Winx Club S5 E25

## Plot

The Winx decide to try dancing, because we don't have enough obvious messages yet. Krystal asks to talk to Flora about Helia. She apologizes for coming between them. She and Helia are just friends. He's in love with Flora. However, she doesn't seem to believe it. While practicing ballet, Aisha imagines dancing with Roy, and she gets a pair of ballet shoes. The mirror is magic. It can tell when someone opens their heart to dance. Stella imagines herself with her parents. Tecna imagines herself with Timmy. Musa imagines herself with the singing whales. Bloom imagines herself with Sky, obviously. Flora is about to leave, but Bloom tells her not to. They know she's sad, and they know why. Helia comes in and releases magical origami birds. They dance, and Flora gets a pair of shoes. She tells Helia that she's always loved him, and she always will. This whole thing was all just padding though. Almost nine full minutes of it. That's almost half the runtime! And this is supposed to be the penultimate episode of the season! Tritannus and Icy decide to capture Aisha and use her Sirenix power to activate the throne. She gets a call from Nereus and Tressa. They're under attack by Tritannus's mutants at the Pillar of Light. They need the Breath of the Ocean to summon every selkie in the Infinite Ocean. They remind the audience that they can't hurt or kill the mutants, who are innocent people. The Winx transform and head to the Pillar of Light. Flora gives the Breath of the Ocean to Tressa, who uses it to summon all the selkies in all the oceans. Nereus and Tritannus fight one on one. Icy orders the mutants to grab Aisha. She creates a giant Morphix Barricade. And before that, she did a very impressive Morphix Punch. Nereus tries to help her, and Tritannus hits him from behind, which is supposedly enough to mortally wound him. Aisha yells that she won't let Tritannus destroy her family. She uses her Tide of Sirenix, which is powerful enough to blast Tritannus and Icy back, and bury them under a ton of rock. The point I'm trying to make here is that Aisha is awesome. It doesn't make up for everything that happens next, but still. Her Sirenix star appears, having been summoned by her desire to save her cousin. She wishes for Nereus to live. Not to bring Nabu back to life, or wake him up from his permanent coma or whatever. Personally, if the crew of the show was that determined to not bring Nabu back, then they could've at least replaced Nereus with Roy. Then the imagine spot at the beginning would actually be foreshadowing, and it would've been the ultimate apology for Aisha being hostile to Roy when they first met. It could've also been a second chance for Aisha, since we did learn this season that she feels guilty for not saving Nabu. It also makes a bit of sense, since Roy is the only Specialist who can breathe underwater. Sure, this takes place in the Infinite Ocean, but selkies and merpeople can clearly enter it as well. Yeah, whatever, Nereus is alive. Tritannus and Icy break free of the rubble, and Tritannus captures Aisha and takes her powers. He and Icy swim away, with Bloom, Flora, and Nereus in hot pursuit. So one of my favorite characters is going to spend at least part of the season finale being a damsel in distress that someone else, and by that I mean Bloom, will have to rescue. No. Just no. She's fought back while blind. She's been traumatized beyond belief. She's never been a damsel in distress before, and she sure as hell shouldn't start now, or ever. Every single season has been an emotional roller coaster for her, including this one, and if anyone should have the right to kick Tritannus's ass straight into oblivion, literally, it's her. I think Bloom should've been the one to be captured, so she wouldn't hog the spotlight, and because it makes sense. She has the super powerful Dragon Flame after all.