Winx Club (season one)

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The first season of the Winx Club premiered on February 1, 2003 through October 18, 2003 in Italy, and on June 19, 2004 through December 11, 2004 as part of the current line-up for the 4Kids TV Saturday morning cartoon series.

1 Overview 2 Notable Subplots 3 Episode list 4 References

[edit] Overview

Bloom was an ordinary girl living on Earth, until she encountered a girl fighting an ogre. The girl, Stella, is the then-princess of the planet Solaria and a fairy. Stella believed that Bloom has magical powers within her, which is proven true during their second fight with the ogre, when Bloom uncontrollably unleashed a blast of light. Stella took Bloom with her to Magix, the magic realm, where they enroll in Alfea, an all-girls school for fairies.

Bloom and Stella are joined by new friends: Flora, a shy girl who loves flowers and nature, having nature-related powers, Musa, a tomboyish girl who loves music, having musical powers, and Tecna, an intelligent girl has a love for technology and technologically-based powers. Eventually, Bloom discovers her powers and the Winx girls are confronted by the Trix, a trio of witches. The witches, Icy, Darcy, and Stormy, are students at Cloudtower, an all-female school for witches. Icy seeks to find the Dragon's Flame ^[1], Magix's most powerful magic, coming from a deity in the series. On the other hand, the girls also become friends with four students from Redfountain, an all-boys school that trains them to become Specialists, fighters who can use a differing range of weapons along with other abilities. They are Sky, Brandon, Timmy, and Riven.

During episodes, the Trix unleashes constant traps to defeat the Winx girls and get the Dragon's Flame. The turning point comes in Episode 17, when Bloom discovers that Brandon and Sky had switched identities in order to protect the other. Upset about those events, Bloom returns to Earth, with the Trix secretly following. There, Bloom discovers her true identity - she was the princess of the planet Domino ^[2]., and when it was destroyed by the Witch Coven, a group of three ancient witches, baby Bloom was sent to Earth and was adopted by her Earth parents. Alas, the Trix attacked Bloom on Earth and take the Dragon's Flame, leaving Bloom completely powerless. With the Flame in their possession, the Trix used it to summon the Army of Decay, an endless militia of monsters who regenerate even if they are defeated. At Alfea, students struggled to fight them, but to no avail. Figuring the only way to defeat the Trix is with a power equal to the dragon fire, the Winx Club will travel to Domino to claim any remnants of the Dragon's Flame.

On Domino, the Winx Club is immediately attacked by vicious monsters, but manages to hold up in the ruined palace that once belonged to Bloom's parents. Guided by the ethereal appearance of her sister Dafne, Bloom is told about final moments of her planet. After the destructive conquest by three ancient witches to seize the Dragon's Flame, Bloom's parents, Oritel and Miriam, endowed the infant Bloom with a small portion of it. She was handed off to her sister for safekeeping, while their parents used desperate measures to eliminate the witches. Oritel and Miriam seemingly sacrificed themselves by using the full power of the Dragon's Flame, rendering their planet inhospitable. Dafne supposedly used the last of her magical endowments to send Bloom to Earth. The bestiary of Sparks eventually overran the palace forcing the Winx Club to retreat without any information on how to re-acquire the Flame.

The Winx Club proceeds with a secondary plan to take it from the Trix who have now conquered Cloud Tower and turned it into their base of operations but their Army of Decay quickly overpower the Winx Club and their specialist support and are once again are forced to retreat. While falling back to campus of Alfea, Dafne guides Bloom to a nearby lake where she appears and explains to her that the Dragon Fire can never be taken from her and tethered to her self-esteem. By sheer will power, Bloom regenerates her Dragon Fire abilities.

The final battle begins at Alfea, and with the Dragon's Flame, Bloom squares off in a duel against Icy, while the others take on Darcy and Stormy. The Trix have a share of the Dragon Fire, so when Darcy and Stormy are defeated, most of the monsters disappear, leaving only Icy to be defeated by Bloom. After the battle, the Trix is sent to the Fortress of Light^[3], a temple in the show, as punishment, while a celebration is held back at Alfea. The Winx girls and the Specialists toast to the new year.

[edit] Notable Subplots

Throughout the series, the Winx Club have joined the Specialists, warriors in training from Red Fountain School, in fights against the Trix and their Army of Decay. Their friendships quickly evolve into romantic interests in the following pairings: Bloom with Prince Sky (masquerading as Brandon -his squire- for the first half of the season), Stella with Brandon (masquerading as Prince Sky for the first half of the season), Tecna with Timmy, and Musa with Riven (though they don't have an official relationship until late season 2).

For the first half the series, Prince Sky and Squire Brandon switch identities and titles so that Sky could attend Red Fountain without having to deal with the expectations of a prince.

Bloomâ€™s sister, Daphne, appears sporadically through out the series in ethereal form in Bloom's dreams and times of desperation. Her appearance culminated in the episode Sparks of Hope when she guides Bloom through the ruins of their parentâ€™s palace while explaining the final moments of Sparks.

Pepe, a cygnet, debuts in the episode The Voice of Nature as the result of a spell cast by the Winx against the witches (summoning that which they hate the most -somehting cute and cuddly-) and follows Icy believing that she is his mother, much to her chagrin. Pepe appears infrequently throughout the first season eventually following Icy into the Fortress of Light, where he is never seen or heard of again.

Mirta, a student witch from Cloud Tower, aids Bloom during one escape from Cloud Tower and is turned into a pumpkin by Icy for her tolerance for fairies. As a pumpkin, she is cared for by Flora and even manages to give additional information about the senior witches. After the defeat of the Trix in the final episode, she returned to her former self and transfers to Alfea.

Princess Diaspro appears as the betrothed bride of Prince Sky in the episode Secrets Within Secrets (Royal Heartbreak in the 4Kids dub) but Bloom mistakes her appearance and interest in Sky for Icy in disguise. Bloom fights Diaspro to reveal Icy but instead humiliates herself and becomes upset with Sky because of his lack of honesty in his identity and their arranged marriage. In the third to the last episode in which the Army of Decay conquers Red Fountain, Princess Diaspro attempts to rescue Sky from the invading army but he refuses her aid in favor of fighting alongside his classmates and tacitly ends any relationship they had.