#god me when two characters parallel to each other repeat the same line. explodes into tears.

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man i love parallels. sobbing immediately after this

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“Without imperfection neither you nor I would exist.”

With this quote from Stephen Hawking is how I hope to deepen the Evil, not evil theme. Specially this season, waves of hatred from the fandom hit the main characters of Star vs the Forces of Evil. Specially because their behaviour was, well..., far from perfect. And created such a story for the villain that we could almost feel pity on her.

Almost...

But imperfection and flaws in every good character was something that was clear since season 1. But on season 3 we had layers on moral dillemmas that made the main characters less likeable.

Daron took the risk and, for me, I got a payback. A late one. Anyway, having guts to conduct a show with a story line that is, in general, well driven, and a gray morality presented on Disney? Just loving it!

Of course, like its characters, season 3 had some flaws. But let’s understand if we should demand characters perfection, when we live in such an imperfect world..., in which we want everyone, including ourselves, to reach perfection.

But we would never be here if it weren’t for a series of imperfections. And how a season that got a huge payback in the end was made of such imperfect and criticized episodes.

Let’s start from the very, very beginning.

I will use two videos to illustrate my explanation.

The first one will be Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking - The Story of Everything.

The second one is Origin of Life - How Life Started on Earth from Cosmology Today.

Well, as both are somehow lengthy, I will try my best to guide the minutes in the video to show the extracts in which I based my text. I tried my best to put HTML that worked to show only the extract, but in the end I failed miserably. Sorry...

The Big Bang - “Fortunately there was a bit more matter than antimatter...”

(From Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking - The Story of Everything - from 8:32 to 12:43)

The Big Bang? Aren’t you going a bit too far away for this explanation?

Humm... I would like to expose how imperfection molded us from the very beginning.

So, I started from scratch. Real scratch.

And as seen, matter and its opposite counterpart came as result of a big explosion. But matter and antimatter annihilate each other while shocking generating energy and radiation. 

Theoretically, there should have been the same amount of matter and antimatter on the creation of the universe. Therefore, nothing should ever exist, but energy and radiation. Neither this text.

But somehow, there was a bit more matter than antimatter. A billionth part. Something within margin of error. And the universe is made of this small residue. This is the most accepted theory by now, as far as I know.

And this leaves us to our second lucky strike.

Gravity - “Let there be light...”

And there was light. If it were that easy, light would exist since time started to tickle. But it took around 200 million years to the universe become bright. Here is a pearl of wisdom taken from The Lion King.

Pumbaa: Timon?

Timon: Yeah? 

Pumbaa: Ever wonder what those sparkly dots are up there? 

Timon: Pumbaa. I don't wonder; I know. 

Pumbaa: Oh. What are they? 

Timon: They're fireflies. Fireflies that uh... got stuck up on that big... bluish-black... thing. 

Pumbaa: Oh. Gee. I always thought that they were balls of gas burning billions of miles away. 

Timon: Pumbaa, wit' you, everything's gas.

Happens that the “pig” is right... But how this happened?

(From Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking - The Story of Everything - from 13:41 to 19:47)

Gravity grouped matter in clouds of gas, which later ignited the star.

And now, there is light!

But if all matter was evenly distributed across the universe, again, gravity would not be enough to make matter collapse into stars and make them burn. They would, in fact, do nothing. A slight difference in matter distribution allowed it to become stars. Atom by atom.

Again, a slight difference, another margin of error, led stars to shine.

Earth - from star to rock

This explains the creation of stars but, and the planets?

This is a far longer process, that will only happen at least in a second generation of stars.

What?

Let’s understand how a star works first, so we can understand how planets are born later.

From here

Not you, Star Butterfly. A common star. Later, we’ll come back about the show. Believe me.

From here

(From Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking - The Story of Everything - from 24:00 to 29:43) 

So gravity compressed the clouds of gas, composed only of hydrogen, until it was hot enough for nuclear fusion. In this process, hydrogen becomes helium and light and radiation resulted from the process.

So the same process that led stars to shine, also created the first element different from hydrogen, which was the matter created from the Big Bang.

Most of the elements from the periodic table are created by nuclear fusion, as they are heavier than hydrogen and tend sink into the nucleus. Lithium, carbon, oxygen, neon, nitrogen, silicon will be created in the process just by repeating itself again and again.

Until comes iron.

Because iron doesn’t create energy when it fuses, gravity will collapse the star until explodes. Heavier chemical elements, like gold, silver, platinum or lead will be made in this process.

This is the end of a star. A supernova. Luckily, the star not massive enough to become a black hole, by imploding itself, and start to suck matter around it.

And now what?

(From Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking - The Story of Everything - from 38:10 to 42:45)

Applying this theory to our solar system, and old supernova has exploded. Now its material is spread throughout space and gravity starts its work again. A cloud of dust is formed and some of its debris will become planets. At its center the star creation process restarts.

Here comes the Sun.

And in another strike of cosmic luck, Earth is just inside the “goldilocks zone” where the amount of light reaching the planet is too close our Sun or too far from it to handle liquid water, which is essential for life to come, according to present theories.

From here

Yes, when we speak about Goldilocks, it’s that Goldilocks, the juvenile delinquent that broke into a bear family house. A girl with some moral flaws...

Anyway, the parallel with the story is what makes Earth perfect for the next step.

Life - “We are made of star dust”

(From Origin of Life - How Life Started on Earth - from 15:31 to 17:22)

It looks like after Earth formation, it would take a long time for it to cool, handle liquid water and begin to form life.

It is a matter of point of view. Human species (Homo sapiens) exists for around 300 thousand years. Planet Earth, for 4,5 billion years.

There are signs of water at least from 4,3 billion years ago.

A long time compared to the time we, humans, are in Earth. Too soon if  compared to Earth’s existence.

(From Origin of Life - How Life Started on Earth - from 17:51 to 22:19)

Life probably started in a warm soup heated, as Darwin thought and later Miller and Urey’s experiment proved that a part of it to be possible. This warm soup could be heated by the sun, as first thought, 

People started fearing a “Frankenstein” test tube, creating life.

(From Origin of Life - How Life Started on Earth - from 22:54 to 26:22)

And there could be life, even in the absence of the Sun light, heated by thermal energy, like a volcano, but under water. With the help of early Earth minerals.

But there is still the DNA formation, the most essential component of life. It looks like a first step of its formation may have happened in space.

Yes, in outer space.

If weren’t enough the planets and its components being made of star dust themselves, some of the main building materials (like DNA components - nucleotides) may have come from chemical that happened in outer space / supernova conditions.

OK. This is the end, my friend. Of this part.

Imperfection - Back to Evil, not evil

And why the hell you needed to do all this entire explanation, link to more than 2 hours of video material, link to a NASA experiment to explain some concept from your mind of Star vs the Forces of Evil?

ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND? HAVE YOU GONE MAD?

If you mean mad as “very enthusiastic about someone or something”, you’re right. I had already gone mad about this show.

(If you mean mad as “mentally ill”, like having some sort of psychiatric disorder, you may be right too, but this doesn’t matter for this text.)

About Season 3 of our show we could say it was, at least, imperfect.

Rushed pacing, a boastful character, and a slut. We had a lot of reaction (overreaction, in my opinion) this season.

The Evil, not evil concept was kept up to limit for Eclipsa. Even after the season finale, it’s not totally clear if her objective was just to rebuild her family or if there is still some hidden agenda.

From here

And the show once again stretched the limits by fulfilling Starco on a cheating on Booth Buddies...

From here

Anyway, it seems Tom reacted well after knowing it in Conquer...

From here

Brian (Tom’s life coach in past seasons) would give a medal for that kind of reaction...

Episode by episode, things feel very weird. Only in the end things came up to some sort of a solution. Which still has lots of loose points.

Imperfection brought us to here.

Yes, like in our universe, in the show’s universe were their flaws, their imperfections, that carried the plot up to here. As it has always been.

The concept of imperfection, flawful characters, and evil not being really evil when we come closer or having justifications for them permeates the whole show. This concept I called as Evil, not evil in this link.

Remember I based the Evil, not evil concept in the seven deadly sins (cardinal sins)? God is based in what the religion feels as perfection. Curiously, the Universe and Life seem to be based not as a result of a perfect labour, but of imperfection and hazard.

In every of those steps listed above there was danger of not reaching to life as it came on Earth. Not a result of design perfection, but a imperfect design - I would dare to say no design at all.

And in season 3, it seamed every episode that the team was a step closer of losing the pace of the show. But the payoff came. At least for me.

But the show, well, it has a design in which we can discuss how good or bad it is in our opinions. Its imperfect design had a start and is coming to an end, which seems to be on season 4.

About the Universe, well, it has some billions of years ahead. But don’t worry, some billion years before that happens we may be fried, evaporated or frozen in the process. Unless we find a new home, as Marco did.

Way later this show ends.