she does technically kill him for a moment but he is able to reconstitute himself and the phoenix witches are phoenixes and their whole thing is about resurrecting so that makes sense and that’s different to low level demons) low level demons should be killed almost instantly by her blowing up powers and should be frozen.
Sorry, I disagree that the Source, Phoenix Witches, I'll even throw in Whitelighters, etc. "temporarily die" and reform, when Piper "blows them up".
Especially since the Source can't officially die, not without the PO3 spell that both Phoebe & Cole created, back in S4E13 "Charmed & Dangerous". And, the Phoenix Witches can still die, as Bianca died from being impaled.
Like I said, it's a different kind of immunity because Bianca didn't freeze, either. It's been discussed that Phoenix Witches are practically immune to witch powers, and that only a potion (or being impaled) can stop them.
A "different kind of freeze" but is still "freezing" would be what Cole would do in S5E1 "A Witch's Tail, Pt 1", when Darryl is getting shot at, in a restaurant, and Cole freezes the scene, but it's in super slow motion rather than a full on freeze. I find it to be the same power but done differently. I believe Piper could do this, if she tried but never did.
I do like that it was never explicitly stated, to leave room for more creative thinking, for the audience.
I don’t think that’s how her power works— she doesn’t know who all the innocents were in the courtroom— Cole shouldn’t have known when to act like he was frozen because he didn’t know when she was going to do it- did he expect her to try and freeze the room a couple of times? Cos she has to try more than once— and he’s not paying attention to her. It’s a fail on the writers part.
It's not how her power typically works, no. But, that doesn't mean it "can't" work like that. That particular episode relied a lot on "the world of magic" knowing who was "innocent" and who wasn't.
Cole was assigned to assassinate the Charmed Ones. I'm assuming (like Hellfire, in S2E9 "Ms. Hellfire") he would know what powers they have, who has what power, how they work, etc. So, the moment Piper finally arrives/shows her face in court, Cole is probably paying attention to what she's doing and looking for ques with her hands. While, he's putting on this fascade of being their lawyer. I trust Cole is capable of multitasking.
Even if he wasn't, there's multitudes of other possibilities that can work, as well. If pretending to be frozen isn't satisfactory enough for you. I already gave the "fought through the freeze" scenario which still wasn't good enough. Another possibility is he DID freeze but only for a moment. Not because he was "fighting through it" but that Cole was in fact "innocent", in regards to what Piper was freezing for. But then Cole unfroze because he's still not "truly innocent". Your choice.
And Cole & Belthazar are two different entities— Leo says it himself in S4 to Paige that Cole had nothing to do with the evil that his demon side did so theoretically he would be an innocent and he should have been frozen.
Leo (also) calls Cole "a Killer" in S3E11 "Blinded by the Whitelighter", when Phoebe confessed about not actually killing Cole. Like Leo didn't separate Cole and Belthazor, in this episode. Neither did Emma, in S4E8 "Black as Cole".
The writers should have stated what she could and couldn’t freeze and how some demons and warlocks could fight through her freezing power—
While, I understand what you're saying, I do like how not so fixed the show is, to leave room for more leeway in their storytelling.
they barely could distinguish the difference between a warlock and a demon on the show—
Oh yes. We had a lovely conversation about this in the
How do you feel warlocks have been developed and portrayed? thread.
There’s a lot of inconsistencies with her powers—
Yes, we're all pretty much aware of how
inconsistent this show can be.
Good witches don’t freeze— (they get frozen in that 70s episode) but they don’t get frozen in how to make a quilt out of Americans when the demon steals their powers and Phoebe literally says ‘good witches don’t freeze’
And in season 7 - ordinary witches, Phoebe and Piper are frozen.
Seeing as how often they DO freeze (like in S6E4 "The Power of Three Blondes"), whenever they don't have their powers (or practitioner witches, like Marcie Steadwell who froze in S2E9 "Ms. Hellfire"), I'mma say S2E17 "How to Make a Quilt Out of Americans" is incorrect. Then again, A LOT of S2 gets A LOT of the Charmed lore wrong, but I digress.
It just takes the tenseness out of scenes— cos her magi works for what the episode calls for— we should have it concrete what she can and can’t freeze and how long she can and what she can blow up or can’t— they should have had it explained in season four that her powers have grown since Prue died and that’s why she was able to freeze cole now in human form. Cos they have it in world that their powers will grow- but they don’t mention it.
I love charmed and I’m watching it right now lol this is why I speak about the inconsistencies in the lore because I love this show so much and it can be a bit jarring when writers just make up new rules and it just makes me think that some of these writers didn’t give a damn and in turn thought that the audience wouldn’t even notice and that’s rude.
I don't mind it. I've grown numb to it, ever since S2 began and changed everything, like I said.
I like to say "new season, new rules" or even "new episode, new rules" LOL Or, "consistently inconsistent" xD
Again, I don't mind it. I like it not being too restrictive, to leave more room for creative audience minds, like ourselves, to come up with the "why".
