In a magical universe, witches and warriors begin fighting in the name of good vs. evil! At a magic school, five teenage girls are selected to defend the universe with their magic.
So this was pretty much my favorite Saturday morning tv show when I was younger. It was like the pre-teen version of Charmed (my fav show of ALL time) which is probably why I liked it so much.
But anyway, after finally hunting down all the episodes on youtube and rewatching them all I see what a pre-teen me would see in this show. It's funny, corny, exciting and knows when to insert an appropriate cliffhanger...at the end of EVERY SINGLE EPISODE!!!
I was just as hooked on this show a month ago as I was years ago when I watched it on tv. Season 1 was amazing (for a kid's show) and it progressed nicely with the power of friendship, bunnies and how good always wins over evil.
But there was always that little twist in the plot that I never saw coming, even in my adult years. I feel like I should be insulted, but really I was totally shocked. So since I don't want to talk about every season individually I figured I would just over simplify the first one so you get the idea:
Bloom is the main character and she lives in a flower town called Gardenia on Earth. A fairy from another realm travels there to fight a monster and Bloom oversees this at the public park. Bloom sees that Stella (the fairy) is in danger and unleashes powers on this monster to destroy it. The catch? She didn't know she had powers. So instead of the whole secrecy thing where Bloom tries to hide her new abilities from her parents she just outright tells them when she brings Stella home that night. And on top of all this? Her parents are totally on board with everything! Stella shows them her powers and about 10 minutes later they agree to send Bloom to a magic boarding school. Just like that!
So Bloom makes life-long friends her first day at school (of course...it's ONLY high school) and she finds out eventually that she's the most powerful fairy left in all the realms. Insert corny plot where she has to go through some major self-discovery and life lessons...skipping to the good part...there is a trio of evil witches at another magic boarding school nearby and they want Bloom's power to rule the world.
These villains are actually pretty convincing for a kid's show. The leader doesn't take anything from anybody and her sidekicks are evil and stupid so they follow whatever she says. And amazingly this plot works and kept me extremely entertained. It was very similar to the trio of witches from Hocus Pocus*.
*Side note: if you haven't seen this movie then stop right now and go watch it. Just be sure to come back later :)
A lot more character development and cliffhangers later Bloom and the evil witches have their final battle. Guess who wins? Yeah Bloom does because she's super duper powerful and it's a kid's show.
End of season 1.
The rest of the seasons are not worth mentioning because short of a few really good episodes, they were long, drawn out and boring. The show also switched networks half way into the series so some of the voices and animation changed which made it really confusing because no one sounded like they did before. They didn't even really try to match the old stuff which was very disappointing.
Did I mention that this show is still going??? It's surprising but I guess people still watch it even after it changed hands so many times. It is set to air through 2015. (so this show has been on the air for about 10 years!!) Of course not regularly, but near enough! I haven't watched up through the 5th season and I'm not really planning to. I got my fix and if I need to re-live my childhood I will rewatch season 1 repeatedly. It really was the best.
If I was just rating season 1 then 4 stars...yeah it was THAT good. But since I watched most of the series, I can really only give it 2 stars. One for the villains and one for bringing back childhood memories.
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