#charmed asks

[renee561]

Hi! I’d love to know whether you ship Piper/Leo or Phoebe/Cole more and what you like most and least about both pairings. No pressure to answer if you’re not up for it!

I do ship Piper/Leo, though I prefer their early seasons to whatever happened after he became an Elder. Like they were the dream team until the orberous nonsense that happened with Chris.

Though if im being completely honest, it haven't gotten much past that, I stopped watching at Chris' Christining thingy.

Like i love how rhey were so supportive of each other and then it all went to crap, but like got to love a father hunting down demons not realizing the danger is coming from inside the house at this point, but alas.

I love Pheobe/Cole! I am pissed they ruined Cole, but like story wise i think it fit his character similiar to how they did the same to Leo except on the opposite end. Man wanted to hold too tight and found out the consequences of that.

But I do miss like Cole's growth, and I wish they could have done it a different way. RIP Julian you were a great demon </3

[maycanady]

Charmed 2018 for the ask game?

@welldressedllama and @a-lil-bi-furious also asked for charmed

my favorite female character: i love maggie so much

my favorite male character: parker :(

my favorite book/season/etc: s1, and then s3

my favorite episode (if its a tv show): 3x07 was fun

my favorite cast member: sarah jeffery!

my favorite ship: ships*: abimel, parkerita :(, jada/mel :(

a character I’d die defending: mel

a character I just can’t sympathize with: harry lol

a character I grew to love: jordan

my anti otp: hacy lol

send me a show/movie/fandom

[maycanady]

okay, I'm dying over that trailer

at one point Harry says "That ___, she's supposed to replace Macy?" Do you know what the missing word is? I've listened to it so many times and I can't make it out.

okay, but me too! i’m excited to learn more about lucy’s character. i’ve been following her since the announcement of her addition to the show and she seems like a fun person. i can’t wait to see what she brings to the show and the dynamic with maggie and mel.

he says: "it doesn’t make sense. this random person. she's the one who's supposed to replace macy?"

okay but ever since i saw the trailer earlier, i’ve been thinking on the phrasing “random person.” so she’s not another random long, lost sister, which i’m glad about because they already did that with macy. i feel like it would be really, really random for it to actually be a random person. my theory is she’s macy and harry’s kid or something.

[maycanady]

I’m apparently just crashing inboxes of fellow Abimacy fans now to scream about the ship, hello! I’m catching up on season 3 and Abimel is good but I’m still not over Abimacy

okay, please feel free to crash into my inbox about abimacy or abimel any time you want. i welcome it. i’m still not over abimacy either. they had such great potential! 2x03 literally could have been the start of something great for them. they had such amazing chemistry. i won’t even get into what they decided to waste macy’s time on instead. thankfully, abimel just keeps on giving this season. i’ve been on this ship since 2x04 and it has not disappointed. i’m loving the slow burn enemies to kinda friends to hopefully lovers when they’re both ready for that. i’m excited to see where they’ll take them. 💕

[maycanady]

can you gif more jordan/maggie? :)

do you have a specific scene or moment in mind?

[maycanady]

there's actually two more episode of charmed!

thank you for the info! appreciate it 💜

also, if you’re my abigael/mel anon, i’m excited to do that set, so look out for it after the finale!

[maycanady]

to get back on how you see cole vs how i see cole. i tend to see a lot of og fans either love him or completely demonize him there doesn't seem to be an inbetween but i for one genuinely enjoyed him even separate from phoebe. i recognize that their ship almost had this doomed from the start feel but although yes cole was selfish, so was phoebe. he didn't make her this way. he didn't ask her to do some of the things she did that were just as selfish

for me, cole had his moments where i enjoyed his character apart from his relationship with phoebe. i guess, i just don’t remember liking him all that much because the story with him and phoebe got so repetitive and boring to me, that i just wanted them apart, and if he needed to be gone for that, so be it. and now when i go back and rewatch, i know what’s coming, and i can’t enjoy him anymore. and oh, i totally agree on phoebe being selfish, too. she was definitely not my favorite sister, but i liked her sometimes.

and i think a reason the og charmed fandom is so keen on demonizing cole is because they buy into the nonsensical cole as the source storyline. the problem with that plotline though is that cole didn’t want to be evil, he didn’t gleefully accept to be the source just for power’s sake, he did it to save the charmed ones and it all backfired on him. he essentially was possessed and yet both the show and the sisters were trying to sell this “cole was always an ireedeemable scum” narrative

i, weirdly, agree. the sisters at time could be very self righteous. to me, he had his irredeemable times, but the times he felt redeemable is when the sisters didn’t think he was and they took it upon themselves to take action against him instead of hearing the truth.

ultimately i guess i felt like if anything he deserved a redemption arc and perhaps a chance to be good without phoebe and then if they were meant to be, if they truly loved each other they’d have found their way back but cole never got a chance to be cole turner on his own. he never got to be good and do good without someone there to guide him and i think i would have wanted to see that rather than him being painted as iredeemable and desperate and have him be vanquished

i get wanting that for a character you really love. i guess he was so tied to phoebe, the writers didn’t know how to do that and always brought it back to them, and their repetitive nonsense.

also as far as parker is concerned (i know it’s a lot of messages, god forgive me but i actually love this exchange we’re having, feels nice to talk with someone with opposing ideas and not have it be a bloodbath for once) i liked him at first but i think the show just wasted an opportunity with his family, i would have loved to see more of the conflict with him and his father since i do think a lot of his struggle with his demon side comes from his fear of being like alastor

i’m currently in the roswell, new mexico fandom. and the second someone voices a differing opinion, or just tries to have a healthy debate about anything, the other reacts like if they’re being attacked, bullied. so, i feel your pain! anyway, i agree on the wasted opportunity with his family. i genuinely enjoyed alastor as a villain. like it hurt to watch him treat his son the way he did, because i love parker, but he was a entertaining villain. definitely, wasted potential.

as for hacy i gotta say i did feel the whole him being a big brother to the sisters but more so with maggie and mel than with macy, i felt like there was always a lingering tension there and some sort of unspoken bond between them like they connected differently but yeah the writers could have set it up better. i liked galvin but to be honest he felt like a throaway love interest from the get go. it was telling how he was far less developed than jada was

i definitely could see it more in season 1 for the hacy shippers, so i understood why it was shipped more then. i didn’t feel like galvin was a throwaway love interest. so that was completely unexpected for me. it hurt! i liked the little we learned of his family, and what we knew of him now. god, and when he broke up with macy because she wouldn’t get rid of her demon side, it was the most relatable thing ever. he got hate for it from fandom, but come on, imagine being human and being what he’s been through. i just really enjoyed how much galvin and macy got each other outside of the witch stuff, because macy was so much more than just a witch. she had a career she was passionate about, and galvin was a part of that life. he was such a good person, so his self-sacrifice makes sense, but it again, still hurt! also, jada. i miss her, so damn much. knowing she’s alive out there, and not appearing on the show, breaks my heart.

[maycanady]

well i didn't know you shipped parkerita i actually only found your blog through a gifset you made involving jordan/maggie so i wasn't sure if maybe you liked them as more than a friendship. the thing with parkerita and parker is that as an og charmed fan and a fan of phole and of cole turner i can see the writers were trying to emulate them and it doesn't sit right with me

with jordan and maggie, i’m enjoying their friendship right now. i am a multi-shipper, so if i happen to enjoy how their relationship is developed into something more, i’d be down. as an og charmed fan myself though, i was never a fan of cole, or his relationship with phoebe. so the only similarities to me between phole and parkerita are the witch/demon specs. so, i don’t agree with you there.

the romance they’re setting up between macy and harry feels a lot more organic and it’s not at all a piper/leo 2.0. with parkerita they straight up admitted to trying to emulate a romance of the original show that was iconic and if they’re actually modelling parker after cole than i’m sorry but they’re insulting the character and julian mcmahon’s work while they’re at it because cole was always a layered, complex antagonist and love interest

i don’t agree about hacy feeling organic at all. if anything, to me, it feels forced during this season 2 story line. in season 1, we had them building up to it, they had their cute moments. so i could see why people shipped them as more than friends. i personally never did though. i always saw harry as a big brother to the charmed ones. he took care of them, but was a goof when it came to their human ways. it was funny, and cute with all the sisters. and now, i just feel like hacy is taking up way too much screen time away from the sisters, but also putting macy in this negative space i don’t want her in. again, i don’t agree about cole, and i love parker. i felt like cole took way too much time away from the charmed ones, and put phoebe in this negative i didn’t want her in. funny how that’s happening now with hacy to me.

that’s not me saying parker caine is completely one dimensional but he is also less complex and i hate that they made his main motivation for goodness to be maggie. in the og show cole wanted to be good both to be worthy of phoebe and the love she had for him and for himself. he realized how vile and evil he had been, recognized the humanity that he still had and fought for multiple seasons with himself to be good. that’s more compelling to me than parker ridding himself of evil for a woman

i personally find parker more complex and enjoyed his internal struggle with his demon side in season 1. i’m not really sure how i feel about him in season 2 yet, i’ll wait till we get more to make up my mind on that. knowing he’s struggled with his demon side though, i understand why it took someone else to give him the motivation to be good. it was the push he needed, and i don’t think that’s necessarily a bad thing story line wise. also wow, we really see cole differently. i always found him to be so selfish.

and as far as romance in the new charmed is involved, everyone save for macy is getting screwed over honestly. i’m more concerned with the way mel is jumping between fleeting love interests and both serious relationships she’s been with have ended abruptly and with both women she cared for vanishing into thin air. like why have a queer woman front and center and treat her this way? why so much focus on het ships?

i think they’re all being screwed over, including macy, when it comes to romance. like, i’m personally enjoying her moments with julian right now, because it feels natural with them. she feels more natural and happy around him. she’s found someone who speaks her language, and it’s just beautifully sad because galvin was that person for her. i shipped her with galvin, by the way. i just don’t trust the writers when it comes to macy’s happiness, or julian, so i’m setting myself up for disappointment, and i know it. when it comes to mel though, romance wise, i feel like because she had two big love interests in season 1, and then they dropped that in season 2, i feel like the writers don’t know what to give her in the romance department now. it’s more than that though because with mel, it feels like they’re falling flat on giving her more of anything. she kinda feels like she’s just tagging along in the show. but again that’s why my major disappointment with season 2 is the lack of charmed ones, and their moments together. she deserves so much better as a main character, plot wise, and romance wise. i do agree on the too much focus on het ships. i want more charmed ones and less romance in general. not have it completely taken away, but the charmed ones should come first, and then each of their personal love lives.

lastly (and i know it’s a lot of messages i just wanted to explain my stance more in depth i guess, and i hope it doesn’t come across like saying i’m right and you’re wrong, those are only my opinions as someone who dearly loved the original charmed and its characters and also enjoys the reboot but takes some issue with the way they take “inspiration” from the orginal at times) but i think it’s telling that people hate/disagree with abigael and her methods but would love them if she was a man

you’re always welcome to leave me a lot of messages, i don’t mind them. i understand wanting to make sure your point was gotten right. we’re not gonna agree 100% about a show and that’s okay. as long as we’re civil, and can agree to disagree. also, i’ve loved abigael since her introduction. me being tired of her still having parker locked up is about my love for the parker character. it doesn’t make me hate her in anyway. i like her arc about wanting to be the overlord and trying to prove herself. honestly, my only dig at abigael, and it’s more to the writers again, it’s her involvement with harry/hacy. i already don’t enjoy hacy, but the drama with involving abigael is again taking up too much screen time from the sisters. that whole mess is just annoying and boring to me. i want harry to go back to being the big brother of the charmed ones, involved in helping them save people, not coming between any girls, or taking up the sisters screen time with relationship drama. i just don’t like it.