User blog comment:KillRoy231/Love & Pet/@comment-31892545-20170714215300/@comment-29197449-20170715225711

If I'm gonna be honest, I'm gonna say that you just shouldn't skip or ignore any of the seasons past Season 4.

Season 5, even though it dropped the ball on almost everything it tried to set up, it still brought up many interesting world-building aspects like, as OP said, the Ocean Gates. Honestly, I could've done without having its story revolve around environmental health as heavily as it did (just look at Tritannus, the entirety of his powers a drawn from pollution and he's the main villain), and I feel like it would've done much better if it kept more of a focus on Aisha like it seemed to be trying to do in earlier episodes. Yeah, the relationship drama is pretty bad, but that can honestly be said about all seasons where relationship drama became a heavy part of the story or characters, which is the biggest problem I have with S4 (Stella and Musa's issues shouldn't have been as drawn out as they were and the whole Bloom/Sky drama would've been much more interesting if they didn't cram Andy into the middle of it).

Season 6 is kind of the same but I feel like it does much better than S5 in terms of what it establishes. The only major problems I had with this season were the inconsistent power matchups and the Winx basically having to be led by hand as to where they needed to go. It honestly felt like they were just doing what they needed to do for the plot's sake half of the time. But, again, it's not all bad. Bloomix was a treat, the Legendarium and Selina were both interesting and my favorite episodes from this season have to be the Fearwood based ones, as they show off the growth of Flora's powers and show that she isn't the pushover that most fight scenes will even make some longtime Winxers believe.

Season 7 is probably the best out of the three for me personally. I'm not sure how this fares for everyone else, but I enjoyed seeing the Winx act as a team again, rather than Bloom and the other five. They had individually-focused episodes, etc. and I felt like Tecna really shined here, if you're a fan of her. The last couple of episodes are also regarded as the season's best because of how high the stakes get (aside from the how it actually gets resolved) and I think it's worth a watch if you can get past the whole "lower target age range" deal since, now that Winx Club is targeting kids as young as 4, it reflects heavily in this season.