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moonlightreal · 4 years

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Winx Club season 8/24

In which we get to the prize in this cereal box.

24 Dyamond on Ice

At last, at last, at last! I have waited all season! Squeeeeeeee! And if it weren’t for Evergleam finding me a site to watch these on, just because she wanted to do something nice for me and read my episode reactions, I wouldn’t be watching now! Evergleam, you are the greatest!

Ah, I’m so excited!

Ok, I kind of know what’s coming, and from what I‘ve heard it sounds… it sounds dumb. So yes I am vibrating with excitement about something I will likely snark the heck out of once I see it. But that’s the joy of fandom too, isn’t it?

Alfea! Wizgiz and his Scottish voice! Pop quiz nobody was prepared for! Tec and Musa are not prepared. Aisha says it isn’t fair. Stella is more concerned with sneaking carrots from Flora’s snack basket. Oh wait, no those are Stella’s snacks, perspective made it look like they were on Flora’s desk.

The test is, “Animal metamorphosymbiosis. All you have to do is turn into an animal of your choice!” Wizgiz poofs into a mouse, a dachshund and a hippo. Girls are worried, except Stella who’s chowing down on carrots. Is this a healthy eating PSA?

Bloom goes first and successfully poofs into a kitten the same red as her hair. Aisha becomes a butterfly, Tecna a lamb, Musa a songbird and Flora a tiger.

Everyone runs away from the tiger, even though it’s talking with Flora’s voice.

Wizgiz smells a rat. Stella is not what she seems! It’s Kiko! Stella poofed Kiko into a copy of herself so she could stay home and sketch fashion, which is what she’s doing when the girls get back, each carrying a pile of heavy books.

But let’s take a minute to ponder transformations. Those are some random animals the girls picked! Flora’s not the tigery sort and it seems like Aisha should have been an otter. I also wonder if she was showing off; wouldn’t insects be harder than mammals, since you have to transform more? I wonder what was going through the writers’ heads when they chose each girl’s animal, and what was going through the girls’ heads when they chose what animal to do! maybe all it proves is that transformation is actually not effected by your personality even though it seems like it should be!

Anyway, the girls are mad. So is Kiko. I wanna see the scene where Stella bribed him to do it! Hah! Stella isn’t actually sketching fashions, she’s getting caught up on her homework. ‘there’s so much to study!” she’s behind.

Tecna says that as punishment Wizgiz gave them all a lot of homework, so now they’ll have to study even more! Hang on, that’s not fair! The girls didn’t know Stella was cutting class, and Stella did manage a successful transformation after all!

Stella: I wish I was somewhere far away from here!”

The star case appears! “If that is your wish young fairy, it shall soon be granted. What you seek is a world frozen and battered a place where an ancient bond was shattered. This realm is called Dyamond, to be precise. Covered with crystal and mysterious ice. There you will find the seventh star you’ve awaited, follow the secret of a sister separated.”

Stella: “Sister? Whose sister?”

“Whoever completes this final (hollar? Haul?) will get the stars and keep them all.” so whoever gets this last star will get the others. That’s handy!

Stella’s still curious about the secret of sisters but Bloom says one step at a time.

Nobody mentions Daphne. If I hadn’t been spoiled my first thought would be Bloom and Daphne, they’re the sisters separated in Winx, and on the frozen planet Domino back in season one. Definite parallels here!

Tecna pulls up Dyamond’s stats on her phone. “It’s a world of crystal, and the surface is covered in magical ice.” Cool looking planet, it has a… I don’t even know how to describe it. Floaty geometric outer shell? You’ll have to look at a picture.

Off we go! We have to stay ahead of the Trix!

Cut to Icy’s grumpy face. She’s watching with Darcy and Stormy. Icy says, “Dyamond...” in a way you could tell the voice actress was trying for emotional while still doing Icy’s voice.

The other two are ready to go, to get there first.

Icy: “No.”

D&S: “No?”

Icy; “We’re not going to Dyamond. It’s too dangerous.”

Stormy: “But we have a mission. The last prime star is there.”

Icy: “So we’ll let the Winx risk it all and find it. And once they get the star we’ll take it.”

disappointed Trix. Darcy wanted a trap, Stormy was hoping for some good old fisticuffs. I love you two, don’t ever change.

Icy: ‘We’ll stay here and track their movements in the dark hologram. That is all.”

Oh, it has a name. Heh.

Valtor floats dramatically down from the ceiling and reminds his minions of their place. Icy actually looks scared! Valtor asks what she’s afraid of.

Icy: ‘I’m afraid of nothing.”

Valtor orders her off to Dyamond then. Icy clenches her fists. Valtor makes the mark glow on the Trix’s hands and reminds them he can dump them back in limbo anytime. Valtor’s voice actor is having so much fun.

Icy bows and says, “As you wish.” but when the three go to fly out Icy tells her sisters to go on without her, that she’ll catch up. Darcy and Stormy shrug and fly away.

Alone, Icy lands on the balcony of the asteroid and finally makes that thoughtful face I’ve been watching for for half the season. She summons a sphere of glass with a lavender crystal flower in it. Sad music plays. “Dyamond… how long… it’s not meant to be like that! The timing’s all wrong.” sad music and the winds of outer space blowing Icy’s hair and her cape.

Well that was sudden! Also, “timing’s all wrong’… did Icy have a plan? Dare I get my hopes up that there will be an explanation for why all this was never hinted at for seven whole seasons plus all of this one up until right now?

Back to Alfea! The Winx are ready to leave, after they make sure Stella is the genuine article. But then Sky arrives in a new ship, the “single seater Crow.” I like the design, reminds me of a sled. Sky is bummed that he got here just as Bloom’s off on another mission. He has tickets for the Technomagic arena for tonight! But his date might not be back in time.

The girls leave to save the universe.

Disappointed Sky: ‘Sorry… wait, what am I saying sorry for? Well if there’s no other way to see you tonight, I’ll go with you!”

Dyamond from space! I like.

Winxboarding over cool waves of ice, as if a stormy ocean froze all at once. Good music.

Tec’s still looking for information. “Bloom, I haven’t found much information about Dyamond, only it was once pretty populated.”

They see the remains of buildings under the ice.

Bloom: ‘It looks totally deserted now.”

Flora: “Something serious happened here.”

Stella: “Someone left the fridge open?”

Again, no mention that the same thing happened to Domino so the Three Ancestors or a similar type of being could be the cause here.

And with nothing but crystal and ice as far as the eye can see there’s no hint at where the prime star might be hiding. The music turns sad as the girls board past broken buildings and these giant totem-pole type things. The girls wonder what happened to the people who lived here. Long scene of destruction.

Bloom: “A deserted world… no life at all. it’s a real mystery.”

Which gives me plotbunnies because there must be people who investigate magical disasters like this.

Through the ice we see crystal flowers like the one Icy had growing on a tree. More good sad music.

A sign of life! A little creature! Stella thinks it could be a sprite or an animal. Tecna says it means there must still be life on Dyamond. Bloom asks Flora if she can talk to the trees. Flora does this light-up-pink spell, and the other Winx are impressed but Flora can’t sense anything. She says the trees are asleep.

It’s a white fox. After it! Through very cool frozen thorn plants. Interesting conversation, Bloom is surprised the fox is running away and Tecna agrees. Flora wonders what the little critter must have gone through and Aisha says she wouldn’t want to stay on this planet.

The fox makes the giant thorn bushes break apart and collapse, and the Winx have to board away or be squished. They escape and look down to see the fox glaring at them.

Bloom can tell something is up, but she doesn’t know what.

The Trix are here, all together again. Darcy and Stormy are ready to find the Winx and battle. ‘this place is so boring! Give me something to hit with my lightning.”

I dunno, I’d think the ‘Total destruction’ aesthetic would appeal to witches!

Stormy sees the white fox and thinks it would be a good target for lightning! She strikes a pose, ready to throw lightning when Icy ices her hand. Stormy and her suddenly heavy hand fall to the ground.

Stormy: “Icy, what’s your problem?”

Icy: “Leave that fox alone!”

Darcy and Stormy look at each other in confusion.

The fox comes up to them and Icy looks down at it with a tragic expression.

And… flashback!

Silver-haired moppet in funny shorts skipping over a pile of pink crystals towards a river and a crystal-flower tree. Blonde girl following worriedly. They’ve found a mother fox with three cubs.

They look royalty. they’re both wearing really pretty very detailed peacock blue clothes, the younger girl in weird short-shorts and the older in a gown. The older girl has frizzy yellow hair tied up in an elaborate style with a bunch of braids and a many-layered bead crown. The younger girl has masses of wavy silver hair up in a singly ponytail, and she’s wearing funny shorts with leggings underneath. she’s much the braver of the two, clearly dragged her big sister out here.

Silver runs around with the foxes while her sister makes a crown of crystal flowers that have fallen from the tree. They cute-hug.

Back in the present Darcy says their mission is more important than the fox. Go find that prime star!

Back with the Winx, they’re boarding along when the star case appears then vanishes again. Guess we must be in the right place! The girls walk along what seems to be the traditional “narrow path along a steep cliff” which seems like exactly the place for using winxboards, but ok. The path threatens to crumble beneath their feet. The fox seems to be on a higher path, shadowing the Winx. she’s also in danger of crumbling ice-path.

We get a wider view, the Winx are walking up a path around a mountain that is basically buried under a huge frozen waterfall. We see this because it’s what the Trix see as they watch from afar. Darcy and Stormy are again keen to fight, but Icy sees that the fox is following and tells them to wait. Stormy calls her out again, ‘What’s wrong with you?” but Icy blusters, ‘I’ll decide when it’s time to strike!

This is feeling really tragic suddenly. The three of them have been always together for YEARS and had so many evil adventures but they don’t trust each other at all. Icy can’t trust her sisters not to jump all over even as small a sign of weakness as, “There’s stuff, ok? Don’t hurt the fox.”

Winx walk along path/semi-cave. Fox watches.

Stormy: “I’ve had enough of your floundering, Icy!” she shoves Icy and blasts lightning at the mountain. Icy yells, ‘No!”

Avalanche! Winx run for it!

Icy panics. “What have you done! what have you done!” Stormy looks concerned suddenly, seeing Icy freaking out this much.

They see the fox crying in the midst of the avalanche.

Incoming big damn hero! Sky lands and immediately rescues the fox. He chatters happily about how he’ll take the fox to Bloom, ‘I’m sure you’ll like her, and you’ll have Kiko to play with.”

This is possibly the most likeable moment Sky has had all season. I just love it.

Icy still in a panic attacks Sky. She ices his suit wings and sends an avalanche to crush his scout ship, sending it crashing through the ice into water down below. (And having played Subnautica Below Zero, I know all about the fish in that water!)

The Winx watch in horror and Bloom goes to help Sky, who is by now hanging off the cliff with his suit wings frozen.

Bloom: “Sky, you should not be here!”

Sky: “I agree, but can we talk about this later!”

Two likeable Sky moments!

Icy goes in for the kill! She sends tons of ice crashing down on Sky, sending him down to join his ship in the water. Yikes!

Sad music again, Icy hovers holding the fox in her arms. She flies away, leaving the confused Darcy and Stormy to follow after her.

Bloom: “Magic Winx, Sirenix!”

Oh my gosh Crystal Sirenix is beautiful. I knew it was, I have pictures, but… it really is. Love the crystal headdresses. Love the way it takes from the original “gothic sirenix” design, incorporating the long skirts that eventually ended up in harmonix with the scale leggings. Everyone’s in their correct colors. Of course Aisha’s teal and purple is my favorite but Bloom’s almost-no-pink is also looking good.

And they comment on it! “Our Sirenix form is different! what happened?” Tecna says, “It’s Crystal sirenix! Our powers are reacting to the magical ice, to protect us.”

They immediately dive down to find Sky, and discover that they glow in the dark water! Tecna says their Crystal Sirenix “has a high degree of adaptability.” It’ll do whatever they need, that’s cool. But it does muddy up… well, I thought of Sirenix as being a transformation that exists for the purpose of protecting the Infinite Ocean, so how many past Sirenix fairies would have to deal with magical ice? Maybe the adaptability wasn’t a known thing, it’s just… magic. Since magic does everything by magic, you don’t know what else it might do.

And that’s all! Whew, what an episode!

So Icy’s backstory is… Bloom’s backstory. Writers just went, “Well this was a hit the first time, let’s use it again!” Or, since I want to believe the best of these writers even when they make it really hard, the writers thought it would be cool to have the main hero and main villain’s stories mirror each other. Bloom and Icy have suffered similar things, being torn from a beloved sister and had their world frozen, then each of them went to school and ended up with close friends. But they ended up as two very different people, which I think we can put down to Bloom being young enough that she didn’t remember Domino and then she ended up with super loving parents while Icy ended up with nobody until she got to cloud Tower and met her roommates who told her the legend of the three Ancestral witches...

#winx club season 8 #winx club

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hopewritteninthestars · 6 years

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Crackdown on Whiny Fanboys

I finally saw TLJ with my own eyes. I’ve been a fan since I was a child. I grew up on this franchise since my mom introduced it to me with a late night viewing on a TV movie channel when I was about 8, and as a little girl realized my love of space and storytelling. I’m 21 now and it’s just as special to me now. That being said I saw TLJ and thought it was really wonderful. And that is why I’m pissed at Fanboys whining about it ruining everything. Mostly the manner in which they do it.

Let’s knock out a short list -

• “Too much humor”

It’s funny but is that so wrong? It brings a relatablity to it. I went with cousins who aren’t devoted fans and they said the humorous moments helped them delve into the world better because it felt like mannerisms that could happen between real people. That it didn’t seem so serious and detached. The humor is well balanced with the serious. Star Wars isn’t Star Trek it’s not supposed to be a very precise sci fi story. It’s a mix of fairytale, western and soap opera. You’re supposed to have fun sometimes. And it didn’t distract from the gravity of the story at all.

• “Leia in space was STUPID”

I heard about this and wanted to see for myself. I had heard all the Superman references and so on... I think the reaction was way overblown. Yes it was something never seen before in a use of the force but again this is fiction you shouldn’t go on complaining about the logistics. I thought it was a powerful moment and reminds us that Leia is equally gifted as Luke even if she doesn’t get the same attention for those qualities. Particularly the scene where her eyes opened and it was very silent was beautiful.

• “Finn gets stuck with that chubby Asian Chick”

This is a big one for me. I’ve seen awful things, cruel things said about Rose and it breaks my heart that those horrid people would say such things. Rose was a fantastic character and for being New was easily blended in and her chemistry with Finn was natural and genuine. In fact many of the times I felt emotional were in Rose scenes. Props to Kelly because she was able to deliver great facial expressions to match the emotional tone of a given scene. But most of all Rose was so brave and I don’t want to hear any pathetic bitch boys slander her. *sorry for the language but I draw the line at any body shaming and especially racially charged insults, get out of this fandom if that’s your take*

Rose you are precious and we all love you!❤️

• “The Side Adventure with Finn and Rose was awful”

Okay I may be in the minority but this storyline did not bother me one bit. It was light and fun and covered important topics but not in a way that was as distracting as people claimed. People acted as if it was a drawn out PSA when it really wasn’t. It was observations. We see quick nods to the dangers of greed, child labor and animal abuse. Enough to show the wrongness and leave and impression but it was not some big thing that took away from anything at all. The casino was visually pleasing to the eye and was a good change of scenery from the place of war we are so used to. It helped us see a part of the galaxy, people and creatures whose lives go day to day removed from the two sided situation we mostly just get to see. A reminder of the little details and everyday happenings. That’s refreshing.

And I hate people saying that Finn didn’t have anything to do. That’s insane. He was able to show way more wit and bravery here than he got to do in TFA. And to me at least he didn’t seem like he was just there for comedic timing anymore. He got to be serious, sensitive and tactile adding much needed character growth and attention. He was still new to the resistance world and wasn’t afraid to accept that and joining with Rose didn’t hesitate to go off and complete a serious mission knowing his background gave him serious advantage.

• “Rey Nobody”

First off if you bitch about Rey now that she is a nobody you need to leave now because you don’t understand anything. Rey can be powerful and not have to be connected to known characters. As Daisy has said Rey shouldn’t be questioned that the only reason she can be powerful is because of family and not of her own merit. Not Skywalker, not Solo and as much as I love Kenobi not that either and that’s fine. Rey is powerful and fantastic for just being Rey and if you can’t appreciate her for that then that’s your problem.

• “Poe acting out of character”

This one I’ve heard never made sense to me as a complaint people had. Poe was superb! After not getting much story in TFA we finally get to really know Poe beyond just being a talented pilot. He’s humorous, extremely brave and a cunning and intelligent warrior. He rebels and so on but he knows what he’s doing even if others aren’t as understanding to his headstrong attitude. I really liked Poe in TFA but I absolutely adore him after seeing TLJ.

• “Luke is a coward”

Say that to my face because you’re the coward for even uttering such blasphemy. Luke is not a coward. Luke is not the same Luke you hold on a pedestal as a placeholder for your self inserting fantasies. He’s grown, he’s seen things and has been through things that gave him a quiet strength. You don’t have to prove your power in grandiose fights or shows of power. If you’re a “true” fan of Luke’s you can appreciate this development. Luke is still himself and if anything is stronger in body and spirit than before. Luke’s appearance at the final showdown carried great emotional weight and it doesn’t matter if he was there physically or not. Luke used all his strength to be there - to see Leia, to help the resistance and to apologize and meet Kylo which is the most important thing. Luke knew he couldn’t save him but his being there will have a profound impact on Kylo’s development and that is truly important. To see Luke going out after fighting for his family was a testament to his character and I don’t believe it will be in vain.

Those are just a few of many absurd claims I’ve heard. I’m just tired of people’s endless attacks on it. It’s ridiculous and exhausting. But if that’s your opinion and it upsets you so be it. Leave if you want to because we only have room in this fandom for true devotees. Those who love stories and characters and can look past flaws without ridicule. Stories evolve and change that’s inevitable but you have to be open. End of rant. Anyways if anyone wants to discuss the greatness of TLJ, Reylo, Finnrose, Poe Dameron or so on these are things I love and I’m always here for that, hit me up to fan girl anytime. To anyone hateful please leave.

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