User blog comment:KillRoy231/Love & Pet/@comment-31892545-20170714215300/@comment-26569404-20170715195855

What bothers me about ignoring seasons 5+ — and how fans treat them in general — is it's acting like there are no good ideas and nothing worthwhile in them. That's not true. Honestly, the ideas aren't the problem. Any idea, no matter how "childish" it sounds, can presented well enough to make it interesting and enjoyable.

If you can get around the poor execution and focus on the ideas themselves, the later seasons are fine. I bet if these ideas had made into seasons 1-4, the fans would appreciate them more. How do we know one of these ideas wasn't gonna be the basis of an earlier season, but Rainbow decided to go in a different direction?

Also, the belief that continuity has been thrown out the window is exaggerated. Some elements have, like the Winx's ages, their graduation from Alfea, Enchantix being is the final form, etc. But Rainbow hasn't changed or ignored everything. In fact, the later seasons expand on past ideas we may never have considered.

For example, season five showed that the worlds are connected to each other through gates in the ocean. In the first episode of season three, Aisha traveled from Magix to Andros through the ocean. How did she do that? Season five explains how.

Also, magic was back on Earth in season five. Roxy became an Alfea student, just like she wanted to at the end of season four. Season six showed Nebula again, now Queen of Tir Na N'Og, and revealed she's now training new Earth fairies.

Season seven showed us the wildlife in the Magic Dimension. Doesn't it make sense for magic worlds to have strange, magical creatures that don't exist on Earth? Some of what are now considered "Fairy Animals" were first seen in the earlier seasons. They just didn't have names back then because Rainbow wasn't focusing on them.

Finally — and I think this is most important — in season five, we got to see Tecna's home world, and in season six, we finally met her parents. In season seven, we finally met Flora's parents. Some of this happened earlier in the comics, but not everyone has access to them. Plus, they're not canon anyway.

So did some parts of the continuity get thrown out? Yes, but not as much of it as the fandom thinks. I acknowledge all the seasons. They all add to the mythology of the series and contain interesting ideas. But I hate that it's getting harder to find people to analyze and discuss them with.