Review: Season 5, Episode 17: Faraway Reflections

I was tired and busy the last few days so the episode review got put off until now. Woops. No pictures today either.

We start with the usual "we will rule... together!" junk from Icy and Tritannus as they stand in front of the pillar wanting to put in the thing. Darcy and Stormy complain and swim away, but Daphne stops them and asks them to stop Tritannus from putting all the seals in because if he does he'll unleash power he can't control and kill everyone. Guess that's not good.

They just kinda brush her off and zap her. No one listens to Daphne. Ever. Then she withers a little and yells for Bloom. Tritannus proceeds to put the seal in the throne and then it zaps him, turning him back into a human. I don't know why it did that, but whatever. It gave Daphne enough power to dream-communicate with Bloom.

Daphne tells Bloom to find the eye of inspiration, that shines above and below. Then we have some "cute" rabbit moments where Kiko's being tossed around. It's not cute.

Bloom wakes everyone up including Stella. Stella complains tons and Bloom quite literally has to drag her out of the bed, and she makes the best facial expression as that happens.

Darcy and Stormy contemplate on 'what if Daphne's right?' You better end up fighting against Tritannus and Icy at the end because they're being stupid guys. Tritannus and Icy agree to go to garbage island on Earth because apparently that's where you go for pollution. Darcy and Stormy tell Icy to ditch him and I'm tired of typing names. She says no because he's perfect and says she could lose the two of them though. Icy I don't like you this Season.

We're now in the Alfea Archive looking for a book on the Eye of Inspiration, and we have an odd moment where everyone spouts names of books with eyes in it that was mildly entertaining. One&OnlyWinxClub screencapped it if you guys wanna see.

Nope nope nope it's time for selkies. Why won't the selkies just go away?! They're not helping!! Ever!! And they don't even have a use anymore!! Filla does the usual signature selkie small beam attack and then gets shot down by Icy. What did you expect?!

Now we're sitting right outside Alfea since apparently that's the best place to think at 2AM. Aisha asks her Sirenix Guardian about the eye, who says that it's big and round and very bright tonight. ITS THE MOON ITS THE MOON GUYS.

I was right it was the moon. I like this Sirenix guardian she's cute. She doesn't give you stupid half answers that you have to think forever about.

Somehow we realize that that means a well, the shining below part that is. We lean over it and see the moon and a giant beam zaps up into the moon, and it takes us to a weird water room that reminds me of the Planetarium in Stella's castle. They should've given it a better background this is just a silly gradient. I really like the rest of the look of it though.

We see a map in the sky that's the three pillars and we're all yeaaahh happy okay. BUT THERE ARE FIVE STARS DO YOU GUYS NOT SEE THAT THEYRE ALL CONNECTED

ARE WE GONNA HAVE TO DO SOME STUPID STUFF FOR THE LAST TWO WHY DIDNT YOU NOTICE TWO MORE

Tecna takes a picture of it with her phone YOU SHOULDNT BE ABLE TO USE YOUR PHONE IN MAGICAL PLACES ITS JUST NOT RIGHT

Now we're back with Filla who is off recruiting all 100 selkies to help her. Hey there are man selkies. Do you really like all of you and your tiny beams are going to help? You still just have tiny beams.

Bloom's family and some other Gardenia commoners are cleaning up garbage island and that makes Tritannus angry because. He absorbs it all and then he comes up a little hole in it and scares the people but HOW DOES HE JUST FLY THERE

HE IS A MERMAN THEY DONT JUST FLY OKAY

He then turns it into the most generic nonthreatening monster I have ever seen. Then him and the Trix sit there and laugh for like a whole 15 seconds. 

We're back with the Winx and it's morning now. Stella's excited to go back to sleep but then Bloom gets a call from her mom about Tritannus attacking Gardenia and they have to go. No sleep for you, Stella.

We transform 2D Sirenix with some new clips that still don't strike me as special. There's something missing from this transformation but I can't place it. Maybe it's that we don't see them actually transforming, just jumping around.

Gaaaaardenia time! The Winx arrive and everyone cheers. Tritannus and his witch-lackeys decide to head out and go for Pillar of Balance next. I guess he likes that one better, why else do that next.

We attack the big monster but nothing happens. FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE THEY JUST TOLD YOU

Yes good they heard me. It took all six of them to make a bubble shield thing? That's kinda sad. I feel like Aisha or Musa could've done that on their own.

The monster throws one hit at it and it reflects it back and that just destroys the monster. That was the weakest monster ever all it took was one not even very big hit.

The selkies are here of course and attack the witches but because all they have is the GENERIC SELKIE BEAM they get sucked into a weird vortex by the enemies. Then they go into the Infinite Ocean.

There's the Winx! WHAT IS THE CRITERIA FOR WEIRD HAIR COLORS IS IT JUST UNDERWATER IN GENERAL I THOUGHT WE WENT UNDERWATER ONCE AND DIDNT HAVE IT STOP bEING RANDOM

We decide saving the selkies is more important than getting Tritannus. We use none other than CONVERGENCE and save them. But we took too long to follow Tritannus so now we just decide to wait for him to show up again. How did they change into their casual clothes I thought we were in our pajamas under Sirenix?!

Next episode preview the Sovereign Council is here. I spy Galatea!And Tritannus also summons the Devourer which is apparently a giant fish to eat the selkies. It looks like the one from the episode we went to Domino.

Overall I'd say I liked this episode better than the early episodes of S5, but I preferred the last two. What did you guys think of it?