#charmed rewatch

[withered-rose-with-thorns]

Charmed Rewatch - Extreme Makeover World Edition (7.12)

[90s-kid-sad-adult]

I got it, Mom

[existscutely]

As I grow I'm starting to relize how insane some of the episodes of charmed are. Like what do you mean tere's two seperate m-preg episodes? What do you mean Chris canotically flirts with his AUNT over a theory??

[elliebartlets]

seeing Amy Adams as a small guest star in random tv shows from the 90s/early 00s always gives me whiplash

[chiefnooniensingh]

i never understood why the sisters never saw that Cole was changing, he went from cocky demon to soft human, only to immediately look like hell warmed over after they vanquish the Source

the Source has ridiculous amount of plot armour

[heyhowdyhellohi]

Charmed Season 2 Ep. 2: Morality Bites

I’m convinced that their trip to the future was fully fabricated by the Elders in order to scare the sisters into staying in line.

What did they even do to this guy? Make him get his own dog’s shit on his shoe? And then he became a witch hunter?? Crazy.

Plus in later seasons the sisters fully start hunting down demons instead of waiting for demons to find them. Is that not “punishing the guilty” instead of “protecting the innocent”?

So if that’s not the issue, maybe it’s using their magic to punish mortals specifically? Like the guy with the dog shit and the baseball player Phoebe supposedly murdered. Bc mortals, like witches, have the potential to be either good or evil. Demons are evil by default, so it’s fine to hunt them down?

Anyway, the other aspects of their trip to the future made me think the whole thing was built to scare them into following The Rules. Phoebe has been shown to be prone towards evil (the Woogy, and in other ways which I find problematic), so they show her killing a human being and being executed for it. Prue lets her busy work schedule interfere with her witchly duties, and just last episode was considering giving up their magic entirely. So they show her a life filled with work work work, to drive her back towards her sisters and their bond. And Piper? Divorced from Leo!! Bc relationships between witches and whitelighters are against The Rules, and maybe if the Elders show Piper that it ends badly, she’ll end it now rather than continuing down the current path. They could manipulate her into ending it with Leo, without having to put their foot down and make Leo and Piper’s relationship all the more romantic for being forbidden.

After all, we know that in the real future, Prue is dead. Piper has a son instead of a daughter as her firstborn and Phoebe doesn’t get crazy brain zapping powers.

The final point of evidence is that the sisters didn’t have to say a spell to get back to the future. “They” brought them back after the sisters had “learned their lesson”. I find that highly suspect. The Elders rarely if ever intervene like that again.

By taking so long to introduce themselves to the sisters in a more direct way, they get the sisters to accept all these rules by rote. “no magic for personal gain”, means only use magic when the Elders want you to. “Everything happens for a reason”: eg, random innocents falling into their laps probably sent by the Elders in the first place.

Once “the powers that be” have a face and they’re not this nebulous ethereal concept, it becomes a lot easier to say “Hey! Why would you do that?! That’s stupid!!” Instead of just accepting that there’s “reasons beyond your comprehension”.

So yeah, I think that trip to the future was a complete fabrication.

We also never question what gives the Elders authority over Good on Earth? What gives them authority over the Charmed ones? They literally abandoned them to figure everything out on their own for the first year of their life as witches. Leo barely stepped in, only when it was absolutely dire. Maybe so they’d be relieved and grateful to have a source or wisdom and guidance after so long fending for themselves?

PS. I’m aware the writers were just making shit up as they went. However, ignoring that and interpreting the text as is, I think it’s a reasonable conclusion.

[poteitopotat]

Andy Trudeau you will always have a special place in my heart

[newrcgime]

the primrose empath is truly one of the best episodes of charmed ever shannen doherty's acting was so fucking good, how she didn't win every award possibly like damn!!