Hey everyone. Star vs. The Review Time!!
This episode was yet another fun one for me. I enjoyed both parts, start to finish, every minute, every scene. A lot to like from both halfers, with some scenes being memorable for the entire series to come to a long way.
Let's start off this review with...
In it, Star accidentally freezes time with her wand and must convince Father Time to set things right.
The episode begins with Star getting ready for her day, and chooses a head-cap to match the mood, settling on a new headband: Cactuses. Marco rushes in and is frantically trying to get himself ready. Reason? At the start of the school day at 7:56, he meets up with Jackie Lynn for...a smile and a nod. He lays this out as Step 4 on a 23-Step plan.
(Gee, it’s like Marco is becoming a little more like a Latino version of Dipper. you know, circa early Season 1?)
Marc looks at the clock, and is about to be late for his daily meet cute, desperately asking Star for a solution: turning back time. She laughs this off, and jokingly says a spell with her Wand...which actually works, freezing time. Marco is delighted and can go to school to continue his nod session with Jackie. But...Star makes him realize that they can do whatever they want.
--This episode begins with a nice change-up: Star has a new hairband! As already mentioned, it’s a band with cactuses on top, a contrast to her usual band with demon horns.
Another great change-up here: Starco is looking a little different here.
While the messy and disorganized Star is actually ready for the day, the usually tidy and over-organized Marco isn’t, and is actually close to being late. To me, it’s kinda refreshing to see these nice subtle changes here.
--Also Continuity Not Alert!: the his and hers’ sink counter in the family bathroom as seen in “Quest Buy” is still the same, albeit Star’s side is a little more cleaner than before. A little
Starco run along Echo Creek and do just whatever--put mustaches on a baby, eat a girl’s birthday cake, switch head cozies with Ludo, whatever. Then at school, after relishing on their fun, Marco sees Jackie Lynn and gets into position before asking Star turn the Earth back on. Star tries a reversal spell...but it doesn’t work. Freaking out (well, mostly Marco), they go home to fix this week’s mess.
--Ludo has hair. Cool.
--At the top of this scene we’re treated with a still of Ferguson (and his tummy friend) getting smacked by a girl at the start of school. This is a call back to this happening the first time in “Match Maker”. It was funny then, and it’s funny now. More funnier when frozen in time.
At the DFH, Star opens her Magic Book, and finds a spell on how to turn time forward, which is going to a dimension called The Plains of Time and turning the Wheel of Progress. Starco arrive at the Plains and try to turn the Wheel. Marco’s plans...
...do not work. Star’s plan doesn’t work either, but this attracts Father Time. He tells them that he works the Wheel by walking on it like a hamster wheel (yep, Marco was right). but because time froze thanks to them, he can’t do that anymore. Starco try to stop him and convince him to turn time forward, but he’s too busy marveling at the best new things in his life...like twig, and a bush, and what he doesn’t know is a duck. They then have to chase him across the dimension.
--Okay, there shouldn’t be so much to be said about Father Time. But I will say this: He is HILARIOUS
--
(Cat with Human Face: GO AWAAAAYY.
Me: What the f***?)
Yeah...I would never go to the dimension with cats with human faces, either.
*shiver*
--Heh heh, Father Time is goofy and kooky and exuberant and funny. I like it.
--That thing he’s enjoying is mud. This is side-splitting
--From Marco’s line “...and everyone we know will freeze forever!”, this reminded me of an episode of The Twilight Zone called “The Stopwatch”, in which a guy buys a mysterious watch from a creepy drunk guy at a bar, and exploits it heavily, upon realization that the watch can…you guessed it, stop time. But the unfortunate climax comes in when he drops the watch during a robbery at a bank and freaks out, that he’s now stuck in a world that is frozen in time forever.
Fortunately, this doesn’t happen here...yet. (Or it does; you don’t know that.) But from that line, this episode perfectly captures the same situation as “The Stopwatch” did, but (slightly) less scary, and much more cheerful.
--Geddit?? The slick-fast turtle? The slowed-down? The Tortoise and the Hare??
What a classic.
--I hate the term “YOLO”, but the way he said it made me laugh.
--Since this has happened in between scenes, I will state that this here
is super cute.
This here
is just lovely.
And this here
is my new wallpaper for the next month.
“Now a word.”
Okay...Old Baby Marco.
Although they don’t catch up to Father Time at all, Starco instead finds a place on the Plains that records all of the universe’s memories and reveals any memories of anyone that comes in contact with this eye that descends from the ceiling, which it does with the two.
Star’s memories include her childhood in Mewni, which is her still getting reckless (even as a baby) and into trouble with Princess Pony Head, while Marc’s memories include smiling and nodding at Jackie. (Seriously, he’s been liking this girl since Kindergarten, and has tried to ask her out since, but has still only nodded with her). After reacting to their histories accordingly, they finally find Father Time marvelling at a doorstopper. The eye then shines on him, which reveals him working the Time Wheel since the start. But it also reveals that he’s really sad from doing the exact same thing for so, so, so long (which is really sad to see). So, feeling extremely guilty, Starco decide to let him have his long, long awaited free-time, while also keeping time alive...by using hamster to turn the wheel. (At first, you’d think the obvious, but actually the hamsters are used like horses, rolling the wheel like a stagecoach.) Father Time thanks Starco for giving him some much-needed freedom while also turning the wheel again, and also tells them not to do it again, as it’s fragile. (“You don’t wanna break it, you know what I mean?”)
But they realize that since time has started again, they’re about to be late for school; they dash back for Earth.
Time has finally turned again.
--Trust me when I say that I felt nearly heartbroken for Father Time when watching him going what he does for a living (and I do mean a living) and then feeling sad. You’d definitely feel that way too. And that explains a lot about his joy from finally waking free from the Wheel of Progress and enjoying his life without a care.
Back at ECA, Marco leans by his locker waiting for Jackie Lynn. They nod. But then Marc realizes that just nodding would get their relationship on higher ground. So he finally takes the next step by saying “Hey” to her. And to his surprise/relief, Jackie says “Hey” back. (Aww.) Marco breathes a sigh (or gasp) of relief and tells Star that if you have the time to do whatever’s important, never waste it. Marco is fiiinnaallyy geeeeetttttiiiiinnnnngggg sooooooommmmeeeeewwwhhhheeerree.
The episode ends with Father Time going back to his freedom, enjoying it with his big fuzzy hamster friends.
Wow. This was a very good episode.
We get to see a little of both Star’s and Marco’s childhoods (which was cool), a hilarious take on Father Time (played to perfection by comedian Jim Gaffigan), and nothing very strong going on, but I didn’t mind because I really enjoyed the goofy, sweet nature going on, and that it’s nice to lock out with a good fun story like this. Everything was awesome and engaging from start to finish, and nothing was boring or unexciting. Also, we get to see Star change her hairband for this episode, which was nice little temporary change.
I really like this episode. It’s really, really good.
Just like I really liked this episode…
In it, Star is delighted when her dad shows up for an unexpected visit, but he soon wears out his welcome.
This episode begins at the Diaz Family Home, where Marco wakes up (early, this time) to find the Home turned into a water slide. Although he enjoys the ride, he asks Star at the end to let him know about thing like this, as he hates the feeling of his socks getting wet.
Star’s father. King Butterfly, makes his appearance from Mewni, startling her and causing her to quickly turn back the house to normal. She then greets her dad, who informs her that Queen Butterfly, her mother, has kicked him out of their castle on Mewni for being a complete slob. After meeting the Laser Puppies, he reminds her that reckless use of her powers in the sight of the Queen would send her to St. Olga’s; but since she's not here, he cool with it.
Star gives the King a tour of the DFH, concluding it with a look of her Expansion Pack Bedroom and a meet-and-greet with the creatures who inhabit it.
(”I’m Kevin. I’m new here.” -Kevin
“Hi, Kevin.” -Me)
She also shows him the bathroom, where he gets fascinated with, of all things, the toilet, stuffing it and taking delight of the objects inside being swallowed down. Like a pig.
--King Butterfly geeking out over the toilet may be one of the best and funniest things ever. Okay, not really, but it’s getting up there.
--I’m curious: does Mewni have indoor plumbing like most of Earth does? That fascinates me.
--Oh, and that pig in the can is probably the pig as shown in "Brittney's Party".
Later on, Father and Daughter visit a mini-golf course, where he goes crazy with the sights and destroys it, sending other visitors running, and he and Star bolting as if nothing happened.
--No, I was wrong, King Butterfly destroying a kiddie golf course like it is an enemy war field is one of the funniest.
Later that night, Star wakes up (thanks to a pair of her dad’s undies) to find her father in a gross hill of clothes fighting her new bedroom friend Kevin, and making his daughter's room a pigsty. This keeps Star up all night, and makes her livid. She complains about it to Marco (who finds some familiarity in this) and gets an even ruder awakening: King Butterfly tells her that instead of ending his temporary residency at the Diaz Family Home, he’ll be be staying with her and the Diazes permanently, making him the second Butterfly to move in (although it’s going to end as soon as this episode ends, trust me). He also mentions a party later, where kings of other dimensions will join in to make Star’s lividness even deeper. Gonna be fun, huh?
Star has had enough and finally wants her dad to leave.
--Remember what Star said earlier, missing Marco’s point about how both her dad and herself being an inconsiderate prick; saying that he’s being that way to Queen Butterfly as well? Well, if you watched the episode through, you’ll realize that she’s just as right as Marco.
The party has begun, and all the Kings in the lands are having the times of their lives. He and King Pony Head are talking shop, before getting annoyed that Helios, a talking sun, appears to kill the party vibe.
Star apologizes to Marco for all of her previous partying way and recklessness, causing the times she ends up “soaking his socks”. Marc accepts and asks that, next time, she lets him know about it. Another king shows up Helios, and starts to destroy the party--first metaphorically by killing the vibe and eating the snacks, and then literally by sucking in the rest of Earth! Star puts a stop to this by watering down the party--literally--watering Helios and ending the party with all lives saved. Apparently, though, all the Kings didn’t find the amazing save okay and leave the ruined house party in a royally bummed mood. The King looks around the house and realizes what he’s done. He apologizes to Star for his horrible actions, and promises to be a better, cleaner person in compliance with Queen Butterfly upon his returning to their kingdom. with some servants coming by to clean up the house.
Star promises to give Marco a heads-up the next time she transforms the house, but Marc says a occasional surprise is a good thing, like the one in which he pushes her into the water. The episode ends with the two having fun in the water on the backs of dolphins.
This episode was just as fun to watch as "Freeze Day", and has a nice little message in learning someone being like you (in this case, inconsiderate) can make you realize that being that person is a bad thing. And although Star doesn't get the point immediately, she does learn it later on, and that refreshing to watch. Seeing Star's father again as enjoyable, as was him also getting a lessen in being inconsiderate. It's funny to see a grown man being getting told off for making his own daughter's second home a pigsty, but it was deserved.
Also, looking at the happy cheerful friends she has in her room, and her past as a princess on Mewni, it had me thinking something: When Star still lived on Mewni, as part of the royal family, she was a bad, misbehaving girl. But then when she begins her new life on Earth, her personality changed. She's more girly, cheerful a little more responsible and more willing to accept her faults and fix what she broke, changing her overall character little by little. And I mean "little by little" because she still needs a lot to learn to be more responsible with her powers.
Well, thanks for joining me again for this Review...and I'll see you next week. Because...
you've heard the stories...
you've heard the screams...
you've heard the terror...
but you've never seen it from the inside.
Next week, the time has finally come, as we finally take a look inside..."St. Olga's Reform School for Wayward Princesses".
I'm Andrew, saying "Reach for the Star, and Keep Looking Up!...at your TV screen".
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