Phoebe: Love is the hardest magic of all...

[simplypoo83]

Discuss Phoebe Halliwell's character on charmed.

[starr]

I like the free spirit of Phoebe, she has changed and grown so much over the years. She really has been through it all with her sisters and Cole and kept going somehow. She is still Phoebe but she has become more responsible and she does care very much about her family. She is funny and sweet and deserves to find love!

[jennf10]

Phoebe, the original youngest sister, has had the most personal growth of any character since the beginning of the show. She has moved back home, healed the rift with her sisters, gone back to school, buried a beloved sister, learned about a new sister, married, found out her husband was evil, gotten a job and now is on the brink of a totally new relationship. Her character was the first one to get excited about the craft and to begin studying the Book of Shadows. It was through her spell that the powers came to the girls. Since being stripped of the majority of her powers, Phoebe has seemed different. I do miss the premonitions (they have been rare in Season 8.) I think these were part of what Phoebe's character so important (just as Melinda Warren told her in Season 1).

[charmedfan4evr]

jennf10 said:

Phoebe, the original youngest sister, has had the most personal growth of any character since the beginning of the show. She has moved back home, healed the rift with her sisters, gone back to school, buried a beloved sister, learned about a new sister, married, found out her husband was evil, gotten a job and now is on the brink of a totally new relationship. Her character was the first one to get excited about the craft and to begin studying the Book of Shadows. It was through her spell that the powers came to the girls. Since being stripped of the majority of her powers, Phoebe has seemed different. I do miss the premonitions (they have been rare in Season 8.) I think these were part of what Phoebe's character so important (just as Melinda Warren told her in Season 1).

I agree with everything you said...you took the words right out of my mouth. You know she has been going through so much over these past 8 years,probably had the toughest times of them all-especially after losing Cole. She has been on her quest for love for the majority of the show, but now her search has come to a stop. She finally found Coop..who I believe is the best one yet for Phoebe. He is really the perfect one and I think him and Phoebe will make an amazing couple. I am so happy for Phoebe to finally find such a great and unbelievable guy!

[kirenkr]

jennf10 said:

Phoebe, the original youngest sister, has had the most personal growth of any character since the beginning of the show. She has moved back home, healed the rift with her sisters, gone back to school, buried a beloved sister, learned about a new sister, married, found out her husband was evil, gotten a job and now is on the brink of a totally new relationship. Her character was the first one to get excited about the craft and to begin studying the Book of Shadows. It was through her spell that the powers came to the girls. Since being stripped of the majority of her powers, Phoebe has seemed different. I do miss the premonitions (they have been rare in Season 8.) I think these were part of what Phoebe's character so important (just as Melinda Warren told her in Season 1).

i agree
i also think phoebe is quite funny and she has her moments e.g. sense and senseability where she is deaf she was funny and in season 6 after she has lost her powers she turns to leo and goes i am trying to orb

[lilauk]

Love is the hardest magic of all... ?? WHAT¡¡¡... It´s what the writter want to show... the love is magik.... but the reality is that Phoebe doesn't have powers, and her magic is not based on the love, but in the SEX. I am very upset. Her powers are not mentioned. I would think of them in eves of a great and definitive battle.
and her levitation? and her empathy?? neither a mention in the future flashes. (old Phoebe levitating would be very well)
She would recover her powers when were necessary..... the last battle is the best occasion, isn´t it?
They won't close that topic.

and I hate to Alyssa when allowing it.

[ljones]

I get so sick and tired of people stating that Phoebe has grown so much over the years. She hasn't. Period. She did started showing signs of growth between Seasons 1 and early Season 4, but since the latter half of Season 4, her character went into an emotional tailspin and she hasn't improved since. The best I can say about Phoebe is that she finally found a career. That's it.

She's one of those immature types who needs a man to act as her knight-in-shinning armor or Prince Charming, instead of a not-so-perfect companion. We're supposed to believe that because she's finally found a husband in Coop that she's finally matured as a person? Because he's "perfect"? Give me a break! I'm not stupid, but apparently Brad Kern and his writers think that this show's viewers are stupid enough to believe in fairy-tale romances instead of complex and mature relationships. With Phoebe, he's given us a fairy-tale ending and I DESPISE IT. I despise Kern for shoveling this crap down our throats and I despise Phoebe for never bothering to learn how to deal with an adult relationship, instead of settling for a fairy-tale romance.

I'm am disgusted beyond belief.

[cpott97613]

What happened to Phoebe's powers?

[babaygirl313]

i a question can u goin 2 fan clubs

[p3charm]

ljones...how can you say that Phoebe has not grown up? You have seen season 1 right? Phoebe was so immature in that season and is no where near that now. Yes she is on a love quest but that doesn't make everything she does immature. She wants what Piper has and what Prue had. That's not a crime. Yes she has become obsessed but she keeps having premonitions or flashes of this future daughter she is supposed to have and she just wants it to come true. Phoebe is not even close to being immature like she used to be. A bit obsesses yes but not immature. Everything she went through over the years has made her grow up bit by bit. If she were still immature she wouldn't have ever healed the rift between her and her sisters and she wouldn't have stuck around the manor this long and she certainly would not try to protect her sisters from everything.

[starr]

ljones said:

I get so sick and tired of people stating that Phoebe has grown so much over the years. She hasn't. Period. She did started showing signs of growth between Seasons 1 and early Season 4, but since the latter half of Season 4, her character went into an emotional tailspin and she hasn't improved since. The best I can say about Phoebe is that she finally found a career. That's it.

She's one of those immature types who needs a man to act as her knight-in-shinning armor or Prince Charming, instead of a not-so-perfect companion. We're supposed to believe that because she's finally found a husband in Coop that she's finally matured as a person? Because he's "perfect"? Give me a break! I'm not stupid, but apparently Brad Kern and his writers think that this show's viewers are stupid enough to believe in fairy-tale romances instead of complex and mature relationships. With Phoebe, he's given us a fairy-tale ending and I DESPISE IT. I despise Kern for shoveling this crap down our throats and I despise Phoebe for never bothering to learn how to deal with an adult relationship, instead of settling for a fairy-tale romance.

I'm am disgusted beyond belief.

Bitter much?

[prue]

I really loved Phoebe's carefree spirit in the first 3 seasons. I just think that the whole Cole storyline was so dark that it really took its toll on her character. I do believe that she has matured in some ways... she has a steady job, something that she is good at; she lives on her own, she finally has her own car, and she has mastered the craft pretty good. But when it comes to love, she hasn't matured at all. She is still young Phoebe from season 2 looking longingly at Cupid and Billy. She hasn't figured out how to balance herself from the need for love. Perhaps this is a consequence of not having her father around most of her life. Looking at it from a psychological point of view.

[ljones]

I really loved Phoebe's carefree spirit in the first 3 seasons. I just think that the whole Cole storyline was so dark that it really took its toll on her character.

That's because:

1) the writers didn't know how to handle an adult or a relationship between two ambiguous characters; and

2) Phoebe never learned to really accept the fact that she was just as ambiguous as Cole. She had paid lip service to the idea in mid-Season 5, but she never really learned to accept that her personality was like that.

Bitter much?

Does it show? Of course I'm bitter.

[charmedisforever]

i LOVE phoebe she is my favourite sister. She is very beautiful, like the others, she is caring but hasn't had a man 2 care 4 her. She has never kept her true love due to work, rules, witch duties and evil- COLE!!- she discoverd their charmed and it is the best thing dat ever happened. Phoebe never knew her mum and had 2 deal wiv her grams dieing and prue dying. she has bin through alot but has got through it and is now the beatiful funloving middle sister and makes da show complete.

[Claidi]

Phoebe is my favorite sister as well. From when I first started watching the show (when I was in, like, 3rd grade), I have been drawn to her for a number of reasons. Phoebe is optimistic, compassionate, and fun to be around. I wish I had a personality more like hers! The show would be completely different without her as a Charmed One.

[misskitty66]

phoebe is my favorite sister. i think she has grown up too. she's funny. o, and she does have her power to do spells. i'm so bad today i cant think.....derrrrrrrrrrrrr.................
anyhow she was my favorite from season one and will always be. and if you have looked back she's not had no more men than piper and prue and paige. paige conjured up one just for the sexual thing. (tryin to be nice bout words case kids are lookin) just remember she's not perfect and neither are we. she does love her sisters. she might move out but she always comes home. i dont know what else to say. i do get upset when people bash her. i think alyssa is a good actress. and i think she's done charmed quite well. i think it sucks she lost her powers... danged ole barnabas... the meddler... lol if she lived on my block i'd wanna hang out with her.

[simplypoo83]

- There is a thead above to join the fan clubs post your request there. that is how you join a fan club.

- This is a topic about Phoebe and not Alyssa. Being a producer gives you some say but it doesn't mean you have total controll over the situation.

- Has Phoebe grown, Yes. But was it for the better, No. her character went through alot, growing up from a early twenties into her thirties and discovering who she is by coming into her own. I think the show tried to show her experiences and mistakes, shaped the person she became. To me her character has just grown from a free spirited young adult into a cold and distant character. I use to like phoebe in the beginning and i think her character had alot of potential that just did not go anywhere.

[starr]

I don't think Phoebe is a cold or distant person. I think she has a really big heart and has grown and learned for her experiences. Is she perfect, no, nobody is perfect. She will continue to live and learn as we all should do. I think the young free spirit Phoebe still is there inside her, but she is more responsible now. Just my opinion!

[skizzo]

I adore Phoebe too, she was my favourite in the original line-up, Paige is now my favourite, but still love Phoebe. She is so sweet, caring, passionate, funny, you can see that what she went through has shaped her character of being the strongest sister emotionally, and i'll truly miss her!

[ljones]

How sweet! Phoebe finally has her nauseating fairy tail romantic ending. Pardon me, while I step away to throw up.

Has Phoebe grown, Yes. But was it for the better, No. her character went through alot, growing up from a early twenties into her thirties and discovering who she is by coming into her own.

I pity the person who actually believe this.