Rewind & rewrite the seasons of Charmed

[darkpassage]

Pretend there was a time machine that you could go into & give the writers a template to follow for the seasons of Charmed. The only restriction is that you can not go beyond 6 seasons for the show.

Other than that feel free to incorporate aspects of the show that have already been used such as existing characters, story arcs, relationships. You can re arrange events or come up with new original events for the characters to encounter as well. You can also get rid of things such as the fairy tale creatures & Chris, Paige or anything else you didn't like. Try to give a sense of how each season would go from beginning, middle to end.

The point of this thread is to kind of cut & re arrange a lot of things to make your story great so try to avoid compressing 8 seasons into the 6 I've limited you to.

[West]

A very good thread surprised wasnt getting any attention, given we talk so much about what we dislike and how we would do things. Id love to hear others versions of charmed.

Ive heard and read many good ones over the years. Fans have come up with good ones.

[Esmeralda]

Hmmm, that does make for a nice challenge, but for me, it's easy. I'd only go three seasons and use an updated version of my real Dream Charmed, although I'm not really sure if it would fit what Darkpassages would've wanted, since I've changed a number of the characters and who played them to better fit the character I would want in that role. But here goes. Hopefully it will inspire others to do the same.

My Dream Charmed begins the series by showing the townspeople of Salem, MA getting ready to hang Melinda Warren [Finola Hughes - one of the Charmed Ones says she looks like their mother (who was actually never supposed to be seen). And since I love the way Finola played Patty - my original favorite character and since this doesn't include Paige, she still would be - besides how much she looks like Alyssa Milano, I’d want her to play Melinda the way the actresses play their characters' past selves in 'Pardon My Past'] 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 canon one with some differences, mainly in the backstory and what comes from it.

Prudence "Prue" Halliwell [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 her grandmother, Penelope "Penny" Johnson [Jennifer Rhodes - no, in mine, Penny is not a Halliwell – and neither was the sisters' mother, Patricia "Patty" Johnson Halliwell [Finola Hughes], until she married Victor Halliwell [Tony Dennison], who would only be seen in Season One. Halliwell women do *not* keep their maiden name, just like the 20's cousins who were Baxters, Bowens and Russells didn't - Obviously after Cassandra Warren became Cassandra Wentworth, Warren women no longer kept their maiden name.].

Roger [Matthew Ashford] isn’t Prue’s fiancé but just her supervisor, who is fired after their boss Rex Buckland [Neil Roberts] finds out that Roger stole her ideas, so Rex makes her one of the auction house managers instead. Unlike Canon Rex, my Dream Rex is truly the owner of the auction house and has been for a long time, since his secretary, Hannah Webster [Debbi Morgan] is a Seer who saw Prue getting a job there after graduating from college. Hannah never flirts with anyone, especially not Rex - like Rex, she's all business.

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 anger at the villains (both male and female, both magical and non-magical) who are after them.

Piper Halliwell [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, so since graduation from high school, Piper has always worked at Quake, even when she was at cooking school. Otherwise, no need to change her or her and Leo Wyatt’s [Brian Krause] story. Just like Canon Piper, my Dream Piper is 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 "Phoebs" Halliwell [Alyssa Milano] was the wild child and moved away to New York after Penny’ 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 Canon Phoebe, my Dream Phoebs is 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. After she finds the Book, she puts off school in order to concentrate on being a witch. She takes temp jobs instead, and through them finds innocents for her and her sisters to save.

She is very surprised when she comes back from New York to find out that her just-as-wild high-school boyfriend is now an inspector with the San Francisco Police Department. Mark Chao [John Cho] discovers her secret during the first episode of the second half of the season after she helps him solve his most baffling case with the help of her premonition, which he sees her receive. Just like Canon Andy, my Dream Mark can accept her as a witch, but not as a wife, at least for now, and since Phoebs is nowhere close to settling down, that’s fine with her, so they just remain lovers, but now she can also tell him about magical cases and he helps the sisters out. His partner, Darryl Morris [Dorian Gregory], is always suspicious and curious as to why Mark knows so much about the cases, but never discovers the sisters’ secret.

I chose John Cho rather than Ted King since Ted looks too old to be the same age as Phoebs, besides liking the idea of one of the stars being Asian-American, since so many San Franciscans are Asian-Americans. This also means that unlike Canon Andy, my Dream Mark never moved to Washington and was never married, but was always just the boy next door… Also, rather obviously it's a different Asian-American who dies in 'Dead Man Dating' and whose ghost falls for Piper, although Mark is the one who helps them figure out who Yama is.

The other major difference is the season finale which combines both 'Love Hurts' and 'Déjà vu All Over Again'. In order to stop the everlasting time loop which results in the death of Leo's charge, Daisy [Kat Coio], Piper must let Leo die… Also, rather than Canon Rodriguez, the demon helping the Demon of Time [David Carridine] isn't a demon at all, instead it’s two warlocks…Rex and Hannah. Hannah could foresee the results of the time loops, but couldn't foresee or prevent hers and Rex’s vanquish.

After Leo's death, the Charmed Ones no longer need a whitelighter to guide them which they needed during their first year as witches, and we never hear the word whitelighter again, nor do we ever hear the word Elder (like the first two seasons, they're always referred to as THEY), or, thank God, witchlighter or half-whitelighter. This means that Sam never existed, so neither would Paige. We never need to find out if dead men can sire children, and if they do, if they can pass their powers to their children.


Obviously this changes Season Two, as Piper is the one who mourns her lost love rather than Prue. This is when she goes on strike, just like she did in the beginning of 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. But unlike Canon Season Three, Leo is never returned…

Instead Henry Mitchell [Ivan Sergei] moves in next door, halfway through the season, with the following episodes similar to the first ones in Canon Season Two, but unlike Canon Dan, my Dream Henry has no reason to be jealous of Leo...only of Piper's memories of him. Instead, when he finds out that Piper is a witch - the same way Canon Henry did in Canon Season Eight, not how Canon Dan did - he also finds out what Leo was, and can accept that, since he respects Piper's decision to let Leo die in order to save an innocent.

Much like Canon Henry in Canon Season Eight (the reason I chose him, since he’s much more like Henry than Dan), he decides that he can accept Piper as a witch and Piper finds herself falling for him, big-time, especially because when she’s not saving innocents, he helps her have a normal life as a normal couple, something Leo could never do. We never again hear her whining about wanting a normal life. With Henry’s help, she decides to quit Quake and use the money she’s saved as a manager to start a restaurant of her own - P3.

Meanwhile, Phoebs and Mark continue to solve crimes with the help of her sisters, keeping the focus of the show on innocents, as we see all of the innocents and bad guys that we saw in Canon Season Two, with, of course, the exception of Sam who doesn’t exist. Phoebs and Mark are still lovers, but don’t even consider marriage until Phoebs almost dies trying to save an innocent, a victim of one of the crimes they're trying to solve. Mark realizes that he loves her no matter if she's a witch or not and pops the question, and she accepts.

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

The season finale is an episode similar to “The Honeymoon’s Over”, except, of course, Piper is also part of it, since no one has gone (or could ever go) Up There without suffocating from lack of oxygen. This is when we find out that Cole is indeed trying to kill the sisters. And unlike Canon Charmed, he never turns into 'Dream Belthazor' because my Dream Cole is not half-demon, instead he's a warlock who only pretends to care for Prue and simply wants to discover the sisters’ weaknesses so he can destroy them and take their powers. There is no Source or other Big Bad in my Dream Charmedverse — the one who comes closest to being that is my Dream Cole himself, who is more like a combination of Canon Belthazor and Canon Zankou than the half-demon we know, since this one is pure warlock and pure evil - in my Dream Charmedverse, the only demons are "The Demons of..." Even Hecate was a warlock using that name, not a demon. Also in mine, witches are good and warlocks are evil – sorry, in my fantasy (emphasis on fantasy...) world, no grey morality allowed! The difference is that witches who do evil turn into warlocks (so Phoebe in 'Morality Bites' is a warlock...as are the 20's cousins in 'Pardon My Past' and as is Tuatha) while warlocks who do good (like Brendan Rowe) turn into witches – my Dream Cole just isn’t one of those. Making him half-human ruins him in my eyes the same way making Paige half-whitelighter ruins her.

Unlike Canon Season Two, since there is no 'P3 H20' - no need to show anyone what could happen if a whitelighter falls in love with his charge - Prue never stops working at the auction house, nor does she ever get her astral projection power. Instead all three sisters are gaining better control of their powers (like Phoebs being able to force premonitions by touching an item and closing her eyes) and Piper and Prue can use theirs over larger distances.

Season Three, the final season of my Dream Charmed, continues to have Mark and Phoebs solving crime while also planning their wedding, so we continue to have the Bad Guy of the Week that I love, while also having the Cole story-arc that most fans love, even if some fans won't like it as much since my Dream Cole never truly loves a Charmed One, but does have a lot of chemistry with Prue. Meanwhile, Piper and Henry are becoming closer, and Prue thinks that so are she and Cole.

With these exceptions (and Phoebs and Mark not having to fight THEM - who are never shown - in order to get married, since unlike Canon Leo, my Dream Mark isn't dead), the season works pretty much like the canon one except that Piper never gets her explosion power and Phoebs never levitates.

Mark and Phoebs’ wedding happens halfway through the season, working much like Canon Leo and Canon Piper’s so that Patty and Penny can be part of it, although there’s also plans for a big, huge public church wedding later on, since unlike Canon Leo, my Dream Mark isn’t dead.

But rather than Canon Prue interrupting it, it’s Shax [Michael Bailey Smith] who suddenly appears. The sisters vanquish him, but when they check the Book of Shadows, they find that he is just a warlockian hitman, so there is someone a lot worse out there. Phoebs tells Mark that she loves him and still wants to marry him, but only after they find and vanquish Shax’s boss…

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

The Angel of Destiny [Dakin Matthews] shows up, and with Melinda Warren's blessing, the sisters decide to give up their powers so they can live normal lives, with Prue finally deciding to quit Buckland's so she can try to live her own dream - that of being a photographer - something we've seen signs of since the series premiere..., Piper considering marrying Henry while happily running her restaurant, and Phoebs deciding to go back to college and become an inspector herself so she can continue to help Mark and Darryl solve crimes, even without her powers.

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

[erikamarie]

I am not so good in splitting the seasons with a final episode, I'll try to write a summary of four seasons

First season, untouchable, Andy dies, and Prue is likely to move away from magic

Second season, I'ld avoid the triangle, Leo and Piper fall in love, the Elders remove Leo and send Nathalie (I'd move Blinded By The Whitelighter to the second season)
After solving Eames's attack and Nathalie'death, the sisters warn the Elders that they'll never agree for any reason to have other whitelgther than Leo, they can do without
Aware of the stubborn nature of the Halliwell, the Elders mediate and send Leo back with the promise that Piper and Leo'll wait for a marriage, fearing the birth of a their too powerful kid, fear caused by rumors of a predestined child
I'ld introduce atthis point Tyler; Leo and Piper save him and, as a foster family, Leo suggests the Jenkins who are not witches but have a witch as daughter and the family can be adequate to grow Tyler
In this way they come into contact with Paige as a social worker and Billie as Tyler's adoptive sister
Cole and Phoebe meet,they fall in love, the story of the sisters goes on as in the third season, I would close the season with Sleuthing With the Enemy


Third season: I'ld keep the stories of the third, Phoebe and Cole go back together, but no marriage between Piper and Leo
The Source sends his favorite killer and Prue makes the mistake of attacking Shax in the road and it happens what happens in AHBL
Difference: Leo comes, seeking to heal the two sisters together, Prue is the most serious injured so while Piper gets better, an ambulance comes to interrupt Leo's healing:Prue goes into a coma, doctors cannot speak about when she'll wake up
Piper goes nuts, she forces her idea of a demons hunting by 2 witches and an half demon as in the fourth season, , Cole and Leo live in the Manor, Phoebe asks Paige for help hoping to be able to calm Piper, so Pheobe and Paige become friends
Cole asks Phoebe to marry him, she replies that she need her sisters as bridesmaids so they have to wait
I slow down all the Source's story anticipating for example the meeting with Karen, with Cole that helps the sisters instead of attacking Paige
Billie is impatient to join the sisters, since Prue is in the hospital she is trying to help even if Leo doesn't want to expose her as she is only 15 years
Phoebe starts her job at the newspaper, but Shax's threat looms overx and Leo, despite the prohibition of the Elders, take advantage of the right moment to release Prue from coma
Prue comes home and finds a changed reality:she is tired and out of shape, Phoebe works,in the meanwhile Piper has tried to turn into a super witch to replace her big sister, Cole now lives in the Manor
It's'Cole who takes the job of putting herback on their feet and Prue begins to feel an attraction that scares her
Cole is concerned: not to arouse too much suspicion Leo has just awakened Prue, which is rather weak, she is unable to resume a leading role
Piper, too happy to have her big sister, has instead immediately abandoned her new decisionist attitude summarizing the ancient role of the faithful helper
Phoebe is happy for her work and for that role as older sister who has taken with Billie
The Source loses his head, decides to summon the Hollow, the Seer warns Cole and tells him of a prophecy of a mysterious event that would cause the birth of a powerful child and she saw a great power in the son of the Source and of a Charmed Ones
Cole agrees, I think of Charmed and Dangerous as finale, with the only difference that Phoebe writes a powerful spell for the Power of Three, without calling the ancestors

Tomorrow the other three seasons

[sol]

Love it

I like as you introduced Paige and Billie

[Deleted]

Ok, for my Dream Series I'll give a very brief synopsis of my Season 1-3 because I have a bad habit of changing my mind and these are the seasons I am most sure about so far:

Season 1: It is much the same as the original S1, except Rex and Hannah are more of an event throughout the first half of the season. Rather than skulking in the sidelines, they are more involved in the early episodes' plots. Their stint ends with Victor getting caught up in their denouement with the Charmed Ones. Victor isn't the Season 1 sleaze from the canon show either, nor is he Mr Excuses. He's genuinely in fear for the girls' lives and Rex preys on this anxiety. He tells the sisters that Penny made his role as their father increasingly difficult, which is why he left, but he knows he shouldn't have let her.

Barbas is the 'Big Bad' of the end of the season rather than Tempus or Rodriguez, and is in some way connected to Patty's past. Andy doesn't die.


Season 2: Quake is falling apart financially, so Piper buys it and renames it P3. Prue and Andy spend a lot of the season in a romantic limbo. This is exacerbated by Prue's involvements with Bane: Andy is clearly jealous of Bane but he won't commit to Prue and her supernatural lifestyle. Things get pretty tense when Prue sets out to "save" Bane, despite Andy's warnings that he will get her into legal trouble.

Phoebe gains astral projection, not Prue. Also, Jack Sheridan is a college student in my series and is involved with Phoebe. He has a short story-arc of his own.

The Big Bad is Tempus, but he is mostly "behind the scenes" and has command over Rodriguez, Litvack and Bane. He is responsible for Andy's death at the end of the season.


Season 3: Piper and Leo didn't go Up There at the end of Season 2 and the start of the season isn't about their wedding drama, it's about Prue grieving Andy. Leo leaves Piper briefly and she still goes on strike for a bit, but the Elders don't actually drag Leo away or put them on probation or anything like that. Piper learns her lesson and never whines about a normal life again.

The season is also very similar to the canon show with Cole/Belthazor trying his best to kill the sisters. Cole is a "rising star" in the Underworld but is still under the guardianship of the Brotherhood, especially Raynor, who take the place of the Triad in my season. Phoebe doesn't fake his death either, he escapes on his own accord and still tries to kill the sisters whilst on the run, so the Brotherhood will spare him. He doesn't kill any of the Brotherhood members. Phoebe doesn't ever try to "save" him, in fact she infiltrates the Brotherhood to try and stop him towards the end of the season. In the finale, she is found out and is followed back to the Manor by Raynor and Cole, where a big battle breaks out. Cole kidnaps Phoebe and Raynor is the one who blasts Prue and Piper through the wall, not Shax.

Prue gains the power of levitation and Piper gets the power to freeze things in ice.

[Esmeralda]

Mar 17, 2016 13:17:12 GMT -5 erikamarie said:

I am not so good in splitting the seasons with a final episode, I'll try to write a summary of four seasons

First season, untouchable, Andy dies, and Prue is likely to move away from magic

Second season, I'ld avoid the triangle, Leo and Piper fall in love, the Elders remove Leo and send Nathalie (I'd move Blinded By The Whitelighter to the second season)
After solving Eames's attack and Nathalie'death, the sisters warn the Elders that they'll never agree for any reason to have other whitelgther than Leo, they can do without
Aware of the stubborn nature of the Halliwell, the Elders mediate and send Leo back with the promise that Piper and Leo'll wait for a marriage, fearing the birth of a their too powerful kid, fear caused by rumors of a predestined child
I'ld introduce atthis point Tyler; Leo and Piper save him and, as a foster family, Leo suggests the Jenkins who are not witches but have a witch as daughter and the family can be adequate to grow Tyler
In this way they come into contact with Paige as a social worker and Billie as Tyler's adoptive sister
Cole and Phoebe meet,they fall in love, the story of the sisters goes on as in the third season, I would close the season with Sleuthing With the Enemy


Third season: I'ld keep the stories of the third, Phoebe and Cole go back together, but no marriage between Piper and Leo
The Source sends his favorite killer and Prue makes the mistake of attacking Shax in the road and it happens what happens in AHBL
Difference: Leo comes, seeking to heal the two sisters together, Prue is the most serious injured so while Piper gets better, an ambulance comes to interrupt Leo's healing:Prue goes into a coma, doctors cannot speak about when she'll wake up
Piper goes nuts, she forces her idea of a demons hunting by 2 witches and an half demon as in the fourth season, , Cole and Leo live in the Manor, Phoebe asks Paige for help hoping to be able to calm Piper, so Pheobe and Paige become friends
Cole asks Phoebe to marry him, she replies that she need her sisters as bridesmaids so they have to wait
I slow down all the Source's story anticipating for example the meeting with Karen, with Cole that helps the sisters instead of attacking Paige
Billie is impatient to join the sisters, since Prue is in the hospital she is trying to help even if Leo doesn't want to expose her as she is only 15 years
Phoebe starts her job at the newspaper, but Shax's threat looms overx and Leo, despite the prohibition of the Elders, take advantage of the right moment to release Prue from coma
Prue comes home and finds a changed reality:she is tired and out of shape, Phoebe works,in the meanwhile Piper has tried to turn into a super witch to replace her big sister, Cole now lives in the Manor
It's'Cole who takes the job of putting herback on their feet and Prue begins to feel an attraction that scares her
Cole is concerned: not to arouse too much suspicion Leo has just awakened Prue, which is rather weak, she is unable to resume a leading role
Piper, too happy to have her big sister, has instead immediately abandoned her new decisionist attitude summarizing the ancient role of the faithful helper
Phoebe is happy for her work and for that role as older sister who has taken with Billie
The Source loses his head, decides to summon the Hollow, the Seer warns Cole and tells him of a prophecy of a mysterious event that would cause the birth of a powerful child and she saw a great power in the son of the Source and of a Charmed Ones
Cole agrees, I think of Charmed and Dangerous as finale, with the only difference that Phoebe writes a powerful spell for the Power of Three, without calling the ancestors

Tomorrow the other three seasons

I really, *really* like this, Erikamarie! IT's totally different from mine, but it still works, showing how it's perfectly AOK to have differing opinions since this is just a TV show. Like Sol, I especially like how you introduce both Paige and Billie. I particularly like the idea of Prue just in a coma rather than dying and then her being weak, so Piper still has to take over as leader - and, of course, the attraction between her and Cole - this so would be the perfect way to do that! And I love 'Charmed and Dangerous' as your finale.

Can't wait to read your last three seasons! Carry on!

[Esmeralda]

Mar 17, 2016 19:43:58 GMT -5 @deano said:

Ok, for my Dream Series I'll give a very brief synopsis of my Season 1-3 because I have a bad habit of changing my mind and these are the seasons I am most sure about so far:

Season 1: It is much the same as the original S1, except Rex and Hannah are more of an event throughout the first half of the season. Rather than skulking in the sidelines, they are more involved in the early episodes' plots. Their stint ends with Victor getting caught up in their denouement with the Charmed Ones. Victor isn't the Season 1 sleaze from the canon show either, nor is he Mr Excuses. He's genuinely in fear for the girls' lives and Rex preys on this anxiety. He tells the sisters that Penny made his role as their father increasingly difficult, which is why he left, but he knows he shouldn't have let her.

Barbas is the 'Big Bad' of the end of the season rather than Tempus or Rodriguez, and is in some way connected to Patty's past. Andy doesn't die.


Season 2: Quake is falling apart financially, so Piper buys it and renames it P3. Prue and Andy spend a lot of the season in a romantic limbo. This is exacerbated by Prue's involvements with Bane: Andy is clearly jealous of Bane but he won't commit to Prue and her supernatural lifestyle. Things get pretty tense when Prue sets out to "save" Bane, despite Andy's warnings that he will get her into legal trouble.

Phoebe gains astral projection, not Prue. Also, Jack Sheridan is a college student in my series and is involved with Phoebe. He has a short story-arc of his own.

The Big Bad is Tempus, but he is mostly "behind the scenes" and has command over Rodriguez, Litvack and Bane. He is responsible for Andy's death at the end of the season.


Season 3: Piper and Leo didn't go Up There at the end of Season 2 and the start of the season isn't about their wedding drama, it's about Prue grieving Andy. Leo leaves Piper briefly and she still goes on strike for a bit, but the Elders don't actually drag Leo away or put them on probation or anything like that. Piper learns her lesson and never whines about a normal life again.

The season is also very similar to the canon show with Cole/Belthazor trying his best to kill the sisters. Cole is a "rising star" in the Underworld but is still under the guardianship of the Brotherhood, especially Raynor, who take the place of the Triad in my season. Phoebe doesn't fake his death either, he escapes on his own accord and still tries to kill the sisters whilst on the run, so the Brotherhood will spare him. He doesn't kill any of the Brotherhood members. Phoebe doesn't ever try to "save" him, in fact she infiltrates the Brotherhood to try and stop him towards the end of the season. In the finale, she is found out and is followed back to the Manor by Raynor and Cole, where a big battle breaks out. Cole kidnaps Phoebe and Raynor is the one who blasts Prue and Piper through the wall, not Shax.

Prue gains the power of levitation and Piper gets the power to freeze things in ice.

Another totally different way of looking at rewinding and rewriting the seasons of Charmed and I love it just as much as the other two. I love the way you bring Andy into Season Two and especially love having Rex and Hannah (along with Barbas) as the true Big Bads of Season 1, Tempus of Season 2 and Raynor (and Cole) of Season 3. I also love what you do with both Victor and Jack, ideas I may incorporate into my own.

I know you said you don't have the other three seasons "written in stone", but I'd still love to see a chance of what you're considering right now - with you always having the choice of changing your mind.

[Esmeralda]

These scenarios are reminding me of a couple of threads that we did a while back and that I've bumped up. But there's one scenario that I definitely want to add to this thread, although I had to change it a little to make it fit the "six seasons only" rule.

After reading the three Astrals' versions of 'Dream Children' (Astral Echo, Astral Alex and Astral Chaos) I had fun pulling an Es and figuring out a way to take what I count as the best of each story and editing it into one alternate Charmed universe, which would include all of the Astrals' stories.

Season One would be the same, although when Prue sees Andy Up There, she tells him she's not the only one who needs him...so does their daughter. Andy tells her he knows she'll take good care of their child.

Season Two would obviously center more around Prue's pregnancy, but also her determination to not let it stop her career (I could imagine some lovely sisterly moments after Prue becomes overworked and maybe collapses due to the stress of Buckland's, Demons, grief over Andy and her pregnancy).

The pregnancy would be dragged out juuust a little -- easing the show into a slightly different direction as opposed to the sudden and completely different one we saw when Wyatt and Chris were introduced.

In late Season Two Prue gives birth to a baby girl who she names Patricia Andrea and calls Trish. Had she lived, Prue would have never married or settle down with a guy--instead she would have been perfectly content as a single, successful woman raising a very special daughter.

Season Three would begin much the same way, Piper has been away for a month, leaving Prue and Phoebe on edge - especially without Piper's help with Trish (as her maternal side is evidently needed) and Phoebe is feeling like Prue keeps palming Trish off on her in order to stop the Triad.

During this season, Phoebe also meets Cole, the love of her life. He was raised by his father and although he has to fight the demon inside, he knows what unconditional love is and that's what he gives Phoebe, spoiling the baby of the family and making her the center of his life.

Prue has an epiphany halfway through the season that Trish is the only thing of Andy she has left, and she becomes more of a mother, slowly letting Piper take more responsibility for hunting for innocents so that she can take care of her daughter.

Then Prue dies in 'All Hell Breaks Loose'.

In Season Four during 'Charmed Again', we see Piper attempting to use Trish as a means to bring Prue back - also with Piper and Phoebe likening themselves with Trish; how they were raised by their grandmother, and how Trish will be raised by her aunts.

Paige would be introduced in much the same way, but on meeting Piper and Phoebe, she sees that Piper refuses to let her touch or have contact with Trish in any way. But around 4x10 when we finally see Piper trust Paige (letting her move in a bit later than in the canon Season Four) Paige finally holds Trish, and Trish comes into her power of telekinesis upon Paige's touch.

Towards the end of Season Four, Leo and Piper try for children as normal but it fails just as Phoebe realizes she is pregnant earlier than in the canon season, around the fifteenth or sixteenth episode. The plot would happen much the same way with the Cole/Phoebe/Phoetus storyline, but they attempt to vanquish the SOURCE'S ESSENCE and not Cole - however, upon vanquishing the essence it kills Cole accidentally and rids Phoebe's baby of the essence. Instead of Piper discovering she is pregnant in the finale, it ends with the girls keeping their powers as they owe it to Prue and Cole - and in order to teach Trish and Phoebe's child.

Phoebe is then frightened of going through motherhood alone like Prue did (they recall the struggle Prue had during Season Three) and is scared that something would happen, leaving Piper and Paige to raise their nieces/nephews alone.

Season Five would then see Piper's early pregnancy-related storylines switch to Phoebe - but instead of being all half-witch/half-whitelighter oriented they would be half-witch/half-demon. And because there would be no 'Crazy Cole' as he died in 4x21. Instead during the 100th episode, Phoebe give birth to a girl, Persephone Nicole, who she calls Posey. The baby would be a great controversy in the magical world, with some creatures fearing her and some praising her - but basically realizing that she would be good or evil depending on her own choices.

During Season Five, Leo and Piper would continue to try for a baby and continue to not succeed. Trish would get jealous of this new baby and it would appear that she might be developing into Evil Wyatt as a girl. But the sisters recognize the problem and nip it in the bud before it becomes too serious. Eventually Trish loves her new cousin as if she were her own sister.

During all of this, Paige, who since her sisters have their own daughters to take care of, is most in charge of raising Trish, meets Henry (who takes Kyle's storyline - just without him being obsessed over the Avatars, who don't exist, so Henry doesn't die.).

Phoebe also attempts to start dating again, but find that now Posey's powers are coming into effect she finds that hard - but eventually starts a relationship with Jason - however this only lasts half a season as he is dismissive of Phoebe's daughter and later rejects Phoebe for being a witch. Phoebe then begins a relationship with Drake - who stays for the remainder of the season which is when he dies. Phoebe decides to just stick to her career as 'Ask Phoebe' and raise her daughter.

During Season Six the Titans appear and kill off most of the Elders. The remaining ones want Leo to join them, but he refuses, although other whitelighters take them up on their offer. The power of becoming an Elder goes to their head and they all become evil. The first thing they do is take away all of the powers of the remaining whitelighters, including Leo.

Near the end of Season Six, Piper discovers she's pregnant just before a mysterious whitelighter from the future appears, calling herself Nora, and saving Leo from the Evil Elders. She convinces the sisters that the only way to stop the Elders is to join forces with evil to bring them down. She introduces them to Zankou who she seems to know a lot about, whereas he has never met her. In the season finale, The Charmed Ones, Zankou, Nora, demons who agreed to fight, other good magical beings not manipulated by the evil Elders and the last remaining good Elders go to war against the evil Elders.

During the battle, Piper goes to into labor, so Nora orbs Piper back to the Manor leaving Phoebe and Paige with Zankou and the others, to fight against the evil Elders. Piper and Nora are met by Leo who helps her deliver her baby.

Paige and Phoebe arrive back just in time to greet their baby niece, Melinda. Piper then suggests her middle name should be Nora after the woman who helped bring her into the world but Nora is now nowhere to be seen.

Shortly after the battle and Melinda's birth, Leo is asked by the remaining good Elders and whitelighter community to form a new council under his guidance. He agrees, but only if he's also allowed to be the Charmed Ones' whitelighter, and they agree, so he receives his Elder powers for the first time.

With his new Elder powers he senses a disturbance in the magical order. His new ultra sensing powers take him to Nora in front of an open time portal.

Confused, Leo asks what is going on. Nora then informs him that she was from the future which is why she knew when to come back in order to save him from the evil Elders, how to bring the evil Elders down, about Zankou etc...

He asks her who she really is. And she turns her back on him, pulling up her hair to reveal a birthmark on the back of her neck--the same one we saw moments earlier on baby Melinda. She turns and smiles and tells him that her middle name is actually Leonora..named after him...and she would suggest he gives it to Melinda. After all, shouldn't he and Piper continue the tradition of giving the first baby a form of her father's name as her middle name?

Before passing through the portal, she warns Leo that Zankou must be taken care of and that he is mainly after the immortality amulets that are hidden within P3. She warns him that in her own time period, this is when the Charmed Ones die, and he must be sure that doesn't happen or the entire world will go to hell.

(Astral Echo, as the ending, I very simply have to use one of yours:)

In a big fiery vanquish, the sisters risk their lives, fully expecting to die, but Paige manages to panic orb away. Piper and Phoebe are left for dead but using the spell that Nora gave them, Paige does a Forever Charmed and goes back in time to save them, in a less selfish fashion than Piper did.

Paige never goes forward so we never see any of the Charmed Ones as old, just like we never saw Piper and Leo old earlier. Paige gathers Grams and Patty to help save the day. Paige phases back into her own body as soon the group arrives.

Patty freezes Zankou as Grams TK's the amulet away from Zankou and then Piper blows him across the room. Now unprotected by the amulet, the family recite the Source vanquish spell and then the sisters saying the P3 spell to protect them all from the explosion (which of course was what killed Phoebe and Piper the first time around).

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

We don't see the future at all...that's left for the spin-off! Any extra kids (or spouses) can be added then.

Hehehehe! So I ended up with my mortal child (Trish), my half-demon child (Posey) and my half-angel child (Melinda). It wasn't on purpose; just the way it ended up coming out. If there was going to be a spin-off, it's these three that I would like to see star in 'Chosen' - they're not Charmed since they're cousins and not sisters, but they could continue the tradition...

[erikamarie]

Thank you, I made up as a fairy tale for the twins and they had fun
It's fun to try to reconnect all the wires and to realize how much wealth of ideas was scattered along all seasons

Season Four: Now that the Source is vanquished, Prue suggests Phoebe to get married, a good way to clear the brief flirt between her and Cole
As in the real season 4, Cole announces that he'll work for a prestigious studio and moved with Phoebe to a luxury penthouse
Prue quickly senses the change in him and begins to investigate, she hears rumors about a new Source and a magical child, and even about a secret plan against the Charmed Ones involving a young witch
Despite her suspicions, she isn't able to stop the events: Phoebe gets pregnant, scared and happy, Cole, who knows that Prue suspected him, tells her of their brief flir causing a quarrel between sisters that leads Phoebe to isolate themselves

I'ld eliminate the Wizard, I like better instead an attempt to revolt against the coronation of a Source married to a witch, lead by Zankou, released by the insurgents
Phoebe finds out the truth but sided with her husband

Prue reacts harshly, makes potions and spells because the Power of Three is broken, Piper tries to convince herself that Phoebe'll return with them, tries to make contact, but Phoebe says she has to protect the baby and brings out Prue's story with Cole
Paige comes to the Manor trying to figure out why Phoebe seems vanished, also Billie comes, she is surprised for the absence of her favorite teacher
Shax chooses that moment to attack and seriously injures Billie, Piper tries to blow him up, Paige terrified by the strange events desperately tries to bring round Billie, and, with her astonishment, a light comes out from her hands and heals the wounds
Prue comes running down from the attic, Shax seems disappeared, Prue helps Paige up and then a light surrounds all the three: when Shax reappears, Piper instinctively asks Paige to repeat what they are saying: the spell works, the Power of Three destroys Shax
Paige runs away from the Manor

Piper and Prue evoke Grams who confessed their connection with Paige and warns that they have to find quickly their new sister before the Source'ld catch her
The news of a reconstituted Power of Three flies under world, the queen of the vampires think it'ld be a good idea to have a newbie Charmed Ones against the Source
Cole / Source eliminates the Queen but Prue and Piper manage to escape with Paige, completely shocked at what her life is becoming
Phoebe owuns up she cannot live as the Underworld Queen, as in Long Live the Queen she meets her sisters

Phoebe: Well, you can have me back. You can have the power of three back. You just have to be willing to meet me half way.
Piper- Prue: Phoebe, you can't protect the innocent and save demons, it just doesn't work that way.

( I loved a lot this dialogue)

Phoebe's pregnancy worries the Elders, they don't know the terms of the prophecy but they know that the magic itself'll release enormous power over a child who will be born in a mysterious particular day
At this point,the Elders remove the spell that prevented Piper to get pregnant hoping that Piper and Leo'ld be the parents of that special child


The battle between the Source and Zankou is upsetting the entire demonic world
Phoebe discovers that Paige is her sister and that Cole'ld have eliminated her without problems, she learns they're drugging the child with pure evil, so she makes up her mind, she leaves Cole and goes back to her sisters

The Charmed Ones discover that both Cole and Zankou aim to absorb the Nessus,they decide to use the spell that destroys the Nexus to solve a war that is being reflected in the real world, where evil increases wars and massacres
Prue learns that her astral projection is able to bring out the projections of her sisters, seeing that Phoebe is pregnant she asks Paige to take her place
Paige agrees but says that it's the last time she'll act with them, she wants to leave to India with her friend Glenn to reflect

The sisters magically close the attic to avoid being perceived
Cole and Zankou are challenging each other in front of Nessus, the sisters appear and read the formula, an explosion shakes the Manor
Piper and Paige wake up in the attic while Phoebe firefightings
Prue's astral projection, in an effort to ward off her sisters's projections, was involved in the explosion, in the attic there is only her body
The girls call the ambulance and come out with the paramedics, hoping for a miracle

Prue's soul closes the door

[Esmeralda]

Mar 18, 2016 5:28:03 GMT -5 erikamarie said:

Thank you, I made up as a fairy tale for the twins and they had fun

Oooo! What a cool idea! How old are your twins?

It's fun to try to reconnect all the wires and to realize how much wealth of ideas was scattered along all seasons

And you did a great job doing that.

Season Four: Now that the Source is vanquished, Prue suggests Phoebe to get married, a good way to clear the brief flirt between her and Cole
As in the real season 4, Cole announces that he'll work for a prestigious studio and moved with Phoebe to a luxury penthouse
Prue quickly senses the change in him and begins to investigate, she hears rumors about a new Source and a magical child, and even about a secret plan against the Charmed Ones involving a young witch
Despite her suspicions, she isn't able to stop the events: Phoebe gets pregnant, scared and happy, Cole, who knows that Prue suspected him, tells her of their brief flir causing a quarrel between sisters that leads Phoebe to isolate themselves

I'ld eliminate the Wizard, I like better instead an attempt to revolt against the coronation of a Source married to a witch, lead by Zankou, released by the insurgents
Phoebe finds out the truth but sided with her husband

Prue reacts harshly, makes potions and spells because the Power of Three is broken, Piper tries to convince herself that Phoebe'll return with them, tries to make contact, but Phoebe says she has to protect the baby and brings out Prue's story with Cole
Paige comes to the Manor trying to figure out why Phoebe seems vanished, also Billie comes, she is surprised for the absence of her favorite teacher
Shax chooses that moment to attack and seriously injures Billie, Piper tries to blow him up, Paige terrified by the strange events desperately tries to bring round Billie, and, with her astonishment, a light comes out from her hands and heals the wounds
Prue comes running down from the attic, Shax seems disappeared, Prue helps Paige up and then a light surrounds all the three: when Shax reappears, Piper instinctively asks Paige to repeat what they are saying: the spell works, the Power of Three destroys Shax
Paige runs away from the Manor

Piper and Prue evoke Grams who confessed their connection with Paige and warns that they have to find quickly their new sister before the Source'ld catch her
The news of a reconstituted Power of Three flies under world, the queen of the vampires think it'ld be a good idea to have a newbie Charmed Ones against the Source
Cole / Source eliminates the Queen but Prue and Piper manage to escape with Paige, completely shocked at what her life is becoming
Phoebe owuns up she cannot live as the Underworld Queen, as in Long Live the Queen she meets her sisters

Phoebe: Well, you can have me back. You can have the power of three back. You just have to be willing to meet me half way.
Piper- Prue: Phoebe, you can't protect the innocent and save demons, it just doesn't work that way.

( I loved a lot this dialogue)

Phoebe's pregnancy worries the Elders, they don't know the terms of the prophecy but they know that the magic itself'll release enormous power over a child who will be born in a mysterious particular day
At this point,the Elders remove the spell that prevented Piper to get pregnant hoping that Piper and Leo'ld be the parents of that special child


The battle between the Source and Zankou is upsetting the entire demonic world
Phoebe discovers that Paige is her sister and that Cole'ld have eliminated her without problems, she learns they're drugging the child with pure evil, so she makes up her mind, she leaves Cole and goes back to her sisters

The Charmed Ones discover that both Cole and Zankou aim to absorb the Nessus,they decide to use the spell that destroys the Nexus to solve a war that is being reflected in the real world, where evil increases wars and massacres
Prue learns that her astral projection is able to bring out the projections of her sisters, seeing that Phoebe is pregnant she asks Paige to take her place
Paige agrees but says that it's the last time she'll act with them, she wants to leave to India with her friend Glenn to reflect

The sisters magically close the attic to avoid being perceived
Cole and Zankou are challenging each other in front of Nessus, the sisters appear and read the formula, an explosion shakes the Manor
Piper and Paige wake up in the attic while Phoebe firefightings
Prue's astral projection, in an effort to ward off her sisters's projections, was involved in the explosion, in the attic there is only her body
The girls call the ambulance and come out with the paramedics, hoping for a miracle

Prue's soul closes the door

OMG, OMG, OMG, is that how it ends??? Or do you have another one coming??? Oh, man, would I have preferred this version of Season Four to what we got! Now I'm dying to see if there's more and if so what you did with it!

I love you you use Paige and Billie - especially Paige! - and Prue and Cole and Zankou and...and...well, the whole thing!

If there's more, PLEASE continue!

[erikamarie]

Thank you for the nice words

My twins are three years old: usually on Friday afternoon we go from Lugano to my Leukerbad,now full of snow and, if we don't fable about fairies and magic, we are forced to travel listening to Let it go from rFozen uninterruptedly
So my husband Michel and I have become two storytellers

Season Five:
Prue's funeral is a watershed moment in Piper Phoebe and Paige's life
Piper discovers that she is pregnant
Phoebe discovers that all Underworld is convinced that the Source's power hadn't been destroyed but inherited by his son
Paige resolves to stay close to her sisters and put off, only put off, the trip with Glenn
Paige begins to find out her role as witch and to get passionate, as in some episodes of season 4, as the Enchantress or Trial By Magic or Size Matters, working out to become a good witch

Phoebe trumps up a potion that removes any kind of power from her baby: this makes her an easy pregnancy but doesn't eliminate the problem of the continuing attempts from upper level demons to kidnap her, she even receives an official proposal of protection from the Thorn's Brotherhood as long as she handed her son once born, because he is the son of a Brother
Piper's pregnancy is serene, she realizes that the child is even able to protect her
When they receive the Angel of Destiny proposal they refuse it without any problems, they need their powers to protect their unborn children and then they are sure that the Big Bad was weeded out and now they'll be able again to live as before,only protecting innocent

Phoebe is so frightened about her son's future to lose her power of premonition,she comes into contact with Madame Teresa who sees the future child growing up in the dungeons of Underworld
The sisters help Madame Teresa and Lydia against the gypsy hunter and become friends with Eva, with Piepr's much relief, she needs advice from a doctor, not from her sisters
Paige convinces Phoebe that only keeping her son back from the magic world, he'll be safe
The baby is born secretly thanks to Eve and Eve, between her relatives, finds the parents suitable to adopt her: she is not the expected male but a little girl
Phoebe, not to attract too much attention, decides to call her Charlotte Prudence

Phoebe is concentrated in work to forget, with Paige they decide to help Piper to give birth, they fight some warlock, save some innocent, the Thorn Brotherhood and the demons decided to grow the Source's son believe he died as announced by Phoebe, too powerful to be born

The Day The Magic Died in my eyes is one of the best episodes of the series, the magic atmosphere, the warlock in taxi, Victor and Doris who completed a Cosmopolitan love quiz, I love all of the episode
Wyatt is born, demons try to kidnap him, Paige finds herself as affectionate aunt and grinds away at hunting the demons to protect her nephew: although Sense & Sense Ability is an episode in which I'ld change nothing, Crone disappears but she isn't destroyed
Paige thinks it's finally time to live her life, to go to India with Glenn, but she ends up petrified by the Titans

Even here, I'll respect the original story, improving only the description of the goddesses, especially of Athena, the most complex goddess of the Olympus, treated as a banal warmongering
But Chris arrives and, without wanting to change too much,he changes a lot of things, takes Leo's place and sends him to the Valkyries

The plot of Valhalley of the Dolls works perfectly for my story, the sisters go to the island to free Leo,they flee but Piper turns into a Valkyrie
When Paige and Phoebe finally manage to reverse the spell and Piper is herself again, Freya smiles and tells the girls not to immediately return to the real world, there is a surprise : Prue appears, Piper and Phoebe burst into joy tears
Prue says that the Valkyries saved her spirit and that, seeing reconstituted the Power of Three, she thought it was best not to warn the sisters of her new status. She gives them a Valkyries pendant, recommending to call her in case of danger

Wyatt conjures a dragon - a runt, according to Piper - the Cleaners, fomented by some of the Elders which considered a big mistake having allowed Piper and Leo's a son to come into the world, threaten to remove the child
Piper wins the game but the hostile Elders team gain also Gideon, distressed by the Cleaners intrusion, to their cause

Phoebe hangs out with her new boss, Jason, Paige, impressed by the meet with Prue,devotes herself to full-time magic, doing some temps job for not burdening the sisters, seeing that she is still living alone
She saves Larry, meets and falls in love with Richard


No Excalibur (which never had magical powers, but it's only a symbol of royalty), the sisters save Derek's half manticore son and save Chris from his journey into the future with Bianca
Piper discovers Magic School, which is not a school but a kind of witch-family home for abandoned or orphaned young witches and the sisters get to know Gideon
Phoebe has a vision of her future, only of her, no teacher Paige or Piper's sons,and the vision of a future daughter fills her with nostalgia for her little Charlotte

During Piper's disastrous birthday, Chris has to admit the truth about the reason for his return to the past
Piper, scared, calls Prue, that promises she'll investigate on her whitelighter
Prue asks him out to P3 and,watching him, asks if he is Wyatt's little brother, becasue he resembles Piper a lot: Chris admits it and tells his story
He tells how, on his fourteenth birthday, Victor rushed to school to warn him and Wyatt that Piper and Phoebe had been killed in the kitchen of the Manor, Paige had been found injured and in a state of total amnesia among window panes

Chris tells of the tough years, of the problems among the Elders and Leo who wanted the boys to grow up under their tutelage in the Magic School and he and Wyatt, backed by Victor, that didn't want to give up their lives, among the social services that thought it'ld be impossible that Victor can grow also Phoebe's daughters - their father had disappeared - against Paige, physically delicate, with severe leaks in her memory and Victor who didn't want to give up the girls
Prue had to return from the island, tampering with a spell the documentation of her death, to assume the official legal protection of the girl
And yet, when after Paige's mysterious murder Wyatt definitely went out of control, Chris, to protect his five cousins from the war that had been unleashed, took the children to the Valkyries'island, where he met Bianca, raised by Freya after she lost her mother
Prue herself managed to give him the Valkyries's support seeing that he was stubbornly determined to go back to change the past
Phoebe hears part of the conversation, Prue asks her to keep it a secret as not to create additional temporal influences, then she cheer up Piper, she 'ld turst her whitelighter and don't get worried too much about Wyatt
Piper never lost her faith in her big sister so she believs Chris

I love I Dream of Phoebe and The Courtship of Wyatt's Father and also the following two episodes, the first of which I'ld keep only the meeting Victor- Chris,in the second I'ld remove all the magic world part

Witch Wars convinces them that Wyatt is safe, Leo agrees to go with Chris, Gideon prevents the use of potions and interferes on the spell, Leo and Chris enter the attic, go down the stairs and meet Piper, a Piper in her 50s, smiling and serene while she is chatting with her daughter Melinda, a kind of brunette version of the twenty-five Wyatt
With huge astonishment, Leo understands that they are in (Morality Bites)the timelinein which Phoebe was executed

On their own timelines, meanwhile, Gideon creates a diversion to shed Paige from the Manor, then he visits Piper and magically hastens the delivery
Gideon volunteers to look after Wyatt while Phoebe rushes to the hospital with her sister

Gideon close the Manor door

[Esmeralda]

Mar 21, 2016 14:10:36 GMT -5 erikamarie said:

Thank you for the nice words

You're welcomed.

My twins are three years old: usually on Friday afternoon we go from Lugano to my Leukerbad,now full of snow and, if we don't fable about fairies and magic, we are forced to travel listening to Let it go from rFozen uninterruptedly
So my husband Michel and I have become two storytellers

LOL! What a cool reason for becoming storytellers. Like them, I've sure enjoyed this one!

Season Five:
Prue's funeral is a watershed moment in Piper Phoebe and Paige's life

Oh, yes, having Prue's funeral at this point rather than after Season Four just makes so much more sense!

Piper discovers that she is pregnant
Phoebe discovers that all Underworld is convinced that the Source's power hadn't been destroyed but inherited by his son
Paige resolves to stay close to her sisters and put off, only put off, the trip with Glenn
Paige begins to find out her role as witch and to get passionate, as in some episodes of season 4, as the Enchantress or Trial By Magic or Size Matters, working out to become a good witch

Phoebe trumps up a potion that removes any kind of power from her baby: this makes her an easy pregnancy but doesn't eliminate the problem of the continuing attempts from upper level demons to kidnap her, she even receives an official proposal of protection from the Thorn's Brotherhood as long as she handed her son once born, because he is the son of a Brother

Such a perfect way to handle the Phoetus! Congratulations! That's *so* how it should've been done on the show.

Piper's pregnancy is serene, she realizes that the child is even able to protect her

*sigh* So she gets the all-magical child. We'll never totally agree on that point, but I'm very curious to see what you do with it.

When they receive the Angel of Destiny proposal they refuse it without any problems, they need their powers to protect their unborn children and then they are sure that the Big Bad was weeded out and now they'll be able again to live as before,only protecting innocent

...if only, huh???

Phoebe is so frightened about her son's future to lose her power of premonition,she comes into contact with Madame Teresa who sees the future child growing up in the dungeons of Underworld

YIKES!

The sisters help Madame Teresa and Lydia against the gypsy hunter and become friends with Eva, with Piepr's much relief, she needs advice from a doctor, not from her sisters
Paige convinces Phoebe that only keeping her son back from the magic world, he'll be safe
The baby is born secretly thanks to Eve and Eve, between her relatives, finds the parents suitable to adopt her: she is not the expected male but a little girl
Phoebe, not to attract too much attention, decides to call her Charlotte Prudence

I like that name, even if I always thought that Phoebe would be the one to keep the "P" tradition. But since she'd want the baby hidden, it makes sense that she *wouldn't* give her a "P" name.

Phoebe is concentrated in work to forget, with Paige they decide to help Piper to give birth, they fight some warlock, save some innocent, the Thorn Brotherhood and the demons decided to grow the Source's son believe he died as announced by Phoebe, too powerful to be born

Here's hoping they keep believing that and don't find out that Charlotte was that child. But since she has no powers...

The Day The Magic Died in my eyes is one of the best episodes of the series, the magic atmosphere, the warlock in taxi, Victor and Doris who completed a Cosmopolitan love quiz, I love all of the episode
Wyatt is born, demons try to kidnap him, Paige finds herself as affectionate aunt and grinds away at hunting the demons to protect her nephew: although Sense & Sense Ability is an episode in which I'ld change nothing, Crone disappears but she isn't destroyed
Paige thinks it's finally time to live her life, to go to India with Glenn, but she ends up petrified by the Titans

YIKES!

Even here, I'll respect the original story, improving only the description of the goddesses, especially of Athena, the most complex goddess of the Olympus, treated as a banal warmongering

Amen, even if I'd change most of S6, which 'Oh, My Goddess!' will always been a part of my least-favorite season.

But Chris arrives and, without wanting to change too much,he changes a lot of things, takes Leo's place and sends him to the Valkyries

The plot of Valhalley of the Dolls works perfectly for my story, the sisters go to the island to free Leo,they flee but Piper turns into a Valkyrie
When Paige and Phoebe finally manage to reverse the spell and Piper is herself again, Freya smiles and tells the girls not to immediately return to the real world, there is a surprise : Prue appears, Piper and Phoebe burst into joy tears

OOOOOO! Now there's a way of using those boring Valkyries (only used to show off skin on them and the Charmed Ones) that would make sense!

Prue says that the Valkyries saved her spirit and that, seeing reconstituted the Power of Three, she thought it was best not to warn the sisters of her new status. She gives them a Valkyries pendant, recommending to call her in case of danger

ULTRA-cool! Now that would be the proper way to bring back Prue!

Wyatt conjures a dragon - a runt, according to Piper

ROFL! That is just *so* Piper! Good job!

the Cleaners, fomented by some of the Elders which considered a big mistake having allowed Piper and Leo's a son to come into the world, threaten to remove the child
Piper wins the game but the hostile Elders team gain also Gideon, distressed by the Cleaners intrusion, to their cause

YIKES!

Phoebe hangs out with her new boss, Jason, Paige, impressed by the meet with Prue,devotes herself to full-time magic, doing some temps job for not burdening the sisters, seeing that she is still living alone
She saves Larry, meets and falls in love with Richard


No Excalibur (which never had magical powers, but it's only a symbol of royalty), the sisters save Derek's half manticore son and save Chris from his journey into the future with Bianca

Boring, but okay.

Piper discovers Magic School, which is not a school but a kind of witch-family home for abandoned or orphaned young witches and the sisters get to know Gideon

OH! Now *that* would be the perfect way of using the Magic School without making it too much like Harry Potter! Great job!

Phoebe has a vision of her future, only of her, no teacher Paige or Piper's sons,and the vision of a future daughter fills her with nostalgia for her little Charlotte

I can imagine...

During Piper's disastrous birthday, Chris has to admit the truth about the reason for his return to the past
Piper, scared, calls Prue, that promises she'll investigate on her whitelighter
Prue asks him out to P3 and,watching him, asks if he is Wyatt's little brother, becasue he resembles Piper a lot: Chris admits it and tells his story
He tells how, on his fourteenth birthday, Victor rushed to school to warn him and Wyatt that Piper and Phoebe had been killed in the kitchen of the Manor, Paige had been found injured and in a state of total amnesia among window panes

Chris tells of the tough years, of the problems among the Elders and Leo who wanted the boys to grow up under their tutelage in the Magic School and he and Wyatt, backed by Victor, that didn't want to give up their lives, among the social services that thought it'ld be impossible that Victor can grow also Phoebe's daughters - their father had disappeared - against Paige, physically delicate, with severe leaks in her memory and Victor who didn't want to give up the girls
Prue had to return from the island, tampering with a spell the documentation of her death, to assume the official legal protection of the girl
And yet, when after Paige's mysterious murder Wyatt definitely went out of control, Chris, to protect his five cousins from the war that had been unleashed, took the children to the Valkyries'island, where he met Bianca, raised by Freya after she lost her mother
Prue herself managed to give him the Valkyries's support seeing that he was stubbornly determined to go back to change the past
Phoebe hears part of the conversation, Prue asks her to keep it a secret as not to create additional temporal influences, then she cheer up Piper, she 'ld turst her whitelighter and don't get worried too much about Wyatt

OMG! Now if THAT's how they'd shown the past to be, I might actually like Chris. As is, when his life didn't seem all that terrible in 'ChrisCrossed' I always thought he just came back in time to make his and Bianca's life better - to heck with the rest of the world - just like his mother and aunts the following season when the Avatars promote the idea of Utopia.

I have just one question.  In your version, was Chris lying when he said that Paige was killed during the Titan attack, since once more she's part of his future?  Or are you saying that what he does in the past affects his memories of the future, even if that never happened to anyone else who time-traveled to the past.

Piper never lost her faith in her big sister so she believs Chris

What a difference having Prue around would've made!

I love I Dream of Phoebe and The Courtship of Wyatt's Father and also the following two episodes, the first of which I'ld keep only the meeting Victor- Chris,in the second I'ld remove all the magic world part

I also love I Dream of Phoebe but can do without Poor, Poor Pitiful Chris being conceived in an alley. I also didn't believe a word Chris told Victor - as always, it seemed to me like he was just saying what he thought Victor wanted to hear, just like he had done to Piper in 'Oh, My Goddess' when he told her there was no such thing as family where he came from - what a little liar!  And because he never admitted his lies and never said he was sorry for his lies, I never believed a word he said.  So hoping that I can trust your version more, does he ever admit and ask forgiveness for his lies?

Witch Wars convinces them that Wyatt is safe, Leo agrees to go with Chris, Gideon prevents the use of potions and interferes on the spell, Leo and Chris enter the attic, go down the stairs and meet Piper, a Piper in her 50s, smiling and serene while she is chatting with her daughter Melinda, a kind of brunette version of the twenty-five Wyatt
With huge astonishment, Leo understands that they are in (Morality Bites)the timelinein which Phoebe was executed

On their own timelines, meanwhile, Gideon creates a diversion to shed Paige from the Manor, then he visits Piper and magically hastens the delivery
Gideon volunteers to look after Wyatt while Phoebe rushes to the hospital with her sister

Gideon close the Manor door

OMG! OMG! OMG! Now that's SUCH a better way of doing it than "It's a Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad World', one of my least-favorite episodes, like most of the season/series finales.

You HAVE to tell me that there's still as Season Six coming (remembering that in this thread you can't do more than six season) and you'll let us know what happens soon.

Had it been done this way, I think I just might have liked Chris - as long as he admitted to his lies and asked forgiveness for them.

[sol]

I like these seasons

Es, it's so serious a white lie?

Chris lied about the Titans, it was a coverage to save his family from a bad reality and to become the sisters whitelighter

History teaches us that lies are sometimes necessary and sometimes the truth can only do harm

[Esmeralda]

Mar 22, 2016 5:02:07 GMT -5 sol said:

I like these seasons

Es, it's so serious a white lie?

Chris lied about the Titans, it was a coverage to save his family from a bad reality and to become the sisters whitelighter

History teaches us that lies are sometimes necessary and sometimes the truth can only do harm

Yes, it is when he comes from the future and lies about the future especially about something like family that is so important to Piper and which he knew would hurt her and then never apologizes for it. That's not a white lie. It's a seriously mean one. And what bad reality? You showed one. I really don't think the one we saw in 'ChrisCrossed' was that bad and thanks to his lies, we can't believe a word Chris says about the future. After 'ChrisCrossed' I was sure he was the evil one who was going to kill Leo and Wyatt. Had he apologized, then we could trust him, but not until.

Yes, little white lies (which this one wasn't) can be necessary - but if you want the trust of the one you lied to, you must go back and apologize.

If you like those seasons (and I know there are fans who do) and can trust the little liar, then, of course, they belong in your Dream Charmed untouched. AND I still want to see your Season Six! You can't leave it like that! Unless you tell me that that is indeed your shocking ending...

[erikamarie]

I also never liked the ending, unnecessarily complicated
I have rewritten, though it's not the end but the premiere, always trying to retie the threads

Season six
Premiere

Leo recognizes the timeline and explains to Piper and Melinda who they are and what they know about their life
With a smile, Piper tells they may not know everything
At the time of execution, Piper remembers being awakened by a strange dream, in which she was 10 years younger and still tied to her sisters
In a fit of nostalgia for what they had lost, she called Prue asking to modify the plan: use a spell to make believe that the story of the witches was a fake and then request a fair trial for Phoebe
Despite Elders opposition, Prue and Piper were successful in their magical efforts, Pratt had been discredited, Phoebe was processed and a good lawyer asked for the temporary insanity brought on by stress and pain
Phoebe had won the trial and was sentenced to a few years

Their life was changed, however, they got back as sisters and witches
Prue devoted part of her wealth to a foundation that took care of sick children where Phoebe started to work at the end of sentence
Leo, resentful with the Elders because they'ld resolve the situation but they refused, asked for turning a human again, and since then he worked in the Foundation
Melinda, contrary to family trends, is an electronic engineer and Chris is amazed, even Wyatt loved the same subject, his is the invention of the probes that identify witches
The old timeline Leo comes back, together they try to understand what happened, Melinda, very logical youg woman, notes that if Gideon is the expert of portals and contribuited with the spell, it cannot be a coincidence that instead of advancing in time they got into a parallel reality
Leo then recalls a Odin's observation about the birth of Melinda: he said it was a relief she was born like clockwork, the Elders feared that, if she was born in advance, how many first children, she'ld risk being born on a particular day, and she'ld be too much powerful
It's clear to everyone that it's Gideon the Big Evil after Wyatt
Piper and Melinda write a new spell to send Leo and Chris back in the right reality

Wyatt, closed in his shield, runs away terrified in the dark Underworld, the news spreads and the demons open the hunt for the special child
Chris, back in the right timeline, feel his terror, along with Leo trace him but the kid rejects even his father, it's Chris who can pick him up

Leo tells Chris to bring the kid to safety to their aunts and stay with them, he has to track down Gideon and deliver him to the Elders
Chris tracks his aunts, delivers Wyatt to Phoebe but is woried about Leo, he doesn't judge his father powerful enough to face Gideon
Chris knows Underworld very well, when the Elders wanted to force them to live in the Magic School, he and Wyatt have fled and hidden right there

His contacts warn him that the Triad is reincarnated and that the Elder is searching contacts with them due to their secret weapon
Chris approachs a cave, he sees Gideon talking with a demon who wear the black robe with the Triad symbol
As Chris tries to listen, he sees a shaking blond girl, he approaches her and tries to reassure her, saying that he'll take her away from there
She hugs him and stabs him

Wyatt feels the pain of his brother and orbs with a stunned Phoebe in Underwrold
Leo, always looking for Gideon, comes in time to see Chris disappearing from Phoebe's arms under the bloody little hands of Wyatt, who is trying to heal him and bursts into tears

[sol]

Mar 22, 2016 13:36:46 GMT -5 erikamarie said:

I also never liked the ending, unnecessarily complicated
I have rewritten, though it's not the end but the premiere, always trying to retie the threads

Season six
Premiere

Leo recognizes the timeline and explains to Piper and Melinda who they are and what they know about their life
With a smile, Piper tells they may not know everything
At the time of execution, Piper remembers being awakened by a strange dream, in which she was 10 years younger and still tied to her sisters
In a fit of nostalgia for what they had lost, she called Prue asking to modify the plan: use a spell to make believe that the story of the witches was a fake and then request a fair trial for Phoebe
Despite Elders opposition, Prue and Piper were successful in their magical efforts, Pratt had been discredited, Phoebe was processed and a good lawyer asked for the temporary insanity brought on by stress and pain
Phoebe had won the trial and was sentenced to a few years

Their life was changed, however, they got back as sisters and witches
Prue devoted part of her wealth to a foundation that took care of sick children where Phoebe started to work at the end of sentence
Leo, resentful with the Elders because they'ld resolve the situation but they refused, asked for turning a human again, and since then he worked in the Foundation
Melinda, contrary to family trends, is an electronic engineer and Chris is amazed, even Wyatt loved the same subject, his is the invention of the probes that identify witches
The old timeline Leo comes back, together they try to understand what happened, Melinda, very logical youg woman, notes that if Gideon is the expert of portals and contribuited with the spell, it cannot be a coincidence that instead of advancing in time they got into a parallel reality
Leo then recalls a Odin's observation about the birth of Melinda: he said it was a relief she was born like clockwork, the Elders feared that, if she was born in advance, how many first children, she'ld risk being born on a particular day, and she'ld be too much powerful
It's clear to everyone that it's Gideon the Big Evil after Wyatt
Piper and Melinda write a new spell to send Leo and Chris back in the right reality

Wyatt, closed in his shield, runs away terrified in the dark Underworld, the news spreads and the demons open the hunt for the special child
Chris, back in the right timeline, feel his terror, along with Leo trace him but the kid rejects even his father, it's Chris who can pick him up

Leo tells Chris to bring the kid to safety to their aunts and stay with them, he has to track down Gideon and deliver him to the Elders
Chris tracks his aunts, delivers Wyatt to Phoebe but is woried about Leo, he doesn't judge his father powerful enough to face Gideon
Chris knows Underworld very well, when the Elders wanted to force them to live in the Magic School, he and Wyatt have fled and hidden right there

His contacts warn him that the Triad is reincarnated and that the Elder is searching contacts with them due to their secret weapon
Chris approachs a cave, he sees Gideon talking with a demon who wear the black robe with the Triad symbol
As Chris tries to listen, he sees a shaking blond girl, he approaches her and tries to reassure her, saying that he'll take her away from there
She hugs him and stabs him

Wyatt feels the pain of his brother and orbs with a stunned Phoebe in Underwrold
Leo, always looking for Gideon, comes in time to see Chris disappearing from Phoebe's arms under the bloody little hands of Wyatt, who is trying to heal him and bursts into tears

I'ld like to see the remaining season
Kill Billie: Vol.1 (5)

The Lost Picture Show (7)

Hulkus Pocus (5)

Vaya Con Leos (9)

Payback's a Witch (17)

Repo Manor (3)

12 Angry Zen (5)

The Last Temptation of Christy (13)

Engaged and Confused (19)

The Torn Identity (5)

The Jung and the Restless (23)

Kill Billie: Vol. 2 (23)





Read more: thecharmedcafe.proboards.com/thread/11597/charmed-episode-elimination-game-season#ixzz44rcKy6DI

[erikamarie]

Sorry Soledad, April is a busy month, I am jumping from a country to another
When I'll go back from Milan, I'll have my pc again and I'll be able to post the story

PS I think you made a mistake and your list has nothing to do with the question

[Granny Charmed]

Mar 16, 2016 5:28:48 GMT -5 Esmeralda said:

Hmmm, that does make for a nice challenge, but for me, it's easy. I'd only go three seasons and use an updated version of my real Dream Charmed, although I'm not really sure if it would fit what Darkpassages would've wanted, since I've changed a number of the characters and who played them to better fit the character I would want in that role. But here goes. Hopefully it will inspire others to do the same.

My Dream Charmed begins the series by showing the townspeople of Salem, MA getting ready to hang Melinda Warren [Finola Hughes - one of the Charmed Ones says she looks like their mother (who was actually never supposed to be seen). And since I love the way Finola played Patty - my original favorite character and since this doesn't include Paige, she still would be - besides how much she looks like Alyssa Milano, I’d want her to play Melinda the way the actresses play their characters' past selves in 'Pardon My Past'] 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 canon one with some differences, mainly in the backstory and what comes from it.

Prudence "Prue" Halliwell [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 her grandmother, Penelope "Penny" Johnson [Jennifer Rhodes - no, in mine, Penny is not a Halliwell – and neither was the sisters' mother, Patricia "Patty" Johnson Halliwell [Finola Hughes], until she married Victor Halliwell [Tony Dennison], who would only be seen in Season One. Halliwell women do *not* keep their maiden name, just like Warren families didn't].

Roger [Matthew Ashford] isn’t Prue’s fiancé but just her supervisor, who is fired after their boss Rex Buckland [Neil Roberts] finds out that Roger stole her ideas, so Rex makes her one of the auction house managers instead. Unlike Canon Rex, my Dream Rex is truly the owner of the auction house and has been for a long time, since his secretary, Hannah Webster [Debbi Morgan] is a Seer who saw Prue getting a job there after graduating from college. Hannah never flirts with anyone, especially not Rex - like Rex, she's all business.

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 anger at the villains (both male and female, both magical and non-magical) who are after them.

Piper Halliwell [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, so since graduation from high school, Piper has always worked at Quake, even when she was at cooking school. Otherwise, no need to change her or her and Leo Wyatt’s [Brian Krause] story. Just like Canon Piper, my Dream Piper is 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 "Phoebs" Halliwell [Alyssa Milano] was the wild child and moved away to New York after Penny’ 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 Canon Phoebe, my Dream Phoebs is 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. After she finds the Book, she puts off school in order to concentrate on being a witch.  She takes temp jobs instead, and through them finds innocents for her and her sisters to save.

She is very surprised when she comes back from New York to find out that her just-as-wild high-school boyfriend is now an inspector with the San Francisco Police Department. Mark Chao [John Cho] discovers her secret during the first episode of the second half of the season after she helps him solve his most baffling case with the help of her premonition, which he sees her receive. Just like Canon Andy, my Dream Mark can accept her as a witch, but not as a wife, at least for now, and since Phoebs is nowhere close to settling down, that’s fine with her, so they just remain lovers, but now she can also tell him about magical cases and he helps the sisters out. His partner, Darryl Morris [Dorian Gregory], is always suspicious and curious as to why Mark knows so much about the cases, but never discovers the sisters’ secret.

I chose John Cho rather than Ted King since Ted looks too old to be the same age as Phoebs, besides liking the idea of one of the stars being Asian-American, since so many San Franciscans are Asian-Americans. This also means that unlike Canon Andy, my Dream Mark never moved to Washington and was never married…Also, rather obviously it's a different Asian-American who dies in 'Dead Man Dating' and whose ghost falls for Piper.

The other major difference is the season finale which combines both 'Love Hurts' and 'Déjà vu All Over Again'. In order to stop the everlasting time loop which results in the death of Leo's charge, Daisy [Kat Coio], Piper must let Leo die… Also, rather than Canon Rodriguez, the demon helping the Demon of Time [David Carridine] isn't a demon at all, instead it’s two warlocks…Rex and Hannah. Hannah could foresee the results of the time loops, but couldn't foresee or prevent hers and Rex’s vanquish.

After Leo's death, the Charmed Ones no longer need a whitelighter to guide them which they needed during their first year as witches, and we never hear the word whitelighter again, nor do we ever hear the word Elder, or, thank God, witchlighter or half-whitelighter. This means that Sam never existed, so neither would Paige. We never need to find out if dead men can sire children, and if they do, if they can pass their powers to their children.


Obviously this changes Season Two, as Piper is the one who mourns her lost love rather than Prue. This is when she goes on strike, just like she did in the beginning of 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. But unlike Canon Season Three, Leo is never returned…

Instead Henry Mitchell [Ivan Sergei] moves in next door, halfway through the season, with the following episodes similar to the first ones in Canon Season Two, but unlike Canon Dan, my Dream Henry has no reason to be jealous of Leo...only of Piper's memories of him. Instead, when he finds out that Piper is a witch, the same way Canon Henry did in Canon Season Eight, he also finds out what Leo was, and can accept that, since he respects Piper's decision to let Leo die in order to save an innocent.

Much like Canon Henry in Canon Season Eight (the reason I chose him, since he’s much more like Henry than Dan), he decides that he can accept Piper as a witch and Piper finds herself falling for him, big-time, especially because when she’s not saving innocents, he helps her have a normal life as a normal couple, something Leo could never do. We never again hear her whining about wanting a normal life. With Henry’s help, she decides to quit Quake and use the money she’s saved as a manager to start a restaurant of her own - P3.

Meanwhile, Phoebs and Mark continue to solve crimes with the help of her sisters, keeping the focus of the show on innocents, as we see all of the innocents and bad guys that we saw in Canon Season Two, with, of course, the exception of Sam who doesn’t exist. Phoebs and Mark are still lovers, but don’t even consider marriage until Phoebs almost dies trying to save an innocent, a victim of one of the crimes they're trying to solve. Mark realizes that he loves her no matter if she's a witch or not and pops the question, and she accepts.

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

The season finale is an episode similar to “The Honeymoon’s Over”, except, of course, Piper is also part of it, since no one has gone (or could ever go) Up There without suffocating from lack of oxygen. This is when we find out that Cole is indeed trying to kill the sisters. And unlike Canon Charmed, he never turns into 'Dream Belthazor' because my Dream Cole is not half-demon, instead he's a warlock who only pretends to care for Prue and simply wants to discover the sisters’ weaknesses so he can destroy them and take their powers. There is no Source or other Big Bad in my Dream Charmedverse—the one who comes closest to being that is my Dream Cole himself, who is more like a combination of Canon Belthazor and Canon Zankou than the half-demon we know, since this one is pure warlock and pure evil - in my Dream Charmedverse, the only demons are "The Demons of..." Even Hecate was a warlock using that name, not a demon. Also in mine, witches are good and warlocks are evil – sorry, in my fantasy (emphasis on fantasy...) world, no grey morality allowed! The difference is that witches who do evil turn into warlocks (so Phoebe in 'Morality Bites' is a warlock...as are the 20's cousins in 'Pardon My Past' and as is Tuatha) while warlocks who do good (like Brendan Rowe) turn into witches – my Dream Cole just isn’t one of those. Making him half-human ruins him in my eyes the same way making Paige half-whitelighter ruins her.

Unlike Canon Season Two, since there is no 'P3 H20' - no need to show anyone what could happen if a whitelighter falls in love with his charge - Prue never stops working at the auction house, nor does she ever get her astral projection power. Instead all three sisters are gaining better control of their powers (like Phoebs being able to force premonitions by touching an item and closing her eyes) and Piper and Prue can use theirs over larger distances.

Season Three, the final season of my Dream Charmed, continues to have Mark and Phoebs solving crime while also planning their wedding, so we continue to have the Bad Guy of the Week that I love, while also having the Cole story-arc that most fans love, even if some fans won't like it as much since my Dream Cole never truly loves a Charmed One, but does have a lot of chemistry with Prue. Meanwhile, Piper and Henry are becoming closer, and Prue thinks that so are she and Cole.

With these exceptions (and Phoebs and Mark not having to fight the Elders - who are never shown - in order to get married, since unlike Leo, Mark isn't dead), the season works pretty much like the canon one except that Piper never gets her explosion power and Phoebs never levitates.

Mark and Phoebs’ wedding happens halfway through the season, working much like Canon Leo and Canon Piper’s so that Patty and Penny can be part of it, although there’s also plans for a big, huge public church wedding later on, since unlike Canon Leo, Mark isn’t dead.

But rather than Prue interrupting it, it’s Shax [Michael Bailey Smith] who suddenly appears. The sisters vanquish him, but when they check the Book of Shadows, they find that he is just a warlockian hitman, so there is someone a lot worse out there. Phoebs tells Mark that she loves him and still wants to marry him, but only after they find and vanquish Shax’s boss…

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

The Angel of Destiny [Dakin Matthews] shows up, and with Melinda Warren's blessing, the sisters decide to give up their powers so they can live normal lives, with Prue finally deciding to quit Buckland's so she can try to live her own dream - that of being a photographer - something we've seen signs of since the series premiere..., Piper considering marrying Henry while happily running her restaurant, and Phoebs deciding to go back to college and become an inspector herself so she can continue to help Mark and Darryl solve crimes, even without her powers.

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

I admire that you have made things work into 3 carefully and well written seasons. Sometimes good shows need to know when to call it quits. 

I'd watch your show Esmeralda.