Amen, Kristen. Someone, I think ita, linked to an article that said Rob Thomas had an alternate ending worked out, in which Duncan was the killer and had been playing his parents the whole time.

Even if that had happened, Duncan would still be boring.

At least, if that had happened, he would have gone far far away.

Big upside.

1) Not for one minute did I ever consider that Duncan would be at the door. He would be the last possible option.

2) Charmed: SJ, if you go to the link, there is discussion that the Charmed Ones will retain the new bodies for several episodes.

Charmed just sounds like it will be a bigger crapfest than usual this season. I need closure, so of course I'll be watching.

Any word on how they are going to deal with the fact that the Charmed ones all took on new bodies at the end of last season?

According to the spoilers I've read, they do the Quantum Leap thing -- we see the same actresses as always, but everyone else sees the new physical body. They're posing as cousins (Jo, Julie and Jenny Bennt -- I might be off on one name, and I forget which is which) and living with Victor in the manor. Because of course no one would be suspicious of *that.*

Charmed just sounds like it will be a bigger crapfest than usual this season. I need closure, so of course I'll be watching.

Me too. Sad, isn't it?

According to the spoilers I've read, they do the Quantun Leap thing -- we see the same actresses as always, but everyone else sees the new physical body. They're posing as cousins (Jo, Julie and Jenny Bennt -- I might be off on one name, and I forget which is which) and living with Victor in the manor. because of course no one would be suspicious of *that.*

So there'll still be three women, one married with two kids, living in the same house and no one would think that's weird. Sigh. Of course, I will be watching too, but I really think they should have called it quits last season. It was actually a pretty good ending.

So there'll still be three women, one married with two kids, living in the same house and no one would think that's weird

And claiming to be related to the Halliwell sisters' father. And apparently Phoebe's cousin-self gets the Pheebster's old job back, and Not!Piper runs P3. It's a totally impenetrable disguise.

Okay so, they've never been *that* bright.

(To be scrupulously fair, they say there was a budget issue that necessitated keeping the manor set. But it's still gonna bug.)

I really think they should have called it quits last season.

Me too. It wasn't a perfect ending, but it would have worked. But I generally don't like long runs anyhow -- I think very, very few shows are watchable past the fifth or sixth season.

(To be scrupulously fair, they say there was a budget issue that necessitated keeping the manor set. But it's still gonna bug.)

They couldn't have redecorated it a bit and claimed it was a new space? I think I could have hand-waved that easier.

Me too. It wasn't a perfect ending, but it would have worked. But I generally don't like long runs anyhow -- I think very, very few shows are watchable past the fifth or sixth season.

What season is this going to be for Charmed?

Ninth, I believe. But it didn't make it anywhere near the fifth or sixth season before becoming unwatchable.

What season is this going to be for Charmed?

Eighth.

But it didn't make it anywhere near the fifth or sixth season before becoming unwatchable.

I'm not claiming it's a great show, but it's not usually trying to be -- it's trying to be a fun light fantasy, and I think it was pretty good on those terms for several seasons. The sixth season actually wasn't bad.

(I think people would cut it a lot more slack if it had male leads, or the WB promos were less about the jiggle, or both.)

Well I thought it was cheesy good fun back in the third and fourth seasons, but by the time they had Phoebe spend two episodes as a mermaid in a clamshell bikini (with the Sea Witch as the major antagonist, no less!), I was forced to swear off watching regularly.