WATCH & DISCUSS [REBOOT] 1x14: Touched by a Demon

[Assassin Witch]

Charmed | 1.14 - "Touched by a Demon"
Original Airdate: March 10, 2019 @ 9PM


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Episode Summary
Macy is trying to cope with new her new demon situation by watching a lot of
her favorite TV shows, but things take a weird and dangerous turn. Mel and
Jada enlist Niko's help to learn who might be after Jada. Maggie and Parker
decide it is time to take their relationship to the next level, which leads them to
make an unusual discovery. Meanwhile, Mel's powers seem to be expanding with
the guidance of Jada leaving her to question The Elders intentions.
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[Esmeralda]

For the first time, the ads that I've been hearing on the radio has piqued my curiosity since it reminds me of one of our Elemental Charmed episodes that is based on Classic Charmed, and the Macy-part of it sounds like it's going to be similar to that.

If this was indeed Charmed and not its rip-off, that would include all three sisters. But since it's the rip-off where it's Charmed in name only in order to cash in on Classic Charmed's continued popularity, it's Macy only, and Maggie's and Mel's storylines don't interest me in the least.

So I will continue to not watch a second of this. If only Macy's part ends up on YouTube and I'm advised of that, that I'd watch.

[CharmedFaith]

Not necessarily a bad episode but if you are going to do a "90s tv" episode...why not do some fun throwbacks to the original? They could've done the entire episode with the sisters trapped in a 90s tv series with lousy special effects, actual orbing, etc...

Mel can now accelerate time and it's fairly non-nonchalant and can basically master it within 10mins of being shown and of course its because someone else tells her how to? It is a nice change from Pipers molecular combustion (funny that Charmed made Pipers powers into molecular based while NuCharmed which wants to do science makes Mels powers actually time based). I just dont understand why they constantly feel the need to rush seasons of storylines into 15 episodes. I know I am a broken record but I cant help it!

And did we really need to introduce a magical girl thingy just to cause useless tension just so they could lead up to a steamy sex scene with Maggie/Parker?

[CharmedFaith]

I would say advancing Mel/Maggies powers and already getting Maggie/Parker back together is rushing, though yes they have slowed it down on the Marisol mystery but DAMN! now Vera manor has a secret dungeon below it? Lawd.

[neith]

This show is so cheap. Every episode ends with a cliffhanger that means nothing. It's a cheap ploy to get viewers to tune in the following week, of course, but it means nothing without substance. These are not the cliffhangers I want to see.

Overall, the last episode was pretty standard, actually. It wasn't as awful as what came before it, but it wasn't outstanding either. The show could probably do better at this level of quality. It's too bad the sisters don't have more shared experiences and Harry is still too present. Otherwise, a show about three sisters would have really tapped into the magic of the original. Clearly the show wants to find its own magic in something...For new Charmed, that may be the political undertones, which I don't find "charming" but I understand is a central theme of the show.

These witches are moving at a very fast pace with their powers. They have control and know how to do almost everything someone hasn't told them to do. It really takes the fun out of magic. Paige quit her job in the original to keep up, but in this one it seems as though anyone can step into the magical world and grasp its many concepts quite easily. It's that aspect that makes this show unrealistic and fantasy shows do need an element of realism to avoid coming across like fan-fiction (later years Charmed and this remake).

[cyma]

Mar 10, 2019 22:23:48 GMT -5 CharmedFaith said:

Not necessarily a bad episode but if you are going to do a "90s tv" episode...why not do some fun throwbacks to the original? They could've done the entire episode with the sisters trapped in a 90s tv series with lousy special effects, actual orbing, etc...

Honestly the orbing effect is a hundred times better than the way Harry disappears as if he's being flushed down a toilet.

But I agree with the sisters being trapped in the entire episode together, rather than just Macy and Harry for a brief period while her sisters do their separate thing. Harry could've been the one figuring out how to get the sisters out.

I just dont understand why they constantly feel the need to rush seasons of storylines into 15 episodes. I know I am a broken record but I cant help it!

Same feelings here. It's like they're operating under "we're going to be canceled after season 2 so let's put everything we got in there."

But the result is similar to putting everything you have around the house from chocolate to raw meat to laundry detergent and just cook them in one pan and hoping it would be a great tasting meal.

They've slowed down a bit episode, but still isn't enough.

I don’t remember the name of the university and town the show takes place. I don't remember what Maggie is studying in college and how her grades and exams are, what job she is doing to financially support her education. No clue as to what job does Mel do and how exactly does it support her financially.

Are Elders paying her to go undercover? Are the S'Arcana paying her too? Is she magically creating money?

Had it not been for this episode, I almost forgot that Macy cooks and bakes. But besides working on Parker blood to solve her own demon blood problem what exactly was Macy working on?

Also what exactly does Jada do beside bashing the Elders, sleeping with Mel and telling her how to use her powers?

What the hell does Galvin do in the lab all day? How unimportant is his life's work to science, humanity and him that he just went off on a quest alone to find answer to remove the demon out of Macy even if it gets him killed?

And not even Harry accompanied him or gave him a ride? Also wasn't Harry doing some kind of job as well at the university as a professor so...what is it who are his students? How is he managing being whitelighter to Charmed Ones on top of having a real job?

What is Parker doing besides Maggie?

What exactly do these new version of Elders do all day? Do they eat and sleep too seeing they're not some divine beings but just witches? What about the S'Arcana? Do they just stare at the witch they freed all day? 

And did we really need to introduce a magical girl thingy just to cause useless tension just so they could lead up to a steamy sex scene with Maggie/Parker?

What I don't get is why didn't Macy get a sex scene. Or even Mel or Jada? Macy losing her virginity is supposed to to be a big thing and all that got was a I levitated the bed mention.

Even though I don't like Galvin and glad he isn't in this episode, I don't get why everyone just doesn't care about him going to sacrifice his life to help Macy.