If I was Executive Producer...

[fallingsnow6136]

Oh by Prue, I meant Phoebe's daughter Prue, as in Phoebe and Cole's daughter, sorry should have clarified. Phoebe named her little girl Prudence 'Prue' Halliwell after her sister and since her Dad was the Source of all Evil...

[Esmeralda]

AH! Gotcha! That makes it make a lot more sense - then I REALLY love yours!

[fallingsnow6136]

Thank you <3 I'm writing this as a fanfiction soon and posting it anyway.

[Katie Warren]

Bumping this thread up.


BriannaWarren2.0 I hope you find the other members wonderful ideas as executive producer interesting. 

[Esmeralda]

BriannaWarren2.0

Since you asked in another threaad about what changes I would make if I was in charge, I decided to bring my own "Dream Charmed...with Children" forward. See what you think about this:

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. (I prefer only Paige surviving so she and Leo raise the boys so Wyatt doesn’t turn evil. I’d prefer that keeping them busy so they never marry or have children of their own.)

-There has to be children. (That includes ones coming back from the future; I prefer that they get their own show and don’t take away attention from the stars)

-Dead men can sire children. (Never made sense to me)

-Demons can mate with non-magicals. (Again never made sense to me -I prefer warlocks being able to mate with non-magicals – but witches who murder non-magicals become warlocks and warlocks who save non-magicals become witches – I prefer most of the demons in Charmed to be warlocks, so demons are seen as often as angels are.)

See what you think:

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 Halliwell [Finola Hughes] as a witch as she tells them her vision of the future Charmed Ones. (This way their powers are truly Halliwell powers. I remember reading that originally "Mom" was never supposed to be seen and one of the sisters said Melinda Warren looked like Mom, so I'd love to have seen Finola play both Melinda Halliwell as a blonde and Patty Halliwell as a brunette.)

Even as she drops, we cut to modern-day San Francisco.

The rest of Season One is similar to the canon season 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, Patty Halliwell (Finola Hughes) Instead Prue's been taking care of her grandmother, Penny Halliwell [Jennifer Rhodes] and her two younger sisters.

Roger [Matthew Ashford] isn't her fiancé but just her supervisor at Buckland's (she never worked at the museum…). Roger is fired after the owner, Rex Buckland [Neal Roberts] (and unlike Canon "Rex", he truly is Rex Buckland, not impersonating someone else) finds out that Roger stole Prue's ideas, so Rex makes Prue one of the Buckland managers instead.

Just like Canon Prue, my Dream Prue is 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 in my Dream Charmed, innocents are non-magicals who aren't aware of the reality of magic) 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 Canon Piper, except that she was never a banker…she didn't have to be, since Prue was the one who took care of Penny. This means that since graduation from high school, Piper has always worked at Quake, even when she was at cooking school. She was engaged to Jeremy Burns [Eric Scott Woods], who’s their first demon. Otherwise, no need to change Piper or her and Leo's [Brian Krause] story. Just like Canon Piper, 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 Penny's death, she found herself there and now wants to go back to school and finish her degree, the reason why she moves back in with her sisters. Just like Canon Phoebe, 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 the only cop the Charmed Ones meet in the first season is Inspector Rodriguez [Carlos Gomez]. Rodriguez, not a demon but 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 fiancé – Jeremy - 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 serious relationships - that protecting innocents must always come before their personal lives, and the men in their lives must understand that and accept that - if protecting innocents doesn't come first, 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 they also use them to punish people they think have done wrong. At the end of the season, the Elders send them to an alternate future similar to the one we see in '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 canon 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, telling the sisters that the trip to the alternate future was done so they'd realize just what they are in for. The sisters are given the option of keeping their powers or losing them and forgetting that they ever had them. They're told that this has happened with other sets of three sisters descended from Melinda Halliwell, including Melinda's three daughters who each had one of her powers and the three sisters from 'Pardon My Past', who were sisters, not cousins.

But despite what happened in that alternate future, this set of Halliwell 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.

SEASON TWO

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

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 (which the Elders send her) 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 Canon Andy, 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 makes 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 they know are magical bad-guys, etc. until he finally teams up with Tempus at the end of the season.

The series finale plays out much as it did in Canon 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 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…)

SEASON THREE

Starring Shannen Doherty, Holly Marie Combs and Alyssa Milano
Costarring Brian Krause, Ted King, Julian McMahon and Michael Bailey Smith

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 Canon 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 canon version, 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, someone Piper can truly respect.

The following episodes are similar to the early ones in Canon Season Two that didn’t include Leo, but with Leo playing Dan’s role, while he continues 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 Canon Season Two, even as Phoebe and Andy 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 because unlike Canon Cole, he is a full demon trying to kill the Charmed Ones, he pretends to 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 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 Canon Season Three did with Prue taking Phoebe’s role, until she finds out that Cole is just the mask that Belthazor [Michael Bailey Smith] wears.

Unlike Canon Phoebe, Prue doesn’t lie to her sisters and instead joins them in trying to vanquish Cole who they now know is Belthazor, 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 Canon 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 agrees to 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 Penny tells Andy to kiss his bride, Shax attacks. The Charmed Ones manage to ward off Shax without vanquishing him, but in the process, they are exposed.

Unlike the canon ones, the Charmed Ones stick together – unlike Canon Phoebe, Prue has never considered the idea of a potion to turn Belthazor who she still thinks of as Cole good – she’s still determined to turn him good all by herself no matter if he wants to or not.

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. Belthazor no longer has to appear like Cole – it’s now Belthazor who Prue loves.

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 Penny 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.

SEASON FOUR

Starring Shannen Doherty, Holly Marie Combs and Alyssa Milano
Costarring Brian Krause, Ted King and Michael Bailey Smith

(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. 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, now known as Prudence, at his side, Belthazor no longer even pretends to be Cole and we never see him looking like Cole again. Instead they raise hell. Prudence manages to turn the entire magical community against her sisters just like the Jenkinses did in Canon Season Eight.

Belthazor and Prudence 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 Prudence and Belthazor 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 Prudence and Belthazor, 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 Belthazor and Prudence put down all of the revolts and are crowned Leaders of the Underworld in a ceremony much like the one in Canon Season Four. Belthazor 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 Prudence 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 canon ones did with Billie and with Evil Phoebe.

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

SEASON FIVE

Starring Shannen Doherty, Holly Marie Combs and Alyssa Milano
Costarring Brian Krause, Ted King and Michael Bailey Smith

(“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 character and her fans deserve.)

Piper and Phoebe are still having a hard time trusting Prue, and this trust is made far worse by the fact that Prue is now magically 8-months pregnant with Belthazor's child, even though it’s only been a couple months. 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.

Belthazor 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, including giving him his own demonic alter-ego. Belthazor kidnaps the sisters and has the Seer try to steal the child, but unlike the canon episode, 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 Penny and then married in a small church wedding just as Prue goes into early labor. She gives birth to the child, but rather than the son who Belthazor expected, it’s a girl who she names Patricia Victoria after her parents, and who she and her sisters call Trish.

In the season finale, they convince Penny to perform a wiccaning so the baby has a chance to be good. Penny 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. Penny 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, Belthazor 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 after his own mother, or he'll kill the innocent. The sisters are in a quandary, especially Prue - she can't give away her daughter to Belthazor to be raised evil, but she can't allow an innocent to be killed just so Trish will be saved. After a bit (with Belthazor taunting her during all of this), Prue decides what to do.

She has Piper freeze Belthazor 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 Belthazor, 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.

Penny’s 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, Penny helps Prue’s ghost make the crossing to the other side, where we see Patty welcome her, as the season ends.

SEASON SIX

Starring Holly Marie Combs, Alyssa Milano and Rose McGowan
Costarring Brian Krause, Ted King, Oded Fehr and Jesse Woodrow

(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 Canon ‘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 Belthazor, the innocent Prue saved is their younger half-sister.

The other difference is that unlike Canon Charmed, 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) 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’, although different since there is no Shax or Source and because this is three episodes into the season - Paige now has 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 inherited 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 time and Phoebe continues to just have the power to have premonitions when the Elders grant them and the power to see the past when she touches objects. 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 Belthazor vanquished and Prue gone, they battle each other for supremacy, but no one is truly strong enough to take over as Belthazor 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] 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. They also refuse to let Paige have anything to do with Trish.

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 (she’s right – both Piper and Phoebe do...), which causes her to grow close to her best friend Glen [Jesse Woodrow] 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 Canon 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.

SEASON SEVEN

Starring Holly Marie Combs, Alyssa Milano and Rose McGowan as "Paige"
Costarring Brian Krause, Jesse Woodrow 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, 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 and Andy who are allowed to become corporeal ghosts so they can help, 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 Penny in the Afterlife.

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. With the Avatars in charge, the world was anything but utopia…

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 a form of his name so they wouldn’t suspect that she is actually a future form 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 Glen are still together and going strong, while Paige is now a full-time social worker. 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.

Then, near the end of the season, Zankou returns. Doing some research, they discover that the only way to prevent Zankou from taking over the Manor and turning the wiccan nexus into a center for evil is to truly sacrifice themselves. This is an extremely difficult decision, but even Leo and Glen 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’. She tells them that she’s one of their innocents from the future who they saved, but gives them no clue as to her name or how they met her or when they met her, telling them she doesn’t want to change the future too much. But there is a piece she would like to change – and she tells them she wants to try to figure a way to save the sisters after a fiery vanquish killed them. 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 Paige promises to teach it to the Charmed Ones. Then she 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 starts chanting the Power of Three spell. Her half-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 Glen’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 Glen

-a frame showing various old pictures of the Halliwells at various ages with Penny, Patty, Victor and Andy.

-the picture of the original Charmed Ones that Penny 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 Penny 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 and the series - but could set up a spin-off featuring Trish and any other child. But that's up to the new executive producer since I wouldn't want anything to do with it.

So? What do you think? And if anyone else wants to bring forward their own Dream Charmed or post their own, GO FOR IT!! I LOVE reading them!!

[Jean]

Thanks Es for sharing your Dream Charmed. I sure hope others like it as much as I did when I read it before and even get inspired to do their own.

Always love reading stuff like that.

[stratego]

As for my Dream Charmed, I'm just going to stick to the first three seasons.

I find it a bit difficult to imagine something drastically different, I would just want to improve on what's already there. First, I would keep the same tone as season 1, so more creepiness and less goofiness. And a better wardrobe!

As for the storylines, I wouldn't change anything about the first season, except letting Andy live so he and Darryl can keep solving cases with the help of the sisters. I'm not sure how his relationship with Prue would develop in season 2 and 3, but them becoming a couple would be my endgame.

Prue keeps working at the auction house and photography is introduced as a hobby. If she HAS to switch careers, she only quits at the end of season 2 to become an art and freelance photographer because she's always wanted to CREATE art instead of sell it.

Piper doesn't open a club, but becomes a caterer, still dreaming of opening a restaurant one day, which she does near the end of season 3. The club that Spelling seemed to want so much is simply their new hangout. Leo only sporadically appears in season 2 to ask the Charmed Ones for help, but eventually he can't stay away from Piper and in the finale they become a couple. Leo can't stay a whitelighter, so in season 3 he becomes mortal and tries to adjust to his new life. Some of you suggested he becomes a doctor in a free clinic, which is a great idea. In the end Piper and Leo get married and Dan was nothing more than a short-lived romance.

Phoebe doesn't need to change much, except for the third season. She meets and falls for Cole (I'm personally okay with him being half-demon). Cole is not immediately revealed to be a bad guy. We're still left to wonder what his intentions are. The sisters discover MUCH later than the audience who Cole really is. Because their relationship has gotten way more serious and intense by that time, Phoebe can be manipulated by Cole not to vanquish him. However, Phoebe regrets it almost immediately and soon after tells her sisters the truth. I believe a part of Cole really loves her, but it doesn't matter, Phoebe knows he has to be vanquished.

I would prefer no additional powers, but if they'd insist on it, I would switch Prue and Phoebe's powers. It makes much more sense!

[Elle Em]

Outside of the actual story, I'd film the whole thing in San Francisco. It's such a pretty city, and it would have really added to the atmosphere to have the filming take place there. 

I'd have Piper start an at-home catering business instead of starting a club. I'd have that business grow until it became a small restaurant.

Whitelighters and elders would not exist. I like Leo, so I'd keep him and make him a witch who has healing powers, although he wouldn't be as strong as in the show. Healing would take effort and involve spells and potions. 

I'm not sure of a lot of what I'd like to do, but I mostly know what I wouldn't want. Prue wouldn't die, Phoebe wouldn't become a celebrity, etc. I know that I'd also like the atmosphere to be more like in season 1 over anything. 

[cyma]

Jul 31, 2020 0:24:04 GMT -5 stratego said:

Piper doesn't open a club, but becomes a caterer, still dreaming of opening a restaurant one day, which she does near the end of season 3.

Jul 31, 2020 10:46:42 GMT -5 Elle Em said:

I'd have Piper start an at-home catering business instead of starting a club. I'd have that business grow until it became a small restaurant.

I like these ideas. Piper, who was scared of lighting bolt from the Heavens for entering a church, and her sudden decision to open a nightclub just didn't mix well. Almost all nightclubs on TV shows and movies are associated with things like drugs, shooting, prostitution and a favorite hangout for the criminals for making business deals.

Which makes it a perfect business for Evil Piper in the Mirror World but not the season 1 Piper we got to know.

If the show's producers were so hell bent on showing off musical guest stars, then just get Piper to cater for the place or places where these guests show up.

But honestly, I just didn't care for these musical guest stars. Their music videos are far better than their performances in P3. I would've hired better writers to flesh out the characters and plot instead.

[stratego]

Aug 1, 2020 5:32:29 GMT -5 cyma said:

If the show's producers were so hell bent on showing off musical guest stars, then just get Piper to cater for the place or places where these guests show up.

But honestly, I just didn't care for these musical guest stars. Their music videos are far better than their performances in P3. I would've hired better writers to flesh out the characters and plot instead.

Agreed!

[Melinda Halliwell]

If musical guests had to be shown for whatever reason then Piper's restaurant had she owned one could've had a stage area which provided that or as cyma said Piper could've catered where bands we're playing otherwise then.

[Jean]

Jul 31, 2020 10:46:42 GMT -5 Elle Em said:

Outside of the actual story, I'd film the whole thing in San Francisco. It's such a pretty city, and it would have really added to the atmosphere to have the filming take place there. 

I'd have Piper start an at-home catering business instead of starting a club. I'd have that business grow until it became a small restaurant.

Whitelighters and elders would not exist. I like Leo, so I'd keep him and make him a witch who has healing powers, although he wouldn't be as strong as in the show. Healing would take effort and involve spells and potions. 

I'm not sure of a lot of what I'd like to do, but I mostly know what I wouldn't want. Prue wouldn't die, Phoebe wouldn't become a celebrity, etc. I know that I'd also like the atmosphere to be more like in season 1 over anything. 

It would have been fantastic if they filmed in actual San Francisco than LA. Apart from all the post-credits and stock footage shots of the city, often you noticed LA city scenery in episodes, that are so hard not to notice. Otherwise, I'm surprised they didn't just set it in LA. 

I've always wondered why they picked the San Francisco setting in the first place. Maybe this is where Connie was born or where she or she sisters lived at one point or something. 

I really like some of your suggestions Elle Em. Especially using spells and potions to heal injuries than having someone with an actual power of healing. I really like limiting the healing abilities, so perhaps if someone had a head wound, you can only heal to a point, still leaving marks and bruises that would heal over time naturally. 

I like Piper running a catering business at home, and letting it grow into a small restaurant, maybe a slow build up, so by the end of the series it is now a successful restaurant, and she might even open up a second place somewhere. 

[Elle Em]

Aug 6, 2020 21:35:41 GMT -5 Jean said:

It would have been fantastic if they filmed in actual San Francisco than LA. Apart from all the post-credits and stock footage shots of the city, often you noticed LA city scenery in episodes, that are so hard not to notice. Otherwise, I'm surprised they didn't just set it in LA. 

I've always wondered why they picked the San Francisco setting in the first place. Maybe this is where Connie was born or where she or she sisters lived at one point or something. 

I really like some of your suggestions Elle Em. Especially using spells and potions to heal injuries than having someone with an actual power of healing. I really like limiting the healing abilities, so perhaps if someone had a head wound, you can only heal to a point, still leaving marks and bruises that would heal over time naturally. 

I like Piper running a catering business at home, and letting it grow into a small restaurant, maybe a slow build up, so by the end of the series it is now a successful restaurant, and she might even open up a second place somewhere. 

Maybe they were trying to be more original by not setting it in a place like LA or New York City. But I don't know why they picked SF in particular. You'd think they'd do at least some filming there or in any city they happened to choose rather than just the stock footage that doesn't place any of the characters there.

About the healing, I loved the brief time when Jenna spent time with them and made up a potion to help Phoebe's arm. Skills like that could have taken over from the all-encompassing whitelighter healing powers that left so little at stake because we knew it would always be effective. 

And the catering business could be so much fun. It would give us more time in the Manor, and keep Piper doing what she loved while going around to different places in the city for different events. Maybe Phoebe could work for her sometimes as well. And the business just grows and grows until, as you said, it becomes a small restaurant. 

[ljones]

I can only assume that the idea of "CHARMED" portraying demons and other supernatural beings in an ambiguous manner a'la "BUFFY" is repellent to many. Geez.

I personally would want gray demons, but not gray sisters. I want the sisters to face the grays and grow as better people by picking good decisions. Sure, they can mess up from time to time, but I want the viewers to know that they have good hearts underneath it all.

No one is like that . . . not really. The average human being is ambiguous, at best. It all depends upon the choices in our lives and control or lack thereof of our emotions. Even Buffy Summers managed to prove that she could be monstrous when she allowed her emotions to get the best of her. So could the Charmed Ones, but the series rarely allowed them to realize this.

[Jean]

Aug 7, 2020 8:26:10 GMT -5 Elle Em said:

Aug 6, 2020 21:35:41 GMT -5 Jean said:

It would have been fantastic if they filmed in actual San Francisco than LA. Apart from all the post-credits and stock footage shots of the city, often you noticed LA city scenery in episodes, that are so hard not to notice. Otherwise, I'm surprised they didn't just set it in LA. 

I've always wondered why they picked the San Francisco setting in the first place. Maybe this is where Connie was born or where she or she sisters lived at one point or something. 

I really like some of your suggestions Elle Em. Especially using spells and potions to heal injuries than having someone with an actual power of healing. I really like limiting the healing abilities, so perhaps if someone had a head wound, you can only heal to a point, still leaving marks and bruises that would heal over time naturally. 

I like Piper running a catering business at home, and letting it grow into a small restaurant, maybe a slow build up, so by the end of the series it is now a successful restaurant, and she might even open up a second place somewhere. 

Maybe they were trying to be more original by not setting it in a place like LA or New York City. But I don't know why they picked SF in particular. You'd think they'd do at least some filming there or in any city they happened to choose rather than just the stock footage that doesn't place any of the characters there.

About the healing, I loved the brief time when Jenna spent time with them and made up a potion to help Phoebe's arm. Skills like that could have taken over from the all-encompassing whitelighter healing powers that left so little at stake because we knew it would always be effective. 

And the catering business could be so much fun. It would give us more time in the Manor, and keep Piper doing what she loved while going around to different places in the city for different events. Maybe Phoebe could work for her sometimes as well. And the business just grows and grows until, as you said, it becomes a small restaurant. 

I never understood why they picked SF as a setting, unless they really were doing to film here. Otherwise, I'm also surprised they didn't stick with the Boston setting the original concept had. I guess they just picked SF simply because of the stock footage, and it was just easier and cheaper to use that than filming new stock footage for another city they picked. I

Me too. I love what Jenna was doing for them, with using a potion to help Phoebe's arm. I sure wished they kept this going. I even wished Paige when she quit her job as a social worker, had been the one to spend time studying on potions, since at that point she couldn't heal with her whitelighter powers, that she wanted to find a way for them to heal their injuries and not rely on Leo so often, especially if he was off tending to others.

Personally, I wished they put so many limits on healing powers with whitelighters, that unless the person was on deaths door, and truly needed healing asap, that whitelighters couldn't just heal any random cuts, and even if Leo could heal, that they still had scars or wounds that had to heal naturally over time.

I hated how whitelighters took the fun out of everything.

Catering sounds so much like Piper, if she couldn't have her restautant right away. I could see Phoebe working for her too, and even running deliveries for Piper if she was catering for a family or someone they knew hired her for an event. And it could grow into a small restaurant. This would give Piper something interesting to do and an actual personal story, than her whole character arc tied down to Leo, it isn't like P3 really had much of an impact with Piper stories, other than an excuse to showcase bands for the show, the whole business added little to nothing, when Phoebe's job played a huge part in her subplots and the show so often. It would even be so rewarding to watch her grow it grow.

[Ruth Marie]

Aug 11, 2020 23:20:37 GMT -5 Jean said:

Aug 7, 2020 8:26:10 GMT -5 Elle Em said:

Maybe they were trying to be more original by not setting it in a place like LA or New York City. But I don't know why they picked SF in particular. You'd think they'd do at least some filming there or in any city they happened to choose rather than just the stock footage that doesn't place any of the characters there.

About the healing, I loved the brief time when Jenna spent time with them and made up a potion to help Phoebe's arm. Skills like that could have taken over from the all-encompassing whitelighter healing powers that left so little at stake because we knew it would always be effective. 

And the catering business could be so much fun. It would give us more time in the Manor, and keep Piper doing what she loved while going around to different places in the city for different events. Maybe Phoebe could work for her sometimes as well. And the business just grows and grows until, as you said, it becomes a small restaurant. 

I never understood why they picked SF as a setting, unless they really were doing to film here. Otherwise, I'm also surprised they didn't stick with the Boston setting the original concept had. I guess they just picked SF simply because of the stock footage, and it was just easier and cheaper to use that than filming new stock footage for another city they picked. I

Me too. I love what Jenna was doing for them, with using a potion to help Phoebe's arm. I sure wished they kept this going. I even wished Paige when she quit her job as a social worker, had been the one to spend time studying on potions, since at that point she couldn't heal with her whitelighter powers, that she wanted to find a way for them to heal their injuries and not rely on Leo so often, especially if he was off tending to others.

Personally, I wished they put so many limits on healing powers with whitelighters, that unless the person was on deaths door, and truly needed healing asap, that whitelighters couldn't just heal any random cuts, and even if Leo could heal, that they still had scars or wounds that had to heal naturally over time.

I hated how whitelighters took the fun out of everything.

Catering sounds so much like Piper, if she couldn't have her restautant right away. I could see Phoebe working for her too, and even running deliveries for Piper if she was catering for a family or someone they knew hired her for an event. And it could grow into a small restaurant. This would give Piper something interesting to do and an actual personal story, than her whole character arc tied down to Leo, it isn't like P3 really had much of an impact with Piper stories, other than an excuse to showcase bands for the show, the whole business added little to nothing, when Phoebe's job played a huge part in her subplots and the show so often. It would even be so rewarding to watch her grow it grow.

I really do like that with Paige, that could have been really fun to see her attempting to do that in S5. I mean she was alredy studying the book and such, why not try creating healing potions for them.

As for the setting with SF being used, yeah, I do think it was chosen just because of how cheap it was to use all that old stock footage. Otherwise, I really did wish they really filmed in SF. So often, I notice places from LA, when they truly meant it to be SF so often. I always like seeing the different cities in shows, and loving the culture being explored, and feel cheated sometimes when it really isn't the place they filmed it.

[goldeneye049]

For Paige season 4 :
Paige should have had her own power. I mean if she had known her sisters she wouldn't have remained mortal and in no way would she have copied the power of prue, piper or phoebe.
They had the power of three but Paige would simply be a witch of the Warren line. Technically she should have had weaker power than Phoebe, I read somewhere that she would have the power of divination (she draws the cards in one episode) but this is never explained and seen afterwards. I would have really liked that or any other power why not detect who is a witch, demon, mortal or invisibility, hyperspeed etc.. A power to protect oneself and not to defend oneself. No protection to the power of three.
I hate the idea of ​​Warren's powers merging with whitelighter. Maybe orbing but I think this power should be reserved for angels. It would have been more natural if Paige already had her power or for three years when Phoebe recited the first spell that inadvertently activates her powers and is part of a group of witches who always believed her parents were being killed by demons for example, by drawing the cards, which is true in a sense. Finally, I wish Prue knew that she was doomed by the Angel of Death and that she had created an amulet with her powers that only a line of Warren could use. (She created the crystal cage, she is capable of anything). Phoebe would have worn it first and then Paige in order to protect her with the power of three. Later in the series paige would have managed to absorb the powers of the amulet because the demons wanted to destroy it.
And for the rest Cole is killed and does not appear in season 4. The demons have a mission to kill the last Warrens.

[Aaeiyn]

I'm coming from this thread: thecharmedcafe.proboards.com/thread/13020/changes .  That being said, I guess I'll begin adding in some of my thoughts.

Prue, Piper & Paige
We can either begin the series with Prue, Piper & Paige, already, or Phoebe dies instead of Prue.  I still want Paige to be half-whitelighter, though, in either scenario.  She'll receive premonition dreams, similar to how she dreamed about the Titans, in S5.  Her "telekinetic-orbing" will function as "empathic-orbing".  Similar to how Phoebe's empathic powers function in S6.  Paige will still have to vocalize it.  The death of Phoebe will be because she chose Cole over her own sisters, and Prue & Piper recruit Paige to take them down.  Which will be how the Charmed Ones become reconstituted.  In having to make that tough choice/decision.

Power of Four
Paige will come into S4, as scheduled, and she's the key to rescuing the Charmed Ones.  Prue & Piper are healed of the injuries, thanks to Leo, but they can't rescue Phoebe who's stuck, in the Underworld because the Source is too powerful.  Prue & Piper recruit Paige to have some form of a "Power of Three" to bypass the Source's antics.  In doing so, rescues Phoebe and thus allows us a "Power of Four".

Whitelighter Andy & Brody
Andy becomes a Whitelighter, similar to how we see Whitelighter Brody, in S7.  Whitelighter Andy can make appearances, here and there (similar to Sam), just to appease my Andy heart.  Whitelighter Brody will be similar.  IDC, I LOVE these two!

Cole Remains Vanquished
Cole never should've been resurrected.  No Wasteland storyline and no appearing in S5.  His S7 appearance is fine, since he's not actually in the physical plane, but the spiritual one.  Other than that, he remains dead, and doesn't get a second chance, at life.

Outside the Sisters
I would've loved more involvement with some of the more "one-off" episode characters like Aviva, Ava, Enola, etc.  I would want more "sisterhood" that isn't all about being biologically related.  Which, I wouldn't want Lydia, Bianca, Brenda, etc., to die.  I would want them to survive/live, so they could be included in the universal sisterhood against evil.

IK, it's not really "changing" anything.  Just "wishful thinking" but still...

[Esmeralda]

Bumped in hopes that Astral Chaos will decide to post his Dream Charmed. He showed us how their jobs could've evolved in a different thread and I LOVE it! Now I want to read what else was going on with the Charmed Ones while their jobs were changing.

[Astral Chaos]

Nov 19, 2021 8:11:36 GMT -5 Esmeralda said:

Bumped in hopes that Astral Chaos will decide to post his Dream Charmed. He showed us how their jobs could've evolved in a different thread and I LOVE it! Now I want to read what else was going on with the Charmed Ones while their jobs were changing.

Sure thing, Es.

Most of this is from memory because I no longer have access to everything I wrote on the subject hence why it may seem slightly scattered and some parts will be more fleshed out than others.

Each season would be between 12 to 16 episodes. There would be at least two mini-series to expand upon the Charmed universe without infringing on Charmed itself.

So, here we go . . .

Season One
Kicks off pretty similarly to the original, starting with Serena Frederick's murder -- the differences being that my Serena is actually the great granddaughter of P. Bowen, is half witch and half warlock (in my world warlocks aren't witches who went bad but rather a type of magical being that are very closely related to witches [somewhat like lions and leopards] who, like witches, have the choice to be either good or evil), and Jeremy doesn't kill Serena -- and Phoebe returning to San Francisco from New York. Prue is working at the Museum and has been there for several years. Piper starts working at Quake in the first few episodes.

In my world, Grams is still alive. Comatose. But alive. She was poisoned. The poison presents to the outside world like a major heart attack but, what it actually does, is trap the victim in a perpetual nightmare, slowly draining their magical essence before it eventually kills them (my nod to "Dream Sorcerer"). This is later revealed to be what triggered the unbinding of the sisters powers, though, the process remained incomplete/the powers lay dormant until all three sisters were together, touching each other at the same time.

Our primary big bad is a Seer . . . and she's here to stay (for several seasons). She orchestrates most of the mayhem which allows her to be present while being largely unseen.

Andy came back to San Francisco a month or so prior to Phoebe returning from New York. He and Prue encounter each other in the first episode and quickly rekindle some kind of a relationship. Prue leaves the Museum for Buckland Auction House (no Rex or Hannah, though) about halfway through the season and decides to tell Andy approx. two episodes later that she's a witch. He doesn't take it well/doesn't easily accept it and they break up, however, do fall into something of a friends-with-benefits arrangement by the end of the season. Andy doesn't die.

Leo would introduce himself to the sisters as their whitelighter around episode three or four. No pretending otherwise. Whitelighters and witches aren't supposed to involve themselves with each other romantically -- though it isn't outlawed/forbidden because free will -- as it creates ethical and moral issues. Piper and Leo do have a brief thing but it ends almost as quickly as it starts.

Phoebe has a couple of dates with nobody in particular and works a handful of odd jobs before returning to her studies toward the end of the season (studying education + psychology).

Two episodes that are repurposed from the original series and tweaked ever so slightly to fit within my canon but would stay more or less the same outside of that are "Dead Man Dating" and "The Witch is Back".

Briefly lay down a little Paige Easter egg (for her proper Season 4 introduction) with a simple interaction between Prue and Piper (Paige having a connection to Piper via a brief stint as a waitress at Quake, though the audience doesn't meet her yet), that would go something along the lines of:

PRUE     Is the goth waitress drunk?
PIPER    Usually.

Toward the end of the season, Phoebe starts to suspect that Penny's condition is magical in nature. She enlists Leo in helping her figure out if it is and, assuming so, to fix Grams. Phoebe's hunch turns out to be correct and they are able to awaken Grams -- Leo's success in helping Phoebe do so is ultimately his death sentence. The Seer, enraged, arranges an attack on Leo by a darklighter and our season finale is something broadly similar to "Love Hurts" and in this episode we also find out that Piper is pregnant (from their earlier brief dalliance).

I remember I had it in mind that Phoebe and The Seer somehow have an innate block/cancel each other out psychically and neither is able to "see" the others future, past or present using their visions.

I'll post more seasons when time permits.