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Saturday 9 April 2005, by Anonymous : in fact, a bunch of plotlines came straight out of "Buffy," minus some depth. You’re definitely right there! I’ve seen so many episodes rip off Buffy, but it never seemed right, it didn’t have that same touch. Saturday 9 April 2005, by Anonymous : Buffy had also borrowed stuff from Charmed too.Saturday 9 April 2005, by Anonymous : Yeah, Charmed is a good show. The past 2 seasons, especially last season hasn’t been nearly as good as the first 5 seasons but it’s still a pretty good show. However, I don’t think it should get renewed for another season. The show has gone on long enough.Sunday 10 April 2005, by Anonymous : Buffy has never borrowed from Charmed. Think of 1 think. Even Willow becoming interested in witchcraft happened before charmed even aired. I used to watch charmed when Shannen D was on. It had class then. Rose M is a clown. Alyss can act. She is the only good thing about the show. It has been unwatchable this year. I don’t even know what is going on.Monday 11 April 2005, by Newt : Au contrare - Rose McGowan is an excellent actress! THough she is not Shannen D’s Prue - her character was never meant to be. She is perfectly cast as the semi-rebel/misfit younger sister, and though I was extremely dubious at first - the storyline to work her in as a legitimate sister - combined with Rose M’s wonderful nuances and solid acting truly gave the show its second wind when it easily could have lost it and wound up cancelled after just one season "with the new girl" like so many shows with major cast changes do. Instead, the freshness of her character, some wonderful writing (and I agree the wonderful writing has been severely lacking the past couple seasons) and effort by all the regulars really got me into Charmed where I had been a casual viewer before. My favorite episodes of Paige’s - the one where she goes back to see how she survived the accident that killed her parents, the one where she vanquishes Cole in another reality, and other powerful episodes like the one where Phoebe comes back to good and the 3 vanquish Cole as the Source - great stuff!!! The past 2 seasons seem to have lost the way - focusing way too much on Piper’s babies (am the only person who finds their storylines incredibly boring?), magic school (whatever) and the barely-clothed (sic) excuses to get Phoebe in the "half naked vixen" outfit of the week have taken their toll. Get back to the good ol days where it was 3 feisty young girls dealing with the angst of life while living a supernatural secret life too. It’s that formula that made Buddy so great - but when it goes too far into the "adult" issues (like the children, too many marriage problems, etc) then the core audience (young adults) can’t identify, and the adult adult audience gets too reminded of the dullness of real life and thus it becomes unenjoyable. I figure this will be the last year - but -with the right infusion of energy and a return to great writing and interesting, entertaining story telling, the show COULD go on for another season (or two!) easily. I suppose there’s zero chance of getting Shanne D back for the show’s final episode ala Grams - but woudln’t that be a CHarmtastic send off (and a nice way for Shannen D and Aaron Spelling to show they made up, forgave each other, and can move on professionally and personally while doing the fans a big favor?). Anyway, when Charmed goes - it concludes an absolutely fantastic era of genre television that will sadly probably never be matched again. Buffy, Angel, Charmed (I guess Smallville is still around, but never quite got into it) - it was truly an awe-inspiring era and one that helped me thru those tortorous years to take tge first tepid steps into adulthood...all I can say is, thank goodness for DVD’s! Let’s hope the WB comes to its senses and has either WORTHY spin offs of these shows, and a few reunion movies over the coming years as well. When you get this "close" to such well fleshed out and ultimately "real" tv characters, it’s a shock to lose them - but seeing how they are doing every fw years makes it far more bearable. :-)These comments are an anwser to this article : Commentary : The guilty pleasure of ’Charmed’ (buffy mention) |
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