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Post by Assassin Witch on Jan 9, 2021 15:31:35 GMT -5
This is a thread to discuss Charmed Rebooted's Season 3. This go around, we're just having a single thread to discuss it all.
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Post by Astral Echo on Jan 10, 2021 9:34:43 GMT -5
I'm always interested to see what they do. I keep my expectations low so when they hit gold, I'm pleasantly surprised.
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Post by Astral Echo on Jan 27, 2021 10:57:11 GMT -5
This episode was pretty good on the whole. But why couldn't they simply use Maggie's power to get what they wanted from Jimmy? That I said, I did like how they ended his storyline.
I still love Abi, definitely one of my favourite characters on the show and I think it'll be nice to see her turn a corner now and become more of an ally to the sisters.
Also, felt how they dealt with Julian was really interesting. Can't see Aunt Viv being as easy to pacify. Have a feeling she's going to get her hands on some powers herself and she'll ultimately have to be vanquished. But maybe the twist will be that it'll be Julian who deals the fatal blow with a potion or something?
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Post by Silas on Feb 3, 2021 17:36:02 GMT -5
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Post by CharmedFaith on Feb 3, 2021 17:55:34 GMT -5
Not surprising. If it makes it past S4 then it'll get a Season 6.
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Post by Astral Echo on Feb 3, 2021 18:01:45 GMT -5
This season is once again suffering from the reboots biggest issue which is it feels like the whole thing is on speed. Everything happens far, far too quickly and potentially interesting plots are swept under the rug without much fanfare.
Honestly, I'm only really watching for Abi at the moment.
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Post by Silas on Feb 3, 2021 19:58:18 GMT -5
This season is once again suffering from the reboots biggest issue which is it feels like the whole thing is on speed. Everything happens far, far too quickly and potentially interesting plots are swept under the rug without much fanfare. Honestly, I'm only really watching for Abi at the moment. Yeah, it does feel like they are speeding through things. I'm hoping now with a season 4 they can slow things down, they have another whole season renewed in advance. But I felt Charmed: Classic suffered from the same thing, we'll from what I'd seen in seasons 4 and 5. They speed through so much story in season 4, that It felt like three seasons in one. What is with them feeling the need to rush through arcs. I like the build-up. |
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Post by Astral Echo on Feb 3, 2021 20:25:26 GMT -5
I never really picked up on that with the original series, particularly as the first three seasons kind of build up to the Source. And 22 episode shows generally have two major stories per season that generally climax in the mid season and season finales. In S4 it's the Source then Cole, S5 is Cole then Wyatt and so on.
With the reboot, it feels like it burns through so many ideas so quickly and never really gives them a chance to breath. And I'm not just talking the season's antagonist cause that tends to build quite nicely over the course of a season. In S1 it was the Caine's and S2 was Vivian. But they seem to show their trump cards early. The Source is dispatched far too easily and the Elders, which they put an interesting spin on, are practically eliminated before the first season is even complete. Even new things they bring to the table such as Tartarus and the Keeper are gone almost as quickly as they're introduced.
I think it's a shame because they're some really interesting ideas at play here but they're not given any opportunity to develop.
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Post by Silas on Feb 4, 2021 8:14:57 GMT -5
So many of their spins and takes are so interesting. I just wish they didn't drop stuff so quickly. I really liked their take on the Elders and didn't like what they did with them. It was so strange to get rid of the Source so easily, it made zero sense, I'm surprised they dealt with the Source in Season 1 at all and didn't wait a few seasons before diving into it.
I did hear rumors of a time jump after they wrap up the S2 original ending in the next episode. But, since this is wrapping up what COVID-19 stopped. I'd think a time jump to February 2021 makes sense. I just hope, they think through where they are going, now that they have a whole new season ahead of them with season 4, even before they even are half-way through season 3, or whatever episode they are filming atm.
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Post by Astral Echo on Feb 4, 2021 8:39:04 GMT -5
I really liked their Elders too. Even though what Charity did was wrong, she wasn't evil. She did what she did because she believed it was for the greater good. Equally what they did with whitelighters/darklighters was super interesting and while incredibly dark, again, they thought the result justified the means. I find that kind of moral ambiguity really interesting and something the original show really shied away from. It's the same reason I really like Abigail.
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Post by CharmedFaith on Apr 18, 2021 21:39:00 GMT -5
This episode gave me a MAJOR case of whiplash. Out of nowhere the TCO are hunting down demons left and right, saving innocents out of nowhere. Something that could've easily been an entire season and have TCO actually focus on saving innocents as a main plot is taken from us fairly quickly and we get yet another super powerful set of beings that have to set the sisters on a new journey because as always...they are rarely allowed to find things out by themselves.
The writers continue to do what they like best and bring in characters that they seem way more interested in then the sisters and now it's Josefina. She essentially "saves the day" with not only being able to create the only magical item/spell that can contain these magical beings but also the only person who can communicate with them and be the liaison between them and the "sisters" and now she gets to help Mel with their BoS and essentially becomes the new 4th/5th/6th sister since Abigail is currently not in the episodes.
Having the Book of Shadows back is nice, the pages look nice, very Charmed....the outside looks very fanmade and they likely should've stuck with their original design which was fresh, modern, and cool.
I enjoyed Maggies subplot of trying to juggle her two lives and being frustrated by it.
I'll probably go the entire series waiting for them to start truly focusing on the 3 sisters as a whole and letting be Charmed. They've done very little that lives up the being "the chosen ones", the mightiest witches the world has ever seen. Still dont know why they are using Macys "force field" power thing just like her telekinesis.
Even after ALL of that....interesting episode, even though I'm annoyed by the overall show never learning to be about the sisters relationship I didnt mind the episode.
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Post by CharmedFaith on May 8, 2021 13:25:10 GMT -5
So this episode was for nothing? Only to fast forward to Josefina to get a power? So they can check off a box? That's really what it felt like. I wonder if they will ever explore the male side of being a witch, surely they have male cousins who want powers. While I didnt mind Josefina, I am glad that she wont be around full time as yet another person who can make the sisters look like half-assed witches. She's already able to create "power" potions (which I hated in the original as well). She's totally superior to The "Charmed Ones"
TCO just had to go down a scary cave, take an egg and run away from some bad breath? That was the perilous journey they had to go on? Couldn't make it any harder? And to top it off they were able to just return it as if nothing happened. There should be no take backs. They should've had to try to find a new way around this problem of people I dont know being in danger because TCOs are magically given whatever they wanted at the expense of others. They cant even save themselves, their cousin has to once again save the day lol.
The slight plus side was the sisters had multiple scenes together...of course most of them involved others but I guess we have to take what we can get. But once they get that egg in the beginning, they embrace for half a second and remember "arent we supposed to have our own solo storylines?"
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Post by Cole Turner on Aug 22, 2022 10:42:14 GMT -5
I am disapointed in this reboot so hard. Everything is bad. The way they are forcing organizations propaganda is insane. I just don't feel any positive emotion while watching it. I just feel hardcore cringe. Sad but true. Thank god the OG was done so perfectly that this reboot can never destroy my memory. <3
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Post by Esmeralda on Aug 23, 2022 18:39:57 GMT -5
I am disapointed in this reboot so hard. Everything is bad. The way they are forcing organizations propaganda is insane. I just don't feel any positive emotion while watching it. I just feel hardcore cringe. Sad but true. Thank god the OG was done so perfectly that this rip-off can never destroy my memory. <3 Although I don't think Classic Charmed was done perfectly and I never wasted a second on the reboot, I still tend to agree with you. I just wish they had waited another 10-15 years so three new actresses could play Prue, Piper and Phoebe and we could find out what might have happened had Prue never died so there would be no such thing as half-whitelighters - that the next generation would only receive whitelighter powers after they'd earned their wings as witches and were now dead. That would let being a whitelighter remain special while having a Warren for a mother would be more important than having a whitelighter for a father, turning a female-centric show into a male-centric one, which for me ruined Classic Charmed. |
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Post by Emmett on Aug 23, 2022 19:07:48 GMT -5
I am disapointed in this reboot so hard. Everything is bad. The way they are forcing organizations propaganda is insane. I just don't feel any positive emotion while watching it. I just feel hardcore cringe. Sad but true. Thank god the OG was done so perfectly that this reboot can never destroy my memory. <3 I gave the reboot a try, but I couldn't get past a few episodes. They cared more for hurrying up the story-arc right away than focusing on the bond formed between the older half sister and the two younger sisters. Although Classic Charmed wasn't perfect. At least they did well setting up the sisters relationship in S1 organically.
It was too early for a reboot. They should've waited another decade at the very earliest. Then it would've been twenty plus since Classic Charmed ended and just over thirty years since Classic started in the 90s. All those who grew up watching Charmed are now well into there 30s and 40s. That's the time you reboot a show when there's enough distance between the generations who watched the show originally and now.
But with how badly the reboot did, I don't think CBS or anybody will sadly touch the Charmed brand anytime soon to reboot it again.
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Post by Cole Turner on Aug 24, 2022 3:05:23 GMT -5
I mean, when I say perfectly I am talking about the way they could reach my heart. Of course Charmed is filled with problems and story issues  |
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Post by Esmeralda on Aug 24, 2022 7:38:10 GMT -5
I mean, when I say perfectly I am talking about the way they could reach my heart. Of course Charmed is filled with problems and story issues Ah, gotcha. That's what the first set of Charmed Ones definitely did for me. The second set? Not so much. |
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Post by Emmett on Aug 24, 2022 7:58:18 GMT -5
I mean, when I say perfectly I am talking about the way they could reach my heart. Of course Charmed is filled with problems and story issues I get what you mean. I feel that way about the earlier seasons. Currently rewatching S1 I'm feeling all the emotional reactions that touched my heart strings just as much as they did years ago. |
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