đ THIS IS JUST A WINX RANT IM SORRY
So the winx has a reboot and i was a HARDCORE die fan as a kid so here are my thoughts on the reboot and what theyâve done to the characters over the years and how i think this reboot will go.
Because i want to voice my thoughts but iâm too camera shy to do it on tiktok.
Letâs start with stella, Stella is the princess of both the sun and the moon and they seem to forget the moon part QUITE occasionally, in the earlier seasons stellaâs character was an independent, confident woman (i mean she literally fought AN OGRE) without brandons help. Who just desperately wanted a prince, so call her a bit of a romance.
she liked fashion and was bad at social cues seen in one of the episodes when she kept accidentally insulting her friends and not realising it, so sheâs not exactly âdown to alfeaâ but she is a kind person, just being a Princess she was raised quite fancily and she misses a lot of simplicity the others do.
Then they BARBIE her over time, slowly as the seasons get older, Stella turns into this âboy crazyâ person who mind you handled ogres and witches in season one, starts to struggle with those exact things, they dumb her down to put it. or i felt that. and i feel in the reboot theyâll exaggerate this character again.
Personally the robot possession episode made me deathly scared of techna for a long while so sheâs not my favourite character but the one thing winx holds is that theyâre all independent in their own way, Techna in her smarts and knowledge genius.
And like her name, her powers relied on TECH, but we also see in an episode techna realises that itâs not so bad to rely on other sources. (sorry this wasnât more detailed i donât remember Tecna enough to do a more detailed analysis about her character.) but i do know that they were going to give all the characters a love interest in the end.
And hers was Timmy, which was cute because at first it was just exchanging words and letters through this sort of text app or digimon, i canât quite remember but the two have always been a cute couple regardless who suited each others needs, now one CONSTANT about Techna is that sheâs curious about the world and the things she missed in her data archive.
That and she has short pink hair so it was disalarming to see what they did with her hair, now iâm not complaining a reboot also means new designs and iâm glad they didnât change that part about her design since we kind of rock the same hairstyle now.
But the thing is as a person with SHORT HAIR that isnât how you style your hair at all, like my gal looked at her barber and said âRemove it all in the back, keep it growing in the front.â and if you donât know what i mean she basically has these HORRENDUS bangs that would make my motherâs hairdresser cry.
Even when i first cut my bangs they didnât come out that horrible, was she thinking âdonât take too much off?â cause you left a little on the top sister. just hurling insult after insult, iâm sorry but its TRUE.
Next is Musa because iâm BURSTING to do her. Musa is my favourite and personal character, i love music, she loves music, she has cool hair, i now have cool hair, sheâs blue. iâm currently blue (hair dyed) BUT Musa wasnât as socially into the group as you THINK over the seasons Musa grew more and more in and it was like a rite of accepting.
But there were moments of time where it showed Musa did prefer her solitary and solitude, she practiced dancing alone in this studio, she had friends outside them, MUSA HAD A WHOLE OTHER LIFE WE NEVER SAW?? not only that but she struggled with her family as all the winx did, her mother who bless the winx writers soul, was dead and for a seven year old me, they kept. BRINGING IT UP.
Imagine getting blasted in the face half asleep watching winx with âoh youâre sleepy? WELL MUSAâS MUM IS DEAD.â Not that the heavier topics werenât hard to understand for a child but they really liked to throw it in musaâs face. like. constantly.
That one episode where Musa got to choose to have her mother alive again or not? Yeah that was a little messed up.
Anyway Musa had some cool powers that rivalled Stormy and after a moment of discovery she could use her powers to defeat the witch, Musa is a complicated character who fell for an even more complicated guy. (Riven) Now riven by far is not my favourite male character. AT ALL. and their relationship was extremely toxic like steven universe malachite toxic but it also,
Showed little me what to look out for in a relationship if iâm ever uncomfortable and set boundaries as Musa often attempted and failed. Or thats what i was taught as a kid.
And it was interesting to see Musa despite the relationship and her desperation for it, shown later in the seasons she could start to care less about riven but then they pulled the reverse card move and forgot all that progress with the two. so đ§
And onto FLORA (before we get to aisha)
Man iâm tired. Flora is a nature queen we love her for that, sheâs had one special power since the beginning of time and thatâs⌠green. your elemental power is green.
Joking. she could talk to the environment which is why she got so protective of her plants if they were injured or Stella accidentally set fire to them somehow, she could hear their hurt.
Now looking back i didnât realise that but imagine your friend tripping over your plant and you hear that plant cuss out your friend, thatâll be a little funny.
Her love interest? HELIA, which is why iâm so shocked to discover they re-arranged the guys whole organs so he could be related to bloom and change his name to damian.
Frigging damian? Yeah i like DC but not enough to have Damian in my show thank you.
This ruins her plot by A LOT, Because Flora needs someone who understands nature like her and not a hot head or someone with a âfiery personality.â get it? Flora is down to earth, milder- tempered compared to the rest of them except when it comes to the things she loves, PLANTS and sweet all in all.
Sheâs always been good at resolving conflict and because of this her and riven clashed a lot (why am i mentioning riven for flora?) well itâs important to note theyâre probably going to give damian an edgy personality and try to fit it with Flora but that doesnât work at all. Most of the winx have expressed their disinterest or dislike for riven and one of these people is Flora.
not to mention iâm hoping to see her original skin colour but iâll doubt that will happen. You see the writers were more then racist (Or they just âdecided to lighten her skinâ) during later on seasons, iâve seen flora be a grown pale woman in some of the later seasons, she, to my knowledge was mixed or darker colour then the rest and they never really acknowledged this whitewashing.
Yes she could be âtanâ but we do actually see her with something close to her skin colour in some of the movies and people that is NOT TAN, they do the same with aisha, who iâm moving onto right now.
Now aisha was also one of my favourites due to her pink bubble like powers but with the reboot they kind of⌠remove HER BACKSTORY? The whole point of how the winx met Aisha is that she escapes with the pixies from the dark evil lord, like my girl goes tunnelling off a CLIFF.
And they CHANGED THAT?? i get it more kid suitable but what about the pixies then? or the fact Aisha doesnât meet the winx until later on, this could easily be fixed by not making her apart until the later episodes hinting at her return.
Like it was a key part to her backstory, maybe not being kidnapped and tortured could have been but the fact that she wasnât an original winx cast member like so many forget, she was included and she saved the pixies, i mean you can do that and still be kid friendly right? Something threatening pixie village and the winx discovers the pixies and aisha is their guardian sort of thing? That works too.
Also Aisha is extremely strong and well sheâs only given a love interest until way later on who also dies, so her character is this âphysically, mentallyâ strong person who can endure so much and keep pushing if it benefits others. Iâm getting the feeling theyâre going to ruin that huh?
now iâm not going to do bloom as bloom sort of⌠stays the same? from the teaser trailer but that doesnât mean i donât want to see them near her plot ANYWHERE.
Theyâve already given her a brother which changes the daphne plotline A LOT and they ruined keiko (her stupid adorable little rabbit who she ignores when it tries to spidey sense danger for her)
and i feel like the specialists said enough in that trailer but uh i just wanted to rant or go on about how they might ruin their characters, i also hope they donât make the trix the main villains, the point of the trix is they lead up to the main villain or the bad guy.
I really love like observing characters and their behaviours so if you ever want to have me inspect one, feel free to ask, this was just a âoh my god my childhood show is ruinedâ sort of thing.
I get it, theyâre trying to make it more suitable for kids and more appealing to the eyes so theyâre going to change things but it CAN be disappointing you know? Like iâm allowed to feel a little upset with what theyâve done with everyones characters.