Favorite Episodes: Season Two Edition (REPOST)

[West]

Apr 22, 2016 6:52:45 GMT -5 Granny Charmed said:

Apr 22, 2016 4:27:26 GMT -5 @mrmilano said:

Nice choice.

What do you like most about Heartbreak City?

I found real genuine chemistry between Phoebe and Cupid.

Why these silly writers didnt use him in season 8 as her true love is unbelievable.

Maybe the actor was unavailable or he wasnt *cough* WB pretty.

[charmaggedon]

-Witch trial
-Morality bites
-Awakened
-Animal Pragmatism
-How to make a quilt out of americans
-Chick flick
-Astral Monkey
-Be careful what you witch for

Some amazing episodes this season! Way harder to choose 8 episodes than it was for season 1!

[Charmed by Piper]

Not fair! I can name at least 12 in this season. Lets see how I go.

- Witch Trial
- Morality bites
- P3H20
- Awakened
- Chick Flick
- Astral Monkey
- Apocalypse Not
- Be Careful What You Wish For

[Ruth Marie]

Witch Trial
Morality Bites
Miss Hellfire
Heartbreak City
Give Me a Sign
Chick Flick
Ex Libris
Apocalypse Not

[rebooted]

1. Morality Bites
2. Chick Flick
3. Pardon My Past
4. Astral Monkey
5. P3H20
6. Reckless Abandon
7. Apocalypse
8. Ms Hellfire

I think Awakened is a silly episode and still don't understand how Leo saved Piper. The ninja doll ?
Be Careful was a good episode but it just lacked originality with the 3 wishes.

I think Murphys Luck is another amazing episode.

Season 2 is the hardest to choose a top 8 for because of how many great episodes there are!

[craig]

1. Witch Trial
2. Morality Bites
3. Ms. Hellfire
4. Awakened
5. Chick Flick
6. Ex Libris
7. Astral Monkey
8. Apocalypse, Not

Was VERY hard to pick just 8. At least make it an even 10 for picking. LOL

[rebooted]

My Fave would be between Chick Flick and Morality Bites. Episodes that are so opposing in tones!

[nini]

Season 2 is definitely my favorite season. And Chick Flick my favorite Episode. I really like that 2 of my favorite episodes are back to back with Ex-Libris being after that

1. Chick Flick
2. Ex - Libris
3. Morality Bites
4. Pardon My past
5. Give me A Sign
6. They're Everywhere
7.Apocalypse Not
8. The Painted World

[rebooted]

Morality Bites 
P3 H20
Reckless Abandon
Awakened
Pardon my Past 
Chick Flick
Astral Monkeys
Apoocylpes Not

This was the hardest poll to only choose 8 episodes from

[Ruth Marie]

Aug 7, 2017 16:45:12 GMT -5 rebooted said:

Morality Bites 
P3 H20
Reckless Abandon
Awakened
Pardon my Past 
Chick Flick
Astral Monkeys
Apoocylpes Not

This was the hardest poll to only choose 8 episodes from

It really is hard isn't it. If someone told me to make a top 50 list of my most watchable episodes of Charmed, I think I would have a hard time struggling to pick episodes from every season, that I expect S2 to be in the majority.

[gzv969]

It's hard because season 2 was when the sisters struggled with a lot of things. They just started to get a handle on things.

On the one hand Phoebe had no cares and no issues casting spells to get what she wanted. And she did so often.

Piper struggled with whether to date a mortal or an angel and whether she really wanted a charmed life.

Prue struggled with work and being charmed and wanted to spend more time fighting demons.

[rebooted]

I would love to hear from the person who voted for That Old Black Magic. It kinda makes me cringe! But interested to hear what they have to say!

[Granny Charmed]

Oct 30, 2017 5:47:13 GMT -5 rebooted said:

I would love to hear from the person who voted for That Old Black Magic. It kinda makes me cringe! But interested to hear what they have to say!

Me too dear. 

Surprised Reckless Abandon has little votes. But maybe it was one of those episodes that aren't remembered well, which has happened to me with episodes that I don't hate. I just don't remember much due to not seeing it in a long time.

[Esmeralda]

It's why I like the idea of starting a board re-watch when we get 180 days away from the 20th anniversary, doing an episode each day at three different times so everyone can get a chance to watch no matter in the world they are, and then doing a review afterwards. Give us all a chance to find out if we truly still feel the same about the episodes.

For me, I think it would be fun to do a reverse-re-watch, starting with 'Forever Charmed' and ending with 'Something Wicca This Way Comes', but, of course, that would be up to the board.

[Olga Halliwell]

Dec 30, 2017 10:44:32 GMT -5 Esmeralda said:

It's why I like the idea of starting a board re-watch when we get 180 days away from the 20th anniversary, doing an episode each day at three different times so everyone can get a chance to watch no matter in the world they are, and then doing a review afterwards. Give us all a chance to find out if we truly still feel the same about the episodes.

For me, I think it would be fun to do a reverse-re-watch, starting with 'Forever Charmed' and ending with 'Something Wicca This Way Comes', but, of course, that would be up to the board.

That sounds like a great idea Es. But a big challenge to be committed to it for that length of time.  I'm not sure I could keep up, so I might do it at my own pace, and watch select episodes. But the threads are here so anyone can pop in and out at any time. 

I like this idea very much, because we are going backward. So leaving the more popular seasons of Charmed last is better. If it were the other way round, I very much doubt some will stick it through. If we did this seriously as a board, I think doing a reverse-re-watch is the way to do it. 

[Ruth Marie]

Oct 30, 2017 5:47:13 GMT -5 rebooted said:

I would love to hear from the person who voted for That Old Black Magic. It kinda makes me cringe! But interested to hear what they have to say!

I'm curious myself. What did they like about it, did they like the villain in that episode?

[Sasha]

Reckless Abandon and Give Me a Sign are both very underrated episodes?

[gzv969]

That old black magic would have been better as a Season 1 episode. Maybe one of the last 3 before “Deja Vu all over again”

[Esmeralda]

I had fun posting my grades and summary for Season One from my latest re-watch a couple of years ago. So I decided to do the same for the rest of that re-watch.

Here are my grades for Season Two:

SEASON TWO EPISODE GRADES:

Witch Trial – A-
Morality Bites – A+++
The Painted Word – B+
The Devil’s Music – B+
She’s a Man, Baby, a Man – B-
That Old Black Magic – D+
They’re Everywhere – A+
P3 H20 – A+
Ms. Hellfire – B+
Heartbreak City – A+
Reckless Abandon – A-
Awakened – D+
Animal Pragmatism – F+
Pardon My Past – B-
Show Me a Sign – A+
Murphy’s Luck – A+
How to Make a Quilt Out of Americans – F
Chick Flick – A
Ex Libris – A
Astral Monkey – B+
Apocalypse Not – A
Be Careful What You Witch For – C

And here's my Summary:

SEASON TWO – Summary

Unlike Season One, I didn’t enjoy my Season Two re-watch as much as I thought I would. And the reason was easy – what is usually my favorite story arc in this one – the Leo-Piper-Dan triangle – was my least-favorite mainly because I thought that Dan was so perfect for Piper while Leo was so unperfect, especially knowing how she will emasculate him and turn an angel into her own little errand boy. Leo was also extraordinarily annoying – talking about doing his job but wanting nothing but Piper. The Elders were stupid for putting him on suspension; they should’ve simply let him keep his wings but stay away from Piper forever. And Piper was even more annoying, especially with the way she treated Dan in saying that she loved him and could tell him everything – except the family secret, which proved that she didn’t and was only using him to try to have her normal life. When she died in “Awakened”, I found myself wishing that she’d stayed dead, that like earlier, because the Elders wouldn’t let Leo heal Piper’s poison ivy in “P3 H2O” because it wasn’t meant because it didn’t happen for magical reasons, the same thing should’ve happened in “Awakened” – that’s when we should’ve met Paige. Either that or when Piper asked Leo if he was really leaving for good at the end of P3 H20, he really was. Only Leo comforting Piper at the end of “Astral Monkey” made me glad that that couple was still around.

This will probably also ruin the rest of my re-watch, but I’m hoping that by skipping S5, S6 and especially S8 that I won’t feel this way.

Prue and Phoebe are totally different stories. I loved Prue a lot more during this season, and especially loved her and Bane. I love the fact that in “Give Me as Sign” rather than the spell pointing Piper to her true love (which makes sense – as far as I’m concerned, neither Leo nor Dan are…) it instead sent Prue to Bane. I’ll always wish that had Shannen not been fired that Bane would’ve gotten out for good behavior and that they would’ve been the two who married and had kids. “Reckless Abandoned” shows what a crappy mother Piper would and did make, but what a wonderful mother Prue or Phoebe would make.

Speaking of Phoebe, I also totally loved my Phoebs, still my favorite sister, mainly because she was never in love (Halliwells in love are usually not good people, especially when they’re not with their own true love – like Prue with Bane, the way Phoebe’s true love, Drake, made her a better person and Piper’s true love, Mark the ghost, made her a better person), even if I wish that one of the guys she did meet – Cupid and Billy—ended up being her true love, especially Cupid over Coop. Billy was the perfect fantasy guy; too bad that’s all Phoebe would run into from now on – just fantasy guys. Good-bye, Phoebs. It’s been so good knowing you…

Dying, and when dying is a good thing and when it’s not, seems to be a very big piece of this season. I wish it hadn’t been. Like knowing what’s going to happen in the future affects the way I look at Leo and Piper, the idea of “the wrong thing done for the right reason is still the wrong thing” and “we’re supposed to protect the innocent, not punish the guilty” and “if there was a burning building and if you had a choice between saving one sibling or five strangers, who would you save – five strangers” will affect and ruin future seasons for me.

I still loved all the innocents in this show and loved all of the bad guys – I still prefer when the bad guys are one-shots while the girls’ lives as sisters is the episodic part, even if I didn’t like the main story arc in this season. The show is still best when it’s about three sisters who happen to be witches rather than three witches who happen to live in the same house or about one witch who doesn’t want to be a witch and who marries an angel but isn’t happy until she turns him into her own little errand boy, and, oh, yes, didn’t she have three sisters, and didn’t they have powers, too?

And just like Season One, my reactions haven't changed much. Also, because I never even finished my Season Three re-watch - I ended up hating it that much with the way it ruined my favorite sister, Phoebs, while making me dislike Piper more and start to dislike Prue again, that I'm going to stop copying my grades and summaries here. It's why I'm looking forward to our 20th Anniversary Board Re-watch - I hope your reactions will help me see where I'm wrong...

[rebooted]

My Top 8 in no particular order

Morality Bites
P3H20
Reckless
Pardon
Chick Flick
Ex Libris
Astral Monkey
Apocolypse Not

Almost every episode of Season 2 is amazing a part from probably the worst episode From Season 1 - Season 3/4, : That Old Black Magic lol!

MY WAND!