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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2014 12:43:21 GMT -5
I've been thinking about the many casual references made to 'Power of Three/Charmed potions' and what exactly constitutes a 'Charmed potion'? I just thought the demons/warlocks who were impressed by the potions in the Book and had never heard of such ingredients/unique potion concoctions. However, don't you think it would've been better if the sisters had to add their blood into their potions to make them 'Charmed'. I liked when potions required more work than just 'adding mandrake root' such as the 'upper-level demon vanquishing potion' which of course required a tissue sample.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2015 12:27:47 GMT -5
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Post by Esmeralda on Feb 6, 2015 14:11:32 GMT -5
I've been thinking about the many casual references made to 'Power of Three/Charmed potions' and what exactly constitutes a 'Charmed potion'? I just thought the demons/warlocks who were impressed by the potions in the Book and had never heard of such ingredients/unique potion concoctions. However, don't you think it would've been better if the sisters had to add their blood into their potions to make them 'Charmed'. I liked when potions required more work than just 'adding mandrake root' such as the 'upper-level demon vanquishing potion' which of course required a tissue sample. I would've preferred any potion used on an upper-level baddie (I *do* think there's such things as upper-level warlocks like Jeremy who were a heckova lot scarier than most of the run-of-the-mill demons who could be simply taken care of by a flick of Piper's hands) would not only require a piece of flesh (for the blood...) but also a spell. Just throwing a potion became as boring as Piper exploding demons and was part of her being the Power of One without any real need for her sisters, something Prue could never do. Also, I much preferred their own blood being a symbol of family - using blood to call to blood - than it becoming ho-hum as they threw in their own blood for each potion. But that's why I would prefer it being accompanied by a spell - a Power of Three spell spoken by all three Charmed Ones is what made them a Charmed spell, not their blood, and made the potion a Charmed potion. Of course the writers got very lazy later on in the series as they hardly used spells at all, again part of making Piper the Power of One and Phoebe and Paige as much co-stars as Darryl. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2015 12:34:30 GMT -5
I've been thinking about the many casual references made to 'Power of Three/Charmed potions' and what exactly constitutes a 'Charmed potion'? I just thought the demons/warlocks who were impressed by the potions in the Book and had never heard of such ingredients/unique potion concoctions. However, don't you think it would've been better if the sisters had to add their blood into their potions to make them 'Charmed'. I liked when potions required more work than just 'adding mandrake root' such as the 'upper-level demon vanquishing potion' which of course required a tissue sample. I would've preferred any potion used on an upper-level baddie (I *do* think there's such things as upper-level warlocks like Jeremy who were a heckova lot scarier than most of the run-of-the-mill demons who could be simply taken care of by a flick of Piper's hands) would not only require a piece of flesh (for the blood...) but also a spell. Just throwing a potion became as boring as Piper exploding demons and was part of her being the Power of One without any real need for her sisters, something Prue could never do. Also, I much preferred their own blood being a symbol of family - using blood to call to blood - than it becoming ho-hum as they threw in their own blood for each potion. But that's why I would prefer it being accompanied by a spell - a Power of Three spell spoken by all three Charmed Ones is what made them a Charmed spell, not their blood, and made the potion a Charmed potion. Of course the writers got very lazy later on in the series as they hardly used spells at all, again part of making Piper the Power of One and Phoebe and Paige as much co-stars as Darryl. I like your idea of an additional spell activating the blood in the vanquishing potions. This way, vanquishing demons requires a lot more work, specifically team work. It makes a lot of sense considering it is the combined effort of spell-casting (Power of Three spell), potion-making (vanquishing potion with the tissue sample) and their own powers (which are in the blood). |
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Post by Melinda Halliwell on Feb 14, 2015 15:47:11 GMT -5
That's what should've happened if the show had been done right wherein as evil grew each season like the sisters did then a potion with just their flesh in it wouldn't work after a while hence the need for extra firepower via power of three spell etc like they did with the warlock Shadow.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2015 14:02:56 GMT -5
That's what should've happened if the show had been done right wherein as evil grew each season like the sisters did then a potion with just their flesh in it wouldn't work after a while hence the need for extra firepower via power of three spell etc like they did with the warlock Shadow. Precisely. Initially it looked like evil WAS growing with the sisters, but that all fell by the wayside. They could've started out with basic potions, then moved onto a tissue sample being needed, and then their blood being added, then the flesh-sample/blood/spell combo. |
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Post by Melinda Halliwell on Feb 18, 2015 13:52:19 GMT -5
The only potion I remember which the charmed ones used their blood on was the one for the Spider Demon which each sister had to bless and so on.
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