Esmeralda
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Twenty Years Gone....But Never Forgotten.
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Post by Esmeralda on Aug 27, 2015 7:13:47 GMT -5
Hold on, now. One could also argue that even with Cole ostracized after "Exit Strategy" Phoebe and Leo being trapped in the Underworld wouldn't have happened had Phoebe not gone there to try to save Cole in AHBL. To which I say even that argument falls on its face. "Look Who's Barking" had her find out straight from Cole just how Raynor had manipulated him; in fact that's what turned her back from being a Banshee. So her leaving him there is basically asking her to do three horrible things: abandoning her boyfriend to the spell of bad influence she knows is keeping him from her, refusing to return the favor for his liberating her from similar but worse, and leaving a powerful demon who tried to give up his murderous ways stewing alone in the dark to potentially find the motivation to return to killing. Wow. Very simply wow. I've truly never thought about that before. But you're absolutely right. I'm going to have to force myself to watch beyond my least-favorite episode, "Sleuthing with the Enemy" and see if I've truly been wrong about Phoebe and Cole all this time...
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Post by lilchi7212 on Aug 29, 2015 9:24:23 GMT -5
I didn't care for the sisters ostracising Cole in Exit Strategy for something that was, in actuality, beyond his control. They weren't concerned about trying to hear his side of the story. All they saw was him standing above Janna's ash pile and Leo's unconscious body. But you know what really agitates me besides the utter lack of faith and sensibility in that scene? It's Phoebe and Prue fabricating these wild half-*ssed motives about Cole having a secret agenda in becoming human since he'll be able to seize the Book of Shadows. Does anyone else not realise how frivolous that sounds? First off, Cole would be human, meaning he's even less powerful than when the sisters were able to carve out a piece of his flesh and send him flying through a window. Secondly, there's no incentive for a human to take the book because they're not inherently magical. What can they do with it besides sell it to the highest evil bidder? Phoebe was within earshot of Raynor. Couldn't she put two and two together about the predicament with Cole's father being dangled over him? Even while he was being blackmailed, it took Raynor casting a spell on him for Cole to finally succumb and kill Janna. I don't know if she knew the whole truth of the situation right then.
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