Every season of Charmed done your way.

[BriannaWarren]

So I have been reading on different threads how they would of liked Charmed to be executed.

So I propose that, you have to write how you would want Charmed to be done if you where either the producer, director or creator?

But this is what you have to stick by:

- You are allowed to change the way the powers were given to them. So you can either roll with the original powers and expand on them or you can give them completely new powers; but you have to give the reason why you are changing them.

- Prue, Piper and Phoebe have to be the Original Charmed Ones, but Paige can be added, at anytime.

- You can change relationships towards the supporting characters, so for example: having Leo be attracted to Phoebe other than Piper and Piper marrying Dan Gordon, is allowed.

- You can take this season by season or list the different characters and their powers, role, etc.

- You aren't allowed to remove characters, you can only improve their storyline. Therefore every season must be there 1-8.

-If you are doing one season per one reply that is perfectly okay. 


Other than that, you can go wild with your new Charmed seasons. But as mention you will need to include every season that was made and you can bring a character from a different season into a season they weren't apart of, for example: If you want to extend Andy's time on the show you may, if you want to bring Billie into a different season you may.

I will love to read what you can come up with.  

 

[Esmeralda]

"Charmed"
Produced by Aaron Spelling and E. Duke Vincent
Created by Constance M. Burge
All episodes written by Sheryl J. Anderson or Paul Ruditis or Zach Estrin & Chris Levinson
Showrunner and continuity person: Esmeralda

SEASON ONE
Starring Shannen Doherty, Holly Marie Combs and Alyssa Milano
Costarring Carlos Gomez and Brian Krause

My Dream Charmed begins the series by showing the townspeople of Salem, MA, getting ready to hang Melinda Halliwell [Finola Hughes] as a witch as she tells them her vision of the future Charmed Ones. Even as she drops, we cut to modern-day San Francisco.

The rest of Season One is similar to the canon season with some differences, mainly in the backstory and what comes from it.

Prue Halliwell [Shannen Doherty] has never had a boyfriend because she closed her heart after the death of her mother, Patty Halliwell [also Finola Hughes – I prefer Melinda also being a brunette – and her last name is Halliwell, not Warren, so Penny won’t lie when she says that Halliwell women keep their maiden name…]. Instead Prue’s been taking care of her grandmother, Penny Halliwell [Jennifer Rhodes] and her two younger sisters, Piper and Phoebe.

Roger Assford [Matthew Ashford] isn’t her fiancé but just her supervisor at Buckland’s (she never worked at the museum…). Roger is fired after the owner, Rex Buckland [Neal Roberts] – and unlike Canon “Rex”, he truly is Rex Buckland…-- finds out that Roger stole Prue’s ideas, so Rex makes Prue one of the Buckland managers instead.

Just like Canon Prue, my Dream Prue is a bit stiff, a bit strait-laced, but loosens up as the season goes along, as she feels sympathy for the innocents they are saving (and in my Dream Charmed, innocents are non-magicals who aren’t aware of the reality of magic) and anger at the villains (both male and female, both magical and non-magical) who are after them.

Piper Halliwell [Holly Marie Combs] is the same as Canon Piper, except that she was never a banker…she didn’t have to be, since Prue was the one who took care of Penny. This means that since graduation from high school, Piper has always worked at Quake, even when she was at cooking school. She was engaged to Jeremy Burns [Eric Scott Woods], until they found out that he was their  first adversary - a demon rather than a warlock.

Otherwise, no need to change Piper, or her and Leo Wyatt’s [Brian Krause] story. Just like Canon Piper, she’s the one who least wants to be a witch, but goes along with her sisters, especially when she sees how much their powers can help people.

Although Phoebe Halliwell [Alyssa Milano] was the wild child and moved away to New York after Penny’s death, she found herself there thanks to making up with her father, Victor Bennett [James Read]. When he found out that she wanted to go back to school and finish her degree but she didn't have the funds, he gave her the money and insisted that she moves back home with her sisters in order to save money while she's in school.  Once there, she finds temp jobs to help supplement their income.

Just like Canon Phoebe, she was the one who finds the Book of Shadows and says the spell that activates their magic, and she’s the one most fascinated with magic.

The other major difference is that the only cop the Charmed Ones meet in the first season is Inspector Rodriguez [Carlos Gomez]. Rodriguez, not a demon but a warlock, spends the whole season trying to expose the Charmed Ones, working with the various magical villains to try to frame the Charmed Ones for crimes by placing them at the scene where innocents that he himself killed died.

Other than these and the changes that would obviously be needed thanks to them - like the fact that it's Piper who thinks that Phoebe slept with her former fiancé – Jeremy - while Prue treats them like two children who should be sent to their rooms - the season is pretty much the same.

But this season also deals with the theme that with great powers comes great responsibility, something that is important for the sisters to learn right away, before they start having serious relationships - that protecting innocents must always come before their personal lives, and the men in their lives must understand that and accept that - if protecting innocents doesn't come first, they will either lose their powers or they or their significant other will lose their lives.

After the Charmed Ones first receive their powers, they use them to protect innocents but also use them to punish people they think have done wrong. At the end of the season, the Elders send them to an alternate future similar to the one we see in ‘Morality Bites’, where all three sisters are arrested for being witches and will be burnt the next day by Prosecutor Rodriguez, not Nathaniel Pratt.

While in the future, the Charmed Ones discover that Rodriguez is a warlock, even as they learn that magic is to be used to protect the innocent, not punish the guilty. Once they learn their lesson - and unlike the canon series, they won't forget it - they are transported back to their present just as each of them begins to feel the agony of the fire. There, when Rodriguez shows up to arrest them for some trumped-up charge, the Charmed Ones vanquish him.

This is also when the Angel of Destiny [Dakin Matthews] shows up, telling the sisters that the trip to the alternate future was done so they’d realize just what they are in for. The sisters are given the option of keeping their powers or losing them and forgetting that they ever had them. They’re told that this has happened with other sets of three sisters descended from Melinda Halliwell, including Melinda’s own three daughters and the 20's sisters who kept their powers but became warlocks - no, in mine, they're sisters, not cousins so P. Bowen is actually Patty's favorite Great-aunt Phoebe and not her second cousin twice removed...and all of their last names is Halliwell)
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But despite what happened in that alternate future, this set of Halliwell sisters agree that they’re going to have to stick together through it all. All of their petty disagreements with each other are forgotten as they agree to continue to walk towards their destiny.

[Esmeralda]

SEASON TWO
Starring Shannen Doherty, Holly Marie Combs and Alyssa Milano
Costarring Brian Krause, Ted King and Neil Roberts

Andy [Ted King] takes Rodriguez's place as the inspector who works with the sisters, and reunites with his high school sweetheart. He is amazed by how much Phoebe has matured, while Phoebe is just as amazed to find out that her once just-as-wild boyfriend is now a San Francisco inspector. After one of her premonitions helps her and her sisters help him solve one of his most-difficult cases, she decides to change her major in college and starts taking forensic classes, so they continue to work on cases together. She uses her power of premonitions to find out what’s going to happen and her visions of the past (which she gets when she touches one of the pieces of evidence) to find out what has happened. Before saying a word to Andy, she brings the cases home to her sisters, where they are able to figure out how to protect the innocents by getting rid of the perpetrator. If the perp is non-magical (which happens just as often as them being magical), Phoebe helps Andy solve it so that he can arrest the perp. If the perp is magical, the Charmed Ones figure out how to vanquish the perp.

Halfway through the season, Andy discovers Phoebe’s secret. Just like the original, he can accept her as a witch, but not as a wife, until Phoebe almost dies trying to save one of the victims. That’s when Andy realizes that he loves her no matter if she's a witch or not and pops the question, and she gladly accepts.

Meanwhile Piper becomes the manager of Quake, while her relationship with Leo grows more serious, and she starts wondering if a whitelighter can marry his charge. The Elders think they are growing way too close, and this may interfere in their work just like it did with Piper’s mother and her whitelighter – the reason why the rule of whitelighters and witches aren’t allowed to marry was even created.

Piper doesn’t know anything about this – she just knows that she’s falling in love with Leo. The only problem that she can see is when they try to date and Piper discovers that dating a man who is dead and has no identity can definitely be a problem. She continues to bemoan the fact that as a witch she can’t have a normal life.

Meanwhile, Prue's boss from the first season turns out to be a warlock trying to figure out how to steal the sisters' powers now that Rodriguez has failed. Rex Buckland [Neal Roberts] make Prue's job a living hell such as making her work long hours without paying her overtime, constantly setting things up so it appears that she has either stolen items or embezzled funds, sending her to clients that he knows are magical bad-guys, etc. until he finally team up with Tempus [David Carradine] at the end of the season.

The season finale plays out much as it did in the original Charmed’s Season One finale, with Rex taking Rodriguez’ spot, except no one intervenes. Each time the Charmed Ones keep missing out on the fact that it's Rex who is the warlock working with Tempus. Also, rather than a Charmed One or Andy, it’s an innocent who dies during each time loop.

The Elders realize what is happening and summon Leo to them, telling him what’s going on. They also warn him that he must stop seeing Piper or suffer the consequences, because the Elders’ fears have come true – Piper and Leo’s emotions, and the fact that they keep trying to protect each other, is the reason why it's the innocent who keeps dying rather than one of the Charmed Ones.

But Leo can’t let Piper die. He orbs in and interrupts the time loop. Even though he helps the Charmed Ones vanquish Rex and save the innocent, Leo is forced away, just like in “Magic Hour,” which is the last scene in the season. (Nope, in my dream series, the season doesn’t always end with the door closing…)

[Esmeralda]

SEASON THREE
Starring Shannen Doherty, Holly Marie Combs and Alyssa Milano
Costarring Brian Krause, Ted King and Julian McMahon

Leo has now been missing for three months and Piper does everything she can to find him or bring him back. When she still can’t find him, she goes on strike, just like she did in the beginning of the original Season Three, and just like then, it's when she's almost the cause of a young girl losing her life that she changes her mind and helps save both the little girl and the fairy. The Elders return Leo, but now his wings are clipped - he is mortal, because whitelighters and charges who fall in love and can’t do their jobs aren’t allowed to be together - and unlike the original, he never gets them back.

But because my Elders are truly good, as well as just, they thank Leo for everything he did during his 80 years as a whitelighter by having the Angel of Destiny give Leo back the life he would’ve lived had he not died in World War II - as far as the world is concerned, he has always been a full-fledged doctor with his own clinic, caring for patients who can’t afford to pay others.

The following episodes are similar to the early ones in the original Season Two that didn’t include Leo, but with Leo playing Dan’s role, while continuing to use his knowledge that came from being a whitelighter for 80 years to help the Charmed Ones protect the innocent. Piper falls for this Leo even harder than she had for the whitelighter, because they can now have a semi-normal relationship, and we never again hear Piper whine about wanting a normal life.

Meanwhile, Phoebe and Andy continue to solve crimes with the help of her sisters, keeping the focus of the show on innocents, as we see all of the innocents and villains that we saw in the original Season Two, even as they happily plan their wedding, which will include both a hand-fasting and a big church wedding.

We also see another villain, one of the two Big Bads of the series, although if this was truly the first time we’d see the show, we wouldn’t know it. When the sisters end up having to testify at a trial, Prue takes a liking to District Attorney Cole Turner [Julian McMahon], and he returns the favor. But when he asks her out, she refuses. Only after she meets Cupid [Michael Riley Burke] and becomes his ring, does she open her heart and accept Cole's offer.

They fall madly in forbidden love even as he tries to kill Piper and Phoebe with the Triad's help, while trying to turn Prue evil. The season plays out like the original Season Three did with Prue taking Phoebe’s role, until she finds out that Belthazor [Michael Bailey Smith] is actually Cole.

Unlike the original Phoebe, Prue doesn’t lie to her sisters and instead joins them in trying to vanquish Belthazor who they now know is actually Cole, no matter how much the idea breaks her heart. But he escapes and then he tries everything he can to get back with Prue, just like in the original Season Three and Five without him being either crazy or invulnerable with sometimes crazy, other times heart-breaking results.

Finally she agrees to let him back into her life if he turns good for her. He agrees and pretends to be good, even as he continues to try to turn her evil.

In the season finale, Andy and Phoebe are hand-fasted in front of family and friends, but right after Grams tells Andy to kiss his bride, Shax [Michael Bailey Smith] attacks. The Charmed Ones vanquish Shax, but in the process, they are exposed.

Unlike the original, the Charmed Ones stick together – unlike the original Phoebe, Prue has never considered the idea of a potion to turn Cole good – she’s still determined to turn him good all by herself no matter if he wants to or not. He doesn’t - unlike the original Cole, he's not half-human/half-demon, but instead is a warlock who wants to kill the Charmed Ones so he can steal their powers, except for Prue who he wants to turn into another warlock, since as the oldest Charmed Ones, she would make a very powerful warlock.

When things go from bad to worse and Piper is shot, Phoebe and Leo take Piper to the hospital where Piper dies even as Phoebe and Leo are shot by the snipers.

Meanwhile, Prue summons Cole and tells him to have Tempus turn back time so she can save her sister and best friend. He agrees to do this only if he can have what he wants.

A deal is struck - time is reset by Tempus after Prue stays in the Underworld and joins the dark side, including drinking the Seer’s [Debbi Morgan] potion which truly turns her evil.

Again the hand-fasting takes place, but Phoebe, whose power has helped her remember what happened before, insists that just the family of the Charmed Ones attend. Phoebe is upset that her big sister isn’t there, but insists that the hand-fasting takes place. Again no sooner does Grams tell Andy to kiss his bride than Shax attacks and because without Prue, the Charmed Ones can’t even ward him off, everyone is hurt, and Piper and Phoebe, who have been thrown through the wall, appear dead.

[Esmeralda]

SEASON FOUR
Starring Shannen Doherty, Holly Marie Combs and Alyssa Milano
Costarring Brian Krause, Ted King and Julian McMahon
(The WB has warned me that unless I stop all the bad publicity being generated due to the bad blood between Shannen and Alyssa, they will pull the plug on the series. Rather than firing someone, I announce to the actresses that this will be the last season, and Shannen and Alyssa agree that they can act like friends for one season, especially because the plot will be set up so they won’t have many scenes together.)

The season starts where we left off. Prue is now evil and in the Underworld with Cole. Piper and Phoebe are near-death. Leo, who also appeared near-death, wakes up and is able to stabilize Piper and Phoebe using his doctor skills instead of the supernatural abilities he no longer has before calling 911.

Once the sisters are out of the hospital, and after Phoebe and Andy have their big church wedding, they try to rescue Prue and instead find that she doesn't want to be rescued; that she's enjoying being evil, made worse each time she drinks more of the Seer's potion.

With Prue at his side, Cole has stopped pretending and instead they raise hell. Prue manages to turn the entire magical community against her sisters just like the Jenkinses did in the original Season Eight.

Cole and Prue now proclaim themselves the leaders of the Underworld, but the evil denizens have gone for centuries without any leaders and don't like that idea now, so Prue and Cole have to put down a few revolts while Piper and Phoebe struggle to save innocents with only a power of two and the need to overcome their personal feelings regarding what they should to do about Prue and Cole, unable to bring themselves to vanquish their sister, even if she is now evil. The danger is more real than ever because Piper and Phoebe have to find a way to avoid high-level demons, since they are short one in the Power of Three.

Eventually Cole and Prue put down all of the revolts and are crowned Leaders of the Underworld in a ceremony much like the one in the original Season Four. with the Grimoire and all. Cole then sends his most powerful minions after Piper and Phoebe, attacking them personally and playing on their weaknesses.

In the midst of all of this, Phoebe graduates from college and begins working at the police station with Andy. They don’t try for children at all due to the danger that’s swirling around them.

Instead, it’s Prue who finds herself five months pregnant, so not certain what the Seer's potion will do to her child, she stops drinking it, which lets her sisters finally be able to reach her, like the original ones did with Billie and with Evil Phoebe.

With the Power of Three reunited, they are able to vanquish Shax again, but not Cole. Their bond as sisters has been broken and they can’t vanquish Cole that easily. As the season ends, he tells them that he's going to come back for his son, his heir just before he blinks away.

[Esmeralda]

SEASON FIVE
Starring Shannen Doherty, Holly Marie Combs and Alyssa Milano
Costarring Brian Krause, Ted King and Julian McMahon
(“Charmed” has received higher ratings during Season Four than ever before, the highest any cable series has ever received, even higher than most network shows, and even won a number of Emmies, including one for Charmed as best drama and me as best showrunner—hey, it’s my Dream Charmed, so if I’m going to dream, I’m going to dream big!

Thanks to this, the WB wants the actresses to sign new four-year contracts. But Shannen is getting bored and wants to move on, even though both Holly Marie and Alyssa want to continue the series and sign their new contracts. Shannen agrees to stay for one more season as long as I agree to let her do a lot more directing. We also agree that since this will be her final season, I will give her character the great send-off her fans deserve.

Julian also agrees to sign a new one-year contract before starting filming on “Nip Tuck", but that will be it. Both agree to do guest appearances, but only if their character is truly needed.)

Piper and Phoebe are still having a hard time trusting Prue, and this trust is made far worse by the fact that Prue is still pregnant with Cole's child, and despite the fact that they beg her to get rid of it, she refuses because she already loves her unborn child. This weakens their bond and makes them vulnerable until halfway through the season when they finally forgive one another.

Their bond becomes complete when Phoebe tells Prue that she’s also pregnant, and Piper tells her that she and Leo are going to be married and despite Prue’s advanced pregnancy, she wants Prue to be her matron of honor.

Cole eventually accepts the fact that Prue is done with him, especially when he finds out that she plans to keep their child away from him, while he still wants to raise his son as his evil heir. He kidnaps the sisters and has the Seer try to steal the child, but unlike the original, that doesn't work and the sisters are able to escape with Prue still pregnant.

Near the end of the season, Leo and Piper are first hand-fasted by Grams and then married in a small church wedding just as Prue goes into labor. She gives birth to the child, but rather than the son who Cole expected, it’s a girl who she names Patricia Victoria Halliwell after her parents, and who the sisters call Trish.

In the season finale, they convince Grams to perform a wiccaning so the baby has a chance to be good. Grams agrees only if the sisters agree to let her first bind her powers until she’s old enough to handle them…whatever they might be. Grams wants to cast the same spell she used on the sisters after the happenings of "That Seventies Episode", which will not only bind her powers, but also keep her off of Evil's radar until when and if her powers are unbound.

Right in the midst of her casting the spell, Cole appears, trying to prevent this and the wiccaning from happening to his daughter. But he knows the Charmed Ones too well. With him he has an innocent and he has an athame to her throat. He tells Prue either give him his daughter who he will rename Elizabeth Turner after his own mother, or he'll kill the innocent. The sisters are in a quandary, especially Prue - she can't give away her daughter to Cole to be raised evil, but she can't allow an innocent to be killed just so Trish will be saved. After a bit (with Cole taunting her during all of this), Prue decides what to do.

She has Piper freeze Cole and then she uses her TK to throw the innocent across the floor, although this knocks the innocent out. Then Prue begins chanting the spell the sisters had tried before, but hadn't succeeded because their bond wasn't strong enough. But now it is and it succeeds in vanquishing Cole, but the power of the vanquish throws them across the room before the flames from the vanquish rush towards their innocent. Although it won't reach the sisters, it will kill the innocent.

Piper tries freezing it, but she can’t. Instead Prue, whose power to move thing with her mind has grown over the years, especially while she was evil, is able to use her power to keep it back, telling her sisters to grab their innocent and run. They beg her not to do this, but Prue tells them to take good care of Trish for her.

Crying, Piper and Phoebe grab their innocent and then run out of the door just as Prue is no longer able to hold back the flames. Piper and Phoebe quickly return with fire extinguishers and put out the flames, but it's much too late to save Prue.

Grams’ ghost returns and first she finishes binding Trish's powers and then wiccans her. Then, even as Piper and Phoebe cry over their lost sister's burnt body, Grams helps Prue’s ghost make the crossing to the other side, where we see Patty [Finola Hughes] welcome her, as the season ends.

[Esmeralda]

SEASON SIX
Starring Holly Marie Combs, Alyssa Milano and Rose McGowan as “Paige”
Costarring Brian Krause, Ted King, Oded Fehr and Ivan Sergei.
(Alyssa’s agent isn’t happy about her not having the lead credit now that Shannen is gone, but she’s under contract...They continue to be listed in the order of the Charmed Ones’ ages.)

Piper and Phoebe are mourning their sister, and Andy and Leo are also broken up while trying to comfort their wives. Piper uses Trish to try to cast a “find a lost witch” spell and it plays out just like the original “Charmed Again” with a couple of major exceptions.

First, Piper doesn't try this until the third episode - the first two are dedicated to letting Piper and Phoebe (and Prue's fans) remember and mourn their sister (the funeral is full of flashbacks) before being forced to accept another one.

Second, we do get a chance to get to know Paige [Rose McGowan], but only as the innocent who Prue saved during the Season Five finale, including seeing her at the funeral, not due to the spell but due to the fact that she wants to be able to thank Prue for saving her life...unknown to the Charmed Ones or Cole, the innocent Prue saved is their youngest half-sister.

The other difference is that unlike the original, the Elders have always known about Paige - they knew when Patty was pregnant. They were the ones who wanted her kept away from her sisters since they knew that the Power of Four would be too much and if all four sisters joined together to cast a Power of Four spell, it would not only kill all four sisters, but destroy the entire world. They also wanted her power to orb (her only power at birth, given to her by the Elders when Patty became pregnant with her, just like what happened with the Halliwells - they didn't give her any Halliwell powers since the Halliwells already had all three and were doing all they could to make sure there would never be a Power of Four since without one of those powers, Paige could never become Charmed) bound in order to protect her from Evil and to keep her from exposing magic. Like I've said before, my Elders are both good and just...

Meanwhile, Phoebe is so upset by Prue's death that she ends up miscarrying her baby, which also upsets Andy. This puts a huge strain on his and Phoebe's relationship, and they decide to separate for now while considering divorce. Phoebe even quits the force so she doesn’t have to work with him.

Once the sisters do reconstitute the Power of Three - similar to "Charmed Again", but starting when Paige appears at the door, although different since there is no Shax or Source and because this is three episodes into the season - the Elders give Paige Prue's power to move things with her mind, which works exactly as Prue's did (and like Prue, she never gets the power of astral projection). Her power to orb remains her only whitelighter power - she is just the daughter of a whitelighter who has been given one of his powers; she's not a whitelighter herself since she's not dead. Meanwhile Piper continues to just have the power to freeze molecules and Phoebe continues to have the power to see the future. There have been upgrades, like Phoebe able to force visions - if she picks up an object, she can see its past - and much like their powers in 'Morality Bites', Prue and Piper have better control of their powers over longer distances. Only Paige has two powers, but only because she had to in order to reconstitute the Charmed Ones.

Meanwhile, the denizens of the Underworld have gotten used to having leaders. During the first couple of episodes, with Cole vanquished and Prue gone, they battle each other for supremacy, but no one is truly strong enough to take over as Cole and Prue did. Finally, around the same time that the Power of Three is reconstituted, the Seer talks them into releasing the previous leader who was imprisoned centuries ago after a revolt. He is the other main Big Bad of the series.

Zankou [Oded Fehr], another warlock (the only demons are the Demons of...) , wants to stop this new set of Charmed Ones before they can become too powerful, but Paige chooses to be with her newly-found half-sisters, and Zankou leaves…for now.

Instead, during the rest of the season we constantly see him in the background, wearing various disguises, but watching the sisters and plotting.

Meanwhile Leo’s practice has become very successful as he continues to help people who need it but can’t afford it, while Piper has decided that life is too short to stay with a job she hates, so she quits and uses the money she made as a manager to open up her own restaurant, which she names P4 after her and her three sisters, and it’s a huge success.

At the same time, Piper and Phoebe are determined to keep their niece – the only piece of Prue that they have left – safe to the point of interfering with their destiny of protecting innocents.

Paige feels like an outcast in the family and feels like they only need her to take Prue's place in the Power of Three, which causes her to grow close to her best friend Henry [Ivan Sergei] and they take things to the next level.

Halfway through the season, Paige finally confronts her sisters about her feelings, and they have an emotional blowout where they finally truly accept her as part of the family, and offer her the chance to move into Prue’s old room. For the first time, they also let her hold her niece and spend some time with the little girl.

The new Charmed Ones’ bond finally becomes strong, and they’re finally able to vanquish high-level demons, something they couldn’t do before—they could make them vanish like the original Prue and Piper did to Shax during “All Hell Breaks Loose”, but they couldn’t vanquish them.

The season ends with Phoebe and Andy no longer able to stand being apart. They plan to meet up, and Phoebe arrives to find Andy dead by Zankou's hands. Zankou smiles evilly at her and us before flaming away.

[Esmeralda]

SEASON SEVEN
Starring Holly Marie Combs, Alyssa Milano and Rose McGowan
Costarring Brian Krause, Ivan Sergei and Oded Fehr

Phoebe is obsessed with getting revenge for Andy’s death, and no one can comfort her until the Avatars turn to her for help in creating Utopia in exchange for having a world where Prue and Andy are still alive, and magical perps aren't part of their everyday life. Phoebe accepts and convinces her sisters to join the cause for a better world.

During the 150th episode, a mysterious young woman [Charisma Carpenter] appears and warns them that the Avatars are not to be trusted. They don't listen to her and Utopia is created without them realizing that free will has been taken away. The woman, who says her name is Chris Perry, turns to the one person who was responsible for starting it all, Phoebe.

With Chris’ help, Phoebe remembers all the losses and what they learned about the wrong thing done for the right reason is still wrong, and she finally admits that taking away the world's free will just so she can have her own little utopia simply isn't right. She sets out to convince her sisters to stop the Avatars. With help from the Elders, and from Prue (who no longer has any powers, since Paige now has hers) and Andy, the war is finally won. Utopia is reversed and the Charmed Ones say goodbye to Andy and Prue in a tearful farewell as they rejoin Patty and Grams in the Afterlife in a scene reminiscent of the ending of the movie “Ghost”.

The Elders try to reward Chris by making her the Charmed Ones’ new charge, something she insists she can’t do; that she must return home, and instead asks to be returned to the Halliwell attic.

Once she’s there, we see a triquetra portal open just as Leo happens to walk into the attic. He wants to know what is going on.

This is when Chris finally admits that she’s from the future which is why she knew when to come back in order to stop the Avatars and prevent the world that she came from from happening.

He asks her who she really is, so after making him promise not to tell the Charmed Ones, she first apologizes for misleading them and then finally admits that Chris isn’t really her name. She is engaged to a phoenix witch named Christopher Perry and she decided to use his name so they wouldn’t suspect that she is actually a future version of Trish. Before he can ask anything else, she steps through the portal and is gone, the end of the 150th episode, the only time "Chris" appears in the series.

The sisters continue with their lives, finally having them back on track. Leo and Piper couldn't be happier. The restaurant is doing well along with Leo's practice, and they’ve finally decided to start trying for children. Paige and Henry are still together and going strong, while Paige is now a full-time social worker who works closely with Henry, a parole officer. Phoebe feels left out but is content taking care of her niece. She has also returned to her police work, keeping her sisters’ focus on protecting innocents, the lesson she re-learned from "Chris".

Then, near the end of the season, Zankou returns. Doing some research, the sisters discover that the only way to prevent Zankou from taking over the Manor and turning the spiritual and wiccan nexus on which the Manor was built into a center for evil is to truly sacrifice themselves. This is an extremely difficult decision, but even Leo and Henry agree that it’s something that must be done, and the men agree to take good care of little Trish while never unbinding her powers, since they wouldn’t be able to help her handle them.

During the season finale which combines both “Something Wicca This Way Goes” and “Forever Charmed” the Charmed Ones risk their lives in a big, fiery finale, fully expecting to die, but Paige manages to panic-orb away. Piper and Phoebe are left for dead - the first time any of the Charmed Ones have died except for Prue - but finding the same spell that "Chris" used to come back in time, Paige goes back in time to try to save her half-sisters. She never goes forward in time so we never see any of the Charmed Ones or Leo as old.

Instead Paige finds herself with the earlier versions of the Charmed Ones, from circa Season One or Two, with the three actresses dressed to look like them, like they did during "Pre-Witched". Simply telling them that she is one of their innocents who they saved but that she wants to try to figure a way to save the sisters after a fiery vanquish killed them, Paige gives no clues as to when this happened or which perp they were vanquishing, simply telling them she doesn't want to change the future too much. Prue wants to know if they used the Power of Three spell to protect themselves. Paige, who has never heard of the Power of Three spell, has to admit that she doesn't think so, so Prue suggests they try it. The sisters teach her the simple spell and then Paige thanks all of the sisters before the original Charmed Ones use the spell from "That Seventies Episode" to send her home.

Paige phases back into her body as soon as she arrives - just like time travelers to the future always have - just as the Charmed Ones cast the spell to vanquish Zankou. Even as the flames go towards them, Paige grabs her sisters' hands and start chanting the Power of Three spell. Her sisters join in, even as their hearts ache, thinking that had they remembered it before, Prue might still be alive. The spell protects them from the explosion, which is what killed Piper and Phoebe the first time around, and, of course, is also very similar to the explosion that killed Prue.

In the happy but not sappy ending, we see the sisters six months later. Piper now pregnant with her own child, Phoebe holding Trish, and Paige showing off her new engagement ring, decide to write down all the things that went on since Piper and Phoebe became witches, so that they can pass it onto the next generation. As they walk up the stairs towards the attic and the Book of Shadows, they stop to reminisce about the various pictures on the wall:

• Paige and Henry’s brand-new engagement picture
  
  
• Piper and Leo’s wedding picture
  
  
• Phoebe and Andy’s wedding picture
  
  
• a picture of the sisters hanging out at P4
  
  
• a picture of Leo standing in front of his practice
  
  
• a picture of Paige standing in front of South Bay Social Services
  
  
• a picture of Phoebe standing in front of the San Francisco Police Department
  
  
• a picture of Prue holding a newborn Trish
  
  
• a picture of Piper inside Quake
  
  
• a picture of Prue inside her Buckland’s office
  
  
• a frame showing various old pictures of Paige at various ages with her adopted parents and with Henry
  
  
• a frame showing various old pictures of the Halliwells at various ages with Grams, Patty, Victor [James Read] and Andy.
  
  
• the picture of the original Charmed Ones that Grams took the day she died.

As the Charmed Ones open the door to the attic and pass through, closing the door, the camera goes back to the picture Grams took of the original Charmed Ones.

Then there’s a bit of magic and Paige becomes part of it, too, which is the end of the season.

[Esmeralda]

SEASON EIGHT
(Yeah, there’s a Season Eight, sort of – because The WB demanded an eighth season to set up a spin-off, even as Season Seven was filming. But as “Charmed”'s showrunner I refused to do that, especially when Holly, Alyssa, and especially a very unhappy Rose all want a break. So after the success of "Chris" aka adult Trish during the 150th episode (I received more email about her than any other character introduced during the series), I offered an alternative and The WB took me up on it.

So instead of airing an eighth season but with the stars still under contracts, “Charmed”’s spin-off, “Charmed – the Next Generation” with a whole new theme song and a whole new cast, debuts in the same time slot. It stars Charisma Carpenter as Trish, along with her cousins, but their names and their powers and even their parents will be up to the new showrunner, since I retire before it gets going, since I have absolutely no interest in it, and would rather let someone who *is* interested decide what to do with the characters.

But before I retire, I talk Aaron Spelling into releasing an unhappy Rose McGowan from her contract, so Paige will not be part of the spin-off, only as a very occasional guest star. In order to do that, Paige will be dead in the spin-off, only appearing as a ghost, meaning there are no longer any Charmed Ones, which allows the next generation to take over.

Holly, Alyssa, Brian and Ivan all want to be part of the new series, but only as recurring guest stars, giving them the break away from all things Charmed that they want while still being part of it. They would then have a choice whether to sign a new contract after the first season is over (if it's a success, of course, and naturally in my dream world, it would be), and that would help decide what happens to their characters.

But what actually happens is all up to the new showrunner...)

[Granny Charmed]

I have to admit dear having 8 seasons, I think is pushing it. I just figured since it is done *our* way not everyone may wish to go for 8 seasons or want to commit to that many seasons.

Also just to confirm dear. When you say we aren't allowed to remove characters and every season must be there. I am confused if you mean we have to stick to all the season arcs and villains or have to use everything but can move things around into different seasons. Because dear using every character and season but moving things around to earlier or later seasons will not work in some cases to meet the 8 season requirement. I am really confused on this part?

But apart from that - I really like this challenge. 

[BriannaWarren]

Oct 27, 2016 20:29:39 GMT -5 Esmeralda said:

SEASON EIGHT
(Yeah, there’s a Season Eight, sort of – because the WB demanded an eighth season to set up a spin-off, even as Season Seven was filming. But as “Charmed”'s executive producer I refused to do that, especially when Holly, Alyssa, and especially a very unhappy Rose all want a break. So after the success of "Chris" aka adult Trish during the 150th episode (I received more email about her than any other character introduced during the series), I offered an alternative and the WB took me up on it.

So instead of airing an eighth season but with the stars still under contracts, “Charmed”’s spin-off, “Charmed – the Next Generation” with a whole new theme song and a whole new cast, debuts in the same time slot. It stars Charisma Carpenter as Trish, along with her cousins, but their names and their powers and even their parents will be up to the new showrunner, since I retire before it gets going, since I have absolutely no interest in it, and would rather let someone who *is* interested decide what to do with the characters.

But before I retire, I talk Aaron Spelling into releasing an unhappy Rose McGowan from her contract, so Paige will not be part of the spin-off, only as a very occasional guest star. In order to do that, Paige will be dead in the spin-off, only appearing as a ghost, meaning there are no longer any Charmed Ones, which allows the next generation to take over.

Holly, Alyssa, Brian and Ivan all want to be part of the new series, but only as recurring guest stars, giving them the break away from all things Charmed that they want while still being part of it. They would then have a choice whether to sign a new contract after the first season is over (if it's a success, of course, and naturally in my dream world, it would be), and that would help decide what happens to their characters.

But what actually happens is all up to the new showrunner...)

I completely love this, your dream Charmed is absolutely amazing. I would of like to see it done this way or something similar to this.  

[craig]

Oct 27, 2016 19:55:28 GMT -5 Esmeralda said:

"Charmed"
Produced by Aaron Spelling and E. Duke Vincent
Created by Constance M. Burge
All episodes written by Sheryl J. Anderson or Paul Ruditis or Zach Estrin & Chris Levinson
Showrunner and continuity person: Esmeralda

SEASON ONE
Starring Shannen Doherty, Holly Marie Combs and Alyssa Milano
Costarring Carlos Gomez and Brian Krause

My Dream Charmed begins the series by showing the townspeople of Salem, MA getting ready to hang Melinda Halliwell [Tyler Layton] as a witch as she tells them her vision of the future Charmed Ones. Even as she drops, we cut to modern-day San Francisco.

The rest of Season One is similar to the original with some differences, mainly in the backstory and what comes from it.

Prue [Shannen Doherty] has never had a boyfriend because she closed her heart after the death of her mother. Instead she’s been taking care of her sisters and Grams [Jennifer Rhodes]. Roger [Matthew Ashford] isn’t her fiancé but just her supervisor, who is fired after her boss finds out that he stole her ideas, so their boss makes her one of the Buckland managers instead. Just like the original, she’s a bit stiff, a bit strait-laced, but loosens up as the season goes along, as she feels sympathy for the innocents they are saving and anger at the villains (both male and female, both magical and non-magical) who are after them.

Piper [Holly Marie Combs] is the same as the original, except that she was never a banker…she didn’t have to be, since Prue was the one who took care of Grams, so since graduation from high school, she has always worked at Quake, even when she was at cooking school. Otherwise, no need to change her or her and Leo’s [Brian Krause] story. Just like the original, she’s the one who least wants to be a witch, but goes along with her sisters, especially when she sees how much their powers can help people.

Although Phoebe [Alyssa Milano] was the wild child and moved away to New York after Grams’ death, she found herself there and now wants to go back to school, the reason why she moves back in with her sisters. Just like the original, she’s the one who finds the Book of Shadows and says the spell that activates their magic, and she’s the one most fascinated with magic.

The other major difference is that Andy is not part of this first season. Instead Inspector Rodriguez [Carlos Gomez], a warlock, spends the whole season trying to expose the Charmed Ones, working with the various magical villains to try to frame the Charmed Ones for crimes by placing them at the scene where innocents that he himself killed died.

Other than these and the changes that would obviously be needed thanks to them - like the fact that it's Piper who thinks that Phoebe slept with her former boyfriend, while Prue treats them like two children who should be sent to their rooms - the season is pretty much the same.

But this season also deals with the theme that with great powers comes great responsibility, something that is important for the sisters to learn right away, before they start having relationships - that protecting innocents must always come before their personal lives - if it doesn't, they will either lose their powers or lose their lives. They can use their magic as they please, but they can't expose magic to non-magicals who don't know about the existence of magic, the definition of innocents in my Dream Charmed.

After the Charmed Ones first receive their powers, they use them to protect innocents but also use them to punish non-magicals who they think have done wrong. At the end of the season, the Elders send them to a future similar to 'Morality Bites', where all three sisters are arrested for being witches and will be burnt the next day by Prosecutor Rodriguez, not Nathaniel Pratt.

While in the future, the Charmed Ones discover that Rodriguez is a warlock, even as they learn that magic is to be used to protect the innocent, not punish the guilty. Once they learn their lesson - and unlike the original series, they won't forget it - they are transported back to their present just as each of them begins to feel the agony of the fire. There, when Rodriguez shows up to arrest them for some trumped-up charge, the Charmed Ones vanquish him.

This is also when the Angel of Destiny shows up. Now that the Halliwells finally realize just what they are in for, they are given the option of keeping their powers or losing them and forgetting that they ever had them, as has happened with other sets of three sisters descended from Melinda Halliwell (like the 20's sisters who kept their powers but became warlocks - no, in mine, they're not cousins...and all of their last names is Halliwell). But despite what happened in the future, this set of sisters agree that they’re going to have to stick together through it all. All of their petty disagreements with each other are forgotten as they agree to continue to walk towards their destiny.

WOW. This is great stuff. I especially find it interesting you paired up Phoebe and Andy. 

[craig]

Here is how I would do things. I also want to thank Marie, Chloegirl and PrueFan from the shoutbox for all the ideas and discussions we had on various topics.

I have not done anything like this before. So I might be rusty on some things.

SEASON ONE

CHANGES:
* I would keep Jeremy as the major villain in the first 10 episodes. Piper would be the one involved with him and return from New York with him.
* When Melinda Warren is brought back, she decides to stay to teach the Charmed Ones about magic. They decide to pass her off as a relative.
* The first episode instead the villain would be a warlock who used to Grams former husband who was a witch and became a warlock.
* Rex is the major villain for the second half of season 1.
* Andy does not die at the end of the season.
* At the end of the season after they vanquish Rex. Melinda decides she has to leave, and the sisters cast the spell to send her back to the afterlife.
* Leo is not in the first season, but appears at the end like he did in Thank You For Not Morphing.


So what you all think? Just playing with a few ideas and this might change. I am going to see what my partner thinks of it.

[Esmeralda]

Oct 28, 2016 20:27:14 GMT -5 craig said:

Here is how I would do things. I also want to thank Marie, Chloegirl and PrueFan from the shoutbox for all the ideas and discussions we had on various topics.

I have not done anything like this before. So I might be rusty on some things.

SEASON ONE

CHANGES:
* I would keep Jeremy as the major villain in the first 10 episodes. Piper would be the one involved with him and return from New York with him.
* When Melinda Warren is brought back, she decides to stay to teach the Charmed Ones about magic. They decide to pass her off as a relative.
* The first episode instead the villain would be a warlock who used to Grams former husband who was a witch and became a warlock.
* Rex is the major villain for the second half of season 1.
* Andy does not die at the end of the season.
* At the end of the season after they vanquish Rex. Melinda decides she has to leave, and the sisters cast the spell to send her back to the afterlife.
* Leo is not in the first season, but appears at the end like he did in Thank You For Not Morphing.


So what you all think? Just playing with a few ideas and this might change. I am going to see what my partner thinks of it.

Oh, I really like these ideas, Craig! Please keep going!

I'm also glad that you like my ideas - feel free to use any of them that you like. I'm first to admit that most of them come from discussions with others fans when I said "Hey, yes, I like that idea - it would be part of my Dream Charmed." To give you an idea, here's what my own original Dream Charmed looked like before we had those discussions, with most of these my own ideas and was in response to this post:

Feb 17, 2012 22:25:28 GMT -5 SEERofCHAOS said:

So I've been thinking of how the later seasons of Charmed would play out if I were show runner. A few things to note before I type this. I am writing this with Prue still alive, so there will be no Paige. Also, I am blending different ideas I've seen, such as the original plan for S4 and S5, with my own ideas. And since these are my own ideas, feel free to disagree, it would make things more fun.

That post got others to play "Executive Producer" rather than "Showrunner" and led me to post this, my original Dream Charmed which is still my true Dream Charmed since I've never liked the idea of dead men being able to sire children:

Season One is similar to the original with some differences, mainly in the backstory and what comes from it.

Prue has never had a boyfriend because she closed her heart off after the death of her mother. Instead she’s been taking care of her sisters and Grams. Roger isn’t her boyfriend, but just her boss.

Piper is the same as the original, except that she was never a banker…she didn’t have to since Prue was the one who took care of Grams. Otherwise, no need to change her or her and Leo’s story.

Phoebe is still the wild child, and is very surprised when she comes back from New York to find out that her just-as-wild high-school boyfriend is now an inspector with the San Francisco Police Department. Andy discovers her secret after she helps him solve a few of his cases. Just like the original, he can accept her as a witch, but not as a wife, at least for now, and since Phoebe is nowhere close to settling down, that’s fine with her, so they become lovers.

The other major difference is the finale which combines both “Love Hurts” and “Déjà vu All Over Again”. In order to stop the everlasting time loop, Piper must let Leo die…

After his death, the Charmed Ones no longer need a whitelighter to guide them which they needed during their first year as witches and we never hear the word whitelighter again, nor do we ever hear the word Elder, or, thank God, witchlighter. We never need to find out if dead men can sire children.

Other than these and the changes that would obviously be needed thanks to them--like the fact that it's Piper who thinks that Phoebe slept with her former boyfriend and Prue who treats them like two children who should be sent to their rooms--the season is pretty much the same.

Obviously this changes Season Two, as Piper is the one who mourns her lost love rather than Prue. This is when she goes on strike, just like she did in the beginning of the real Season Three, and just like then, it's when she's almost the cause of a young girl losing her life that she changes her mind. But unlike the real Season Three, Leo isn't returned.

But when Dan moves in next door, halfway through the season, and he both finds out and accepts her as a witch, things slowly change for the middle sister…

Meanwhile, Phoebe and Andy continue to solve crimes with the help of her sisters, keeping the focus of the show on innocents, as we see all of the innocents and bad guys that we saw in the original Season Two, with the exception of Sam who isn’t part of this--the only reason Victor left is Grams. Phoebe and Andy are still lovers, but don’t even consider marriage, until Phoebe almost dies trying to save one of the victims of one of the crimes they're trying to solve. Andy realizes that he loves her not matter if she's a witch or not and pops the question and she accepts.

We also see another bad guy, although if this was truly the first time we’d see the show, we wouldn’t know it. When the sisters end up having to testify at a trial, Prue takes a liking to Assistant District Attorney Cole Turner, and he returns the favor. But when he asks her out, she refuses. Only after she meets Cupid and becomes his ring, does she open her heart and accept Cole's offer.

The season finale is an episode similar to “The Honeymoon’s Over”, except, of course, Piper is also part of it, since no one has gone (or could go) Up There. This is when we find out that Cole is indeed a demon who is trying to kill the sisters. And unlike the real show, he’s not half-demon, he’s pure demon who only pretends to care for Prue and simply wants to discover the sisters’ weaknesses so he can destroy them. There is no Source or Big Bad in this version—the one who comes closest to being that is Cole.

Unlike the real Season Two, since there is no P3 H20, Prue never stops working at Buckland's, nor does she ever get her astral projection power.

Season Three, the final season of my Dream Charmed, continues to have Andy and Phoebe solving crime, while also planning their wedding, so we continue to have the Bad Guy of the Week that I love, while also having the Cole story-arc that most fans love. Meanwhile, Piper and Dan are becoming closer, and Prue thinks that so are she and Cole.

With these exceptions (and Phoebe and Andy not having to fight the Elders in order to get married), the season works pretty much like the original except that Piper never gets her explosion power.

Andy and Phoebe’s wedding happens about halfway through the season, working much like Leo and Piper’s so that Patty and Grams can be part of it, although there’s also plans for a big, huge public church wedding later on, since unlike Leo, Andy isn’t dead. But rather than Prue interrupting it, it’s Shax who suddenly appears. The sisters vanquish him, but when they check the Book, they find that he is just a demonic hitman, so there is someone a lot worse out there. Phoebe tells Andy that she loves him and still wants to marry him, but only after they find and vanquish Shax’s boss.

The rest of the season works out similar to the original except, of course, there are no honeymooners and Prue eventually finds out that the true evil is Cole. In the grand finale, they battle and vanquish him.

The Angel of Destiny shows up and the sisters decide to give up their powers so they can live normal lives. Only then do we see the big grand church wedding as Phoebe and Andy are married, the last scene of the series.

Obviously I couldn't use this one here - even if it is my real Dream Charmed - because Brianna Warren wanted all eight seasons and this is just three.

The one I did use here, which I call "My Dream Charmed...with Children" came about by another thread, similar to this one but one that started this way:

Dec 27, 2011 13:25:18 GMT -5 Astral Chaos said:

Forever Charmed left us with nine children (ten if you include Phoetus, but most don't). Many hated disliked that setup -- I know I did. Now my question is, if you could design your own ideal version of a Next Generation, what would it be like?

Would Prue have had children? Would Piper? What about Phoebe and Paige? Who are the fathers? What powers would they have? and if your feeling extra creative, what would they be named?

Will be interesting to see what people come up with.

A number of fans took Astral Chaos up on the challenge, including Astral Echo and Astral Alex. So a lot like what you're doing with the convo in the Shoutbox, I ended up posting this:

Jan 1, 2012 13:15:42 GMT -5 joshingabout said:

I think I'm the only fan in the world who likes the fact that each sister (minus Prue, obviously) had three kids of their own.

Oh, you're not the only one. Like I showed earlier, Lexi has 3 for each in her virtual series and a number of other fans do, too. I think they find it easier to do that now that it's set up that way in the comic books...we just haven't seen Phoebe's two youngest yet.

I think we'd just find 9 kids a bit hard to handle in any spin-off, even if it was done the way Lexi did it. But in a virtual series, it would be easy to pay that many stars; a lot harder in the real world, especially if you'd have to pay for all the special effects you'd need for nine witches, especially when most of them are witchlighers. If no one had more than 2 (and, better, if one had none), it would be a lot easier.

This wouldn't be the case in an animated series, which I would love to see, especially if the miracle could occur and all of the regulars would voice their character and Paul Ruditis would be the executive producer.

Best of all, none of them would be set up as the new Charmed Ones, the way either Piper's three children or Phoebe's three daughters usually are. I think most of us (me not included...but then I'm used to being the exception to the rule) would prefer the Charmed legacy continuing, but without there being new Charmed Ones.

Speaking of, after reading what all of the Astrals have come up with, I've been having fun pulling an Es and figuring out a way to take what I count as the best of each story and editing it into one alternate Charmed universe, which would include all of the Astrals' stories...Alex, Echo and Chaos.

This would not necessarily be the way I would want the series to go...First I'd have Paige never existing. Prue never dying means Leo would never give into everything Piper wants because he feels guilty for losing Prue, which means he'd still be the Leo I loved for the first three seasons, and so would Piper. It also means she'd be the heart of the family and not its crappy leader. Cole would die at the end of Season Three, saving Phoebe from the Brotherhood of the Thorn (no Sources in my version).

For kids, I'll stick to Trish for Prue and Andy, born after the series is over; Melinda for Piper and Leo, born after the series is over, and Cole's daughter, Nicole, for Phoebe, born after Cole dies saving her from some Big Bad mainly so we don't have to listen to her gripe about finding her daughter's father.

That means just Nicole, Trish and Melinda (born in that order) one all human, one part-angel and one part-demon. Sounds more than enough for me, even if one for each sister is almost as bad as three for each--just a lot easier to handle.

And because they're cousins, not sisters, they never become Charmed, but could still make an interesting spin-off, one totally different than one about their mothers.

But back to the Astrals' scenarioes. This is how I would set it up, taking what I count as the best of each:

Season One would be the same, although when Prue sees Andy Up There, she tells him she's not the only one who needs him...so does their daughter. Andy tells her he knows she'll take good care of their child.

Season Two would obviously center more around Prue's pregnancy, but also her determination to not let it stop her career (I could imagine some lovely sisterly moments after Prue becomes overworked and maybe collapses due to the stress of Buckland's, Demons, grief over Andy and her pregnancy).

The pregnancy would be dragged out juuust a little -- easing the show into a slightly different direction as opposed to the sudden and completely different one we saw when Wyatt and Chris were introduced.

In late Season Two Prue gives birth to a baby girl who she names Patricia Andrea and calls Trish. Had she lived, Prue would have never married or settle down with a guy--instead she would have been perfectly content as a single, successful businesswoman raising a very special daughter.

Season Three could begin much the same way, Piper has been away for a month, leaving Prue and Phoebe on edge - especially without Piper's help with Trish (as her maternal side is evidently needed) and Phoebe is feeling like Prue keeps palming Trish off on her in order to stop the Triad.

During this season, Phoebe also meets Cole, the love of her life. He was raised by his father rather than his mother and although he has to fight the demon inside, he knows what unconditional love is since that's what he got from his father, and that's what he gives Phoebe, spoiling the baby of the family and making her the center of his life.

Prue has an epiphany halfway through the season that Trish is the only thing of Andy she has left, and she becomes more of a mother, slowly letting Piper take more responsibility for hunting for innocents so that she can take care of her daughter.

Then Prue dies in 'All Hell Breaks Loose'..but rather than saving the doctor she ends up saving a different innocent Paige...

During 'Charmed Again', the season premiere of Season Four we see Piper attempting to use Trish as a means to bring Prue back - also with Piper and Phoebe likening themselves with Trish; how they were raised by their grandmother, and how Trish will be raised by her aunts.

Paige would be introduced in much the same way as the original except she'd come to Prue's funeral to thank her for saving her life rather than due to the spell. But on meeting Piper and Phoebe, she sees that Piper refuses to let her touch or have contact with Trish in any way. But around 4x10 when we finally see Piper trust Paige (letting her move in a bit later than in the real Season 4) Paige finally holds Trish, and Trish comes into her power of telekinesis upon Paige's touch.

Towards the end of Season 4, Leo and Piper try for children as normal but it fails just as Phoebe realizes she is pregnant earlier than in the real season, around the fifteenth or sixteenth episode. The plot would happen much the same way with the Cole/Phoebe/Phoetus storyline, but they attempt to vanquish the SOURCE'S ESSENCE and not Cole - however, upon vanquishing the essence it kills Cole accidentally and rids Phoebe's baby of the essence. Instead of Piper discovering she is pregnant in the season finale, it ends with the girls keeping their powers as they owe it to Prue and Cole - and in order to teach Trish and Phoebe's child how to use their own powers.

Phoebe is then frightened of going through motherhood alone like Prue did (they recall the struggle Prue had during Season Three) and is scared that something would happen, leaving Piper and Paige to raise their nieces/nephews alone.

Season Five would then see Piper's early pregnancy-related storylines switch to Phoebe - but instead of being all half-witch/half-whitelighter oriented they would be half-witch/half-demon, and because there would be no 'Crazy Cole' as he died in 4x21 and will always stay dead. Instead during the 100th episode, Phoebe give birth to a girl, Persephone Nicole, who she calls Posey. The baby would be a great controversy in the magical world, with some creatures fearing her and some praising her - but basically realising that she would be good or evil depending on her own choices.

All of this would come out during Season Six as Leo and Piper continue to try for a baby and continue to not succeeding. Trish would get jealous of this new baby and it would appear that she might be developing into Evil Wyatt as a girl. But the sisters recognize the problem and nip it in the bud before it becomes too serious. Eventually Trish loves her new cousin as if she were her own little sister.

During all of this, Paige, who since her sisters have their own daughters to take care of, is most in charge of raising Trish, meets Henry (who takes Kyle's storyline - just without him being obsessed over the Avatars, who don't exist, so he doesn't die.).

Phoebe also attempts to start dating again, but find that now that Posey's powers are coming into effect she finds that hard - but eventually starts a relationship with Jason (who appears two seasons later than the original) - however this only lasts half a season as he is dismissive of Phoebe's daughter and later rejects Phoebe for being a witch. Phoebe then begins a relationship with Drake - who stays for the remainder of the season which is when he dies. Phoebe decides to just stick to her career as Ask Phoebe and raise her daughter.

Also during Season Six, the Titans appear and kill off most of the Elders. The remaining ones want Leo to join them, but he refuses, although other whitelighters take them up on their offer. The power of becoming an Elder goes to their head and they all become evil. The first thing they do is take away all of the powers of the remaining whitelighters, including Leo.

Near the end of Season Six, Piper discovers she's pregnant just before a mysterious whitelighter from the future appears, calling herself Nora, and saving Leo from the Evil Elders.

During Season Seven she convinces the sisters that the only way to stop the Elders is to join forces with evil to bring them down. She introduces them to Zankou who she seems to know a lot about, whereas he has never met her. In the 150th episode The Charmed Ones, Zankou, Nora, demons who agreed to fight, other good magical beings not manipulated by the evil Elders and the last remaining good Elders go to war against the evil Elders.

During the battle, Piper goes to into labor, so Nora orbs Piper back to the Manor leaving Phoebe and Paige with Zankou and the others, to fight against the Evil Elders. Piper and Nora are met by Leo who helps her deliver her baby.

Paige and Phoebe arrive back just in time to greet their baby niece, Melinda. Piper then suggests her middle name should be Nora after the woman who helped bring her into the world but Nora is now nowhere to be seen.

Shortly after the battle and Melinda's birth, Leo is asked by the remaining good Elders and whitelighter community to form a new council under his guidance. He agrees, but only if he's also allowed to continue to be the Charmed Ones' whitelighter, and they agree, so he receives his Elder powers for the first time.

At the end of the 150th, with his new Elder powers he senses a disturbance in the magical order. His new ultra sensing powers take him to Nora in front of an open time portal.

Confused, Leo asks what is going on. Nora then informs him that she was from the future which is why she knew when to come back in order to save him from the evil Elders, how to bring the evil Elders down, about Zankou etc...

He asks her who she really is. And she turns her back on him, pulling up her hair to reveal a birthmark on the back of her neck - the same one we saw moments earlier on baby Melinda. She turns and smiles and tells him that her middle name is actually Leonora..named after him...and she would suggest he gives it to Melinda. After all, shouldn't he and Piper continue the tradition of giving the first baby a form of her father's name as her middle name?

Before passing through the portal, she warns Leo that Zankou must be taken care of and that he is mainly after the immortality amulets that are hidden within P3. She looks sad while saying this, but won't tell him why. Only in the spin-off will we find out that in the original timeline, the sisters trusted Zankou and he ended up killing all three of them, the reason why their three daughters now have to fight him in the future, but since they don't have the Power of Three, they couldn't, the reason why Nora was sent to the past.

(Astral Echo, as the ending, I very simply have to use one of yours:)

In a big fiery vanquish, the sisters risk their lives, fully expecting to die, but Paige manages to panic orb away. Piper and Phoebe are left for dead but using the spell that Nora gave them, Paige does a Forever Charmed and goes back in time to save them.

Paige never goes forward so we never see any of the Charmed Ones as old, just like we never saw Piper and Leo old earlier. Paige gathers Grams and Patty to help save the day. Paige phases back into her own body as soon the group arrives.

Patty freezes Zankou as Grams TK's the amulet away from Zankou and then Piper blows him across the room. Now unprotected by the amulet, the family recite the Source vanquish spell and then the sisters saying the P3 spell to protect them all from the explosion (which of course was what killed Phoebe and Piper the first time around).

In happy but not sappy ending, Piper, Phoebe and Paige walk down the stairs together, admiring the photographs on the wall as we get flashbacks of the past significant to each image, ending with the picture of the original Power of Three. Then there's a bit of magic and Paige becomes a part of it, too.

We don't see the future at all...that's left for the spin-off! Any extra kids (or spouses) can be added then.

Hehehehe! So I ended up with my mortal child (Trish), my half-demon child (Posey) and my half-angel child (Melinda). It wasn't on purpose; just the way it ended up coming out. I can't see them becoming Charmed since they're not sisters, but I can sure see them starring in "Chosen" - the spin-off.

So?? What do you guys think? I'm sure you'll each like your own version best (just like I like mine better than this), but as an attempt to combine all of them, not bad, huh?

How 'bout you? What do you think? And do you see how if you take this and combine it with my original Dream Charmed you could come up with my Dream Charmed...with Children? Again, feel free to use any of these ideas that fit yours.

[cyma]

Have to give thought about what to change in seasons 1-3 besides Prue's death and Paige's introduction. For season 4 things I would change:

-I would want Paige meeting Victor happening on-screen. We got a very strong reaction to Leo being a whitelighter. Now learning that Patty had a daughter with Sam not to mention this daughter reconstituted the Charmed Ones. The very reason Victor had constant fights with Grams was because he didn't want to put his daughters' lives in danger. Now that his eldest daughter is dead, he might've expected his other two daughters putting their in lives in danger for innocents to be over. But Paige changes that.

-I would also want one of Paige's parents to survive the accident. Perhaps her Mom? Now living with Uncle Dave and Aunt Julie. Really like to see how they react to Paige having sisters and her new magical destiny. Also would like to see Victor meeting them.

-In the beginning of season 4, I noticed Paige did things which defied common sense. Stealing the Book of Shadows from her sisters she's only known for like two to three days? Then later inviting Glenn into the house and leaving him alone even after she's witnessed demons, the Source even, visiting the place and almost killing them . For someone like a teenager like Jenny or Aviva, I expect this behavior. For someone who's independent, working as an assistant social worker, gone through a traumatic experience with her parents' deaths and not healed yet, that's just a big no no. So I'll definitely give Paige a personality change or some common sense atleast.

-Instead of past life episode with Evil Enchantress, I would like to learn more about the Charmed One's prophecy by Melinda and how Paige fits in and everything. I think the plot of the Charmed novel 'Mirror Image' would apply here. Is Paige really a sister? Or some impostor? How could the Charmed Ones be so easily reconstituted? Was the prophecy meant for Prue or Paige? I would like all these questions explored.

-I absolutely don't want Phoebe to be an advice columnist. I'll have to think of an alternate job, maybe working alongside Paige? But a big no to celebrity advice column.

-No pregnant Piper.

That's all for now.

[Elle Em]

Whitelighters are not a thing. Neither are Elders. The invisible force that erased Phoebe's cheat lottery ticket numbers would always remain that way: unseen. No Angels of Destiny, no Tribunal, no Cleaners.

The only beings to exist in this reality are witches, warlocks, and demons. Although I liked the Angel of Death, so I guess he can stay, but only as long as he's not seen often.

With the danger of the Charmed Ones' job fighting evil and saving innocents, they're bound to get hurt. I'd have Leo be in their lives, but as a fellow witch whose specialty is healing. He wouldn't have such all-encompassing healing powers, but would be very talented at making potions and using a limited ability to heal with his hands like we saw in the show.

Andy wouldn't die. Both he and Darryl continue to work together throughout the series as partners, and both know about the sisters. Andy finds out first because he's closer to them, and then Darryl finds out sometime in season two, like in the show. They work with the sisters as so many of their cases intersect.

I'd have more of an emphasis on magic as it interconnects to the non-magical world rather than what the show did, which was completely forgetting about the world without magic. So no Magic School, and things like fairies are very rarely seen, and still require the Charmed Ones to do something in order to see them, because even though they're magical, they're adults.

I liked Paige being introduced, but I don't want another sister to die for it to happen.

We don't see them even wanting kids until very close to the end of the series. I'd prefer to never see kids at all. I'd also like for their powers to not grow with their children. I want the Charmed Ones to be the most powerful of their line, before or after their existence. Their kids would be average-power witches at most.

[BriannaWarren]

Oct 27, 2016 20:35:33 GMT -5 Granny Charmed said:

I have to admit dear having 8 seasons, I think is pushing it. I just figured since it is done *our* way not everyone may wish to go for 8 seasons or want to commit to that many seasons.

Also just to confirm dear. When you say we aren't allowed to remove characters and every season must be there. I am confused if you mean we have to stick to all the season arcs and villains or have to use everything but can move things around into different seasons. Because dear using every character and season but moving things around to earlier or later seasons will not work in some cases to meet the 8 season requirement. I am really confused on this part?

But apart from that - I really like this challenge. 

What I mean about having all the seasons is because that most people wanted to remove seasons 6-8 but what I want to know is if you were on the set of Charmed, how would you improve all the eight seasons of the show, what characters you would bring in at what point, what characters storyline would have being brought in and how you would of executed every character, how would you change the relationships between characters?

This is a challenge because most people (including myself) wanted to get rid of seasons of the show but never talked about improving the seasons they wanted to remove. This is all about improvements you would make to make the show better and more realistic. I am thrilled to hear that you like this challenge and I would love to read how you would improve every season.

[Granny Charmed]

Oct 29, 2016 8:24:31 GMT -5 BriannaWarren said:

Oct 27, 2016 20:35:33 GMT -5 Granny Charmed said:

I have to admit dear having 8 seasons, I think is pushing it. I just figured since it is done *our* way not everyone may wish to go for 8 seasons or want to commit to that many seasons.

Also just to confirm dear. When you say we aren't allowed to remove characters and every season must be there. I am confused if you mean we have to stick to all the season arcs and villains or have to use everything but can move things around into different seasons. Because dear using every character and season but moving things around to earlier or later seasons will not work in some cases to meet the 8 season requirement. I am really confused on this part?

But apart from that - I really like this challenge. 

What I mean about having all the seasons is because that most people wanted to remove seasons 6-8 but what I want to know is if you were on the set of Charmed, how would you improve all the eight seasons of the show, what characters you would bring in at what point, what characters storyline would have being brought in and how you would of executed every character, how would you change the relationships between characters?

This is a challenge because most people (including myself) wanted to get rid of seasons of the show but never talked about improving the seasons they wanted to remove. This is all about improvements you would make to make the show better and more realistic. I am thrilled to hear that you like this challenge and I would love to read how you would improve every season.

Thank you dear for this. I am glad you cleared it up for me. I might need more time to gather my thoughts. But I am enjoying what everyone has brought to the table so far. 

[Granny Charmed]

Oct 29, 2016 7:07:23 GMT -5 Elle Em said:

Whitelighters are not a thing. Neither are Elders. The invisible force that erased Phoebe's cheat lottery ticket numbers would always remain that way: unseen. No Angels of Destiny, no Tribunal, no Cleaners.

The only beings to exist in this reality are witches, warlocks, and demons. Although I liked the Angel of Death, so I guess he can stay, but only as long as he's not seen often.

With the danger of the Charmed Ones' job fighting evil and saving innocents, they're bound to get hurt. I'd have Leo be in their lives, but as a fellow witch whose specialty is healing. He wouldn't have such all-encompassing healing powers, but would be very talented at making potions and using a limited ability to heal with his hands like we saw in the show.

Andy wouldn't die. Both he and Darryl continue to work together throughout the series as partners, and both know about the sisters. Andy finds out first because he's closer to them, and then Darryl finds out sometime in season two, like in the show. They work with the sisters as so many of their cases intersect.

I'd have more of an emphasis on magic as it interconnects to the non-magical world rather than what the show did, which was completely forgetting about the world without magic. So no Magic School, and things like fairies are very rarely seen, and still require the Charmed Ones to do something in order to see them, because even though they're magical, they're adults.

I liked Paige being introduced, but I don't want another sister to die for it to happen.

We don't see them even wanting kids until very close to the end of the series. I'd prefer to never see kids at all. I'd also like for their powers to not grow with their children. I want the Charmed Ones to be the most powerful of their line, before or after their existence. Their kids would be average-power witches at most.

Oh wouldn't that be a fun show dear. I look forward to seeing how you come up with the seasons dear. 

I see a majority of us do wish Andy had stayed. This girl included. I really think they had a great thing going with Andy and Darryl. 

[Esmeralda]

Oct 29, 2016 5:17:35 GMT -5 cyma said:

Have to give thought about what to change in seasons 1-3 besides Prue's death and Paige's introduction. For season 4 things I would change:

-I would want Paige meeting Victor happening on-screen. We got a very strong reaction to Leo being a whitelighter. Now learning that Patty had a daughter with Sam not to mention this daughter reconstituted the Charmed Ones. The very reason Victor had constant fights with Grams was because he didn't want to put his daughters' lives in danger. Now that his eldest daughter is dead, he might've expected his other two daughters putting their in lives in danger for innocents to be over. But Paige changes that.

-I would also want one of Paige's parents to survive the accident. Perhaps her Mom? Now living with Uncle Dave and Aunt Julie. Really like to see how they react to Paige having sisters and her new magical destiny. Also would like to see Victor meeting them.

-In the beginning of season 4, I noticed Paige did things which defied common sense. Stealing the Book of Shadows from her sisters she's only known for like two to three days? Then later inviting Glenn into the house and leaving him alone even after she's witnessed demons, the Source even, visiting the place and almost killing them . For someone like a teenager like Jenny or Aviva, I expect this behavior. For someone who's independent, working as an assistant social worker, gone through a traumatic experience with her parents' deaths and not healed yet, that's just a big no no. So I'll definitely give Paige a personality change or some common sense atleast.

-Instead of past life episode with Evil Enchantress, I would like to learn more about the Charmed One's prophecy by Melinda and how Paige fits in and everything. I think the plot of the Charmed novel 'Mirror Image' would apply here. Is Paige really a sister? Or some impostor? How could the Charmed Ones be so easily reconstituted? Was the prophecy meant for Prue or Paige? I would like all these questions explored.

-I absolutely don't want Phoebe to be an advice columnist. I'll have to think of an alternate job, maybe working alongside Paige? But a big no to celebrity advice column.

-No pregnant Piper.

That's all for now.

Definitely LOVE all of these ideas, Cyma, and they seem to connect nicely with the ideas you earlier had for S4-8. If you get a chance and want to copy them over to this thread (if indeed they're what you'd still like to see, since that *would* include Wyatt so Piper would be pregnant here) that would be wonderful. And if you just want to keep S1-3 as is, I'm sure that would fit Brianna Warren's qualifications.