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.
Are you kidding me about the "cousins" running P3 and doing the gossip column? Cuz that's...bad!
The show wasn't too bad around the season that they introduced the magic school, but after that, they haven't even been trying to keep the internal logic of the show straight. That's the single thing that bothers me most - if you can't keep your own myth straight, wtf?
These are writers that thought imitating a Popeye villain for a season opening two-parter was a good idea. Keeping their own myth straight is a rather lofty goal in light of that.
Matt, you're talking about "A Witch's Tale." And yeah, the costumes in that one were dumb -- they usually are. But the story wasn't without emotional impact (okay, so I'm a sucker for Phoebe/Cole), and I don't think a Sea Hag is intrinsically a goofier villain than a master vampire.
Unfortunately, it is true that the show can't keep its own freaking myth straight. I'm pretty sure they just make it up as they go along. Which may have something to do with why it isn't taken seriously, actually.
Are you kidding me about the "cousins" running P3 and doing the gossip column? Cuz that's...bad!
I wish I was. (And it's advice, not gossip, not that I'm sure Phoebe knows the difference.) I read it on the spoilers thread on TWoP last month.
Oh about this from the Lost spoilers:
Also, Lindelof says that the mystery surrounding the crash of Oceanic Flight 815 - which was originally going to be solved in a minimovie on the first-season DVD - will be resolved this season. "By the finale of Season 2," he says, "you will know why the plane crashed."
Didn't they promise that regarding the finale of Season ONE?!?
