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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2015 9:21:23 GMT -5
Still Charmed and Stagnating
Well I put on the first disc and I’m greeted on the main menu with a picture of what I believe Kern would consider “The Power of Four”. *Sigh* Great start. Okay, deep breath, we’re going in. The Charmed Ones are dead. Right well I’m happy to leave it there. See you back at the season one thread. Urgh, okay. So they’re not actually dead and this is their fake funeral (I’ll bake a fake cake). There are far too many guests at this thing for these losers; I’m thinking Victor paid people to turn up and look sad. So as you will recall, the sisters are under glamours, but apparently they haven’t stuck to one appearance yet. The actress playing glamoured Piper does a really good job imitating her. Paige walks in glamoured as Janice Dickinson. Janice’s acting is horrible, but then so is Rose’s, so I guess it sort of works. I’m not even going to ask how much of the miniscule budget went to paying her for this unfunny and pointless little cameo. Opening Credits. For the DVD version, we no longer have “How Soon is Now” because they lost the rights before the box set came out. The list of reasons why I’m happy that I never bought this just keeps growing! Seems a shame though; the words: “And all my hope is gone” seem more fitting than ever. Paige is b!tching that not enough people were at her urn and that most of the ones who were there were leprechauns. I guess everyone in her adoptive family and everyone she worked with at social services just completely forgot she existed... either that or the writers completely forgot that Paige has an adoptive family and worked at social services, you decide. Apparently Glenn showed up though. Okay, I’ll say something positive. Phoebe looks the best she has in years. If memory serves, her appearance may well be the only positive I have in regard to her throughout this season. The hair has grown out, she’s stopped dying it black and for the most, I think she stops dressing like one of the Killer Clowns from outer space. Leo walks in and removes his own glamour, despite being a powerless mortal. Paige is sensing a charge and for some reason the jingle has gone back to being the painful shrieking noise. They all insist that she ignores it. I’d complain about this instruction, but Paige ignoring her charges is hardly a new thing. Phoebe and Paige stick their damn heads out the room to stare at Dex. How these morons go five minutes without getting busted is beyond me. So yeah, we’re starting another season with yet another dull as dishwater Phoebe love interest. If these were my discs, I’d be tempted to throw them in the blender. An incredibly obvious and yet incredibly bland demon called Haas talks to Victor. His plan is to try and buy the house from him... yes, really. Just when you thought demons couldn’t get duller, The Demon of Real Estate shows up. Victor kicks him out. Agent Keyes of homeland security is leaving; but Agent Murphy is staying. They don’t believe the sisters are dead. Agent Keyes: Keep an eye on things for me. You lay low, be patient, and give them plenty of space.I’m pretty sure Murphy doesn’t do any of those things- I seem to recall him revealing himself very quickly, rushing in and basically stalking them. Back at the funeral. Dex performs his duty as another boring male Charmed guest star and does some nauseating Phoebe arse kissing. Dex: Could never get over how someone as beautiful as was could be so incredibly insightful.
Phoebe pops up with her glamour on and of course she eats all this up, because there’s nothing she loves more than a man who’ll stroke her ego constantly, who isn’t tied down by having pesky things like a personality of his own. Someone who will understand how blessed he is just to be in the same room as such a beautiful, talented goddess. He has no needs of his own, because his sycophantic worship is enough. Ah, romance. Wyatt is traumatised by everything going on around him. Piper: Wyatt, honey, what's the matter?
Um really Piper? You’ve said yourself that you keep changing your faces, so he probably has no idea who you are and here he is at a funeral for half his living relatives! What the hell do you think is the matter you careless dipshits!? Phoebe casts a spell so that they have one fixed glamour that is only seen by people who aren’t family members. Apparently this episode was originally filmed with these glamours taking over whenever the sisters went outside- because Kern wanted the leads to have more time off. Safe to say, the network didn’t like that and told pathetic Kern and his lazy, entitled actresses to re-film the scenes. That’ll have helped the budget. Oh God. We have our first scene with Billie. Hideous music, hideous orange light, stupid shades, stupid wig, stupid slow motion. Aaaah! The sisters conjure new identities for themselves. They all pick J names- Piper is Jenny (snort), Phoebe is Julie, Paige is Jo. Paige and Piper are a bit apprehensive, but Phoebe is more than ready to start “living”. She wants to go shopping- as if this is something they couldn’t have done before. So Piper and Phoebe do their stupid “Sex and the City” bit. Apparently the network actually asked for more Sex and the City stuff. Hey network guys- how about you give us more Charmed stuff; ya know, saving innocents, nice sister moments, power of three... that’d be the stuff I tuned in for. Piper: Okay, first, I'm married. Secondly, he's a salesman in a woman's shoe store. What are the chances he's not gay?
Having known many a straight guy working in women’s stores, I’d say pretty good actually. Not that this sort of small minded stereotyping surprises me in the least. Paige has called Grams down for her most pointless and squeezed in appearance to date. Grams: Look, honey, I'm sorry. But you're the one who got yourself into this mess, not me.
Paige: I didn't have a choice, okay, we didn't have a choice. We were going to die, the real way.
*cough*Bullsh!t*cough* No Paige, you escaped death with your contrived astral projection stunt; faking your death was a choice you made after so that you wouldn’t have to deal with the fallout. Grams tells Paige to quit moaning and get out. I’m not sure why she can’t still be a whitelighter if she wants to be- surely there are enough female whitelighters out there that that shouldn’t be too much of an issue? Billie walks down the street in her ridiculous outfit. I actually switched on the commentary for a bit and Kaley didn’t even bother hiding how embarrassed she was. Great way to go unnoticed Billie. In a cinema there’s some dreadful “horror” movie playing and one of Haas demon acquaintances uses a power that seems to amplify his fear and scare him to death. So we’ll call him Budget Barbas. Paige turns up and is pretty useless so gets knocked down by Budget Barbas. Billie turns up and saves her a$$ with some horrendous green screened stunts Oh, also Billie has telekinesis. Leo and Victor are in the kitchen. Leo: No. No more magic. Not unless it's absolutely necesarry. They gotta get out of the habit of relying on it. Or else they'll never gonna have normal lives.
Victor: Yeah right, like that's ever gonna to happen.
Leo: What? You don't think it will?
Victor: Well, do you? Louis? Come on, who you're trying to kid here? Whether I like it or not, and you know I don't, being magical is part of who they are. It's part of who you all are. You may have been able to change your identities but you didn't change that.
Ah Victor, I’m so glad you’re here to be the voice of something resembling sanity in this episode. An Elder comes down to talk to Victor. It’s not Grumpus, or Sandra, or Crankus... it’s some guy we’ve never seen before. We’ll call him Elder Cheapus. So Elder Cheapus wants to take Wyatt and Chris, but Victor aint gonna let that happen so Cheapus scarpers after giving a threatening glare. How would that work anyway? Are there Elders wanting to adopt? Oh by the way; the orbing effect is at an all time low. Cheapus appears and disappears in what can only be described as a splodge of fuzzy blue blobs that could have been made on Microsoft Paint. So when they conjured new identities, they didn’t think adding new jobs might be worthwhile? Phoebe goes to The Bay Mirror. So not only are they still living in the house; Piper and Phoebe have both gone back to the same jobs within the first half hour of having these “new identities”. Gee, I can’t believe this doesn’t work out for them. Anyway, at the paper, many a Bay Mirror employee is crying over a memorial made for Phoebe. This scene is absolutely dreadful; not just because it includes even more Phoebe brownnosing, but also because they decided to play this for comedy. Y’know, because people grieving over her death while she stands there watching is funny? Urgh, then we have the elevator scene. Phoebe’s power is now nothing more than a magic 8 ball for her freakin’ love life. She sees Dex again and when she shakes his hand, she has a shiny golden premonition of herself in a wedding dress being carried over the Manor threshold by Dex. OMG how exciting!!! Phoebe could get married this season!? Oh how I hope she obsesses about this non-stop and has a billion kids!!!! Paige scries for Billie and when Piper and Phoebe find her doing so, they start b!tching that Paige actually wants to help someone. Meanwhile, The Demon of Real Estate and his minions show up at The Manor to kill Victor. Billie enters. Budget Barbas looks right into the camera and says “Who are you?!” Good grief, how did this trash air? Billie kills the minions, including Budget Barbas, but The Demon of Real Estate gets away. Oh I almost forgot; one of the minions was thrown against the wall and that was enough to vanquish him. So apparently demons have the consistency of glass now. Great... The Demon of Real Estate returns at Victor’s place to finish the job. “Wyatt” orbs in and once again, minions vanquished, Demon of Real Estate gets away. We then see that Wyatt is actually glamoured Piper and Victor is glamoured Phoebe. So much for the one permanent glamour then. Demon of Real Estate: It was planned. And not by the boy, he's not old enough. It could be that the Charmed Ones are still alive.Congratulations, you’re officially as smart as an average chipmunk. So glad they thought you were worth two episode  Billie is at college and shows her true identity. They make it out to be a big reveal... guys, you used this very clip in the opening credits. Next up- Believe it or not, it gets worse.
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Post by Astral Vision on Sept 22, 2015 9:28:28 GMT -5
I haven't started reading yet. I just had to start by saying that I love the title for this thread. xD
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2015 11:54:10 GMT -5
This review gave me some great chuckles. This is probably why there was so must hostility towards Billie. She was Kern's Mary Sue. If only. Maybe Janice had to do this because she lost a bet. That was a real WTF moment for me. As I said, it's a 1984 vibe here. Paige is a Charmed One, Paige has always been a Charmed One. Yeah, we can't have enough of those. And we haven't gotten to Mr. Cardboard yet.  Phoebe and Kira had more chemistry than she and Dex ever did. It's a wonder no one has called Child Protective Services by this point. And what was with the Sydney Bristoe stuff? Were they trying to cash in on Alias for some reason. Poor Kaley. I'm glad she's gone to bigger and better things. Can you say "Mary Sue", boys and girls. I know you can. In her review, Obscurus Lupa speculated that this was just someone on the production staff's uncle that they asked to appear. That damned budget. Speaking of which.. The Great Budget Nuke really hurt them here. They should have new jobs and be living in a new house. However, since they didn't have the money to build any new sets... BTW: Get used to seeing that one street and the same back alley again and again. In Season Eight, the nuked budget confined them to the Paramount lot. All exterior shots of the Manor were stock footage from previous seasons. Thanks for taking one for the team. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2015 15:37:58 GMT -5
Excellent review, P3Nathan. As much as I love Season 1, I absolutely LOVE seeing you tear into crap like this! And, Season 8's full of it for sure! Well I put on the first disc and I’m greeted on the main menu with a picture of what I believe Kern would consider “The Power of Four”. *Sigh* Great start. Lemme guess, it was one of these:    Yeah, I'm not entirely sure if it's Kern or the Frog Network who's to blame for those, but they were obviously shoving Billie at us as if she was another long-lost sister. In fact, Billie got more spotlight in her first season than their ACTUAL long-lost sister (Paige) got in hers. Of course, they were trying to set up a spinoff with this character, which inevitably went down in flames. Paige walks in glamoured as Janice Dickinson. Janice’s acting is horrible, but then so is Rose’s, so I guess it sort of works. I’m not even going to ask how much of the miniscule budget went to paying her for this unfunny and pointless little cameo. That was how the Frog Network worked in its last years, blowing money on worthless guest stars instead of things like good storytelling and quality production values. Paige is b!tching that not enough people were at her urn and that most of the ones who were there were leprechauns. I guess everyone in her adoptive family and everyone she worked with at social services just completely forgot she existed... either that or the writers completely forgot that Paige has an adoptive family and worked at social services, you decide. Apparently Glenn showed up though. Seeing as these were the same writers who, just a few episodes later, forgot that Paige vanquished the Source twice, what do you think? Of course, acknowledging that Paige had an existence before Piper and Phoebe also in turn, means acknowledging that the Power of Three had an existence before Paige, and we can't have that, now can we? Okay, I’ll say something positive. Phoebe looks the best she has in years. If memory serves, her appearance may well be the only positive I have in regard to her throughout this season. The hair has grown out, she’s stopped dying it black and for the most, I think she stops dressing like one of the Killer Clowns from outer space. I'll agree 100%. While she was still a tad on the thin side, Phoebe looked the best she's ever looked since at least "Charmed and Dangerous." Hey, it's at least SOMETHING nice you can say about her this season. And, I should also point out that two pretty significant things happened in the wardrobe department this season--Hellish was given the boot (the tiny budget could no longer afford her), and Alyssa and Rose both put their feet down about wearing skimpy costumes (Holly had already done it years earlier). So, expect the sisters to dress a bit nicer this season than they have in a long time. However, unfortunately, the same cannot be said in regards to Billie. The Frog Network wanted fresh meat for the Horny Teenage Boys, and with Alyssa and Rose refusing to do it, they forced poor Kaley to do fanservice duty. She was extremely uncomfortable with most of the costumes they stuffed her into, even crying when she saw what she had to wear in "Battle of the Hexes"! Phoebe and Paige stick their damn heads out the room to stare at Dex. How these morons go five minutes without getting busted is beyond me. So yeah, we’re starting another season with yet another dull as dishwater Phoebe love interest. If these were my discs, I’d be tempted to throw them in the blender. Yeah, it's not later Charmed without the bland, WB-mandated Promotable Hunk of the Week making an appearance. Of course, this particular one was originally meant to be played by Sugar Ray frontman Mark McGrath, but he wisely backed out at the last minute. Phoebe casts a spell so that they have one fixed glamour that is only seen by people who aren’t family members. Apparently this episode was originally filmed with these glamours taking over whenever the sisters went outside- because Kern wanted the leads to have more time off. Safe to say, the network didn’t like that and told pathetic Kern and his lazy, entitled actresses to re-film the scenes. That’ll have helped the budget. At that point, they should've just canned the show instead of wasting their time with this disaster of a season. If the WB wanted timeslot filler bad enough, Charmed reruns would've sufficed. So Piper and Phoebe do their stupid “Sex and the City” bit. Apparently the network actually asked for more Sex and the City stuff. Hey network guys- how about you give us more Charmed stuff; ya know, saving innocents, nice sister moments, power of three... that’d be the stuff I tuned in for. That's actually very true. The WB began airing (heavily edited) reruns of Sex and the City in 2005, and you all know how much they loved to use Charmed to advertise other shows. I don't doubt that this is the main reason why they picked Jason Lewis to replace Mark McGrath as the Promotable Hunk of the Week. Piper: Okay, first, I'm married. Secondly, he's a salesman in a woman's shoe store. What are the chances he's not gay?
Having known many a straight guy working in women’s stores, I’d say pretty good actually. Not that this sort of small minded stereotyping surprises me in the least. And, let's sit back and recall all of the excellent, well-rounded, and completely non-stereotypical gay characters that have been on Charmed over the years... *crickets chirping* I know it's going to be a long, painful journey, but I know you can get through these reviews, P3Nathan. At least you'll have Season 1 for a respite.  |
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Post by adzpower on Sept 22, 2015 17:43:18 GMT -5
To cheer everyone up lets have a look at the REAL power of four.  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2015 17:45:43 GMT -5
As I said, this is probably why Billie became so hated by the fans. Charmed fans wanted to see the Halliwell sisters, not some Mary Sue character. However, the dying WB just had to have its way. Poor Kaley had no idea what she was getting herself into. Of course, this was still early in her career, and she could hardly pick and choose at that point. Put on Season One reruns. Show the fans that came into the show late how good it once was. Quite a contrast you're gonna see, P3Nathan. Season One, when the the WB was a feisty young network and Season Eight, when the WB was getting its a** handed to it by the Utterly Pointless Network. When S8 started, the WB was less than a year away from death. Great picture, adzpower |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2015 23:39:04 GMT -5
To cheer everyone up lets have a look at the REAL power of four. Gorgeous picture, Adzpower. *Sigh* If only we had gotten THAT in Season 8... Put on Season One reruns. Show the fans that came into the show late how good it once was. That actually would've been an excellent idea. Give newer fans a chance to see the show at its best. Wanna bet that Season 1 reruns would've gotten higher ratings than Season 8? |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2015 7:22:00 GMT -5
Lemme guess, it was one of these: Yep, the first one... and it's on every disc. Joy. Then again, I remember when the season 8 set was to be released, many were thinking they'd probably use pics like that for the actual box- so at least they didn't take it that far I guess. However, unfortunately, the same cannot be said in regards to Billie. The Frog Network wanted fresh meat for the Horny Teenage Boys, and with Alyssa and Rose refusing to do it, they forced poor Kaley to do fanservice duty. She was extremely uncomfortable with most of the costumes they stuffed her into, even crying when she saw what she had to wear in "Battle of the Hexes"! I heard about that, I felt really bad for her. She mentioned it on the commentary for this episode, very openly saying how much she hated wearing and that she called Kern refusing to wear a cape with it that he wanted. That's one positive thing I didn't say about the s8 DVD actually, I must admit, I enjoyed Kaley's commentary a lot. It was fun hearing what she honestly thought of it. I'll look forward to hearing what Brian has to say on Vaya Con Leos. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2015 8:38:31 GMT -5
Yep, the first one... and it's on every disc. Joy. Then again, I remember when the season 8 set was to be released, many were thinking they'd probably use pics like that for the actual box- so at least they didn't take it that far I guess. Billie was shoved at us far more than any other non-Charmed One cast member. You never saw Cole plastered over the Season 3-4 cast shots, or Chris all over the Season 6 ones. And, Leo has NEVER appeared in any of them, despite being part of the main cast from late Season 2 through early Season 8. And, too add insult to injury, they put Kaley BEFORE Brian in the opening credits! As if it wasn't already bad enough that Leo had to be written out because of the meager budget. I heard about that, I felt really bad for her. She mentioned it on the commentary for this episode, very openly saying how much she hated wearing and that she called Kern refusing to wear a cape with it that he wanted. That's one positive thing I didn't say about the s8 DVD actually, I must admit, I enjoyed Kaley's commentary a lot. It was fun hearing what she honestly thought of it. I'll look forward to hearing what Brian has to say on Vaya Con Leos. That commentary actually sounds pretty interesting. So, that horrible "Battle of the Hexes" costume was almost even worse than it was? Nice that Kaley was honest about her experiences and didn't try to sugarcoat everything (like Alyssa would've inevitably done). |
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Post by Chrisaholic on Sept 27, 2015 8:28:07 GMT -5
Ugh, I hate S8! Introducing Billie in that leather outfit and then a student, no way. She looked more like a whore. Sorry but it's the truth, and her athletics were more in the center than everything else. I think here I'm more mad at BK than anyone else. *grgr* And poor kids to the Elders? Thanks to Victor they can stay with people they love, though sometimes even this is questioned by me. S8 brought all in chaos, I think. *sighs*
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2015 11:51:10 GMT -5
Ok, I just have time to post this before I go...
Go Ask Alice Why This Show Hasn’t Ended
AKA- Malice in Wonderland
Let me start by saying that I’m usually a sucker for stuff involving Alice in Wonderland. A beautiful hardback, illustrated book of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” was given to my parents as a baby gift, so it was one of my first stories growing up. Still got that book on my shelf. Perhaps that only makes this episode all the more painful to watch. Anyway, let’s get to it.
We start off in the Manor bathroom. Leo tells Piper to ignore any innocents in need that she may run into and then goes on to tell Paige to ignore her charges. Phoebe doesn’t need telling.
I remember when this aired; I actually missed 8x01, so this was the scene I started on for season 8... yep. Lots of moaning, groaning, whining, b!tching... oh God, why won’t they shut up? Paige is twitching so much now that I’m actually having trouble making out some of her dialogue.
We’re reintroduced to The Demon of Real Estate (The DORE) from the previous episode. He’s at Notwarts and he’s teamed up with a she-demon who was apparently credited as Black Heart.
Y’know, the contrast between this season and season one really is huge. I know that’s stating the obvious, but I’m just watching the opening credits and even with that it shows. The season one credits were filled with clips of the three sisters- pretty much every clip that wasn’t a credit was of the sisters together, either battling side by side or just being sisterly. The season 8 credits? Two clips of the sisters together in the whole sequence. Just saying...
We’re back at the house of perpetual whining and they’ve started talking about “Sex and the City”, because Piper and Phoebe just so happened to become super-fans when that guy who looks suspiciously like one of its character appeared on their show.
Phoebe: Did Carrie ever have to marry a man that she did not know?
Erm no... and who the hell’s forcing you to?
Piper tells Paige to go out and look for signs of her “new life”. SIGNS would be the theme of this episode by the way. I didn’t watch a lot of Sex and the City, but with the few episodes I did see, the themes were a painful thing that I noticed about that show. They’d have a theme and they’d stretch it over the episode making all the character’s plots fit that theme...or trying to; often they stretched it way too far and it seemed painfully forced. So anyway that’s Alice in Wonderland + Sex and the City + signs in this bizarre mixing pot of an episode.
Urgh, another thing from Sex and the City is of course the narration... which Phoebe starts now. Help.
Back at Notwarts with The DORE and Black<3.
Black<3: They would not leave magic school unprotected.
Pfft. It’s saying something when a demon has more faith in the Charmed Ones at this point than a lot of the audience. Anyway, these two are doing something sinister and claim to have “turned three teens”
They make reference to “Happily Ever After” and how “Cinderella nearly turned the Charmed Ones into pumpkins!” Erm yeah... that’s how that episode went down.
Billie’s dorm, which by the way is a classic TV version of a college dorm- meaning unrealistically big and nice. Biilie’s roommate (I assume) talks to her about the teens, but Billie is already on the case. She opens her draw revealing witchy stuff and hey I saw that book in Waterstones the other day.
Phoebe is back at the elevator of marital horrors waiting for Dex. She stands there waiting for him to appear while people with actual lives look at her confused. Urgh, she’s such a desperate loser.
Paige is pulled over by a cop. For a moment I thought the cop was flirting with her, but it turns out that it’s all a SIGN that she should become a cop. Yeah, okay, whatever.
Black<3 is wearing a top that says “white rabbit” on it. Wow they’re subtle. She lures that werewolf guy from The Vampire Diaries to a grate. Yes, a grate... this is their version of the rabbit hole. Billie arrives in her stupid “disguise”, but she’s too late.
“Alistair in Wonderland. Close enough”. That’s what they’re doing by the way; targeting kids with names similar to Alice. Are there no actual people called Alice in San Francisco?
Oh here’s the best part of the episode- where we get to learn how deep a person Dex is. We’re introduced to his f****** hideous art and I refuse to transcribe anything that he says about it, because it’s physically painful to listen to. When you make Leslie look somewhat bearable, something is horribly wrong! Also, I know he has next to nothing to work with, but Jason Lewis looks bored out of his freaking mind pretty much every scene he’s in.
Anyway, Dex asks Phoebe out and apparently that’s a SIGN! Excuse me while I put some bread in the toaster. (Gasp) Oh my God, guys! That must be a SIGN that I’m going to eat some toast!!!
Piper has an embarrassing tantrum at an electrician. Seriously embarrassing. After watching Holly shine in 1x02, I can’t quite express how heart crushing this scene is.
Paige has a meeting with a cop. Basically he’s a jerk, so she assaults him and remember this is “Charmed”, so that gets her an application as opposed to a criminal record.
Some stupid, squeaky teenager called Alexis is next to be lured to the rabbit...grate.
Piper is at a spa and gets a call from Leo saying he’s locked himself out of the house.
Paige is already in uniform and ready for training. The cop in charge hits on her blatantly in front of everyone. Does the word professionalism even exist in Charmed world? This all just to kill time anyway- Paige senses Billie and runs off.
We get more of Billie’s terrible stunts. Paige knocks the wig off her head because she’s into martial arts now apparently.
The DORE thinks that Billie is one of the glamoured Charmed Ones and plans to take her through the sewer of... well sewage frankly.
Piper has yet another tantrum, this time she’s actually hiding under the bed covers. Leo gets on the bed quietly, grabs a pillow and smothers her to death. Oh sorry, got carried away with a fantasy. Ahem. The pathetic shrew whines some more. “I can’t have a normal life; I can’t even have a normal day!” What because everything didn’t go exactly the way you wanted it to? Newsflash b!tch, that is a normal life! “Aside from all the demon fighting, it’s not that much different than it used to be.” Um, so aside from having the main thing that you wanted and moaned about for years, there’s really no difference huh? I just... I can’t... Leo, hand me that pillow! GAAAAAH!!!
Paige finds Billie and they have what I assume is meant to be a witty exchange, but given the quality of this episode, I’m sure you can guess how well it turns out.
Paige: This is real; deadly real.
Billie: You can’t use an adverb with a noun.
What noun? You think real is a noun? How the hell did she get into college? What's her course, Advanced Crayons?
Billie has a GPS scrying system on her computer. Yes, really.
Phoebe has been hired under her new identity after Dex put in a good word with Elise. Because of course Elise didn’t respond “Why the hell would I care what some dull, terrible, artist thinks” but instead exclaimed “Why of course, guy who has nothing to do with the paper but lingers around like a bad smell regardless, I’ll do exactly as you suggest.”
The sisters have worked out the Alice in Wonderland stuff and debate whether or not to help. Honestly, in this scene, Leo actually makes the sisters look pretty damn good.
Leo: Innocents are always gonna get hurt.
Are you not frozen yet a$$hole?
Billie is in bad special effects hell. CGI cards and all. So much potential in Wonderland for a fantasy show to play with and this what Charmed came up with. Mercifully it doesn’t last long and Black<3 and The DORE are given a quick vanquish.
The sisters strike a deal with Billie. She’s going to fight the demons for them if they teach her witchcraft. Okay 1) Hasn’t she been doing that anyway? And 2) I’d love to know what these guys are going to teach her!
More SIGN bollocks from Phoebe’s narration which is thankfully nearly over.
The episode ends with Phoebe looking at Dex who once again is just wandering around the Bay Mirror offices. She types “And they lived happily ever after” in a huge font on her computer. "They" as in you and Dex, Phoebe? Ha, fat chance!
Next up- Piper’s identity is wanted for murder. Woops.
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Post by adzpower on Nov 2, 2015 12:31:00 GMT -5
Excellent review as always Nathan, love the lines about smothering Piper with a pillow! And yes what on earth were those hideous creations Dex labelled as "art"? My dog could stamp a tin can to death and it would look more artistic.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 3, 2015 1:31:55 GMT -5
Season One was when they treated the sisters as sisters, not roommates. I wonder if they would have tossed in all these SATC references had the producers original choice to play Dex, Mark McGrath, done the part. I guess Kern and his writers thought all Charmed fans also watched SATC. Well, I didn't, so it all went right over my head. How lazy are these people that they can't check the episode their referring too. Season Five was out on DVD by then, couldn't someone have given the episode in question a watch? A chap named Andrew Paynze did a funny cartoon about that. The twitching Paige firing a gun. Yikes! Apparently not, it seems. Mark McGrath really dodge a bullet here, didn't he. Alas, the Season One Piper is but a distant memory. What a nice message to send. Once again the 1950's style thinking shines through. This kind of thing belongs on a sitcom from that era, not on a turn of the Millennium show. Did the writers have so little for Paige to do that they threw this this pointless plot? Do it, Leo, you know you wanna. You just can't win with later seasons Piper. She doesn't have a normal life, she whines, she has a normal life, she whine. Shut up, Piper! Shut up, shut up, shut uuuuuuuup! This is a later seasons character, she probably slept with the Dean of Admissions. And the magical world is totally clueless that this "cousin" has the same job and lives in the same house as Phoebe. The Budget Nuke really f*cked them, didn't it. Piper can teach Billie how to whine and bitch about not having a normal life. Paige can teach Billie how to mug and twitch like there's no tomorrow. Phoebe can teach Billie how to take off all her clothes in ten seconds or less. |
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Post by Esmeralda on Nov 5, 2015 9:14:36 GMT -5
Ok, I just have time to post this before I go... And I give you plenty of credit for doing S8 despite everything going on in your life – I truly thought you’d just do S1. But thanks for the laughs, which I don’t get as much during your S1 reviews, even if I enjoy them because I love the memories. But as usual, with the laughs, I had to go back and reply to everything. As always, hugs to your family, especially your dad and you! And I’m off. LOL! And I start off with a laugh – you so do a great job in figuring out alternate titles! Oh! And again, the fact that you decided to watch and write this review…*shakes head* Not sure if I could do that. Me, I have a similar book from my childhood for “The Wizard of Oz”. Although I did my own TWOO rewrite, I’m so glad latter Charmed never did… Again, I’m shocked that if this is how S8 started for you that you kept on watching. Although does anyone think that Piper would’ve helped an innocent anyway? Wish they hadn’t named her – would’ve liked to have seen what you’d have come up with… OMG! I’d forgotten about that, but you’re right! Me, I noticed that before Season Four, the credits were all about them using their powers, and after Season Three it was all about how sexy they were…but you add in the fact that S1 concentrated on them as sisters while S8 concentrated them as separate witches…you’re right; that’s truly how downhill this show went. And that’s when I started snickering. *roll eyes* So if Jason Lewis hadn’t appeared on “Charmed”, we wouldn’t have had to try to tolerate Alyssa Milano using her baby-voice to try to sound like Sarah Jessica Parker??? *sigh* And now my snicker was getting louder… If your Go Ask Alice title wasn’t so perfect, I would’ve thought you might have called this episode “Signs Why This Show Should’ve Ended Sooner”. I don’t think I’ve ever watched a full episode… *sigh* So this episode was even more like Sex and the City than I thought it was… *SO* glad I never wasted time watching it. *passes the antacid* And now the water I was drinking is all over my screen! I really should know better than to drink something when reading one of your latter-season reviews. Do we *really* need a reminder of that horrible episode? I suppose New-Producer Alyssa is proud of that mess and thinks it made us love Phoebe even more...NOT!!! Hehehehehe! LOL! And no special name for him? Now he’s the one I would’ve called Mr. Cardboard, much more than Coop. Of all of Phoebe’s slampieces I found him the dullest, even behind Leslie (S8 Coop would’ve come in third - *so* different from S9 Coop…). To fall from whoever he played in Sex and the City to this….*shudder* With emphasis on desperate. The start of this season being all about “A woman is nothing without a man – no matter how many powers she has...” *roll eyes* If Sex and the City is truly anything like this, I’m getting happier and happier that I've never watched it! Hehehehe! So that guy was also someone from a show I’ve never watched….but they had to steal from Star Wars and freeze Leo for how long supposedly in order to save money….*shakes head* Except that it made her seem too much like Prue, I actually liked the disguise – preferred that Billie over the one she was when she took off the disguise… But that wouldn’t be subtle enough for the Charmed Ones, right?  All part of why I think TWOP mixed up calling Coop Mr. Cardboard. This guy was so much more. Victor Webster at least tried… This guy is the male version of Rose McGowan. SOOOOO glad I never watched Sex and the City! And I snicker each time I read SIGN. ROFLMFAO!!! And this is the point where I had to go back and comment – there’s the funniest comment of the whole thing – funnier than anything in S6-8! (At least S5 had “Sense an Sense-Ability”.) That’s why I was worried that watching both at the same time might have made this worse. But hopefully it also makes watching S1 even better…or does it make it more heart-breaking? If it does, you might want to consider just finishing S8 and then treat yourself to S1…but, as always, that’s totally up to you. *roll eyes* Does anyone *really* blame Rose McGowan for wanting out? I can even forgive her for being MIA during most of the filming of “Forever Crap”. Are any teenagers on Charmed not stupid? Hence why I count Chris and Billie as teenagers no matter how old they are. This show just could not write teenagers – and they wonder why teenagers didn’t like it, except for the horny boys who couldn’t have cared less about the so-called plot... Poor guy got too used to orbing into the house. Think he’s already regretting losing his wings? Think he’s already thinking about taking his sons and walking out on his shrew of a wife? Wondering why there’s no way Es believes that Leo lived happily ever after as long as he was married to Piper? Or why she thinks the true masochist on this show was Leo? Professionalism didn’t exist in S1; why would it exist in S8? *sigh* Just like Prue, she can be good at it that quick. Gotta admit, I *sorta* felt sorry for Phoebe at this point….sorta! ROFLMFAO!!!!! Just like this whole episode – no, this whole season! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!  If only you had been the writer…. *hands P3Nathan the pillow and shoves Piper to the bed…Then shoves Leo to the bed and uses the other pillow…that’s for being such a whimp! LOL! Must be the same course Phoebe took… And someone who doesn’t know that real is an adverb and not a noun actually got paid for writing this crap? Gotta admit it. Now that I found cool. And the sisters ended up teaching *her* rather than the other way around? *sigh* And I used to like Elise…  Shall I die of shock??? So he stopped thinking like a whitelighter this soon…Oh, yeah, that's right. He stopped doing that after Piper guilted him out for saving her rather than Prue… That's when he should've lost his wings...long before he had kids. They were pretty much just second-thoughts, weren’t they? Couldn’t they have kept Jason Lewis and the fakey Sex and the City crap and spend some money on decent CGI? ROFL! That’s exactly what I was thinking. Outside of the Book of Shadows, what exactly does she get out of this? I would think that she’s the one who could’ve helped them come into the 21st century as Charmed Ones…. But, no, no, they wanted, no, they'd *EARNED* and *DESERVED* to stop saving innocents while still keeping their powers that they could use for their own personal use to their heart's content... *roll eyes* THANK GOD! ”they” as in Phoebe and ANYONE??? 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Post by Chrisaholic on Nov 8, 2015 9:13:33 GMT -5
Ugh, this whole episode would have been for the garbage if not for BK. Really. All that stuff with signs and new lives, new normal. Guys, you're the Charmed Ones. You can't just ignore what you've done your whole life. In that case, I agree with Victor what he said in 8x01. You can't change your life with one event! Just like Paige can't ignore the calling of Billie, her new charge. However, the sisters have to set their priorities for once and for Piper, it should be her children! My opinion.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2015 11:55:41 GMT -5
Okay, got two new reviews coming up for you guys. Sorry I haven't been around much. You might be wondering why this is season 8 and not season one. Well, seeing as I'm not getting through these nearly as quick as I was and my friend will want her season 8 DVDs back at some point, I'm going to get cracking on with season 8 a bit more and maybe get back to season one a bit later. Orange is the Old BlackAKA- Run, Piper, RunPiper is going for an interview, but uh oh, turns out she stole her identity from a woman wanted for murder. Trust Piper to be inspired by someone who might be homicidal. Billie causes an explosion in the attic because apparently she’s incapable of silent reading. It seems the sisters’ version of teaching someone is just handing them a book to read and pissing off... I had a couple of teachers like that growing up. Billie: Oh right, three chicks move in under the same roof. Hello, how dumb can they be?Thank you Billie. But writers- acknowledging that it’s stupid does not make me think it’s any less stupid, okay? Phoebe and Dex. Dex gushes some more about how much “Julie” sounds like Phoebe. It’s actually very creepy how he seems to be with her mainly because she reminds him of her supposedly dead cousin. Then we have this brilliant dialogue, prepare yourselves – Dex: How do you feel about art shows?
Phoebe: Depends on the art.
Dex: How do you feel about my art?
Phoebe: I love it.
Dex: Good answer. Look, I know we've only gone out a couple of times, but I was just wondering if –
Phoebe: I'd love to.
Dex: Love to what?
Phoebe : Love to come to your art show tonight, if that's what you were asking.
Dex: I was trying to. How'd you know?DUUUUH! My God, it’s like watching a conversation between two seriously concussed snails! Phoebe then has a premonition of an earthquake destroying Dex’s art. Hooray! Also don’t get excited about the fact that Phoebe just had a premonition that doesn’t involve marriage or kids... remember which season we’re watching. Piper’s interview. She gives the poor guy her life story, so he offers to make her a high level exec just to shut her up. He takes her picture and sends it through a pointless and stupid CSI style transition effect- glad they’re saving the budget for the important stuff. Leo is at a play-date with a bunch of mothers. Piper warns him about Eve, who it turns out is a brazen hussy. Honestly Eve, think of the children! Phoebe yacks on about “the moment” where you look into someone’s eyes and you feel that spark and all that... and she just can’t believe that this rude and inconsiderate earthquake might get in the way of her having such a moment with Dex! Piper is arrested as Maya Holmes. We have a throwaway line informing us that Darryl is now on the East Coast. Believe me Darryl, you got the best deal. Phoebe comes up with the plan, which is to find Maya and then do an orb switcheroo. Apparently she’s done her bit having decided that, because Paige will pretty much be doing everything with Billie’s help from this point. Piper is visited by some botox disaster of an attorney. Botox got dumped by Maya for a young photographer apparently, so Botox killed said photographer and framed Maya for the murder. Botox: What could he have given you that I couldn’t?A facial expression? That’d be my guess. Phoebe orders around everyone at the Bay Mirror. She wants an article of earthquake preparedness to be published in the next issue. I’d say it’s ridiculous that she’d have any say in that at all, but we’ve established a few times at this point that The Bay Mirror’s office hierarchy can only be deciphered by those who have spent their lives licking plug sockets. Paige and Billie find Maya and she points a gun at them. Paige calls for the gun.... PSYCH!!! Only joking, of course not. Paige knocks her out with a lamp. Piper is about to get beaten up by her cellmate, but she suddenly remembers that she can freeze stuff. They do the switcheroo while her cellmate whimpers in the corner far more than is believable, but whatever. The gang talks about what to do about Botox. Billie: Why don’t we just vanquish him?Phoebe and Paige have the audacity to look disturbed by Billie’s suggestion. Do NOT get me started on you two again!! Phoebe leaves- because ME! Eve’s hubby turns up and punches Leo. Little do we know that Eve is under the patio. Phoebe helps Dex move some of his “art” and there’s a tremor. Maya has been released into Botox’s custody. Pfft, yeah that’d happen. He pushes her off the balcony. Piper freezes her and Paige breaks her fall with a mattress. I’d say that it’d take more than a mattress to break a fall from that height, but then I remembered that Piper’s freeze has on occasion disrupted the momentum of fast moving objects (though very inconsistently). Billie: It’s like the Wizard of Oz, expect we’re not wicked.You know there were good witches in that too Billie? Billie comes up with a plan to play on Botox’s fears. She thinks they should scare him into confessing and references “Ex Libris” when they got a ghost to get a guy to confess and also mentions Barbas. So often these writers seem incapable of remembering what happened an episode a go and then every once in a while they’ll reference something from the first two seasons. At Botox’s place. They make his reflection look like an old man (with glamours I assume), haunt him with multiple Mayas and then push him off the balcony. Piper freezes him, unfreezes his head and threatens to let him meet the pavement unless he feels like confessing. Paige: So guys, how do you think Billie did? Sounds like she did good.
Piper: Except for the fact that she was inspired by a demon.Are you freakin’ kidding me Piper? I would’ve switched you back with Maya, given her a new identity and left you in there to rot. We end with Dex’s “art” show. Dex: Come on, you can't be serious about an earthquake.
You felt a tremor you moron and you live in San Francisco! She’s not telling you it’s going to start raining pineapples! Oh what do I care? I hope every piece of crap you’ve made is crushed and smashed to pieces... not that anyone would be able to tell the difference! So anyway, the earthquake happens, things fall, people panic etc. Dex grabs Phoebe and she looks into his eyes. Phoebe: The moment.
Dex: Sorry?
Phoebe: I wasn’t supposed to stop the earthquake, I was supposed to be here for it.Yup, you heard right folks. A premonition about natural disaster was actually all about Phoebe making goo goo eyes with her new crush. So it was a good earthquake after all... aaaaawww. What I would give for a piece of the ceiling to fall on these two losers right now. Next up- If you thought this show was beating a dead horse already, just you wait... they’re bringing The Source back. Neigh! |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2015 12:39:08 GMT -5
That Is One Desperate Housewife
Aka- Desperate Housewitches (Urgh)Leo teaches Billie, so at least someone is. He’s teaching her about Notwarts while she plays with nunchucks Billie: Come on, you could be teaching me tic-tac-toe, she wouldn't care. She's happy you're getting me off her back for the day.So Billie is totally aware of this and the fact that Leo doesn’t even try to deny it is telling. Peter Woodard in the guest star credits. Damn it. Since the events of last episode, Piper has conjured a new identity; this one much closer to her age and appearance. Paige suddenly has an issue with Dex, because apparently he’s a player. (Sigh) Guys, we’ve done this with Cole, then we did it with Richard and I cared about both of them a hell of a lot more than I care about this loser. If Paige has an issue with Dex, it ought to be the fact that he’s a walking shell void of any emotion or personality. Wyatt’s pre-school. We meet the uber-mom. Mandy is her name and passive-aggression is her game. All the mothers are expected to make costumes and Mandy isn’t shy about making Piper feel inadequate about her efforts. Anyway, it turns out Mandy is possessed. Paige has resorted to online dating, because apparently she’s just too swamped to meet guys any other way. Yes, really. She meets a guy at a cafe and ditches him within less than a minute because he’s boring. I’d say that it’d be good to see Paige or Phoebe given a taste of their own medicine, but then if that ever happened, I’m sure the guy would be played as the ultimate evil and they’d be the poor, mistreated victims... but the other way round is fine. Oh also Paige sees Dex with a woman. Piper wants to conjure a costume for Wyatt, because magic is the best thing since sliced bread when it’s for her. The demon possessing Mandy, who I’ll call Enid, is quite a bit scarier than they usually bother with these days. Enid wants to bring back The Source and raise Wyatt with him, making the perfect demon family. Okay then... Enid goes back into Mandy and changes the kid’s costumes last minute. Two other moms come over to take jabs at Piper and there’s no sign of them being under any sort of influence, so screw these b!tches. Piper just sits and takes it... why does she never use her hideous shrew mode for people who might actually deserve it? Billie teleports herself and Leo to Notwarts which is overrun by demons.
Leo: They’re demons. You know, hurt, maim, kill?”
Billie: A lot of monosyllables got it.Heh. Billie didn’t bring the teleporting potion with her (stupid), so they’re going to have to get by the demons to the books. It just so happens, by total coincidence of the wackiest kind, that nunchucks are hanging on the wall. So Billie telekinetically smacks two demons round the dead with them and takes their outfits. Or rather, takes what’s meant to be their outfits, since there’s no way these would fit as well as they end up doing. Paige glamours into Dex’s ex and completely embarrasses herself. I’m surprised she has time to do this given how swamped Paige is... because y’know she just never stops. Anyway, the woman playing Sylvia does an excellent job at mimicking Paige and her twitchiness. The Source is back. Or rather Peter Woodard is back. There were two Sources since him and it was implied that there were Sources before him, so really there’s no reason for this guy to be back. Either it should have been Debbi Morgan with or without her Phoetus, or just some dark essence. But no, we have old half-faced Peter and he gets through half the scenery within his first two lines. Paige: How’d you do it last time?See this is what I mean when I mentioned it last episode. Sub plots from season 2, they remember! Major story arcs from season 4, total blur! The hell? So, in what has to be one of the most pathetic anticlimaxes of the series... Piper blows up Enid and Peter goes bye bye. So they brought back one of their first big bads and he’s gotten rid of before he can so much as form a fireball. What was the damn point!!! ? Paige: Yeah, well, that's the funny thing about here. Nobody really stays dead for long.Unless your names are Prue or Andy that is. Wyatt’s school play. Mandy looks traumatized and it seems like we’re supposed to be happy about that all “serves you right”... though I don’t know why since she was possessed for the whole episode. Next up- Agent Murphy arrives with his considerable influence to get the writers out of that corner.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2015 12:43:21 GMT -5
Considering what is currently going on in your life, it's perfectly understandable. And two of them have the same jobs. Elders and Demons: Gee, could they be the Charmed Ones in disguise. Nahhhhhhhh Can you say "Ick", boys and girls. I know you can. Hope springs eternal. Clearly the writers had no idea how e-mail works. Obscurus Lupa was right when she pointed out that scene looked more out of 1995 than 2005. Fact: Eve was played by Jennifer Taylor, who would later play Chelsea, one of the few women Charlie actually cared about (he almost married her) on Two And A Half Men. How dare Mother Nature ruin the moment. She's PHOEBE! Yeah, I guess helping her sisters is butting into her time with Dex One of the most pathetic villains they came up with. Phoebe, you're an advice columnist. Stop thinking that you're Perry White, okay? There's that darned amnesia virus again. Said virus tends to come and go. Just ask Phoebe's old high school friend, Rick. Of course, hubby doesn't blame his skank of a wife. Of course, she probably lied and said Leo hit on her. The writers clearly don't understand physics, do they. It's the sudden stop, NOT the ground, that kills you. See my comments above. An earthquake in San Francisco? Why, that's as unlikely as fog in London. Dex really doesn't have it all together upstairs, it seems.  Now that would have been funny. For those that couldn't get enough of old whiny half face. Another great review, P3Nathan. Oh, didn't realize we were doing two... Geez, Woodward, what did Kern have on you to get your back here. Amazing how much the writers repeated themselves. They really did have a double standard when it came to the sisters, didn't they. Yeah, she was. They're altogether ooky.... So guns are useless against demons, but kung-fu sticks aren't? Paige's obsession with Phoebe's love life is a little creepy, isn't it. And the audience did point and laugh. You were there, you ditz! God, remember when Paige actually had an IQ and went to college? Being a Charmed One has destroyed her mind! They weren't even trying anymore by this point, were they. Like the Charmed Ones gave a damn about Innocents anymore. Yeah, with the Budget Nuke, they really had to drop that new identities thing. |
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Post by Esmeralda on Nov 17, 2015 1:03:08 GMT -5
Okay, got two new reviews coming up for you guys. Sorry I haven't been around much. You might be wondering why this is season 8 and not season one. Well, seeing as I'm not getting through these nearly as quick as I was and my friend will want her season 8 DVDs back at some point, I'm going to get cracking on with season 8 a bit more and maybe get back to season one a bit later. That was the first thing that came to mind…but this makes plenty of sense…and should just make Season One seem that much more wonderful! Just get this season done and over with…while giving us plenty of laughs. I’m being smart and finished drinking my pop before I started reading this… Hehehehehe, as always love your titles, although I will admit to not totally catching this one, although that might be because it's been so long since I've seen this episode...like not since the first time it was aired... What always irks me about this is that at the end of “Something Wicca This Way Goes?” Phoebe was the blonde – she always seems to be the blonde. So why did Piper suddenly become the blonde? Hehehehe! Me, too. Hehehehehe! Amen! Thank God Phoebe wasn’t really Julie or I’d wonder why she’d stick with him. But naturally, we have to go on and on about the Wonder That Is PhoeME Halliwell! ROFLMFAO!!!!! Amen! Too bad he *wasn’t* her dream guy – they were *so* made for each other – they could’ve had boring conversations that they both thought were brilliant for the rest of their lives – as long as they never reproduced! Sincerely, for all I talk about the reason, I'm truly glad that I believe that Forever Crap i just Piper's delusion as she dies after the explosion in Kill Billie, Vol 2 - I'd never want to consider that she might actually have three daughters who could become Charmed! Do I pity the world that would have to put up with that! You thought three girls raised by GRAMS was bad...imagine three girls raised by PhoeME! Oh, God, don’t we wish? Especially if Dex and PhoeME were in the room when it happened…Hooray! No more Charmed Ones! Hehehehehe! I just wonder about any innocent who might have gotten hurt in that earthquake…PhoeME seems to have forgotten all about them! Oh, my Phoebs, I *so* miss you! Hehehehehe! And we wonder why Leo had to become a Leocicle and Darryl had to leave...even if they got the best part of the deal! When did Charmed ever think of the children except as accessories for their mothers…? How DARE it! If only she had been arrested as Piper Halliwell and everyone found out she was a witch who kept using her magic for personal gain and we could start off “Morality Bites” in this year rather than 2009…what a perfect last season that could’ve been! Well, at least he merited a throwaway line! I’ll bet he wished he made that move the day after Andy died! I guess Alyssa must’ve been busy doing something else…After all, that’s why they had the alternate identities, right? Truly??? Who writes this stuff??? Who else but a Charmed One would choose for her identity someone who was framed??? And this is our idea of an episode that includes an Innocent??? ROFL!!! ROFL! The paper really should’ve been renamed The PhoeME Mirror since all it does is reflect the wonder that is PhoeME! But, OH, don’t we wish! That poor lamp got as bad of a workout as the Grandfather clock! Couldn’t Paige ever call for something else? You mean she actually FROZE something? The writers remembered that power??? Someone, catch me as I faint! But I thought they stopped using it because the effect was too expensive...who the heck was The WB's accountant during all of this??? And, of course, no one uses magic dust on him or anything to make him forget what he sees. Maybe *he’s* the new Nathaniel Pratt… I can hope so. I always wanted Piper to be the one on the pyre… HYPOCRITES!!! Their method of teaching – do what we say, not what we do… Hehehehe! Now no one would’ve *ever* guessed that one… *roll eyes* GO, EARTHQUAKE, GO!!! GO, EARTHQUAKE, GO!!! Oh, don’t mind me – I spent the weekend watching sports.. I can NOT believe that they used freezing this much in one Season Eight episode! I’m in total shock. And naturally it’s inconsistent – just use it however it fits the script like everything else, right? What makes that hilarious is the fact that the Good Witch of the North was played by BILLIE Burke. And, hey, Piper, didn’t you dress up like her?? So you don’t mention it, why??? LOL! Their way of trying to remind us that really is supposed to be the same show…Never fooled me! And more freezing and more who cares if an innocent remembers that they are witches. *sigh* DEMON??? There was a demon in this episode not named PhoeME, Piper or Paige? Who? Hehehehe!!! Amen! Especially if he and PhoeME are crushed underneath them! AAAAWWWW! Should we pat the earthquake on the head and tell it it did good? (By the way, writers – they did WELL, not good! Good people do well - good's the adjective; well's the adverb!) AMEN!!!!!! Honestly, my favorite line of the entire review! And unfortunately since it’s awful late right now, I’ll have to wait til tomorrow to reply to it… But as always, fantastically wonderful job! As the writers would put it, you did good! Thank you so much for doing these for us! |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2015 11:46:03 GMT -5
Great reviews! This first couple of episodes of S8 make me embarrassed to be a fan of Charmed, especially Phoebe's take on Carrie Bradshaw - vom!
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If only you had been the writer….
Shall I die of shock???