Billie Vs Christy

[Kit-the-cat]

Ok i hated Christy! With a passion may i just add, and i found Billie more watchable, more tolerable and more interesting. Ok Billie was annoying, But Christy was even more annoying.

Billie wins this one for me

[Stormythomas]

Billy. They were both annoying, but Billy was around much longer. I had to suffer a long time with her.

[Kit-the-cat]

Billie for me was more interesting. There is the whole what if Christy was never found...would Billie still try and kill TCO's. Billie ok was annoying, but she was interesting, that it made up for her annoyance

[Stormythomas]

I hated Billy. She didn't interest me at all. She just seemed to get in the way. I didn't like the focus being on her, especially not in the last season of charmed (when it should have been about the sisters).

I didn't like Christy either, but at least she wasn't around the whole season to bug me, and get in the way.

[Fiji221]

In all honesty, I hated them both. But I probably hated Billie more just because she just got in the way rather then actually being an asset. I probably like Christy at least a little better for 2 reasons.

1: At least her character was well put together instead of being a ditzy blonde who managed nothing more than annoying the h*ll out of the other characters, and the viewers. And 2: She wasn't around as long so I had less of a chance to really not like her.

[MarAcev]

I hated Billie much more. I didn't find her interesting at all. She was everything this show wasn't supposed to be. Had she been played as an older, less blonde and ditzy character (with another actress) with something to offer for the adult audience, she could've been a decent "evil foe". As it was, it was insulting how she took over the show in the very last season and how we had to suffer through 22 episodes of her and sacrifice old regulars for it.

[mom2wyattnchris]

I am by far not a Billie fan but I really don't mind her character much. I do think her character was just about pointless other than her having something to do with the very end of the series. Her character was a strong witch and I do find that appealing. As far as Christy...I really don't like her and I wish her character had never existed.

[MarAcev]

Her character was a strong witch

Yeah, strong enough to be at the same level as the power of three, and that just wasn't right.

[mom2wyattnchris]

I don't think she was as strong as them....CLOSE but not quite. If she were then that would be a very sad series ending.

[Rebecca Malfoy]

I like Christy more. She wasn't around as long as Billie was.

[Kit-the-cat]

Had she been played as an older, less blonde and ditzy character (with another actress)

I dont think you can blame Kayley...Kayley had no control over the things her character said or do. Ok Billie was a tad young to be THAT powerful, but in a nut shell Kayley is a good actress, there is no getting away from that. She is....But the writers that wrote her character didn't play up to Kayley's strongest points. We saw from the start how clever Billie was, well i don't see why she could of had more common sense. What i am getting at is you can't blame Kayley for the character of Billie, she had no control and was just doing her job. Many of you will argue that she didn't do it very well, but i am betting the majority of you have no idea what it is like to be an actress coming on to a long running show. I bet Kayley felt extremly scared. Charmed at that point had a very large fan base, very vocal fans at that, and being introduced in the very last season i can't imagine would be very easy. I don't know what acting is like, and i dont plan to find out, but i am betting it is hard, in fact i am 99.9% sure that it is extremly hard. So you cannot blame Kayley! She did her best, and i think that shines through the disasterous writing! I can see how much effort she put into her character.

[MarAcev]

I do think I can blame some of it on Kaley. She jus wasn't the right actress for this show. The character was annoying and she didn't help much.

I don't think she was as strong as them....CLOSE but not quite. If she were then that would be a very sad series ending.

Her projection power made her almost invincible and definitely more powerful than any of the individual charmed ones.

[Rebecca Malfoy]

maracev2 said:

I don't think she was as strong as them....CLOSE but not quite. If she were then that would be a very sad series ending.

Her projection power made her almost invincible and definitely more powerful than any of the individual charmed ones.

Which is sad. She was stronger then Prue and Prue was the eldest Charmed One. When she died, Prue could only AP and use TK. Billie in a matter of episodes was able to thought project, and it took Paige till mid season 4, if not later to get a really good hold on her orbing, and Prue till the end of the first season to get an advance on her tk.

[Kit-the-cat]

It is unfair how they wrote that character, but then again its unfair how they write alot of characters. Maybe Billie and Christy's advantage on the Charmed Ones is that ( and i truly believe this after watching S8) Billie and Christy's bond in the final season was writen alot stronger than that of the charmed ones.

[Esmeralda]

I will agree with you totally on that one! They truly had the sisterly bond. If there had been three of them, I truly think *they* could've harnessed the Power of Three (because I think that they are the Halliwells' second cousins, also descendants of Melinda Warren, so they can tap into it--although emphasis on the word "THINK"--it was never said; I'm making assumptions due to the fact that they said that the magic in their family had skipped the mother. I was sure that meant that their grandmother was Grams! And since they never said she wasn't...)

I actually liked Christy. She was a true innocent, having been kidnapped by demons and turned evil. I would've preferred the sisters saving her over Billie vanquishing her. Also, Kaley did a better job playing Billie once Christy showed up. Billie was still annoying, but not *as* annoying. I thought the gal who played Christy did a fantastic job and wish that *she* had played Billie rather than Kaley. I don't think I would've found Billie as annoying if she'd been played by someone else.

Kaley is obviously a good comedian actress, but a horrible dramatic actress and hence the wrong actress to play Billie. Her mourning-over-Christy was one of the fakiest scene I've ever seen--only Rose and Drew overacted worse than that! And most of her dramatic acting was just as bad.

Of course, it's not totally Kaley's fault--Billie is obviously a "Mary Sue" character, stuck in to show what Kern's idea of the ultimate female is -- blonde, dumb, all-powerful. The fact that SHE was the main star of Forever Charmed, the fact that SHE's the one who totally saved the day is one of many, MANY reasons that I didn't like that episode.

All I can say is THANK GOD Billie didn't get her spinoff! It would've SOOOO stunk and put a bad final ending to the Charmed franchise.

[vandergraafk]

Billie: good! A fun character with a lot of snarky spunk until she fell under the spell of her demonic sister.

Christy: a loathesome character. Apart from the scenes when she is learning to eat with knife, fork and spoon, use a cloth napkin, sip wine and walk in high heels, this character was so blatantly a cardboard cut-out of evil that I can't even tolerate looking and listening to this character. Worse: she completely destroyed any fun I had found in Billie!

[Kit-the-cat]

I will agree with you totally on that one! They truly had the sisterly bond. If there had been three of them, I truly think *they* could've harnessed the Power of Three (because I think that they are the Halliwells' second cousins, also descendants of Melinda Warren, so they can tap into it--although emphasis on the word "THINK"--it was never said; I'm making assumptions due to the fact that they said that the magic in their family had skipped the mother. I was sure that meant that their grandmother was Grams! And since they never said she wasn't...)

I don't know if they were relatives of The Charmed Ones, but they certainly had the Season1-3 bond that TCO's had. I do wonder how it would of ended if Prue was alive and was the older sister dealing with B+C

only Rose and Drew overacted worse than that! And most of her dramatic acting was just as bad.

I'll probably get yelled at for saying this, But my god Rose is ugly when she cries. Her face gets all screwed up, her nice pout becomes a trout pout. Urgh such a ugly cryer. If i was in a scene with Rose crying, i'd burst out laughing just at the face that comes with that emotion!

[Esmeralda]

drewsgal said:

I will agree with you totally on that one! They truly had the sisterly bond. If there had been three of them, I truly think *they* could've harnessed the Power of Three (because I think that they are the Halliwells' second cousins, also descendants of Melinda Warren, so they can tap into it--although emphasis on the word "THINK"--it was never said; I'm making assumptions due to the fact that they said that the magic in their family had skipped the mother. I was sure that meant that their grandmother was Grams! And since they never said she wasn't...)

I don't know if they were relatives of The Charmed Ones, but they certainly had the Season1-3 bond that TCO's had. I do wonder how it would of ended if Prue was alive and was the older sister dealing with B+C

No doubt Prue would've seen Christy as the innocent she was and help save her. With Prue, there would've been no ultimate battle, at least not between the Halliwells and the Jenkinses...

only Rose and Drew overacted worse than that! And most of her dramatic acting was just as bad.

I'll probably get yelled at for saying this, But my god Rose is ugly when she cries. Her face gets all screwed up, her nice pout becomes a trout pout. Urgh such a ugly cryer. If i was in a scene with Rose crying, i'd burst out laughing just at the face that comes with that emotion!

No yelling from me! SOOO true. And Drew overacted just a little less--his screaming in Spin City was SOOOO fakey!

I'm still certain that neither Rose or Drew were chosen for their acting abilities, but more for the fact that they look like Halliwells.

[vandergraafk]

Hypothetically speaking (well, actually, not hypothetically speaking), would you be surprised that many consider Rose a good acting talent. Indeed, she and Julian McMahon constituted a powerful acting duo during Season 5. Rose probably has greater range than either Holly or Alyssa. Shannen probably is equally talented, but also has managed to misplay most of that talent until apparently very recently. And, Julian, he was in a class by himself.

What troubles me at times is the woodenness with which movement is made. In Sam I Am, All Hell Breaks Loose and even Forever Charmed, you can clearly tell that the actors (Rose, Holly and Drew) are advancing to a taped spot and slowly pivoting. Where was the fluid direction to avoid such awkward scenes? Any show that has a lot of actors standing or holding a conversation whilst standing has this difficulty (Eureka, for example). Can't we just let them sit sometimes?

[leosgirl]

I hated Billie. She was annoying and it makes me mad how the final season was counsumed by her! At least Christy wasn't there the whole season.