If I was Executive Producer...

[Esmeralda]

Mar 16, 2018 21:58:55 GMT -5 Sasha said:

Mar 14, 2018 20:58:43 GMT -5 Esmeralda said:

Was just about to ask the same thing, Deano. Why LOL? Would you change anything now. Funny, I still like mine exactly how I have it, both versions, the one with kids and the one without.

Hehe two minds think alike. 

I'm glad to see your still proud of your versions, I loved reading them.

Thank you so much! I'm so glad you do!

[Esmeralda]

Mar 16, 2018 20:52:23 GMT -5 piperdan said:

Ok so:

Season 1:

Ok I mostly loved Season 1 but I would have had Rex and Hannah as the main villains for this season. The show starts off with Melinda Warren burning at the stake and then flashes forward to the lives of Prue, Piper and Phoebe. The beginning starts off like the original with them receiving their powers. Rex and Hannah bring warlocks and demons to attack the witches and steal their powers. Jeremy, Javna, Matthew Tate via that locket. Aviva is also a demon in this who is disguised as an innocent. Leo comes in as a handyman but when he is attacked by a darklighter while protecting an innocent, he is forced to come out and tell the sisters. Phoebe and Piper have their friendly little competition and Phoebe ends up falling for Leo and vice versa. Phoebe, Piper and Prue switch powers. Prue gets the power to freeze while Piper can throw things. Phoebe using her love heals Leo and they manage to save the innocent. Rex and Hannah realising that their plans have been failing cast a bad luck curse on the Charmed Ones. Prue is framed for stealing and the Power of Three is broken apart as all evidence points Prue as guilty. Piper, Phoebe and Leo hire a lawyer but the lawyer is also a demon and they are unable to free Prue. Demons continue to attack and Piper and Phoebe are having a hard time without Prue. Rex reveals himself and makes his offer. Piper and Phoebe seeing no other choice temporarily break Prue out and they go to give their powers to Rex. Leo saves them once again and they manage to vanquish Rex and Hannah. The season ends.

I started reading this and enjoying it (although American witches were hung not burnt - Charmed messed that up) but it's really hard to read when you have that much as one huge paragraph. Any way of splitting it up a little better?

[Sasha]

Mar 14, 2018 21:02:23 GMT -5 Esmeralda said:

And just because mine is way back on Page 2, I'm going to go ahead and re-post it for anyone who hasn't seen it. Would love to know what you think of it.

Ever since I copied that post from the other board, I've been having fun using the ideas in it to modify my own Dream Charmed....with Children. I also shared it with some of my friends and they helped me make it come even closer to that, and I think I finally have it.

Like I said above, what I *really* liked was his idea of showing what was going on in the "real world" and letting what actually happened influence my decisions.

Like before this is MY Dream version of Charmed IF

• You have to have a sister die... and three sisters end up still alive at the end.
  
  
• There has to be children.
  
  
• Dead men can sire children.
  
  
• Demons can mate with mortals.

See what you think:

Very interesting rules you set. Thumbs up to you.

SEASON ONE
Starring Shannen Doherty, Holly Marie Combs and Alyssa Milano
Costarring Carlos Gomez and Brian Krause

My Dream Charmed begins the series by showing the townspeople of Salem, MA getting ready to hang Melinda Warren [Tyler Layton] as a witch as she tells them her vision of the future Charmed Ones. Even as she drops, we cut to modern-day San Francisco.

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

Prue [Shannen Doherty] has never had a boyfriend because she closed her heart after the death of her mother. Instead she’s been taking care of her sisters and Grams [Jennifer Rhodes]. Roger [Matthew Ashford] isn’t her fiancé but just her supervisor, who is fired after her boss finds out that he stole her ideas, so he make her one of the Buckland managers instead. Just like the original, she’s a bit stiff, a bit strait-laced, but loosens up as the season goes along, as she feels sympathy for the innocents they are saving and anger at the villains (both male and female, both magical and non-magical) who are after them.

Piper [Holly Marie Combs] is the same as the original, except that she was never a banker…she didn’t have to be, since Prue was the one who took care of Grams, so since graduation from high school, she has always worked at Quake, even when she was at cooking school. Otherwise, no need to change her or her and Leo’s [Brian Krause] story. Just like the original, she’s the one who least wants to be a witch, but goes along with her sisters, especially when she sees how much their powers can help people.

Although Phoebe [Alyssa Milano] was the wild child and moved away to New York after Grams’ death, she found herself there and now wants to go back to school, the reason why she moves back in with her sisters. Just like the original, she’s the one who finds the Book of Shadows and says the spell that activates their magic, and she’s the one most fascinated with magic.

The other major difference is that Andy is not part of this first season. Instead Inspector Rodriguez [Carlos Gomez], a warlock, spends the whole season trying to expose the Charmed Ones, working with the various magical villains to try to frame the Charmed Ones for crimes by placing them at the scene where innocents that he himself killed died.

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, while Prue treats them like two children who should be sent to their rooms - the season is pretty much the same.

But this season also deals with the theme that with great powers comes great responsibility, something that is important for the sisters to learn right away, before they start having relationships - that protecting innocents must always come before their personal lives - if it doesn't, they will either lose their powers or lose their lives.

After the Charmed Ones first receive their powers, they use them to protect innocents but also use them to punish people they think have done wrong. At the end of the season, the Elders send them to a future similar to “Morality Bites”, where all three sisters are arrested for being witches and will be burnt the next day by Prosecutor Rodriguez, not Nathaniel Pratt.

While in the future, the Charmed Ones discover that Rodriguez is a warlock, even as they learn that magic is to be used to protect the innocent, not punish the guilty. Once they learn their lesson - and unlike the original series, they won't forget it - they are transported back to their present just as each of them begins to feel the agony of the fire. There, when Rodriguez shows up to arrest them for some trumped-up charge, the Charmed Ones vanquish him.

This is also when the Angel of Destiny shows up. Now that the Halliwells finally realize just what they are in for, they are given the option of keeping their powers or losing them and forgetting that they ever had them, as has happened with other sets of three sisters descended from Melinda Warren. But despite what happened in the future, this set of sisters agree that they’re going to have to stick together through it all. All of their petty disagreements with each other are forgotten as they agree to continue to walk towards their destiny.

I'm SO VERY glad you got the history of witches right. Hanged not burn!

Already liking this Prue. What did Prue see in Roger???

Piper's love of cooking needed to be what drove her in the entire series. NOT being owner of a nightclub. Didn't feel like Piper's character to be interested in a club at all.

SEASON TWO
Starring Shannen Doherty, Holly Marie Combs and Alyssa Milano
Costarring Brian Krause, Ted King and Neil Roberts

Andy [Ted King] takes Rodriguez's place as the inspector who works with the sisters, and reunites with his high school sweetheart. He is amazed by how much Phoebe has matured, while Phoebe is just as amazed to find out that her once just-as-wild boyfriend is now a San Francisco inspector. After one of her premonitions helps her and her sisters help him solve one of his most-difficult cases, she decides to change her major in college and starts taking forensic classes, so they continue to work on cases together. She uses her power of premonitions to find out what’s going to happen and her visions of the past (which she gets when she touches one of the pieces of evidence) to find out what has happened. Before saying a word to Andy, she brings the cases home to her sisters, where they are able to figure out how to protect the innocents by getting rid of the perpetrator. If the perp is non-magical (which happens just as often as them being magical), Phoebe helps Andy solve it so that he can arrest the perp. If the perp is magical, the Charmed Ones figure out how to vanquish the perp.

Halfway through the season, Andy discovers Phoebe’s secret. Just like the original, he can accept her as a witch, but not as a wife, until Phoebe almost dies trying to save one of the victims. That’s when Andy realizes that he loves her no matter if she's a witch or not and pops the question, and she gladly accepts.

Meanwhile Piper becomes the manager of Quake, while her relationship with Leo grows more serious, and she starts wondering if a whitelighter can marry his charge. The Elders think they are growing way too close, and this may interfere in their work just like it did with Piper’s mother and her whitelighter – the reason why the rule of whitelighters and witches aren’t allowed to marry was even created.

Piper doesn’t know anything about this – she just knows that she’s falling in love with Leo. The only problem that she can see is when they try to date and Piper discovers that dating a man who is dead and has no identity can definitely be a problem. She continues to bemoan the fact that as a witch she can’t have a normal life.

Meanwhile, Prue's boss from the first season turns out to be a warlock trying to figure out how to steal the sisters' powers now that Rodriguez has failed. Rex Buckland [Neal Roberts] make Prue's job a living hell such as making her work long hours without paying her overtime, constantly setting things up so it appears that she has either stolen items or embezzled funds, sending her to clients that he knows are magical bad-guys, etc. until he finally team up with Tempus [David Carradine] at the end of the season.

The season finale plays out much as it did in the original Charmed’s Season One finale, with Rex taking Rodriguez’ spot, except no one intervenes. Each time the Charmed Ones keep missing out on the fact that it's Rex who is the warlock working with Tempus. Also, rather than a Charmed One or Andy, it’s an innocent who dies during each time loop.

The Elders realize what is happening and summon Leo to them, telling him what’s going on. They also warn him that he must stop seeing Piper or suffer the consequences, because the Elders’ fears have come true – Piper and Leo’s emotions, and the fact that they keep trying to protect each other, is the reason why it's the innocent who keeps dying rather than one of the Charmed Ones.

But Leo can’t let Piper die. He orbs in and interrupts the time loop. Even though he helps the Charmed Ones vanquish Rex and save the innocent, Leo is forced away, just like in “Magic Hour,” which is the last scene in the season. (Nope, in my dream series, the season doesn’t always end with the door closing…)

I'm glad Andy has shown up. Very interesting you decided to wait until season 2. But this sounds very exciting to me with what you are doing with Phoebe and Andy.

Well I'm glad she is at Quake and not P3.

WOW, talk about ending your season with a shocker. That is so much better than Piper and Leo being gone, and that the following season begins with Piper missing Leo.

SEASON THREE
Starring Shannen Doherty, Holly Marie Combs and Alyssa Milano
Costarring Brian Krause, Ted King and Julian McMahon

Leo has now been missing for three months and Piper does everything she can to find him or bring him back. When she still can’t find him, she goes on strike, just like she did in the beginning of the original 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 and helps save both the little girl and the fairy. The Elders return Leo, but now his wings are clipped - he is mortal, because whitelighters and charges who fall in love and can’t do their jobs aren’t allowed to be together - and unlike the original, he never gets them back.

But because my Elders are truly good, as well as just, they thank Leo for everything he did during his 80 years as a whitelighter by having the Angel of Destiny give Leo back the life he would’ve lived had he not died in World War II - as far as the world is concerned, he has always been a full-fledged doctor with his own clinic, caring for patients who can’t afford to pay others.

The following episodes are similar to the early ones in the original Season Two that didn’t include Leo, but with Leo playing Dan’s role, while continuing to use his knowledge that came from being a whitelighter for 80 years to help the Charmed Ones protect the innocent. Piper falls for this Leo even harder than she had for the whitelighter, because they can now have a semi-normal relationship, and we never again hear Piper whine about wanting a normal life.

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 villains that we saw in the original Season Two, even as they happily plan their wedding, which will include both a hand-fasting and a big church wedding.

We also see another villain, one of the two Big Bads of the series, 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 District Attorney Cole Turner [Julian McMahon], and he returns the favor. But when he asks her out, she refuses. Only after she meets Cupid [Michael Riley Burke] and becomes his ring, does she open her heart and accept Cole's offer.

They fall madly in forbidden love even as he tries to kill Piper and Phoebe with the Triad's help, while trying to turn Prue evil. The season plays out like the original Season Three did with Prue taking Phoebe’s role, until she finds out that Belthazor [Michael Bailey Smith] is actually Cole.

Unlike the original Phoebe, Prue doesn’t lie to her sisters and instead joins them in trying to vanquish Belthazor who they now know is actually Cole, no matter how much the idea breaks her heart. But he escapes and then he tries everything he can to get back with Prue, just like in the original Season Three and Five without him being either crazy or invulnerable with sometimes crazy, other times heart-breaking results.

Finally she agrees to let him back into her life if he turns good for her. He agrees and pretends to be good, even as he continues to try to turn her evil.

In the season finale, Andy and Phoebe are hand-fasted in front of family and friends, but right after Grams tells Andy to kiss his bride, Shax [Michael Bailey Smith] attacks. The Charmed Ones vanquish Shax, but in the process, they are exposed.

Unlike the original, the Charmed Ones stick together – unlike the original Phoebe, Prue has never considered the idea of a potion to turn Cole good – she’s still determined to turn him good all by herself no matter if he wants to (he doesn’t - unlike the original Cole, he's not half-human/half-demon, but instead is a warlock who wants to kill the Charmed Ones so he can steal their powers) or not, except for Prue who he wants to turn into another warlock, since as the oldest Charmed Ones, she would make a very powerful warlock.

When things go from bad to worse and Piper is shot, Phoebe and Leo take Piper to the hospital where Piper dies even as Phoebe and Leo are shot by the snipers.

Meanwhile, Prue summons Cole and tells him to have Tempus turn back time so she can save her sister and best friend. He agrees to do this only if he can have what he wants.

A deal is struck - time is reset by Tempus after Prue stays in the Underworld and joins the dark side, including drinking the Seer’s [Debbi Morgan] potion which truly turns her evil.

Again the hand-fasting takes place, but Phoebe, whose powers has helped her remember what happened before, insists that just the family of the Charmed Ones attend. Phoebe is upset that her big sister isn’t there, but insists that the hand-fasting takes place. Again no sooner does Grams tell Andy to kiss his bride than Shax attacks and because without Prue, the Charmed Ones can’t even ward him off, everyone is hurt, and Piper and Phoebe, who have been thrown through the wall, appear dead.

Good use of Leo.

I'm so glad Prue doesn't lie to her sisters.

What a season finale. I didn't care much for the original, apart from admiring the acting and directing.

SEASON FOUR
Starring Shannen Doherty, Holly Marie Combs and Alyssa Milano
Costarring Brian Krause, Ted King and Julian McMahon
(The WB has warned me that unless I stop all the bad publicity being generated due to the bad blood between Shannen and Alyssa, they will pull the plug on the series. Rather than firing someone, I announce to the actresses that this will be the last season, and Shannen and Alyssa agree that they can act like friends for one season, especially because the plot will be set up so they won’t have many scenes together.)

The season starts where we left off. Prue is now evil and in the Underworld with Cole. Piper and Phoebe are near-death. Leo, who also appeared near-death, wakes up and is able to stabilize Piper and Phoebe using his doctor skills instead of the supernatural abilities he no longer has before calling 911.

Once the sisters are out of the hospital, and after Phoebe and Andy have their big church wedding, they try to rescue Prue and instead find that she doesn't want to be rescued; that she's enjoying being evil, made worse each time she drinks more of the Seer's potion.

With Prue at his side, Cole has stopped pretending and instead they raise hell. Prue manages to turn the entire magical community against her sisters just like the Jenkinses did in the original Season Eight.

Cole and Prue now proclaim themselves the leaders of the Underworld, but the evil denizens have gone for centuries without any leaders and don't like that idea now, so Prue and Cole have to put down a few revolts while Piper and Phoebe struggle to save innocents with only a power of two and the need to overcome their personal feelings regarding what they should to do about Prue and Cole, unable to bring themselves to vanquish their sister, even if she is now evil. The danger is more real than ever because Piper and Phoebe have to find a way to avoid high-level demons, since they are short one in the Power of Three.

Eventually Cole and Prue put down all of the revolts and are crowned Leaders of the Underworld in a ceremony much like the one in the original Season Four. with the Grimoire and all. Cole then sends his most powerful minions after Piper and Phoebe, attacking them personally and playing on their weaknesses.

In the midst of all of this, Phoebe graduates from college and begins working at the police station with Andy. They don’t try for children at all due to the danger that’s swirling around them.

Instead, it’s Prue who finds herself five months pregnant, so not certain what the Seer's potion will do to her child, she stops drinking it, which lets her sisters finally be able to reach her, like the original ones did with Billie and with Evil Phoebe.

With the Power of Three reunited, they are able to vanquish Shax again, but not Cole. Their bond as sisters has been broken and they can’t vanquish Cole that easily. As the season ends, he tells them that he's going to come back for his son, his heir.

Your Dream Charmed your rules. Don't I wish this really happened.

Isn't the oldest sister being evil so much more fun.

This really would be scary to think about. Piper and Phoebe being left to fend for themselves this way is scary.

Well I'm glad Phoebe took her time properly to do college. One year is not how long it takes to a degree right?

SEASON FIVE
Starring Shannen Doherty, Holly Marie Combs and Alyssa Milano
Costarring Brian Krause, Ted King and Julian McMahon
(“Charmed” has received higher ratings during Season Four than ever before, the highest any cable series has ever received, even higher than most network shows, and even won a number of Emmies, including one for Charmed as best drama and me as best executive producer—hey, it’s my Dream Charmed, so if I’m going to dream, I’m going to dream big!

Thanks to this, the WB wants the actresses to sign new four-year contracts. But Shannen is getting bored and wants to move on, even though both Holly Marie and Alyssa want to continue the series and sign their new contracts. Shannen agrees to stay for one more season as long as I agree to let her do a lot more directing. We also agree that since this will be her final season, I will give her character the great send-off her fans deserve.

Julian also agrees to sign a new one-year contract before starting filming on “Nip Tuck", but that will be it. Both agree to do guest appearances, but only if their character is truly needed.)

Piper and Phoebe are still having a hard time trusting Prue, and this trust is made far worse by the fact that Prue is still pregnant with Cole's child, and despite the fact that they beg her to get rid of it, she refuses because she already loves her unborn child. This weakens their bond and makes them vulnerable until halfway through the season when they finally forgive one another.

Their bond becomes complete when Phoebe tells Prue that she’s also pregnant, and Piper tells her that she and Leo are going to be married and despite Prue’s advanced pregnancy, she wants Prue to be her matron of honor.

Cole eventually accepts the fact that Prue is done with him, especially when he finds out that she plans to keep their child away from him, while he still wants to raise his son as his evil heir. He kidnaps the sisters and has the Seer try to steal the child, but unlike the original, that doesn't work and the sisters are able to escape with Prue still pregnant.

Near the end of the season, Leo and Piper are first hand-fasted by Grams and then married in a small church wedding just as Prue goes into labor. She gives birth to the child, but rather than the son who Cole expected, it’s a girl who she names Patricia Victoria Halliwell after her parents, and who the sisters call Trish.

In the season finale, they convince Grams to perform a wiccaning so the baby has a chance to be good. Grams agrees only if the sisters agree to let her first bind her powers until she’s old enough to handle them…whatever they might be. Grams wants to cast the same spell she used on the sisters after the happenings of "That Seventies Episode", which will not only bind her powers, but also keep her off of Evil's radar until when and if her powers are unbound.

Right in the midst of her casting the spell, Cole appears, trying to prevent this and the wiccaning from happening to his daughter. But he knows the Charmed Ones too well. With him he has an innocent and he has an athame to her throat. He tells Prue either give him his daughter who he will rename Elizabeth Turner after his own mother, or he'll kill the innocent. The sisters are in a quandry, especially Prue - she can't give away her daughter to Cole to be raised evil, but she can't allow an innocent to be killed just so Trish will be saved. After a bit (with Cole taunting her during all of this), Prue decides what to do.

She has Piper freeze Cole and then she uses her TK to throw the innocent across the floor, although this knocks the innocent out. Then Prue begins chanting the spell the sisters had tried before, but hadn't succeeded because their bond wasn't strong enough. But now it is and it succeeds in vanquishing Cole, but the power of the vanquish throws them across the room before the flames from the vanquish rush towards their innocent. Although it won't reach the sisters, it will kill the innocent.

Piper tries freezing it, but she can’t. Instead Prue, whose power to move thing with her mind has grown over the years, especially while she was evil, is able to use her power to keep it back, telling her sisters to grab their innocent and run. They beg her not to do this, but Prue tells them to take good care of Trish for her.

Crying, Piper and Phoebe grab their innocent and then run out of the door just as Prue is no longer able to hold back the flames. Piper and Phoebe quickly return with fire extinguishers and put out the flames, but it's much too late to save Prue.

Grams’ ghost returns and first she finishes binding Trish's powers and then wiccans her. Then, even as Piper and Phoebe cry over their lost sister's burnt body, Grams helps Prue’s ghost make the crossing to the other side, where we see Patty [Finola Hughes] welcome her, as the season ends.

Knew it! I predicted the wedding would have something bad happen, and Prue may go into labor during it.

I can't begin to tell you how shocked I was reading this.

This actually scared me so much reading how Prue died. I was in shock!!!!

SEASON SIX
Starring Holly Marie Combs, Alyssa Milano and Rose McGowan as “Paige”
Costarring Brian Krause, Ted King, Oded Fehr and Ivan Sergei.
(Alyssa’s agent isn’t happy about her not having the lead credit now that Shannen is gone, but she’s under contract...They continue to be listed in the order of the Charmed Ones’ ages.)

Piper and Phoebe are mourning their sister, and Andy and Leo are also broken up while trying to comfort their wives. Piper uses Trish to try to cast a “find a lost witch” spell and it plays out just like the original “Charmed Again” with a couple of major exceptions.

First, Piper doesn't try this until the third episode - the first two are dedicated to letting Piper and Phoebe (and Prue's fans) remember and mourn their sister (the funeral is full of flashbacks) before being forced to accept another one.

Second, we do get a chance to get to know Paige [Rose McGowan], but only as the innocent who Prue saved during the Season Five finale, including seeing her at the funeral, not due to the spell but due to the fact that she wants to be able to thank Prue for saving her life...unknown to the Charmed Ones or Cole, the innocent Prue saved is their youngest sister.

The other difference is that unlike the original, the Elders have always known about Paige - they knew when Patty was pregnant. They were the ones who wanted her kept away from her sisters since they knew that the power of four would be too much and kill all four sisters. They also wanted her power to orb (her only power at birth, given to her by the Elders when Patty became pregnant with her, just like what happened with the Halliwells - they didn't give her any Halliwell powers since the Halliwells already had all three and were doing all they could to make sure there would never be a power of four since without one of those powers, Paige could never become Charmed) bound in order to protect her from Evil and to keep her from exposing magic. Like I've said before, my Elders are both good and just...

Meanwhile, Phoebe is so upset by Prue's death that she ends up miscarrying her baby, which also upsets Andy. This puts a huge strain on his and Phoebe's relationship, and they decide to separate for now while considering divorce. Phoebe even quits the force so she doesn’t have to work with him.

Once the sisters do reconstitute the Power of Three - similar to "Charmed Again", but starting when Paige appears at the door, although different since there is no Shax or Source and because this is three episodes into the season - the Elders give Paige Prue's power to move things with her mind, which works exactly as Prue's did (and like Prue, she never gets the power of astral projection). Her power to orb remains her only whitelighter power - she is just the daughter of a whitelighter who has been given one of his powers; she's not a whitelighter herself since she's not dead. Meanwhile Piper continues to just have the power to freeze molecules and Phoebe continues to just have the power to see both the past and the future. There have been upgrades, but only in control and distance, not in different powers.

Meanwhile, the denizens of the Underworld have gotten used to having leaders. During the first couple of episodes, with Cole vanquished and Prue gone, they battle each other for supremacy, but no one is truly strong enough to take over as Cole and Prue did. Finally, around the same time that the Power of Three is reconstituted, the Seer talks them into releasing the previous leader who was imprisoned centuries ago after a revolt. He is the other main Big Bad of the series.

Zankou [Oded Fehr], another warlock, wants to stop this new set of Charmed Ones before they can become too powerful, but Paige chooses to be with her newly-found half-sisters, and Zankou leaves…for now.

Instead, during the rest of the season we constantly see him in the background, wearing various disguises, but watching the sisters and plotting.

Meanwhile Leo’s practice has become very successful as he continues to help people who need it but can’t afford it, while Piper has decided that life is too short to stay with a job she hates, so she quits and uses the money she made as a manager to open up her own restaurant, which she names P4 after her and her three sisters, and it’s a huge success.

At the same time, Piper and Phoebe are determined to keep their niece – the only piece of Prue that they have left – safe to the point of interfering with their destiny of protecting innocents.

Paige feels like an outcast in the family and feels like they only need her to take Prue's place in the Power of Three, which causes her to grow close to her best friend Henry [Ivan Sergei] and they take things to the next level.

Halfway through the season, Paige finally confronts her sisters about her feelings, and they have an emotional blowout where they finally truly accept her as part of the family, and offer her the chance to move into Prue’s old room. For the first time, they also let her hold her niece and spend some time with the little girl.

The new Charmed Ones’ bond finally becomes strong, and they’re finally able to vanquish high-level demons, something they couldn’t do before—they could make them vanish like the original Prue and Piper did to Shax during “All Hell Breaks Loose”, but they couldn’t vanquish them.

The season ends with Phoebe and Andy no longer able to stand being apart. They plan to meet up, and Phoebe arrives to find Andy dead by Zankou's hands. Zankou smiles evilly at her and us before flaming away.

Very creative and I love it. I like this set-up because it becomes history repeats. Prue lost her mother, now her daughter is rasied by her aunts. I really LOVE this set-up with children. Love she's a girl, that is a must to me.

Well at least the innocent isn't somebody nobody cares about, very good.

Poor Phoebe, but I love how you are writing. This story I find very interesting and so in touch with reality.

I'm so glad you did it three episodes into the season. Truth be told, I don't regard Charmed Again so highly. I can't watch it because it only makes me sad the pacing is so bad, and they rushed Paige's introduction and Prue's death. I don't think it is good outside of acting.

I'm so glad you do powers better than the show. Well done!!!

SEASON SEVEN
Starring Holly Marie Combs, Alyssa Milano and Rose McGowan
Costarring Brian Krause, Ivan Sergei and Oded Fehr

Phoebe is obsessed with getting revenge for Andy’s death, and no one can comfort her until the Avatars turn to her for help in creating Utopia in exchange for having a world where Prue and Andy are still alive, and magical perps aren't part of their everyday life. Phoebe accepts and convinces her sisters to join the cause for a better world.

During the 150th episode, a mysterious young woman [Charisma Carpenter] appears and warns them that the Avatars are not to be trusted. They don't listen to her and Utopia is created without them realizing that free will has been taken away. The woman, who says her name is Chris Perry, turns to the one person who was responsible for starting it all, Phoebe.

With Chris’ help, Phoebe remembers all the losses and what they learned about the wrong thing done for the right reason is still wrong, and she finally admits that taking away the world's free will just so she can have her own little utopia simply isn't right. She sets out to convince her sisters to stop the Avatars. With help from the Elders, and from Prue (who no longer has any powers, since Paige now has hers) and Andy, the war is finally won. Utopia is reversed and the Charmed Ones say goodbye to Andy and Prue in a tearful farewell as they rejoin Patty and Grams in the Afterlife in a scene reminiscent of the ending of the movie “Ghost”.

The Elders try to reward Chris by making her the Charmed Ones’ new charge, something she insists she can’t do; that she must return home, and instead asks to be returned to the Halliwell attic.

Once she’s there, we see a triquetra portal open just as Leo happens to walk into the attic. He wants to know what is going on.

This is when Chris finally admits that she’s from the future which is why she knew when to come back in order to stop the Avatars and prevent the world that she came from from happening.

He asks her who she really is, so after making him promise not to tell the Charmed Ones, she first apologizes for misleading them and then finally admits that Chris isn’t really her name. She is engaged to a phoenix witch named Christopher Perry and she decided to use his name so they wouldn’t suspect that she is actually a future version of Trish. Before he can ask anything else, she steps through the portal and is gone, the end of the 150th episode, the only time "Chris" appears in the series.

The sisters continue with their lives, finally having them back on track. Leo and Piper couldn't be happier. The restaurant is doing well along with Leo's practice, and they’ve finally decided to start trying for children. Paige and Henry are still together and going strong, while Paige is now a full-time social worker who works closely with Henry, a parole officer. Phoebe feels left out but is content taking care of her niece. She has also returned to her police work, keeping her sisters’ focus on protecting innocents, the lesson she re-learned from "Chris".

Then, near the end of the season, Zankou returns. Doing some research, the sisters discover that the only way to prevent Zankou from taking over the Manor and turning the spiritual and wiccan nexus on which the Manor was built into a center for evil is to truly sacrifice themselves. This is an extremely difficult decision, but even Leo and Henry agree that it’s something that must be done, and the men agree to take good care of little Trish while never unbinding her powers, since they wouldn’t be able to help her handle them.

During the season finale which combines both “Something Wicca This Way Goes” and “Forever Charmed” the Charmed Ones risk their lives in a big, fiery finale, fully expecting to die, but Paige manages to panic-orb away. Piper and Phoebe are left for dead - the first time any of the Charmed Ones have died except for Prue - but finding the same spell that "Chris" used to come back in time, Paige goes back in time to try to save her half-sisters. She never goes forward in time so we never see any of the Charmed Ones or Leo as old.

Instead Paige finds herself with the earlier versions of the Charmed Ones, from circa Season One or Two, with the three actresses dressed to look like them, like they did during "Pre-Witched". Simply telling them that she is one of their innocents who they saved but that she wants to try to figure a way to save the sisters after a fiery vanquish killed them, Paige gives no clues as to when this happened or which perp they were vanquishing, simply telling them she doesn't want to change the future too much. Prue wants to know if they used the Power of Three spell to protect themselves. Paige, who has never heard of the Power of Three spell, has to admit that she doesn't think so, so Prue suggests they try it. The sisters teach her the simple spell and then Paige thanks all of the sisters before the original Charmed Ones use the spell from "That Seventies Episode" to send her home.

Paige phases back into her body as soon as she arrives - just like time travelers to the future always have - just as the Charmed Ones cast the spell to vanquish Zankou. Even as the flames go towards them, Paige grabs her sisters' hands and start chanting the Power of Three spell. Her sisters join in, even as their hearts ache, thinking that had they remembered it before, Prue might still be alive. The spell protects them from the explosion, which is what killed Piper and Phoebe the first time around, and, of course, is also very similar to the explosion that killed Prue.

In the happy but not sappy ending, we see the sisters six months later. Piper now pregnant with her own child, Phoebe holding Trish, and Paige showing off her new engagement ring, decide to write down all the things that went on since Piper and Phoebe became witches, so that they can pass it onto the next generation. As they walk up the stairs towards the attic and the Book of Shadows, they stop to reminisce about the various pictures on the wall:

• Paige and Henry’s brand-new engagement picture
  
  
• Piper and Leo’s wedding picture
  
  
• Phoebe and Andy’s wedding picture
  
  
• a picture of the sisters hanging out at P4
  
  
• a picture of Leo standing in front of his practice
  
  
• a picture of Paige standing in front of South Bay Social Services
  
  
• a picture of Phoebe standing in front of the San Francisco Police Department
  
  
• a picture of Prue holding a newborn Trish
  
  
• a picture of Piper inside Quake
  
  
• a picture of Prue inside her Buckland’s office
  
  
• a frame showing various old pictures of Paige at various ages with her adopted parents and with Henry
  
  
• a frame showing various old pictures of the Halliwells at various ages with Grams, Patty, Victor [James Read] and Andy.
  
  
• the picture of the original Charmed Ones that Grams took the day she died.

As the Charmed Ones open the door to the attic and pass through, closing the door, the camera goes back to the picture Grams took of the original Charmed Ones.

Then there’s a bit of magic and Paige becomes part of it, too, which is the end of the season.

The best set-up for a final season. Too bad the real show got so soft, and wasn't bold to kill Leo off.

WOW just Wow this is SO good. I was getting excited on my flight. Paige finding an earlier set of Charmed Ones, that is better than a poor effort using Piper, Grams and Patty.

SEASON EIGHT
(Yeah, there’s a Season Eight, sort of – because the WB demanded an eighth season to set up a spin-off, even as Season Seven was filming. But as “Charmed”'s executive producer I refused to do that, especially when Holly, Alyssa, and especially a very unhappy Rose all want a break. So after the success of "Chris" aka adult Trish during the 150th episode (I received more email about her than any other character introduced during the series), I offered an alternative and the WB took me up on it.

So instead of airing an eighth season but with the stars still under contracts, “Charmed”’s spin-off, “Charmed – the Next Generation” with a whole new theme song and a whole new cast, debuts in the same time slot. It stars Charisma Carpenter as Trish, along with her cousins, but their names and their powers and even their parents will be up to the new executive producer, since I retire before it gets going, since I have absolutely no interest in it, and would rather let someone who *is* interested decide what to do with the characters.

But before I retire, I release an unhappy Rose McGowan from her contract, so Paige will not be part of the spin-off, only as a very occasional guest star. In order to do that, Paige will be dead in the spin-off, only appearing as a ghost, meaning there are no longer any Charmed Ones, which allows the next generation to take over.

Holly, Alyssa, Brian and Ivan all want to be part of the new series, but only as recurring guest stars, giving them the break away from all things Charmed that they want while still being part of it. They would then have a choice whether to sign a new contract after the first season is over (if it's a success, of course, and naturally in my dream world, it would be), and that would help decide what happens to their characters.

But what actually happens is all up to the new executive producer...)

So?? What do you think of *this* version???

Great job, a lot here that was great. 

[piperdan]

I wish...my laptop is discharged and my charger broke so I'm reduced to my iPad

[Sasha]

Mar 16, 2018 22:18:16 GMT -5 piperdan said:

I wish...my laptop is discharged and my charger broke so I'm reduced to my iPad

Believe me, I know how it is using a non-computer or laptop device. It can get tricky replying using an iPad or Smartphone. Especially when formatting is difficult. 

Laptop chargers too are always pretty useless, they never seem to have a long-lasting life. I find that after a few years my Laptop doesn't seem to last very long without a charger, the battery life decreases with age. And I'm useless trying to find a new one and get help. 

[piperdan]

I've ordered a new one but it takes time so I'm stuck with my phone and iPad till then. But I'll try to space out my season 2

[Sasha]

Mar 16, 2018 22:55:06 GMT -5 piperdan said:

I've ordered a new one but it takes time so I'm stuck with my phone and iPad till then. But I'll try to space out my season 2

Great news! 

[Esmeralda]

Mar 16, 2018 22:21:59 GMT -5 Sasha said:

Mar 16, 2018 22:18:16 GMT -5 piperdan said:

I wish...my laptop is discharged and my charger broke so I'm reduced to my iPad

Believe me, I know how it is using a non-computer or laptop device. It can get tricky replying using an iPad or Smartphone. Especially when formatting is difficult. 

Laptop chargers too are always pretty useless, they never seem to have a long-lasting life. I find that after a few years my Laptop doesn't seem to last very long without a charger, the battery life decreases with age. And I'm useless trying to find a new one and get help. 

Ah! Since I don't have a smartphone (only a dumbphone, like the communicators on Star Trek, which I only use as a substitute payphone since they don't exist in our city any more), I didn't know how hard it is to turn long posts into paragraphs. Another reason to never get a smartphone - that would drive me crazy!

Just for you, I'm going to space it out for you.

Mar 16, 2018 20:52:23 GMT -5 piperdan said:

Ok so:

Season 1:

Ok I mostly loved Season 1 but I would have had Rex and Hannah as the main villains for this season.

The show starts off with Melinda Warren burning at the stake and then flashes forward to the lives of Prue, Piper and Phoebe. The beginning starts off like the original with them receiving their powers. Rex and Hannah bring warlocks and demons to attack the witches and steal their powers. Jeremy, Javna, Matthew Tate via that locket. Aviva is also a demon in this who is disguised as an innocent.

Leo comes in as a handyman but when he is attacked by a darklighter while protecting an innocent, he is forced to come out and tell the sisters. Phoebe and Piper have their friendly little competition and Phoebe ends up falling for Leo and vice versa. Phoebe, Piper and Prue switch powers. Prue gets the power to freeze while Piper can throw things. Phoebe using her love heals Leo and they manage to save the innocent.

Rex and Hannah realising that their plans have been failing cast a bad luck curse on the Charmed Ones. Prue is framed for stealing and the Power of Three is broken apart as all evidence points Prue as guilty. Piper, Phoebe and Leo hire a lawyer but the lawyer is also a demon and they are unable to free Prue. Demons continue to attack and Piper and Phoebe are having a hard time without Prue.

Rex reveals himself and makes his offer. Piper and Phoebe seeing no other choice temporarily break Prue out and they go to give their powers to Rex. Leo saves them once again and they manage to vanquish Rex and Hannah. The season ends.

I *really* like how you did this, even as I wish you'd made all of the demons warlocks and had skipped Hannah and just had Rex as the bad guy (can't STAND Hannah, while Rex is one of the villains who I love to hate!)

I'm a bit confused. Was the power switch just for that one episode, like in in 'Love Hurts' or for the entire series? It would make an interesting series for them to be switched, especially if you still have Prue die.

But VERY good job - can't wait to read Season Two. If you just want to do it as one paragraph and have me divide it up until you get your charger, it would be my pleasure!

[Esmeralda]

Mar 16, 2018 22:17:47 GMT -5 Sasha said:

Mar 14, 2018 21:02:23 GMT -5 Esmeralda said:

And just because mine is way back on Page 2, I'm going to go ahead and re-post it for anyone who hasn't seen it. Would love to know what you think of it.

Ever since I copied that post from the other board, I've been having fun using the ideas in it to modify my own Dream Charmed....with Children. I also shared it with some of my friends and they helped me make it come even closer to that, and I think I finally have it.

Like I said above, what I *really* liked was his idea of showing what was going on in the "real world" and letting what actually happened influence my decisions.

Like before this is MY Dream version of Charmed IF

• You have to have a sister die... and three sisters end up still alive at the end.
  
  
• There has to be children.
  
  
• Dead men can sire children.
  
  
• Demons can mate with mortals.

See what you think:

Very interesting rules you set. Thumbs up to you.

SEASON ONE
Starring Shannen Doherty, Holly Marie Combs and Alyssa Milano
Costarring Carlos Gomez and Brian Krause

My Dream Charmed begins the series by showing the townspeople of Salem, MA getting ready to hang Melinda Warren [Tyler Layton] as a witch as she tells them her vision of the future Charmed Ones. Even as she drops, we cut to modern-day San Francisco.

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

Prue [Shannen Doherty] has never had a boyfriend because she closed her heart after the death of her mother. Instead she’s been taking care of her sisters and Grams [Jennifer Rhodes]. Roger [Matthew Ashford] isn’t her fiancé but just her supervisor, who is fired after her boss finds out that he stole her ideas, so he make her one of the Buckland managers instead. Just like the original, she’s a bit stiff, a bit strait-laced, but loosens up as the season goes along, as she feels sympathy for the innocents they are saving and anger at the villains (both male and female, both magical and non-magical) who are after them.

Piper [Holly Marie Combs] is the same as the original, except that she was never a banker…she didn’t have to be, since Prue was the one who took care of Grams, so since graduation from high school, she has always worked at Quake, even when she was at cooking school. Otherwise, no need to change her or her and Leo’s [Brian Krause] story. Just like the original, she’s the one who least wants to be a witch, but goes along with her sisters, especially when she sees how much their powers can help people.

Although Phoebe [Alyssa Milano] was the wild child and moved away to New York after Grams’ death, she found herself there and now wants to go back to school, the reason why she moves back in with her sisters. Just like the original, she’s the one who finds the Book of Shadows and says the spell that activates their magic, and she’s the one most fascinated with magic.

The other major difference is that Andy is not part of this first season. Instead Inspector Rodriguez [Carlos Gomez], a warlock, spends the whole season trying to expose the Charmed Ones, working with the various magical villains to try to frame the Charmed Ones for crimes by placing them at the scene where innocents that he himself killed died.

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, while Prue treats them like two children who should be sent to their rooms - the season is pretty much the same.

But this season also deals with the theme that with great powers comes great responsibility, something that is important for the sisters to learn right away, before they start having relationships - that protecting innocents must always come before their personal lives - if it doesn't, they will either lose their powers or lose their lives.

After the Charmed Ones first receive their powers, they use them to protect innocents but also use them to punish people they think have done wrong. At the end of the season, the Elders send them to a future similar to “Morality Bites”, where all three sisters are arrested for being witches and will be burnt the next day by Prosecutor Rodriguez, not Nathaniel Pratt.

While in the future, the Charmed Ones discover that Rodriguez is a warlock, even as they learn that magic is to be used to protect the innocent, not punish the guilty. Once they learn their lesson - and unlike the original series, they won't forget it - they are transported back to their present just as each of them begins to feel the agony of the fire. There, when Rodriguez shows up to arrest them for some trumped-up charge, the Charmed Ones vanquish him.

This is also when the Angel of Destiny shows up. Now that the Halliwells finally realize just what they are in for, they are given the option of keeping their powers or losing them and forgetting that they ever had them, as has happened with other sets of three sisters descended from Melinda Warren. But despite what happened in the future, this set of sisters agree that they’re going to have to stick together through it all. All of their petty disagreements with each other are forgotten as they agree to continue to walk towards their destiny.

I'm SO VERY glad you got the history of witches right. Hanged not burn!

Already liking this Prue. What did Prue see in Roger???

Piper's love of cooking needed to be what drove her in the entire series. NOT being owner of a nightclub. Didn't feel like Piper's character to be interested in a club at all.

SEASON TWO
Starring Shannen Doherty, Holly Marie Combs and Alyssa Milano
Costarring Brian Krause, Ted King and Neil Roberts

Andy [Ted King] takes Rodriguez's place as the inspector who works with the sisters, and reunites with his high school sweetheart. He is amazed by how much Phoebe has matured, while Phoebe is just as amazed to find out that her once just-as-wild boyfriend is now a San Francisco inspector. After one of her premonitions helps her and her sisters help him solve one of his most-difficult cases, she decides to change her major in college and starts taking forensic classes, so they continue to work on cases together. She uses her power of premonitions to find out what’s going to happen and her visions of the past (which she gets when she touches one of the pieces of evidence) to find out what has happened. Before saying a word to Andy, she brings the cases home to her sisters, where they are able to figure out how to protect the innocents by getting rid of the perpetrator. If the perp is non-magical (which happens just as often as them being magical), Phoebe helps Andy solve it so that he can arrest the perp. If the perp is magical, the Charmed Ones figure out how to vanquish the perp.

Halfway through the season, Andy discovers Phoebe’s secret. Just like the original, he can accept her as a witch, but not as a wife, until Phoebe almost dies trying to save one of the victims. That’s when Andy realizes that he loves her no matter if she's a witch or not and pops the question, and she gladly accepts.

Meanwhile Piper becomes the manager of Quake, while her relationship with Leo grows more serious, and she starts wondering if a whitelighter can marry his charge. The Elders think they are growing way too close, and this may interfere in their work just like it did with Piper’s mother and her whitelighter – the reason why the rule of whitelighters and witches aren’t allowed to marry was even created.

Piper doesn’t know anything about this – she just knows that she’s falling in love with Leo. The only problem that she can see is when they try to date and Piper discovers that dating a man who is dead and has no identity can definitely be a problem. She continues to bemoan the fact that as a witch she can’t have a normal life.

Meanwhile, Prue's boss from the first season turns out to be a warlock trying to figure out how to steal the sisters' powers now that Rodriguez has failed. Rex Buckland [Neal Roberts] make Prue's job a living hell such as making her work long hours without paying her overtime, constantly setting things up so it appears that she has either stolen items or embezzled funds, sending her to clients that he knows are magical bad-guys, etc. until he finally team up with Tempus [David Carradine] at the end of the season.

The season finale plays out much as it did in the original Charmed’s Season One finale, with Rex taking Rodriguez’ spot, except no one intervenes. Each time the Charmed Ones keep missing out on the fact that it's Rex who is the warlock working with Tempus. Also, rather than a Charmed One or Andy, it’s an innocent who dies during each time loop.

The Elders realize what is happening and summon Leo to them, telling him what’s going on. They also warn him that he must stop seeing Piper or suffer the consequences, because the Elders’ fears have come true – Piper and Leo’s emotions, and the fact that they keep trying to protect each other, is the reason why it's the innocent who keeps dying rather than one of the Charmed Ones.

But Leo can’t let Piper die. He orbs in and interrupts the time loop. Even though he helps the Charmed Ones vanquish Rex and save the innocent, Leo is forced away, just like in “Magic Hour,” which is the last scene in the season. (Nope, in my dream series, the season doesn’t always end with the door closing…)

I'm glad Andy has shown up. Very interesting you decided to wait until season 2. But this sounds very exciting to me with what you are doing with Phoebe and Andy.

Well I'm glad she is at Quake and not P3.

WOW, talk about ending your season with a shocker. That is so much better than Piper and Leo being gone, and that the following season begins with Piper missing Leo.

SEASON THREE
Starring Shannen Doherty, Holly Marie Combs and Alyssa Milano
Costarring Brian Krause, Ted King and Julian McMahon

Leo has now been missing for three months and Piper does everything she can to find him or bring him back. When she still can’t find him, she goes on strike, just like she did in the beginning of the original 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 and helps save both the little girl and the fairy. The Elders return Leo, but now his wings are clipped - he is mortal, because whitelighters and charges who fall in love and can’t do their jobs aren’t allowed to be together - and unlike the original, he never gets them back.

But because my Elders are truly good, as well as just, they thank Leo for everything he did during his 80 years as a whitelighter by having the Angel of Destiny give Leo back the life he would’ve lived had he not died in World War II - as far as the world is concerned, he has always been a full-fledged doctor with his own clinic, caring for patients who can’t afford to pay others.

The following episodes are similar to the early ones in the original Season Two that didn’t include Leo, but with Leo playing Dan’s role, while continuing to use his knowledge that came from being a whitelighter for 80 years to help the Charmed Ones protect the innocent. Piper falls for this Leo even harder than she had for the whitelighter, because they can now have a semi-normal relationship, and we never again hear Piper whine about wanting a normal life.

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 villains that we saw in the original Season Two, even as they happily plan their wedding, which will include both a hand-fasting and a big church wedding.

We also see another villain, one of the two Big Bads of the series, 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 District Attorney Cole Turner [Julian McMahon], and he returns the favor. But when he asks her out, she refuses. Only after she meets Cupid [Michael Riley Burke] and becomes his ring, does she open her heart and accept Cole's offer.

They fall madly in forbidden love even as he tries to kill Piper and Phoebe with the Triad's help, while trying to turn Prue evil. The season plays out like the original Season Three did with Prue taking Phoebe’s role, until she finds out that Belthazor [Michael Bailey Smith] is actually Cole.

Unlike the original Phoebe, Prue doesn’t lie to her sisters and instead joins them in trying to vanquish Belthazor who they now know is actually Cole, no matter how much the idea breaks her heart. But he escapes and then he tries everything he can to get back with Prue, just like in the original Season Three and Five without him being either crazy or invulnerable with sometimes crazy, other times heart-breaking results.

Finally she agrees to let him back into her life if he turns good for her. He agrees and pretends to be good, even as he continues to try to turn her evil.

In the season finale, Andy and Phoebe are hand-fasted in front of family and friends, but right after Grams tells Andy to kiss his bride, Shax [Michael Bailey Smith] attacks. The Charmed Ones vanquish Shax, but in the process, they are exposed.

Unlike the original, the Charmed Ones stick together – unlike the original Phoebe, Prue has never considered the idea of a potion to turn Cole good – she’s still determined to turn him good all by herself no matter if he wants to (he doesn’t - unlike the original Cole, he's not half-human/half-demon, but instead is a warlock who wants to kill the Charmed Ones so he can steal their powers) or not, except for Prue who he wants to turn into another warlock, since as the oldest Charmed Ones, she would make a very powerful warlock.

When things go from bad to worse and Piper is shot, Phoebe and Leo take Piper to the hospital where Piper dies even as Phoebe and Leo are shot by the snipers.

Meanwhile, Prue summons Cole and tells him to have Tempus turn back time so she can save her sister and best friend. He agrees to do this only if he can have what he wants.

A deal is struck - time is reset by Tempus after Prue stays in the Underworld and joins the dark side, including drinking the Seer’s [Debbi Morgan] potion which truly turns her evil.

Again the hand-fasting takes place, but Phoebe, whose powers has helped her remember what happened before, insists that just the family of the Charmed Ones attend. Phoebe is upset that her big sister isn’t there, but insists that the hand-fasting takes place. Again no sooner does Grams tell Andy to kiss his bride than Shax attacks and because without Prue, the Charmed Ones can’t even ward him off, everyone is hurt, and Piper and Phoebe, who have been thrown through the wall, appear dead.

Good use of Leo.

I'm so glad Prue doesn't lie to her sisters.

What a season finale. I didn't care much for the original, apart from admiring the acting and directing.

SEASON FOUR
Starring Shannen Doherty, Holly Marie Combs and Alyssa Milano
Costarring Brian Krause, Ted King and Julian McMahon
(The WB has warned me that unless I stop all the bad publicity being generated due to the bad blood between Shannen and Alyssa, they will pull the plug on the series. Rather than firing someone, I announce to the actresses that this will be the last season, and Shannen and Alyssa agree that they can act like friends for one season, especially because the plot will be set up so they won’t have many scenes together.)

The season starts where we left off. Prue is now evil and in the Underworld with Cole. Piper and Phoebe are near-death. Leo, who also appeared near-death, wakes up and is able to stabilize Piper and Phoebe using his doctor skills instead of the supernatural abilities he no longer has before calling 911.

Once the sisters are out of the hospital, and after Phoebe and Andy have their big church wedding, they try to rescue Prue and instead find that she doesn't want to be rescued; that she's enjoying being evil, made worse each time she drinks more of the Seer's potion.

With Prue at his side, Cole has stopped pretending and instead they raise hell. Prue manages to turn the entire magical community against her sisters just like the Jenkinses did in the original Season Eight.

Cole and Prue now proclaim themselves the leaders of the Underworld, but the evil denizens have gone for centuries without any leaders and don't like that idea now, so Prue and Cole have to put down a few revolts while Piper and Phoebe struggle to save innocents with only a power of two and the need to overcome their personal feelings regarding what they should to do about Prue and Cole, unable to bring themselves to vanquish their sister, even if she is now evil. The danger is more real than ever because Piper and Phoebe have to find a way to avoid high-level demons, since they are short one in the Power of Three.

Eventually Cole and Prue put down all of the revolts and are crowned Leaders of the Underworld in a ceremony much like the one in the original Season Four. with the Grimoire and all. Cole then sends his most powerful minions after Piper and Phoebe, attacking them personally and playing on their weaknesses.

In the midst of all of this, Phoebe graduates from college and begins working at the police station with Andy. They don’t try for children at all due to the danger that’s swirling around them.

Instead, it’s Prue who finds herself five months pregnant, so not certain what the Seer's potion will do to her child, she stops drinking it, which lets her sisters finally be able to reach her, like the original ones did with Billie and with Evil Phoebe.

With the Power of Three reunited, they are able to vanquish Shax again, but not Cole. Their bond as sisters has been broken and they can’t vanquish Cole that easily. As the season ends, he tells them that he's going to come back for his son, his heir.

Your Dream Charmed your rules. Don't I wish this really happened.

Isn't the oldest sister being evil so much more fun.

This really would be scary to think about. Piper and Phoebe being left to fend for themselves this way is scary.

Well I'm glad Phoebe took her time properly to do college. One year is not how long it takes to a degree right?

SEASON FIVE
Starring Shannen Doherty, Holly Marie Combs and Alyssa Milano
Costarring Brian Krause, Ted King and Julian McMahon
(“Charmed” has received higher ratings during Season Four than ever before, the highest any cable series has ever received, even higher than most network shows, and even won a number of Emmies, including one for Charmed as best drama and me as best executive producer—hey, it’s my Dream Charmed, so if I’m going to dream, I’m going to dream big!

Thanks to this, the WB wants the actresses to sign new four-year contracts. But Shannen is getting bored and wants to move on, even though both Holly Marie and Alyssa want to continue the series and sign their new contracts. Shannen agrees to stay for one more season as long as I agree to let her do a lot more directing. We also agree that since this will be her final season, I will give her character the great send-off her fans deserve.

Julian also agrees to sign a new one-year contract before starting filming on “Nip Tuck", but that will be it. Both agree to do guest appearances, but only if their character is truly needed.)

Piper and Phoebe are still having a hard time trusting Prue, and this trust is made far worse by the fact that Prue is still pregnant with Cole's child, and despite the fact that they beg her to get rid of it, she refuses because she already loves her unborn child. This weakens their bond and makes them vulnerable until halfway through the season when they finally forgive one another.

Their bond becomes complete when Phoebe tells Prue that she’s also pregnant, and Piper tells her that she and Leo are going to be married and despite Prue’s advanced pregnancy, she wants Prue to be her matron of honor.

Cole eventually accepts the fact that Prue is done with him, especially when he finds out that she plans to keep their child away from him, while he still wants to raise his son as his evil heir. He kidnaps the sisters and has the Seer try to steal the child, but unlike the original, that doesn't work and the sisters are able to escape with Prue still pregnant.

Near the end of the season, Leo and Piper are first hand-fasted by Grams and then married in a small church wedding just as Prue goes into labor. She gives birth to the child, but rather than the son who Cole expected, it’s a girl who she names Patricia Victoria Halliwell after her parents, and who the sisters call Trish.

In the season finale, they convince Grams to perform a wiccaning so the baby has a chance to be good. Grams agrees only if the sisters agree to let her first bind her powers until she’s old enough to handle them…whatever they might be. Grams wants to cast the same spell she used on the sisters after the happenings of "That Seventies Episode", which will not only bind her powers, but also keep her off of Evil's radar until when and if her powers are unbound.

Right in the midst of her casting the spell, Cole appears, trying to prevent this and the wiccaning from happening to his daughter. But he knows the Charmed Ones too well. With him he has an innocent and he has an athame to her throat. He tells Prue either give him his daughter who he will rename Elizabeth Turner after his own mother, or he'll kill the innocent. The sisters are in a quandry, especially Prue - she can't give away her daughter to Cole to be raised evil, but she can't allow an innocent to be killed just so Trish will be saved. After a bit (with Cole taunting her during all of this), Prue decides what to do.

She has Piper freeze Cole and then she uses her TK to throw the innocent across the floor, although this knocks the innocent out. Then Prue begins chanting the spell the sisters had tried before, but hadn't succeeded because their bond wasn't strong enough. But now it is and it succeeds in vanquishing Cole, but the power of the vanquish throws them across the room before the flames from the vanquish rush towards their innocent. Although it won't reach the sisters, it will kill the innocent.

Piper tries freezing it, but she can’t. Instead Prue, whose power to move thing with her mind has grown over the years, especially while she was evil, is able to use her power to keep it back, telling her sisters to grab their innocent and run. They beg her not to do this, but Prue tells them to take good care of Trish for her.

Crying, Piper and Phoebe grab their innocent and then run out of the door just as Prue is no longer able to hold back the flames. Piper and Phoebe quickly return with fire extinguishers and put out the flames, but it's much too late to save Prue.

Grams’ ghost returns and first she finishes binding Trish's powers and then wiccans her. Then, even as Piper and Phoebe cry over their lost sister's burnt body, Grams helps Prue’s ghost make the crossing to the other side, where we see Patty [Finola Hughes] welcome her, as the season ends.

Knew it! I predicted the wedding would have something bad happen, and Prue may go into labor during it.

I can't begin to tell you how shocked I was reading this.

This actually scared me so much reading how Prue died. I was in shock!!!!

SEASON SIX
Starring Holly Marie Combs, Alyssa Milano and Rose McGowan as “Paige”
Costarring Brian Krause, Ted King, Oded Fehr and Ivan Sergei.
(Alyssa’s agent isn’t happy about her not having the lead credit now that Shannen is gone, but she’s under contract...They continue to be listed in the order of the Charmed Ones’ ages.)

Piper and Phoebe are mourning their sister, and Andy and Leo are also broken up while trying to comfort their wives. Piper uses Trish to try to cast a “find a lost witch” spell and it plays out just like the original “Charmed Again” with a couple of major exceptions.

First, Piper doesn't try this until the third episode - the first two are dedicated to letting Piper and Phoebe (and Prue's fans) remember and mourn their sister (the funeral is full of flashbacks) before being forced to accept another one.

Second, we do get a chance to get to know Paige [Rose McGowan], but only as the innocent who Prue saved during the Season Five finale, including seeing her at the funeral, not due to the spell but due to the fact that she wants to be able to thank Prue for saving her life...unknown to the Charmed Ones or Cole, the innocent Prue saved is their youngest sister.

The other difference is that unlike the original, the Elders have always known about Paige - they knew when Patty was pregnant. They were the ones who wanted her kept away from her sisters since they knew that the power of four would be too much and kill all four sisters. They also wanted her power to orb (her only power at birth, given to her by the Elders when Patty became pregnant with her, just like what happened with the Halliwells - they didn't give her any Halliwell powers since the Halliwells already had all three and were doing all they could to make sure there would never be a power of four since without one of those powers, Paige could never become Charmed) bound in order to protect her from Evil and to keep her from exposing magic. Like I've said before, my Elders are both good and just...

Meanwhile, Phoebe is so upset by Prue's death that she ends up miscarrying her baby, which also upsets Andy. This puts a huge strain on his and Phoebe's relationship, and they decide to separate for now while considering divorce. Phoebe even quits the force so she doesn’t have to work with him.

Once the sisters do reconstitute the Power of Three - similar to "Charmed Again", but starting when Paige appears at the door, although different since there is no Shax or Source and because this is three episodes into the season - the Elders give Paige Prue's power to move things with her mind, which works exactly as Prue's did (and like Prue, she never gets the power of astral projection). Her power to orb remains her only whitelighter power - she is just the daughter of a whitelighter who has been given one of his powers; she's not a whitelighter herself since she's not dead. Meanwhile Piper continues to just have the power to freeze molecules and Phoebe continues to just have the power to see both the past and the future. There have been upgrades, but only in control and distance, not in different powers.

Meanwhile, the denizens of the Underworld have gotten used to having leaders. During the first couple of episodes, with Cole vanquished and Prue gone, they battle each other for supremacy, but no one is truly strong enough to take over as Cole and Prue did. Finally, around the same time that the Power of Three is reconstituted, the Seer talks them into releasing the previous leader who was imprisoned centuries ago after a revolt. He is the other main Big Bad of the series.

Zankou [Oded Fehr], another warlock, wants to stop this new set of Charmed Ones before they can become too powerful, but Paige chooses to be with her newly-found half-sisters, and Zankou leaves…for now.

Instead, during the rest of the season we constantly see him in the background, wearing various disguises, but watching the sisters and plotting.

Meanwhile Leo’s practice has become very successful as he continues to help people who need it but can’t afford it, while Piper has decided that life is too short to stay with a job she hates, so she quits and uses the money she made as a manager to open up her own restaurant, which she names P4 after her and her three sisters, and it’s a huge success.

At the same time, Piper and Phoebe are determined to keep their niece – the only piece of Prue that they have left – safe to the point of interfering with their destiny of protecting innocents.

Paige feels like an outcast in the family and feels like they only need her to take Prue's place in the Power of Three, which causes her to grow close to her best friend Henry [Ivan Sergei] and they take things to the next level.

Halfway through the season, Paige finally confronts her sisters about her feelings, and they have an emotional blowout where they finally truly accept her as part of the family, and offer her the chance to move into Prue’s old room. For the first time, they also let her hold her niece and spend some time with the little girl.

The new Charmed Ones’ bond finally becomes strong, and they’re finally able to vanquish high-level demons, something they couldn’t do before—they could make them vanish like the original Prue and Piper did to Shax during “All Hell Breaks Loose”, but they couldn’t vanquish them.

The season ends with Phoebe and Andy no longer able to stand being apart. They plan to meet up, and Phoebe arrives to find Andy dead by Zankou's hands. Zankou smiles evilly at her and us before flaming away.

Very creative and I love it. I like this set-up because it becomes history repeats. Prue lost her mother, now her daughter is rasied by her aunts. I really LOVE this set-up with children. Love she's a girl, that is a must to me.

Well at least the innocent isn't somebody nobody cares about, very good.

Poor Phoebe, but I love how you are writing. This story I find very interesting and so in touch with reality.

I'm so glad you did it three episodes into the season. Truth be told, I don't regard Charmed Again so highly. I can't watch it because it only makes me sad the pacing is so bad, and they rushed Paige's introduction and Prue's death. I don't think it is good outside of acting.

I'm so glad you do powers better than the show. Well done!!!

SEASON SEVEN
Starring Holly Marie Combs, Alyssa Milano and Rose McGowan
Costarring Brian Krause, Ivan Sergei and Oded Fehr

Phoebe is obsessed with getting revenge for Andy’s death, and no one can comfort her until the Avatars turn to her for help in creating Utopia in exchange for having a world where Prue and Andy are still alive, and magical perps aren't part of their everyday life. Phoebe accepts and convinces her sisters to join the cause for a better world.

During the 150th episode, a mysterious young woman [Charisma Carpenter] appears and warns them that the Avatars are not to be trusted. They don't listen to her and Utopia is created without them realizing that free will has been taken away. The woman, who says her name is Chris Perry, turns to the one person who was responsible for starting it all, Phoebe.

With Chris’ help, Phoebe remembers all the losses and what they learned about the wrong thing done for the right reason is still wrong, and she finally admits that taking away the world's free will just so she can have her own little utopia simply isn't right. She sets out to convince her sisters to stop the Avatars. With help from the Elders, and from Prue (who no longer has any powers, since Paige now has hers) and Andy, the war is finally won. Utopia is reversed and the Charmed Ones say goodbye to Andy and Prue in a tearful farewell as they rejoin Patty and Grams in the Afterlife in a scene reminiscent of the ending of the movie “Ghost”.

The Elders try to reward Chris by making her the Charmed Ones’ new charge, something she insists she can’t do; that she must return home, and instead asks to be returned to the Halliwell attic.

Once she’s there, we see a triquetra portal open just as Leo happens to walk into the attic. He wants to know what is going on.

This is when Chris finally admits that she’s from the future which is why she knew when to come back in order to stop the Avatars and prevent the world that she came from from happening.

He asks her who she really is, so after making him promise not to tell the Charmed Ones, she first apologizes for misleading them and then finally admits that Chris isn’t really her name. She is engaged to a phoenix witch named Christopher Perry and she decided to use his name so they wouldn’t suspect that she is actually a future version of Trish. Before he can ask anything else, she steps through the portal and is gone, the end of the 150th episode, the only time "Chris" appears in the series.

The sisters continue with their lives, finally having them back on track. Leo and Piper couldn't be happier. The restaurant is doing well along with Leo's practice, and they’ve finally decided to start trying for children. Paige and Henry are still together and going strong, while Paige is now a full-time social worker who works closely with Henry, a parole officer. Phoebe feels left out but is content taking care of her niece. She has also returned to her police work, keeping her sisters’ focus on protecting innocents, the lesson she re-learned from "Chris".

Then, near the end of the season, Zankou returns. Doing some research, the sisters discover that the only way to prevent Zankou from taking over the Manor and turning the spiritual and wiccan nexus on which the Manor was built into a center for evil is to truly sacrifice themselves. This is an extremely difficult decision, but even Leo and Henry agree that it’s something that must be done, and the men agree to take good care of little Trish while never unbinding her powers, since they wouldn’t be able to help her handle them.

During the season finale which combines both “Something Wicca This Way Goes” and “Forever Charmed” the Charmed Ones risk their lives in a big, fiery finale, fully expecting to die, but Paige manages to panic-orb away. Piper and Phoebe are left for dead - the first time any of the Charmed Ones have died except for Prue - but finding the same spell that "Chris" used to come back in time, Paige goes back in time to try to save her half-sisters. She never goes forward in time so we never see any of the Charmed Ones or Leo as old.

Instead Paige finds herself with the earlier versions of the Charmed Ones, from circa Season One or Two, with the three actresses dressed to look like them, like they did during "Pre-Witched". Simply telling them that she is one of their innocents who they saved but that she wants to try to figure a way to save the sisters after a fiery vanquish killed them, Paige gives no clues as to when this happened or which perp they were vanquishing, simply telling them she doesn't want to change the future too much. Prue wants to know if they used the Power of Three spell to protect themselves. Paige, who has never heard of the Power of Three spell, has to admit that she doesn't think so, so Prue suggests they try it. The sisters teach her the simple spell and then Paige thanks all of the sisters before the original Charmed Ones use the spell from "That Seventies Episode" to send her home.

Paige phases back into her body as soon as she arrives - just like time travelers to the future always have - just as the Charmed Ones cast the spell to vanquish Zankou. Even as the flames go towards them, Paige grabs her sisters' hands and start chanting the Power of Three spell. Her sisters join in, even as their hearts ache, thinking that had they remembered it before, Prue might still be alive. The spell protects them from the explosion, which is what killed Piper and Phoebe the first time around, and, of course, is also very similar to the explosion that killed Prue.

In the happy but not sappy ending, we see the sisters six months later. Piper now pregnant with her own child, Phoebe holding Trish, and Paige showing off her new engagement ring, decide to write down all the things that went on since Piper and Phoebe became witches, so that they can pass it onto the next generation. As they walk up the stairs towards the attic and the Book of Shadows, they stop to reminisce about the various pictures on the wall:

• Paige and Henry’s brand-new engagement picture
  
  
• Piper and Leo’s wedding picture
  
  
• Phoebe and Andy’s wedding picture
  
  
• a picture of the sisters hanging out at P4
  
  
• a picture of Leo standing in front of his practice
  
  
• a picture of Paige standing in front of South Bay Social Services
  
  
• a picture of Phoebe standing in front of the San Francisco Police Department
  
  
• a picture of Prue holding a newborn Trish
  
  
• a picture of Piper inside Quake
  
  
• a picture of Prue inside her Buckland’s office
  
  
• a frame showing various old pictures of Paige at various ages with her adopted parents and with Henry
  
  
• a frame showing various old pictures of the Halliwells at various ages with Grams, Patty, Victor [James Read] and Andy.
  
  
• the picture of the original Charmed Ones that Grams took the day she died.

As the Charmed Ones open the door to the attic and pass through, closing the door, the camera goes back to the picture Grams took of the original Charmed Ones.

Then there’s a bit of magic and Paige becomes part of it, too, which is the end of the season.

The best set-up for a final season. Too bad the real show got so soft, and wasn't bold to kill Leo off.

WOW just Wow this is SO good. I was getting excited on my flight. Paige finding an earlier set of Charmed Ones, that is better than a poor effort using Piper, Grams and Patty.

SEASON EIGHT
(Yeah, there’s a Season Eight, sort of – because the WB demanded an eighth season to set up a spin-off, even as Season Seven was filming. But as “Charmed”'s executive producer I refused to do that, especially when Holly, Alyssa, and especially a very unhappy Rose all want a break. So after the success of "Chris" aka adult Trish during the 150th episode (I received more email about her than any other character introduced during the series), I offered an alternative and the WB took me up on it.

So instead of airing an eighth season but with the stars still under contracts, “Charmed”’s spin-off, “Charmed – the Next Generation” with a whole new theme song and a whole new cast, debuts in the same time slot. It stars Charisma Carpenter as Trish, along with her cousins, but their names and their powers and even their parents will be up to the new executive producer, since I retire before it gets going, since I have absolutely no interest in it, and would rather let someone who *is* interested decide what to do with the characters.

But before I retire, I release an unhappy Rose McGowan from her contract, so Paige will not be part of the spin-off, only as a very occasional guest star. In order to do that, Paige will be dead in the spin-off, only appearing as a ghost, meaning there are no longer any Charmed Ones, which allows the next generation to take over.

Holly, Alyssa, Brian and Ivan all want to be part of the new series, but only as recurring guest stars, giving them the break away from all things Charmed that they want while still being part of it. They would then have a choice whether to sign a new contract after the first season is over (if it's a success, of course, and naturally in my dream world, it would be), and that would help decide what happens to their characters.

But what actually happens is all up to the new executive producer...)

So?? What do you think of *this* version???

Great job, a lot here that was great. 

Thank you so very much, Sasha! I'm SO glad you enjoyed it that much!

[Sasha]

Mar 17, 2018 10:51:07 GMT -5 Esmeralda said:

Mar 17, 2018 10:53:30 GMT -5 Esmeralda said:

Mar 16, 2018 22:17:47 GMT -5 Sasha said:

Very interesting rules you set. Thumbs up to you.





I'm SO VERY glad you got the history of witches right. Hanged not burn!

Already liking this Prue. What did Prue see in Roger???

Piper's love of cooking needed to be what drove her in the entire series. NOT being owner of a nightclub. Didn't feel like Piper's character to be interested in a club at all.

I'm glad Andy has shown up. Very interesting you decided to wait until season 2. But this sounds very exciting to me with what you are doing with Phoebe and Andy.

Well I'm glad she is at Quake and not P3.

WOW, talk about ending your season with a shocker. That is so much better than Piper and Leo being gone, and that the following season begins with Piper missing Leo.

Good use of Leo.

I'm so glad Prue doesn't lie to her sisters.

What a season finale. I didn't care much for the original, apart from admiring the acting and directing.


Your Dream Charmed your rules. Don't I wish this really happened.

Isn't the oldest sister being evil so much more fun.

This really would be scary to think about. Piper and Phoebe being left to fend for themselves this way is scary.

Well I'm glad Phoebe took her time properly to do college. One year is not how long it takes to a degree right?

Knew it! I predicted the wedding would have something bad happen, and Prue may go into labor during it.

I can't begin to tell you how shocked I was reading this.

This actually scared me so much reading how Prue died. I was in shock!!!!

Very creative and I love it. I like this set-up because it becomes history repeats. Prue lost her mother, now her daughter is rasied by her aunts. I really LOVE this set-up with children. Love she's a girl, that is a must to me.

Well at least the innocent isn't somebody nobody cares about, very good.

Poor Phoebe, but I love how you are writing. This story I find very interesting and so in touch with reality.

I'm so glad you did it three episodes into the season. Truth be told, I don't regard Charmed Again so highly. I can't watch it because it only makes me sad the pacing is so bad, and they rushed Paige's introduction and Prue's death. I don't think it is good outside of acting.

I'm so glad you do powers better than the show. Well done!!!


The best set-up for a final season. Too bad the real show got so soft, and wasn't bold to kill Leo off.

WOW just Wow this is SO good. I was getting excited on my flight. Paige finding an earlier set of Charmed Ones, that is better than a poor effort using Piper, Grams and Patty.

Great job, a lot here that was great. 

Thank you so very much, Sasha! I'm SO glad you enjoyed it that much!

I had much fun reading it, will have to re-read it one day again. 

[Esmeralda]

Oops! You quoted inside quotes so the story parts all went away.

I HATE that ProBoards does that - it didn't used to!

But I'm glad you like it that much that you want to re-read it again some day. Gotta admit I re-read it quite a bit - just because it *is* my Dream Charmed...with Children. I do the same thing with my real Dream Charmed that only goes three seasons.

And I'm sure the reboot will be nothing like it.

[Sasha]

Mar 17, 2018 22:07:30 GMT -5 Esmeralda said:

Oops! You quoted inside quotes so the story parts all went away.

I HATE that ProBoards does that - it didn't used to!

But I'm glad you like it that much that you want to re-read it again some day. Gotta admit I re-read it quite a bit - just because it *is* my Dream Charmed...with Children. I do the same thing with my real Dream Charmed that only goes three seasons.

And I'm sure the reboot will be nothing like it.

Oops Es, I hate when that happens. 

I can't wait to work on my one time. But the more I read in this thread, the more inspired I am. 

I'm sadly sure the reboot will be nothing as good as what you lay out. But I'd love for the reboot to prove me wrong. I'd be amazed beyond belief if the reboot turns out to be very good and better than a lot of what Classic Charmed did.

But that's a huge stretch because I hold S1-3 so highly in my heart, it will take so much for it to be better than it. A LOT!!

[Esmeralda]

Mar 17, 2018 22:29:54 GMT -5 Sasha said:

Mar 17, 2018 22:07:30 GMT -5 Esmeralda said:

Oops! You quoted inside quotes so the story parts all went away.

I HATE that ProBoards does that - it didn't used to!

But I'm glad you like it that much that you want to re-read it again some day. Gotta admit I re-read it quite a bit - just because it *is* my Dream Charmed...with Children. I do the same thing with my real Dream Charmed that only goes three seasons.

And I'm sure the reboot will be nothing like it.

Oops Es, I hate when that happens. 

I can't wait to work on my one time. But the more I read in this thread, the more inspired I am. 

I'm sadly sure the reboot will be nothing as good as what you lay out. But I'd love for the reboot to prove me wrong. I'd be amazed beyond belief if the reboot turns out to be very good and better than a lot of what Classic Charmed did.

But that's a huge stretch because I hold S1-3 so highly in my heart, it will take so much for it to be better than it. A LOT!!

*nods* Exactly so.

Although since it seems like theirs is more like a S4-8 reboot than an S1-3 one, I'm hoping maybe eventually somebody (not me) will be able to do a fanfic that combines the two of them and makes the best Charmed of all by them fixing all of the errors in Classic Charmed S4-8.

But I very sincerely doubt they'll fix any of the problems, starting with including half-whitelighters and half-demons along with skipping innocents and concentrating on fighting demons.

[Sasha]

Mar 18, 2018 7:22:48 GMT -5 Esmeralda said:

Mar 17, 2018 22:29:54 GMT -5 Sasha said:

Oops Es, I hate when that happens. 

I can't wait to work on my one time. But the more I read in this thread, the more inspired I am. 

I'm sadly sure the reboot will be nothing as good as what you lay out. But I'd love for the reboot to prove me wrong. I'd be amazed beyond belief if the reboot turns out to be very good and better than a lot of what Classic Charmed did.

But that's a huge stretch because I hold S1-3 so highly in my heart, it will take so much for it to be better than it. A LOT!!

*nods* Exactly so.

Although since it seems like theirs is more like a S4-8 reboot than an S1-3 one, I'm hoping maybe eventually somebody (not me) will be able to do a fanfic that combines the two of them and makes the best Charmed of all by them fixing all of the errors in Classic Charmed S4-8.

But I very sincerely doubt they'll fix any of the problems, starting with including half-whitelighters and half-demons along with skipping innocents and concentrating on fighting demons.

I would love to see something like that done. 

I'm with you Es, I'm sure that is what they are going to do.

[fallingsnow6136]

Hey, my Dream Charmed has changed a whole lot from what it was - so can I post again what it is now or...?

[Assassin Witch]

Definitely. Update us on your new thoughts.

[fallingsnow6136]

Okay so my Dream Charmed has changed a lot from what it once was for multiple reasons. One, I am more true to myself and two, growing up changes your view a lot on a lot of things.

S1-3 would be exactly the same as I quite liked them a lot. Season 4 would be the same until the episode 'Long Live the Queen'. Phoebe is at odds with herself: choose Cole and lose her sisters or choose her sisters and lose Cole. Like my story, Prue comes to guide her in the bathroom scene of Long Live the Queen, reminding her of being a protector of the innocent and it leads her to making the tough decision to vanquish Cole. Season 4 ends there.

Season 5 -  Piper has trouble falling pregnant and Phoebe doesn't lose the baby even though she is a constant target for the Seer. Cole does not return. Paige continues her job and is promoted as a social worker. The story follows a monster of the week style, sent by the Seer who aims to become the new Source with the sisters struggling to balance their normal lives. Piper fears she may never get pregnant because of the constant demon attacks. The Seer in a desperate attempt to become the Source and defeat the Charmed Ones kidnaps Phoebe just when she has only few weeks left. The sisters struggle to find her in the Underworld and Phoebe goes into premature labour. Piper and Paige arrive, Phoebe saying the power of three spell (to vanquish the Seer) with them before collapsing when they get home. Baby Prudence 'Prue' is born. This season ends with Witch Way Now?

I might write this as a fanfic so still thinking of Season 6 and Season 7.

[Esmeralda]

Absolutely LOVE this new version of your Dream Charmed, and wouldn't mind if it ended right there!

I hope you decide to write your fanfic.

[fallingsnow6136]

Okay, so finally my versions of the last 3 seasons.

Season 6 -
Okay, so I rather liked the Crone, I thought she was an interesting villain but instead of being after Wyatt (whose technically not born yet), she's after the Power of Three and watches the Charmed Ones from a distance to find their weaknesses. Piper wants a normal life especially because according to the doctor, she may never become a Mom or have her own family with Leo. Phoebe struggles to protect innocents along with being a single Mom and Paige continues to help people through being a social worker and a Charmed One. The Crone teams up with higher level demons (think like Belthazor) in an attempt to capture the Power of Three for herself, bringing back past enemies the Charmed Ones have vanquished to attack them (so Jeremy, Javna, the Grimlocks, Lazarus demon etc.) and distract them, so she can find a way to lower the shield on the Book of Shadows. Leo, being a good whitelighter for a change goes up to the Elders to find out what's going on and finds out more about the Crone, leading the sisters to defeating her, although sustaining a few injuries themselves. As Leo heals Piper though, the Elders add to his power, so Leo can heal internal wounds. The series ends with Piper finding out she's pregnant.

Season 7 - Billie and Christie

I don't like Paige having charges because she's a Charmed One and it doesn't make sense, because she already has a duty plus she helps people through her social work. In this, Billie is a lonely student with psychological issues due to the loss of her sister and is one of Paige's clients. Paige also meets Henry as one of her clients is a parolee as well, who comes to her for rehab. One day, while walking to her car, Paige sees Billie fighting demons and discovers she's a witch. Seeing as her sisters are struggling because Prue is now 1 year old and Piper is pregnant, like in canon, Billie pitches in to help out, with Paige being the one to teach and train her. Billie and Christie are the Ultimate Power and the rest of the season is like canon minus the involvement of the magical community supporting Billie and Christie. Sometime, in this chaos, baby Wyatt is born. I was thinking maybe Piper is kidnapped by the Triad so Christie and the Triad can raise Wyatt as evil. I think personally the magical community would stand by the Charmed Ones, given the history and all. I was also thinking since Prue is now a toddler. Billie, like canon comes to her senses on her own when she realises how corrupted Christie is and they use the Power of Three to kill Christie because she's too corrupted by evil and the binding powers thing doesn't work, cause they did the same with Cole and he ended up becoming the Source and becoming a source of their pain too.

Season 8 - Future Chris

Okay, so since Leo never becomes an Elder, Chris comes back from the future to save his family because Prue has become the new Source of Evil and its divided the Halliwells into factions, and its blown into a full-out war. Chris comes back to make sure his family stays together. He tells Leo the truth about who he is but not the sisters. He doesn't know what turned his cousin evil but basically its the same plot with Gideon because I liked it but they don't know who the true evil is until after a lot of failed guesses and theories. This clearly needs more thinking about too.

[Esmeralda]

I really, really like this, except for your Season 8. I will never understand why a lot of fanfic writers think that Prue would turn evil after her death when I don't see that happening at all. If any Charmed One died and then turned evil, I would see it being either Piper or Phoebe, since unlike Prue and Paige, it always has to be all about them and they'd be jealous of Paige taking their place. Prue would be glad that she can help them continue to protect innocents, since she'd never accept vanquishing the Source as their destiny. If that was the case, she would've turned her back on it in S1.

Your Dream Charmed reminds me of two others, two of my own favorites.

For your Season 6 and 7, it reminds me of a contest that was held at a different site – “Let’s Rewrite Charmed”. It was based on this question – would fans have liked Billie more if she *wasn’t* part of the final season? Astral Echo came up with a great answer to that and then in the contest, we took the ideas and ran with them, coming up with our own plotline for the last part of Charmed.

If anyone recognizes any of this as part of my own Dream Charmeds and other such rewrites, this is where I got those ideas.

SEASON FIVE – THE AVATARS

This season combines the ideas of Season Five with the ideas of Season Seven, starting with Season Five and ending with Season Seven.

Keeping Cole in, as they did, the first half of the season plays out pretty much the same, building up the Avatars a bit more, having them stalk Cole like they did Leo in Canon Season Seven.

Unlike Canon Season Five, Cole is not crazy nor does he stalk Phoebe, nor does Phoebe hate him…she’s just afraid to love him after what happened in Season Four, afraid he’ll turn her evil again, not realizing that it was her own choice. Cole turns to the Avatars to help change the world into one where Phoebe won’t be afraid of him and will love him again. Unfortunately this means he ends up in a world where Phoebe and her sisters aren’t witches and Cole is just a human lawyer. Since he doesn’t like being a powerless human, just like he didn’t in Canon Season Four, he tricks the Avatars into turning the world back to what it was.

With Cole turning his back on the Avatars, they instead turn to Leo – who for pretty much the first time shows he also has a weakness. He sees a world where his wife and his newborn son can be safe, since unlike Canon Wyatt, this Wyatt doesn’t have a protective shield and is not the Twice-Blessed Child – no one is ever more powerful than the combined power of the Power of Three. Instead, as a witchlighter, Wyatt has the same powers Paige does.

Leo follows a similar path to Canon Season Seven, persuading Phoebe, who then shows Piper and Paige the same world that both she and Leo saw. Eventually the sisters and Leo see the error of their ways and team up with the Elders, with Cole playing Brody’s role, including sacrificing himself in order to save Phoebe and her sisters. We see Grams and Patty welcoming him into the Light – Heaven for Cole, not Hell, as he always thought would be his future.

But just like Canon Season Seven, the Elders punish Leo for his part in what happened by turning him mortal.

SEASON SIX: BILLIE

This plays pretty much like Canon Season Eight with the sisters seeing Billie as a way to leave magic behind. Unlike Billie in Canon Season Eight, her only power is TK, which works just like Prue’s. She and her sister are *not* the Ultimate Power – that remains the Power of Three.

Piper has become more engrossed in the club and her family, even considering expanding her business and opening up the restaurant she’s always dreamed of. She wants nothing to do with magic and is very happy to have Leo human, who, just like Canon Season Eight, has become her own little errand boy.

Phoebe is still in deep mourning for Cole and doesn’t even look at another man. Instead she concentrates on her job and her new nephew. She wants nothing to do with Billie, since magic reminds her of Cole.

Paige is left to train Billie (who is *not* her charge – Paige never has any charges since she’s not a whitelighter, which also means she never hears the Elders' jingle), which she wants to do as quickly as possible so she can get back to her own life, since she has become the social butterfly who flits from guy to guy (which would’ve allowed the hunky male guest stars The WB insisted on including), although she’s no Freebie…she doesn’t go to bed with any of them. Unlike Canon Phoebe, she knows that sex does not equal love.

We and Billie can tell how selfish and self-centered the sisters have become – they truly believe that between vanquishing the Source (twice) and saving the world from the Avatars, their work as the Charmed Ones is done and the whole world should be in their debt.

Billie goes in search for her sister, with little help from the Charmed Ones. Christy follows the same path as Canon Season Eight and shows Billie how selfish the Charmed Ones are and turns her against them.

The Elders have also realized how off-track the Charmed Ones have become and sensing a new threat, kidnap Leo, telling Piper that if and when they stop that threat, Leo will be returned to her. This is done without freezing him or the Angel of Destiny being part of it, since Piper is definitely no Leia, so Leo doesn't become Han Solo.

Billie realizes that her sister is the true enemy, but she knows she can't stop all hell from breaking loose yet again all by herself. When she tells the Charmed Ones, Paige is the first to blame herself and her sisters, saying if they hadn’t been so busy with their own lives, they might have noticed that Christy was evil. Piper says they deserve a normal life after all they've been through and Billie can battle her sister all on her own, since once Billie gets rid of Christy, Piper will get Leo back, which is all she's concerned about. Phoebe disagrees and sides with Paige.

Billie tells them that she tried, but she can’t stop Christy – she can’t kill her own sister. She points the Charmed Ones back on the right path and it’s the Charmed Ones who figure out how to save, not vanquish, Christy, which is when Leo is returned to Piper.

Billie gets ready to leave, telling them that her work is done, that in, fact, she knew all along about Christy. She tells them that she was sent by Prue to guide them back on the straight and narrow. Only by nearly losing Leo and their lives could they learn their lesson. They all promise to go back to their true destiny – helping and protecting those innocent of the existence of magic without the Charmed Ones revealing themselves.

In the final scene of the season, we see Billie standing on the steps of the Manor, facing the door. She waves her hand and the door starts to close, but suddenly she changes and her blonde hair becomes a very familiar black bob just before she is orbed back to Heaven, her mission completed, as the door finishes closing.

SEASON SEVEN: CHRIS

In the future, the Elders send Chris back into the past in order to save the world by stopping Wyatt from truly becoming evil by Barbas who is influencing Gideon. Since Leo is still human, Chris is simply a witch with no whitelighter powers.

Also since Leo is still human, he never became (or ever becomes) an Elder, so Chris has no reason to hate him – he actually confides in his father, not only about Piper’s premature death, but also about his phoenix fiancée back home. Leo becomes more like the figure Victor was in Canon Season Six, although of course, Leo is a regular and not a recurring guest star.

This also means that Chris is never the sisters’ whitelighter – he’s pretending to just be someone from the future who needs help – only Leo knows who he truly is – the sisters never find out.

Chris freezes molecules like his mother, which he hides from his family in order to hide his identity, but that he uses when necessary to save the sisters, since his mother has long since forgotten about that power.

There is no “Oh, My Goddess” or “Valhalley of the Dolls” or “Hyde School Reunion” – neither Chris nor any of the sisters are ever murderers or soul thieves. Darryl never has any reason to hate them or to leave.

Instead we see episodes that show what would’ve happened to the sisters had Chris not shown up – and ones that show what has changed now that he has.

With Leo as a human and Chris only as a witch, Wyatt (goaded on by Barbas) has become power-hungry in the future and is now a darklighter, killing everyone with whitelighter powers. Only by Leo dying and once more becoming a whitelighter so that he can properly teach his older son the proper way to use his powers can Wyatt hope to be saved, also allowing Chris to become a witchlighter, too.

Chris convinces Piper that only by letting her husband die so he can follow his own true destiny of being a whitelighter - meaning she will never have a normal life - will her older son not turn evil.

Once Leo becomes a whitelighter again, Chris – his mission accomplished – fades away, even as Piper finds out that she is pregnant again, and Leo tells her that no matter if it's a boy or a girl, they should name the baby Chris - even though he knows it will be another boy.

SEASON EIGHT: ZANKOU

In this season we see the sisters going back to saving those innocent of the reality of magic, while at the same time having more of a normal life than Piper ever dreamed.

She happily prepares for her new baby even as she is having P3 extended into a restaurant, with Leo as her project manager - something the Elders have allowed him to take up professionally, so he also has a semi-normal life, even as he continues to guide the Charmed Ones and his other charges.

Phoebe meets Drake. Unlike Canon Season Seven, he’s not dying. She’s strongly attracted to him but fights it until Cole appears to her and tells her that he sent his friend Drake to her because he wants her to love again. So she and Drake fall in love even as she continues her Charmed duties, finding innocents through her job as Ask Phoebe. He asks her to marry him near the end of the season and she accepts, even though we don't see the wedding since there's no flashforwards in this version.

Paige has gone back to social services and through that meets Henry. She finds him interesting, but never tells him her family secret. We’re left to wonder if that will happen in the future.

Then Zankou shows up…

Rather than the Nexus, he is after an immortality amulet which is hidden in P3. He realizes that the only thing that can stop him is the Power of Three, so he kidnaps the only one who doesn’t have active powers – Phoebe – although the other two manage to free her.

After checking the Book, the sisters risk their lives in a big fiery vanquish, fully expecting to die, but Paige manages to panic-orb away. She goes back in time to save her sisters, never going forward so we never see any of the Charmed Ones or Leo as old. Instead, she gathers Grams and Patty to help save the day. Paige phases back into her own body as soon as the group arrives just like visitors from the future always have.

Patty freezes Zankou as Grams TKs the amulet away from Zankou, and then Piper blows him across the room. Now unprotected by the amulet, the family casts the Source vanquish spell and then the sisters cast the Power of Three spell to protect them all from the explosion (which, of course, is what killed Phoebe and Piper the first time around – the first time any Charmed One has died since Prue’s death).

In our happy ending, Piper, Phoebe and Paige walk down the stairs together, admiring the photographs on the wall as we get flashbacks of the significance of each image, ending with the iconic picture of the original Power of Three. Then there’s a bit of magic and Paige becomes part of it, too.

But if for yours, you have to have a Halliwell turning evil, I much prefer this one:

Feb 20, 2012 9:44:47 GMT -5 patmos said:

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

Take her idea of Pirina and add it to your Season 8 and I'd REALLY love yours almost as much as I love "Let's Rewrite Charmed".