Winx Club - Season 2 Full Episodes

[Albertina Drybread]

WinxClub is an Italian-American[a] animated series co-produced by Rainbow SpA and Nickelodeon, which are both part of Paramount Global. The show was created by Iginio Straffi, who also worked on Club 57. Both shows were produced by Rainbow SpA.

From the beginning of the show's development, Iginio Straffi planned an overarching plot that would conclude after three seasons.[1] A feature-length film followed the third season, intended to wrap up the series' plot as the fairies graduate from Alfea College.[1][2] In 2008, Straffi made the decision to extend the original series with a fourth season, citing its increasing popularity.[1] During the production of the fourth season, the American company Viacom (owner of Nickelodeon) engaged in a "long courtship"[3] with the Rainbow studio. Viacom became a co-owner of Rainbow to produce their own episodes of Winx Club.[4]

In 2010, Viacom announced that "Nickelodeon is teaming up with the original creator to present an all-new Winx Club."[5] Viacom's Nickelodeon Animation Studio started production on a revived series, in which the Winx are once again students at Alfea, as they were before their graduation in the original show. The Nickelodeon revival began with four television specials that summarize the first two seasons of the original series.[6] After the specials, Viacom's brand-new fifth, sixth, and seventh seasons were broadcast on Nickelodeon networks worldwide ahead of the Italian broadcasts.[b]

Winx Club employs a serial format, with each episode contributing to the overall storyline. Episodes are written with two stories in mind: the longer narrative arc that lasts for tens of episodes and a subplot which concludes at the end of the 22-minute runtime.[7] This episode structure was modeled on those of teen dramas and American comics.[8]

When Iginio Straffi began developing Winx Club at the Rainbow studio, he outlined the plot to last three seasons (78 episodes).[1] In 2007, Straffi explained that "the Winx saga was planned in detail from the beginning. And it will not last forever."[10] The third season follows the fairies' last year at Alfea College, during which they earn their final fairy form, Enchantix. In 2008, Iginio Straffi chose to continue the story for a fourth season. During the fourth season's development, Viacom began discussions to become a co-owner of the Rainbow studio[11] and produce a revival series, which began with a retelling of the first two original seasons.[6]

The pilot episode for the series, then under the working title Magic Bloom,[12] featured the original five Winx members in attires similar to those of traditional European fairies.[13] It was produced over a period of twelve months[10] and was test-screened in 2002.[13] Upon its completion, Straffi was unsatisfied with the pilot and doubted that it would succeed if aired.[14] In a 2016 interview, Straffi recalled that it "looked like just another Japanese-style cartoon ... but nothing like [the modern] Winx."[14] Straffi's team heavily reworked the pilot's visual style[13] before starting work on a full season, leaving the original pilot unaired. Portions of the pilot were presented at the Lucca Comics & Games convention in 2018.[12]

After Viacom became a co-owner of the Rainbow studio in 2011,[15] new seasons of Winx Club entered production at Viacom's Nickelodeon Animation Studio and Rainbow.[4][16] In this revamped series, the Winx are once again students at Alfea, as they were before their graduation in the original show. The revival began with four specials that retell the original first and second seasons.[6] Nickelodeon's American writers aimed to make the series multicultural and appealing toward viewers from different countries.[17] In 2019, Straffi commented on his near-decade of collaboration with Nickelodeon, saying that "the know-how of Rainbow and the know-how of Nickelodeon are very complementary; the sensibilities of the Americans, with our European touch."[18]

On 8 October 2006, a Winx Club CGI film was announced on Rainbow's website. The Secret of the Lost Kingdom was released in Italy on 30 November 2007.[49] Its television premiere was on 11 March 2012 on Nickelodeon in the United States.[50] The plot takes place after the events of the first three seasons.[51]

In 2007, production began on a sequel to The Secret of the Lost Kingdom, before the fourth season had been written.[52] It was released in Italy on 29 October 2010.[53] Its television premiere was on 20 May 2013, on Nickelodeon in the United States.[54]

In late 2010, it was announced that Viacom (the owner of Nickelodeon and eventual co-owner of Rainbow) would provide the resources necessary to produce a new Winx film.[55] The movie follows the events of the fifth season and was released in Italy on 4 September 2014.[56] The film made its television premiere on Nickelodeon Germany on 8 August 2015.[57]

In the morning, Aisha complains about the stress they have all undergone while training for the magical convergence deal and she suggests they all play hooky. After Bloom receives a letter from her parents (how, is beyond me) she invites everyone for a quick visit to Gardenia. And by everyone I actually mean everyone sans Techna who is currently having lunch with Timmy (oh yes, that scene) and Flora who I guess decided not to go for Helia related reasons.

While on a bus headed to her home, Bloom explains that she decided to make a trip back home to give her mother her support while she testifies on court. Umm, for what? The fire incident last season? Now that is an interesting plot continuity point. Good job Winx Club, you did a thing right. The other relevant point here is that Bloom asks the girls not to use magic in public.

While a brawl starts inside the club between the purple gang and the two fairies who are trying their best not to use magic, Stella, Bloom and the pixies make their way inside. In the end the girls are surrounded until Faragonda and Griselda (who noticed their absence earlier, because of course they would) arrive to put a stop to the whole thing. In a rare instance of proper punishment ensuing, Faragonda forces the girls to clean up the entire school, suggesting they use convergence (the thing they were trying to take a break from) in order to accomplish their task efficiently.

The episode ends with most of the girls passed out from exhaustion except for Aisha who tells Flora about how her only childhood friend moved away and how she has since been afraid of being alone until the Winx came along. Inspired, Flora begins to tell her about her desire to tell Helia how she feels but the other fairy is already asleep and so she too takes a nap next to her. The end.

As expected the Techna/Timmy sequence was not repeated but since the line about her going out to eat with him was still present, it makes it seem as though she continue to meet him despite the incident last episode.

The season 6 Rewrite 2023 PosterThis is a series of rewrites of seasons 5-8 of Winx Club created by the YouTuber Unicorn of War (Or Thomas Vaccaro). On June 5th 2020 the first part of the Season 5 rewrite was released with the second part coming out on September 16th later that year. The season 6 rewrite is releasing in individual episodes, and the first episode released on December 27th, 2022. open/close all folders General Abusive Parents: Tecna's parents are this in both rewrites. In season 5, they are established to be very cold and dismissive, not only to the other Winx but also Tecna, their own daughter. Season 6 later expands on this by explaining how Tecna was always taught by her parents that rationality reigns supreme and that Zenith runs by not being controlled by "trivial emotions". It then expands on this further by introducing Snow Ball, a stuffed toy dog that Tecna had, and how they wouldn't even allow her to have a simple toy. Darker and Edgier: This rewrite has largely the same tone as the first four seasons. In comparison to Seasons 5-8 in the official canon, which were Lighter and Softer, this rewrite carries a more mature, suspenseful tone. Unlike the official series, which attempted to subtly keep the Winx as teens and in Alfea in an attempt to keep them together, the Winx (minus Roxy, the youngest of them) are all explicitly adults in their 20s. Character-wise, the Winx's flaws and personal struggles become more emphasized, in particular, via the Sirenix Quest, for more adult situations. Aisha's Nightmare Sequence of seeing Nabu blaming her for his death is expanded upon here, her now seeing the Fairy Hunters, who caused Nabu's death, ripping off her friend's wings and Nabu imploring Aisha to kill them. The return to Melody sees Musa's home destroyed, and with it, all of her mother's notes, music sheets, and research, which breaks Musa's heart to the point where she's cursed into a monster. For Stella, in addition to dealing with her trauma regarding her parents' divorce as in canon, she also comes to learn of Selenia, the Kingdom of the Moon on Solaria, which was destroyed ages ago, with heavy implications of Written by the Winners involved. Tecna has to deal with her family issues in both the season 5 and 6 rewrites. Season 6 places a direct focus on Bloom's flaws and insecurities, with her fear of losing her friends and her desperation to help them leading her to convince Lockette and Piff to enter Stella's dreams, only hurting her friend even worse and severely straining her relationship with the other Winx. Season 6 directly introduces LGBT elements into the narrative, with Lucy and Mirta becoming an established engaged couple, and Bloom and Stella being implied to be developing feelings for each other. The Season 6 rewrite's 5th and 6th episodes deal with the topic of miscarriage, and the pain and sadness it caused for Flora's family, particularly her mother. Episodes 13 and 14 deal with the conquest of Selenia by the Kingdom of Solaria, revealing how the Solarian dynasty has worked to erase Selenian history and culture from their world, and deals with Stella's own guilt in realizing how her heritage is connected to it. It also subtly touches on discrimination, particularly with Narcissa, the Fairy of Mirrors. As Stella discovers, Narcissa was a Selenian and possessed lunar magic like her, causing her to be denounced as monstrous in Solarian history. Combined with the above, it implies that the Selenian people may have actually been discriminated against after Theia conquered them.

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