User blog:KillRoy231/Stella left out twice

I don't know if I did this before

Now, Stella used to be my favorite Winx so I noticed they deliberately left her out of the action for two arcs in a row in Season 3.

First, when she's turned into a monster, thus preventing her from transforming. This is acceptable because it was the plot of the arc, and gives us some hate for Cassandra and Chimera making it all the more satisfying when Stella owns them all over the place.

But the second arc was the trip to Andross. Stella stayed behind to cover for them, as they snuck out without Faragonda's permission assuming she wouldn't give it to them.

First, Faragonda sent them on missions in the previous season. She saw them kill Darkar, so it should stand to reason that they might stand a chance against Valtor. If they'd asked her, there's a good bet she'd have said they could go, as long as they were careful and possibly avoid Valtor. (they might have even been an even match if they'd used their Charmix, which they seem to forget about since Darkar's death)

Second, even without this scenario, why Stella? Tecna could have covered for them with holograms like she used to trick the spiders, or Flora could have been the one to disguise pixies with her illusion spell (even though her spell on Stella in the previous arc didn't work, that could probably have been Chimera's Valtor-powered spell blocking illusion spells, since Valtor knows some illusion spells himself).

So, in choosing Stella as the Winx to stay behind, and creating a case in which one of them needed to stay behind, all they did was leave her out of the action for two arcs in a row. The first time she actually fights in Season 3 is the episode where she gets her Enchantix.

But the joke's on them because Bloom is now my favorite Winx, she's quite the warrior princess and she killed Valtor, which is more satisfying for me than before because he tried to destroy inhabited areas with forest fires, floods, and tornadoes, and therefore is arguably the most evil villain in the show, and even without that he was the biggest threat (though I heard Tritannus gives him a run for his money, but I ignore Season 5 both because it's not in the Cinelume dub and because I heard it's terrible and full of plot holes). I still like him as a villain, though, third favorite after Darkar and Duman (tied for first), and Gantlos