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.