Previously: Stella was the worst and everyone ended up in the forest AGAIN.
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Marines: We start right where we left the last episode off, with Bloom going all spooky and white eyed. We zoom zoom into her head and see that she is remembering being a baby in a cradle in some sort of hospital. A woman gets close to her and tells her that when the time comes, Bloom is to find her. Bloom comes out of the memory/vision and Aisha asks what the heck just happened. Bloom breaths shakily while she says that she thinks she just saw the person who left her in the fairy world.
Paige: If I was Aisha, I would be asking someone to exorcise her. Idc what homegirl says, that was some demonic behaviour.
Mari:The roommate change request would’ve been filled out STAT.
PSYCHADELIC FAIRY WINGS.
Bloom and Aisha are walking together in the halls, and Bloom stops to take a look at a bunch of old student photos on the walls. Aisha is #overit because apparently she’s been doing this a lot. Bloom is trying to see if she can spot the woman in her memory/vision in a photo, except that woman was old and these are all photos of students, so it’s hard to tell. (P: “old” when she’s like middle-aged, not a grandma.) Bloom thinks one lady with Farrah Fawcett hair could be Memory Fairy. Aisha points out that there are a lot of fairies in the Otherwold, but Bloom is convinced this obviously powerful memory-implanting fairy would’ve definitely come through Alfea, the best school in the Otherworld. Aisha keeps being a downer, but Bloom won’t let it go. Aisha finally gives in and says that maybe Terra’s dad has old yearbooks they can look through after class.
Jess: Aisha is the worst kind of downer. She’s my number 1 suspect for sabotage.
Mari: Specialist Training. These are already my lest favorite scenes and it’s been 2 episodes. Silva is supervising and watches as Riven manages to best Sky in a fight. Silva compliments Riv and limps away, using an unusually large stick as a walking stick. (J: He can still get it.)
Paige: Doesn’t Stella also have class? Getting out of bed at the ass-crack of dawn to watch these boys hit sticks.
Mari: Right? Like girl please.
Sky asks Stella what she thinks, and she doesn’t even look up as she says Silva looks fine. She asks if they are going to hang out later before the party, but Sky is still staring at his Replacement Dad, worriedly. Stella points out that Professor Harvey still has him on the Xanax Night Night Oil, but Sky knows that’s just managing his symptoms. Silva won’t be okay until the Burned One who attacked him is killed. Stella again is sort of dismissive as she says that someone will definitely kill the Burned One, and Sky should stop worrying. She kisses him on the cheek and takes off.
Jess: Ugh Stella.
Paige: She lacks a singular empathetic bone in her body.
Mari: Riv sighs as loud as I do and wonders why the heck Sky is back with Stella, and starts guessing it must be great sex. Sky isn’t paying full attention, but when Riv guesses that Stella lets him do butt stuff, Sky pushes him all the way off the bench. Riv laughs, but Sky is still staring worriedly at his Substitute Papa. Riv offers to be there if Sky needs it, but he’s definitely not listening and says he has to run.
Jess: I take back the nice things I said about him.
Mari: Class. Terra’s causing things to bloom as Headmistress Dowling instructs her on feeling her magic and, um, stuff like that. Terra kind of loses control of her bloom, so Dowling tells her that there is a thing as giving too much life. Musa is sitting next to Terra, and tells Dowling that “too much” is kind of Terra’s thing. Also, I think this might be the first time we see Musa with her hair down? She looks like a different person. Anyway, Dowling tells Musa that her problem is that she picks up on everything and she needs to learn how to focus on one emotion at a time. Her eyes glow purple and she smiles, so I guess she did it.
Paige: Okay real question though, why are the faeries all in class together when they have different specialties? Wouldn’t it be more useful to have separation to teach skills? This school is whack.
Mari: They only have 3 teachers. Honestly these students are lucky they have any classes.
Bloom has a bunch of twigs in front of her. Dowling asks her if she can light a twig on fire and leave the others untouched. Bloom concentrates and does it. Dowling smiles at her proudly. In the background, Beatrix is causing lightening to shoot from hand to hand. Dowling tells her to keep it up and Beatrix calls her “Miss D” but at a look, corrects to “Headmistress Dowling.” When Dowling walks away, Beatrix says under her breath “your grace.” Bloom smiles at her.
Finally, it’s Aisha’s turn to demonstrate control. She manages to cause a ball of water to rise up out of a bowl of water, which Dowling says is fine, but she also says a bunch more stuff about the volatility of a drop of water. I’m not recapping it all. I didn’t even understand it all, tbh. The point is that Dowling can cause a drop of water to detach from the ball of water, but Aisha cannot. She loses control and the ball of water drops and spalshes everywhere. Dowling says, in a very disappointed Headmistress voice, that that’s a thing for Aisha to learn.
Now that class is over, Bloom asks if Aisha is okay. She says she’s just tired, and she’s off to go for a swim. Beatrix smirks in the background. Bloom looks worried.
Professor Harvey is tending Silva’s demon wounds. They are gross. (J: He can still get it.)
Jess: Why are all the adults here so annoying? Except Silva.
Mari: Silva doesn’t have time to be annoying, he’s DYING.
Beatrix finds Dowling’s assistant. I just had to look up his name because I definitely never knew it. It’s Callum. Callum is gingerly holding one hand in the other, and we see it’s red and maybe bloody. Beatrix asks about some magic thing he tried last night and whether or not it revealed anything about Dowling’s “trap to the undercroft.” Those are the words she says, I don’t know what they mean. Callum says the magic thing did not reveal anything new, just like Beatrix didn’t reveal that he should’ve been wearing gloves while trying it. Wow, mean for nothing.
Beatrix says she’ll figure something out later, after her boring first year classes. She asks if Dowling is still distracted with the Burned One. He says she is. They teachers still think it was released by an outsider, but will start looking inside soon, which means they should keep their distance. Beatrix says that’s not a worry because she’s a girl in a short skirt, and he’s male admin staff, so people will just assume he’s perving on her. Which she helps along by turning away from him and yelling for him to get off her, calling him a massive pedo. And then Riv is there, so she smiles at him and they both bite into the same apple.
Jess: ugh.
Paige: I know they’re supposed to seem “cool” but they’re really just serving me “bobbing for apples.”
Mari: They would KILL at that game.
Terra is watching from the lunch line and says eating the same apple is weird. Dane laughs and agrees. He says that Beatrix is a big nerd, though, underneath it all. She can recite the Otherworld’s like entire history. Terra says Riv has bad taste in girls, but Dane says they aren’t terrible, based mostly on the fact that they invited him to the party happening tonight. Terra knows all about the Senior Specialist Party, but it’s usually a mess. She tries to play it off like maybe she’ll go, check out the vibe, but you can tell she’s a little smitten and gets extra excited when Dane tells her that maybe he’ll see her there tonight.
Jess: I’m already getting second hand embarrassment for whatever is going to go down. I AM UNCOMFORTABLE.
Mari: Yes, correct.
Bloom and Musa are having lunch together. Bloom says it was weird to see Aisha not get something right. Musa agrees, but isn’t sure why this is causing Bloom to feel so much guilt. Bloom tells her to stop broadcasting her feelings, thanks. Anyway, she thinks that Aisha is just tired because since her parents think Alfea is in Switzerland, they call her at 9 a.m. Switzerland every morning, which is 2 a.m. Otherworld time. Musa knows. Apparently all the roommates can hear her. Musa points out, though, that she’s doing fine in school and Terra is doing fine. So… Aisha, what’s up?
Musa gets distracted when Sam walks by. Bloom can see her pining all over her face and asks if it’s her turn to broadcast Musa’s feelings. Musa tells her those feelings are still developing and it’s complicated and please don’t broadcast in front of T– Terra joins them so Musa has to shut up. Terra starts yammering about how maybe now it’s cool to be a nerd, and how she likes fairy history, but no one is sharing an apple with her. Musa laughs that they are going to need so much more context. Terra starts explaining about Beatrix, but Musa’s eyes glow and she says actually she has to go. These are the worst friends. Terra sighs and tells Bloom that it’s fine. She knows it’s ’cause Beatrix drinks and smokes and looks like her and Terra looks like… She lets that hang and Bloom doesn’t say anything. THESE ARE THE WORST FRIENDS.
Jess: These people are the WORST. I can’t stand Terra, and even I would respond.
Mari: Terra graciously changes the subject and asks Bloom how her search for Memory Fairy is going. Bloom says it’s stalling and asks about those old yearbooks. Terra says she’ll have to grab them herself because her dad has been so busy with Silva. And by the looks of it, Silva is not doing great. Bloom knows this must be so hard on Sky and asks Terra if she’s seen him. Terra is a good friend and tells Bloom that Sky is a great guy, but you know, Stella. Bloom laughs and says she’s just worried about him, convincing no one.
Justice for Terra. Get this girl some better friends.
Jess: I blame it on how annoying Terra is.
Paige: SO much boy drama in the first ten minutes how do they have the energy? I do not.
Mari: Sky finds Silva in the greenhouse and asks how bad his Demon Daddy wounds are. Silva just breathes heavily in reply, so it’s real bad. Sky offers to teach the first years while Silva takes it easy until the battalion finds the Burned One.
Paige: I’m sorry, but SKY a STUDENT offering to teach the first year crew just proves the theory that there are three teachers at this whack school and I hope there’s no tuition to go there because that’s robbery.
Mari: Sky asks how the search for the Burned One is going. Silva is still heavy breathing. It’s distracting? It’s very loud. (J: I didn’t notice until you pointed it out and now I can’t stop loling.) He says the battalion has tracked the Burned One north, and he’s confident they will kill it, but it’s a question of time now. The Demon Daddy infection is spreading, and Silva doesn’t have long. Silva has made plans for his probable death, but Sky wants to not just wait around for said probable death.
Mari: Stella hears from a friend at lunch that someone she calls Hot Marco is leading the battalion. Very helpful, not at all awkward exposition lets us know that Hot Marco is, like, the strongest grad they’ve had in years. Stella’s friend says that Silva will be fiiiine.
Jess: SHOW US HOT MARCO.
Paige: We all know hotness is correlated to demon-killing skills.
Mari: Duh.
In their room, Bloom is going through a yearbook while Aisha is trying (and failing) at her water bowl magic. Aisha asks if Bloom found “Fairy Fawcett.” Bloom wheels her chair over, pushes Aisha’s water bowl out of the way, and points out Fairy Fawcett, who is definitely not Memory Fairy. Bloom uses a lot of words to explain some whacked out plan she has to go to the stone circle and draw on as much magic as she can to try and trigger the memory again. Aisha doesn’t even have to say how bad an idea this is. Bloom points out that she is doing better in class. Aisha sighs.
Terra asks from the bathroom if anyone knows how to do a cat eye. Aisha and Bloom rush in to see she’s got a right liner mess on her face. They sit her down and clean her wing up while Terra tells them all to get ready because they are going to this party to show everyone how hot and cool they are.
Jess: Wait, maybe I find Terra annoying because Terra is me.
Paige: I’m still stuck on YouTube makeup tutorials being a thing in the Otherworld. Waiting for one of the fairies to start talking about TikTok next.
Mari: I will in fact not be happy until we see the fairies learning a TikTok dance.
Riv is pouring liquor into a flask as Stella gets ready. Sky walks in and gives a questioning look. Stella explains that four first years getting ready for their first party in her room is a nightmare. Riv tells her that if everyone around her is nightmare, um, she’s the problem. Sky gets judgey because Riv is drinking already, but he says that Stella has been in their room for an hour, so he’s been drinking for an hour. That seems fair to me. Stella wants a drink, but Sky isn’t drinking tonight. Stella tells Sky what she learned about Hot Marco being the one tracking the Burned One, but Sky doesn’t care. He’s not drinking.
Jess: I applaud the responsibleness here.
Mari: These teens always end up in the forest fighting someone. Seems like you’d want to stay sober as much as possible.
Dowling and Silva call Hot Marco (I was expecting hotter, tbh?) (J: Seriously, wth. for an update. Hot Marco and crew still haven’t caught the Burned One, but they think they’ll corner it by the morning. Silva says they might not have that long, and Marco just gives a female soldier standing with him a look and then hangs up on Dowling and Silva. Rude.
Paige: With every scene Demon Daddy and Dowling are in, I’m becoming more and more convinced they’ve seen each other naked in a sexy context.
Mari: It’s the way their faces are often so close and the looks they give each other.
Dowling and Silva are worried and frustrated. Harvey tells us (for the third time) that Marco (and the female soldier, Noura) are some of the best graduates to come out of Alfea in a decade. Dowling is still worried because they’ve never faced a Burned One. Harvey pours them all shots so they can drink and worry. Harvey tells the other Headmasters that tonight is the debauched Specialist Party and they drink to the fact that the students think their teachers don’t know. And that their teachers didn’t start it.
Jess: Insert a laugh track.
Paige: Big “I’m a cool mom” energy.
Mari: Our girls walk into the party while Terra helpfully exposits that this wing of the school was ones used for war preparations and now it’s empty and used for parties. Bloom and Aisha immediately head off to get drinks. Terra is obviously looking for someone, but she plays it off for Musa like she’s just looking for somewhere to put down her Tupperware of pot brownies. Sam walks up and introduces himself to Musa, even though we know they’ve met. Then Dane joins, surprised that Terra made it. She says she decided to come last minute, but like an annoying brother, Sam points out that it was so last minute she made pot brownies. Terra is like BYE SAM.
Jess: Cue my second hand embarrassment starting. Also, where is their mum? Why is the dad there alone all the time?
Paige: They only had the budget for so many parents.
Mari: Headmaster Harvey gives TV widow energy.
Dane grabs a brownie and then says he’s going to take them to Riv and Sky and will meet up with Terra later. She says that’s cool, but really she says “cool” like 20 times. She cringes at herself. (J: I CRINGE.)
Bloom finds Sky sitting by himself, brooding. (J: You forgot that awkward attempt at flirting by Sky. CRINGE again.) She asks him how Silva is doing, so he tells her the stuff about the battalion hunting the Burned One. Bloom asks how Sky is doing and he admits not great. Silva raised him after his dad died. I didn’t actually realize that Sky’s dad was dead and that Silva is truly a replacement daddy for him. (J: Duh, he’s our tragic hero.) Sky asks if Bloom is close with her parents, and she says that’s complicated but won’t share more.
Paige: “Are you close with your parents?” “Well, I burnt my mom alive. I don’t know if you’d define that as close, though.”
Mari: Not exactly party chit-chat.
Sky says that’s okay. He likes a good mystery. Bloom lifts her beer and says if she has a few more of these, she’ll be an open book. Sky thinks maybe he’ll have a drink for a distraction too. Bloom heard mention of beer pong, if Sky wants a big distraction. Sky is all about it.
Jess: Wow, look how quickly he gives up being responsible.
Mari: For love <3
We cut to Sky and Riven playing Bloom and Aisha at beer pong. We watch each of them score and also see Bloom use her magic to heat up one of the beers? I’m not sure if this is just to make it extra gross to drink? Because how would heating the drink make it easier to land the ball? (J: Enemies should drink hot beer as punishment.) Anyway, Bloom tells Aisha to use her powers to bounce the ball out if it lands. Riv throws the ball, and it does land, but Aisha can’t manage the magic. Instead of just bouncing the ball out, she causes all the cups of beers to spill… all over Riv. Aisha runs of to grab napkins.
Jess: Cheaters never prosper, Aisha.
Mari: Bloom is giggling meanwhile and tells Sky that at least he looks more relaxed. Riv reminds Sky that he wasn’t going to drink, and chalks it up to Bloom being a lot more fun than Stella. He casually mentions someone named Ricki, but Bloom doesn’t know who that is. Sky gives Riv a stern look, but Bloom wants to hear the story. Turns out Ricki was Stella’s best friend and old roommate. Ricki flirted a bit too much with Sky and so Stella blinded her. On purpose. Bloom thinks this can’t possibly be true, but Sky just kind of sarcastically says “yeah, that’s the story.” Riv just smiles and leaves. And Bloom, seeing Stella nearby, figures that’s also her cue to find Aisha and go.
Jess: CRINGE X3.
Paige: I, too, would leave after hearing that. No man is hot enough to risk it.
Mari: Sky is in no way hot enough to be the last hot man you ever see. Run, Bloom.
Bloom texts Aisha as she wanders deeper into empty war rooms, or whatever. She finds some pictures of old specialists and looks thoughtful.
Musa and Sam are hanging out together, tucked away in a nook of some sort. Sam asks if the whole party thing is overwhelming for her, but she says people are happy, so she’s happy. Sam wonders if Terra is the reason they are sneaking about, and Musa says that Terra feels a lot about a lot of things, and so if she were to react badly to their relationship, it would be even more uncomfortable for her. Sam is all like “oh so there’s an us, huh?” They kiss for a second, but then Musa gets a big magical whiff of social anxiety, so they break apart and Sam walks through the wall to make himself scarce right before Terra finds them.
Terra takes the seat Sam vacated and asks Musa if she and Dane could be a thing. Musa says that Dane does feel comfortable around her, though she doesn’t know what that means exactly. Terra is like “so yes???” Musa smiles and shrugs. (J: CRINGE X4)
Dane and Riv are in another war room apparently looking for something for Riv to wear. He’s shirtless right now. Beatrix joins them and they all shotgun a joint. And then Beatrix leaves again. I mean, thanks for joining us I guess bye.
Jess: They’re so edgy.
Paige: child protective services needs to come take wee Dane from these two I am concerned.
Mari: Same.
Dane says he doesn’t know how Riv can smoke so much after the pot brownies. Rive says Terra puts as much pot in those brownies as Dowling would. Dane tells him not to be an asshole, because Terra made those for all of them. Riv is apparently just going to be the dude who tells everyone what’s actually happening, so now he gets to tell Dane that Terra is thirsty for his dick. And then he asks what size Dane is, making Dane v uncomfortable, even though Riv is supposedly talking about his shirt. (He wasn’t talking about his shirt. (Jess: Ooohhhhhhhhhhh.)
Sky finds Stella because she wants to talk about Ricki and the fact that everyone thinks she blinded her best friend. He says that it doesn’t really matter what people think, but then explains that if he’s dating Stella after she blinded her best friend, people are going to think he’s a psycho. Their argument gets cuts short when Sky gets a text message saying that the Burned One is dead.
Bloom is taking photos of the old Specialist photos. Beatrix finds her and wants to know what she’s up to, but Bloom won’t tell. She asks if Beatrix knows who the Memory Fairy is, as she is indeed in one of the Specialist pictures, but Beatrix claims she doesn’t and leaves.
Paige: Beatrix is definitely that friend who gets drunk and disappears on you with all this wandering.
Mari: Is she ever in a scene more than 10 seconds?
Aisha is sitting alone. Bloom runs up to her and shows her the picture of Memory Fairy, pointing out that she’s standing right next to Dowling. Aisha is like fine, you can ask Dowling about it tomorrow. Bloom says she’s going to go right now and ask about it. Aisha says fine, Bloom can go find the Headmistress at midnight, drunk, and demand answers. And then she can go nuke her powers at the stone circle. Aisha is done pulling Bloom from the edge. She leaves.
Jess: Tell her.
Paige: We all need a break from Bloom, honestly.
Mari: Beatrix finds Callum standing in front of Dowling’s secret room. She says that they need to get in there tonight because Bloom was asking about Rosalind at the party. Callum still doesn’t know what kind of magic is guarding the door, though. Beatrix has a fix for that: she uses her magic to slam him into the protection. He goes all pale and can barely breathe, and Beatrix just walks by him and into the secret tunnel.
Sky finds Silva who is still demon poisoned. The Burned One the battalion killed is not the one that attacked him, so obviously there are a lot of them out there. Sky gets all mad about sitting around and waiting, but I’ll admit that I laughed when he says “fuck that.” I don’t know. It’s just so soft. (Jess: How did you not feel that anger delivered through that waving hair in the moonlight?)
Dowling and Harvey are still drinking. Dowling has contacted the queen for some more soldiers to track the Burned One. Dowling really wanted to believe that it was a single Burned One, but who knows how many are out there. It’s her job to fix this.
Bloom stomps in with her photo. Dowling tells her she should be in bed, but Bloom demands the truth. Harvey sees himself out. Bloom says the woman in the photo is the one who left her in the human world. Dowling says that’s Rosalind, the Headmistress who proceeded her. Dowling was Rosalind’s student and protege. Bloom accuses Dowling of being there when Bloom was dropped off in the human world, but Dowling repeats that she knows nothing about the circumstances around Bloom’s birth. Plus, Bloom is drunk right now, so maybe they can have this conversation when she’s not. Bloom just barrels forward, though, and says this is all very sus, especially considering that all the pictures of Rosalind are hidden away in the abandoned war rooms. Dowling gives a reasonable explanation, saying that Rosalind was headmistress during a trying time in Alfea’s history, one they aren’t keen to celebrate. Bloom tells Dowling about her vision. She demands to see Rosalind. Dowling gets very close to Bloom’s face as she breaks the news that Rosalind is dead, so whatever Bloom saw? It ends here. Bloom is shaky and teary. (J: This is an intense episode. Spill the truth Dowling!)
Stupid, stupid Bloom drunkenly marches all the way to the Stone Circle and calls up a bunch of her fire power, but nothing happens. No memories. So she cries. Sky finds her there and asks what she’s doing. Bloom gives him the summary: she’s a changeling and she’s crazy and she’s looking for answers. Sky’s hair is so distracting in this scene. Has it been in this pompadour combover the whole time? My god. I’m sorry, I miss whatever he’s saying. (Jess: That was his hair from episode one, but maybe you were distracted by how his exemplary sword fighting skills. I will say there is a little extra oomph– it was the “fuck you” running.) I tune back in as Bloom asks why he’s out here wearing armor. He says that Bloom’s not the only crazy one. He’s after the Burned One that demon daddied his substitute daddy. Conveniently, Bloom starts to hear the Burned One creepy whispering her name. She tells Sky that it’s out there, in the forest. She wants to get Dowling, but Sky just takes off running. And then Bloom runs after him.
Paige: Drunken demon hunting seems like a very dumb idea, but it’s not like they’ve had a lot of great ideas so far.
Mari: Honestly, I was joking about staying sober for demon fighting, but apparently on I wasn’t.
Party. Terra and Dane are playing beer pong. He’s shirtless now. (J: This made me lol but also CRINGE X5.) Terra makes a shot and they hug. Terra tells him they make a great team and Riv gives him a look. Stella stomps up to Riv and asks where Sky is. She can’t find him anywhere. Riv tells her to look for Bloom then, but then says that they are totally just friends, 100% nothing happening there and she should definitely not blind Bloom. Stella says she wouldn’t waster her magic on a changeling, which is of course news to Riv. Stella gets a text message from Bloom about there being a Burned One at the Stone Circle.
Musa and Sam are making out when she gets the text messages from Bloom.
Beatrix is still walking down this secret tunnel. She finds a force field at the end of it. She touches it and it shocks her.
Sky and Bloom cross the Light Suggestion Barrier and head into the haunted wood. They wait, back to back, because the Burned One is near. We see it in the background before they do, and then the thing attacks. It knocks both Bloom and Sky down pretty quickly and then is coming for Bloom, but we hear Stella tell her to close her eyes. She does, and Stella uses her magic to blind the thing. Terra uses vines to restrain it, giving Bloom time to stand and shoot fire at it. Aisha then douses it with water, giving Sky time to run it through with his sword. The Burned One goes down. They all approach it carefully, but so she has something to do, Musa’s eyes glow and she says she doesn’t think it’s dead. The Burned One gets back up, but then it gets lit up from the inside and dies for real. Dowling is there and she says it wasn’t dead before, but it is now.
Jess: This scene was exciting because I loved seeing them all work together, more of this.
Mari: Beatrix leaves the secret room and finds a still dying Callum. She tells him that she found nothing and Dowling will be back soon. She doesn’t have enough time to fix Callum, so she just kills him instead, electrocuting him until he, like, evaporates. Wow. If she starts killing people, I’m going to have to stop thinking she’s fun.
Jess: Yea, no thank you. That was a direction I didn’t think we’d head in.
Paige: RIP to the only other adult at this school. How little we knew ye.
Mari: Harvey is tending to Silva’s wounds, which are already so much less gross. Sky walks in, asking how he’s doing. Silva calls him reckless and stupid, and Sky is like “I know, I know, but how are you doing?” Harvey smiles at Sky, which is all the confirmation he needs. He hugs his papa. (Jess: lol)
Next, Sky comes out of the shadows all dirty and tired. The roomies make themselves scarce, leaving only Stella. She admits that she was awful today because Sky was all hurt and vulnerable and she didn’t know how to deal with it. He says he knows. He felt it. Stella says he’s the only one who knows the real her, but Sky thinks that’s her own fault. Stella calls him her safety net. She needs to know he’ll be there if she falls. Sky asks what happens if he falls? And he leaves.
Jess: Dump Stella.
Paige: Please Sky, love yourself a little bit.
Mari: Who likes being called a safety net?
Terra is taking off her makeup. Musa comes in and tries to casually say that her brother seems great, but Terra is oblivious and says he’s totally not. Terra climbs into bed and texts Dane, asking if he had a good time at the party. She sees the three dots appear, but then Dane leaves her on read. Terra checks Fairy Instagram, or whatever, and Beatrix has a story up in which Dane asks Riv to shotgun him. Riv asks what about his girlfriend, the weird fat girl. Dane says that she can go fuck a flower and they laugh and laugh. Then they all shotgun and we hear kissing noises as Terra keeps watching and cries. (J: CRINGE X A MILLION. A plague on all their houses!) (Paige: that’s the kinda content you should keep on your close friends, ma’am.)
In their room, Bloom is telling Aisha about her night and going to the stone circle and hearing the Burned One again. Aisha is still tired and over it, so she basically tells Bloom she doesn’t want to hear it. Maybe there isn’t a big conspiracy theory behind her existence and Bloom is just the child of a student who got pregnant and didn’t know what to do. (Jess: I mean I get it, not everything is about Bloom but geez, harsh much.) Bloom’s voice breaks as she tells Aisha that she’s thought every day about the realistic possibility that her mom just didn’t want her, so she has to believe that there is something more to her story.
In her office, Dowling tells Silva and Harvey that Bloom was left in the human world by Rosalind. We hear Dowling’s voice over as we head down into the secret room and see the portal thing. Dowling tells the boys that she told Bloom that Rosalind was dead because she has the potential to be one of the most powerful fairies ever. She can never meet Rosalind. We zoom into the portal and see Rosalind inside.
Jess: At this point, there’s still so much we need to cover in terms as to what the hell is going on, especially with that ending. I did really enjoy the badassery of the five of the girls working together. I usually love all the high school parties, etc but like this was TOO MUCH. These people are horrible teens. Bring on revenge plots please.
Paige: This episode felt like they suddenly remembered the “teen drama” element of their supernatural show so they had to dial up the romantic angst for everyone (Except Aisha for some reason?? Maybe Aisha needs a crush and that’s why her magic is a mess). Petition to get all these kids some therapy and Terra a new set of a friends entirely.
Mari: My big feeling at this point is that I’m already tired of Bloom just running into the forest to be reckless. Get you another personality trait, my friend.
Next time on Fate: The Winx Saga: Beatrix tries to hide her crime in S01 E04 – Some Wrecked Angel.
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