Winx Club S7 E14

## Plot

Okay, screw this! Prior knowledge or not, I'm skipping ahead, because this is driving me crazy! We don't even see the Winx until we're almost six minutes into episode 10. They're basically using their boyfriends as glorified pet sitters and party planners. They're throwing a welcome party for Critty. 1. That's not necessary. 2. Why can't the girls just remind us that they never learned their lesson in season 6 by using magic to set up and fix everything? This is not a good example of a healthy relationship with a pet *or* a romantic partner. Yes, the girls scold the boys when they see what a mess the *wild, untamed, untrained* animals made. For crying out loud, two of them are literally from the past! Flora scolds Amarok again, and Helia once again says it was just a game to him, and he deserves more trust from Flora. Wild animals are not pets! Just have them stay in the park. You know, the boys have been unnecessary and useless since season 5, and with the way the girls have been treating them since then, and even for a little bit of season 4, I honestly think the guys would be better off without the Winx. They deserve better, in and out of universe, from their girlfriends and from the writers. This has gone beyond just not giving them anything interesting to do. Why is it that stories that try to tackle romance always seem to unintentionally promote toxic romantic relationships, or develop misaimed fandoms that promote abusive or toxic romantic relationships? Twilight, 50 Shades, etc. And that's only *two* book series of modern day "literature." I don't want to think about other mediums having the same thing. Kalshara kidnapped Critty to see if he was the animal with the first color of the universe. The Winx followed her to her lair, thanks to Critty telepathically communicating with Musa. Kalshara and Brafilius learn that he's not the animal they're looking for. Wait, is Critty a boy or a girl? In episodes 8 and 9, they were referred to as a him, but in episode 10, Musa refers to them as a she at least once. Stella was separated from the others when she was too distracted by a Shinygreed bird to notice which path they went down, so she followed the bird. Which turned out to be a good thing, because Kalshara set a trap for the Winx and made them fight hypnotized fairy animals. But then it turns out that the bird is hypnotized too. Stella realized that its powers were the same as hers. She absorbed its attack and sent it back at it, breaking the spell and allowing it to bond with her. The bird's name is Shiny, and no, it's not the fairy animal everyone is looking for. Then why did Kalshara even have it locked up? Thanks to its powers, Stella used her special Butterflix power to ask the light for help freeing the other fairy animals, which it did. Kalshara tried to bury everyone under a mountain of rubble, but they escaped, thanks to the captured digmole from episode 1. Also, guess who *does* get to stay in the park? The other fairy animals that the girls didn't bond with! Amarok almost causes another mess, but this time he catches the things he accidentally launched into the air, and Flora tells him that he did well. I couldn't find episodes 11 or 12 in English on the site I normally use, but other episodes have been up for four years and counting. The guys, and even the fairy animals, go on a mission with the girls in a jungle on Earth to rescue Sumatran tigers from what they think are poachers, but then Roxy tells them that it's a dangerous magical force. And you're leaving Roxy behind because…? This mission doesn't involve time travel! You can bring whoever you want! Even Kiko sneaks along! And Roxy doesn't immediately contact them to tell them this because…? They find out right away, but Bloom is okay with it, since he can watch the fairy animals and get them in line, because… comedy? Also, Brandon, Helia, and Timmy don't have much of a role in the episode, because they have to stay with their ship, which crashed thanks to the fairy animals. It turns out that both answers on who they thought the culprits were was right. They were three of the people who were poaching exotic animals in season 4. I guess the magical non-consensual instant reforming wore off at some point. They were exposed to a Wild Magic source in a waterfall, which turned them into monsters. Stella frees them with her special Butterflix power. They beg for forgiveness, and Bloom says their mission isn't done until they find a new home for the tiger cubs, so they create an animal rescue park in Gardenia. Wait, does this mean that the parents we saw at the beginning of the episode are dead? That's actually really dark. This is a filler episode though. Like the title of episode 12 reveals, Tecna bonds with a techsquirrel named Flitter. No, he's not the animal Kalshara is looking for. Tecna uses her special Butterflix power to ask technomagic for help saving Zenith's core and the rest of the magic universe. She actually *turns into* energy! Okay, that's pretty cool, and it definitely reminds me of her Enchantix sacrifice. In episode 13, Bloom bonds with Elas, a unicorn. He also isn't the animal Kalshara is looking for. However, it's revealed in episode 14 that *all* of the girls' fairy animals are the guardians of the ultimate power, which they didn't know before they all took part in Roxy's team exercise. It seems like even they don't know what the ultimate power is though. They give the Winx Tynix bracelets, which gives them a new transformation, Tynix. It lets them go into hidden dimensions known as MiniWorlds, and they can only use it there, like Mythix. They still have to use Butterflix in the real world, like Bloomix. The music for the Tynix transformation is just… magical. I love the outfits. The wings are gorgeous and not exactly the same. The hair seems like a bit much, but whatever. Their fairy animals also have alternate MiniWorld forms that make them look badass. Or more badass in Amarok's case, which is probably why he changes the least, besides getting some accessories like the others. Kalshara and Brafilius are on Pyros to look for dragons because of their fire scales. Fire is the first energy of the magic universe, so the dragons might be the animals with the ultimate power. That's… actually really smart, especially since Bloom has the Dragon Flame, which isn't just regular fire, but also the thing that made the magic universe in the first place. It's life itself, sort of like quintessence on W.I.T.C.H. When Roxy learns about what Kalshara and Brafilius are doing on Pyros, she tells the Winx, who go there with their fairy animals. But what about Roxy? Let her come too! Again, no time travel, so she or Daphne can transform and help out. Also, all of Kalshara's animal transformations are badass, but *especially* her as a freaking dragon! She creates a Vampire of Fire out of fire to absorb the Pyros fire in a volcano, which weakens the dragons, so she can see if they have the ultimate power. Without the Pyros fire, the dragons are going to die. The Winx are here to stop her though. Also, Musa outright says that all they want is to destroy, i.e., *kill* her. See what I meant in season 4 about the girls not being on moral high ground? I honestly don't want them to be. I think it would make them seem holier than thou and pretentious, like they're better than other heroes that have killed people before. Plus, you know, they've killed people before too, so it's also super hypocritical. They don't usually kill people with human appearances though. Darkar was in his phoenix form, Valtor was in his demon form; plus season 8 retcons this and says that he wasn't fully dead, and it's possible that the wizards were simply imprisoned instead of killed. Adding to this is the fact that the only non-movie surviving villains have been the Trix and Tritannus in his merman form, which are more humanoid than the other villains. And I guess the Trix were fan favorites before everyone realized that they were overused as fuck. Appearances in every single season except season 4, constantly getting betrayed, etc. Anyways, the episode ends on a cliffhanger, because of course it does.