#thecartoonzone

I’m sorry you feel like that, but it’s an understandable reaction: while personally I think that S3 has been the best so far in terms of pacing, characters growth and story, I think most fans would agree that it has also been the least enjoyable season so far. The strain in Star and Marco’s relationship brought a change that rippled throughout the season, delivering little to no “fun adventure” episode (Trial By Squire and Marco Jr. were essentially the only ones), and Star’s need to change Mewni in the first half of the season and all the revelations about her family in the second half monopolized the plot part of the story, leading to several episodes that, while mostly interesting and objectively good, were lacking as far as “stand alone fun” goes. Personally this wasn’t a huge issue to me, since I’ve always appreciate the show’s ability to drastically change status quo, focus and narrative from season to season, as if they were acts of a longer story, chapters of a book, rather than separated TV entities, but I also crave, NEED, for Season 4 to bring back the good from the first seasons, mixed to the good of the most recent one, delivering something that allows all the characters involved to be ready to take on all the loose ends of the story - plot and character development wise - while putting to good use all they learned up to that point. And hopefully it’s going to partially rekindle the flame of interest in you, and other fans whom might feel the same.

Personally I like RDK’s one more: less bouncy and detailed, but waaay better, in my opinion, at conveying facial expressions and feelings, since they try to copy the storyboards as closely as possible, instead of going “this is how we draw a sad face. This is how we draw a happy face” like Sugarcube and, in a lesser way, Mercury did.

Interesting point!  It probably would’ve raised too many questions when it’s revealed they’re just mud pits since the pigs aren’t different sizes. It’s a gag that works better in its simplicity but I do find it strange that they chose to make the Eds’ shadows all the same length...  I guess it’s fair since Eddy’s hat is really compensating for his height, though.

I don’t necessarily mind for Jackie, because while it might have been interesting to see a character who was that important to Marco (and Star) get more screentime, it’s not like the show ever lead us to believe she’d have got hefty amounts of developments, we always saw her from Marco’s perspective. For Toffee... it’s different. I think 99% of the fandom wanted to know more about him, to see him more (in flesh and bones, not inside Ludo), and that the way he was defeated in the nick of time felt a bit anticlimactic, and yet... how could things have gone? He was too dangerous and powerful to be allowed to roam free, they had to do off with him immediately, or the whole season would have been vastly different. I’d have loved to know more about his past, though (and I still haven’t given up hope that we might know more, eventually. He’s called Toffee, had Eclipsa’s marks on his shoulder skulls, and knew where the Monster Temple was, for god’s sake! Come on, there has to be a connection to Eclipsa that runs deeper than “When Toffee dies Eclipsa is free so they’re thematically connected”!)

Something about the Realm of Magic, something about Globgor, something about the Blood Moon, maybe something about Star questioning even more who she is. Tomstar ending, Starco, Glossaryck being hopefully more influential than he was during S3. Very very generic expectations.

Lowkey same, even though I like Pony - when she’s not the sole focus of an episode, though.

May StarClan light your path!