The Ultimate Fave Charmed Episode Poll

[Esmeralda]

Mar 25, 2018 8:19:21 GMT -5 Granny Charmed said:

Mar 22, 2018 6:27:51 GMT -5 rebooted said:

I've decided to send a message, either by post, twitter, email to anyone I can find who was involved in making the top 4 episodes that come in 3rd place on this poll,

This is how I will be marking the 20th Anniversary as a thank you!

I can post up contact details if and when I find them for the people involved in the following 4 episodes

1) Something Wicca This Way Comes
2) That 70's Show
3) De Ja Vu All Over Again and
4) All Halliwell's Eve.

Just thought I'd share because I really love this show and still see it as an escape from reality and it gives me a sense of enablement !

Love you Charmed!

Good idea dear!

Sheryl J. Anderson wrote two of those episodes (70's and Eve), and Connie wrote the other two and Kern wrote Deja with Connie too. Richard Denault directed 70s, Anson Williams directed Eve' and Les Sheldon directed Deja Vu'. 

But your best place would be looking at IMDB and trying to find the people who made those episodes. 

I found Sheryl's twitter dear if that helps:
twitter.com/sheryljanderson?lang=en

Seeing as two of her episodes are fan favorites here among many members, wouldn't it be a *true* anniversary if someone contacted her and told her about our Cafe. I'd be over the moon if she or any of the talented writers from any season visited the Cafe dears. 

Agreed totally. I tried tweeting her but didn't get a response. Maybe someone else would have better luck, or if enough of us did, one of us would.

I hope she didn't have similar experiences that Rose did and no longer wants anything to do with Charmed.

[West]

Mar 25, 2018 14:48:53 GMT -5 Esmeralda said:

Mar 25, 2018 8:19:21 GMT -5 Granny Charmed said:

Good idea dear!

Sheryl J. Anderson wrote two of those episodes (70's and Eve), and Connie wrote the other two and Kern wrote Deja with Connie too. Richard Denault directed 70s, Anson Williams directed Eve' and Les Sheldon directed Deja Vu'. 

But your best place would be looking at IMDB and trying to find the people who made those episodes. 

I found Sheryl's twitter dear if that helps:
twitter.com/sheryljanderson?lang=en

Seeing as two of her episodes are fan favorites here among many members, wouldn't it be a *true* anniversary if someone contacted her and told her about our Cafe. I'd be over the moon if she or any of the talented writers from any season visited the Cafe dears. 

Agreed totally. I tried tweeting her but didn't get a response. Maybe someone else would have better luck, or if enough of us did, one of us would.

I hope she didn't have similar experiences that Rose did and no longer wants anything to do with Charmed.

That's too bad. I'd love to try myself. Maybe if enough of us did she might respond, or when we do our 20th re-watch and if her episodes are chosen, we could tweet at her saying re-watching Charmed and can't believe its just about 20 years since this amazing episode you wrote aired or something. Maybe?

I remember coming across her daughter on twitter who commented on a photo of Alyssa and Misha from They're Everywhere and praised her mother for writing the episode those two were in last year.

Maybe she really has put distance from Charmed and doesn't want to think about it anymore. I hope not, that would suck. 

[pheebs]

I didn't know Morality Bites isn't that beloved, I found it to be outstanding. I found it interesting it isn't in the top 5 in this poll and it didn't make the cut of the Board Re-watch.

[Esmeralda]

Apr 2, 2018 23:37:08 GMT -5 pheebs said:

I didn't know Morality Bites isn't that beloved, I found it to be outstanding. I found it interesting it isn't in the top 5 in this poll and it didn't make the cut of the Board Re-watch.

I wasn't. Too many fans preferred the neutral morality of the latter set of Charmed Ones, when they believed that Ends Justify the Means rather than The Wrong Things Done for the Right Reasons are Still Wrong.

For me, that's when I hated them - to me it seemed they had become future darklighters rather than future whitelighters. Not that I'd want them to become the whitelighters or Elders that we saw in the show after Piper blew up a watermelon (what I count as the alternate-universe spin-off where only the names of the characters are the same) - THEY were more demonic than the demons!

[rebooted]

Apr 3, 2018 3:50:16 GMT -5 Esmeralda said:

Apr 2, 2018 23:37:08 GMT -5 pheebs said:

I didn't know Morality Bites isn't that beloved, I found it to be outstanding. I found it interesting it isn't in the top 5 in this poll and it didn't make the cut of the Board Re-watch.

I wasn't. Too many fans preferred the neutral morality of the latter set of Charmed Ones, when they believed that Ends Justify the Means rather than The Wrong Things Done for the Right Reasons are Still Wrong.

For me, that's when I hated them - to me it seemed they had become future darklighters rather than future whitelighters. Not that I'd want them to become the whitelighters or Elders that we saw in the show after Piper blew up a watermelon (what I count as the alternate-universe spin-off where only the names of the characters are the same) - THEY were more demonic than the demons!

I think that Morality Bites is one of the BEST episodes of Charmed but its not a favourite of everyone. 

I actually wish more episodes were like this. We do get more emphasis on personal gain in the first half or Season 4 i guess

[pheebs]

Oct 26, 2018 19:09:22 GMT -5 rebooted said:

Apr 3, 2018 3:50:16 GMT -5 Esmeralda said:

I wasn't. Too many fans preferred the neutral morality of the latter set of Charmed Ones, when they believed that Ends Justify the Means rather than The Wrong Things Done for the Right Reasons are Still Wrong.

For me, that's when I hated them - to me it seemed they had become future darklighters rather than future whitelighters. Not that I'd want them to become the whitelighters or Elders that we saw in the show after Piper blew up a watermelon (what I count as the alternate-universe spin-off where only the names of the characters are the same) - THEY were more demonic than the demons!

I think that Morality Bites is one of the BEST episodes of Charmed but its not a favourite of everyone. 

I actually wish more episodes were like this. We do get more emphasis on personal gain in the first half or Season 4 i guess

I liked the episode for having no demons or warlocks, sometimes ones like those were rare, but made the show exciting. 

I guess everyone is different, it is always upsetting this episode's lesson never stuck.

I also find it interesting A Witch in Time is the last episode to be popular, from the post S4 era. I didn't mind this episode, because Bacarra was a great warlock. I wished he was the big bad for the first half and not Cole. 

[rebooted]

That 70's Episode to All Halliwell's Eve is such a good run of episodes.

I just changed some of my votes to some late Season 2 episodes.

SWTWComes
The Witch is Back
70s
Woogy
Morality
Pardon
Chick
Astral
All Halliwell's eve
Prewitched
HHNFury
LLTQ

Episodes I change and substitute the above episodes for...
Dead Man Dating
DeJaVu
Apocolypse
Womb Radar

[codebox]

If we're going by overall mine would be

Something Wicca This Way Comes
Dead Man Dating
The Witch is Back
Wicca Envy
That 70's Episode
Is There A Woogy in the House?
The Power of Two
DeJa Vu All Over Again
Morality Bites
P3H20
Awakened
Pardon My Past
Chick Flick
Astral Monkey
Apocalypse Now
All Halliwell’s Eve
The Good the Bad and the Cursed
Pre-Witched
Sin Francisco
All Hell Breaks Loose
Charmed Again Part One
Hell Hath No Fury
A Paige from the Past
Something Wicca This Way Goes

[rebooted]

I really like LLTQ but its not as popular as it is with others. If Charmed ended here, I think I'd be ok with it ending at 4x20. Good run.

I do like Womb Raider too. But not how it ends with Cole whispering back. So not in my favourite list.

Interesting to see unpopular opinions here

[Too Much Coffee]

I'm surprised Womb Raider (Love the Seer, don't care for the rest) and A Witch in Time (apart from Bacarra being a great warlock, I hate Phoebe and Cole in this one) are so high. I get the love for Sense and Sense Ability though.

[rebooted]

Mar 19, 2021 3:30:15 GMT -5 Too Much Coffee said:

I'm surprised Womb Raider (Love the Seer, don't care for the rest) and A Witch in Time (apart from Bacarra being a great warlock, I hate Phoebe and Cole in this one) are so high. I get the love for Sense and Sense Ability though.

Yeah sometimes I do wonder whether people get confused between long live to queen and womb raider.

Womb raider is a great episode but it doesn’t finish well like LLTQ does and I like the seer but the episode is a little like Charmed and Dangerous, and stretches the story out.

Plus I think the acting from all 3 actors is better and there is an innocent in LLTQ, the tension and resolution between the sisters is great. Paige being the glue is refreshing. The seer is great. Phoebe evil is great. Julian McMahon does extremely well in this episode.

[pheebs]

Mar 19, 2021 16:49:10 GMT -5 rebooted said:

Mar 19, 2021 3:30:15 GMT -5 Too Much Coffee said:

I'm surprised Womb Raider (Love the Seer, don't care for the rest) and A Witch in Time (apart from Bacarra being a great warlock, I hate Phoebe and Cole in this one) are so high. I get the love for Sense and Sense Ability though.

Yeah sometimes I do wonder whether people get confused between long live to queen and womb raider.

Womb raider is a great episode but it doesn’t finish well like LLTQ does and I like the seer but the episode is a little like Charmed and Dangerous, and stretches the story out.

Plus I think the acting from all 3 actors is better and there is an innocent in LLTQ, the tension and resolution between the sisters is great. Paige being the glue is refreshing. The seer is great. Phoebe evil is great. Julian McMahon does extremely well in this episode.

That might be it. I myself have confused episodes often with the titles.

I always thought Long Live the Queen was more regarded as popular over Womb Raider.

[rebooted]

Apr 3, 2021 22:11:28 GMT -5 pheebs said:

Mar 19, 2021 16:49:10 GMT -5 rebooted said:

Yeah sometimes I do wonder whether people get confused between long live to queen and womb raider.

Womb raider is a great episode but it doesn’t finish well like LLTQ does and I like the seer but the episode is a little like Charmed and Dangerous, and stretches the story out.

Plus I think the acting from all 3 actors is better and there is an innocent in LLTQ, the tension and resolution between the sisters is great. Paige being the glue is refreshing. The seer is great. Phoebe evil is great. Julian McMahon does extremely well in this episode.

That might be it. I myself have confused episodes often with the titles.

I always thought Long Live the Queen was more regarded as popular over Womb Raider.

Any Womb Raider fans want to have their say here?

I like this episode. It is a really good episode - I just don't like how it ends with Coles voice-over and how the baby storyline finishes so fast.

I do like the Paige and Piper fertility scene, I do like the Seer and TCO using the PO3 spell to set evil back centuries.

In fact, if they skip Womb Raider and go straight to Witch Way Now? (and you assume that Phoebe is still pregnant), that might have been a better way to end the season - with the Seer coming back in Season 5.

[Aaeiyn]

The 12 I chose (in no particular order):

Dead Man Dating
Wicca Envy
The Power of Two
Deja Vu All Over Again
Power Outage
The Good, the Bad and the Cursed
Sin Francisco
Long Live the Queen
The Day Magic Died
Sense and Sense Ability
The Power of Three Blondes
Other: Charmed Noir

[Emmett]

My 12:

1. The Witch is Back

2. From Fear to Eternity

3. Is There a Woogy in the House

4. That 70s Episode

5. Deja Vu All Over Again

6. Morality Bites

7. Chick Flick

8. All Halliwells Eve

9. The Good, the Bad and the Cursed

10. Just Harried

11. Sin Francisco

12. Sense and Sense Ability

[rebooted]

I like how this poll panned out!

[rebooted]

Surprised that Chick Flick isn't higher

[Aaeiyn]

Aug 24, 2021 21:26:43 GMT -5 Aaeiyn said:

The 12 I chose (in no particular order):Dead Man Dating
Wicca Envy
The Power of Two
Deja Vu All Over Again
Power Outage
The Good, the Bad and the Cursed
Sin Francisco
Long Live the Queen
The Day Magic Died
Sense and Sense Ability
The Power of Three Blondes
Other: Charmed Noir

Changing my mind to the following:

From the Poll
S1E4 "Dead Man Dating"
S1E13 "From Fear to Eternity"
S1E15 "Is There a Woogy, in the House?"
S1E20 "The Power of Two"
S2E18 "Chick Flick"
S3E14 "The Good, the Bad & the Cursed"
S3E18 "Sin Francisco"
S4E20 "Long Live the Queen"
S6E9 "Little Monsters"
S6E15 "I Dream of Phoebe"
S8E12 "Payback's a Witch"

Other (Not in the Poll)
S1E18 "When Bad Warlocks Go Good"
S1E19 "Out of Sight"
S2E4 "The Devil's Music"
S2E7 "They're Everywhere"
S2E13 "Animal Pragmatism"
S2E19 "Ex Libris"
S3E1 "The Honeymoon's Over"
S3E2 "Magic Hour"
S3E3 "Once Upon a Time"
S3E11 "Blinded by the Whitelighter"
S4E5 "Size Matters"
S4E8 "Black as Cole"
S4E11 "Trial by Magic"
S4E16 "The Fifth Halliwheel"
S4E22 "Witch Way, Now?"
S5E6 "The Eyes Have it"
S6E5 "Love's a Witch"
S6E7 "Soul Survivor"
S7E8 "Charmed Noir"
S7E18 "Little Box of Horrors"
S8E3 "Run, Piper, Run"
S8E7 "The Lost Picture Show"

[zack]

Mar 1, 2024 19:40:37 GMT -5 rebooted said:

Surprised that Chick Flick isn't higher

Me, too. I guess it just isn't in most members top 10 or 15.