User:Rhiabloom12

I first found out about Winx Club when I was around 7 years old. I was wondering what to watch on TV and my mom looked on the TV guide and found this show about fairies on a random channel called 4kids TV. What I saw was the end of season 1 episode 6. It was so long ago; I forget exactly what happened after that but I know I must have liked it enough that I watched episode 8 when it came on. After that Winx Club became my favorite show; I never missed an episode. My parents even let my take a break from packing our van on our way back from vacation so I could watch it.

Years passed, and I basically forgot about Winx Club, until a commercial on Nick brought everything back. They said they were bringing Winx Club to Nick. I got curious to see what I missed and was able to watch season 4. However, I then realized the Winx previews on Nick were not the Winx I remembered. I did some more research and discovered: I didn't know anything about Winx Club at all.

I felt like I had been betrayed almost when I discovered the Cinélume dub; my entire world changed. That was the first time I truly realized I had been deprived of what Winx truly was simply because of marketing, money, language, and "Americanization". That summer I watched the Cinélume dub of the first three seasons whenever my parents were at work.

This experience made me become an originalist, where I always want to know the original story before an adaptation, but on a more related note it made me very protective of Winx Club. While Winx may not be my favorite show it is definitely the show that is most close to my heart. I feel very protective of it and don't like it when people make assumptions about it when they don't know the full story.

I like Winx Club because it has its own charm and is a mixture of everything. When I say everything I mean everything. A long time ago I made a conscious decision not to curse, and over time I have built up a mental sieve that catches all the things I don't approve of. As Winx is primarily aimed at a younger audience my sieve gets a rest. In this way Winx Club is a breath of fresh air for me. The charm that I spoke of is the fact that one moment in the show you can want to hide under a table because it is so childish, and the next you're on the edge of your seat wanting to know what happens next. Not many shows to my knowledge have this kind of effect.