World of Winx S1 E13

## Plot

The Winx are finally in the World of Dreams. Before they can look for Bloom, they're attacked by the Crocodile Man. They decide to go after him into the woods. They lose track of him, and wind up getting lost. Musa realizes that he led them into a maze as a trap. The Queen herself is watching them on a magic mirror. The pirates arrive and present Jim and Bloom to her. Bloom asks Jim why she sounds like Annabelle. Wait, she does? I can't tell. At any rate, I hope the actress enjoyed playing such a menacing villain. Jim says that the Queen had no voice of her own until she took Annabelle's. She's been kidnapping the kids for their talents. She keeps them locked in strange buds of a giant tree. It's called the Tree of Life, not to be confused with the other one that's really a flower, at least in its first appearance, or the one from the second half of season 3 of The Lion Guard, which is a vastly superior show in my opinion. Tecna observes that no matter how far or fast they fly, they always end up back where they started. It's a magical labyrinth, with no way out. They're attacked by magical vines. Flora tries to talk to them. She says that they just want to save their friends from the Queen. The forest wants them to prove that they really do stand against her. Flora can't do that, so she's doing her mind melding thing so that the forest can see that she's being sincere. Since when is Flora a Vulcan? That seems more like it should be Tecna's thing. She tells the others that the forest has a fairy energy like theirs. The Queen attempted to corrupt it. Flora spoke to the spirit of the forest, who appears before them and lets them go. The Queen tells Bloom that the talents are her payment for the dream that was taken from her. Bloom asks her what that dream was, but she just puts Bloom in a bud and takes her fairy powers. Jim cuts himself free with a hook and turns invisible. The Queen orders the pirates to get him. The Crocodile Man finds him. The Shaman is ordered to feed him to the croc. The Crocodile Man is blasted away by the rest of the Winx. Jim tells them where Bloom and the other talents are. The Queen has the pirates attack. She gives the Shaman his stones back and tells him to show her where his loyalty lies. The girls easily defeat them all. The Queen and her shadows decide to deal with them herself. She easily thrashes them all. And because of the speed, some of those hits look like they really do hurt. The animation just looks so much faster than before. Jim frees Bloom, who hits the Queen. All of the other talents are freed too. The Queen uses her magic to release her servants. Instead of fighting, the Crocodile Man and the pirates run away. The Shaman stays by the Queen though, and they escape. Everyone heads back to Earth for the finale of WOW. Jim will stay in the World of Dreams to see if he can track down the Queen and defeat her for good. Evans and Gómez report that Annabelle has been found, and no foul play was suspected in her disappearance. They promise Bloom that they won't tell anyone that the Winx are fairies. Bloom is welcomed back by Ace. In the World of Dreams, the mystery man apologizes to Jim and says that he'll never betray him again. And then the major plot twists come up. The Queen is an evil Tinkerbell, Jim is a rejuvenated Captain Hook, the mystery man is Smee, and the World of Dreams is really a corrupted Neverland, which Hook plans to rule over himself after overthrowing Tink.

## Review

So, yeah. That just happened. As someone *obsessed* with Peter Pan as a kid, of course I've seen the Disney film more times than I can count. And the sequel. On VHS. And I've read the picture book version of the movie's novelization. To the point where it was the first book I ever read because I probably memorized the entire story. At age 3. So, yeah, at first I was really mad that they were taking someone else's original story and changing so much, but then I decided to wait for season 2 to see what they could really do. They had so many amazing story opportunities. They screwed them all up. Here's a big spoiler hint: It's probably not a real Peter Pan story if you leave out Peter Pan!