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spiderbraids) wrote2014-12-25 06:50 pm
spiderbraids) wrote2014-12-25 06:50 pm
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Winx Club 30 Day Challenge: Day 24
Day 24: Least Favorite Secondary Character
My pick is Chimera and Cassandra, but not so much the characters themselves as how they were treated by the writers.
Cassandra got off on the wrong foot from the get-go by talking about how much she doesn't like Stella, absolutely ensuring that Stella would have no problems about crashing her wedding later on. The fact that Cassandra perpetuates the whole "step-parents are evil" trope is just the cherry on top :-\
Meanwhile, after her impressive debut, quite a few fans were hoping to see Chimera be turned good, after all, it looked like she was behaving this way mostly because of her mom and Valtor, right? (Plus Stella's attitude, as mentioned on Day 21) Instead, she ends up being dispatched (pretty anticlimactically at that) as part of the aforementioned wedding crash. Kinda like the season as a whole, really... (And on top of that, we never even got to visit her school :-\) There's probably an AU out there that treats them properly, and part of me wonders if Selina is an attempt to do a Chimera-like character right...
Also, I'm not particularly fond of the idea of the Selkies as a whole either. They're like the pixies crossed with the Bubble Guppies, minus almost any trace of individuality :-\ Plus, they displaced the pixies for a whole season without any real in-story explanation, so there's that...
My pick is Chimera and Cassandra, but not so much the characters themselves as how they were treated by the writers.
Cassandra got off on the wrong foot from the get-go by talking about how much she doesn't like Stella, absolutely ensuring that Stella would have no problems about crashing her wedding later on. The fact that Cassandra perpetuates the whole "step-parents are evil" trope is just the cherry on top :-\
Meanwhile, after her impressive debut, quite a few fans were hoping to see Chimera be turned good, after all, it looked like she was behaving this way mostly because of her mom and Valtor, right? (Plus Stella's attitude, as mentioned on Day 21) Instead, she ends up being dispatched (pretty anticlimactically at that) as part of the aforementioned wedding crash. Kinda like the season as a whole, really... (And on top of that, we never even got to visit her school :-\) There's probably an AU out there that treats them properly, and part of me wonders if Selina is an attempt to do a Chimera-like character right...
Also, I'm not particularly fond of the idea of the Selkies as a whole either. They're like the pixies crossed with the Bubble Guppies, minus almost any trace of individuality :-\ Plus, they displaced the pixies for a whole season without any real in-story explanation, so there's that...