Conflicted review here because it is nice, like the first one was, but it also kind of changes all the rules, turns things around to fit the new plot… not a really big deal in a teenage story like this, but still a bit annoying.
This season is again about tri-lings and the prejudice against them. In the first season they talked about Kyra as a unique case, something impossible or very very rare… now it turns out there’s a whole history of tri-lings, there was once a Tri-ling Council.. but how? Really, she got two magic types by accident so now she’s three parts… how could the others have three parts? Because of ancestors, maybe?
Still, the point is, if there was a council, reunions and stuff then it wasn’t such an impossible thing after all. And then they tell us that she’s always been magical… so what they said before about her getting magic from Lily and Imogen is no longer valid… but if she’s always been magical why couldn’t she see them before?
The single case-episodes are nicer, in my opinion, but they like to make season-long plots.
The ending is very fairy-tale like, which is fine by me, I don’t care that it’s totally unrealistic, it’s perfect for a series like this. I liked it.
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Kyra is sleeping over at Lily’s with Imogen, Darra is in Bangkok looking for something using a little orb as a gps. Kyra and dad Steve had to change home. Imogen is worried because Darra left dad and suddenly disappeared. Kyra has a vision of Darra in trouble, and suddenly that snake thing gets her in bed and takes her to him. Suddenly she’s in Bangkok, in her pyjamas, with Darra telling her to run and people after her that when caught, tell her she’s a thief.
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Darra ‘saves her’ and takes her back to the library. He tells her that an elf (Aaron) sold him a sphere to find “the temple of the Purple Lotus”, “lost for centuries”, and “whoever finds it will win the respect and admiration of the entire magical world”. This sphere will glow when he’s near one of the three keys to find the temple. He says those people were the thieves, the smugglers, so Kyra goes with him and gets the key, as if the giant snake statue wanted her to have it.
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Tayla is the new girl working at the café, and also a fairy, and in class with Kyra. She had a compact mirror giving her what she wanted, but she lost it before a test and then Matty found it.
It’s “Fortuna’s compact”. Matty learns what it does and uses it and wants to keep it. So Kyra swaps it with a fake one. Lily likes Ben, the new singer at the café, so much she turns orange every time she fantasises about him.
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While sorting stuff, Darra opens a small container and some dust comes out, infecting him, Ruksy and Kyra. When they sneeze, things or people disappear. Kyra sneezes and Matty finds herself in the library. They’ll wipe her memory, of course. Tayla is a good painter but leaves magical things in the graffity in town. Imogen tells her to stop but she doesn’t.
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Darra and Kyra find the diary of Magnus Sorenson, an explorer and thief. Tayla’s dad was a fairy, but left when she was a baby. Human mom had to raise her alone. Darra finds another cobra statue and when Kyra appears, the key appears for her. They only need one now. Tayla has hidden her magic from anyone, and wants to bring a little magic to the world with her magic frogs. Imogen tells Maxwell.
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Imogen takes Tayla to Maxwell and the library to learn about magic. Kyra’s dad has a cold and she prepares lemon and garlic for him (!). Tayla snoops around and finds Chang’s mirror. Imogen fights her for it and they break it in two, and now a second Tayla appears. She goes around turning who annoys her into an image. First Peter, then Lily and Ruksy and Darra, then she goes after Tayla1 and Imogen.
Tayla2 gets even Imogen… but Kyra frees them all of course. The girls repair the mirror and the clone vanishes.
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Maxwell takes the class for a botanical tour at the park.
Peter asked for magical help for a Maths test but is denied. Kyra does the test and Peter is left alone at the library, unable to leave without help. He looks around, finds a magical suit and wears it, letting out a small diving suit inside a bowl… There’s a pirate inside who now wants revenge. Ruksy is angry, she helps but leaves him, doesn’t want to see him anymore.
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A musical episode :-) Peter wants to launch Ben’s career and posts a videoclip he made himself. It doesn’t go too well, and Ben doesn’t even like it because it’s not him! So Lily uses some ancient magic to make people love him, with the result that everyone watching that video becomes obsessed by how “brilliant” Ben is, and they follow him anywhere and sing about him… until Lily uses a bell to stop the magic and everyone forgets and turns back to normal. Ben doesn’t want to be a pop star, but he’s happy when Lily approaches him and listens to him singing to her :-)
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Darra’s dad wants him to work with him but Darra doesn’t, he wants to choose for himself. To cheer him up, Kyra continues their search for the temple… they use a device to go back in time… to Sorenson’s research in Vietnam. They’re caught, and need Imogen to come and save them. Sorensen told Kyra that the temple will help the tri-ling, in some way, because tri-lings were always the lower class. Back in their own time, Ruksy demands to know everything.
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Ruksy is set against this adventure, but Peter, Lily and Imogen join them. They find the third cobra statue, it becomes real and follows them to the library causing havoc and wrecking Ladder. It gives Kyra a vision.
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Maxwell takes the blame on some vague ‘experiment’ and has to go. They get a new teacher, Dr Apinya Surinat. Ruksy wants to repair Ladder but they need magical wood; they get it by entering the book that trapped Peter once, and completing a mission. Ladder appears at Maxwell’s place first, and then the library. I guess it can teleport itself? …
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Lily has a date with Ben and Ruksy is against it because he’s human. A truth bug got Lily and Imogen and totally ruined her date. The tribunal decided against Maxwell and he goes away.
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Apinya is very interested in Kyra’s orb magic. Everyone who meets Kyra says ‘oh yes, the tri-ling’, which is… aaargh. It’s Sports Day and the other school cheats because this Camilla only cares about winning, and when Kyra’s team wins instead they are disqualified because she’s a tri-ling. When Maxwell studies the keys with his magic, it’s Kyra who has a vision, and around her a tornado wrecks havoc and everyone blames her, and Jared is again shouting off against tri-lings.
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Maxwell, Kyra and Darra talk about the keys and the vortex. They ask for Apinya’s help - working with her, Kyra sees the vision better; Vannak, the tri-ling who created the temple, needed a tri-ling with orb magic, but Kyra thinks that “bad stuff happens” when she uses the orb magic, so she wants to stop. Imogen manages to use the merge magic of the fairies, while Lily… pranks a girl, feels bad and puts it right… so… elves can use fairy magic?? And elf magic is just… being annoying??
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The group and Matilda plan a surprise party for Kyra’s birthday. Our girls want to help but make a disaster. Lily breaks the cake and makes another one with some fairy magic, and when they eat it they transform into live-versions of the cake decorations: Imogen is a mermaid, Peter a unicorn…
Apinya lures Kyra into using the orb magic to see another vision, she sounds like she really wants to find the third key and the temple…
Kyra and Darra hold hands :-)
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Imogen and Lily think Apinya planned that incident because of Kyra - me too. Kyra invites Darra to lunch at home with her dad. Kyra finds a picture of her mom with the symbol of the tri-ling council on her neck, her father gave it to her. Kyra and Darra talk to Maxwell: it means that her dad was a tri-ling, Kyra was born magical. Imogen and Lily test Apinya telling her a made up story that kyra saw where the third key is, and Apinya goes immediately to talk to that man that had the first cobra statue and they leave to search for it. She infiltrated the school for this.
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Imogen tells the others everything. Maxwell doesn’t want to believe it because he knew her… but he’s with them. So they plan to find it first. Tired of waiting, those men go to steal the first two keys and take Maxwell away. The kids go to free him, are caught… and they all go to see Sean! Apinya says she’s part of “a secret unit of the DMI”, that their “job is to protect the magical world form the most serious threats”: Kyra touches the third key and is teleported to the temple.
The three keys “are programmed to act on their own and activate the lotus. The lotus needs orb magic to function”. Secrets secrets… if Apinya had told them before… now Kyra has lost the orb magic and “it has begun”…
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Maxwell is reinstated. The purple lotus is messing with their magic, the wands acting on their own accord, the wings coming out when they shouldn’t… only Kyra’s magic still works and does what she wants. Apinya tells Kyra that her dad Li Yung didn’t want to leave them but did it to protect them because he loved them. He “was a member of the tri-ling council”, and gave the DMI information before vanishing, so that the council would not find them. Apinya tells her that Kyra herself can stop the lotus by taking the orb back, and of course Kyra ultimately agrees.
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The lotus is affecting magic worldwide, with the goal of stealing all elves and fairies magic. Kyra, Peter, Imogen and Darra go back in time to steal Sorenson’s plans, and when she’s found out Kyra says she wants to help them and “betrays” the two elves present. A picture is taken of her shaking hands with Magnus Sorenson and in our time Ruksy says that she betrayed them…
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Lily doesn’t believe it, at least. Apinya tries to use the shadow cloud to stop the lotus, but it gets absorbed. In the past, Peter saves the day thanks to the speed-suit he wore. They get what they wanted and come back. The DMI studying the plans didn’t find anything, but Kyra does. She must enter the lotus, as a tri-ling she can do it. She jumps into it and survives. Magic is again alright in the world, but since everyone in the world has seen magic, things have changed. Only a month later, “after centuries of living in the shadows, magical and non-magical people begin to live together as they had a long time ago”.
So Lily can be with Ben, Imogen paints magical frogs with Tayla, “Peter and Ruksy made a documentary about the magical world and became quite famous”. Darra earned his dad’s respect and Kyra doesn’t have secrets with Mathilda anymore. Darra will go to Bangkok to work with Apinya. Of course Kyra has the orb magic back, has told her stepdad about it and now plans to go in search of her bio-dad.
The end.
Kyra is Kimie Tsukakoshi
Imogen is Elizabeth Cullen
Lily is Mia Milnes
Darra is Julian Cullen
Ruksy is Rainbow Wedell
Peter is Jamie Carter
Professor Maxwell is Christopher Sommers
Tayla is Miah Madden
Dr. Apinya Surinat is Tasneem Roc
Magnus Sorenson is Anthony Standish
Steve is Steve Nation
Jared is Paul Bishop
Mathilda is Arnijka Larcombe-Weate
Sean is Nicholas Bell
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