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Today is the 15th anniversary of the premiere of season 3 of Winx Club, and while many fans regard it as its best, here's a somewhat unpopular opinion: I think season 3 is its weakest season.
Sure, it didn't help that it came off the heels of the best season ever (IMO), but I think season 3 wouldn't stand up well against any season, except maybe S5... Back in the day, a review of the S3 finale commented that "It feels like Rainbow concentrated all their talents on the movie (the first one) and gave us a bunch of badly-written, trite episodes that are frustrating because they could have been so much more." (Emphasis mine)
That's the problem with the season, many were expecting S3 to be "so much more" based on the promise of the early episodes. These problems probably aren't as apparent if you're binge-watching, but when you're looking forward to how the story plays out on a weekly basis, many of these probably made viewers go "...That's it?"
(Originally posted in 2016 at a Winx forum; reposting here Thursdays and Mondays to spread the word and avoid the Photobucket problem, with updates as needed)
( Part 1: No Florelia )
Sure, it didn't help that it came off the heels of the best season ever (IMO), but I think season 3 wouldn't stand up well against any season, except maybe S5... Back in the day, a review of the S3 finale commented that "It feels like Rainbow concentrated all their talents on the movie (the first one) and gave us a bunch of badly-written, trite episodes that are frustrating because they could have been so much more." (Emphasis mine)
That's the problem with the season, many were expecting S3 to be "so much more" based on the promise of the early episodes. These problems probably aren't as apparent if you're binge-watching, but when you're looking forward to how the story plays out on a weekly basis, many of these probably made viewers go "...That's it?"
(Originally posted in 2016 at a Winx forum; reposting here Thursdays and Mondays to spread the word and avoid the Photobucket problem, with updates as needed)
( Part 1: No Florelia )
