Knight Shift/Queen-Napped/Junkin’ Janna/A Spell with no name

Lookin’ good Eclipsa.

By the rules of the internet, this must be a Marclipsa moment.

“I can’t hang around Mewni forever.”

I’m glad it only took you most of a season and nearly turning into a painting after ignoring your family for like half a year to figure that out.

Also by the rules of the internet, this must be a Higgsco moment.

Wholesome mother-daughter activities.

That’s when Sir Stabby knew he’d done f*cked up.

Look at that dragon’s eyes, something not appropriate for a children’s show is about to happen.

The Knight Shift episode addressed a couple things I’d been hoping for, especially Marco’s family and future plans issues, so I for one am happy about that. I was also glad to see Higgs again (especially since there have been several times where it would have made sense for her to pop up in previous episodes), and while it seems pretty certain we won’t see her again at least this time there’s a reason for it. It was also good in general to see Marco being serious. Even though the show generally treats it like a joke, it’s fun being reminded that he could kill pretty much anyone at this point.

And then there were the capes. I see a lot of people pointing out how much of a Starco moment those were, but I just liked that they talked about stuff without it explicitly going there. Personally I wish the show hadn’t gone down the shipping road it has and instead Star had felt jealous back in season 2 because her best friend and new friend were spending time apart from her. But who needs half-way original story telling, right?

If Disney owns Marvel, why are they doing a DC crossover?

It’s Courier-Chan!

A person’s pupils can expand up to 55% while looking at someone they love. Courierco confirmed.

Eclipsa’s style is on point this week.

And that’s when Star knew she’d done f*cked up.

This episode was fun enough I suppose, and it was almost surprising that Ponyhead helped for once, but it was kind of unnecessary in the overall scheme of things. It was fun seeing more mer-people though. The tentacle-haired girl can join Courier-chan and Slime-girl from Cornball in the side-character harem.

Introducing someone to your fetish.

It’s my girl H-poo! Lookin’ graceful as can be too.

If this were an eastern show there’d be a different view from this shot.

Cute Hekapoo is cute, her brothers not so much.

Serious Hekapoo is serious.

All fear the Crow of War.

So here was a set-up episode with a good helping of character growth for Tom, which is always welcome, and a nice helping of Hekapoo for me, which I’ve been missing. At least when Mina and her monster crow come out with their super mech or super form armor or whatever it’s going to be it won’t be completely out of left field. This episode once again reminds us that we really need a clarifying look at the timeline of what went down with Eclipsa’s family. Right now I think the most likely scenario is that Eclipsa and Meteora were captured, Shastacan sent Meteora away, Globgor ate Shastacan, and then both Eclipsa and Globgor were crystalized. But who did what on whose orders is still needed so I know how many mental gymnastics I need to flip though to not blame Hekapoo and/or make the post I’ve been holding off on about why they don’t shoulder all the blame for the Meteora/Heinous situation.

Introducing the E-team!

Buddy cop spin-off when?

When you find a site that that caters to your most shameful desires.

A Spell with no Name was another set-up episode, but while I liked seeing Eclipsa’s spells in action and getting a little more clarification about how the wand works as a pocket dimension (along with its ability to kill/replace its owner), the takeaway from this episode could have been dealt with just one added line during the meeting in the previous episode.