Late review! Been busy as of late. Then again, this wasn't a good episode, in my opinion, so maybe I should've skipped reviewing it.
This episode produced two big turn-offs for me:
(1) Confirming that the Winx girls' power-up has left the pixies, and Digit would probably use this term, obsolete.
(2) The writers dumb down the Trix so much for this one episode, it's inexcusable.
Point One was probably a long time coming, given that each of the pixies had one purpose to fill in the show and that was pretty much it. But even through parts of this season, they've been useful. It's not that the Enchantix that the Winx girls got negates the pixies' powers - it just made the pixies' powers trivial and unnecessary in the grand scheme of things.
Or does it?
For example, couldn't one see a situation still to come where the girls would need Lockette's power of 'direction guiding,' for example?
I mean, the show saves face after, at the beginning with Tecna and Musa not wanting Digit and Tune, respectively, to come along, apologizes to them at the end for not taking them. Still, in the end, the pixies can no longer qualify as helping hands.
Instead, they're now reduced to inconsequential characters who might, if lucky, get one more brief glance at the spotlight in a 'writers need a time waster' or 'let's do something we haven't done in awhile' or 'everyone that had an important role at some point in the series has to be in this grand final battle.'
Point Two is easily more detrimental to the quality and enjoyment of this episode. I mean, the only good point of the whole battle sequence, Digit being made so big that she towers over the Trix and smashes (two of) them with one fall, can be countered easily by the fact that it's Darcy casting the spell incorrectly. In other words, the idea was sound, but to make a stupid mistake like making Digit too big? Blech. Heck, even Stormy, whom I'd consider the least competent of the three, such a mistake would be even out of her reach given what her estimated magical strength at this point in the series should be.
And I'm not even sure the whole 'the Trix are fighting over Baltor' bit is a valid excuse for dumbing down, either. Are the witches that fallible to let that cloud their judgment? The same witches who have even questioned themselves a few times of what they're doing? Maybe I'm just tired of this show trying to force romance when a decent opportunity arises. I know common TV/animation logic says 'girl likes guy, tries to impress him but she falls flat on her face,' but I say actually prove your worth. Killing a pixie too, though they are the bad guys, would be preferable, but even a typical 'pixies put on the ropes before the fairies come in to save them' would still be fairly plausible and really enjoyable.
I'm not harping on the pixies or the Trix for this episode, I'm blaming the writers. Clearly, anything with the pixies being brought up to or near the witches' level would've been more enjoyable then what we got, which was bringing the Trix down to the pixies' level.
It's episodes like these that destroy a character's and a show's credibility.
"Little Big Shots": 2/5.
I also agree with Chatta that "just because they're small doesn't mean they can't do much." Something like that, anyway.
The way Darcy surprised those 2 pixies even surpised me:
