#charmedgate

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What about the man in the painting?

Charmed association has been haunting me since I can remember, and SVBIGTH unlocked it for me

(I’m not sure even whether it’s a speculation or a headcanon, but I’m finally free 🙌)

find of the face by @fishygeekblog nolangate is from my note to this rb 👆 find of mirrored painting by @amphibiaaccount find of crazy by @bbghostbones find of Creel by @forever-hyperfixating

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Charmedgate p.2 (p.1 here)

This was a very curious immersion, bc okay? this all can be a pure coincidence, but Charmed 2x18 turned out to be very cg coded, I felt thrilled and can’t wait for you to see it 🌚

So, Phoebe has a crush on a movie character, and this time sisters-witches are being hunted by a demon of illusion who can enter movies and bring their characters for life (which he tries to do to kill Charmed in the real world.) His goal is to bring violence to society.

And here’s something in metagate: I felt like it was about us affected by the demon Vecna after the finale + he can use other movies.

They stress that they can’t defeat him the same way they would in the real world (cough the ridiculous fight in ST finale cough), and when they try to do it in his world, two sisters get trapped. The third sister reverses the footage “R” (as resetting time, okay), and then clicks “F” as in “forward” to get her sisters out of the tape.

This buttons also reminded me a lot of the dial…

The movie name is also quite typical, but in cg sounds interesting too: in ST they didn’t kill Vecna before he died (didn’t kill enough), so he lives.

In the end they defeat him kinda by the rules of his world: burning the tape with him inside. For us it brings a logical decision (not that it’s new) that ST characters should not just escape Camazotz but dismantle it fully. And on the upper level it still works the same: Vecna always performed in their minds, so they can’t defeat him in his field. (Meaning that 5x04 can also be an illusion, right.)

I liked also this parallel about music: Billy got used to the way movie world works, so he’s surprised there is no music in a meaningful moment irl. Something about lack of music in s5? Being not enough in this season? Being used wrong?

Bonus points for these two coincidences:

1) I fr don’t even remember another show with the “species” line, so I was pretty surprised to hear it here; 2) Piper and Leo’s date that wasn’t successful because of magic interference: a lot of things in Charmed go off for this reason, and this is kinda a cliche, but a parallel with Rovickie’s Enzo still worked