Prue: The Beloved Older Sister

[simplypoo83]

Discuss Prue Halliwell and the character on charmed.

[The Original P3]

I think it's time we talked about the eldest sister and showed some respect!

Why is Prue awesome you ask? Well, she's a natural born leader, having to help raise her two younger sisters when their mother died. She also worked so hard to help support them. She never wanted to work at the museum or auction house when her dream was really to become a photographer. She finally got to follow her dream!

She also kept the trio focused. When ever there were doubts about a cause or an innocent..she would be the first to follow her instincts and things always worked out for the best!

[Assassin Witch]

Prue is a natural born leader. She helped raise her sisters, which was a big responsibility for young girl/woman. She always did keep them focused. Yes, Piper was the peacekeeper, but Prue was the Leader, the focused one of the group. She lost her mother at a young age, helped with her sisters upbringing, worked where she didn't really want to, lost the love of her life, and in the end, she lost her own life of an innocent. She really is a great witch and person.

[jennf10]

Prue was amazing. Reluctant to take ahold of the craft at first, when she decided that she appreciated her powers, she took charge of them. She was the first one to attempt to control her powers and make them her own. She was the first to expand her powers into Astral Projection. She was the driving force behind the sisters going after evil in the first three seasons. Prue was an amazing character, played remarkably by Shannen Dougtery. The show has missed the character.

[starr]

Prue the eldest sister, she was strong and beautiful. She was wise and protected her sisters. She had a big heart!

[kirenkr]

prue is the eldest sister and she cared for her sisters a lot i found her to be a bit bossy at times but she is a natural born leader.

[rebeccamatthews]

Prue may not have wanted to be a witch at first, she learnt that things happen for a reason. She is a natural born leader. She would have made an awsome mom.

[#1 Nightwish Fan AKA Amy Lee]

Prue was the glue who held the sisters together, that's all that needs to be said, really.

[prue]

Prue is deeply missed by all of her fans... Charmed just hasn't been the same without her.

blessed be.

[hannahpotter]

i think it was hard on her to look after piper and phoebe when grams and patty died.

[oldwitch]

I loved Prue because she was the rock of the family. Grams made her sacrifice so much so that the Charmed Ones could become what they are. After Grams' death, Prue was forced into the parent role and did a marvelous job keeping the family together and being a strong role model. She helped both Piper grow in strength (remember the unsure girl) and Phoebe grow in maturity. Shannen's departure was a great loss.

[ljones]

oldwitch said:

I loved Prue because she was the rock of the family. Grams made her sacrifice so much so that the Charmed Ones could become what they are. After Grams' death, Prue was forced into the parent role and did a marvelous job keeping the family together and being a strong role model. She helped both Piper grow in strength (remember the unsure girl) and Phoebe grow in maturity. Shannen's departure was a great loss.

Why would Grams force a seven year-old girl to assume so much responsibility over her younger sisters, following Patty's death? Couldn't Grams have been the rock of the family, instead of Prue? Couldn't she have waited until Prue was old enough to deal with such responsibilities?

[The Original P3]

ljones said:

oldwitch said:

I loved Prue because she was the rock of the family. Grams made her sacrifice so much so that the Charmed Ones could become what they are. After Grams' death, Prue was forced into the parent role and did a marvelous job keeping the family together and being a strong role model. She helped both Piper grow in strength (remember the unsure girl) and Phoebe grow in maturity. Shannen's departure was a great loss.

Why would Grams force a seven year-old girl to assume so much responsibility over her younger sisters, following Patty's death? Couldn't Grams have been the rock of the family, instead of Prue? Couldn't she have waited until Prue was old enough to deal with such responsibilities?

Grams never forced Prue to do anything. She was hardest on Prue because she was the oldest but never forcing her to grow up fast. And I'm thinking that Prue didn't get all responsibilities at age 7 either. Surely as a child that just lost her mother, there would be a much needed healing time before such a thing.

I'm thinking around age 10 Prue was given more responsibility than your average 10 year old..but Grams would never force something upon her that big at such a young age.

[ljones]

Grams never forced Prue to do anything. She was hardest on Prue because she was the oldest but never forcing her to grow up fast

Allowing Prue to take responsibility of Piper and Phoebe, when she was only six or seven years, sounds like forcing someone to grow up fast to me.

I think it was a mistake. And I think that Prue taking on so much responsibility at such a young age had slightly damaged her psyche. I realize that many of you would love to believe that there is nothing wrong with this, because this is CHARMED. But believe me, I see a lot wrong with this.

[p3charm]

ljones said:

Grams never forced Prue to do anything. She was hardest on Prue because she was the oldest but never forcing her to grow up fast

Allowing Prue to take responsibility of Piper and Phoebe, when she was only six or seven years, sounds like forcing someone to grow up fast to me.

I think it was a mistake. And I think that Prue taking on so much responsibility at such a young age had slightly damaged her psyche. I realize that many of you would love to believe that there is nothing wrong with this, because this is CHARMED. But believe me, I see a lot wrong with this.

No one has ever said that Grams forced Prue to look after her sisters when she was only 7 years old. It is who Prue was. Prue was there at the camp when her mom died and it traumatized her so she became bound and determined to make sure nothing happened to anyone else in her life so she looked after her little sisters and protected them. That is just who Prue always was. She was always trying to protect everyone. Prue would rather sacrifice everything in order to protect the people she loved. You can't change who someone is just because you think it was wrong that she took charge of looking after her sisters. Sure Grams looked to Prue more and was harder on her because she was the oldest but I am sure she never sat little Prue down and said "Now that your mommy is gone you have to take care of your sisters".

[The Original P3]

ljones said:

Allowing Prue to take responsibility of Piper and Phoebe, when she was only six or seven years, sounds like forcing someone to grow up fast to me.

Allowing and forcing are two completely different things.

[Triad]

p3charm said:

ljones said:

Allowing Prue to take responsibility of Piper and Phoebe, when she was only six or seven years, sounds like forcing someone to grow up fast to me.

I think it was a mistake. And I think that Prue taking on so much responsibility at such a young age had slightly damaged her psyche. I realize that many of you would love to believe that there is nothing wrong with this, because this is CHARMED. But believe me, I see a lot wrong with this.

No one has ever said that Grams forced Prue to look after her sisters when she was only 7 years old. It is who Prue was. Prue was there at the camp when her mom died and it traumatized her so she became bound and determined to make sure nothing happened to anyone else in her life so she looked after her little sisters and protected them. That is just who Prue always was. She was always trying to protect everyone. Prue would rather sacrifice everything in order to protect the people she loved. You can't change who someone is just because you think it was wrong that she took charge of looking after her sisters. Sure Grams looked to Prue more and was harder on her because she was the oldest but I am sure she never sat little Prue down and said "Now that your mommy is gone you have to take care of your sisters".

I completely agree. You know it could just be Prue's personality . It is not the pressure from Grams but the pressure on hersefl. Grams might have helped Prue to be what she is, but the majority is that she is like that because that is the kind of person she is. Also with the fact that she saw her mom die, probably pushed her more to be portective of her sisters.

Prue is Prue. That's all it is.

[p3charm]

xcharmed1x said:

ljones said:

Allowing Prue to take responsibility of Piper and Phoebe, when she was only six or seven years, sounds like forcing someone to grow up fast to me.

Allowing and forcing are two completely different things.

Exactly. Grams never forced Prue to do what she did. She allowed Prue to look after her sisters because that is just who Prue was, she was the protective older sister and Grams wanted that bond to form between the three of them because she knew they would become the Charmed Ones.

[ljones]

completely agree. You know it could just be Prue's personality . It is not the pressure from Grams but the pressure on hersefl.

At the age of six or seven? You expect me to believe that Grams just stood back and allowed Prue to rob herself of her own childhood?

[The Original P3]

ljones said:

completely agree. You know it could just be Prue's personality . It is not the pressure from Grams but the pressure on hersefl.

At the age of six or seven? You expect me to believe that Grams just stood back and allowed Prue to rob herself of her own childhood?

Did you completely miss my post earlier? There's no way Prue assumed the responsibilities of an adult at age 7 after losing her mother just recently. Obviously she would continue to be the protective big sister, but it was probably around age 10 that she had to take on more responsibilities than the average 10 year old would have to.

But what exactly is your arguement? It's a cold hard fact that Prue gave up a lot to help Grams and to raise Piper and Phoebe.