Is Season 2 a fan favorite?

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Aug 22, 2021 17:27:01 GMT -5 Aaeiyn said:

I do believe it is a fan favorite (not me, but other Charmed fans). I do understand the opinions of others in expressing enjoying the sisterly dynamic (which I do agree with), but I can't help my distaste towards the Dan Gordon character. I'm being generous, when I say if we had to have had Dan around, I would've preferred if he dated Phoebe, instead. I think there was a lot of potential there, that didn't see the light of day. Instead, they decided to pair the guy with somebody who he has ZERO capabilities with.

Yes me too. 

I would have preferred Dan dating Phoebe until the mid-Season finale.

I am rewatching Season 2 at the moment and the first couple of episodes (except Morality Bites and They're Everywhere) feel so disjointed. Like there were too many writers in the room. 

1) Watching Piper go to and from Leo makes me not enjoy her character. I feel like Dan was intended for Phoebe and then the Painted World/The Devils music somehow flip it around. 

2) Piper is the one who needed a smart spell when the building code needed to get up to scratch and its would have made more sense in The Painted World if Phoebe got stuck in the painting, and Dan asking Phoebe for help with Jenny's sex ed homework off the back off the tampon advice in the previous episode. 

3) Piper is romantically involved with the mortgage broker, Leo and Dan. And Phoebe calls her sexually over due in the sex department in the premier - when Leo came back at the end of Season 1 and there would have been Josh (who she was also complaining about at the end of Season 1). It makes me think how much sex Phoebe was having off-screen with people we didn't know about if she said Piper was overdue in the sex department. 

I think this is the point that Brad Kern started to take more control of the show.
 
4) It seems like there is an idea to have Grams at the beginning of Season 2 in Witch Trial
And Mo/Patty at the Mid Season finale - to keep the family history vibe going.

5) I know that through the documentaries that Billy Drago (Barbus) were friends and Brad would have bought him back for the Mid Season premier Ms Hellfire. 

6) There is also a transition after the Mid-Summer break form Warlocks/Bad Witches to Demons. The show is slowly evolving. 

23. 2-1 30 Sep 99 Witch Trial

24. 2-2 07 Oct 99 Morality Bites

25. 2-3 14 Oct 99 The Painted World

26. 2-4 21 Oct 99 The Devil's Music

27. 2-5 04 Nov 99 She's a Man, Baby, a Man!

28. 2-6 11 Nov 99 That Old Black Magic

29. 2-7 18 Nov 99 They're Everywhere

30. 2-8 09 Dec 99 P3 H2O

31. 2-9 13 Jan 00 Ms. Hellfire

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I think this is definitely a fan favorite season. There is one very bad glaring part of it though - it has the worst character to ever appear on the series.. Jenny! It is to the point where I don't even think of Jenny when I think of this season because I feel like I had to mentally block out her presence. Thankfully she was only in a few episodes.

I think people love this season because it is definitely Piper-centric. It's definitely a reason I love it - I don't really care for the love triangle but I did like the character of Dan aside from the triangle. Maybe Phoebe should have been the one to date Dan!

[Aaeiyn]

Aug 22, 2021 17:27:01 GMT -5 Aaeiyn said:

I do believe it is a fan favorite (not me, but other Charmed fans). I do understand the opinions of others in expressing enjoying the sisterly dynamic (which I do agree with), but I can't help my distaste towards the Dan Gordon character. I'm being generous, when I say if we had to have had Dan around, I would've preferred if he dated Phoebe, instead. I think there was a lot of potential there, that didn't see the light of day. Instead, they decided to pair the guy with somebody who he has ZERO capabilities with.

I'm going to re-vamp my answer.

S2 sits at "#3", for me, for my favorites. S2 Phoebe is probably my favorite Phoebe, of all time. It still shocks me, to this day (especially from this board that enjoys S1-S2, but I digress), to see S2 Phoebe in the "Top 3" in the "Worst Phoebe" thread. She still has that "rebellious" edge, to her, along with helping people a bit more compared to other seasons.