Review: Season 5: Episode 9, The Gem of Empathy *SPOILERS*

EDIT: Pictures added!

This episode wasn't as good as the last few, but it was still nice. <3 Here's my review!!

So we start out with Bloom having a dream where Daphne is being sucked into a weird void of pollution(?) and Bloom is trying to save her, but fails to. Then she wakes up and realizes she's late for class.

We then see WizGiz talking about age-change spells in a class with Stella, Flora, and Musa. ...that's a little groan-inducing. Like, come on, we know we're getting age-change later this episode but come on. Anyway, he ends and Stella shows the girls the designs she made. Flora compliments them and then Stella insists she tell her every little thing she loved. Helia calls, Flora does the classic "Helia!" like from the Lilo but Stella takes the phone away and insists she continue talking to her instead. Okay Stella you're my favorite character but you're really getting on my nerves right now. Stop that. >:C

Stella gets mad because she thinks Flora would rather talk to Helia then her so she calls up Brandon (who is just casually riding his DRAGON) saying it's an emergency. She then proceeds to do everything we saw in the Stella's Fashion clip so I can skip that.

Skip a little forward and Bloom, Aisha, and Tecna decide to go to Zenith to get the next gem. (hey wait, didn't Bloom just be dramatic and say she had her own thing to do in the last episode?) And we see Stella, Musa, and Flora in the archive of fashion or whatever it's called. Stella takes a brooch for "inspiration"... and it has an age-change spell on it. Woopsies. Aww cute baby Stella now. <3  

We're now with Bloom, Aisha and Tecna on Zenith! Well first Tritannus took Zenith selkie's powers, but I mean he does that all the time do I really need to say that. Roy apparently was assigned to patrol Zenith's waters and he has MAGIC NO ROY. Don't try to be Nabu only Nabu can be Nabu :( well he uses it so he can breathe underwater. He then goes with the girls underwater to the Zenith castle which had a cool name but I don't remember it.

Oh Brandon has arrived to meet Flora and Musa... sees little Stella and he thinks she's adorable and plays with her. Wait what. I didn't expect that reaction shouldn't he be a little worried his girlfriend just got turned into a three year old?

Back to Zenith. Tecna bonds with Zenith selkie and then we arrive in the castle and fight some of Tritannus' merzombies. Tecna tries to get the gem which is at the top of some seat throne thing but it's stuck??? Either that or Tecna is REALLY weak. Doubt it though since Aisha tried too and couldn't get it. Anyway they touch some weird vine and start fighting. Tecna says it might've been poisonous so Aisha shouldn't touch it and on it goes from there. I guess it was a cursed vine??

They fight for a little while and everyone fights merzombies for a little while until finally Bloom casts a spell or hits or who knows Aisha and Tecna to make them stop fighting. They then realize the key to getting the gem out is to do it together. I don't really get that since Empathy is understanding others' feelings, not together-ness. It's okay though. Anyway, gem received.

We now go back to Stella, Brandon, Musa, and Flora. Brandon is wearing a headdress of some sort-WHY. Did he make it with little Stella or something?? My goodness Brandon. Anyway they put her to sleep with a bedtime story of like, Princess named Stella who became the best fashion designer ever or something. As soon as she falls asleep she flashes back to normal Stella and wakes up. Basically she has a "what happened?" moment and the others are just like "haha we met a nice little girl today" and she's all like ah okay. Wait she didn't learn a lesson. Why isn't she learning a lesson she was awful earlier??

Overall it was a cute episode but not one of my favorites of the Season. I hope the next episode is a little better. <3 Be sure to tune in next Sunday at 1pm EST to watch it!! :) Thanks for reading! 

All images used in this post are from Nick's official site.

Review: Season 5: Episode 6, Fairy Harmony *SPOILERS*

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! :)