Winx Club S5 E3

## Plot

The girls return to Alfea, and it is *so good* to see it and all of its characters again, even with their new designs. Oh my gosh, Amaryl and Mirta still exist! Yes! Not that they'll ever speak again or be useful or be seen in an action sequence, but I'll take what I can get at this point. Also, we see Princess Krystal. She'll be important later, unfortunately. Also squared, Roxy is introduced before being promptly forgotten about and discarded in favor of Bloom and the "real" Winx Club girls. Also cubed, despite now being 20 years old (21 in Stella's case), and trying to teach last season, the girls become students again. Oh, I see Alice and Clarice again! And a girl who looks a lot like Francis! One of these days I'll just focus entirely on the background fairies. Anyways, the Specialists show up. Aisha is still subtly upset about Nabu, but at least Bloom notices it this time. She just doesn't know what's wrong, and it doesn't matter because this issue is never addressed and the conversation turns to Sky immediately afterwards and about how he's been so busy being the crown prince. But wasn't he technically made king in the movie? Which they finally address this season, by the way. Sky is still upset about losing the pendant. He still refuses to tell Bloom about it though. He believes in this bad luck superstition that basically says that since he lost the pendant, he won't be happy with the girl he loves. Flora meets Princess Krystal, who is childhood friends with Helia and the princess of Lynphea. Flora quickly becomes jealous, not helped by Helia introducing her as his friend, not girlfriend, and Krystal being super clingy towards Helia. I'm honestly a little surprised that she's not Diaspro 2.0. Oh yeah, she comes back this season too. Joy. Well, the girls have bigger things to worry about, and they *finally* talk to Faragonda about Tritannus and their Believix powers. We're only 5 minutes in, and I've complained so much already. Faragonda tells them that they have to try and acquire Sirenix powers. They have to start by finding the Sirenix book, but no one knows where it's hidden. No one has become a Sirenix fairy for a really long time. The last person to get it was Daphne, Bloom's older sister. She knows where the book is hidden. Aisha gets a call from her mom, who tells her that things have become difficult on Andros since King Neptune learned about Tritannus's escape. He plans on hunting down and possibly killing Tritannus. The rest of the family is horrified, especially Ligea. She wants to try reasoning with Tritannus, and Nereus, despite being injured, offers to go with her to protect her. However, Neptune is still really angry and forbids it. Bloom asks Daphne about Sirenix, but she *really* doesn't want to talk about it. The people who work on this show have retconned Daphne into being a spirit without a body instead of, you know, dead. They claim that it's because the Three Ancestral Witches cursed Sirenix, so when Daphne tried to use her powers to defend herself, she was cursed and turned into a spirit. Despite this, none of the girls are cursed after gaining Sirenix. It turns out that the book was hidden in Alfea's magic archive this whole time. Tritannus upgrades the Trix's powers so they can beat the Winx, and for once this doesn't give them new outfits. Bloom doesn't mention the curse to the others for some stupid reason. The archives have thousands upon thousands of books, so it could take them awhile to search, even with help from Sky, Brandon, and Helia. But they're just acting as bodyguards for some reason instead of helping the girls search. Okay. And they're not very good at it, since Helia and Brandon just talk to Krystal on campus, and Sky doesn't guard the door, which means the Trix can sneak in. Then again, they can teleport, so I guess it doesn't matter. And I'd like to talk about one particular scene. Flora and Sky talk one on one about their relationship troubles, kind of like what Flora and Riven did way back in season 2. However, before Sky can ask Flora for advice, Aisha interrupts them because they arrived at the magic archive. No! I admit that Musa's quip to her is funny though. The Trix attack them, and the girls don't transform right away for some reason. Krystal, Helia, and Brandon attempt to come to the rescue, but Helia is knocked unconscious by Darcy. Krystal never transforms, but she and Flora take Helia outside and out of the line of fire. Krystal uses her healing powers on him, and he wakes up. Um, Bloom has healing powers too. Flora is jealous, probably because Krystal basically felt Helia up while healing him, and possibly because she's worried about him but feels helpless because she doesn't have healing powers. Despite Helia regaining consciousness, neither he, Flora, or Krystal rejoin the fight. The rest of the girls transform, but the Trix beat them fairly easily. Sky ends up taking a hit for Bloom, falls down, and hits the floor *hard*. Um, a fall from that height should've killed him. Faragonda and Griselda finally show up, and the Trix retreat. Bloom checks on Sky, who slowly wakes up. Um, does she still have her healing powers? Anyways, Sky is okay, except for one small detail. That blow to the head gave him amnesia.

## Review

There… was not a lot to like about this episode. Just one or two key moments, and seeing background characters that will sadly never be important enough to even get a line or be recognized ever again. Sigh. Also, why wasn't Concordia in the magic archive? And why weren't Riven and Timmy also there?