Winx Club S6 E17

## Plot

Flora shows Helia the Alfea greenhouse. She's the caretaker now. She forgot that she was supposed to give some other fairies a tour, and asks Helia to take care of a grabbing vine that she got from the Caribbean. He doesn't know what to do. She tells him to spray it with water and green tea extract. That tour lasted, like, thirty seconds. It doesn't even look like they moved. In that amount of time, the grabbing vine picked up Helia, and kept avoiding his attempts to spray it with water and green tea. Flora gets him down, and says he might not have been gentle enough. She knows who she's talking to, right? Helia is one of the most sensitive characters in the show, in a good way. He says he tried his best, and apologizes if he disappointed her. Yeah, the writers are trying to force a conflict between these two. The problem is that their personalities and very stable relationship don't lend themselves well to conflict. So in order for there to even be one, we can't have the characters talk like normal people or act like themselves. Ugh. Flora tells Musa that she snapped at Helia, even though she didn't. She calmly explained that he wasn't doing it the right way. And Helia, for no real reason except because the writers say so, overreacted and walked out. Flora says he didn't let her down. Okay, so explain to him what you really meant in a phone call or a text. Simple as that. Musa basically tells her that much, and says that guys like Helia are one in a million. Before she can ask Flora about her opinion on Riven, the guys show up, along with Nex and Thoren. Faragonda asked them to accompany the girls on their latest mission. Riven would rather be practicing with his stupid boomerang at Red Fountain. Even though there's no better training than an actual mission in the field, which is exactly what he wanted to do in early season 2. Musa tells Flora that he's been in his own world for awhile now, like she doesn't even exist. I can't believe I'm saying this, but break up with him. If that doesn't make him realize what a jerk he's being, then almost nothing will, except maybe another Nabu scale death. The girls have already found the fantasy emerald. Their wands show them a hologram of a totem. Daphne says that it's in Fearwood, a village in Canada. The villagers use the totem to ward off strange beasts. The girls have already faced other famous Earth legends and creatures, like vampires, zombie pirates, mummies, etc. It's believed that werewolves are scared of silver. The Trix and Selina are spying on the group. A villager tells the girls that it's said that some people turn into werewolves after the sun sets, so no one ever risks walking around at night, and neither should they. Riven plays a prank on the guys by pretending to be a werewolf, and tells Helia to lighten up. He says that not everything is a joke. Sky tells him that some of them are taking this mission seriously. Riven tells him that his way isn't always the right way. Thoren tells them that they can't lose any more time. A woman tells the Winx that the totem is in a clearing just outside the village. So, I noticed another YouTube comment that basically spoke my thoughts in a much more concise way than I probably ever could: "Rainbow, in general, just loves forced relationship drama.﻿" It's like I'm watching an animated CW show. And I'm one of the people who normally *doesn't* bash that network. Selina finally unleashes werewolves from the Legendarium. They attack the girls and guys. They can't hurt them because they're innocent people. Aisha creates a Morphix cage to put them in. Helia is a total badass during this episode, capturing at least five werewolves by himself. Flora tells him that he was incredible. He says he may not be able to water plants, but he knows some stuff about wild beasts. She says that what he just did was far more impressive, and she should've never made him feel like he did anything wrong. Except you didn't. Come to think of it, when Helia was first introduced, he was a former Specialist who quit and became a pacifist. Why? Seriously, we know almost nothing about most of the guys' backstories, and we don't even know anything about Flora and Tecna's families. It took until this season to finally introduce their mothers. Flora apologizes to Helia, even though she did nothing wrong. Unfortunately, Helia's heroics are noticed by Icy, which gives her an idea. She asks Selina to give her the powers of a legendary character from the book. The group leads the werewolves to the clearing where the totem is supposed to be, but they don't see it. Eldora told them that it and the spear existed in the Legendarium world. Icy shows up, freezes Helia, taunts Flora, and heads into the Legendarium world. Flora transforms into Mythix to stop her by herself. Yeah, that's another thing. The girls don't always head into the Legendarium world as a team, or even in groups. It's usually just one of them against a monster or the Trix to retrieve someone or something important to them. Anyways, Flora winds up in an ice world, with Icy as the Snow Queen. She rides away in a carriage with a still frozen Helia, and Flora goes after them. That is some truly atrocious CGI.

## Review

In hindsight, I don't think my problem with Flora in this episode is that she's acting out of character, because she's not. Rather, she's *written* out of character, but doesn't act accordingly, which ruins the immersion.