at the same time. And I guess that wouldn’t happen unless he laid the ground work for a race war with the natives and created a bunch of dumbass sons to make things worse (along with one amazing daughter just to get my hopes up). I really don’t mean to be negative, but this whole ending was happy for the sake of being happy. There was a great opportunity to demonstrate how sometimes tough choices with unhappy outcomes need to be made, but that was cast aside because high schoolers need to be together.

Sorry again that this was so long.