Winx Club S7 E15

## Plot

Picking up where the previous episode left off, Kalshara tells the Winx that she'll call off the Vampire of Fire if they let her go. Flora thinks that they have no choice but to let her go. Aisha says that someone like Kalshara never keeps her word. Stella asks Bloom why she can't just use her Dragon Flame to reactivate the fire. We get a flashback to Bloom on Pyros with Maia in season 3. It's actually reanimated footage instead of a real flashback though. Maia told Bloom at one point during her training that magic can't always get where we'd like it to. That's why the Dragon Flame can't be used to recreate the magic fire of Pyros. Its flame has a different nature. Bloom tells Stella that the Dragon Flame can't solve this problem. They're a long way from season 1, and even season 6, when the Dragon Flame always defeated the Trix and powered the Winx's new transformation. When Kalshara mentions that the vampire is inside the heart of the volcano, Bloom remembers what Elas told them about the MiniWorlds. Also, apparently very little time passes in the real world when they use Tynix. I love the Tynix music, but it feels like they put all of their effort into that, and not the actual transformation part of the transformation sequence. They enter the MiniWorld of Precious Stones and meet up with their fairy animals, who were fighting Brafilius and lava monsters near the volcano. In their new forms, they can be the girls' mounts. Even Amarok, Critty, and Elas are capable of flying, somehow. They meet some super adorable, cute, tiny, dragon like creatures with gems on their heads. They're called Clankies. Their Tynix bracelets start glowing, which makes them capable of understanding each other. The orange one, Biff, agrees to lead the girls and their fairy animals to the heart of the volcano. They try to relight the fire by using their magic on a shard, but it doesn't work. The vampire of fire damaged it. The girls use their powers on **the** shard instead, which works. Unfortunately, activating the forge summoned the vampire. The Winx's Tynix powers don't seem to be effective, but Biff tells them that the monster is constantly recharging itself by absorbing the magic fire. Bloom single-handedly defeats it by combining her powers with Elas's. Biff absorbs Pyros's magic fire and hits the crystal shard with it, which makes everything work again. Musa tells Bloom that she was awesome (ugh), and she and Aisha hug her. Okay, Bloom's weird face during that hug made me laugh. Um, Bloom? This is far from the first –and probably also far from the last– time that you've single-handedly saved the day and basically made the other girls unnecessary. She starts to at least credit Elas with the victory as well, but then his horn turns silver, and he says it means his power is evolving. Meanwhile, in the real world, Brafilius falls into the volcano, and Kalshara saves him. He scans a dragon and tells her that they don't have the ultimate power either. The magic fire returns, the dragons recover, and they force Kalshara and Brafilius to flee. The girls and their fairy animals return to the real world, but they're still in their Tynix/MiniWorld forms for some reason. A dragon tells them that they took care of Kalshara. This episode was boring. Only a few Tynix spells were cast, which isn't a good way to show off this brand new power, Bloom did everything again, etc. Kalshara and Brafilius spend almost the entire season looking for the fairy animal with the ultimate power, but I don't think they ever find it. It's just so dull! It's like in Ninjago season 7, when Krux and Acronix are just slowly working towards one goal for nine or ten episodes, but at least they actually accomplished it, to the point where Wu had to pull a heroic sacrifice to defeat them and save Ray, Kai, and Nya, but then we never actually saw or heard about their ultimate fate. I've always just assumed that they died when the Iron Doom crashed. Basically, all of these episodes are the same formulaic plot over and over again: Kalshara and Brafilius try to find the fairy animal with the ultimate power; they never do and always escape to try again. The girls and their fairy animals go into MiniWorlds for various reasons, but nothing interesting ever happens in them. They also help out Roxy sometimes with the new park in Gardenia. I'm guessing, since I still haven't seen all of the episodes, nor do I intend to go through the extra effort of finding them if they're all this boring. Sure, old places and things are seen again, like the Creature of the Rainbow Mantle, who tells the girls that the animal with the ultimate power is linked to the fairy power. I think the pixies also return for an episode or two. They also bring back Graynor, which is where the Winx found the Creature of the Rainbow Mantle originally, and Paradise Bay from season 5, as well as Oppositus from season 3, but I think that's it. Besides, the people working on this show shouldn't rely on cheap attempts at nostalgia to try and keep my interest. They should rely on making a good story, for children, teens, and adults who grew up with Winx Club. They celebrated their fifteen year anniversary in 2019! I don't think that really counts since the show went off the air for four or five years so Rainbow and Ignio Straffi could focus on spin-off shows, live action adaptations, and other projects, as well as the rest of the crew, and so Rainbow could recover from their financial problems, but even with all of that, Winx Club was still over a decade old. Season 6 came out in 2014, which was its 10th anniversary. Ninjago celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2021, and they ended up airing a special and their 14th season very early on into the year, while also working on whatever they have planned for 2022 and possibly even beyond. This show only went off the air for one year, in 2013, when everyone, including myself, thought that it was over and Legends of Chima was going to take its place. That didn't end up happening, thank goodness. Now *that* is a show that everyone can like, while still keeping its target audience of young kids in sight, even with the forced soft reboot approach they had to take in season 8, because they won older fans back with their *extremely* strong writing. In fact, at the time of this initial writing, today, January 14, 2021, is, by sheer coincidence, their tenth anniversary. What do I do? What *should* I do? What do I say? What *can* I say that I haven't already said? Thank you, cast and crew of Ninjago, for exactly ten years of laughter, love, and tears, and hopefully many more years to come. My apologies to the Winx Club only fans who probably don't like that this basically turned into a Ninjago appreciation post. Anyways, I'm skipping ahead again to the final arc, which starts in episode 22, and introduces us to the final antagonists of the season. Ugh. I'm cleansing my palate with *Carmen Sandiego* and *She-Ra and the Princesses of Power* after this.