I just watched the winx saga and I can't believe Netflix is still doing the same show over and over again but in different scenarios and getting away with it.
First of all, white washing characters was the first and most noticeable mistake. They knew what they were doing and they didn't even care.
Then we have the well knowing trope of the boy falling for the guy who's bullying him. Like, can we get something new? We get it. The guy is bullying the gay boy cause he has internalized homophobia but we do not need to see it over and over again.
And remember the queer coding in villains? They weren't really subtle this time because they decided to make them the antagonists. (I'm not against of having queer villains or antagonist, I just think that making the only lgbt+ characters in the show do questionably things is not helping the community. It is in a way saying "yeah they gay and they are the bad guys, cause only the bad guys would be gay").
Moving on from that. Let's talk about Terra. Let's forget for a moment that they put her in the show instead of Flora (which was bad) and let's focus on her character. She is poorly written and her whole character revolves around her weight. I understand that insecurities are a thing, and many people (including me) have them. It isn't bad to make her insecure about how she looks, it's something they could have developed in the show. But the fact that they made so many fat phobic comments and it was never addressed, not even once, is the problem (I don't care if they plan to address it later in the show, it shouldn't even be a thing I the first place).
And I'm so sad about Stella. Really, did the need to make another white blonde rich girl jealous of the new girl because she seems to be liked by her ex-boyfriend? In the original show Stella was the first one to support Bloom. She lied so Bloom could go to Alfea. This could have been a show with girls supporting girls but they had to make them be against each other more than a half of the season. They reduce their relationship to them fighting for a boy.
It is a very flawed show. Poor written characters, repetitive tropes, unnecessary sex scenes of underage characters (I would talk more about that but this is getting too long). They could have done so much better. And I think that if they dicided to make this show without saying it was a 'live action winx', many people wouldn't be complaining about it.
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