Fate: The Winx Saga

I was expecting this to be a bad adaptation, I ended up really liking it, was definitely not expecting it to be good but it actually is. It's very different form the original show and that can be seen in the trailers, the trailers were bad for my taste. I recommend you giving it a try just like I did, maybe you'll enjoy it.

There's a very simple world concept, not dissimilar to harry potter, or sabrina with a few different rules. There's some angsty teens hot for each other. That's about it.

First off, pros, beautiful cinematography and a captivating storyline. Second, cons, angsty teens with powers run around causing havoc and just being annoying.

Watched this with my wife over the past week or so, and it's not too horrible, but there are definitely plot holes and biases. Pretty obvious they made this with a young female demographic in mind. All kinds of diversity on the female casting side, yet the guys are a pretty homogenous set of pretty boys that like to pretend to be strong.

They did their best to fuse a bunch of concepts together. For instance, magic is supposed to manifest around puberty, but they want the school to feel like college, so they compromised and they're all "16", but look 25. They wanted to fuse fantasy elements with modern world, so they have cell phones and military vehicles, but somehow no guns of any kind. M2 would seriously wreck house and I've got to think that'd take the spotlight away from their magical special effects.

Our lead tries to exercise some reasoning to accelerate the story past "naive protagonist stumbles through whatever" but she somehow gets satisfied with only one round of analysis without weighting long-standing bias. For instance, if you implicitly trust a mentor character, and that mentor character has decades of grudge against whatever, how do you not take any precautionary steps to respect that mentor?

No spoilers, but I took a star for the haphazard manner the season finale was handled. Pretty much gives them a mulligan on, well, everything in season one, which is extremely lazy writing.

A series with mostly average acting, terrible writing, laughable development and just some nice VFX and heart-warming teenish score!

It's so unbelievably bad and shallow that green-lighting a second season of that nonsense is just laughable, while brilliant series get cancelled after the first one.

Be sure that the same acrobatic circus and total nonsense will repeat in season 2.