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Post by jdpm1991 on Jul 29, 2016 11:18:57 GMT -5
I've noticed that there are some members who rank "All Hell Breaks Lose" as one of their disliked or least favorite episodes of the series / season 3, but list your reasons on why you dislike it or why it's your least favorite (besides Prue's dying)
Also list the pros and cons of the episode!!
Mine: Pros -Shannen and Holly's acting was amazing this episode especially when Piper died -The intense action scenes -I loved the scenes when they got exposed -The Red Winged Source (better than Stupid Half Face)
Cons: -The return of Phoebe / Cole as lovers -The stupdity of Prue and Piper going out in broad daylight, why not stay in the Manor where they're more stronger? Why would they continue to hunt Shax without Phoebe? Also did we ever find out why Shax and The Source wanted to kill the doctor?
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Post by Melinda Halliwell on Jul 29, 2016 13:28:11 GMT -5
I've noticed that there are some members who rank "All Hell Breaks Lose" as one of their disliked or least favorite episodes of the series / season 3, but list your reasons on why you dislike it or why it's your least favorite (besides Prue's dying) Also list the pros and cons of the episode!! Mine: Pros -Shannen and Holly's acting was amazing this episode especially when Piper died -The intense action scenes -I loved the scenes when they got exposed -The Red Winged Source (better than Stupid Half Face) Cons: -The return of Phoebe / Cole as lovers -The stupdity of Prue and Piper going out in broad daylight, why not stay in the Manor where they're more stronger? Why would they continue to hunt Shax without Phoebe? Also did we ever find out why Shax and The Source wanted to kill the doctor? Same as your reasons here although it wasn't my least, least favourite episode of the series. There were far worse ones season 5 and 8.
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Post by Elle Em on Jul 30, 2016 11:03:54 GMT -5
It never made sense to me why Prue and Piper just left the house to wander the neighborhood to find Shax. Did they expect him to be down the street? They never acted like that with demons before. Like with their powers of teleportation, of all the places in the whole world they could go, the demons would leave the Manor but stay within sight of it. Considering what Shax looked and acted like, I'd assume he was either above ground ready to attack the sisters or an innocent, or he was in the underworld. There was no more reason to assume he was out on the street somewhere than they would assume he'd be in the nearby grocery store.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2016 12:02:02 GMT -5
The only reason the sisters stupidly chased Shax out into the streets is because they needed to have the sisters exposed to the world, to fit the contrived plot of this story.
This really is one weak storyline, isn't it. The only reason this episode is so well known is because it was Shannen's last. Had Shannen not been fired, I (and others) believe that this episode would be just a minor footnote in the annals of Charmed.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2016 13:04:48 GMT -5
As everyone else is saying, the worst part of ABHL is Prue and Piper taking leave of their senses and rushing outside to find Shax who, in turn, decides to attack them in broad daylight. Really, Shax is the stupid one for attacking them in the middle of the street, in broad daylight, but the way Prue and Piper were written in this scene - to believe that he WOULD be hanging around on the street - was just so nonsensical, so pathetically contrived. Surely they could've revealed at the end of the episode that the Source had in fact ordered Shax to attack the sisters in view of mortals in order to expose them and bring about their deaths. That would've been more plausible.
Saying that, I did enjoy the rest of the plot as it reminded me of 'Deja Vu All Over Again' and the only other negative was Phoebe abandoning her sisters on a whim to go and save her stupid boyfriend again.
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Post by Esmeralda on Jul 30, 2016 15:21:55 GMT -5
I also hate Prue and Piper being so stupid (I also don't see Shax as being that stupid since from what we're told in 'Charmed Again', demons don't want magic to be exposed any more than witches do) and I also hate Phoebe putting Cole in front of her sisters so she's not with them when Prue dies, but I also hate them being terrified of Shax - as if they've never seen a demon before! Both times Piper should've froze him and Prue should've tossed HIM through the wall!
I also hate that when Tempus turns back time that it doesn't affect the Underworld - that makes absolutely no sense to me. Phoebe should be back on the steps saying the spell, making Shax go away. That's why I didn't enjoy it reminding me of DVAOA, which did such a better job with turning back time.
Although I think some of the best acting of the series (Shannen and Holly, especially) is part of this episode, typical for a Brad-Kern-written season finale, it truly doesn't make a lot of sense.
I don't hate AHBL - it's not even my least-favorite series finale - that's 'Oh, My Goddess!, which I *do* hate, just like 'It's a Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad World' and 'Forever Charmed' - it will just never be one of my top 50 episodes just because it's Shannen's last episode.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2016 16:37:34 GMT -5
Could they not have found a better way for the sisters to be exposed than making Prue and Piper look like the stupidest beings to walk the Earth?
Ironically, this plot would be much more believable if the episode were being made now. Even if the sisters were not out on the streets, everyone today has a cell phone. The video of them fighting Shax would be on YouTube before you could say "boo"!
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Post by ljones on Aug 4, 2016 23:35:32 GMT -5
I don't hate "All Hell Breaks Loose". But for the likes of me, I never understood why Prue and Piper had decided to help Phoebe teleport to the Source's Realm, when they should have refused in order to deal with Shax first.
Why would the Source's Realm be affected in the same manner as Earth? The time span or frame in the Whitelighter Realm is different from Earth.
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Post by Aaeiyn on Aug 22, 2021 14:11:22 GMT -5
It starts off extremely abrupt. We don't know why this doctor is so important, he just is. Piper and Prue think it's genius to fight demons, out in the open and think Shax "went outside for a stroll". Prue pushes the doctor aside instead of using her Telekinesis powers, to move him, instead. Prue definitely crossed the line, when she began using her Telekinesis powers on innocents. Not only does she remember she has Telekinesis, but she uses it on people that don't deserve her Telekinesis powers to be used on them, in the first place. No, them being in her way is not a reason to begin using your powers against innocent people. She even gets into physical altercations with the SWAT team, despite them having the right to contain Prue, for she just assaulted civilians. Not a great way to end Prue's legacy with her being painted as an antagonist. But, I suppose that was a metaphor for future seasons to come, right?
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