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Post by jdpm1991 on Dec 6, 2015 9:17:34 GMT -5
Anybody else besides me find that flashback moment of Past Piper and Leo bump into each other on the street to be a bit forced and unecessary? I mean they never even mention it to each other.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2015 16:19:41 GMT -5
I agree. It was uncalled for. Arrow recently did something similar. I guess writers think it's cute. Who knows, we may have all bumped into someone we didn't know we'd eventually become romantic with later on in life.
Piper wouldn't remember that handsome stranger she bumped into that one day a long time ago because I'm sure he's not the first handsome guy she's bumped into. But Leo definitely remembered. He had been watching Piper(and her sisters) since they were babies so he probably bumped into her on purpose. Since he was such good friends with Grams, I wouldn't be surprised if he babysat the Charmed Ones at some point.
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Post by Chrisaholic on Dec 12, 2015 10:39:54 GMT -5
Great image, blacklighter! To babysit one of the girls who would be one day your wife. *shudder* Though, it could have happened. You never know with Charmed!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2015 21:57:16 GMT -5
I agree. It was uncalled for. Arrow recently did something similar. I guess writers think it's cute. Who knows, we may have all bumped into someone we didn't know we'd eventually become romantic with later on in life. Piper wouldn't remember that handsome stranger she bumped into that one day a long time ago because I'm sure he's not the first handsome guy she's bumped into. But Leo definitely remembered. He had been watching Piper(and her sisters) since they were babies so he probably bumped into her on purpose. Since he was such good friends with Grams, I wouldn't be surprised if he babysat the Charmed Ones at some point. Great image, blacklighter! To babysit one of the girls who would be one day your wife. *shudder* Though, it could have happened. You never know with Charmed! Leo's backstory is as shaky as the rest of the show's mythology. When he first appeared it seemed as if he was a perfect stranger who had just been assigned to the sisters. I suppose this could've still been the case in Pre-Witched as it was established that he was born locally as a human (in Burlingame) and has had other local charges (like Daisy). However, having him say he'd been watching the sisters since they were babies in 'A Witch's Tail' was stupid. If this had been the case, why wasn't he Patty's WL instead of Sam, especially if he supposedly hung out with Penny in the 60s. Wouldn't it make sense to keep the same WL in the family. Also, if he was a friend of the family, how come he didn't know Sam?
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Post by Granny Charmed on Feb 10, 2018 3:44:14 GMT -5
It was done on purpose just to show that Leo was around watching over them. But as far as we know in S1, he was assigned after they became witches right dears?
But the show then changed it to Leo watched over them as far back as babies. So just the show changing stuff as they went along.
Piper wouldn't remember, because it isn't like she hadn't bumped into a handsome guy before as someone mentioned above, and it wasn't like they stopped to really talk. So she probably didn't think about it much.
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Post by sky1 on Feb 10, 2018 6:28:16 GMT -5
All that they accomplished by doing that, is making it creepy as hell. I mean Leo watch them over since they were babies, and marries with Piper. Creepy lvl for me here!
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Post by Elle Em on Feb 10, 2018 7:54:50 GMT -5
It is creepy that Leo supposedly knew them as kids and has been involved with their family all these years. I don't mind Leo seemingly hanging around the sisters in the few months before they became witches, though. He had probably been pre-assigned to be their whitelighter upon them receiving their powers, and was just gathering information and keeping an eye on them ahead of time.
I choose to believe that Leo didn't know their family so early on, though. It just doesn't make any sense with the first few seasons of the show. I'm trying to think of the first time Grams and Leo interacted, for instance. Neither gave any indication that they used to know each other and had a history.
And while it's creepy to think of Leo watching over the girls as kids, it's also weird to think that until he became a mortal, he was destined to not age while Piper was. The thought of such imbalance in their relationship makes me wonder how they could have ever thought they'd have any type of normal life at all.
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Post by Esmeralda on Feb 10, 2018 9:05:42 GMT -5
It's why Piper marrying Leo never made any sense at all. But then Leo *did* age - look at the difference in looks between him in S1 and S7, so Leo aged since Brian Krause did - another one of many reasons why I think Season One is the only season Leo should've appeared. Although I get around it by saying that he glamoured himself to look the same age as the sisters so it wouldn't look weird that he hung around them.
What to me is creepy is adding what we saw in 'Pardon My Past' with 'Pre-Witched'. Knowing that Piper and Leo were lovers in a previous life and then have him watching over her since she was a baby and watching her grow up - to me, that's creepy.
Unless, as you said, he didn't become their whitelighter until after they became Charmed and him bumping into her was just a coincidence. That makes more sense to me.
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Post by West on Feb 11, 2018 7:24:28 GMT -5
I felt very grossed out thinking about Leo watching over them as children, especially Piper of course.
I like it better imagining what season 1 was like, and that he was just assigned to them when they became witches. That works much better and makes Piper and Leo's love story less gross seeing them connect in season 1, without picturing Leo having watched over her when she was growing up from a baby.
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Post by Esmeralda on Feb 11, 2018 7:46:47 GMT -5
Well, the whole thing with whitelighters was messed up. In Season One, no one was supposed to know that he was their whitelighter, but in 'Blinded by the Whitelighter' every witch knows that they have a whitelighter and who that whitelighter was. It's similar to warlocks being the main villains in Season One and demons suddenly becoming the main ones in Season Three.
I do hope that if the reboot goes on the air and stays on for more than one season that they learn from Classic Charmed and try to stay more consistent, even when/if they change who's in charge. Hopefully the ones writing it now will be part of the series throughout the entire run and actually have more to do with it than just supervising the writing, so the actresses don't get their chance to turn their characters into themselves and instead always play the characters the original writers wanted them to be, even as they grow and become better people - which the Halliwells (I'm not including a Matthews) didn't.
From what we can tell, that's what screwed up Classic Charmed more than anything else.
I still wish it had ended with 'All Hell Breaks Loose' or 'Witch Way Now?', especially if they hadn't fired Shannen and she and Holly decided not to sign their second contracts. Then Rose never would've had to go through what she went through and we never would've had to see Piper turn into Holly or Phoebe turn into Alyssa.
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Post by West on Feb 11, 2018 23:59:15 GMT -5
Well, the whole thing with whitelighters was messed up. In Season One, no one was supposed to know that he was their whitelighter and he was only there for their first year as witches, but in 'Blinded by the Witchlighter' every witch knows that they have a whitelighter and who that whitelighter was. It's similar to warlocks being the main villains in Season One and demons suddenly becoming the main ones in Season Three. I do hope that if the reboot goes on the air and stays on for more than one season that they learn from Classic Charmed and try to stay more consistent, even when/if they change who's in charge. Hopefully the ones writing it now will be part of the series throughout the entire run and actually have more to do with it than just supervising the writing, so the actresses don't get their chance to turn their characters into themselves and instead always play the characters the original writers wanted them to be, even as they grow and become better people - which the Halliwells (I'm not including a Matthews) didn't. From what we can tell, that's what screwed up Classic Charmed more than anything else. I still wish it had ended with 'All Hell Breaks Loose' or 'Witch Way Now?', especially if they hadn't fired Shannen and she and Holly decided not to sign their second contracts. Then Rose never would've had to go through what she went through and we never would've had to see Piper turn into Holly or Phoebe turn into Alyssa. Definitely, agree with all of this Es. I hope the creators of the reboot stay in charge for the whole series, and as you said it is more consistent than Classic Charmed was. Connie never really was in charge, since she wasn't able run it on her own and why they hired Brad Kern in the first place. So I hope that these new creators are the ones in charge and not just supervising the writing.
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Post by Aaeiyn on Aug 22, 2021 13:01:57 GMT -5
I didn't feel it was forced nor unnecessary. TV land always does stuff like that with their favorite couples. I don't remember everything I do with the people in my life. Don't see why Piper nor Leo need to bring it up, personally :/
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