The Editor's Spotlight: The Fourth Witch

[spiderbraids]

Not using the snappier "Hallowinx" wasn't the only thing that was different from the original airing...

Unedited: Jolly passes a random tarot reader. She thinks he's ancient, and not in a nice way.

Edited: Jolly passes a random tarot reader. She thinks he's an impostor.

Heeeere's Mitzi, and she's mad at the DJ!

Unedited: The CD the DJ was playing for entrance repeatedly skipped.

Edited: Listen to the song the DJ plays for the entrance. How ironic! And even more ironic is how the song he was supposed to play was "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World", which just adds to the "commentary".

Flora is being asked about their costumes.

Unedited: "How do you make the wings? They're so real!" "Um, it's a secret"

Edited: "Where did you get these costumes?" "Uh, Internet?"

Okay, next!

Unedited: After Mitzi notes that Musa seems to be taking to herself, Musa answers the door, and takes a box of pumpkin cakes from a guy dressed as Spiderman. Musa tries one of the cakes, and clutches her tummy as if she had a tummyache. Freddy tells her she got the earwax-flavored one. Jolly (who Musa had been talking to, and remember 2x13 and how pixies are invisible) decides to prank Mitzi by making those cakes fly.

Edited: The cake scene is gone.

(BTW, this is where Musa says "Chillax". Dammit, where's Tune? She was supposed to deal with these things! For that matter, weren't the pixies supposed to be giving their bonded fairies their Charmix?)

(Although I do understand that since Musa doesn't talk like that in the original, there was no need for Rainbow to make Tune fix her speech... and so, she doesn't.)

Incidentally, this is the 2nd time 4K's gotten rid of a character dressed as Spiderman: Zing was dressed as Spiderman in The Wrong Righters (for good measure, she also dressed as Doc Ock at one point).

Fast forward! The "Fourth Witch" is heading over to haunt the Winx. But Stella is above Mitzi's prank...

Unedited: "The way you carry yourself is a JOKE!" (With Stella knowing her fashion, this is kind of expected. This is kind of like the way Lori WANTED the "Darcy walks past Musa" scene from 2x08 to be.)

Edited: Stella complains about the perfume Mitzi was wearing, just like Jolly did earlier. (A similar scene happens in the original 1x09. except with Flora instead of Mitzi.)

Bonus 1: Speaking of 1x09, I saw that episode today, and here are some quick quotes from the original version:

(Tecna analyses Bloom's dream)
B: "You're a true Technowizard!" T: "I'd rather be called a fairy, but thanks anyway"

(Bloom asks what happened that made Musa PO'd)
S: "It's just that I can't do anything right today" B: "And that's news?" S: "...Well, I do deserve to get some flack"
(Incidentally, Stella was never spelled by seniors for giving them fashion tips in the original. For details, join winx_club and look for my Spotlights.)

Bonus 2: An edit I left out from the last spotlight relates to an edit made in the 3rd episode (to wit: Musa is a princess in the 4K version when in the original she is not).

Unedited: Musa's dad is a young musician who married an, er, opera singer or something. There are no mentions of them recording any albums, though...

Edited: Musa's dad is a prince who got disowned when he became a musician, who married an opera singer who then rejected her classical training to do more modern stuff. They mention recording a few albums, including a "stripped down" album that respected mom's classical training.

Comments

[mg-winxclub.livejournal.com]

If you understand anything about royalties and copyright issues (at least in the USA anyway), not showing the Spiderman costume was the right thing to do. That also explains some of the other changes, such as Darth Vader's costume not looking exactly like it, etc.

[ddrfan.livejournal.com]

I agree, if the darth vader costume wasn't changed then there would be a sue job.

[tanz-fanatika.livejournal.com]

Mitzi's song is a big 4Kids improvement.

Heh. I like the Internet line.

Glad they cut the cake scene. Besides the problem with Spidey (we have stricter copyrights than most countries), who needs to hear about ear wax? Not me. And Musa, what have you been doing that you know what ear wax tastes like? Gross, girl.

So Stella recognizes Mitzi by her posture? I prefer the perfume. Posture can be easily changed and shouldn't be a way to recognize someone.

I like Musa's parents being successful and her dad rejecting his royalty to follow his dream. Makes for a more interesting story than boring struggling musicians.

So aside from the title, I prefer all the 4Kids things.

[spiderbraids.livejournal.com]

And Musa, what have you been doing that you know what ear wax tastes like? Gross, girl.

Scene goes like this: Musa eats the cake, and then clutches her tummy as if she had a tummyache. Freddy tells her, "Looks like you picked the earwax flavored one."

Hope that clarifies things.

[tanz-fanatika.livejournal.com]

That's a bit better. But still. Who wants to hear about ear wax? Ugh.