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.
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.