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spiderbraids) wrote2023-07-10 07:55 pm
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The Editor's Spotlight: (The) Mirror of Truth
3x04: (The) Mirror of Truth
The girls decide to try a relocation spell on the griffins attacking them:
Unedited: Flora points out they've never tried this spell before.
Edited: Flora says that WizGiz uses this spell to move to his summer cottage, not to move giant birds.
After the griffin attack, the RF boys are trying to fly low between the cliffs:
Unedited:
Timmy: Yeah, but it's really dangerous. It's not even mapped!
Tecna: Hey, I thought you guys were the best pilots of Red Fountain.
Edited:
Timmy: The computer's down so it won't be able to calculate the route for us.
Tecna: I'll help. Together we should have enough processing power for that.
Not an edit, but Frank wrote in his review about Stella falling out of the ship through the back hatch: "Why was it left open, anyway? I'll just guess that the griffins damaged the hatch or something while carrying it and banging it around. And I wonder if Brandon knows why Stella can't just fly back up...."
Actually, the back hatch was closed to begin with; as Stella gets flung to the hatch, her hand hits a button on the panel on the side, and then the door opens after the ship grazes another ledge, so no, the Specs weren't being sloppy... and it's kind of redundant for Bloom to say later: "What do you say that this time we travel with the hatch door shut?"
At the lake, Brandon tells Stella that he can see what she looks like now...
Unedited: He tells her that Flora's spell never worked.
Edited: Flora's spell wore off on the ship.
The 4Kids version seems more plausible given that just before the others go out to fight the griffins, there's a shot of Brandon putting his hand on Stella's face and she's in her normal appearance... Back at school:
Unedited: There's a brief scene of Chatta talking with a random student.
Edited: This scene has been (understandably) edited out.
Unedited: Musa introduces herself to Galatea normally.
Edited: Musa makes beatbox noises while introducing herself to Galatea.
And a minor edit for the Nick dub, after Stella hears about Cassandra taking care of royal business on Solaria...
Unedited: "And my father just lets her? Cassandra must have bewitched him! If my mother hadn't given up the crown after the divorce, none of this would be happening right now!" (And if she were to actually show up, this subplot might be a bit better than it ends up being... This will also be the last time Stella's mom gets a mention in the Cinelume era)
Edited by Nick: Stella no longer brings up her mom. "And my dad just rolled over and drooled? I don't think so. This can not be true. Cassandra must have cursed him. That is the only explanation for all of this."
As a follow-up to the Sphere of Truth edit, here's TF citing 3x04 to try to dismiss my argument that it's just bad writing for the spell not to work:
"I still think it's totally unrealistic to expect everything you see to work. Things fail in real life and quite often! These characters aren't perfect. In 3x04, for example, Tecna, Flora and Bloom performed a relocating spell. Flora wondered where the griffins they relocated went, and Tecna said they're probably not far away because this was the first time they performed that particular spell. So things get better with practice! Things aren't supposed to work every single time, especially with novice fairies like these."
This is actually true in both versions, BTW... the griffins not being relocated very far because they're new to this spell, that is, not everything else around that statement, with which I still mostly disagree:
- There's a difference between a spell that only works, say, half as effectively as it should (but still sufficient for their purposes) like this one, than a spell that either works properly or not at all like the Sphere of Truth, and
- Even though they're novice fairies, we've rarely seen the Winx screw up their spells (there's the Cloud Tower convergence attempt, and well, Flora's spell here)
- As for her insistence that "Things fail in real life and quite often"... it'd be quite a cop-out for me to say "But Winx isn't real life"... so instead, let me say I find it hard to accept the notion that you'd have such a useful spell be attempted twice but not pay off either time, especially in a relatively "simplistic" show like Winx Club
The girls decide to try a relocation spell on the griffins attacking them:
Unedited: Flora points out they've never tried this spell before.
Edited: Flora says that WizGiz uses this spell to move to his summer cottage, not to move giant birds.
After the griffin attack, the RF boys are trying to fly low between the cliffs:
Unedited:
Timmy: Yeah, but it's really dangerous. It's not even mapped!
Tecna: Hey, I thought you guys were the best pilots of Red Fountain.
Edited:
Timmy: The computer's down so it won't be able to calculate the route for us.
Tecna: I'll help. Together we should have enough processing power for that.
Not an edit, but Frank wrote in his review about Stella falling out of the ship through the back hatch: "Why was it left open, anyway? I'll just guess that the griffins damaged the hatch or something while carrying it and banging it around. And I wonder if Brandon knows why Stella can't just fly back up...."
Actually, the back hatch was closed to begin with; as Stella gets flung to the hatch, her hand hits a button on the panel on the side, and then the door opens after the ship grazes another ledge, so no, the Specs weren't being sloppy... and it's kind of redundant for Bloom to say later: "What do you say that this time we travel with the hatch door shut?"
At the lake, Brandon tells Stella that he can see what she looks like now...
Unedited: He tells her that Flora's spell never worked.
Edited: Flora's spell wore off on the ship.
The 4Kids version seems more plausible given that just before the others go out to fight the griffins, there's a shot of Brandon putting his hand on Stella's face and she's in her normal appearance... Back at school:
Unedited: There's a brief scene of Chatta talking with a random student.
Edited: This scene has been (understandably) edited out.
Unedited: Musa introduces herself to Galatea normally.
Edited: Musa makes beatbox noises while introducing herself to Galatea.
And a minor edit for the Nick dub, after Stella hears about Cassandra taking care of royal business on Solaria...
Unedited: "And my father just lets her? Cassandra must have bewitched him! If my mother hadn't given up the crown after the divorce, none of this would be happening right now!" (And if she were to actually show up, this subplot might be a bit better than it ends up being... This will also be the last time Stella's mom gets a mention in the Cinelume era)
Edited by Nick: Stella no longer brings up her mom. "And my dad just rolled over and drooled? I don't think so. This can not be true. Cassandra must have cursed him. That is the only explanation for all of this."
As a follow-up to the Sphere of Truth edit, here's TF citing 3x04 to try to dismiss my argument that it's just bad writing for the spell not to work:
"I still think it's totally unrealistic to expect everything you see to work. Things fail in real life and quite often! These characters aren't perfect. In 3x04, for example, Tecna, Flora and Bloom performed a relocating spell. Flora wondered where the griffins they relocated went, and Tecna said they're probably not far away because this was the first time they performed that particular spell. So things get better with practice! Things aren't supposed to work every single time, especially with novice fairies like these."
This is actually true in both versions, BTW... the griffins not being relocated very far because they're new to this spell, that is, not everything else around that statement, with which I still mostly disagree:
- There's a difference between a spell that only works, say, half as effectively as it should (but still sufficient for their purposes) like this one, than a spell that either works properly or not at all like the Sphere of Truth, and
- Even though they're novice fairies, we've rarely seen the Winx screw up their spells (there's the Cloud Tower convergence attempt, and well, Flora's spell here)
- As for her insistence that "Things fail in real life and quite often"... it'd be quite a cop-out for me to say "But Winx isn't real life"... so instead, let me say I find it hard to accept the notion that you'd have such a useful spell be attempted twice but not pay off either time, especially in a relatively "simplistic" show like Winx Club