Elder
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"I'd still take 'good' that's not always good, over 'bad' that's NEVER good"
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Post by Elder on Mar 21, 2008 10:45:09 GMT -5
Many people have claimed that they feel Charmed went off track at some point in the series. Whether it was with the addition of unnecessary characters or episode twists that were not cool.
I would like to know one thing with this thread:
If you feel Charmed went wrong, at what point do you feel it went wrong and what would you have done from that point on to change it?
This is like a "time travel" thread. You get to make like a Chris Perry and go back to fix something to make it right. Hopefully, you won't get stabbed by a crazed lunatic and fade away in the process.
Please Note the lone rule:
Anywhere from the introduction of Zankou to the end of the series is exempt from the bickering. In other words, ya can't use it.
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Esmeralda
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Post by Esmeralda on Mar 21, 2008 10:51:46 GMT -5
I thought it went off-track when Piper got her explosion power. At that point, the sisters were no longer following Melinda Warren's prophecy. The prophecy said she could FREEZE TIME; it did *NOT* say she could manipulate molecules! That's two completely totally different things!
This also made her too powerful--she no longer needed her sisters to vanquish evil. The Power of Three was truly no longer needed. It was the beginning of killing the basis of the show: three sisters who happened to be witches and not three witches who happened to be sisters and also the start of "The Perils of Piper."
From this point on, the executive producer/writers could do whatever they wanted as long as it fit that show's plot--who cares how well it fit with the rest of the series.
To change things, I would have made any upgrade she would've had (and personally I never would've had *any* upgrades--the powers they got from the prophecy was all they ever needed--Prue would've never gotten her astral projection) would've been to *speed up time for people/things* or more specific control of time.
Even after Prue's death, she could use those powers to set the situation so that the sisters could use a spell or potion to get rid of the demon, the way they did *before* this "upgrade" which was really just a plug.
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Post by whitelightertony on Mar 22, 2008 0:28:01 GMT -5
Well, I thought it went off-track at the beginning of Season 2 (with the episode "Witch Trial")...but then it began to correct its misguided path by "Chick Flick." The first half of Season 2 (and then some) was AWFUL...but then it seemed to improve once Piper dumped Dan , and the writers stopped putting the Halliwells in silly, contrived situations. "Chick Flick" through "Be Careful What You Witch For" was a great run of episodes, and the show improved even more in Season 3.
I'd say the show went off-track in failing to live up to its potential when Phoebe's premonitions became fewer and farther between...sometime in Season 4 and then through Season 5, by my estimation.
This is ironic, because I felt that Seasons 5 and 6 were the best seasons overall...but they were the worst for Phoebe as a character, because she began to regress and suffer from lack of development.
Piper was never able to literally freeze the flow of time on Earth. Piper's power, from its beginnings, was the ability to suspend molecules. Melinda Warren just described it as "the power to freeze time" because she was using archaic speech, and she may have misunderstood the actual nature of her power itself.
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Post by Assassin Witch on Mar 22, 2008 15:02:47 GMT -5
Piper was never able to literally freeze the flow of time on Earth. Piper's power, from its beginnings, was the ability to suspend molecules. Melinda Warren just described it as "the power to freeze time" because she was using archaic speech, and she may have misunderstood the actual nature of her power itself. That, and I doubt they really knew anything about molecules in the late 1600s. |
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Post by whitelightertony on Mar 22, 2008 20:19:16 GMT -5
Agreed. From Melinda Warren's perspective, because an object appeared to be "frozen in time," she may have mistakenly believed that she actually froze time itself!
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pubesy
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Post by pubesy on Mar 22, 2008 22:09:36 GMT -5
wow i loved that episode!
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Post by Assassin Witch on Mar 22, 2008 22:29:08 GMT -5
wow i loved that episode! Which episode? |
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