Winx Club S2 E26

## Plot

The teachers are alright, and the Winx and pixies continue on. The Specialists finish off the shadow monsters and decide to catch up with the girls. Tecna and Digit stay behind to fight some monsters while the others go on ahead. The Trix use their magic to merge into a single ghost like being and get out of oblivion (or it could be limbo). Tune, Musa, and Flora stay behind to fight more monsters while Stella, Layla, and the rest of the pixies go on ahead. The plot point from episode 7 *finally* comes into play. Faragonda had the guardian pixies make copies of the Codex in case they ever needed them. They use it to follow Darkar, but first Stella solves a color spectrum puzzle. They go through the portal to the Realix dimension. They fight Lord Darkar. The Specialists and the rest of the Winx come through the portal. Faragonda, Griffon, and Codatorta beat the guardian. Despite having numbers on their side, the Specialists and Winx are taken down by Darkar. Riven takes a hit meant for Musa. The Trix, in their new form, show up to get revenge on Darkar. Dark Bloom completes the chant, and Darkar is about to claim the Realix power. Sky tries to snap Bloom out of it by confessing his love for her. At first, it looks like it doesn't work, but then something starts happening. She snaps out of it and uses her healing power on herself and everyone else, including Riven. This also used up all of the Realix power. For supposedly being more powerful than the Dragon Flame, that "ultimate power" was kind of underwhelming. Darkar is angry and attacks them. The teachers show up, and they all stand against him. The girls decide to try using Charmix and convergence magic at the same time. It works, and Darkar is destroyed. Shadowhaunt starts collapsing, and the Trix are left there. Not out of malice, but the heroes had to escape too. Plus they take out two enemies at once. Another party is held to celebrate the defeat of another villain. Layla officially declares her and Musa best friends forever. Sky and Bloom kiss, though it's blocked this time. They take multiple group pictures, including Glim, Mirta, and Lucy.

## Review

I liked this episode. It had romance, action, friendship, and closure. It makes me look forward to season 3, which has my favorite transformation, Enchantix, and my favorite theme song. If you look in the background during the party, you'll see familiar characters, like Amentia, Sponsus, Lucy, Mirta, and Jared, who has a girlfriend. I recently saw someone mention in a YouTube comment that this season was the character development season, and they're certainly right. Layla's monophobia was first hinted at all the way back in episode 2. I love her conversations with Musa, Flora, and Stella, although I wish she had similar one on one talks with Tecna, and with Bloom, who just explains things to her most of the time, like how she does belong in the group, that Stella's parents are divorced, and that while Stella may act like she doesn't care sometimes, she's actually really sensitive. And that's just a small part of the character development that all of the characters go through. That's not to say that there weren't missed opportunities, there were, like why Helia became a pacifist, and why he decided to rejoin the Specialists.