Today's episode was actually really interesting.. totally worth the wait!
So we started with Tecna and Aisha trying to open the Sirenix book, and they're unable to. It literally won't open. Like, the cover won't move from it's closed position. Then they get called the Faragonda's office, where she tells them to enter the challenge from the Nature Spirit to open the book... and that if they fail this Sirenix mission they could lose their powers forever. Well Faragonda, that came out of nowhere. Thanks for the heads up when we were looking for the book. Not.
Then they went and entered the challenge where the objective was to find a rainbow unicorn and bring it to the Nature Spirit-- seemed surprisingly easy to me. It had the girls against two other teams of fairies, one of which didn't appear in the entire episode except at the beginning here, and the other followed them to cheat.
The Trix came and atacked some of them, then went off to find the rainbow unicorn (er, rainbow creature?) so the Winx couldn't get it. While they were looking for it some of the Winx (they had split into two groups) found a regular old horse, and didn't think it was the rainbow unicorn. Because I mean, why would you expect it was?
Then the Trix arrive and blast them 'til they're knocked out, and then blasts the horse off a cliff and it's hanging there by a branch. The other Winx arrive and Bloom saves the horse from falling, which then proceeds to shed it's rainbow magic and defeat the Trix?? Goodness this must be some super unicorn.
So then the Winx return to the Spirit and show her they found it, and then she gives them some sort of magic which is really just sparkles, not Harmonix. That was a little uh. Unexpected.
After that they go back to Alfea and open the Sirenix book... which reveals that if they do not get Sirenix within one full lunar cycle of right now, they will lose their powers forever.
Once again, would've been nice to know about before we started going after Sirenix, but okay whatever. Rude little book. The book then gives them little compacts that apparently hold their Sirenix guardian??? Something like that. They were pretty compacts, I'd buy one if they sold versions of them. The guardians are the little keeper mermaids, right? I'm pretty sure they are. They have some nice cases, woo. They are then given Harmonix by the book.
You know, I kinda like that you can't keep Harmonix for more then one lunar cycle. It's kinda like a curse in it's own way, because if you stay in it too long you lose your magic. Makes it more interesting.
They then are told by the book that they need some gems to get Sirenix. I can't remember what they all were, but one was the Gem of Self Confidence.
What a title. Gem of Self Confidence. I can't decide if I love it or hate it. Anyway, so they send Bloom, Stella and Aisha to find it in some cave of Shimmering Shells in Andros. I can't remember why just them, I don't think it was that good a reason. Should've taken them all with you. Then Flora, Musa and Tecna agree to stay back and follow them with the Magical Reality Chamber. Been a while since we've used that, it's nice it's back.
So then the group going to Andros gets in a magical yacht driven by.. Roy.
ROY. NOT ROY OH BOY. (also, what kind of yachts have you been on, Stella? I don't think that's a yacht, that's a speedboat based on the size of it.)
Don't know how many of you read it or not, but one of the other Winx bloggers posted a rumor about Roy.. goodness I hope it doesn't turn out to be true. I don't like him. He doesn't compare to Nabu.
While they go in the boat Flora, Tecna and Musa follow them underwater through the Magical Reality Chamber. (In some cute outfits, if I may say so myself.) Tecna senses something big up ahead and she thinks it's the Shimmering Shells cave. Okay, that's reasonable.
Bloom, Stella and Aisha transform into Harmonix and dive underwater... where they're going good, until GOODNESS A DARK SHADOW... seriously though, what is it? My guess is that fish monster from the Harmonix commercial. Could be comething else though.
That's when the episode ends and we get a preview for the next one. In it we see the Winx with the little mermaid keeper guardian things underwater. Flora's apparently with them now too, she was in this little blurb at the end.
We also see in this little preview... a statue of a girl!? I had to rewind my DVR to take another look and see if I recognized her-- looking at it closely I think it's Flora.
She has Flora's Harmonix shirt if you look at the image. Doesn't Flora have those rose wristbands, as well? The only thing that makes me think it might not be Flora is the hair-- it looks like Aisha's, but Aisha was seen looking at the statue a moment later. So it can't be her. I'm pretty sure it's Flora. Has too much resemblance to her Harmonix costume to be anyone else, right?
Quite a good episode, one of my favorite's of the Season so far. The only thing that really confuses me though is that in the last episode it had Tritannus wanting to go after Daphne... he seems to have forgotten about that now? All he did this episode was be a creepy guy and talk to the merzombies that were Ligeia and Nereus about how it was nice to be taking a 'family trip' together.
What did you guys think of this episode? Who do you think the statue seen in the next episode preview is? What did you think of the girls' Harmonix, and what did you think of the contest they participated in? Share your thoughts in the comments below! :)
