What happened, Winx Club? Part 2

Read Part 1 here.

Now, let's continue!

I really, really don't like what they've done with Tecna's character in the most recent seasons... I know a lot of people love her now, but I can't stand it. In the early Seasons she was the smart girl... not the geeky girl.

Yes, yes, I know you're probably all thinking "oh, but she's smart AND geeky!!! its not like shes not smart anymore" but that wasn't what Tecna was intended to be. She was supposed to be similar to a machine; cold and serious. But still having emotions, just... she didn't share them much.

But now as of the two most recents seasons, Tecna has become the modern day geeky girl in my eyes. Always using her phone, playing computer games... and honestly, the writers aren't doing much to help that. She gets like maybe five lines an episode on average (assuming the episode isn't like.... the Zenith one) so the only thing we ever see her do is play on her phone.

I don't like this new Tecna. But let's move on to Aisha.

Aisha I think is actually doing pretty well, as far as not getting her character wrecked. She's one of the characters that you can actually use the excuse of "they grew up" on.

In Seasons 2 and 3 she was kinda quiet and kinda shy. Not in a "uwwahh I'm so nervous" kind of way, just in an unsocial way. Didn't introduce herself to many people.

Season 4 I've heard a lot of people complain that she was too gushy over Nabu... but Nabu is cool, man. He can be gushed over.

Joking aside, it was pretty out of character, for a guy who she hated a season before. It didn't strike me as blaringly annoying though.

Season 5 I've heard a lot of people say they're glad she's back to her S2 and 3 self... but I dunno. I don't really think she is. She seems a lot more aggressive in Season 5. Like a mix between evil at the end of 4 and 2 and 3 personalities.

I also see people complaining she's taking up too much lines and all in Season 5... which I REALLY don't get, considering she still says/does nothing, except she got shoved on a few more Sirenix missions then most girls. But hey, if you're going to complain about Sirenix missions, complain about Stella. She was in 5/6 of them, only reason she wasn't in the one she wasn't was because she was turned into a little kid. Stella is like the Nick writers' baby.

The boys.

Have I mentioned there are literally no stock pictures of these guys together in uniform. I have resorted to using this screenshot of them walking into the Frutti music bar with the most vague expressions on their faces I have ever seen.

The specialists are really lacking recently. In the beginning of the series they struck me as real characters... they were still mostly only there to be the boyfriends for the girls, but they had character anyway. That seems to have been lost in all except Riven, and amnesiac Sky.

I mean, Riven's character is hard to lose. To be fair he's spoken maybe literally one or two lines this entire Season so far, (holy cow riven I just noticed how few lines that is WHAT) BUT I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume he's still a selfish jerk.

Sky on the other hand wasn't even Sky 70% of what we've seen so far, but heck, at least the guy we saw had character. (I know a lot of people are gonna argue with me that he was Sky, just lost memories... i'm sorry but no, he wasn't Sky anymore.)

Every other guy including Riven has either dropped off the face of the planet, is Bloom's dad, is a villain, or has died. Cough, cough, Nabu. Where did our boys go? I know this is a girl power show, but man, we still need some guys. A single gendered show isn't interesting.

There isn't even anything else to say about them. That's how little they're doing.

Oh boy, time for our final characters... the Trix.

The Trix have been doing, quite sadly, too much as of right now. With their return and the blossoming love between Tritannus and Icy, these characters have been run through an entire season that they don't belong in. At all.

In Season 1 the girls were heartless, cold... well, witches. Nothing good about them. I mean, they summoned an entire army of the dead. The good witch Glinda doesn't do that. Seasons 2 and 3... they were lackeys, but they retained their general personality. Season 4 they weren't there. Originally I was kinda sad about that, but looking back it's a good thing.

Season 5 they DON'T need to be here. Yes, I love the Trix as much as the next Winx Club fan, but for petesake the girls have been reduced to a group of mildly evil incompetent witches, one of which is lovey dovey head over heels for the mutant merboy nextdoor, and the other two spend the entire time gagging and complaining about it; I CAN'T EVEN BLAME THEM FOR COMPLAINING. I'm not even going on I'm too frustrated at this point.

Anyway. My next post will probably go up sometime later this week; I've decided what it'll be... but that'll have to be a surprise. It's not a doll review!

Sorry for taking so long to do this, I've been sick since Sunday and haven't felt good enough to sit down and write something until today. :P Oh well. Thanks for reading! What do you guys think of the changes to the Winx Club cast over the years?

Review: Jakks Pacific, Bloom and Sky Two Pack

Did you all have a good Christmas? I got this for Christmas! I think my sister thought it was awful how long I kept putting off buying it considering Sky is such an important character so she decided to have me get it for Christmas. :P It's a really cute pack! Let's get started on the review.

Look at the lovely couple! Except. uh. Season 5. Ignore that.

So as a pair of dolls they look pretty cute together-- my only complaint is that they're the same height, if not then Bloom is a bit taller. Which looks kinda odd when her head is so much rounder and cartoonier.

We'll start with Sky.

The boyfriend.

And 'the boyfriend's is pretty much what his character has been degraded to. Anyway. My personal gripes aside.

Sky is kinda.. and odd doll, to say the least. His head mold is weirdly shaped and his haircut's a little funny. He looks like that boy from Dog With a Blog.

Anyway, started toe to head-- his boots are the weirdest thing I have ever seen on a male doll in my life. The texture on them is supposed to be like snakeskin.

..snakeskin. Snakeskin Specialist boots? HOW is that useful? It's frighteningly ugly too. Oh well. At least they serve the purpose of boots, right?

His outfit is very, very average. The front of it's pretty nice I guess. It looks like it would be death to get it on and off. 

Well. That's attractive.

The entire back of his suit is this solid navy blue. I feel like it must've been different in the show, because this is pathetic.

His cape is debatebly more pathetic. It hangs down loosely, and I really, really want to know what that awkward hole at the top is for. Is it so it can go over his head? If so, why? Does he want to wear it as like... half of a poncho? What?

His sword is... odd. I don't really get it. It has all this royal detailing, so maybe it's supposed to be the Domino sword? But if so that's pretty sad considering it's shaped just like his normal sword-- just with royal detailing all over the handle.

Doesn't he look like the guy from Dog With a Blog!?

He does, doesn't he?! 

Anyway. His hair would be fine if they had made it longer and didn't cut it upwards with layering... because this isn't his haircut. This is like the supposed "hot guy" version of his haircut. Oh well. At least it's better then his Season 5 haircut.

His face is okay. It's not that bad or that good. It looks a little weird next to Bloom but it works. Let's move on to Bloom.

Sssoopppphhiiixx!

I really, really want to know what they were thinking with colors when they made this doll. She's super cute, but man look at this:

These colors are not the same. There is something different going on here.

But I guess it's close enough-- they just turned all the rich colors into pastel colors and slapped sparkles on them. 

Starting head to toe; she has the Enchantix shoes just like the Enchantix dolls. They're like a cross between Flora's and Bloom's, they're a nice sea green color.

I LOVE the way they pulled her skirt-- I'm sure there's a better word for how they did it but that's all I can think of. It looks absolutely grogeous with all the folds.

My only complaint with her skirt are these two green weird things sticking off the sides, which comparing to this picture above, looks like they mistook her sleeves FOR??

How does that happen?!

Well, it also has this pink fabric ribbon detailing across the top that looks nice.

Her shirt is pretty much her skirt. In shirt form. I like the cut of it.

Her sleeves are pretty nice-- I love how they did those poofy parts of the sleeves, but not too big on the green parts. I wish they had made them a richer color, it works though.

Her hair is surprisingly NOT deathly awful, which infinitely confuses me, because I don't remember how my Believix came, but my Enchantix came a frizzy rats nest. This does not. This come messily curled, but soft and cute. 

My gut tells me that if you brushed it you would have the hair monster though, so don't take any chances.

I like her wings. They're just Believix with green and blue instead, and those colors look nice on Bloom-- they should kick pink out of her color scheme. That does not look good.

Her face is generally the same as the normal Believix Enchantix one, but I swear her lipstick is at LEAST two shades more purple. I would've noticed if Believix was this purple. These are really purple, my pictures don't do it justice.

And it's a good thing. It looks super cute. Bloom should wear purple makeup way more often.

As a whole I'd rate this pack around a 7.5/10; it's nice, but it doesn't make much sense. Separately I'd rate Sky about a 7 or so out of 10, he suffices as a Sky. I guess. And Bloom probably about a 7.8/10.

Also. They can't kiss very well. It looks like they might be able to, but really in this picture what it looked like was happening to me as I was taking it, was Sky was shoving his lips up against the side of Bloom's upper lip as he leaned in to whisper something in her ear.

Thanks for reading, and expect more doll reviews soon! I got two more Winx dolls for Christmas (that are Jakks, I got one Mattel, but thats useless in reviewing since theyre obsolete) so expect a couple more reviews. :) 

Icy Sirenix, New Preview Clip, and Harmonix Clips

Man, a lot of stuff to stuff into one article, but it all came out so close to each other so they ended up together.

First, a new poster came out that includes Sirenix Icy! What do you guys think?

Personally, I feel like parts of it are really nice, but other don't work so well... like, I really love the stuff on her hair, face, and arms, but the jumpsuit(??) looks a little odd. 

But maybe she'll have Sirenix-looking tights on the legs?? Who knows. I don't really like the muk look of it though, it kinda looks like she fell in some oil. I know they were probably going for that, but you know what I mean. It doesn't work that well for clothing.

I absolutely adore the blue lipstick and makeup though, that's a giant improvement. Makes her look much more evil then before.

Be sure to check out MagixJourney's article on it, and MagicOfWinxClub's article on it! They reported it before me. :) And here is the source of this poster!

Also new in the Winx world, is a preview clip for the next episode! It shows Princess Krystal bringing Diaspro in to help Sky regain his memories. Bad move there, Krystal... that wasn't the smartest thing.

I don't really think she had bad intentions, but boy did she mess up. Eek. And Sky, why are you so trusting of Diaspro when you were reluctant to talk to Bloom about your past at all??? What!? 

Watch the clip here, on MagixJourney's Youtube!

Lastly, a new commercial came out for Harmonix dolls from Simba/Giochi/Witty/that European company, but it doesn't show off the dolls as much as it does Harmonix. They should advertise new Seasons like this, this got me pumped for Harmonix. Much more then for the dolls. :P

These clips were beautiful! Love Harmonix, definitely one of my favorite transformations of theirs. It's so pretty! But I still hold my old opinion of it being hard to fight in, I mean look at it. ;) Still very gorgeous, though.

You can watch the ad here on BelieveInWinx's Youtube!

Thanks for reading, and be sure to check back Sunday for my next episode review!! Assuming they air it, unlike last week. ;)

Review: Season 5: Episode 5, Tecna the Robot *SPOILERS*

Today's episode wasn't my favorite-- but it wasn't bad. Here's my review!

First off, we have Bloom trying to jog Sky's memory. It seemed to be going pretty good-- well, Sky still wasn't remembering anything, but Bloom seemed to be in a fairly good mood, which is something really rare in plots like this. :P Of course until Sky decided that it was useless since nothing was helping.

Then, I can't remember if it came before or after, but we got Princess Crystal trying to heal Sky. I like her. I like that she's not just the usual jerky brat like all the other love rivals are in this show. Not to say I don't adore out jerky brats-- but it's a nice change, isn't it?

But then of course Sky still won't remember, because there's a "barrier blocking Crystal's healing"... it was the pendant what. Get over your pendant Sky. You lost it, it's gone. That's it. No more. Groan. It could've have meant that much.

I did crack up over his little phone conversation with King Erindor, though. That was hilarious.

We also get to see Nereus and Queen Ligeia trying to find Tritannus, and Lenny(?) following them. They find him, he turns Nereus into one of his demon sea-mutants and then he demands information on Sirenix from Ligeia. She tells him Dafne/Daphne was the last Sirenix fairy, then he zaps her into a demon sea-mutant too.

 

Gosh Tritannus. Evil or not they're your family why are you turning them into ugly zombie mermen. And how did you turn Ligea from a female mermaid to a male mer-zombie? Gosh darnnit, Tritannus. I don't like your mer-zombies. Get rid of them. You should know this is only going to cause Neptune getting all angry at you and coming after you. ((Not to mention I was in love with Ligea's design.. why'd she have to get mutated too darn it.))

 Then it shows the Winx searching for The Sirenix Book-- Timmy and Tecna have worked out a new invention that should help them find it. But the Trix come and mess with her phone... causing her to find this creepy book.

As soon as she opens it... BOOM Tecna's a robot!! Poor Tecna. She finally gets her own little story/plot and it spans over what felt like six or seven minutes. I wish it had been the main focus of the episode instead of the mixture we got, she had quite a cool design. See the bottom of the article.

The robot wasn't even exactly evil-- it didn't try to really hurt the girls. It just started trashing the library looking for the Sirenix book. That lasted a couple minutes, but then the girls figured out it was her phone that was cursed and so they pulled it out of her robot self, causing her to turn back to normal. That was about it, for this episode. Oh, except!!

At the end it showed Tritannus talking to Icy about how he wanted her to go after Dafne/Daphne to find out more about Sirenix. That should be fun.

The next episode preview sounded pretty sweet though, with the whole competition thing going on. Minus the rainbow unicorn of course. That thing doesn't need to be there. 

Overall I'd say it was a pretty good episode, but there were a few minor complaints. Be sure to check back next week for the review for the next episode!

PS: All pictures used in this article are from Nick's official site, in their "Tecna the Robot" photogallery. :)

Review: Season 5: Episode 4, Return to Alfea *SPOILERS*

Image from the Winx Wikia

Let me start this off by saying I LOVE that they're returning to Alfea. It's good they're not staying on Earth, Earth had too many opportunities to do useless things. (Like, there's a much lower chance they're going to throw their Rock band and Pets into Magix then Earth.)

Now here is my review of the episode.

First off, since when can Dafne make wind blow? I know it was supposed to make the scene more dramatic, but jeezus. She's a spirit not... wind. What?

I kinda wish she had really died instead of this. Before it was made out to be she died saving her sister (and it was her choice to), now it just seems like an accident gone wrong, that can easily be fixed. Don't get me wrong, I love Dafne, but I hope they don't bring her back to life. It would negate the value of her sacrifice and make it too "happy ending for everyone." 

Looks like we're getting some Flora/Helia love drama this time. It's about time. I really like Princess Crystal's design. 

And does this mean Helia is from Lynphea? If he's childhood friends with Crystal, and she's the princess, wouldn't that mean he is?

Man, how much power can Tritannus pack into that trident?! If he can give the Trix THAT much power from one zap.. man.

Anyone else love Musa. She's being so snarky, it brings some variety to the cast. Almost reminds me of Season 1/2 (but mainly 1) Musa. She might be creeping up on my favorites list to be almost with Stella.

The fight they had was entertaining, but nothing to comment on. 

But wait, Sky fell ten stories!!

SKY WHATS WRONG WITH YOU WHY DIDNT YOU DIE IT WAS A TEN STORY FALL WHAT

You die if you fall ten stories, kiddies. Don't forget that.

..But now he doesn't remember Bloom. Somehow I am not surprised. It seems like it'll be an interesting plot nevertheless, but I hope it doesn't span over more then three or so episodes. I don't want the Season to just consist of "waahh my boyfriend doesn't remember me," but that might just be because I've watched various shows with that plot and I'm tired of it.

MY GOODNESS THE PREVIEW FOR THE NEXT EPISODE IS FRIGHTENING

Tecna finally gets some attention and she gets turned into a robot oh Tecna. :(

What I want to know though, is why is there EVEN a book that turns someone into a robot hanging out in Alfea's archive. WHY. When will that come in handy?!

Anyway, I liked this episode, but it wasn't as good as the last two. But it was better then the Lilo. :) I'd give it about a 7 or so out of 10. 

Thanks for reading everybody! Feel free to share your opinion on the episode in the comments :)

Sky's New Haircut

My my, looks like the King of Eraklyon got a brand new haircut!

Shame we can only see it from the back, but it's all that was posted today on Winx Club's Season 5 section of their website.

Personally, I think it's pretty nice. It's more fitting for today's styles, and it'll make him more popular with little girls and that audience. 

Though I must say, I will definitely miss his old haircut. It was different, do you know what I mean? It wasn't your average "cute boy" haircut from most tv boys. It was kind of different, while still being good looking.

Old haircut aside, this one is pretty cute and I definitely still like it. Season 5 seems to be changing up the hairstyles quite a bit.

I mean, until now Flora never wore a ponytail in the show. Musa's hairstyle is really different, Stella got some cute sidebangs, and Bloom finally grew out her bangs. (Though I think I may like her bangs better, oh well. They wouldn't have looked good with this new outfit anyway. I do hope she gets them back eventually, though!) 

Anyway, so Season 5 is in just a few days, it's this Sunday! How hyped up are you guys?! This picture is only making it more exciting, haha. 

Be sure to check out both BelieveInWinx's article and Magix Journey's article on these new screenshots! They both reported it super quick before me. ;)

And don't forget to help get Winx Club trending on Twitter this Sunday, the day of the premiere!