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Post by Esmeralda on Oct 1, 2014 23:52:09 GMT -5
Saw this at another site and very simply HAD to share!
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I had a really rough day at work and so needed something like this that made me laugh!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2015 11:37:10 GMT -5
Ha! I like this. Yeah Brody was terribly inconsistent. He had a bit of Cole syndrome: what will his personality be today? Who knows? One of the things I hate about the Utopia story line is that the whole 'got to get out of Utopia' thing hinged on the notion that death should not be glossed over. And all the time I was just thinking "Erm, this is Charmed I'm watching right? You guys gloss over death all the time!" There were at least 5 times that the sisters came back from death in this season alone! The only reason death has to have meaning on this show is if an actor refuses to come back! And then just to make my point, after Utopia is undone and the Avatars are gone, Paige finds out that Kyle is a whitelighter. Awww, so he isn't gone after all. Thank God the Avatars aren't around to gloss over death anymore, huh guys?!  |
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Post by Melinda Halliwell on Mar 15, 2015 5:40:48 GMT -5
Oh no absolutely. Death definately meant nothing on Charmed in like there was no rule that when a character was dead they stayed dead unless a person left the show like in Supernatural for e.g. when the Winchester brothers died so many times over the years and have come back etc I mean come on. I love the boys and everything but there's only so many times writers can keep rehasing that and so on.
And what exactly did Brody do to become a Whitelighter when the reason your choosen as one is by doing good things like with Leo saving lives in WW2 and Maggie Murphy helping people etc who were better candidates for that than Brody who just helped stop the Avatars plan letting the PO3 really know about them despite the fact he was obsessed with the Avatars the whole time actually.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2015 8:41:47 GMT -5
Yep, put a woman in a coma and lock her in a psychiatric hospital, team up with a demon, infect the sisters with a paranoia spell and bippity boppady boo, you get to be an angel!  I think The Elders just hated the Avatars that much that they rewarded Kyle way more than he really deserved. As you say, I thought being a whitelighter was generally meant to come from dedicating your life to helping others. If that's not the case, I still don't see how they can justify making Kyle a whitelighter, when neither Andy or Prue were rewarded. Then again, the whole whitelighter thing was very inconsistent. I hate to bring up season 8, but take Mikelle (Paige's charge) for example. She was a future whitelighter and Paige was protecting Mikelle from darklighters so that she could fulfill her destiny, but she was killed before she got the chance... but became a whitelighter anyway. Why? She didn't do anything! What's the point in darklighters targetting future whitelighters if the Elders make them into whitelighters for no reason either way? |
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Post by Melinda Halliwell on Mar 15, 2015 13:59:29 GMT -5
True.
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Post by adzpower on Mar 24, 2015 9:40:29 GMT -5
Haha, it's true, death meant nothing in this show let's be honest, you can summon anyone back from the dead with a handy-dandy ghost summoning spell, that or you become a whitelighter, the ghosts become corporeal, I mean, the whole coping with the loss of their mother felt kind of redundant when they summoned her and grams back on a whim whenever they wanted.
Leo got a get out of jail free card because whilst he was an elder/whitelighter, there was literally just one thing that could kill him, even if he'd gotten flattened by a bus I bet within a few seconds he'd be totally healed up and ready to orb off somewhere.
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Post by lilchi7212 on Jul 28, 2015 14:19:45 GMT -5
They never stuck with the same script writers every episode
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Post by Esmeralda on Jul 28, 2015 15:08:48 GMT -5
They never stuck with the same script writers every episode That shouldn't matter. Most TV shows use different writers, but if it's going to be taken seriously, then the showrunner (that's you, Connie Burge and/or Brad Kern!) should be certain that things are kept consistent, since that's what allows the viewer to suspend disbelief - where we can really believe that there's such thing as witches with powers or dead men siring children or people dying and constantly coming back and all of the other fantasy things we see. This is especially true during a single season. . |
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Post by lilchi7212 on Jul 28, 2015 15:19:31 GMT -5
They never stuck with the same script writers every episode That shouldn't matter. Most TV shows use different writers, but if it's going to be taken seriously, then the showrunner (that's you, Connie Burge and/or Brad Kern!) should be certain that things are kept consistent, since that's what allows the viewer to suspend disbelief - where we can really believe that there's such thing as witches with powers or dead men siring children or people dying and constantly coming back and all of the other fantasy things we see. This is especially true during a single season. Why did they hire Kern in the first place? |
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Post by Esmeralda on Jul 28, 2015 18:13:04 GMT -5
That shouldn't matter. Most TV shows use different writers, but if it's going to be taken seriously, then the showrunner (that's you, Connie Burge and/or Brad Kern!) should be certain that things are kept consistent, since that's what allows the viewer to suspend disbelief - where we can really believe that there's such thing as witches with powers or dead men siring children or people dying and constantly coming back and all of the other fantasy things we see. This is especially true during a single season. Why did they hire Kern in the first place? Because he did what TheWB wanted him to do... And Connie Burge had never been a showrunner, while Kern had. And then when Connie didn't want to do with her show what TheWB wanted her to do while Kern did, Connie was out; Kern was in. |
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Post by lilchi7212 on Jul 28, 2015 18:37:15 GMT -5
Why did they hire Kern in the first place? Because he did what TheWB wanted him to do... And Connie Burge had never been a showrunner, while Kern had. And then when Connie didn't want to do with her show what TheWB wanted her to do while Kern did, Connie was out; Kern was in. Stupid WB! |
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Post by Esmeralda on Jul 28, 2015 21:15:18 GMT -5
Because he did what TheWB wanted him to do... And Connie Burge had never been a showrunner, while Kern had. And then when Connie didn't want to do with her show what TheWB wanted her to do while Kern did, Connie was out; Kern was in. Stupid WB! That's the understatement of the century!!! But I get the feeling that you're a Cole-fan. Connie only wanted Cole to be part of Season Three (she wanted the focus to always be on the sisters), while TheWB and Kern wanted the "romance" between the half-demon and the youngest witch to last at least a couple of seasons. Still think stupid WB?  I do, but I wonder if you do... |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2015 23:58:11 GMT -5
Considering how Cole's character was butchered in Season Five, I too say "Stupid WB".
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Post by Sadrick on Jul 30, 2015 12:20:54 GMT -5
It really the begs the question on how things would have panned out if Connie had been allowed to keep her authority over the direction of the series. Would Cole have been vanquished once he had been discovered instead of Phoebe faking his death and killing two times over? How would the rest of the season have gone without Cole's presence since he was integral to later plotlines like with Dantalian and the Brotherhood of the Thorn? These what-ifs always arise when the content of the writer is put under scrutiny.
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Post by lilchi7212 on Jul 30, 2015 13:05:08 GMT -5
It really the begs the question on how things would have panned out if Connie had been allowed to keep her authority over the direction of the series. Would Cole have been vanquished once he had been discovered instead of Phoebe faking his death and killing two times over? How would the rest of the season have gone without Cole's presence since he was integral to later plotlines like with Dantalian and the Brotherhood of the Thorn? These what-ifs always arise when the content of the writer is put under scrutiny. Hard to say! |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2015 23:56:16 GMT -5
If Connie had stayed, I get the feeling we would have been spared the worst of the later seasons.
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