Favorite Episodes: Season One Edition

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Season One was truly Charmed at its very best

[charmaggedon]

Aug 4, 2016 21:59:39 GMT -5 Esmeralda said:

Welcome! Why not start a thread for your rewatch and let us know what you think of the various seasons? Of course, that's totally up to you.

Yeah that's a good idea! In which subforum should I make the thread?

[mavbay]

In order:
Déjà Vu All Over Again
The Truth Is Out There… and It Hurts (Though, I wish Prue had trusted Andy enough to tell him the truth without using a spell)
Secrets and Guys
Dead Man Dating
Something Wicca This Way Comes
That '70s Episode
The Power of Two
The Witch Is Back

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In which subforum should I make the thread?

If your rewatch is Season One, make it in this subforum.

[lordumbrex]

My top 5:

Deja Vu All Over Again
The Witch is Back
The Fourth Sister
From Fear to Eternity
The Power of Two

[Charmed by Piper]

Something Wicca This Way Comes
Dead Man Dating
The Witch is Back
Wicca Envy
The Wendigo
That 70s Episode
Secrets and Guys
Love Hurts 

[Esmeralda]

Aug 5, 2016 12:13:05 GMT -5 charmaggedon said:

Aug 4, 2016 21:59:39 GMT -5 Esmeralda said:

Welcome! Why not start a thread for your rewatch and let us know what you think of the various seasons? Of course, that's totally up to you.

Yeah that's a good idea! In which subforum should I make the thread?

Sorry - just noticed this.

That's a bit up to you. If you want to review each of the episodes, you could set up a thread in each of the the season subforums. If you just want to do a full season review, then you could put it in the Charmed General Discussion thread. If you do long reviews, you could set up your own thread for them; if you just do shorter ones, you could do a post in this thread: thecharmedcafe.proboards.com/thread/9207/comparing-season-1-8-review

All totally up to you.

[craig]

1. Something Wicca This Way Comes
2. Dead Man Dating
3. The Witch is Back
4. Secrets and Guys
5. Is There a Woggy in the House?
6. That 70s Episode
7. The Power of Two
8. Deja Vu All Over Again

I had trouble trying to pick 8. Let me have 10 picks. LOL

[Miranda Turner]

Something Wicca This Way Comes
Dead Man Dating
The Witch is Back
Wicca Envy
Is There a Woggy in the House?
That 70s Episode
The Power of Two
Deja Vu All Over Again

[Ruth Marie]

Something Wicca This Way Comes
Dead Man Dating
The Witch is Back
Wicca Envy
From Fear to Eternity
Is There a Woggy in the House
That '70s Episode
The Power of Two
Deja Vu All Over Again

[rebooted]

1. Something Wicca
2. De Ja Vu
3. The Witch is back
4. That 70's Ep
5. Love Hurts
6. Power of Two
7. Woggy
8. Fear

I thought about Wicca Envy but I don't like the ending - how Leo just heals the book and they get their powers back? What a cop out.

[rebooted]

Would be interested to hear from the person who voted for the Wedding From Hell

I feel like I need to rewatch Dead Man Dating. It's not one I voted for or remember well but I know it is a Fan Fave.

Something Wicca has to be my favourite episode of Charmed. De Ja Vu coming very close behind.

[nini]

My Top 4

1. Something Wicca This Way Comes
2. From Fear to Eternity
3. That 70's Episode
4. Is There A Woogy In the House

[Olga Halliwell]

Something Wicca This Way Comes
Dead Man Dating
The Truth is out There and it Hurts
The Witch is Back
Wicca Envy
Secrets and Guys
That 70s Episode
Deja Vu All Over Again

[rebooted]

It's funny how Dream Sorcerer was the first episode I ever caught a glimpse of back in 1999, that drew me into the series when I was about 12 and its the least rated episodes in this poll! Not that it is one of my favourites!

It's ironic that in later seasons, bad episodes just had no redeeming qualities. However, Seasons 1, 2 and most of 3 episodes stay true to the sisterly relationship with great onset chemistry and direction, even if they weren't good episodes at all.

My 8 Faves in order:

SWTWComes
That 70's Ep
The Witch is Back
De Ja Vu All Over Again
Woggy
Love Hurts
Fear Eternity
Truth Out There and It Hurts.

Wicca Envy, Sigh Unseen, Dead Man Dating and the Power of Two are all great episodes too.

Weakest were definitely Dream Sorcerer, The Wedding From Hell and parts from When Bad Warlocks Go Good!

Thank you for not Morphing is not such a bad episode and I've Got Your Under My Skin is underrated.

I guess Which Prue Is It Anyway? is the Chick Flick/Deadly Sin's/Size Matters episode of Season 1?

[Esmeralda]

Apr 6, 2018 7:46:38 GMT -5 rebooted said:

It's funny how Dream Sorcerer was the first episode I ever caught a glimpse of back in 1999, that drew me into the series when I was about 12 and its the least rated episodes in this poll! Not that it is one of my favourites!

It's ironic that in later seasons, bad episodes just had no redeeming qualities. However, Seasons 1, 2 and most of 3 episodes stay true to the sisterly relationship with great onset chemistry and direction, even if the weren't good episodes at all.

My 8 Faves in order:

SWTWComes
That 70's Ep
The Witch is Back
De Ja Vu All Over Again
Woggy
Love Hurts
Fear Eternity
Truth Out There and It Hurts.

Wicca Envy, Sigh Unseen, Dead Man Dating and the Power of Two are all great episodes too.

Weakest were definitely Dream Sorcerer, The Wedding From Hell and parts from When Bad Warlocks Go Good!

Thank you for not Morphing is not such a bad episode and I've Got Your Under My Skin is underrated.


I guess Which Prue Is It Anyway? is the Chick Flick/Deadly Sin's/Size Matters episode of Season 1?

Not quite sure what you mean by that, especially where I put 'Chick Flick' in the funny episodes along with 'Sin Francisco' and 'Sense and Sense-Ability', all among my favorite episodes.

But you're right that there were redeeming qualities in all of these episodes, even though I don't like watching a number of them (like Dream Sorcerer) that was just too scary for me. But even skipping those scary ones, I still had a very hard time choosing just 8. I realized that I've never listed my choices. The first six were easy, since I gave them an A+ on a recent re-watch. They are (in viewing order):

1. Dead Man Dating
2. The Witch is Back
3. Wicca Envy
4. Secrets and Guys
5. That Seventies Episode
6. Love Hurts
7. Deja vu All Over Again

But that 8th one was tough since I have a bunch that got A's. So I just voted for 7.

Here are my grades for the entire season:

1. Something Wicca This Way Comes - A
2. I've Got You Under My Skin - B
3. Thank You For Not Morphing - A-
4. Dead Man Dating - A+
5. Dream Sorcerer - C-
6. Wedding From Hell - C-
7. The Fourth Sister - A
8. The Truth is Out There and It Hurts - A
9. The Witch is Back - A+
10. Wicca Envy - A+
11. Feats of Clay - B-
12. The Wendigo - C-
13. From Fear to Eternity - A
14. Secrets and Guys - A+
15. Is There a Woogy in the House? - A
16. Which Prue Is It Anyway? - A
17. That Seventies Episode - A++
18. When Bad Warlocks Turn Good - A
19. Out of Sight - A-
20. The Power of Two - A
21. Love Hurts - A+
22. Deja vu All Over Again - A++

And my summary for that season:

SEASON ONE - Summary

Like I've been saying all along, I've been thoroughly enjoying my first Charmed re-watch in several years, getting to see what the sisters started like, and wishing they could've remained more like them. Yeah, it took them a while to get their footing, but once they did, oh, it was such fun!

As always, I loved it best when they were acting like sisters, with the supernatural part of it a distant second, especially when that part would scare the bejesus out of me, the reason why I don't watch most supernatural shows which are usually all about special effects trying to (and usually succeeding) in giving me nightmares, or teenagers with a lot of teenaged angst, neither of which appeal to me, but since it appears that both do appeal to others, I can see why they like those shows. It's why I've never watched Buffy or Supernatural, but I can see why others have enjoyed those shows.

I loved Prue and Andy's love story, but I wish that Andy had found out Prue's secret much earlier and that she hadn't lied to him, the way I will always wish that Phoebe didn't lie to Prue about vanquishing Cole - turnabout is fair play, Prue! I wish Prue and Andy had been the couple we got to follow throughout the entire series (with them always being lovers but never married and never having kids, at least not until after the truce in Season 8) rather than Piper and Leo, whose love story I ADORED during this season, but makes me shudder as I remember what happens to it in latter years.

What I didn't like was the glimpses of what they're going to turn into - Prue's pride; Piper's self-centeredness; Phoebe thinking that sex=love. People who love moral ambiguity probably loved those glimpses. I who don't no matter how unrealistic that is don't. When I watch a pure fantasy show, which I'm partially watching so I can get lost in a fantasy world and totally forget about the real world and all of its problems, I want my good characters to be good and my evil characters to be evil and never the twain shall meet.

In most cases this happened during this season, part of why I like it so much and can't wait to watch Season Two, while not looking forward to Season Three when Brad Kern takes over and introduces a morally-grey Cole who messes the whole thing up.

That was a couple years ago, but I can't say my reactions have changed much.

This was such fun, getting to re-read this, that I've decided to do the same for the rest of that old re-watch.

[prudencehalliwell]

This is going to be tough, I can easily vote for about 14 of them.

1. Dead Man Dating
2. The Witch is Back
3. Wicca Envy
4. Secrets and Guys
5. Which Prue Is It Anyway?
6. That Seventies Episode
7. The Power of Two
8. Deja Vu All Over Again

[Miranda Turner]

Out of Sight and Feats of Clay I always forget those episodes. As I found with They're Everywhere in S2. It falls under the forgotten episodes I rarely see spoken about at the Cafe.

But like They're Everywhere which I loved on a rewatch last year. I might need to rewatch Out of Sight.

[pheebs]

I was going to vote in here, but I'm going to wait until we finish our S1 rewatch next summer. My mind will change, and I'll be curious to see how many others consider changing their eight choices, or those who do rewatch S1 each week for the anniversary.

[rebooted]

The last half of Season 1 is so beautifully written.

From Fear to Eternity until the end. Even the weaker episodes like When Bad Warlocks Go Good are still really good character development episodes.

It's just a shame the white lighters are introduced by this point with as many powers that they have.

I didn't think much of it when I first watched Season 1, but I would have never have guessed that 'Wicca Envy' and 'Secrets and Guys' would have had that much impact on the rest of the series.

I would have preferred Leo's wings being clipped by the end of Season 3 with Paige entering in Season 4 with TK Orbing and Healing powers.

Then again, I would have preferred that Shannen Doherty stayed for a 4th and final season.