If I was Executive Producer...

[SEERofCHAOS]

So I've been thinking of how the later seasons of Charmed would play out if I were show runner. A few things to note before I type this. I am writing this with Prue still alive, so there will be no Paige. Also, I am blending different ideas I've seen, such as the original plan for S4 and S5, with my own ideas. And since these are my own ideas, feel free to disagree, it would make things more fun.

Season 4

Seasons 1-3 will be the same as originally aired. For season 4, the plot will revolve around the continuing struggle between the Source and The Charmed Ones. It will be similar to the first half of season 4 just stretched out. In the finale, The Charmed Ones will engage in a climatic battle eventually defeating the Source. However the Source's powers are transferred to Cole.

Season 5

The first half of season 5 will revolve around Cole's ascension to the Source and his seducing Phoebe to the dark side. Prue and Piper will struggle to protect innocents while Phoebe is evil, and will eventually lead to the 100th episode. The 100th episode will have Phoebe become pregnant with their son, and Cole eventually sacrificing himself in order to get rid of the Source and protect Phoebe and his son from it's evil influence. The second half of season 5 will show Phoetus start to develop the Source's power through the Seer's influence and it'll show resentment to Prue (in a similar plotline to Paige) for not trusting Cole. Eventually Phoebe's newborn will be born, in which the Seer will steal the Source's power, and devise a plan to go into the Upper Regions and end up killing the Elders. Eventually, with the Power of Three, the Charmed Ones will vanquish the Seer and defeat the Source once and for all. In the end, we learn Piper is pregnant with Melinda!

Also I want to add more backstory to The Source and the Seer (like why her main target is the Elders) to create more three dimensional villains. The second half of the season the sisters bond and trust will be broken because of Phoebe becoming the Dark Queen. I don't want the sisters to forgive Phoebe right away, like they did in the actual show, I want their bond to come back together gradually. In the final battle with the Seer, I want it to be the climax of the story-arc, and only after the sisters seek forgiveness from one another will they have the strength to beat The Seer.

Season 6

In this season, Phoetus who The Charmed Ones thought lost his powers starts gaining them again, and at an alarming rate. Meanwhile, Piper is having baby troubles of her own, as it turns out that Melinda is twice-blessed. A mysterious man named Chris comes from the future, who seems to be a little too curious about Phoetus and Melinda. As it turns out Phoetus (or little Cole, or some sort of name) and Melinda have taken over most of the West Coast, and a constant battle between them is taken place. Hoping to escape this future, Chris comes back and tries to learn how Phoetus got his powers back and why the two started fighting in the first place. The Charmed Ones must also face demons from the future, who The Book of Shadows has no information about. The Charmed Ones get more suspicious of Chris when he knows about the demons, and how the Charmed Ones can beat them in order to protect themselves in the innocents. As it turns out, Chris is Prue's son! Eventually, after Phoetus is kidnapped and taken to the future, The Charmed Ones follow Chris to his time, and fight a climatic battle in the future. As it turns out, after the Elders have been killed by the Seer, new Elders were appointed, one of them being Gideon, who awakened Phoetus's powers and has been manipulating him from behind. Eventually, Chris is murdered by Gideon while trying to protect his family,and The Charmed Ones go back to the past and prevent Gideon from fulfilling his plot. They decide to bind Phoetus' and Melinda's powers in order to prevent them for abusing them.

For this season, I want Chris to gather information more than to interfere with the past. Chris will not be a fighter, and he left the future in order to get away from the battles. Gideon will not be killed by Leo, and Leo will not become an Elder. Gideon will be presented more as a power-hungry madman than a well-intention extremist like in the actual show. This will also be the start of a story-arc spanning a few seasons that shows tension between The Charmed Ones and the Elders. For this season, I want Prue to struggle with identity and her purpose in life, I want an arc where she explores and tries to find herself. Piper and Leo will be dealing with their child, and Phoebe will be struggling as a single mom. I want it to be so that, the sisters will learn and grow from each other, and really learn that their sisterhood is their greatest gift.

Season 7

This season, as The Charmed Ones take a breather, a new enemy appears. As it turns out, The Nexus is actually a portal in which demonic invaders from another dimension arise. Led by Zankou, they wish to turn this dimension into a hellish world. As The Charmed Ones deal with protecting San Francisco from these monsters, the cunning Zankou tries to use The Charmed Ones past against them. Zankou tempts Phoebe with her past as the Dark Queen, tries to add more tension between Piper, Leo, and the Elders, and uses a resurrected Andy against Prue! Meanwhile, Phoebe meets a man named Drake de' Mon, who is a reformed demon wishing to become human. As the battle rages on, Prue will eventually break Zankou's control over Andy, but their reunion will be short lived, as Andy's life will fade due to not being connected by Zankou. At the end of the season, The Charmed Ones will have to battle Zankou, who absorbed the full power of the Nexus. Their bond as sisters will lead them to victory. In the end, we learn that Prue is pregnant with her and Andy's son, Chris.

I want Zankou to use smarts over pure-power like he did in the TV show. He knows the Charmed Ones can defeat him at their strongest, and tries to put them at their weakest, when they are unsure of themselves. I wanted to keep the villains interesting, instead of "oh another group of demons from the underworld" I wanted them to be something The Charmed Ones never seen before, so I chose Zankou and his band to be interdimensional invaders. Piper and Leo would reach a rough spot in their marriage (they won't divorce) and I wanted the tension between the Elders and The Charmed Ones to continue, which will eventually lead to them severing ties with the Elders. I wanted the irony of the Nexus being a portal to a demon dimension, and also the source of The Charmed Ones power in the manor.

Season 8

The final season. The Charmed Ones thought they destroyed the Nexus when they destroyed Zankou, but in reality the energies of the Nexus have formed from The Charmed Ones insecurities into evil Charmed Ones. The Charmed Ones must figuratively and literally face themselves and they must do it without the help of the Elders. Meanwhile, Prue is preparing for her new child and learning how to be a single mom, with her sisters help of course. Piper tries to start a restaurant, and Phoebe and Drake plan their wedding. Though trying to lead a normal life is much harder with evil versions of themselves running around. Eventually, The Charmed Ones learn from their evil selves and reflect on the past 8 years, and in a climatic finale they call upon the power of their family in order to defeat the evil counterparts. In the end, The Angel of Destiny appears to them, and offers them a chance at a normal life without demons and elders interfering which the accept.

For this season, I want the show to come full circle. I want the Charmed Ones to crave a normal life after all they done over the past 8 years, and I want the evil Charmed Ones to show the insecurities of The Charmed Ones, and their darker sides. It will serve to reflect all that happened in the past 8 years of the show, and eventually end having the Charmed Ones learning a lot from their experience and giving them a chance at a normal life again.

Well that would be my ideas if I had ran the show. You can agree or disagree with them, and feel free to share you ideas as well.


EDIT:Crap, I just realized everyone was already doing this in another thread. Which is unfortunate, because I thought I was starting something new .

[Astral Alex]

Was just about to post a thread like this but you've beaten me too it! Here are my ideas, please comment on what you think:

However seen as though this thread is titled and centred around the Charmed Children I will post my alternate series from only a pregnancy/child point of view, leaving out the most of the magical storylines.

Season One would begin as normal, however when Piper has a pregnancy scare in 'Wedding From Hell', she discovers that she is actually pregnant - however in Wedding From Hell, Hecate (I think her name is) attempts to steal Piper's baby in order to rule the Underworld with it, resulting in Piper miscarrying; (I think having this storyline so early in the Season helps the bonding process with the characters and also quickly highlights the danger of having supernatural children, especially demon children). The season then continues as normal and Andy dies in the Season One finale.

Season Two begins just the same, with Prue grieving over Andy - but in Morality Bites, we see that the ten-year old girl that Piper is looking after is actually her niece; Trish - Prue's daughter. Prue is still the same workaholic, and palms Trish off onto Piper all the time. Upon returning to the present, Prue realises that Trish was nine years old in 2009, meaning that her birthday was in 2000. After adding up the dates, Prue discovers that she is eight weeks pregnant in the third episode of the season with Andy's child. Piper and Phoebe support Prue and tell her they will be there for her no matter what, but Prue is still trying to grieve for Andy and throws herself into her work at Bucklands and demon-hunting and collapses halfway through the season after stressing herself out too much, also developing the power of astral projection in the same episode. The Piper/Leo/Dan triangle continues as normal and the magical storylines are much the same until the eighteenth episode, where Prue goes into labour - she refuses to listen to Piper, Phoebe and Leo's advice and insists on having the baby in a hospital where she is treated by Dr. Williamson (who is a consultant), Trish is born relatively normally and as Prue is giving birth Phoebe has a premonition and sees the future Trish we saw in 'Morality Bites' before Phoebe's premonition continues without the audience seeing, she later tells Prue she saw Trish as an adult and tells her that she grows up to be beautiful, powerful and strong like her parents. Prue names her Patricia Andrea Halliwell after her mother and lover and they call her Trish as a nickname, her date of birth is March 20th, 2000 (the spring equinox - Trish is also two weeks late). Prue initially rejects Trish in the nineteenth and twentieth episodes and Piper takes on the motherly role, before forcing Prue to hold Trish saying that it was a piece of Andy that had lived on - and Prue finally breaks down over Andy's death. The season two finale then takes on a similar format to 'Astral Monkey' but with Dr. Williamson testing some of Trish's blood which proves she is magical, he accidentally is injected with it and is blessed with the power of telekinesis like Prue, however he is much more strong and she eventually overpowers him and kills him. The season then ends with Prue telling her sisters she was going to embrace her role as a mother and as a Charmed One and Piper and Leo going up to the Heavens as normal.

Season Three begins similarly, with Piper and Leo having been gone for a month, but Prue is so concentrated on searching for The Triad and working at Bucklands (she never quit) she keeps palming baby Trish off onto an already stressed out Phoebe. Season Three pans out very closely to the original, apart from Piper and Phoebe have to remind Prue to be more careful after she is injured whilst hunting The Source as she needs to look after Trish; Prue eventually becomes more maternal and begins dating again; a man named Scott Scarman who she meets at work in the Season premiere, and begins dating in the fifth episode. Scott learns Prue's secret about her magic in Piper and Leo's wedding episode, and promises to stick by her after the wedding after Prue initially feared he would reject her, he also tells her that he loves Trish as if she was his own daughter. In the seventeenth episode, Trish celebrates her first birthday and is wiccaned at the same time - but Cole disrupts her wiccaning. The season finale pans out exactly like the original, with it being a cliffhanger on who dies.

Season Four begins with Piper attempting to use Trish to bring back Prue; who died at the end of Season Three. Piper and Phoebe now have the responsibility of raising their niece; Trish. Charmed Again is almost the same as the original, although Prue's boyfriend Scott is determined on avenging Shax for Prue's murder and goes along with Phoebe and Cole when they stake out Paige on the rooftop. Piper and Scott clash over the care of Trish as Scott is trying to act like a father, with Piper reminding him that Trish was an orphan now and that Piper, Leo and Phoebe would raise her. Paige is introduced as normal, and after discovering that Piper and Phoebe are her half-sisters and Trish is her niece she reforms the Power of Three. However, Piper attempts to use Trish as a replacement for Prue when going after Shax with Phoebe alone, but it doesn't work with Piper coming to the conclusion that Trish isn't 'Charmed' like they are. Piper is reluctant to let Paige near Trish as the season begins and after Piper breaks down to Paige about Prue in the sixth episode, Paige holds Trish and upon Paige's touch - Trish comes into her power of telekinesis, just like her mother - with Piper also accepting Paige as a sister and an aunt to Trish. Surprisingly, Trish bonds with Paige well and Paige finds herself taking on a more maternal role than Phoebe does when helping Piper and Leo out with Trish. Prue's boyfriend Scott leaves halfway through Season Four after Piper makes it clear that he isn't a part of their family. The Source storyline isn't resolved halfway through the season, with most of the first half being about accepting Paige. 'Charmed and Dangerous' serves as the nineteenth or twentieth episode, with Phoebe and Cole marrying in 4x21 and Phoebe discovering she is pregnant as the season cliffhanger.

Season Five is completely different, it begins with effectively the second half of the original Season Four, with Phoebe telling her sisters about her pregnancy and slowly turning evil. Piper and Paige realise that Cole is the Source a few episodes in and 'Long Live The Queen' serves as the 100th episode, with the girls attempting to vanquish the Source's essence, not Cole. However, in trying to vanquish the Source, they accidentally kill Cole, making Phoebe's grief even worse. Assuming that the vanquishing spell had killed her unborn baby too, Phoebe is shocked to discover that she is still displaying the power of fire throwing a few episodes later, and the original Season Five episodes about Piper's Whitelighter pregnancy are given to Phoebe's demon pregnancy. Initially she confides in her sisters that she doesn't want to raise the baby alone like Prue did, and die leaving it an orphan like their niece Trish. Phoebe later gives birth to a baby girl; who she names Prudence Penelope Halliwell in the fifteenth episode; with the birth date of January 19th, 2003 (I know the dates wouldn't match the actual airdate of the episode, but this is a dream series) which doubles as Cole's birthday. Phoebe then struggles to control Prue's powers which manifest quickly, and she displays the power of fire manipulation and shimmering. During the remainder of the season, Paige becomes a social worker but often finds herself babysitting Trish and Prue after Piper steps things up at P3 and Phoebe returns to work and Paige begins dating Jason (who originally dates Phoebe in the series) at the end of Season Five. The finale also maps out similarly to the original, with Leo leaving Piper to become an Elder - with Piper confessing that she had hoped they could try for a child of their own. Leo leaves and the girls are sent Chris (although he does not kidnap Leo like in the original finale).

Season Six begins with the girls realising that Leo has left them, and Piper attempting to control Trish's powers which had begun growing uncontrollably. Paige's relationship with Jason was going well, but Phoebe feels like she doesn't have the confidence to date anymore after the birth of Prue who is now over nine months old. Chris is still the mysterious figure that he was in the original and Piper struggles without Leo. Phoebe doesn't receive her empathy power but Paige begins to use more conventional telekinesis, something that grows very slowly and progressively thoughout Season Six. The storylines are very similar within this Season, and Chris eventually reveals to Paige that he is Piper and Leo's son from the future. Paige is shocked as Piper had begun dating again and even bumped into Dan (who makes a special guest appearance) and they hook up. The main magical storyline for the second half of the season shows The Crone (who makes her first appearance in this season) attempting to steal baby Prue as she is the 'warchild' the child of a force of pure evil and a force of pure good and a supreme ruler over both magical worlds. It follows a similar path of the Underworld trying to kidnap Prue. Chris tells Paige that Piper and Leo need to get back together and conceive him before it's too late, however on the date of his conception Leo and Piper kiss, but nothing more and Chris realises that his future is being re-written (however there is none of that fading away stuff, his body remains in the past). Nearer the end of the season, The Crone eventually kidnaps Prue and Chris sacrifices himself for his cousin, and as he is dying he reveals to Piper and Leo that he is their son and that they are destined to be together. Chris dies and the sisters realised that his future has been rewritten. Meanwhile, Paige splits with Jason after he rejects her secret and also as a sub-plot to the finale of the Season, the threatens to expose their secret by posting it in the Bay Mirror, before Paige manages to subdue him using her powers - but fears that she could be reprimanded as it was for personal gain, saying to Piper and Phoebe that 'she half did it to stop him exposing them, and half because their relationship ended bitterly'. The season ends with Leo and Piper reuniting and deciding to try for a child of their own, Phoebe realise that Prue was more important than men and Paige deciding that she wanted to embrace her Whitelighter side a little more.

Season Seven follows the same structure magically, although the sisters are a lot more selfless and there are still the rules of personal gain etc. Paige meets Henry in this Season (who takes the place of Kyle but without all the psycho Avatar stuff as the Avatars don't exist) the main evil in this season is Zankou. Paige and Henry begin a relationship and Piper is overjoyed to discover she is pregnant in the tenth episode, thinking that the baby she is carrying will be a boy and a break to the Halliwell tradition; but Leo reminds her that the baby may not be Chris, who she is still grieving for. Magic School is introduced in this season after Piper, Leo, Phoebe and Paige decide to send Trish there to help her control her powers. Paige tells Henry that she is a witch in the fifteenth episode and he accepts her, and he moves in before the end of the season. The finale runs much like the original, with Inspector Sheridan determined to expose the sisters after getting hold of Jason's old files on them earlier on in the season, and Zankou manages to take over the Manor and possess the Nexus and Piper, Phoebe and Paige face him in 7x21 where they take in the Hollow. It becomes a battle of the Nexus vs The Hollow resulting in a catastrophic explosion, exactly like the Manor explosion in Season Eight and the girls are trapped under the rubble (Trish and Prue are with Leo and Henry). Leo then uses baby Prue to remove the Hollow from the girls (channeling Prue's power, as she his half-good and half-evil, meaning she can read the enscription on the box). Phoebe awakes in the rubble and finds Paige, by using her new power of telepathy (which she develops a few episodes before hand) who is unconscious but awakes and they find Piper (who is five months pregnant) and she is in pain - they try to call for Leo but he doesn't arrive and they cradle Piper as she tells them she can feel herself losing the baby. The episode ends with a frantic Phoebe and Paige trying to get hold of Leo, and in a desperate attempt to save a dying Piper, they begin chanting the Power of Three spell, the spell seems to work and repairs the Manor around them, but it renders Piper unconscious. The finale episode then begins with Piper alone in her bedroom (reminiscent of the scene in Long Live The Queen where Phoebe, Piper and Paige all hug on the bed) and Phoebe and Paige go to comfort her, with Piper revealing to the audience that she miscarried her baby and that her womb is now damaged. The rest of the episode deals with the aftermath of Zankou's vanquish and Piper's refusal to be a Charmed One anymore, and asking Phoebe and Paige how they'd feel if she gave up their powers - they all later agree to keep them after a visit from the Angel of Destiny tells them that they have one final battle left. Coop arrives and tells Phoebe that the Elders have sent her so she won't give up on love, as she hasn't had a serious relationship since Cole and the last date she went on was seen in Season Six (Phoebe isn't FREEBIE in my series) and the end scene ends with Paige opening up to Henry about what her life is like and attempts to break up with him, saying that it is too dangerous for him. Henry refuses however and proposes to Paige, who accepts.

Season Eight begins with the girls having a relatively demon-free life after the vanquish of Zankou and Piper is busying herself preparing for Paige's wedding - although it is clear that she is still broody after she attempts to get Phoebe to have a premonition about Chris, and asks her if she can attempt to see into the future to see if she will ever have the son that she was destined. Coop tries to set Phoebe up with a guy named Blake but the relationship doesn't have a spark and after casual sex, Phoebe breaks it off. The main big bad of this Season is the revelation that the Elders are being corrupted by almost left wing extremists, and that they are determined to have equality for all races - even demons. A sub-group of Elders form and overthrow the Elders, turning them against the Charmed Ones who are determined to keep the worlds of good and evil apart, many demons and warlocks however team up with the Elders as they see it as their chance to leave the Underworld and live freely in the outside world. Paige and Henry marry in the eight episode of the season, before the main story arc begins and Piper begins using fertility potions in order to try and become pregnant again, even though Paige and Phoebe tell her it could be considered personal gain. Phoebe eventually falls for Coop midway through the season and they begin a relationship just before Coop is kidnapped and taken hostage by the Elder sub-group in order to blackmail the Charmed Ones. After a battle on Golden Gate Bridge in the fifteenth episode, the American Government are alerted to the presence of witches and Piper, Phoebe and Paige are taken to Area 51 and held captive to be experimented on. However, Darryl (who moved away during the end of Season Six) attempts to free them and after a stand-off with government officials, he is killed. Piper, Phoebe and Paige manage to escape the government's grasp in time to push back the Elder's efforts and remove demons that had already begun setting up home on the real world and the government realise the good that witches do, before passing an embargo on The Charmed Ones being exposed again. However, Piper's grief over Darryl makes her susceptible to the Elder/Demon's plans of takeover, they manage to possess Piper in the seventeenth episode and she switches sides, leaving Phoebe and Paige alone to fight - the fight continues until the twentieth episode when Piper succeeds in killing Phoebe after fight at the Manor, with Leo unconscious and Coop in hiding Paige's healing power comes into effect, but it's too late and Phoebe dies. The twenty-first episode (which I would name: Last Witch Standing ) shows Paige attempting to use a Power of Three spell to reverse time in order to bring Phoebe back, she tries using Trish and Prue but it fails and she eventually manages to hoodwink Piper into chanting the spell with her, and it works - with only two of them saying it. With Phoebe alive again, they manage to get her back on their side by using Phoebe's telepathy - Phoebe projects a giant premonition (like the one seen in the original Season Seven where Phoebe sees all the losses they have faced) inside Piper's mind, reminding her of the love, death and loss she has faced in her life. As evil can't love it snaps Piper out of her trance and the sisters go up against the Elders in the Heavens in the finale episode (which I would name Extremus Charmed, Extremus being Latin for final, or last.) They manage to vanquish them using a cocktail of Power of Three spells, potions and calling on all good witches. The episode then ends with Coop proposing to Phoebe and Piper discovering she is pregnant again (hence why Piper and Paige alone managed to work a Power of Three spell) - there is then a flashforward similar to Forever Charmed, but it shows Piper giving birth to a son who she does name Chris, along with a daughter whom she names Melinda Phoebe and Coop marrying and going on to have a daughter of their own; Peyton Halliwell and Paige and Henry go on to have twins - a boy and a girl, who they name Sam and Lilah.

So the births are:

Patricia Andrea 'Trish' Halliwell (b. March 20th, 2000; to Andy and Prue)
Prudence Penelope Halliwell (b. January 19th, 2003; to Cole and Phoebe)
Christopher Darryl Halliwell (b. December 25th, 2006; to Leo and Piper)
Melinda Halliwell (b. June 18th, 2008; to Leo and Piper)
Peyton Faith Halliwell (b. February 14th, 2009; to Coop and Phoebe)
Samuel Henry Mitchell (b. October 31st, 2008; to Henry and Paige)
Lilah Prudence Mitchell (b. October 31st, 2008; to Henry and Paige).

This was originally going to go in the 'Charmed Children' thread but I thought it was better suited here maybe, but my idea is that the next generation aren't 'Charmed', they have a different destiny but you have seven (the most powerfully magical number) offspring - one pure witch, one demon/witch hybrid, two 'witchlighters', one cupid/witch hybrid and two quarter witch, quarter whitelighter hybrids.

[Esmeralda]

Feb 17, 2012 22:25:28 GMT -5 SEERofCHAOS said:

So I've been thinking of how the later seasons of Charmed would play out if I were show runner. A few things to note before I type this. I am writing this with Prue still alive, so there will be no Paige. Also, I am blending different ideas I've seen, such as the original plan for S4 and S5, with my own ideas. And since these are my own ideas, feel free to disagree, it would make things more fun.

Season 4

Seasons 1-3 will be the same as originally aired. For season 4, the plot will revolve around the continuing struggle between the Source and The Charmed Ones. It will be similar to the first half of season 4 just stretched out. In the finale, The Charmed Ones will engage in a climatic battle eventually defeating the Source. However the Source's powers are transferred to Cole.

Season 5

The first half of season 5 will revolve around Cole's ascension to the Source and his seducing Phoebe to the dark side. Prue and Piper will struggle to protect innocents while Phoebe is evil, and will eventually lead to the 100th episode. The 100th episode will have Phoebe become pregnant with their son, and Cole eventually sacrificing himself in order to get rid of the Source and protect Phoebe and his son from it's evil influence. The second half of season 5 will show Phoetus start to develop the Source's power through the Seer's influence and it'll show resentment to Prue (in a similar plotline to Paige) for not trusting Cole. Eventually Phoebe's newborn will be born, in which the Seer will steal the Source's power, and devise a plan to go into the Upper Regions and end up killing the Elders. Eventually, with the Power of Three, the Charmed Ones will vanquish the Seer and defeat the Source once and for all. In the end, we learn Piper is pregnant with Melinda!

Also I want to add more backstory to The Source and the Seer (like why her main target is the Elders) to create more three dimensional villains. The second half of the season the sisters bond and trust will be broken because of Phoebe becoming the Dark Queen. I don't want the sisters to forgive Phoebe right away, like they did in the actual show, I want their bond to come back together gradually. In the final battle with the Seer, I want it to be the climax of the story-arc, and only after the sisters seek forgiveness from one another will they have the strength to beat The Seer.

Season 6

In this season, Phoetus who The Charmed Ones thought lost his powers starts gaining them again, and at an alarming rate. Meanwhile, Piper is having baby troubles of her own, as it turns out that Melinda is twice-blessed. A mysterious man named Chris comes from the future, who seems to be a little too curious about Phoetus and Melinda. As it turns out Phoetus (or little Cole, or some sort of name) and Melinda have taken over most of the West Coast, and a constant battle between them is taken place. Hoping to escape this future, Chris comes back and tries to learn how Phoetus got his powers back and why the two started fighting in the first place. The Charmed Ones must also face demons from the future, who The Book of Shadows has no information about. The Charmed Ones get more suspicious of Chris when he knows about the demons, and how the Charmed Ones can beat them in order to protect themselves in the innocents. As it turns out, Chris is Prue's son! Eventually, after Phoetus is kidnapped and taken to the future, The Charmed Ones follow Chris to his time, and fight a climatic battle in the future. As it turns out, after the Elders have been killed by the Seer, new Elders were appointed, one of them being Gideon, who awakened Phoetus's powers and has been manipulating him from behind. Eventually, Chris is murdered by Gideon while trying to protect his family,and The Charmed Ones go back to the past and prevent Gideon from fulfilling his plot. They decide to bind Phoetus' and Melinda's powers in order to prevent them for abusing them.

For this season, I want Chris to gather information more than to interfere with the past. Chris will not be a fighter, and he left the future in order to get away from the battles. Gideon will not be killed by Leo, and Leo will not become an Elder. Gideon will be presented more as a power-hungry madman than a well-intention extremist like in the actual show. This will also be the start of a story-arc spanning a few seasons that shows tension between The Charmed Ones and the Elders. For this season, I want Prue to struggle with identity and her purpose in life, I want an arc where she explores and tries to find herself. Piper and Leo will be dealing with their child, and Phoebe will be struggling as a single mom. I want it to be so that, the sisters will learn and grow from each other, and really learn that their sisterhood is their greatest gift.

Season 7

This season, as The Charmed Ones take a breather, a new enemy appears. As it turns out, The Nexus is actually a portal in which demonic invaders from another dimension arise. Led by Zankou, they wish to turn this dimension into a hellish world. As The Charmed Ones deal with protecting San Francisco from these monsters, the cunning Zankou tries to use The Charmed Ones past against them. Zankou tempts Phoebe with her past as the Dark Queen, tries to add more tension between Piper, Leo, and the Elders, and uses a resurrected Andy against Prue! Meanwhile, Phoebe meets a man named Drake de' Mon, who is a reformed demon wishing to become human. As the battle rages on, Prue will eventually break Zankou's control over Andy, but their reunion will be short lived, as Andy's life will fade due to not being connected by Zankou. At the end of the season, The Charmed Ones will have to battle Zankou, who absorbed the full power of the Nexus. Their bond as sisters will lead them to victory. In the end, we learn that Prue is pregnant with her and Andy's son, Chris.

I want Zankou to use smarts over pure-power like he did in the TV show. He knows the Charmed Ones can defeat him at their strongest, and tries to put them at their weakest, when they are unsure of themselves. I wanted to keep the villains interesting, instead of "oh another group of demons from the underworld" I wanted them to be something The Charmed Ones never seen before, so I chose Zankou and his band to be interdimensional invaders. Piper and Leo would reach a rough spot in their marriage (they won't divorce) and I wanted the tension between the Elders and The Charmed Ones to continue, which will eventually lead to them severing ties with the Elders. I wanted the irony of the Nexus being a portal to a demon dimension, and also the source of The Charmed Ones power in the manor.

Season 8

The final season. The Charmed Ones thought they destroyed the Nexus when they destroyed Zankou, but in reality the energies of the Nexus have formed from The Charmed Ones insecurities into evil Charmed Ones. The Charmed Ones must figuratively and literally face themselves and they must do it without the help of the Elders. Meanwhile, Prue is preparing for her new child and learning how to be a single mom, with her sisters help of course. Piper tries to start a restaurant, and Phoebe and Drake plan their wedding. Though trying to lead a normal life is much harder with evil versions of themselves running around. Eventually, The Charmed Ones learn from their evil selves and reflect on the past 8 years, and in a climatic finale they call upon the power of their family in order to defeat the evil counterparts. In the end, The Angel of Destiny appears to them, and offers them a chance at a normal life without demons and elders interfering which the accept.

For this season, I want the show to come full circle. I want the Charmed Ones to crave a normal life after all they done over the past 8 years, and I want the evil Charmed Ones to show the insecurities of The Charmed Ones, and their darker sides. It will serve to reflect all that happened in the past 8 years of the show, and eventually end having the Charmed Ones learning a lot from their experience and giving them a chance at a normal life again.

Well that would be my ideas if I had ran the show. You can agree or disagree with them, and feel free to share you ideas as well.


EDIT:Crap, I just realized everyone was already doing this in another thread. Which is unfortunate, because I thought I was starting something new .

Actually, Seer, yours is quite a bit different than the other ones, since they concentrate on kids while yours concentrates on the sisters, which I love. It also starts right away at Season Four where most people also redo the first three seasons.

Although I can't seen Shannen Doherty agreeing to stick around for eight seasons, if she did, I truly wish that this is how the last four seasons had gone. Then the show would still be Charmed, and not The Perils of Poor, Poor, Pitiful Piper.

[Esmeralda]

Feb 17, 2012 23:05:52 GMT -5 Astral Alex said:

Was just about to post a thread like this but you've beaten me too it! Here are my ideas, please comment on what you think:

However seen as though this thread is titled and centred around the Charmed Children I will post my alternate series from only a pregnancy/child point of view, leaving out the most of the magical storylines.

Season One would begin as normal, however when Piper has a pregnancy scare in 'Wedding From Hell', she discovers that she is actually pregnant - however in Wedding From Hell, Hecate (I think her name is) attempts to steal Piper's baby in order to rule the Underworld with it, resulting in Piper miscarrying; (I think having this storyline so early in the Season helps the bonding process with the characters and also quickly highlights the danger of having supernatural children, especially demon children). The season then continues as normal and Andy dies in the Season One finale.

Season Two begins just the same, with Prue grieving over Andy - but in Morality Bites, we see that the ten-year old girl that Piper is looking after is actually her niece; Trish - Prue's daughter. Prue is still the same workaholic, and palms Trish off onto Piper all the time. Upon returning to the present, Prue realises that Trish was nine years old in 2009, meaning that her birthday was in 2000. After adding up the dates, Prue discovers that she is eight weeks pregnant in the third episode of the season with Andy's child. Piper and Phoebe support Prue and tell her they will be there for her no matter what, but Prue is still trying to grieve for Andy and throws herself into her work at Bucklands and demon-hunting and collapses halfway through the season after stressing herself out too much, also developing the power of astral projection in the same episode. The Piper/Leo/Dan triangle continues as normal and the magical storylines are much the same until the eighteenth episode, where Prue goes into labour - she refuses to listen to Piper, Phoebe and Leo's advice and insists on having the baby in a hospital where she is treated by Dr. Williamson (who is a consultant), Trish is born relatively normally and as Prue is giving birth Phoebe has a premonition and sees the future Trish we saw in 'Morality Bites' before Phoebe's premonition continues without the audience seeing, she later tells Prue she saw Trish as an adult and tells her that she grows up to be beautiful, powerful and strong like her parents. Prue names her Patricia Andrea Halliwell after her mother and lover and they call her Trish as a nickname, her date of birth is March 20th, 2000 (the spring equinox - Trish is also two weeks late). Prue initially rejects Trish in the nineteenth and twentieth episodes and Piper takes on the motherly role, before forcing Prue to hold Trish saying that it was a piece of Andy that had lived on - and Prue finally breaks down over Andy's death. The season two finale then takes on a similar format to 'Astral Monkey' but with Dr. Williamson testing some of Trish's blood which proves she is magical, he accidentally is injected with it and is blessed with the power of telekinesis like Prue, however he is much more strong and she eventually overpowers him and kills him. The season then ends with Prue telling her sisters she was going to embrace her role as a mother and as a Charmed One and Piper and Leo going up to the Heavens as normal.

Season Three begins similarly, with Piper and Leo having been gone for a month, but Prue is so concentrated on searching for The Triad and working at Bucklands (she never quit) she keeps palming baby Trish off onto an already stressed out Phoebe. Season Three pans out very closely to the original, apart from Piper and Phoebe have to remind Prue to be more careful after she is injured whilst hunting The Source as she needs to look after Trish; Prue eventually becomes more maternal and begins dating again; a man named Scott Scarman who she meets at work in the Season premiere, and begins dating in the fifth episode. Scott learns Prue's secret about her magic in Piper and Leo's wedding episode, and promises to stick by her after the wedding after Prue initially feared he would reject her, he also tells her that he loves Trish as if she was his own daughter. In the seventeenth episode, Trish celebrates her first birthday and is wiccaned at the same time - but Cole disrupts her wiccaning. The season finale pans out exactly like the original, with it being a cliffhanger on who dies.

Season Four begins with Piper attempting to use Trish to bring back Prue; who died at the end of Season Three. Piper and Phoebe now have the responsibility of raising their niece; Trish. Charmed Again is almost the same as the original, although Prue's boyfriend Scott is determined on avenging Shax for Prue's murder and goes along with Phoebe and Cole when they stake out Paige on the rooftop. Piper and Scott clash over the care of Trish as Scott is trying to act like a father, with Piper reminding him that Trish was an orphan now and that Piper, Leo and Phoebe would raise her. Paige is introduced as normal, and after discovering that Piper and Phoebe are her half-sisters and Trish is her niece she reforms the Power of Three. However, Piper attempts to use Trish as a replacement for Prue when going after Shax with Phoebe alone, but it doesn't work with Piper coming to the conclusion that Trish isn't 'Charmed' like they are. Piper is reluctant to let Paige near Trish as the season begins and after Piper breaks down to Paige about Prue in the sixth episode, Paige holds Trish and upon Paige's touch - Trish comes into her power of telekinesis, just like her mother - with Piper also accepting Paige as a sister and an aunt to Trish. Surprisingly, Trish bonds with Paige well and Paige finds herself taking on a more maternal role than Phoebe does when helping Piper and Leo out with Trish. Prue's boyfriend Scott leaves halfway through Season Four after Piper makes it clear that he isn't a part of their family. The Source storyline isn't resolved halfway through the season, with most of the first half being about accepting Paige. 'Charmed and Dangerous' serves as the nineteenth or twentieth episode, with Phoebe and Cole marrying in 4x21 and Phoebe discovering she is pregnant as the season cliffhanger.

Season Five is completely different, it begins with effectively the second half of the original Season Four, with Phoebe telling her sisters about her pregnancy and slowly turning evil. Piper and Paige realise that Cole is the Source a few episodes in and 'Long Live The Queen' serves as the 100th episode, with the girls attempting to vanquish the Source's essence, not Cole. However, in trying to vanquish the Source, they accidentally kill Cole, making Phoebe's grief even worse. Assuming that the vanquishing spell had killed her unborn baby too, Phoebe is shocked to discover that she is still displaying the power of fire throwing a few episodes later, and the original Season Five episodes about Piper's Whitelighter pregnancy are given to Phoebe's demon pregnancy. Initially she confides in her sisters that she doesn't want to raise the baby alone like Prue did, and die leaving it an orphan like their niece Trish. Phoebe later gives birth to a baby girl; who she names Prudence Penelope Halliwell in the fifteenth episode; with the birth date of January 19th, 2003 (I know the dates wouldn't match the actual airdate of the episode, but this is a dream series) which doubles as Cole's birthday. Phoebe then struggles to control Prue's powers which manifest quickly, and she displays the power of fire manipulation and shimmering. During the remainder of the season, Paige becomes a social worker but often finds herself babysitting Trish and Prue after Piper steps things up at P3 and Phoebe returns to work and Paige begins dating Jason (who originally dates Phoebe in the series) at the end of Season Five. The finale also maps out similarly to the original, with Leo leaving Piper to become an Elder - with Piper confessing that she had hoped they could try for a child of their own. Leo leaves and the girls are sent Chris (although he does not kidnap Leo like in the original finale).

Season Six begins with the girls realising that Leo has left them, and Piper attempting to control Trish's powers which had begun growing uncontrollably. Paige's relationship with Jason was going well, but Phoebe feels like she doesn't have the confidence to date anymore after the birth of Prue who is now over nine months old. Chris is still the mysterious figure that he was in the original and Piper struggles without Leo. Phoebe doesn't receive her empathy power but Paige begins to use more conventional telekinesis, something that grows very slowly and progressively thoughout Season Six. The storylines are very similar within this Season, and Chris eventually reveals to Paige that he is Piper and Leo's son from the future. Paige is shocked as Piper had begun dating again and even bumped into Dan (who makes a special guest appearance) and they hook up. The main magical storyline for the second half of the season shows The Crone (who makes her first appearance in this season) attempting to steal baby Prue as she is the 'warchild' the child of a force of pure evil and a force of pure good and a supreme ruler over both magical worlds. It follows a similar path of the Underworld trying to kidnap Prue. Chris tells Paige that Piper and Leo need to get back together and conceive him before it's too late, however on the date of his conception Leo and Piper kiss, but nothing more and Chris realises that his future is being re-written (however there is none of that fading away stuff, his body remains in the past). Nearer the end of the season, The Crone eventually kidnaps Prue and Chris sacrifices himself for his cousin, and as he is dying he reveals to Piper and Leo that he is their son and that they are destined to be together. Chris dies and the sisters realised that his future has been rewritten. Meanwhile, Paige splits with Jason after he rejects her secret and also as a sub-plot to the finale of the Season, the threatens to expose their secret by posting it in the Bay Mirror, before Paige manages to subdue him using her powers - but fears that she could be reprimanded as it was for personal gain, saying to Piper and Phoebe that 'she half did it to stop him exposing them, and half because their relationship ended bitterly'. The season ends with Leo and Piper reuniting and deciding to try for a child of their own, Phoebe realise that Prue was more important than men and Paige deciding that she wanted to embrace her Whitelighter side a little more.

Season Seven follows the same structure magically, although the sisters are a lot more selfless and there are still the rules of personal gain etc. Paige meets Henry in this Season (who takes the place of Kyle but without all the psycho Avatar stuff as the Avatars don't exist) the main evil in this season is Zankou. Paige and Henry begin a relationship and Piper is overjoyed to discover she is pregnant in the tenth episode, thinking that the baby she is carrying will be a boy and a break to the Halliwell tradition; but Leo reminds her that the baby may not be Chris, who she is still grieving for. Magic School is introduced in this season after Piper, Leo, Phoebe and Paige decide to send Trish there to help her control her powers. Paige tells Henry that she is a witch in the fifteenth episode and he accepts her, and he moves in before the end of the season. The finale runs much like the original, with Inspector Sheridan determined to expose the sisters after getting hold of Jason's old files on them earlier on in the season, and Zankou manages to take over the Manor and possess the Nexus and Piper, Phoebe and Paige face him in 7x21 where they take in the Hollow. It becomes a battle of the Nexus vs The Hollow resulting in a catastrophic explosion, exactly like the Manor explosion in Season Eight and the girls are trapped under the rubble (Trish and Prue are with Leo and Henry). Leo then uses baby Prue to remove the Hollow from the girls (channeling Prue's power, as she his half-good and half-evil, meaning she can read the enscription on the box). Phoebe awakes in the rubble and finds Paige, by using her new power of telepathy (which she develops a few episodes before hand) who is unconscious but awakes and they find Piper (who is five months pregnant) and she is in pain - they try to call for Leo but he doesn't arrive and they cradle Piper as she tells them she can feel herself losing the baby. The episode ends with a frantic Phoebe and Paige trying to get hold of Leo, and in a desperate attempt to save a dying Piper, they begin chanting the Power of Three spell, the spell seems to work and repairs the Manor around them, but it renders Piper unconscious. The finale episode then begins with Piper alone in her bedroom (reminiscent of the scene in Long Live The Queen where Phoebe, Piper and Paige all hug on the bed) and Phoebe and Paige go to comfort her, with Piper revealing to the audience that she miscarried her baby and that her womb is now damaged. The rest of the episode deals with the aftermath of Zankou's vanquish and Piper's refusal to be a Charmed One anymore, and asking Phoebe and Paige how they'd feel if she gave up their powers - they all later agree to keep them after a visit from the Angel of Destiny tells them that they have one final battle left. Coop arrives and tells Phoebe that the Elders have sent her so she won't give up on love, as she hasn't had a serious relationship since Cole and the last date she went on was seen in Season Six (Phoebe isn't FREEBIE in my series) and the end scene ends with Paige opening up to Henry about what her life is like and attempts to break up with him, saying that it is too dangerous for him. Henry refuses however and proposes to Paige, who accepts.

Season Eight begins with the girls having a relatively demon-free life after the vanquish of Zankou and Piper is busying herself preparing for Paige's wedding - although it is clear that she is still broody after she attempts to get Phoebe to have a premonition about Chris, and asks her if she can attempt to see into the future to see if she will ever have the son that she was destined. Coop tries to set Phoebe up with a guy named Blake but the relationship doesn't have a spark and after casual sex, Phoebe breaks it off. The main big bad of this Season is the revelation that the Elders are being corrupted by almost left wing extremists, and that they are determined to have equality for all races - even demons. A sub-group of Elders form and overthrow the Elders, turning them against the Charmed Ones who are determined to keep the worlds of good and evil apart, many demons and warlocks however team up with the Elders as they see it as their chance to leave the Underworld and live freely in the outside world. Paige and Henry marry in the eight episode of the season, before the main story arc begins and Piper begins using fertility potions in order to try and become pregnant again, even though Paige and Phoebe tell her it could be considered personal gain. Phoebe eventually falls for Coop midway through the season and they begin a relationship just before Coop is kidnapped and taken hostage by the Elder sub-group in order to blackmail the Charmed Ones. After a battle on Golden Gate Bridge in the fifteenth episode, the American Government are alerted to the presence of witches and Piper, Phoebe and Paige are taken to Area 51 and held captive to be experimented on. However, Darryl (who moved away during the end of Season Six) attempts to free them and after a stand-off with government officials, he is killed. Piper, Phoebe and Paige manage to escape the government's grasp in time to push back the Elder's efforts and remove demons that had already begun setting up home on the real world and the government realise the good that witches do, before passing an embargo on The Charmed Ones being exposed again. However, Piper's grief over Darryl makes her susceptible to the Elder/Demon's plans of takeover, they manage to possess Piper in the seventeenth episode and she switches sides, leaving Phoebe and Paige alone to fight - the fight continues until the twentieth episode when Piper succeeds in killing Phoebe after fight at the Manor, with Leo unconscious and Coop in hiding Paige's healing power comes into effect, but it's too late and Phoebe dies. The twenty-first episode (which I would name: Last Witch Standing ) shows Paige attempting to use a Power of Three spell to reverse time in order to bring Phoebe back, she tries using Trish and Prue but it fails and she eventually manages to hoodwink Piper into chanting the spell with her, and it works - with only two of them saying it. With Phoebe alive again, they manage to get her back on their side by using Phoebe's telepathy - Phoebe projects a giant premonition (like the one seen in the original Season Seven where Phoebe sees all the losses they have faced) inside Piper's mind, reminding her of the love, death and loss she has faced in her life. As evil can't love it snaps Piper out of her trance and the sisters go up against the Elders in the Heavens in the finale episode (which I would name Extremus Charmed, Extremus being Latin for final, or last.) They manage to vanquish them using a cocktail of Power of Three spells, potions and calling on all good witches. The episode then ends with Coop proposing to Phoebe and Piper discovering she is pregnant again (hence why Piper and Paige alone managed to work a Power of Three spell) - there is then a flashforward similar to Forever Charmed, but it shows Piper giving birth to a son who she does name Chris, along with a daughter whom she names Melinda Phoebe and Coop marrying and going on to have a daughter of their own; Peyton Halliwell and Paige and Henry go on to have twins - a boy and a girl, who they name Sam and Lilah.

So the births are:

Patricia Andrea 'Trish' Halliwell (b. March 20th, 2000; to Andy and Prue)
Prudence Penelope Halliwell (b. January 19th, 2003; to Cole and Phoebe)
Christopher Darryl Halliwell (b. December 25th, 2006; to Leo and Piper)
Melinda Halliwell (b. June 18th, 2008; to Leo and Piper)
Peyton Faith Halliwell (b. February 14th, 2009; to Coop and Phoebe)
Samuel Henry Mitchell (b. October 31st, 2008; to Henry and Paige)
Lilah Prudence Mitchell (b. October 31st, 2008; to Henry and Paige).

This was originally going to go in the 'Charmed Children' thread but I thought it was better suited here maybe, but my idea is that the next generation aren't 'Charmed', they have a different destiny but you have seven (the most powerfully magical number) offspring - one pure witch, one demon/witch hybrid, two 'witchlighters', one cupid/witch hybrid and two quarter witch, quarter whitelighter hybrids.

Just like your original version, unless you truly wanted Charmed to be all about the Charmed Ones having kids, this truly belongs in the Charmed Children thread rather than this one, Astral Alex. I would've liked to have seen a lot less about the kids and a lot more about the sisters. I *really* liked your original parts that didn't include the kids and wish you could do more with that and a lot less with the kids.

[Esmeralda]

Been thinking about it, and this would be my Dream Charmed. I have a hunch not too many people will like it, which is fine, but here goes:

Season One is similar to the original with some differences, mainly in the backstory and what comes from it.

Prue has never had a boyfriend because she closed her heart off after the death of her mother. Instead she’s been taking care of her sisters and Grams. Roger isn’t her boyfriend, but just her boss.

Piper is the same as the original, except that she was never a banker…she didn’t have to since Prue was the one who took care of Grams. Otherwise, no need to change her or her and Leo’s story.

Phoebe is still the wild child, and is very surprised when she comes back from New York to find out that her just-as-wild high-school boyfriend is now an inspector with the San Francisco Police Department. Andy discovers her secret after she helps him solve a few of his cases. Just like the original, he can accept her as a witch, but not as a wife, at least for now, and since Phoebe is nowhere close to settling down, that’s fine with her, so they become lovers.

The other major difference is the finale which combines both “Love Hurts” and “Déjà vu All Over Again”. In order to stop the everlasting time loop, Piper must let Leo die…

After his death, the Charmed Ones no longer need a whitelighter to guide them which they needed during their first year as witches and we never hear the word whitelighter again, nor do we ever hear the word Elder, or, thank God, witchlighter. We never need to find out if dead men can sire children.

Other than these and the changes that would obviously be needed thanks to them--like the fact that it's Piper who thinks that Phoebe slept with her former boyfriend and Prue who treats them like two children who should be sent to their rooms--the season is pretty much the same.

Obviously this changes Season Two, as Piper is the one who mourns her lost love rather than Prue. This is when she goes on strike, just like she did in the beginning of the real Season Three, and just like then, it's when she's almost the cause of a young girl losing her life that she changes her mind. But unlike the real Season Three, Leo isn't returned.

But when Dan moves in next door, halfway through the season, and he both finds out and accepts her as a witch, things slowly change for the middle sister…

Meanwhile, Phoebe and Andy continue to solve crimes with the help of her sisters, keeping the focus of the show on innocents, as we see all of the innocents and bad guys that we saw in the original Season Two, with the exception of Sam who isn’t part of this--the only reason Victor left is Grams. Phoebe and Andy are still lovers, but don’t even consider marriage, until Phoebe almost dies trying to save one of the victims of one of the crimes they're trying to solve. Andy realizes that he loves her not matter if she's a witch or not and pops the question and she accepts.

We also see another bad guy, although if this was truly the first time we’d see the show, we wouldn’t know it. When the sisters end up having to testify at a trial, Prue takes a liking to Assistant District Attorney Cole Turner, and he returns the favor. But when he asks her out, she refuses. Only after she meets Cupid and becomes his ring, does she open her heart and accept Cole's offer.

The season finale is an episode similar to “The Honeymoon’s Over”, except, of course, Piper is also part of it, since no one has gone (or could go) Up There. This is when we find out that Cole is indeed a demon who is trying to kill the sisters. And unlike the real show, he’s not half-demon, he’s pure demon who only pretends to care for Prue and simply wants to discover the sisters’ weaknesses so he can destroy them. There is no Source or Big Bad in this version—the one who comes closest to being that is Cole.

Unlike the real Season Two, since there is no P3 H20, Prue never stops working at Buckland's, nor does she ever get her astral projection power.

Season Three, the final season of my Dream Charmed, continues to have Andy and Phoebe solving crime, while also planning their wedding, so we continue to have the Bad Guy of the Week that I love, while also having the Cole story-arc that most fans love. Meanwhile, Piper and Dan are becoming closer, and Prue thinks that so are she and Cole.

With these exceptions (and Phoebe and Andy not having to fight the Elders in order to get married), the season works pretty much like the original except that Piper never gets her explosion power.

Andy and Phoebe’s wedding happens about halfway through the season, working much like Leo and Piper’s so that Patty and Grams can be part of it, although there’s also plans for a big, huge public church wedding later on, since unlike Leo, Andy isn’t dead. But rather than Prue interrupting it, it’s Shax who suddenly appears. The sisters vanquish him, but when they check the Book, they find that he is just a demonic hitman, so there is someone a lot worse out there. Phoebe tells Andy that she loves him and still wants to marry him, but only after they find and vanquish Shax’s boss.

The rest of the season works out similar to the original except, of course, there are no honeymooners and Prue eventually finds out that the true evil is Cole. In the grand finale, they battle and vanquish him.

The Angel of Destiny shows up and the sisters decide to give up their powers so they can live normal lives. Only then do we see the big grand church wedding as Phoebe and Andy are married, the last scene of the series.

So? What do you think? The major thing I tried to do with mine is never let it jump the shark the way all of the other versions (including my own Charmed Children versions since they were based on versions that did) and from what I can tell, it never did.

Hopefully this will also get others to show what their Dream Charmed is...although for me, it would be hard for them to beat out SoC's.

[forbuss]

I like the original post - however, dragging the whole Phoebe-Cole-Child thing out until season 6 seems like a lot! I feel like the story might get a little bland and people would loose interest, turning a 2 season story arc (not even really 2) into a 4 season story arc might be a lot. That would mean that half of the series was centering around Cole & Phoebe's relationship (which at first I tend to love, but I think it would be a bit much).

I feel like some people just can't accept Charmed as a whole - which is ok, everyone has their favorites.

[Esmeralda]

I don't think so. I would prefer the Phoetus being the bad kid over the Twice Blessed Child, who I love not being part of this. If you have to have an evil kids (I'd prefer just skipping Season Six and Chris never existing), I like this better than the way it actually went.

[Astral Echo]

So my series is going to be posted as and when I come up with the ideas, I'm slowly piecing it together in my mind and I'm sure I'll keep popping back and changing things as I go along. But hey ho, this is all a dream isn't it!? First season is copied from the Charmed Children thread but there are some minor changes:

SEASON ONE
Three sisters, raised by their grandmother, are reunited on the eve of her death to fulfill her dying requests. Prue, a hard-working, driven and often callous businesswoman, left San Francisco at the age of 20 to pursue her career in London, leaving her younger sister Piper to care for their grandmother and youngest sister. Piper is the heart of the family. She is kind, caring and devoted to her grandmother, Penny, who she cares for her when not working as a chef for the family-run restaurant and bar, Quake. Youngest sister Phoebe can be quite a handful, having often been in trouble with the law during her teens, and who left for New York when she turned 18.

Piper continued caring for Grams for another three years, until she was admitted into a hospital having suffered a fatal heart attack. As a last request, Penny asked to see her three granddaughters together again before she dies. So, Prue and Phoebe both fly in to San Francisco to say their last goodbyes to Penny before returning to the Halliwell Manor for the first time in six and three years respectively.

Prue and Phoebe's icy relationship becomes clear almost instantly as they argue (despite now being fully-grown women) about past misdemeanors, including Prue’s accusation that fifteen-year-old Phoebe slept with Roger, Prue's boyfriend of the time - something Phoebe flatly denies.

Piper tries to rekindle her friendships with both sisters in an attempt to make them stay, fearing being left alone.

Piper then finds the Book of Shadows and their destiny is revealed. Both Prue and Phoebe realize they were tricked by Grams, agreeing for the first time that they always knew she was a sly old bird! When both sisters attempt to leave, they're sent running back to the Manor as they encounter creatures they never dreamed existed.

But it's Jeremy, Piper's on-again/off-again boyfriend, who proves to be the biggest threat and the two sisters arrive just in time to rescue the middle sister and vanquish their first baddie.

Realizing they are stuck together, Prue and Phoebe attempt to make the best of the situation while Piper relishes the opportunity to have a family around her once more.

Phoebe, now a reformed character, worries that her religion won't accept her for who she is but her mind is put at ease when a Father Brendan Rowe tells her that we are all made in God’s image and as long as she makes the right choices and lives a good life, she'll still be accepted into heaven.

Prue manages to get a job at Buckland’s, the local antiques dealer, and due to her experience in the industry, she is quickly fast-tracked to the top, while growing close to owner, Rex Buckland. Unbeknownst to Prue, Rex is a warlock, who killed the original Rex Buckland, a witch, and took his power and business in order to kill the Charmed Ones. In fact, he's been manipulating Prue ever since she stepped off the plane in San Francisco, using his powers of astral projection and mind control to push all the pieces into place so he could successful kill all three witches and take their powers.

In reality, Prue was never an antiques dealer – instead she’s a highly-successful photographer turned fashion editor--but “Rex” has manipulated her mind so much, he could almost make her think anything he wants.

Prue also rekindles her relationship with high-school sweetheart, Andy Trudeau, while Phoebe grows closer to Father Brendan and Piper throws herself into her work and is promoted to second chef during this season, striking up a friendship with her boss’s daughter, Jenny.

Mid-season, Andy foils “Rex's” plan and is almost killed by the warlock when he discovers that “Rex” isn't who he says he is. But he also discovers the sisters’ secret when they rush to save and vanquish the warlock and his accomplice, Hannah, who Prue has never trusted despite “Rex's” manipulation.

Andy struggles to accept the truth about Prue and takes some time away, leaving Prue to cope alone with the revelation that “Rex” had manipulating her for over six months. She struggles to rediscover her identity, since the woman she once was is gone, while the woman who she thought she was, doesn't really exist. This struggle allows her to bond properly with Phoebe who has struggled through her own identity crisis for most of her life - it was only going away to New York that helped her find herself.

Prue and Phoebe's relationship starts resembling that of the original season from this point on and the pair realize they have a lot more common than they first thought. Both are head strong, stubborn, determined, resourceful and ultimately, protective of one another.

Piper's relationship with Prue is as strong as ever but she doesn't find it as easy as Phoebe does, to help Prue through her identity issues.

Stronger than ever, the sisters are faced with more and more challenges as evil tries to break the Charmed circle including Barbas who brings to light Prue's overprotective nature (and loving side) as the eldest sister fights her fears to save her sisters. They soon learn that there may be a fierce battle on the horizon, one they won't see coming and one they may not survive.

As Phoebe continues to see Brendan, the priest starts to question his beliefs as he finds himself falling for the youngest sister, something that is strictly forbidden to him as a priest. While their relationship has been strictly platonic up until this point, Phoebe also realizes she has feelings for Brendan even though she knows she shouldn't. The pair continue to fight their feelings and Brendan begins opening up to Phoebe as she always has to him. He explains that he devoted himself to God to try and stop himself from falling into temptation, from going down the same path as his two older brothers. While not going into detail, he explains how he has struggled to subdue his natural instincts and how frightened he is of losing control.

Andy and Prue finally reunite about six episodes before the end of the season and the sisters help him solve various crimes. Piper also meets Jenny's older brother, Dan, a newly qualified doctor who she begins falling for but never has the courage to ask out.

Eventually Brendan and Phoebe give into temptation and he and Phoebe make love. They profess their love for one another but now her guard is down, Phoebe has a premonition and sees Brendan in his demon form (game face). Fleeing, Brendan is left confused but more importantly he feels himself losing control.

Sensing their brother is weak, Brendan's brothers return in the first part of a two part finale. As had been suggested but never revealed, Brendan is in fact a demon (as Phoebe saw in her premonition in 1x20), and he and his brothers form the Charmed One's opposition, the Blood Brothers. While Brendan has tried for years to resist his nature, his night of passion with Phoebe has opened a whole can of worms. Since Brendan is now weak, Aodhan and Ciaran manipulate their brother and persuades him that the sisters must be stopped, explaining to him that Phoebe is a witch and a powerful one at that. Knowing their brother still won't join them willingly, they make the Charmed Ones out as the enemy, comparing Phoebe to a temptress, claiming she seduced him and tried to part him from his beliefs even suggesting she may have used magic to do so. They use his religion as a way of proving to him that Phoebe, Piper and Prue must be stopped.

In the finale, the sisters celebrate their first anniversary as witches by going to battle against the Blood Brothers and successfully vanquish them. But Phoebe is left devastated, having not only lost the man she loved but also her faith, believing that if this year has taught her anything, it's that God can't exist in such a messed-up world.

But what is in store for Season Two...

[Astral Echo]

I will also go through the various posts above, I just wanted to get my Season One transferred over into this thread before I work on my Season Two. I'm working thirteen hours days this weekend so I probably won't get around to reviewing or "dreaming" until Monday/Tuesday.

[darkpassage]

Darn. This was kind of similar to the idea of my thread. I guess we can go ahead & delete mine & I'll post my ideas in here. I'm not done yet, but If I was show runner it would have lasted about 6 seasons maximum. I'll be back with my ideas soon hopefully

[Chrisaholic]

Give me some time to think about this! As I'm writing at the moment my latest sequel and another new story is already spooking in my head around, I'd say it could take a loooooooooong time before I might be able to do that but I will!!!

[Esmeralda]

Have been thinking about my own and made a few changes:

Season One is similar to the original with some differences, mainly in the backstory and what comes from it.

Prue has never had a boyfriend because she closed her heart off after the death of her mother. Instead she’s been taking care of her sisters and Grams. Roger isn’t her boyfriend, but just her boss.

Piper is the same as the original, except that she was never a banker…she didn’t have to since Prue was the one who took care of Grams. Otherwise, no need to change her or her and Leo’s story.

Phoebe is still the wild child, and is very surprised when she comes back from New York to find out that her just-as-wild high-school boyfriend is now an inspector with the San Francisco Police Department. Andy discovers her secret after she helps him solve a few of his cases. Just like the original, he can accept her as a witch, but not as a wife, at least for now, and since Phoebe is nowhere close to settling down, that’s fine with her, so they become lovers.

The other major difference is the finale which combines both “Love Hurts” and “Déjà vu All Over Again”. In order to stop the everlasting time loop, Piper must let Leo die…

After his death, the Charmed Ones no longer need a whitelighter to guide them which they needed during their first year as witches and we never hear the word whitelighter again, nor do we ever hear the word Elder, or, thank God, witchlighter. We never need to find out if dead men can sire children.

Other than these and the changes that would obviously be needed thanks to them--like the fact that it's Piper who thinks that Phoebe slept with her former boyfriend and Prue who treats them like two children who should be sent to their rooms--the season is pretty much the same.

Obviously this changes Season Two, as Piper is the one who mourns her lost love rather than Prue. This is when she goes on strike, just like she did in the beginning of the real Season Three, and just like then, it's when she's almost the cause of a young girl losing her life that she changes her mind. But unlike the real Season Three, Leo isn't returned.

But then Dan moves in next door, halfway through the season, with the following episodes similar to the first ones in the real Season Two, but Dan has no reason to be jealous of Leo...only of Piper's memories of him.. Instead, when he finds out that Piper is a witch, he also finds out what Leo was, and can accept that, since he respects Piper's decision for letting Leo die. Much like Henry in the real Season Eight, he decides that he can accept Piper as a witch and Piper finds herself falling for him, big-time, especially because he helps her have a normal life as a normal couple, something Leo could never do. With Dan's help, she decides to quit Quake and instead start a restaurant of her own - P3.

Meanwhile, Phoebe and Andy continue to solve crimes with the help of her sisters, keeping the focus of the show on innocents, as we see all of the innocents and bad guys that we saw in the original Season Two, with the exception of Sam who isn’t part of this--the only reason Victor left is Grams. Phoebe and Andy are still lovers, but don’t even consider marriage, until Phoebe almost dies trying to save one of the victims of one of the crimes they're trying to solve. Andy realizes that he loves her no matter if she's a witch or not and pops the question, and she accepts.

We also see another bad guy, although if this was truly the first time we’d see the show, we wouldn’t know it. When the sisters end up having to testify at a trial, Prue takes a liking to Assistant District Attorney Cole Turner, and he returns the favor. But when he asks her out, she refuses. Only after she meets Cupid and becomes his ring, does she open her heart and accept Cole's offer.

The season finale is an episode similar to “The Honeymoon’s Over”, except, of course, Piper is also part of it, since no one has gone (or could go) Up There. This is when we find out that Cole is indeed trying to kill the sisters. And unlike the real show, he’s not half-demon, he's a warlock who only pretends to care for Prue and simply wants to discover the sisters’ weaknesses so he can destroy them and take their powers. There is no Source or Big Bad in this Charmedverse—the one who comes closest to being that is Cole, who is more like a combination of Cole and Zankou, except he's a warlock and not a demon - in this Charmedverse, the only demons are "The Demons of... ".

Unlike the real Season Two, since there is no "P3 H20" - no need to show anyone what could happen if a whitelighter falls in love with his charge--Prue never stops working at Buckland's, nor does she ever get her astral projection power. Instead all three sisters are gaining better control of their powers and can use them over larger distances.

Season Three, the final season of my Dream Charmed, continues to have Andy and Phoebe solving crime, while also planning their wedding, so we continue to have the Bad Guy of the Week that I love, while also having the Cole story-arc that most fans love, even if some fans won't like it as much since Cole never truly loves a Charmed One, since he's pure warlock and not a half-demon. Meanwhile, Piper and Dan are becoming closer, and Prue thinks that so are she and Cole.

With these exceptions (and Phoebe and Andy not having to fight the Elders in order to get married), the season works pretty much like the original except that Piper never gets her explosion power.

Andy and Phoebe’s wedding happens about halfway through the season, working much like Leo and Piper’s so that Patty and Grams can be part of it, although there’s also plans for a big, huge public church wedding later on, since unlike Leo, Andy isn’t dead. But rather than Prue interrupting it, it’s Shax who suddenly appears. The sisters vanquish him, but when they check the Book, they find that he is just a demonic hitman, so there is someone a lot worse out there. Phoebe tells Andy that she loves him and still wants to marry him, but only after they find and vanquish Shax’s boss.

The rest of the season works out similar to the original except, of course, there are no honeymooners, Phoebe and Andy continue to work on saving innocents, and Prue eventually finds out that the true evil is Cole. In the grand finale, they battle and vanquish him.

The Angel of Destiny shows up and the sisters decide to give up their powers so they can live normal lives, with Prue finally deciding to quit Buckland's so she can try to live her own dream--that of being a photographer, Piper considering marrying Dan while happily running her restaurant, and Phoebe deciding to go back to school and become an inspector so she can continue to help Andy solve crimes.

Only then do we see the big grand church wedding as Phoebe and Andy are married, the last scene of the series.

So? What do you think? The major thing I tried to do with these changes is never let it jump the shark the way all of the other versions (including my own Charmed Children versions since they were based on versions that did) and from what I can tell, it never did. Innocents remain more important than personal desires. No one uses their power for personal gain without getting a backlash. Whitelighters remain what they originally were, and dead men can't sire children. Demons are always just "The Demon of" and not just someone who can shimmer and throw fireballs. They're also a different breed and can't mate with humans. The only powers the sisters have are their original ones, which they now have better control over. That's what would make a Dream Charmed for me.

[Astral Echo]

I personally wouldn't consider having additional powers, big bads or having children as jumping shark. It's a natural progression.

Dead men having children, personal gain with no consquences etc...maybe.

I also still don't understand why demons can't have children as from the very beginning it was made clear this was possible, ala Wedding From Hell.

[Esmeralda]

I won't agree with you with your first line--having children and additional powers that have nothing to do with the original prophecy is definitely jumping the shark--with the exception of the Big Bad, which is simply something I don't like unless it's the same one throughout the entire series, and if it's someone who truly could kill off the Charmed Ones, like Zankou.

But I'll have to agree with the last..I forgot about "Wedding From Hell". I guess I just prefer "The Demon of..." and warlocks as the main bad guys over demons who can just shimmer and throw fireballs, but you're right...during the actual show, a half-demon isn't jumping the shark the way a half-whitelighter is.

So in my own Charmedverse, either "Wedding from Hell" never happened, continuing the rule that demons can't mate with witches, or Hecate wasn't a demon but some other sort of villain who could, like an evil witch. I think I like that idea best.

[Astral Echo]

Different strokes for different folk.

As you've already pointed out recently, your of a generation where good is good, bad is bad and nothing is rarely in between. Where as I'm of a generation where I like to see morality explored in more detail and for the lines between good and evil to blur together more. I think on the same token, I'm also of a generation that enjoys complex, mysterious stories that develop and evolve over the course of the series; shows that grow just as we do - examples of this are Lost, Supernatural and Fringe. Where as, you like the demon of the week style, shows that do exactly what is says on the tin. Shows like the 70's comic book programmes you mentioned, Bewitched, Charlie's Angels etc...

[Esmeralda]

*nods* Yup, I think you've got it on the nose, because I didn't like any of those shows you mentioned while I still love the ones you did at the end--I can watch reruns of Bewitched and Charlie's Angels and other shows from that era over and over and over and over again and never get tired of them.

Like you said, it's just what your own preference for your own guilty pleasure is.

[StoryGirl83]

Feb 19, 2012 12:57:15 GMT -5 Esmeralda said:

Have been thinking about my own and made a few changes:

Season One is similar to the original with some differences, mainly in the backstory and what comes from it.

Prue has never had a boyfriend because she closed her heart off after the death of her mother. Instead she’s been taking care of her sisters and Grams. Roger isn’t her boyfriend, but just her boss.

Piper is the same as the original, except that she was never a banker…she didn’t have to since Prue was the one who took care of Grams. Otherwise, no need to change her or her and Leo’s story.

Phoebe is still the wild child, and is very surprised when she comes back from New York to find out that her just-as-wild high-school boyfriend is now an inspector with the San Francisco Police Department. Andy discovers her secret after she helps him solve a few of his cases. Just like the original, he can accept her as a witch, but not as a wife, at least for now, and since Phoebe is nowhere close to settling down, that’s fine with her, so they become lovers.

The other major difference is the finale which combines both “Love Hurts” and “Déjà vu All Over Again”. In order to stop the everlasting time loop, Piper must let Leo die…

After his death, the Charmed Ones no longer need a whitelighter to guide them which they needed during their first year as witches and we never hear the word whitelighter again, nor do we ever hear the word Elder, or, thank God, witchlighter. We never need to find out if dead men can sire children.

Other than these and the changes that would obviously be needed thanks to them--like the fact that it's Piper who thinks that Phoebe slept with her former boyfriend and Prue who treats them like two children who should be sent to their rooms--the season is pretty much the same.

Obviously this changes Season Two, as Piper is the one who mourns her lost love rather than Prue. This is when she goes on strike, just like she did in the beginning of the real Season Three, and just like then, it's when she's almost the cause of a young girl losing her life that she changes her mind. But unlike the real Season Three, Leo isn't returned.

But then Dan moves in next door, halfway through the season, with the following episodes similar to the first ones in the real Season Two, but Dan has no reason to be jealous of Leo...only of Piper's memories of him.. Instead, when he finds out that Piper is a witch, he also finds out what Leo was, and can accept that, since he respects Piper's decision for letting Leo die. Much like Henry in the real Season Eight, he decides that he can accept Piper as a witch and Piper finds herself falling for him, big-time, especially because he helps her have a normal life as a normal couple, something Leo could never do. With Dan's help, she decides to quit Quake and instead start a restaurant of her own - P3.

Meanwhile, Phoebe and Andy continue to solve crimes with the help of her sisters, keeping the focus of the show on innocents, as we see all of the innocents and bad guys that we saw in the original Season Two, with the exception of Sam who isn’t part of this--the only reason Victor left is Grams. Phoebe and Andy are still lovers, but don’t even consider marriage, until Phoebe almost dies trying to save one of the victims of one of the crimes they're trying to solve. Andy realizes that he loves her no matter if she's a witch or not and pops the question, and she accepts.

We also see another bad guy, although if this was truly the first time we’d see the show, we wouldn’t know it. When the sisters end up having to testify at a trial, Prue takes a liking to Assistant District Attorney Cole Turner, and he returns the favor. But when he asks her out, she refuses. Only after she meets Cupid and becomes his ring, does she open her heart and accept Cole's offer.

The season finale is an episode similar to “The Honeymoon’s Over”, except, of course, Piper is also part of it, since no one has gone (or could go) Up There. This is when we find out that Cole is indeed trying to kill the sisters. And unlike the real show, he’s not half-demon, he's a warlock who only pretends to care for Prue and simply wants to discover the sisters’ weaknesses so he can destroy them and take their powers. There is no Source or Big Bad in this Charmedverse—the one who comes closest to being that is Cole, who is more like a combination of Cole and Zankou, except he's a warlock and not a demon - in this Charmedverse, the only demons are "The Demons of... ".

Unlike the real Season Two, since there is no "P3 H20" - no need to show anyone what could happen if a whitelighter falls in love with his charge--Prue never stops working at Buckland's, nor does she ever get her astral projection power. Instead all three sisters are gaining better control of their powers and can use them over larger distances.

Season Three, the final season of my Dream Charmed, continues to have Andy and Phoebe solving crime, while also planning their wedding, so we continue to have the Bad Guy of the Week that I love, while also having the Cole story-arc that most fans love, even if some fans won't like it as much since Cole never truly loves a Charmed One, since he's pure warlock and not a half-demon. Meanwhile, Piper and Dan are becoming closer, and Prue thinks that so are she and Cole.

With these exceptions (and Phoebe and Andy not having to fight the Elders in order to get married), the season works pretty much like the original except that Piper never gets her explosion power.

Andy and Phoebe’s wedding happens about halfway through the season, working much like Leo and Piper’s so that Patty and Grams can be part of it, although there’s also plans for a big, huge public church wedding later on, since unlike Leo, Andy isn’t dead. But rather than Prue interrupting it, it’s Shax who suddenly appears. The sisters vanquish him, but when they check the Book, they find that he is just a demonic hitman, so there is someone a lot worse out there. Phoebe tells Andy that she loves him and still wants to marry him, but only after they find and vanquish Shax’s boss.

The rest of the season works out similar to the original except, of course, there are no honeymooners, Phoebe and Andy continue to work on saving innocents, and Prue eventually finds out that the true evil is Cole. In the grand finale, they battle and vanquish him.

The Angel of Destiny shows up and the sisters decide to give up their powers so they can live normal lives, with Prue finally deciding to quit Buckland's so she can try to live her own dream--that of being a photographer, Piper considering marrying Dan while happily running her restaurant, and Phoebe deciding to go back to school and become an inspector so she can continue to help Andy solve crimes.

Only then do we see the big grand church wedding as Phoebe and Andy are married, the last scene of the series.

So? What do you think? The major thing I tried to do with these changes is never let it jump the shark the way all of the other versions (including my own Charmed Children versions since they were based on versions that did) and from what I can tell, it never did. Innocents remain more important than personal desires. No one uses their power for personal gain without getting a backlash. Whitelighters remain what they originally were, and dead men can't sire children. Demons are always just "The Demon of" and not just someone who can shimmer and throw fireballs. They're also a different breed and can't mate with humans. The only powers the sisters have are their original ones, which they now have better control over. That's what would make a Dream Charmed for me.

This is just so you, Es. As I read it, I see so much of what I have heard you say over the years I have known you. I can really see this as your dream Charmed. You've been figuring it out for years and I've been hearing it in bits and pieces the whole time.

[patmos]

Here's mine.


Season 1-3 will remain as it is. I prefer the Original P3.

Season 4 begins with Prue surviving the attack. But Phoebe remained trapped in the underworld. Cole manage to escape, he returned to the sisters wounded. Prue and Piper suspicious about it, they went for a mission to rescue Phoebe, maximizing all their wiccan potential. A few episodes on this arc involving new powerful enemies. A scene into Phoebe's prison, she was in chains then a certain someone appeared to her revealing a large scale plan. Meanwhile Prue and Piper almost losing hope, their normal lives were being affected along with their duties of protecting the innocent or saving their little sister first. As the show goes, Cole embarks on his own rescue Phoebe mission until he learnt of something threatening both to the human and wiccan world. It is also revealed then that the source was not involved of Phoebe being a hostage. Prue and Piper were now getting nearer rescuing Phoebe. They received a scroll with information on how to rescue Phoebe and to kill the source (but they have no idea where it came from) Last part will be an all out battle in the underworld, Cole joins them but he has his own info and discovered Phoebe's prison first. He sets her free and gave her a potion to gain a little strength. The three sisters finally met (group hug!) The Reunited Charmed Ones went to vanquish the Source. Little did they know while they're in the underworld. A Hooded someone chanting in their basement, then taps the ground (it shakes and tribal lines starts to appear and evaporates) The hooded being vanished in a blurry flash. The last scene the three sisters at the manor couch comforting Phoebe.


Season 5 Starts with Piper and Leo working out their relationship, Phoebe and Cole as well. Prue in deep thoughts about Phoebe's story of the hooded being. Cole doing his own research in the shadows. Throw in a few episodes of witch and normal life conflicts. A certain warlock does his/her moves on the innocents. The Charmed Ones on the rescue again, but this time they only kill lower level foes. Higher Ones tend to survive only to be revealed they are under the orders of the hooded being to keep the Charmed Ones busy. Phoebe starts to feel strange, she had a violent scene in which she revealed all her inner hatred and she had a nervous breakdown then. Prue as the eldest sister felt a certain guilt slowly blaming herself for her little sisters state. Piper always comforting the two, blames their destiny as giving them more suffering instead of blessing them which also affected her relationship to Leo, who became a bit skeptic. Cole still on a mission finds out an old Warren Secret that was kept for years! Prue eventually decided to shoulder almost everything and trying to keep Phoebe and even Piper away from witchcraft so as not to endanger them. It all goes as planned said the Hooded being! Piper and Phoebe refused Prue's decision. (together they fight, together they die) They got themselves together and started to answer these puzzles The Charmed Ones way!Eventually leading them to a confrontation of the hooded being! Revealed to be a Powerful Warren Witch who fell to evil ways and was sealed and erased in history. Somehow she managed to escape and devised her plan for revenge and slaughter several innocents. She then revealed to the Charmed Ones that she had unlocked the greatest secret of the Warren Line "The Hollow Eyes" (already posted something like this years ago) an eyes that can summon the Hollow and controlled it like a pet. To be able to do this she had to kill 9 First born Warren witches and offer their eyes. She already did, but the Hollow was sealed and the very key was hidden in the Book Of Shadows, unknonwst to the 3 sisters. Still she can't get near the book. A battle arises between her and TCO. Witch vs Witch. It ends in a draw. before Pirina leaves she told the Charmed Ones that she'll kill lots of innocent if the key wasn't given to her. End of Season.

Season 6 The Charmed Ones on a great conflict, defend or offend? Pirina wasn't joking around as Cole told them that she encountered some of Pirina's minions trying to kill some innocents, other whitelighter charges started dying. Prue, Piper Phoebe made their homework getting back to the roots of their family discovering more and more of their witchcrfat heritage. They learned to create a seal temporarily gurading the Hallow and the Manor. Still they can't find the Key that Pirina was talking about. Trying to put the pieces together while fighting evil hordes to protect their innocents. Casulaties were inevitable and could be even more complicated when a certain civilian reported that withces and warlocks are real! That's when Darryl comes in to cover up their tracks. Prue, Piper and Phoebe working very discreet now. Aided by Cole and Leo, Pirina pushing the limits and manage to overcome the elders as well. Still she's upset that she's a step closer summoning the hollow. As the show goes on, her plan revealed to shape this world in her own time and under her spell. Witchcraft goes deeper family histories revealed that can either break or tear them apart. Prue without telling Piper and Phoebe learns of a forbidden magic, summoning The Angel of Death (like DTAH) but different as this time its for offense but will cost her something big! Will she use it or not? . And so the War unfolds, reaching a dangerous heights and every second counts.

That's it for me. I'll go for only 6 seasons. Thanks! Cheers

[ljones]

Will your portrayal of demons remain the same . . . as one-dimensionally evil? Or would you consider following the "BUFFY" rule book by allowing them to be portrayed in a more complex manner - some evil, some good and many of them gray?

[Astral Alex]

I'd love to go and review all the dream series that we've had posted, but I'd be here forever and to be honest - I think it's a case of 'each to their own'.

I know for a fact that Es's Dream Charmed would be the complete opposite from mine and a lot of others would different from my version - but I think it's lovely that everybody has their own personal dreams, and that we all respect each others.