Shortcomings of Winx S3 (Part 7): Mirta
Oct. 22nd, 2021 09:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
spiderbraidsLast one... (with apologies for the minor schedule slip)
Fairy Mirta
As these past few posts have hinted at, the main issue with season 3 is that it keeps coming up with interesting ideas and then proceeding to flat out ignore them, and here's another one...
While the Trix (and the "possessed" Cloud Tower witches) were attacking Alfea, one of the fairies fending off the attack (remember when the other student fairies actually did that? ;-)) was a certain redhead who had transferred over from Cloud Tower a while back, and she was distressed to see Lucy among the other witches. Next ep saw Mirta and the Winx head over to Cloud Tower, and while the Winx transformed to fight the monsters they ran into, Mirta... just stood there in her casuals :-\ This did not go unnoticed by the viewers, and I imagine it would be as if Miele just stayed in her casuals during the "Beware of the Wolf" fight in season 7...
And the show has pretty much forgotten about Mirta's existence since then, since her most recent appearance (AFAIK) was when FG was introducing Roxy in S5 :-\
(2021 update: That last line still remains true [!])
(To finish off, just after I posted the shortcomings in the forum, I had a chat with the user who replied to some of the posts, who chipped in her two cents thusly:
"I think 'Flesh out all the things' isn't always the answer for fixing bad storytelling. Especially with something as overloaded with stuff like Season 3. But then again, I'm also someone that feels not everything NEEDS to be explained or fleshed out. I rather have a story told with good pacing than a story that fleshes out everything that's going on. I mean, Season 3's pacing was already pretty horrid. Just adding things wouldn't have helped, IMO. Streamlining would've been my answer. Like, drop that Chimera was from another Fairy Academy completely and just focus on her being Stella's Stepsister, since that was clearly the more important part to her story."
Make of that as you will :-))
Fairy Mirta
As these past few posts have hinted at, the main issue with season 3 is that it keeps coming up with interesting ideas and then proceeding to flat out ignore them, and here's another one...
While the Trix (and the "possessed" Cloud Tower witches) were attacking Alfea, one of the fairies fending off the attack (remember when the other student fairies actually did that? ;-)) was a certain redhead who had transferred over from Cloud Tower a while back, and she was distressed to see Lucy among the other witches. Next ep saw Mirta and the Winx head over to Cloud Tower, and while the Winx transformed to fight the monsters they ran into, Mirta... just stood there in her casuals :-\ This did not go unnoticed by the viewers, and I imagine it would be as if Miele just stayed in her casuals during the "Beware of the Wolf" fight in season 7...
And the show has pretty much forgotten about Mirta's existence since then, since her most recent appearance (AFAIK) was when FG was introducing Roxy in S5 :-\
(2021 update: That last line still remains true [!])
(To finish off, just after I posted the shortcomings in the forum, I had a chat with the user who replied to some of the posts, who chipped in her two cents thusly:
"I think 'Flesh out all the things' isn't always the answer for fixing bad storytelling. Especially with something as overloaded with stuff like Season 3. But then again, I'm also someone that feels not everything NEEDS to be explained or fleshed out. I rather have a story told with good pacing than a story that fleshes out everything that's going on. I mean, Season 3's pacing was already pretty horrid. Just adding things wouldn't have helped, IMO. Streamlining would've been my answer. Like, drop that Chimera was from another Fairy Academy completely and just focus on her being Stella's Stepsister, since that was clearly the more important part to her story."
Make of that as you will :-))
