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For me, this finale was of a very confusing quality. It certainly wasn't a Weirdmageddon level masterpiece, but it wasn't a VLD Season 8 level disaster either. My biggest problem was Star's decision to destroy magic and the implications that came with it. That, and that it felt completely out of character for Star. I might have expected that sort of hasty, shortsighted solution from season 1 Star, but after everything that's happened? Now, the stuff happening around that-particularly the conclusion to the Starco plot-I found enjoyable, but destroying magic was the main focus of the episode. If they had defeated Mina practically any other way, I would've enjoyed this finale so much more. Of course, that would likely require rewriting the whole episode, but I say that's worth maintaining its likability.

Writing this at almost 4 am as I have finally finished this show after watching it for the past few years (Jesus) I don't know why it took so long. It's a great show. But I got distracted and kept starting and stopping and restarting and anyway I just finished it. Was hoping the last episode would blow me away. The ending did. But...

First things first, I'm so happy they wind up together. I would've been so angry if after all that "will they/won't they" and that amazing satisfying kiss in a previous episode they still don't end up together. But they did! But there's a few things

No more Glossaryk, no more high commission, no more Heckapoo, who Marco had a strong connection with. They're kind of forgotten about. But this biggest thing is, without magic or another portal...will Marco ever see his family again? His parents? His little sister? I loved the battle, I loved the build up and the decision to get rid of magic was a tough one. But it did feel rushed. But the stuff between Marco and Star was so perfect. I love this show and I love Star and Marco so much. But it felt like the show forgot there were also other characters. Heckapoo was an amazing character and we don't even know what happened to her but we can assume it's not great. If Rhomulus and Omnitrex are like...dead. Then we can only assume...

Anyway. The episodes leading up were all either 9 or 10. Wanted to give this last one a 10. But I'm going with an 8. I'm slightly disappointed actually. But only slightly. The animation was incredible and I'm so happy Starco is canon as they say. Just felt a little bit rushed.

The new bunch of problems that come with this final episode can be summed up with one line Star said in the previous episode: "No more magic, no more butterflies. All we need is me and you." Marco breaking up with Jackie in Sophomore Slump because he could not stop thinking about Star and Mewni was just the beginning of the later seasons' fixation on Starco ships, and Here to Help was a good conclusion to that, but they just could not leave it alone. Blue Order, and a few other YouTubers came up with videos complaining about Star vs. the Forces of Evil's final episode or final season. The story arcs for the fourth and final season were clearly rushed out and not planned out well between episodes, but one topic per review. This was the slightly extended final episode with a shorter opening. The runtime has been boosted from 21 minutes to 23 minutes, and what do we get? A heartbreaking episode that was so terrible and had so many unfortunate moral implications, it was on NICKtendo's revenge list for the #1 worst episode of 2019, and he already had problems with Star vs. the Forces of Evil before. Now, on to what really happens in Cleaved! It was so depressing, it left a star-shaped showhole in my heart. Star was off of battling forces of evil for so long, she became a force of evil in the painstaking process of trying to solve the monster prejudice whenever a brand new problem came her way, like Mina going rogue! Do you remember that fridge magnet from The Middle's first Mother's Day episode, when it told Sue to think of what she can not do and do it, and the message worked the wrong way because Sue stole it? That also happens here when Star did something else bad that she thought she could not do. I fear Eden Sher's possible future in voice acting got shot down in this abysmal series finale.

Hekapoo re-opens portal access for Star to destroy magic, being really defeatist because she also thought her magic did more harm than good, and is really willing to let Star kill the Magic High Commission and all the other magical creatures in the multiverse, even though they would only be remembered for bad things after that with no hope to change. This would not be so bad if Star and Marco actually had some respect to miss the scissor demon who saved their lives after she disappeared! Eclipsa and Moon want to try to defeat Mina, but Star doesn't think they should do that, and pulls them into destroying magic with her. While they are in the Realm of Magic, Marco learns that Glossaryck's pudding saves them from losing their mind there, and he finds out Tom has been stuck there this whole time. Marco also gets a stab wound of dark magic from the firstborn, but it means nothing when Star, Moon, Eclipsa and Meteora destroy the magic and the dark magic wound is gone. Destroying the magic de-powered the Solarian warriors and healed the Solarian wounds of the Marcnificent 7 and Globgor. However, it does not stop the Pony Heads from floating or even existing. But you know what? Mina gets away and no one punishes her! Then Star wakes up in Mewni on an alligator, Star forgives her mom too easliy, Marco and Janna wake up in Earth on a gurney, and Janna dies so Marco can escape towards the gas leak portal. We only see Jackie and Ludo for 4 seconds each as Marco and Star both head towards the floating gas leak. Then it explodes and merges Earth, Mewni and who knows what other dimensions together, with tons of culture shock happening all around. Star and Marco do not care as long as they have each other and Eclipsa and Globgor have what they want. The writers were as uncaring about this whole situation as the characters, especially Hekapoo, Marco and Star, so why should we as an audience care? I am so sad about losing Hekapoo because her allegedly noble sacrifice went down in vein with Mina and Manfred escaping, and now the rest of the High Commission will be mad at her in the afterlife for abetting Star. Of all the magical creatures we came to know who were gone in the magic, who even got a few episodes of their own in Star's and Eclipsa's wand, I will miss Spider With a Top Hat most of all, and I feel sorry for Steve Little getting the shaft. This finale took a heck of a poo on everything we loved about Star vs. the Forces of Evil, and it would not have been that if Hekapoo took a heck of a poo on the Solarian warriors so they would be too disgusted to fight.

However, Star, Marco and Hekapoo have committed one genocide to stop another, Glossaryck barely tried to morally justify it by telling Star "I think you did the right thing." and in the long run it will all be for nothing. Mina's good evil ideas tend to hang around like a bad fart, and with all the Earth people being culture shocked by Mewni, the monster prejudice will repeat itself as the Earth police and government cage the monsters away for analysis, or worse, they could all be shot by Mina in three days if she discovers guns. To recap: Hekapoo briefly turned good and helped Star and Marco then became an irredeemable traitor to her Magic High Commission by allowing Star to kill them all, Marco stopped caring about Jackie and broke up with his own Breakup Buddy Kelly after Breakup Buddies before this 5-part finale even started and aided Star in the destruction of the multiverse with no remorse for killing Hekapoo, and Star became her unspoken obvious biggest fear - she willingly became the ultimate force of evil and let her darkness consume her. She reminds me of Sayaka in Madoka Magica, falling into despair and becoming a witch when she failed as a hero and a magical girl, berating herself on how stupid she was when she helped the boy she loved and he did not love her back. Star Butterfly became a heartless magic destroyer, and I believe that Star losing her face hearts is to symbolize that. Two episodes ago, Star had the biggest heart that Mewni has ever seen while Doug-Doug is filled with hate, but now all of that is lost on this episode. The only way I could save this ending would be if Omnitraxus saw Star trying to destroy the magic earlier, and pulled Quasar in from another universe to throw her back in time to the beginning of Cleaved, so she can tell Star why she should not destroy magic and come up with another plan to stop Mina. All the pieces are there, and Amanda C. Miller deserves better after she was wasted in her only episode where Quasar was the title character in an episode focused on Ludo. Star just Lord Dominatored the magic away, and the heart and magic of the show died out with the heart and magic in the show when it was 3/4way to the 100th episode. Now Star is no longer a magical princess from another dimension. Her magic cheek marks used to represent her being a warm, friendly, loving person with a lot of colorful, whimsical outfits, but now she is not since the final two episodes. As Sensei Brantley should have said at the end of this episode, "'Tis a sad day for Star Fans everywhere." I know Star Fan 13 changed her name to what it was before she met Star - Bethany Fan 13.

The thing that made the show so addicting and wondrous, was the magic itself. I understand the show ended, but destroying the magic just ruined any hope for anything interesting that could happen in the future, even if it would just be to the viewers' imagination.

But then by some miracle, their two worlds just happen to collide and at least they get to live happily ever after while countless characters are just wiped from existence.

I think a more appropriate ending would have been, after quite a few years of Marco and Star trying to heal and restore the magic, they are finally successful and are able to see each other once again.

My feelings on the show are rather mixed. It has plenty of good elements, but plenty of bad moments. This is one of those moments. I could write a thesis paper on why the finale was terrible, but I'll just sum it up with a few phrases:

1. Too short; it needed to at least be 45 minutes

2. 90% of the characters are annoying, unlikable, pathetic , and/or underdeveloped

3. Unfortunate implications with Star committing mass genocide by killing magic

I'm not satisfied with how the show ended. I'm satisfied that it ended. This is just terrible.

I admit that this wasn't as good as the "Gravity Falls" or "Adventure Time" finales. I was expecting a final battle with Mina, but instead she was defeated easily. The plot is that Star goes to the realm of magic and gets help from the other queens to destroy magic once and for all. And she succeeds! The portals close up, but Star and Marco run to the last one. The episode (and series) ends with Mewni and Earth being merged, but at least Star and Marco are together again. And then the cartoon doesn't even end as it just STOPS.

We have no idea what will happen next even though there's obviously a setup for more adventures and we never find out if Star and Marco ever do get married. Of course they probably do! I really wanted to see more action and maybe have Toffee come back, but no, it was a bit underwhelming. Even sadder, we never got that Godfather joke with Pony Head. I really felt they should have made this a full hour episode especially considering they released an hour's worth of episodes for this last season! I was hoping it would end with their wedding, but at least Mina survives will sets up even more of a sequel. Thank you, Daron Nefcy, for giving us one of the greatest animated shows of all time and goodbye. ***1/2

For me it's a "meh" at best...tends towards "bad" even because I'm so sad that this show was pretty decent and got...this as finale. Already before it aired you could smell that they could never deliver a satisfying ending in 22 minutes with all the stuff they would have to cover more than just 1.5 minutes. And well...the didn't. It's not terrible by all means in theory it has quite a lot in it that the community wanted, but most of it is just glossed over and then forgotten. This doesn't feel like a "series finale" at all. We barely got a final shot to all our beloved characters, not snap to the future to see how this new world was doing, nothing. Mina the main villain of this season didn't even get a fight at all. She was trashed and didn't even get punished in the end. Magic High Commission and Glossaryck are just dead and no one cared, Globgore didn't even get a single line, Marcos wound just happened and disappeared again...etc.

Man, man, man...this show deserved better. Rushed is the only thing I can describe this final season. The story really suffered from the crew planing the story to be 5 seasons long. They got 4 guaranteed seasons already before S2 ended...they should've worked with that and keep some possibilities open to extend the story for more potential seasons. I'm sad and disappointed...sorry. Not even those cute romance moments in the finale can totally save it for me.

Edit: Ignore my review! This finale sucked!

Cleaved was a very odd finale. I was pretty shocked to learn the finale would be only half an hour. I mean, GF got an hour finale. So did Phineas and Ferb and Ducktales when its first season ended. Star's pretty much Disney's biggest show right now and this just seemed odd.

In terms of the finale, it was an up and down battle. I really am glad Star and Marco's ark is complete and they're reunited. But so many things both in characters and plot holes feel incomplete.

One big bone I have to chew is the whole part where Marco gets stabbed by the unicorn. There was so much build up to that and in the end it meant nothing. I feel if Daron and her crew had an hour to do this finale, we may have gotten a satisfying context to that. I don't want Marco gone or anything. I just want to see this thing which Disney XD used to hype the finale up be used as well.

Speaking of Disney XD, they hyped this show WAY too much. I literally stopped watching promos given they I got to a point where I knew the promo may make the episode more action packed than it really is. Not so much the Star team's fault as it is Disney's for how they act. Yeah, they need to hype the show up so it gets views but that much just feels like they're taking a page out of the YouTube clickbait rule book.

But in the end, Star's finale was actually truly fun to watch and I really did feel bad in the end that it was all over now. With all these questions left, I hope we get maybe a graphic novel like how Gravity Falls got Lost Legends and Journal 3 that can tie up these loose ends. I don't want every question answered, but I don't want too many questions unsolved either.

I feel it's a bit difficult to talk about this show, especially in this final season, as it has become increasingly convoluted. However, I think this ending is a mess.

Regarding the entire show, I found it consistently dull. Some novel fantastical concepts were introduced, but the majority were uninterestingly implemented. We also need to talk about the teen romance stuff. Media that explores romantic relationships can be incredibly compelling, but here I thought it was undeservedly overbearing, banal, and convoluted. Often characters would shift their feelings for one another on a whim, predominantly with a vague or nonexistent logical basis for doing so. And when there was a solid logical basis, it was one note.

Also, I thought Moon betraying Eclipsa was incredibly forced. She initially was the only one who had faith in Eclipsa, and once Eclipsa took over, Moon went off doing her own thing, ultimately serving a smaller Kingdom. Eclipsa makes a mistake while trying to protect her daughter, which leaves Moon separated from her family. Later, Eclipsa states she didn't know it would happen and apologizes. While separated, Moon was blissfully unaware, but her actions here are supposedly her getting revenge for this. She's amassed an army, using magic on her subjects, and tries to use them to make Eclipsa surrender. We also find out she was actively trying to trip up Eclipsa. Maybe someone can explain why I'm wrong, but I thought it came out of nowhere.

Also, the idea behind destroying magic and having it be a way to end a toxic family line cycle had potential but needed more focus and significant readjustments. The narrative around this exploration is incredibly bloated. And while the dynamics between some of the characters were potentially very compelling, it doesn't get more interesting than Solaria disapproving of Eclipsa because she fell in love with a monster, which is a rather one-note dynamic. Watching Eclipsa struggle with this rejection has been somewhat compelling, but the dynamic isn't. It could've been more interesting if, for example, I understood why Solaria seems more approving of Eclipsa in death, but it's left vague.

Lastly, and most importantly, the implications of destroying magic feel brushed off to the side. I feel the show glosses over the pros and cons of destroying magic and primarily focuses on the relationship between Star and Marco, which I found dull. On the negative, it shows us that some people will die because they're magic, but it's vague about the extent of this. Hekapoo and Glossaryck seem nonchalant towards the fact they'll die; morally complex characters like Rhombulus die unceremoniously, and the spells, shown to be sentient, are dead. On top of that, with a multiverse full of magic, this would likely be systematically catastrophic. The good is supposed to be that destroying magic ends the toxicity in the rule of Mewni and, in the heat of the moment, heals a few monsters. However, I have to point out that removing magic won't necessarily end toxicity in Mewni. I believe the show is somewhat aware of this; it shows Mina still upholding these beliefs. Destroying magic reduces the power of everyone, not just those who are toxic. I view the destruction of magic as a temporary fix to problems on Mewni, but one that has permanent negative implications for an entire multiverse.

I guess I'm supposed to like it regardless because Star and Marco are finally together and are honest about their feelings, but I don't. Marco is what Star seems to care about, and she's the one who decides to destroy magic. This is incredibly selfish and seems inconsistent with her character. She's consistently empathetic and, throughout the series, has worked to solve the injustices on Mewni, but she's the one who destroys the magic. It is a decision with many implications, made on a whim and with weak justification.

Also, while it wasn't a conscience choice of a character, as Star and Marco don't seem in complete control of their powers, I thought combining Mewni and Earth was just plain dumb. It has more significant implications on top of the existing narrative, and I feel I'm just supposed to ignore these implications completely.

The hardcore fans like to defend this finale for the sake of their show, but let's be honest. This finale ended off on a horrible note because Star practically destroys magic just because she can't see her boyfriend anymore. This finale was also already a joke to S2 and S3. Even if this wasn't genocide, Star still ended the lives of several other beings and even the horrid, flanderized Rhombulus didn't deserve such a fate, not to mention that Heckapoo was somehow okay and came off as a quitter. Moon's regret of her actions also came way too quickly and she didn't experience any sort of comeuppance for her own actions. Nobody gets what they deserve this episode. They could've ended this off like Amphibia did by separating two close friends (like how life works), but they didn't.