Hello, Star vs. the Forces of Evil fans, this is Concernedalien11780. I was a fan of the show ever since it began airing at the beginning of this year because of its animation style resembling Scott Pilgrim, acerbic and occasionally boundary-pushing sense of humor, and something hard to find on TV nowadays- a sense of genuine fun. This year, I began watching Disney XD more as a way of settling into a desired career of joining an animation studio, hopefully producing a show based on an original concept constantly gestating in my mind in the process, and this was the show that made me decide that Disney XD was the best place for modern animation and the most adult-oriented kids network on TV, a title held by Nickelodeon in the 90s and Cartoon Network from the 2000s until 2013. No one ever expected a Disney network to be the kids' network that didn't give too much thought as to whether they were breaking kids of their innocence or not. The show got me into most of the other animated shows on Disney XD, such as Gravity Falls, Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero, Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja, and Wander Over Yonder. Not Pickle and Peanut, however. That show makes me consider hating humanity. While I think about Gravity Falls more often now than Star due to its more addictive story that makes you want to think about it a lot, I still find Star to be one of the better shows on the network. Gravity Falls may be the smartest show currently being produced at Disney Television Animation (though not for much longer, as pretty much every Internet-dweller knows by now, and I don't know for sure if Disney will ever try making another "clever, strange, and somewhat poignant" show along the lines of Gravity Falls within the next few years, and I honestly expect Alex Hirsch to make an adult-oriented prime-time animated show for Fox as his next original production and play ancillary characters on Rick and Morty, Bob's Burgers, Adventure Time, Regular Show, Steven Universe, We Bare Bears, and some of Disney XD's other shows such as Star, along with work for Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios rather than make a sequel series or spin-off to Gravity Falls or another Disney XD original, unless it's really far-removed from the Pines family, though the upcoming productions from Disney Television Animation Billey Dilley's Super Duper Subterranean Summer, Wicked World, and Elena of Avalor have titles that make me think they may try going for something bolder in terms of storytelling than the simple action-humor-heart formula, and do a more maturely layered version of that formula like Gravity Falls did, though titles are all that's known about those future shows at this point), Star vs. the Forces of Evil is by far the most fun. If Star were a real person and we were closer in age, I'd want to date her. What? You've probably had a cartoon crush at some point too. It doesn't make too big a deal about having a female protagonist, which I think is the best way to make a show with one- don't act like you're morally superior because your protagonist is a girl, just make an awesome show that just so happens to have one. The infamous blog known as The Mary Sue praised this show, but in a way that seemed to wish that it did do that form of writing and promotion, and promoting the blog's "no bad tactics, only bad messages" style of ideological feminism. The individual or group of individuals running this blog almost never tackle issues of women's rights that actually exist in the real world, such as the subjugation of women in Middle Eastern countries or the gender pay gap in many industries, and seem to value fictional women's lives over real ones. I understand, considering how fiction is easier to deal with and apply ideology to than reality, and I want to fall into this trap as well in times, but this isn't wise regardless. It certainly doesn't help that their name is The Mary Sue, a name used in fanfiction communities for stereotyped, flanderized, and oftentimes misogynistic and/or misandrist character depictions, even if the name is used ironically. If any of the characters on Star wrote a blog, feminist or not, I'd follow it. Thanks for reading, and if you want to talk to me about the content of my post, about Star vs. the Forces of Evil or any other Disney XD Original Animated Series, or anything you want, please message me on my chat wall on this wiki, as I disabled comments to prevent flame wars about the more potentially controversial aspects of my blog post. #starxme