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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2016 21:46:51 GMT -5
Speaking of Mark McGrath being the original Dex... I found this a while back. Could just be a fan thing, but that paragraph is totally something the WB would write, thinking back to their horrendous trailers.  Yeah, I've seen that... Unfortunately, it's 100% legit WB.   Speaking of horrendous trailers: |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2016 23:26:42 GMT -5
The WB really sunk to awful depths to save themselves, didn't they. Poor Charmed.
In the end, it was all for nothing. The WB collapsed.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2016 8:14:29 GMT -5
Urgh, I knew it. There was a tiny bit of hope in me that said: "Nah, can't be. Must be a fan parody making fun of season 8"... but I'm not surprised at all.
"Now they will encounter their greatest nemesis; a demon smart enough to expose them and ruthless enough to disrupt their overnight dates!"
Oh good lord, somebody shoot me.
Yeah their trailers were also just awful and they reeeeeally wanted to sell the hunk of the month. I remember looking at the season 7 trailers and the first few disingenuously made it out like Nick Lachey would play a huge part in the story lines. If I'd seen trailers like this before getting into the series, I probably would have been put off it.
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Post by Chrisaholic on Mar 31, 2016 10:14:39 GMT -5
Therefore I'm glad I never saw those trailers. Only online and when I want to. But then just for good humor, maybe.  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2016 11:03:21 GMT -5
Of course, I missed all those trailers, as Season Eight did not air in Canada. Still, they're horrible, right. "disrupt their overnight dates" |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2016 11:59:38 GMT -5
Urgh, I knew it. There was a tiny bit of hope in me that said: "Nah, can't be. Must be a fan parody making fun of season 8"... but I'm not surprised at all. "Now they will encounter their greatest nemesis; a demon smart enough to expose them and ruthless enough to disrupt their overnight dates!"Oh good lord, somebody shoot me. Yeah their trailers were also just awful and they reeeeeally wanted to sell the hunk of the month. I remember looking at the season 7 trailers and the first few disingenuously made it out like Nick Lachey would play a huge part in the story lines. If I'd seen trailers like this before getting into the series, I probably would have been put off it. I mean.... there are no words! Where they trying to sink the show?? |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2016 12:01:25 GMT -5
I'm so glad we didn't get those awful trailers in the UK, they would've made me not watch the show.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2016 12:24:08 GMT -5
Urgh, I knew it. There was a tiny bit of hope in me that said: "Nah, can't be. Must be a fan parody making fun of season 8"... but I'm not surprised at all. "Now they will encounter their greatest nemesis; a demon smart enough to expose them and ruthless enough to disrupt their overnight dates!"Oh good lord, somebody shoot me. The Frog Network really didn't think Charmed was anything but Sex and the City with magic, did they?  Yeah their trailers were also just awful and they reeeeeally wanted to sell the hunk of the month. I remember looking at the season 7 trailers and the first few disingenuously made it out like Nick Lachey would play a huge part in the story lines. If I'd seen trailers like this before getting into the series, I probably would have been put off it. Ugh, the WB's trailers were SOOOO awful! Remember those horrible alternate titles they gave episodes (mostly in Seasons 5 and 6) to make them sound "sexier"? Some of the worst examples: 5x13: "Obsessions" ("House Call") 5x14: "Dreamspell" ("Sand Francisco Dreamin'") 5x19: "Naughty Nymphs" ("Nymphs Just Wanna' Have Fun") 6x01-02: "Valkyrie Vixens" ("Valhalley of the Dolls") 6x03: "Dragon's Heat" ("Forget Me... Not") 6x04: "Dirty Blondes" (The Power of Three Blondes") 6x06: "Fantasies in the Flesh" ("My Three Witches") 6x09: "Hot Mamas" ("Little Monsters") 6x16: "Midnight Rendezvous" ("The Courtship of Wyatt's Father") 6x20: "Stormy Leather" ("A Wrong Day's Journey Into Right") |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2016 16:27:26 GMT -5
Some of these sound like porn movies, don't they. You can almost hear the "bow-wow-chicka-wow-wow" music playing in the background.
Perhaps Brad Kern wasn't the big bad, rather he was just a mook. The WB was the true villain here.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2016 18:44:05 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2016 19:20:50 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2016 20:43:24 GMT -5
Why do these all look like posters for softcore porn flicks? Interestingly, Season 8 actually didn't have a lot of stuff like this. Part of it was because Eilish (aka. the costume designer responsible for these atrocities) was a casualty of the slashed budget, and the other reason was that Alyssa and Rose put their feet down and refused to wear anymore skimpy outfits (Holly had already said "no" a few seasons earlier, hence the reason why Piper's costumes always showed less skin than Phoebe and Paige's). However, that didn't stop the network from turning the fanservice up to eleventy with the promo pics:    And, while it may have been off-limits to stuff Phoebe or Paige into skimpy costumes, the same was not true for poor Billie:  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2016 23:39:38 GMT -5
Because they do look like ads for movies you'd never take your kids to see.
One good thing of the Budget Nuke Of 2005, Hellish got the boot.
I can see why Kaley was so upset over that horrible costume.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2016 23:48:07 GMT -5
It's the tacky taglines that really clinch it for me. Why do they all concern men or clothes and have zero to do with the episode in question? They do seriously resemble a bad porno!
Agreed. The Season 8 promos are actually my favourite - the only highlight of the season. I'm surprised Rose ever agreed to get into one of those get-ups. I distinctly remember her talking about going shopping for her own wardrobe during some interview (can't remember which one) because she 'would not let anyone put [her] in a stupid costume'. That lasted I see. I giggle at the thought of them trying to get Shannen into one of Eilish's monstrosities.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2016 23:49:53 GMT -5
I can see why Kaley was so upset over that horrible costume. Yeah, unfortunately, Hellish's ghost lived on through many of Billie's outfits. Since Alyssa and Rose refused to wear that crap anymore, the WB forced it on Kaley, instead. Even on its deathbed, the Frog Network still needed its cheap fanservice for the Horny Teenage Boys. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2016 0:30:33 GMT -5
Because they wanted to reel in the horny teenage boys who thought they would be seeing a lot of t*** and a**.
And it still didn't save them.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2016 11:16:40 GMT -5
Because they wanted to reel in the horny teenage boys who thought they would be seeing a lot of t*** and a**. They really didn't understand teenage boys very well, did they? As if flashing a bit of t*t would make them watch the show. They had actual porn for that. They should've been trying to appeal to teenage girls instead (i.e. doing the exact opposite of sexing up the sisters). |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2016 11:29:50 GMT -5
The WB didn't understand Charmed, period. They constantly meddled in the shows production from Day One, because they thought they knew better.
And it didn't help matters that Brad Kern would roll over to every demand the WB made.
Charmed needed a Joss Whedon in charge, someone willing to stand up to the network.
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Post by Melinda Halliwell on Apr 1, 2016 13:02:21 GMT -5
But could that be because Brad had no choice being that he didn't own Charmed nor created it like Whedon did with Angel and Buffy.
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Post by hollowbox on Apr 1, 2016 20:37:21 GMT -5
The demons are attacking again, but this time they’re ganging up on one guy, Rooster, and he ends up being killed. He dissolves into tiny lights. Billie whips the staff out of Von Claptrap’s reach with her power and then Piper attempts to blow him up; which amounts to a mediocre chest massage for Von Claptrap, but he shimmers out anyway because we’ve got a lot more run time to get through yet
Is anyone else offended that they use Prue's TK sound effect when Billie does her TK? It seems sacrilegious somehow.
Somebody begins orbing in. The orbs are swirly for some reason. Paige throws a lamp, but the orbing has completed and the guy catches it.
Simon: I don’t think you recognised my "entrance".
Much as I loathe this guy, he does have a point; you’d think Ms. TwitchAWitch would recognise orbing at this point. So this is Simon, but I will be calling him Ironic Nazi (you’ll get why later on) and he has come to marry Paige.
Just who the Hecate is this dude? After all the drama that Piper and Leo went through in the early seasons,(which by the way, pulling Leo away from their wedding is the douchiest thing the Elders ever did), and how Patty and Sam had to hide baby Paige from the douche-bags Elders, how could this Simon guy exists? Why didn't the Elders unleashed their "unspeakable wrath" on the Marks line for having this witchligher hybrid? I guess because Simon is a douche also, maybe they relented because hey- he's one of them!
Ironic Nazi orbs to Piper, who is putting some shopping in the car. He gives her the exact same shtick. Think they were running short this episode? Anyway, when he gets a lack of response from Piper he leaves and Piper ends up backing her car into someone. Who you ask? Well… it turns out that it is the one and only FIREMAN GREG!!! DUN DUN DUN!!!! Yeah so it isn’t even long since I watched season 6 and I needed a minute to remember who the hell he was. In case any of you forgot him, he was the guy that Piper dated briefly. His big moments of that season included: Um… well there was that time when...um...
I recognized Greg right off. He was the dude that Piper had sex with on top of the firetruck. Sure was very nice of Greg's commander and colleagues to let them do that. "You guys just go ahead and make out on the truck. We'll respond to the emergency when you're finished."
StoopidCoopid just lets himself into Phoebe’s condo. She’s very suspicious and freaked out and I don’t blame her, because wow, I’d forgotten just how creepy he comes across.
Billie is all: “Who cares if he’s a creepy stalker who just walked right into your home? He’s sooo cuuuuute!” Shut up Billie!
Would have been cool if they got the actor who played Cupid from season 2 for this role. I just saw that episode this morning on TNT and what struck me is the chemistry between Phoebe and the original Cupid. They went over the same issues about Phoebe giving up on love, but this seemed more natural; Reluctantly Phoebe admitted her fear of getting hurt if she gets involved with someone (and not because of all her past boyfriends dumping her and usually because it's her fault that they broke it off) . But no, the Elder have to send "Uncle Coop" and rush it because Phoebe just have to get married before the series ended.
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