Sure, she helps him make that ultimate realization, but Tom's actually standing on his own two feet throughout, and he's holding the episode together by virtue of his own strength of character, and that's a massive step up. What's so quintessential to the outcome is that Tom is being used meaningfully without simply feeding into Star. "Demoncism," surprisingly, could suggest the break in that vicious cycle that we so desperately need. While doing comments for yesterday's article, I briefly outlined what made Tom's character fall flat in "Club Snubbed," but to reiterate, anger is what defines Tom, and trying to rid that aspect of his personality is problematic considering that it makes him as defined as he is the show ultimately corners itself, more often than not, in trying to use him. The whole episode is centered around him having a "demoncism" to exhume the anger out of his body, and throughout it all, Star is remarkably passive, and I think that's what makes the episode work so effectively.
Interestingly, though, "Demoncism" doesn't just take the easy route and make Star the real protagonist that would be Tom. The connection between "Demoncism" and "Sophomore Slump," though, is a bit less obvious and gearing towards the long run on one hand, Star's practically moving on, and on the other, Marco's coming back around. What I'm trying to emphasize the most in these reviews, beyond just the episodes themselves, is their interconnectivity and how the two play off of some common theme of all shows, Star vs. Not even a little claw wave or something." "Dude.
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