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spiderbraidsThis was one of my bigger gripes with S3...
Enchantix sacrifices
Let me directly quote FG on getting Enchantix: "You will need to rescue someone from your own world, and it will require a great sacrifice." To put things in perspective, the only previous power upgrade at this point was Charmix and each girl had gotten theirs doing different things, so naturally, this prompted many viewers to speculate away on how the girls would get theirs, and one frequent expectation I remember was that Musa would lose her voice. I mean, giving up a potential career in music would be a big deal, right?
The plot almost seems set up perfectly for this to happen, I might add, with the fire in the library... Just have Musa inhale too much smoke while rescuing Galatea, and there you go, suddenly Aisha's sacrifice is no longer the odd one out :-)
(From a reply: "My personal beef with Enchantix, is that it didn't really grasp what a sacrifice means, fiction-wise.
A sacrifice has LASTING consequences. And because they sacrificed their lives and immediately jumped back, more powerful then before, fixing the problem at hand, it felt... hollow. Only Tecna really explored what a sacrifice of that calibre would mean, and she got back eventually, too. (And again, squandered potential. What if Aisha stayed blind? Interesting story potential and she would be one of the few disabled magical girls around. Heck, one of the few disabled girl characters, period)
I mean, say about you will about Nabu, but that was a real sacrifice. He gave up his life to save Earth and he stayed dead, showing, however flawed, what such a gesture would mean, for both good AND bad."
Me: At the time, that was never considered, because the main issue was that the Winx could have waited until the next sunset to heal Aisha :-\ Still, having a wider variety of sacrifices probably would have alleviated the whole "no real consequences" issue...)
Enchantix sacrifices
Let me directly quote FG on getting Enchantix: "You will need to rescue someone from your own world, and it will require a great sacrifice." To put things in perspective, the only previous power upgrade at this point was Charmix and each girl had gotten theirs doing different things, so naturally, this prompted many viewers to speculate away on how the girls would get theirs, and one frequent expectation I remember was that Musa would lose her voice. I mean, giving up a potential career in music would be a big deal, right?
The plot almost seems set up perfectly for this to happen, I might add, with the fire in the library... Just have Musa inhale too much smoke while rescuing Galatea, and there you go, suddenly Aisha's sacrifice is no longer the odd one out :-)
(From a reply: "My personal beef with Enchantix, is that it didn't really grasp what a sacrifice means, fiction-wise.
A sacrifice has LASTING consequences. And because they sacrificed their lives and immediately jumped back, more powerful then before, fixing the problem at hand, it felt... hollow. Only Tecna really explored what a sacrifice of that calibre would mean, and she got back eventually, too. (And again, squandered potential. What if Aisha stayed blind? Interesting story potential and she would be one of the few disabled magical girls around. Heck, one of the few disabled girl characters, period)
I mean, say about you will about Nabu, but that was a real sacrifice. He gave up his life to save Earth and he stayed dead, showing, however flawed, what such a gesture would mean, for both good AND bad."
Me: At the time, that was never considered, because the main issue was that the Winx could have waited until the next sunset to heal Aisha :-\ Still, having a wider variety of sacrifices probably would have alleviated the whole "no real consequences" issue...)
