Winx Club S2 E15

## Plot

Musa is narrating about a concert at Red Fountain, where she'll be performing in public for the first time. She started organizing it during the previous episode. She's speaking to her mother. She's at her mom's grave, and she brought flowers. Stormy wants revenge on her for defeating her in the previous episode. She disguises herself and heads off. In a very out of character moment, Brandon flirts with multiple girls, including a disguised Stormy, despite already being in a very stable and loving romantic relationship with Stella. She was literally willing to die for you earlier this season! Apparently it's because the two have a game about who can flirt with more people, although they're still faithful to each other. It's sort of like an open marriage, minus the actual hookup and marriage parts. Layla is dancing in her dorm. Her roommate is Francis, the fairy of laughter. There is a flash forward to her, Mirta, and Francis dancing onstage during the concert. In reality, this episode is edited differently depending on which dub you're watching. For the first three seasons, I watched the Cinélume dub, also known as the RAI English dub because of how faithful it was to the original Italian. Musa is practicing her solo. Her father has come to Alfea to visit her. Things go smoothly until he learns that she's singing in a concert, and is thinking of becoming a professional singer. He also doesn't like Riven. It's too bad that their meeting is offscreen. He and Musa argue, and he decides to transfer her to another school after the concert. Layla overheard their conversation, and Musa tells her about her childhood and how her parents fell in love. Her dad saw her mom's first concert, and immediately fell in love with her and her voice. He asked her to sing a piece he wrote. She was going back home the next afternoon, so she said she'd come over the next morning. In truth, he hadn't written anything at all, so he had to compose it all in one night. The piece was nothing special, but she liked to sing it anyway. Eventually they got married, and they lived and worked side by side. After a while though, work became scarce, and they didn't have a lot of money. Then Musa was born. Even though they were poor, they were very happy to have her. Then Musa's mom got sick. They didn't have enough money to buy medicine, and she died. Her dad never played again after that. Layla tells Musa that her father is probably worried that if she chooses a musical career, she'll end up like her mom. We literally –and beautifully– fast forward to the concert at Red Fountain. Musa starts singing her solo. Her father watches her performance, and loves it. After it's over, Stormy reveals herself and attacks Musa's father. Musa transforms. She can't use her sound magic though, or it might hurt the bystanders in the crowd. What about the other fairies or specialists? They're in the crowd too. Use your magic! Musa asks the audience to sing along with her. We see Riven for the first time in ***a long time***, and he tells the audience to do what she says, because she knows what she's doing. The strength of the song overpowers Stormy's Gloomix powers and sends her back to Shadowhaunt. Riven asks Musa's dad if he's okay, and he admits that he was wrong about him. Musa finishes telling the story to her mother at her grave, and it's revealed that her father is also there.

## Review

I really liked this episode. Yes, there was lots of padding here and there, like Layla's dancing and the song with Stella. A reason why could be because the episode is solely focused on Musa. Stella and Layla only have a few lines, Flora has one, and Bloom and Tecna don't even speak and are background characters for the episode. I actually really like this. The episode has only one focus and plot, instead of two or three it has to juggle, meaning that nothing important has to be cut out or happen offscreen, for the most part. Personally, I would've cut out at least some of the padding and actually showed Riven and Musa's dad meeting. You'll recognize quite a few characters in the crowd, like the rest of the Winx, the Specialists, Mirta, and Francis. This was a great episode.