It's kinda shocking how many scenes in the reboot are similar to scenes in the og series but in such a wildly different context that they don't make any sense anymore. And I'm only talking about individual scenes here, not major plot points. I don't mind them copying most of the og plot points seeing as it's still supposed to be fundamentally the same story and I wouldn't mind them copying individual scenes either. But the copied scenes in the reboot version just don't make any sense so they stand out in a really negative way and there are so many of them that it becomes a noticable pattern. Off the top of my head:
(E1) The specialists randomly showing up to help them deal with the animals. There's no mention or hint that either Stella (like in the original) or Flora called them there to help. They arrive mere seconds after the animals escaped so there's also no time for them to (somehow) have noticed the animals getting loose and decided to step in unless they were literally already flying around above the animal pens for no reason. This is a very clear copy of the situation with Knut and troll attacking Stella and Bloom in the original and the specialists coming in to help them. Except there it made sense because Stella explicitly called them for backup and they also had time enough to actually arrive.
(E2) Bloom returning to Earth and everyone being so sad about it. The scenes aren't direct copies of each other but it feels like the only reason they added this plot point is because the original had it because it really makes no sense here. This happened towards the end of S1 originally after Bloom had time to grow to love the Winx and Alfea so her leaving all of that genuinely feels impactful and sad. The reboot puts this in the 2nd episode of the 1st season which just makes it feel ridiculous and pointless, reboot Bloom basically leaves as soon as she arrives. Wow, so sad.
(E5) Timmy not being in town with them for absolutely no reason. Apart from the obvious reason of "Timmy is too unimportant to include" he has no reason to not be in town with the other specialists. He's just missing and the other characters couldn't care less. In the original it was the day of roses which is the Magix equivalent of mothers' day so most of the characters went home and spent the day with their parents. The ones spending it in Magix (Stella, Bloom, Sky, Brandon and Riven) are the exception, all for their own reasons.
(E5) In the same episode we also have a scene of Musa being alone in town and the Trix commenting on how alone and isolated she is. In the reboot Musa being "alone" lasts for a screentime of a few seconds because the other Winx immediately meet her again in the very next scene. She also just randomly left in the scene before that for no reason so there's no true feeling of isolation of her character vs the others. (Well, her "reason" was Riven showing up and greeting her which caused her to instantly drop all their group plans and just walk off. We have no explanation for why Riven's mere presence should cause such a reaction from her since they've never even spoken a word to each other before that.) In the original Musa storms off because of an argument with Stella that visibly hurt her and she goes into town all on her own. She walks into the Trix who take the opportunity of her literally being alone to attack her. In the reboot Musa being "alone" for a few seconds has no consequences for anything whatsoever so apart from a nonsensical callback this scene serves very little purpose.
(E8) Musa being so suspicious of Riven and following him. In the reboot Musa just suspects Riven of some kind of wrongdoing out of complete nowhere and decides to follow him. Neither of their characters' portrayals up to that point fit with this scene, Riven is a completely normal member of the team and Musa is not shown to be randomly paranoid or suspicious of any other people. She did have an arc about trust issues with Riven in the original with her following him after he walked off because she was suspicious of his actions. But that was after Riven had betrayed them in the previous season so it makes sense that she struggles to trust him fully. Musa is also shown to be more wary of people in general in the original and more reluctant to show her deeper feelings than her reboot counterpart is so her feeling this the hardest makes even more sense. The scene in the reboot has none of that.
(E12) The teachers telling the specialists not to help them get free. This is a copy of the original scene between Riven and Griffin when Riven broke out of Cloudtower prison. He intends to free Griffin as well but she tells him that there's no point because her cell door (unlike his) is enforced by magic and so he wouldn't be able to break it. We don't see exactly how she got free but she's busy working on a counterspell with her students so assumedly they succeeded by the time Riven returned with the others. In the reboot we see how the teachers get free which involves the Trix just destroying the three symbols that hold the spell in place and takes them a few seconds. There's no indication that the specialists destroying these symbols with their magical weapons wouldn't have worked just as well and they definitely had the few seconds it would've taken them to do this. Heck, the teachers telling them to leave instead took longer than just destroying the symbols would've. It was completely arbitrary and pointless.
If you have to copy scenes from the previous iteration of your own show, can you at least check if they still work with the new context that you put them in?
