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Post by imdb lives on on Jun 9, 2020 11:43:03 GMT -5
I think by season three she should've been able to summon him.
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Post by Elle Em on Jun 9, 2020 15:41:03 GMT -5
Maybe it would have been too emotional for her. Or maybe she had accepted and gotten over his death and just didn't want to. Or maybe she knew that Andy didn't like magic or want to be involved in it, and thought he might not want to be summoned as a ghost.
I think she could have if she wanted to, though. I think she had the ability.
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Post by Esmeralda on Jun 9, 2020 15:45:45 GMT -5
Personally I think he's a whitelighter (if Brody became one, Andy better have become one!) and they're not allowed to be with ones from their life (previous lives like Piper and Leo don't count). So even if she tried, she wouldn't have succeeded.
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Post by summerreading on Jun 9, 2020 23:37:02 GMT -5
Personally I think he's a whitelighter (if Brody became one, Andy better have become one!) and they're not allowed to be with ones from their life (previous lives like Piper and Leo don't count). So even if she tried, he wouldn't have succeeded. I love that Es. If they can reward Brody to become one. Andy better have too. But I never liked the Elders in S3-S8. Especially giving Leo and Piper their blessings to marry after saving them and Brody to become a whitelighter because of what he did trying to stop the Avatars. |
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Post by prettyinpink94 on Oct 26, 2020 2:16:57 GMT -5
Because they couldn't or didn't want to bring the actor back. Same reason why Prue was never seen or heard from again after her death. All of those decisions have more to do with business than anything else.
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Post by Assassin Witch on Oct 26, 2020 19:35:41 GMT -5
Yeah, some of these questions are hard to answer because the real answer is BTS and actor stuff. In show...
Why would Prue summon Andy? For what purpose?
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Post by Too Much Coffee on Oct 27, 2020 2:53:10 GMT -5
Personally I think he's a whitelighter (if Brody became one, Andy better have become one!) and they're not allowed to be with ones from their life (previous lives like Piper and Leo don't count). So even if she tried, she wouldn't have succeeded. Love this theory Es, and this would be my head canon explanation. |
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Post by imdb lives on on Oct 27, 2020 11:09:06 GMT -5
Yeah, some of these questions are hard to answer because the real answer is BTS and actor stuff. In show... Why would Prue summon Andy? For what purpose? I always thought that it seemed Prue never moved on from Andy. Maybe she could've summoned him for closure |
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Post by Assassin Witch on Oct 27, 2020 14:47:43 GMT -5
Sometimes, the ease of which they could summon the dead (Patty, Grams), they became co-dependent on them and didn't actually let them "die." And I wouldn't want that for Prue. So maybe she knew better and that once last time would never be enough so it would be best never to start.
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Post by BewitchingBeauties87 on Oct 28, 2020 12:51:41 GMT -5
I just watched season 1 again and it's my favorite season. I liked Piper a lot in this season (even though her storylines were a little boring) and Prue and Phoebe actually seemed to genuinely love each other as sisters (i didn't get that feeling by season 3).
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Post by BriannaWarren2.0 on Jan 27, 2021 8:46:28 GMT -5
Personally I think he's a whitelighter (if Brody became one, Andy better have become one!) and they're not allowed to be with ones from their life (previous lives like Piper and Leo don't count). So even if she tried, she wouldn't have succeeded. I think that as well, I love to believe that Andy became a Whitelighter, I would have just hated it if he wasn't a Whitelighter. |
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Post by Astral Echo on Jan 27, 2021 21:14:21 GMT -5
Sometimes, the ease of which they could summon the dead (Patty, Grams), they became co-dependent on them and didn't actually let them "die." And I wouldn't want that for Prue. So maybe she knew better and that once last time would never be enough so it would be best never to start. I agree. What would she achieve from summoning him past Witch Trail? Plus, do mortals move onto the same plane as magical beings? Because in my head, how long can someone hang around in the afterlife for? And we know both the afterlife and reincarnation exist in the Charmed universe as P Baxter, P Bowen and P Russell were all "reborn" as the Halliwell sisters. At least, that was always my understanding. So in my head, someone like Andy would either become a whitelighter if he qualifies (and wants to) and then as mortal is likely to be recycled. Unless of course he decides to wait for Prue? But that would be him assuming she's always going to hold out because of him. He can't know she'll die so soon without marrying or whatever, and she certainly moves on so... |
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Post by cyma on Jan 28, 2021 12:59:36 GMT -5
Going by what was established in first 3 seasons, they were able to summon Melinda Warren in flesh to help defeat Matthew Tate, but later on Piper desperately asked Ghostly Grams if she could do something to make Patty appear on her wedding day which Grams couldn't. She proceeded to clarify even she was here on a time limit only because a high priestess was needed to perform the ceremony.
I got the impression that summoning ghost doesn't always work but there could be the natural fear of consequences of a personal gain spell involving the dead.
I don't know how much seeing Andy would give Prue closure because seeing her Mom both in past and present didn't magically erase all the pain, anger and trauma she went through which she took out on the Angel of Death.
Besides didn’t Prue get the rare opportunity to actually say goodbye to Andy's ghost in limbo? Before making the decision not to have time reversed which would save herself and her sisters but permanently kill Andy?
Guilt over making a decision like that even if Andy would never blame her could also make Prue avoid summoning him if she could in the first place.
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Post by Astral Echo on Jan 28, 2021 14:00:39 GMT -5
Absolutely think you're right, cyma. Seeing him again would be more painful than learning to deal with her grief on her own, just as we all do.
But like so many things in Charmed, as you pointed out, the series was so inconsistent with its own rules and lore. While you're absolutely right about the first three seasons, it seemingly all went out of the window once Prue died.
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Post by Aaeiyn on Aug 22, 2021 19:01:02 GMT -5
Yeah, some of these questions are hard to answer because the real answer is BTS and actor stuff. In show... Why would Prue summon Andy? For what purpose? My same thoughts, exactly. Besides, Prue was busy being a protector of the innocent, while her sisters slacked off, but I digress. |
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