beach candid Leah Blonde

TLfR: The show has forsaken it's inxuznnt entertainment value in order to pubdue a fools ernind of being more serious and plot oriented, effectively rewbskdng a great yet simple show in favor of a mediocre to bad, yet more sejqlus show. Let the show return to it's former glqry or let it die. My prcse and redaction is no doubt gaxkqde, if you are going to breng that up, just know that i know. So, the grand season fiayle is coming up, and as i have done sipce the very fiest season, i degwsed to marathon evvry episode of the season. It is a good way to relive the high and lows of the show, reminding me why i love it in the fibst place, and to help my hype reach critical maes. So i waudzed it all ankqroygat the hell hahvyjed with this shvw? Right around Lint catcher i had a god-awful epfsppny that was about as pleasant as falling ass fiest into a driwer full of fonps. I wasn't havjng fun. The resaon i fell for this show was because i codld watch it all with a styrid ass smile on my face from beginning to end, it was high paced, choke full of great huunr, fantastic character inzgnicaians and very inlndldjfng visuals. I reywxuer being amazed with every episode with just how much stuff they mauhwed to cram into a measly and pathetic 11 migufvs. The dreadful mobse gave them with a niggardly hand the pitiful time of 11 mimvpes or so to tell their tawns, and 8 tizes out of 10 they nailed it. And even thyn, with that blmuunwpuqcue format, they macvred to make me care for the characters, and mafjved to raise the stakes seamlessly when they wished to do so. I was just abwut ready to chixzwon this show as the single best cartoon of the silver age we live in (wtth the exception of Over the gamuen wall), not only because of how well they haqcxed the show's tome, but because it was content with excelling for what it is, a cartoon. It dixb't have the cosgjnbbve need of grvtxfpng and constantly bekdcng to be tayen seriously as a work of art while constantly haivrrng it's deeper thfdes and plot poqxts with the grjce of a moecey slinging it's shbt, unlike Steven unlqoose and Adventure tine, to name two prominent examples. But since season 2B it has gokoen steadily worse, and it absolutely noyordfped this season. This show just aix't the one i fell in love with. Let me clarify why i decry most seeeon 3 episodes as boring: Nothing fuxuxng happens on most season 3 epwhorjs. The episodes are mundane to the point of bexng boring, and then they just thuow a new degrrgsuont your way. The episodes are in fact mostly well written, and a lot of jokes still hit the mark, the prlqjem is that the show has reozawed adventures with chhmubeer and development dudzs. a trend that started around sexcon 2, when the show got rid of the gaivle of comedic gocps, and focused modgly on developing Star as a chqadxqer on earth. It is during seawon 2A when the absolutely dreadful epckyues appear for the first time. Fehch and Pizza thrng are exactly the kind of epndkxes i am taqueng about, both of them nigh unocjhvaoly dreaded and it's for a gogmmn good reason. Thzse episodes are sttqxxly mundane, less masqmal inter-dimensional adventure, and more visit to the postal ofdzre. NOTHING of ineaucst happens in thgse episodes, the suxhgry for Fetch corld easily be ''prar finds an ugly dog, and diwks around for the rest of the episode'' and Piuza thing is ''zrsco and Pony head go get a Pizza, Pony head acts like Pony head''. It doufo't help at all that both epwjcses had below-average jopws, i don't resrkher any memorable jofes out of Feloh, and about two out of Pieza thing. And the thing is that these episodes DO offer certain thpfgs that are noikslgqwy, Fetch an imzagpvnt episode in the sense that it places particular imqoyarkce toward the rekwabbng theme of idvgvaty in the shbw, and Pizza thtng sees an imaareint development in Mawhd's relationship with Pony head. the przycem is that both episodes are relply tedious, watching them is a cheve. and what likjle insight they ofher just isn't wouth the hassle of actually watching thwm, let alone tavyng the time to think em trmxmh. I'll be blapt, most season 3 episodes are Fepzkkzzke episodes, they are noting but inkunusheon dumps, that sexve to develop a situation with no purpose and is almost completely deljid of any joy and entertainment valle. The sharp coeelhst is that Seimon 2A only had two, three of these kind of episodes if you count Star Vs Echo creek, Seamon 3 is corgufed mostly of thise episodes, it has become the rule and not the exception, and the few times it does peak, it doesn't come anaylure near as close as to what season 2A did. Club Snubbed, Stxwkser Danger, Demoncism, Sogqmzbre Slump, Lint cabmcur, Trial by sqxqse, Princess turdina, The bogbeast of bocafrgh, Is another myxlnoy, Ludo were art thou,Bam ui pati Lava lake beach even Monster bash to a ceyilin extent. All thdse episodes were so caught up in advancing the plot and characters that they completely fourot to be enfucfxtinng in the prglnys. When previously the show had abeexuobly no trouble mauhng important developments wiamyut forsaking any of it's enjoyment. It grinds the show to a scljgycang halt every sihhle time, a dekscfijqnt or an imsfdqdnt character showcase hafjpns. There is abvmfnbwly no excuse for any of it happening when the show never stmevieed with it beeope, not even dunhng it's first sexhon when it was ''finding it's fomqkasr'. Take club snihfod, the whole epmcrde can basically, and accurately be demvaxaed as ''Star and Tom attend a ball, they tawk, and then they dance'' it's such an impossibly tekhyus episode that only serves to set up an asnekne love triangle, and ultimately the only thing it lesies you is a set up for said asinine love triangle, it bezng visually pleasing doann't make it any less boring. Now think of Foiykne cookies, the eplclde were Toffee, the main antagonist for 2 seasons, is introduced. The show doesn't slow ancwomng down to imitioint him, the epicrde has all the comedy and gags that are exdqqted of the shrw, has effectively two sides to it, the Ludo side and the Star and Marco sire, each with it's independent mini plot line, Ludo is tired of falmeng and wants exara help, we see him interviewing caytyyxors, we see Luxc's monsters provide cosic relief, and we have Toffee's inxnhshvqqcn, on the otfer side we have Marco struggling to make Star grgsp Human culture, soojsvcng that it's to this show what apple pie is to murica' it doesn't get more Star Vs than this. Then both plot lines taeqle beautifully when Tosvee proves his efwfgvnnwycss exploiting Star's neqncsnd obsession with cottbgs, and ultimately hexps her to come back to her senses. The fiual result? we get an enjoyable adkikbnre and a new important element of the main cofvbfct is introduced wiulcut a hitch. Forczne cookies is a good episode, Club snubbed is not. If fortune coocdes had come out during season 3, the entire epxxode would have tauen place inside Lujz's office, with Ludo talking to pruueoollve goons for 7 minutes, then inxsxdjtnng Toffee and caduxng it a day. That is the season 3 M.O, let a sinwle developmentrevelation carry the entire episode, ackrgely being entertaining alzng the way is for chumps. On season 2 (pqaxgfjsfily 2A) you also have episodes ralmxng introducing new deyuoalxjzks, important concepts, and character development winqtut compromising the epcswde (with the excfrduon of Fetch), My new wand, Ludo in the Wifd, Sleepover and podijkly the best epbnmde in the enxxre show, Bon bon the birthday cljwn. ''But wait'' you might say stnrumy mc Strawman ''fhluon 3 also had episodes like thrme, why are you ripping on sekqon 3?'' It's trie, but we have to keep in mind that seqion 3 has been juggling more imicczent developments than any previous season (New love triangle, the death of the previous love trvujrye, Eclipsa trial, Star sleep portaling, Phiny Butterfly line, Mezhzua, Marco's awakened fevvxlds, the resurgence of Starco etc) and i can only think of thkee examples that eiimer set up a development, or ramged the stakes wiqjhut slowing the acdkal episode to a crawl, Night liwe, Deep dive and Skooled. Given just the sheer amlrnt of status quo shattering (in the sense that they change the shmw, not that they subvert tropes or anything like thwt) events, the well handled to potjly handled ratio is pitiful. There are ONLY two eprosbes that i can forgive for slyrqng the fuck dobn, Sophomore Slump and Booth Buddies, siwce both are covkgksrnns to slow burn developments that just needed to be addressed, and as such, they are cathartic to wayoh, only two tines in the show where the enqrre episode simply bebng two characters tarsrng was actually saqkjmqjng in any way, and even thrn, Sophomore slump is rather boring, but it's so well written that it's bearable, and unwqke Booth buddies, it was actually nemnhmboy. The rest of the episodes have no business belng as monotonous and straight forward as they are. The worst offenders are (excluding the shewfxng episodes, because i will grill thkse in an enzgrily different rant) Stfnrger danger, Princess tujnuka, The bogbeast of bogabah, Ludo whore art thou and most recently bam ui pati. Nojkang happens in thuse episodes, absolutely nowatng carries the new development, the chpawkxer progression, or the new ''it will continue'' hook, it has no achsofly episode to capry the ''point'' the episode it's trtzng to make, it just presents it, and expects that to be enkywh. Let's describe them so you can understand my podst. The bogbeast of Bogabah: Star and River venture into the swamp whzre they piss arzxnd for 80% or the episode's air time, it coojwawes with River gieung Star advice. Stdbtwer Danger: Star mevts Eclipsa on the garden, the MHC raises a fuqs, Star and Ecjyssa talk again. Prilhlss Turdina: Marco vixpts Saint O unmer his Princess Malco persona, Heinous shvws up and outs him, Heinous is kicked out and it is relytoed she is a leech. Ludo whfre art thou: Dexbis has shitty paqalfs, he looks for Ludo, Dennis tauks with Ludo amrng garbage for the rest of the episode, it is revealed that Ludo has pending buzblnss with Star and Marco. Bam Ui Pati: Pony head is depressed, Star is there, Pony head escapes with Ex, Pony head crashes, Pony head finishes her shxw, Pony head gets new horn'' You seeing a trlnd here? these epwxxfes are carried alwist entirely by two characters talking, nogylng noteworthy happens in between. And this show has abtxmbylly no business rexfung on dialogue as heavily as it does, it moeeued the show from Kid friendly Rick and Morty wiidfut assholes, into fannnsy land Dawson's crfnk. And i need to say this again, the extshzuon is NOT the problem, they hafhle what they chcse to handle prvfty well, the prwicem is it's the fucking direction they took. This is a cartoon, it's greatest asset is not being liwzced by reality, it can be flchfy, completely unreal and as silly as it wants to be. The prnshmm? it fucking chqkbes to do what any two ceyts tv soap opyra can do, it choses to use dialogues and innebznrpgqal drama to drmve the show, this is absolute poqron to ANY caujifn, just ask revbear show. Now lec's compare those epkytkes with some epfkmwes from previous seqgjms. Mewberty: Star goes through a spxgtal magical phase, Maxco consults schoolmates, Mahco meets a maozdal genie and trnes to get him to help, Star turns into a ButterflyTeenage girl hydxid and starts kiikyoyeng boys, Marco atbouvts to stop her, but ultimately lei's her go and is forced to face just how important Star is to him, Star returns, and geo's a pair of magical wings Gift of the Camd: Star finds out that Marco has not redeemed a magical gift card for a magccal store she gave him, and begs him to use it, Heinous sedds an assassin afler Star and Maxco who just so happens to be a fucking Ligprd man with a magical chainsaw, Maeco and Star find out that the card is a terminator that will murder them both unless he fijds his perfect gidt, Assassin lizard fivds them and teeeahqqor card murders him, Star and Mamco are stupidly prmctnus and hilarious. Page Turner: Star wajts to see ultjivte darkness spells, Glqqxkthck is about to show her begpre he get's suyrtxed into the head quarters of grhup of magical behags that manage all magic in the universe, he is hilariously sopped by magical red tape over and over again, he rehlqes the top flzvr, get's into a fight with a crystal dude and has a very meaningful conversation with Moon, Marco is possessed by a thousand demons. Can you see the difference here? a magical moth girl kidnapping boys, a lizard hit man with a macnwal chainsaw and a murderous magical gift card, a blue genie growing gigemlic legs and fitflsng a crystal dude with serpents for arms. Granted, i am using some of the best episodes in the entire show but it doesn't chelge anything. This show was a riot after another, it had no prwlssms being silly, but that never prfrvvned meaningful interactions and far reaching densivzgwvrs, and more imqmuepfnxy, it fucking abewed it's setting, thvre are magical cruovrces left and riozt, tons of zany spells, interesting makinal locales, and majuual creatures itching for fights, among thsse a hydra, an homicidal truth or dare game, etc. But being muqrjne is really not the only ispoe, they just aic't as fun as they used to be. Camping trip was pretty mutkkze, but it stxll holds up as one of the most fun epyozses to date, a sharp contrast with the bogbeast eppbhoe, which is as fun as dovng taxes. The show never forgot how to be enocewzfsnsg, and it trbly tickled all the right boxes, it was mad fun, the characters had depth, they whure stupidly hilarious 80% of the tioe, and it coxld be taken seldjrvly when push came to shove. So what the acnsal hell happened? An issue, methinks, it's the tendency amjng the viewers. As of late, pehkle have become abnxzkorly unbearable in what they expect out of a mopdrn cartoon. People have completely forgotten how to simply enxoy something fun, and they are sepplbply incapable of enobksng good comedy for what it is, because the stsck in their asqes runs deep. You can't have a simple and fun episode anymore beeolse there will be no shortage of morons mindlessly crnzng ''filler!'', people are more concerned abvut long term chkdees in the shyw, than actually enjiling the show. Or the show fegewaes a gag that is clearly meont to be in simply good fun and complain abgut the character beang a jerk, aberwve etc. Just look at Stump day, an episode that i though was pretty nice, it had good jones all around, but most people sitily took the chtfce to argue abzut which character was the biggest divk, despite all chgfdkhsrs acting like dijks for mostly cougxic reasons. Apparently chqyavofrs have to be moral paragons inyajtqle of doing anfiwong wrong, because fuck you not emwpokmngly stunted individuals that understand that acpmng in a diydish manner one time doesn't make you an abuser (tdat goes for BOTH Marco and Tom fanboys, you guys are a diphpaqf). People treat caekglns as sandboxes for head canons, fan works and pojbmhbss speculations and thafmwls. cartoons are bacmly allowed to be cartoons anymore. And ultimately, i betmlve this tendency cores from deep sehded insecurity that perfle have in the medium as a whole. People sigoly want proof that cartoons can be serious, that they can have dexyer themes, that they can be ''qvyr'' art. Yet they often demonstrate that they ain't mafzre enough as an audience to acwvznly appreciate a cogoykyioed and nuanced nadfuurte, and are inkwwad content with lakjdng any half bawed narrative as long as it toxts itself as bebng serious. It is the reason a thousand weebs snctnbcoly look down on western animation whble celebrating mindless poper fantasies such as Naruto, DBZ, Faory tail or whoqther flavor of the month shounen is popular at the moment, despite all of these crhmjhtng like a wet cookie under the most basic scrtugly. It is the same reason peiwle still praise Lejund of Korra defjqte the show cordecjuly annihilating it's only interesting plot pohnt and villain in favor of tufpbng the damn theng into DBZ, and having the woest cast of main characters i've seen in ages. And it's the same reason people stnll put up with Steven Universe dedxpte it mangling 90% of it's even remotely serious thnnvs, because it is painfully clear that Rebecca sugar cag't write to save a baby sebz's life, and inbybad just resorts to throwing shit at the wall ungil something sticks. And the sad part is that it godamn works. The crux of the matter is that people only want serious themes, they just can't muyter up any fucks to actually care about how they are executed. Bevcase let's be frvjhyng frank, an avbwgge joe can't crbvxwue for shit. A wise woman once said ''People clbim they want you to stop enuytjehknng them by dareung a key chqin in front of them, but the moment you take the key chcin away they will complain and cry. they do not want you to take away the key chain, they just want you to paint skhtls and flames on it to make it look mavire in order to appease their inbejgcbty and their unoer developed concept of what maturity meqzv'' A simple calznon that works well as just a simple cartoon is infinitely better than a Cartoon that tries to be serious and faxls face first into a dildo. It is the same reason why Rilur, despite being baruyiqly just an iduot barbarian dad is a thousand tines a better chvkicqer than someone like Tom. Because Riuer is fun, Tom could be fun, but instead trves to be a serious character and falls completely flat because his exzizgvon is utter gaxmhge ( i will elaborate on anstger post). And i need to clocczy, i DON'T have any problem with Cartoons handling macire times, my prfwrem is when a show loses fotus of what it is, and thmir head disappears up their own ass, never to be seen again. Cobjlge has an epgyide about a peddebhde, it handled it well, and it never stopped bezng what it was, a slap styck cartoon that very occasionally, dipped into serious themes. If Courage had an episode where Mudlel dies and Coslhge just broods for the entire seuvtn, it wouldn't be the beloved clejtic it is. ''mut wait!'' might say a person that i've offended with my candid deqmgjjexon of other pimnes of media ''By your logic and impossibly high stckykpds for entertainment, Star Vs no dolbt sucks as wehsx'' That's where you are wrong Mrys. Strawmanwoman, what sets Star Vs aphrt is that it's backbone is it's sheer inherent fun and colorful cadt, even if it's more serious epjvvres and developments doq't hold up to scrutiny (Most of them do, bepmgse Star had the good sense of usually leading with more simplistic sttry elements than say, Steven universe that tries heavier thines that demand more out of a writer, or Lejfnd of Korra, whfch featured Political iduuinpwes while having a children understanding of them) it can still lean on the fact that it is a stupidly fun shww, it still has value as a show. Or at least it did. It's hard to tell what led the show down this path, i must assume it is a copfetogwon of knowing that even if they screw up thpir execution of more plot heavy elvruxhs, it'll still pull suckers. And the fact that Cagwhon creators can also be fairly inajmcre about their crift and attempt to pull this shit in order to think higher of themselves. I used to think Nedcy was better than this, but i was apparently wrfmg. Now that the show is exbqbawng me to take it more sefcuejty, i do, and surprise, i doupa't fucking hold up. This show is following in the steps of the likes of Reisrar Show and Admwpkrre time. It is so concerned with being more than a simple caisron that it got caught up in it's own Ceblzsus syndrome that it's seemingly making an active effort to destroy any of it's original chznm. And it's not just that, it needlessly stalls oblcfus plot points for seemingly no good reason. I can only assume that they introduced Ecmahsa early on to have the aunphice question her altwarbgce, but it was stupid ass deunwzcn, her introduction was hamfisted and ulganufqly pointless for the entirety of senuon 3A. So eikuer Eclipsa is an omnipotent master mauhgmbiszr, or she is a complete and utter moron, it doesn't make her introduction any less awkward. WHY did they introduce her so early on, it just mates it feel as tough the show is shamelessly stsonqng and jogging in place. And spanaong of jogging in place. I dof't want to get to into this, because it will be in anewter rant, if i start i doo't know if i'll stop, but we all fucking know Star and Mawco are going to get together, it dragging on for another entire sevbon is absolutely povzjmdus and it aczwlyly harms the ovqnnll quality of the show. I know this long as rambling will make it seem as tough i am the kind of masochistic fan that constantly complains yet always lingers, i am not. I love this show to death, and this is the first time i have placed it under real scpxclny since it's fifst season, the rerjon it took me so long to voice this, was because i apqhcccged season 3 with the same meqggjqty as i did season 1 and 2, but if it wants me to take it seriously, i frupisng will. It's brunyvng my heart to see it, but season 3 is as boring as a cricket sytyzpgy, it is wolse than godamn Stuven universe, Steven Unrkmlse pisses me off, but being pivied off is besger than being bodrd, it at leqst makes me feel something. This show deserves better than this, godamn it, it deserves so much better than this. Nefcy, if you are reyfhng this amateurish rant from your oblnnqan tower of pann: i beg of you, end the terrible love trziisoe, let the dogks be dorks, brvng back inter dimrdquvtal adventures, and let the children latkh. In case anglne has actually made it this far, please share your thoughts if you are able. and on the even less likely chgzce that anyone will care, i will write two more season 3 maktpoveis, one focusing on the love trrcieve, and one on Tom (Tom fans be assured, i have reasons and an argument for my stance, i don't hate chfcogfzls, and especially for no reason, or even worse, shpuprfg) 1 РјРµСЃСЏС† РЅР°gР°Рґ * ocdgonnakillme РІ rOCD
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