okay. A lot happened this week’s episodes and more importantly a lot happened to set up the endgame relationships. But I want to talk specifically about Junkin’ Janna and this significance of the message of this episode
Let there be no mistake this was definitely a Jantom episode. And I made another post earlier this week abut the foreshadowing of Jantom. Now its become even clearer. But a specific scene in this episode showed what the future was gonna be for one specific couple. And I’m talking about Startom.
This episode was about letting go of certain things in order to move forward in life. Which is exactly what ended up happening for bothTom and Janna. However, on was more significant than the other.
Throughout the episode Janna shows annoyance about Tom’s constant need to check in on Star and ignoring what they were just doing. She wasn’t annoyed with him. But his unhealthy obsession with Star. Right when he’s starting to get out of his shell he goes back to texting and sending selfies to Tom. This sets up the ultimate climax at the end of the episode.
Janna on the other hand revels that she only brought Tom along to blast a bird who’s been taking her cool stuff every time she finds something. at the end of this episode this all changes.
The scene of significance and The end of Tomstar
When Tom and Janna got into Butterfly castle in order to get Janna’s boot back But that decisions come from a very interesting thing Janna says “Look, I need my booth and you need your compact.” Tom and her work together in order to get her boot back and they get along quite nicely.
However things don’t go as planned and the bird turns out to be monster creature and then attacks Janna.
Janna then decides that the boot isn’t worth it. She just wants to leave and to live. so she leaves that desire behind. This isn’t that surprising given that Janna just wants to live. But this is important because Janna said before entering the castle that she “needs”her boot and Tom “needs” his compact.
But whatissurprising is what happens directly after
Tom goes in front of Janna to save her. But what he uses is his phone the same phone that he has been using to keep in contact with Star throughout the episode. Now I’ve talked about phones in a previous post and how they foreshadowed romance with their phone cases. I talked about how Janna’s phone case replicated many things in Tom’s underworld. But I didn’t see anything out the ordinary with Tom’s can that pointed to anything in particular romance wise. But that’s because its not what was on the case that mattered, but what was on the inside of the screen that did.
Tom using his phone itself is significant because of that fact alone. But what reallysets in stone my conclusion is the fact that Star’s name is explicitly on the screen with a new text from her.
But that’s not all. In the phone above you see a crack in the keyboard alone. But a second later, the whole phone screen shatters. This marks the nd of Star and Tom’s relationship. Tom gave up his phone but he also gave up Star in order to protect Janna. And this also proves that they didn't “need”that stuff. But really each other
And by the look on Janna’s face, she’s just as shocked as we are.
That moment changes everything. Janna sees Tom in a new light. Her face doesn’t change for a good couple of moments after he saves her She’s in genuine shock about what just happened and what Tom did for her. Things. have. changed. Between the both of them and Janna is the only one who can see the truth in that immediately. Tom still isn’t aware of what exactly has changed.
Now. What does this mean? What does Janna have to do with Tom and Star’s breakup?
The answer to both questions is very interesting. What does this mean? Star and Tom’s relationship is at the end of their line and will come to an end soon.
What does Janna have to do with the breakup? Nothing directly. This episode just shows that the chemistry between Janna and Tom is very strong and very reminiscent of Star and Marco’s relationship in season one. Janna has nothing to do what why Star and Tom will break up. But she does have everything to do what what will happen after.
This episode exists for a reason. Their interactions are reminiscent for a reason. Tom and Janna we ill become a couple in the future after Tom and Star break up. and I think that their romantic development will most likely happen in “Jannanigans.”
Overall, This episode was about Tom and Janna letting go of something they though they needed. They fought and argued over these things. But when it came down to eminent danger they dropped all those things and focused on each other and keeping each other safe. Tom more so than Janna because Janna is used to taking care of herself and didn’t expect anything from Tom. Once again this is very much like season one Starco. Janna’s face in that last photo proves that she wasn’t expecting Tom to do anything for her but is grateful none the less. and in the final shots of the episode we see that Janna and Tom’s body language has changed from acquaintance to something else.
We now see that Janna’s feelings for Tom really has changed. I wouldn’t say it’s romantic as of yet. But that’s what "Jannanigans” is for.
I’ve watched “Star VS The Forces of Evil” episode 21 season 4. It’s the last episode of the series and on the one hand, I understand that giving series a proper ending is one the most important things you can do, but on the other hand, I don’t want it to end. (Spoilers!) Star wants to destroy magic, goes to the magical dimension and start making a whispering spell and finds out that her powers aren’t enough. Marco took the wand and now tries to take care of Tom, who spent all that time there and now doesn’t have any memories (I was afraid that they forgot about Tom completely). So Marco has to feed him with pudding (Magic is weird), he succeeds and they both fight purple unicorns. Two other queens come and help Star, spirits of other queens come too and observe. Mina hears their spell from the well, falls in, but fights the unicorns and doesn’t disturb the spell. The spell on its turn works and now they have to run to the portals, which are collapsing. Already on Mewni, Star decides to come back for Marco and finds that he’s still there and there are no more portals. They stay there hugging each other and then the dimension blows up. Star wakes up on Mewni, everybody’s okay and she’s almost happy and then Tom shows her a huge glowing portal and she rushes to it. Marco wakes up on Earth and sees this portal too, takes Jackie’s board and tries to reach it. They are both late but then the portal blows up and now all the dimensions seem to be united. Star and Marco are together. I don’t know how it can be explained, what did it? Their love? I don’t care. I’m just so happy for them… For all of them. Now I’m going to take a little pause, read some comics, rethink my life, decide what to watch next.
I’ve watched “Star VS The Forces of Evil” episodes 19-20 season 4. In the first part of the first episode, Star comes to Eclipsa, brings a lot of cool warriors with her (by the way, where’s Tom? What did I miss?) and offers help to fight Mina. Well, it doesn’t work out, everybody except for Star is injured and Eclipsa has to use her no-name spell to destroy the huge warrior… Who appears to be not Mina, but one of her warriors. She’s still alive and fine and has a huge army. In the second part, Moon arrives at the monster castle, says Eclipsa that everybody has to be evacuated. Star pulls Marco over and says that she’s frustrated and feels guilty. They finally confess their feelings to each other and kiss (this time consensually and consciously). When they come back, Moon says that Eclipsa and her family has to surrender and that Mina’s working for her. In the first part of the second episode, we see some Queen Solaria recruiting Mina to her army to fight monsters. By the way, Solaria is Eclipsa’s mother and she wanted to erase all the monsters. (Obvious thought: her name is Solaria – sun and so on, and her daughter, who’s her total opposite is Eclipsa – like sun eclipse.) Eclipsa decides to surrender and Moon tries to order Mina to forfeit, but she refuses and attacks the castle. Hecapoo saves Star, Marco, Eclipsa, Meteora, and Moon by bringing them to some other dimension. King River manages to drag Globgor out of the castle and decides to save him “because he’s a father”. In the last part, two queens, two princesses and Marco hang out at the “Tavern at the end of the Multiverse”. Everybody there ran away from governments and magic. Star freaks out, says that she wants to destroy magic and goes into Glossaryck’s eye. Glossaryck takes her to the Queen portrait gallery, every Queen there except for Moon and Eclipsa look at the new portrait – Start’s. She sees that she saved everybody, but after destroying magic Marco stayed on Earth. She cries but realizes that she still has to fulfil her fate. They ended it on a cliffhanger and I, being a coward, decided to leave the last episode to another post. (After all, the actual finale was spoiled to me by one the best friends. Thanks, Vova.)
Now that the anticipation for Stranger Things 2 has died down I can focus on other important things to be over-excited about….like the return of one of my favorite cartoons next week!
The Battle for Mewni ended on such a big reveal…I’m so psyched to see what the season will have in store with Eclipsa as the new primary villain. Is Star going to be tempted to use her powers for evil?? Will Starco finally be a thing this season??? And if so, what about Tom and Jackie??? Aaaahhhhh I’m so pumped!!! :’0 <3
