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I am reading The Zone of Interest, by Martin Amis

The "Twice Blessed attention" is yet another urban legend developed by fans around two simple words
It will never be used in Charmed because - as you say rightly -it's not a title or a status

I was chatting about it yesterday with a friend from Destined expert in mythology and medieval tradition, and she reminded me that many writers have attended courses at UCLA where the study of mythology and traditions is very thorough


Wyatt was born in special circumstances -Aurora Borealis. the alignment Jupiter, Mars and Saturn in Gemini,- but he was born also in that time of year considered both in Roman and Celtic mythology as a period of balance, between the winter solstice and the spring equinox

In ancient Greece, the first days of February were devoted to Dionysus, twice blessed, god whose natural energy emerged at the end of January. the children born in those days were blessed by the power of fire

In ancient Rome, children born in this period were considered twice blessed because the growing light gave them special healing powers

In the Middle Ages, children born in those days in between the birth of the new light and the balance of light and shadow, were considered unique, blessed with purity

Lorena sent me many examples, but what matters is that in the prophecy twicw blessed is a simple recall to faraway myths

I had to stop, I finished my lunch break

If Paige's presence is mandatory, I see two ways.

-as west73 wrote, Paige'ld be the big sister of the Charmed Ones, maybe born from a Patty's relationship as a teenager or, more better, Patty and Victor's daughter,kidnapped by some crazy woman directly from the hospital
Penny might have erased the memory from the minds of the shocked parents to help them to overcome the grief

-as proposed by sol, Paige'ld come from a different timeline, I like the idea of Patty that runs away from Penny to prevent her from ruining her wedding

Not having to be afraid that someone'ld kidnapp or kill her children

Not having to check that her sisters are really her sisters and not some evil entity or demon

Not having be afraid that a birthday party or a wedding could be ruined

Not having to work mainly to fix furniture, doors, windows

It seems that the ultimate selfishness is to spend a normal day: let your son to kindergarten sure he'll be there, go shopping without an orbing sister that warns you of a deadly threat, have a tea with friends without a Whitelighter from the future that throws you into an alternate reality, take care of your nightclub without finding it overrun by animals, think about your wedding without adding a picture of your sister that escapes with a biker


Piper has always been ready to save innocents, she only dreamed that this could happen without her life was burned out

I think it’ld be better if the sisters had only one power, a power growing over the years as in Morality Bite
Ultimately, they were the Power of Three

All Hell Breaks Loose is one of my favorite finals

The sisters are already in action, why and when it's not so essential, more likely the doctor is only a bait
Cyma is right, Pure's death is interesting and impactful, throughout all the episode Prue seems to run towards the disaster almost consciously, she'ld know that her biggest flaws is her pride, which makes her too reckless
I believe she was too tired, she isn't Sydney Bristow, trained since childhood to become a fighting machine,she is an expert in artwork, grew up as a normal girl and she has to face a crazy stalker, some upper level demons sent to kill her and her sisters, the pain of the empathy, the life essence who had taken possession of Piper, the children demons, a powerful warlock, a wrestling with demons to save an old friend, a black marriage in which tried to kill her sisters, a split of her personality, an Angel of Death, a cat- warlock more and more stronge every time it was vanquished,a demon equipped with the seven deadly sins, the Brotherhood, a Banshee...I think it'ld be enough even for Sydney Bristow

She was tired and she made the big mistake to drag Piper out to track down Shax and the big mistake to not stop Phobe in her dangerous attempt to reach Cole

All Hell Breaks Loose"

Piper: But frankly I'm more worried about Phoebe than Shax. We shouldn't have let her go.
Prue: Phoebe can take care of herself, Dr. Griffiths can't. (They start walking up the street.) Look, Piper, I've had a bad feeling about this. I've had one all day. If there's one thing I've learned since becoming a witch, is to trust those feelings.

Piper certainly did not help matters. She went agaisnt both Phoebe's trip to find Cole and to Prue’s purpose to leave the Manor to hunt out Shax, but as always, she was accommodating with her sisters's wishes: I think here there is beginnings of the change of Piper's personality

Maybe this is the meaning of Prue's death; the birth of the strong matriarch of the Halliwells'

[/quote]Such interesting points that I had never considered before. I suppose Cole was as close as Charmed got to portraying a morally ambiguous character, but even then he was pushed back into 'Big Bad' status towards the end of his tenure. They had such a good opportunity to make Phoebe take a good hard look at herself in S5 and recognise her part to play in Cole's undoing, especially her own free decision to become Queen of the Underworld. All this, "the baby made me do it" nonsense just doesn't wash. It actually would've made sense if Phoebe had acknowledged her 'dark side' as this was alluded to several times in S1-3. ;[/quote]



IMO, Cole isn't an ambiguous character, he belongs to a demoniac elite which has many similarities with the human world

I liked the Brotherhood of the Thorn, they were smart, stylish, resolute in the conquest of economic power certainly dangerous
Cole is a representative member of this elite, he loves to live in human society, he likes expensive clothes, sports cars, elegant houses, as a normal rich and powerful man
Instead of obtaining a trophy wife, he falls in love with the most unlikely person, a witch as powerful as naive, to young, too plain for him, but he is in love, and this love drags him to betray his brothers and to look for a new life in the world of men

There is a large discrepancy between dreams and reality, Cole'll have a hard time to adapt himself to the new state but unambiguously, Cole is simply unable to find his way

A huge thank you to the wonderful Parisian that in the night of November 13 bend over backwards for help those who didn't know what to do in the attacked city
My cousin, Saskia, in Paris fromr three months for the Erasmus, got lost in the Marais with a friend, the subway was closed, they didn't know how to get home
They realized that Parisians were intervening to help, with warnings like: There are no beds, but we welcome you to warm you, comfort you and find a solution or We have beer and coffee, stay with us
They have been hosted for some hours then they found a taxi driver who brought them to their home that is near the École vétérinaire d'Alfort, a long journey but he didn't want money
Thank you

All these images don't rob out the fact that

I can't help but think that if Rex had made that comment to the later seasons Phoebe, she'd be out of her clothes and halfway to the bedroom before he could finish the sentence.


is a sexist way of think

PS I am sorry, I have some evening dresses similare to Paige godness dress and on the beach usually I put on swimsuits smaller than the Valkyries costumes: maybe I'ld take myself off the board for indecency