The beauty of storytelling lies in its ability to give you pieces of a character slowly and over time.
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Instead of letting their words and actions throughout the series speak for themselves, the show relies on Riverdale-style monologues in which its characters give up their thoughts and secrets too easily to be realistic. However, the show rushes through its characters’ development to get to this point. Even a couple of the love interests-like Riven and Sky-and the show’s antagonist, Beatrix, are characters plucked straight from Winx Club.īut the use of familiar characters isn’t enough to save Fate from the rushed and, at times, stagnant character arcs of the main girls.Įach of the Winx girls, with the exception of Terra, makes a sacrifice in the series finale: Stella defies her mother, Aisha breaks the headmistress’ rules, Bloom risks her life for others, and Musa faces her fear of experiencing another death.
With the exception of Terra, the rest of the Winx girls all appear in the original show.
While Terra provides important representation for body diversity, especially given the unnaturally small waists the original characters had, that doesn’t make up for removing a character of colour from the cast. While the cast is fairly diverse, Terra, a white character, replaces Flora, a character widely believed by fans of the original show to be Latinx. Here, fairies and specialists alike train with the knowledge they might, one day, fight the legendary Burned Ones. She’s soon taken to Alfea, an ancient school for fairies, by the boarding school’s head mistress and left to bunk with the show’s remaining protagonists: Stella, Terra, Musa, and Aisha. Like the original Nickelodeon series, Fate follows Bloom, a girl living among humans who quickly discovers she’s a fairy. But it also tries to do too much, struggling to strike a balance between its character and plot arcs. It had diverse characters, scheming villains, and taught us girls could be powerful, too.Īt its heart, Fate stays true to its predecessor. The magic behind Nickelodeon’s Winx Club laid in its fun characters, exploration of friendship, and the growth-both on a personal and magical level-the girls experienced over the course of the show. While it uses the rich Winx world to its advantage, Fate tries to do too much with the little it has. With a mere six-episode season, Fate: The Winx Saga-a teen adaptation of Nickelodeon’s hit Winx Club series-already lacked the space to do much with the vast world it inherited from its predecessor.
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