I've never seen the original show but this is what I think about this show:
First off I love how most of the characters have a change. Rather it's a big one like normal human life to fairy life for Bloom. Or the small changes like Stella having a change of heart. There's, even more, to look forward to! Like how will Sky adapt to now knowing his fathers alive? Even though there were only small parts in the last few minutes of the last episode you can tell it changed him.
I love how you couldn't really tell who was the "bad people/group" until like the 6/7 episode. Like there was a point where I thought Beatrix was the opposite of who she really was.
Relationship wise this shows relationships can be tricky to find out who likes each other like in the Terra, Dane, Riven, Beatrix relationships.
But in relationships like Bloom and sky and Musa and sam. It's the kind of healthy relationship you love to watch.
The action/magic is so good!! This show is similar to shows like the order and movies like harry potter. The keyword being "similar". I love how the magic and secret world/ realm is like the secret society in order. Where I like how there are different classes for the different magic kinda like harry potter I guess.
Overall I only have small parts I didn't agree on. For example, we need more with Sky and Bloom's relationship like one minute he's kissing her and the next when she's going basically in the eye of the danger he doesn't react. I hope there's a season 2 so please watch this show and get it renewed!! Grate shows like this are getting canceled for no reason!!