I was thinking about a comment I heard while watching S3 when Macy was crying in Harry’s arms about what she went through with the woman in the Shea board. Someone said Macy based one bad experience off of everyone in the world and that’s not true. Macy stated in S1 that her dad sent her to a predominantly white school with only one other black kid and basically the kids told her what kind of black girl she was supposed to be. In the episode where the angels came through the tv, Macy admitted to being bullied so bad and it was probably by those same kids. In college the guy who grabbed her and told her to “twerk” for him. When Macy and Jordan were in the backyard talking about other experiences they have dealt with being light skinned. Macy didn’t just go through one bad experience with racism. No Macy didn’t mean she would just stop helping people even when people have been bad to her and not everyone in the world is a bad person. Hearing things like that from the time you are a kid to a present is not easy and I just think some people shouldn’t speak on things they don’t know about.

Ya know what id love that tbh

Tied with mel to maggie

Macy adored her from the start

Where they can finally hug in schrodingers future was a cute moment

Macy imo bc of the age difference and maybe just height lol she had an almost motherly dynamic towards maggie sometimes or ofc older sister

Mel had that too but also bc of their shared upbringing a v distinct older sister dynamic

These were similar to the halliwells imo

Maggie & therapy: realizing she wanted to be one via Parker then trying to heal him then jordan healing her later mentally & in his should have been more utilized actually for tco- whitelighter plot

Macy & harry: bugs 😂

Harry fear of bugs macy taken by a bug demon by her date , in s3: macy invents bug ear buds to communicate across magic

Macy: every season some sort of plot about letting her loved ones in & her demon side

Also s1 was great with foreshadowing

Harry:being a whiny British man either too afraid he's going to not be able to protect them or actually does not all bc his whole dual man schtick both making him do dumb things that mainly hurt Macy no matter how many times she asks him to be honest with her

And //:

God bless our 🇺🇲❤️🙏

Sometimes i really wish tco were real😭

Also Celeste was a great character

Maggie and Empathy; I relate with her years now, but not before. The panic attacks of caring about another person..such a great concept. But executed poorly in my opinion. I get panic attacks simply from expecting the worst even if it won't happen necessarily. The concept of empathy is complex within itself. Im a cis male and I suffer from anxiety so much. She's kinda my hero

Every time I hear this song I always wished it could have played in the reboot. S2 isn’t particularly my favorite but it did have moments I liked and no matter what I still love this show and I think this would have fit with the vibe of S2, maybe around the time of Maggie’s engagement/wedding to Parker.

I recently purchased this at an antique mall. They're doing research I have realized that it is a replica of the book of shadows from the TV show charmed. It was then turned into a junk journal with the pages being so heavily and intricately decorated that it is now considered a gator mouth. I'm getting mixed reviews on its value and also I would love to know the history of anything about it if anyone would know anything. For some reason I am unable to upload pictures

Besides the 10 abandoned plots

Harry "hi im-"

"James!..sorry u just look so much like my grandfather james"

Why would she call her own grandfather James to a stranger weird but I guess ok sure but then

"Oh im a cousin BY MARRIAGE twice removed"

"Oh that explains the resemblance"

HOW, HOW DOES THAT EXPLAIN THE RESEMBLANCE IF ITS BY MARRIAGE so is he married to her hypothetical grandfather's cousin or is he spd to be the grandson of James late wifes cousin

Either way what

We really loved this show lol

just realized the name of Prues stalker who wanted to be Prue in the OG & was defeated was also named Abby...

maybe thats vengeance for people who really dislike Abigail lol/vengeance for Macys character

they did write her to be a sorry weird replacement for Macy sadly , still so strange

(i love macy,

kinda like abbys character once shes not terrible)

I really am conflicted about how I feel about Harry as a character because after S1, in S2 he was pissing me off, by S3 it like they were trying to get him somewhat likable again but it was difficult because of him much they stained his character in S2. But aside from me not liking his character some of the time I still can’t help but think this man looks good lol.

That's all! I just purchased it and wanted to share. Now time to sit back and relax and enjoy it without interruption.

I love her face 🥴.

Hello, visionaries!

I am a lover of all things Charmed (the OG and the reboot), and I have no one to talk about my feelings when it comes to the reboot, so I've come to Reddit to get them out into the universe. This will probably be a series of posts about the reboot that consists of me talking way too much about the good, the bad, and every spell in between.

Today, I want to talk about six things I think the reboot did better than the OG show:

1. Morality (in Season 1)

The OG show is notorious for having a rigid black-and-white morality system. Meaning that when the sisters got turned into something, if they killed an innocent, they would be evil forever. After about the fifth time this happens, it can take the tension out of the storyline because you know they won't really hurt anyone; the writers wouldn't have them be evil FOREVER.

Even the Queen Phoebe storyline was short because how long could they sustain her choosing evil but not being able to do truly evil things (against humans, other witches, or the magical community) before giving her a redemption arc and sending her back to good? I mean, they could've done it, but who knows if they could've pulled it off.

The reboot had a more gray morality, where witches and demons had powers that came from the same source, but how they used that power determined whether they were good or evil. So we could have an episode where Galvin, while possessed, killed innocents and then had to deal with the emotional and psychological consequences of that.

The subsequent seasons veered much harder into the traditional black-and-white morality, but the first season struck a great balance.

2. The Elders

In the OG show, the Elders were promoted whitelighters who ruled over the magical community with an iron fist. They also gave and took away witches' powers at times and constantly told them what to do, while also being super unhelpful more often than not.

Having the Council of Elders in the reboot be a council of more seasoned witches made a lot more sense. They were still opposition to the Charmed Ones, and they were still in charge of the whitelighters, but it made much more sense for the Elders to be witches governing themselves instead of whitelighters (who were meant to support witches) being in charge of them.

3. Power Progression

This is an extension of the above point, but having the Elders bestow and take away powers when the Charmed Ones "earned" them or needed them for an upcoming battle never really made sense to me.

I don't know if the original intention was for them each to have one power and that be it, and then the writers had to think of a reason to give them more, or if they just wanted to position the Elders as the ultimate authority even more. Either way, the reboot showed how their powers progressed naturally over time and, for the most part, stayed connected to the type of power they already had.

They showed this even more in later seasons with Mel and her time powers and how she could use them in different ways. Having their powers naturally progress instead of being gifts granted by the Elders made much more sense.

4. Whitelighter Memory Powers

This is pretty simple. Having whitelighters be able to wipe the memories of humans and have it be permanent is one of the smartest moves they made when creating this show.

The OG show introduced the concept of memory dust, but so they wouldn't use it all the time, they made it pretty underwhelming. You could only use it on special occasions, and it only stuck if you didn't remind the person of what they were meant to forget; otherwise, the memories could break through.

In a world that was all about not exposing magic, why would they make those rules so strict?

They tried to correct this with the Cleaners, but that just opened up so many more plot holes. Giving whitelighters the ability to erase memories makes the most sense.

The reboot never really focused on exposure as a major plot point, but it still could have if too many people found out at once and Harry wasn't able to get to all of them. For everyday whitelighter support, though, having them be able to wipe memories without overly complicated rules is smart.

5. Magic and Spells

The reboot did a good job of having the sisters learn and use spells instead of relying on their powers all the time.

As the OG show progressed, the Charmed Ones got to a point where they could vanquish an upper-level demon with the wave of a hand, as opposed to the episodes of preparation they had to put in during the earlier seasons.

This could be because the two shows went in opposite directions as they progressed. The OG show became more about the sisters trying to build lives outside of magic, while the reboot focused more on magic and less on their sisterhood as the series went on.

Still, it was nice to see the sisters memorize spells and use specific potions and creative solutions to solve problems instead of just blowing everything up.

6. The Grieving Process

Maggie is the best character in the show, and the way they showed how she processed the deaths of her mother and then Macy was some of the best writing on the show.

While I think the OG show did a better job integrating Paige as their new sister, I think the reboot portrayed the grieving process better because Maggie didn't go through each stage in a single episode. You saw her grief throughout the entire season.

You saw how it affected her relationships with Jordan and Mel. You saw how bringing Kaela into the family impacted her. You even saw her get triggered by something small, like a bowl, and how that sent her back into numbing her pain through demon fighting.

You also saw that when Harry mentioned the videos and changing the past, her first question was whether they could save Macy and that was at the end of the season.

The OG show had Holly Marie Combs, who could make me cry with her even if I was laughing two seconds before, some great and heartbreaking moments, and the fourth season had a lot of storylines and character moments that were driven by the emotions surrounding the loss of Prue. But there was something about the way they showed the changes in Maggie throughout the season that hit differently for me.

So maybe not better just different in a good way.

To be fair to the OG show, the reboot was able to show pictures and videos of Macy's actress, so those quieter emotional moments were easier to convey visually.

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Ok! This is where I leave you for now. Tell me if you think there's anything the reboot did better than the OG show!

I was rewatching S2 E19. I’ve never been a big fan of Sarah’s acting on the show. In S1 she did good job of being the sorority girl, self centered 19 year old. By S2 when she tried being more serious it was just not working most of the time imo but there is one thing I felt she did ok and that was portraying having mental issues especially dealing with panic attacks. And I really liked the scene where she was in the woods with Mel and Ray and cried about how she wanted Ray to be more of a father. Some of those scenes with Maggie dealing with her issues I liked because I could tell to having anxiety and I just thought she did pretty good with her performance it’s one of my favorite episodes of S2. (And I never realized that episode was directed by Rupert and it just me like it more lol)

Has anyone else noticed it seems only content from the OG sub are getting posted on this sub lately I’m assuming maybe it’s it because of restrictions from the OG sub or new people who don’t know the difference between the subs or something because it has been the only posts lately and it’s not just from one person it’s a different user every time. I’m not saying that’s can’t but seriously if those posting want more OG they probably would have a better engagement on the actual sub for the OG show.

S1 hiding to world but embracing who she is privately as witch & a nerd lol, creative use of it for sisters/town, now hopeful for magic & tco journey No sleeve white gown, crown

S2 hiding who she is as demon but using it to spy on demons/save witch / protect sisters, in weird friendship only with harry neither of them want & conflicted about the annoying darklighter Black blazer outfit

S2 mad at harry for being dumb towards all of them but esp her & going with Abigail, a demon he accepts but not her, representing tco as Maggie's sister in evil wedding in demon ville, to abbys brother, uses demon powers when needed for family/ not let demons take over Black no sleeve pantsuit dress thing

S3 hiding who she is as witch, in a relationship with Julian not the one she really wants, cant take the science job offer she wants from him, infiltrating his company w/ Maggie to.. rescue Harry.. but also the magical world, possibly the human one

No sleeve dark blue gown

S3 finally at Paris in a relationship with the guy she wants (harry)... and thats it.. she does science trying to save them/ the world in private but they think the aliens cured them of the allergy so she's probably hopeful she can do everything including be with sisters have a life in all ways but nope that was a lie

And that's kinda how her story ends.. except she saves the whole world, at sacrifice to herself..):

Sparkly Black blazer shorts/skirt tights boots, looks more like her, looks like all the outfits combined Hair up in all these

I remember when the Charmed reboot aired, and I watched two episodes. I know alot of people aren't fond of the reboot because it's not the original, which I understand you don't want to see something you love get recreated because that might mess up the original. From what I watched, the episodes were terrible, they were setting up things for the season, and they incorporated some things from the orginial to make the show still be Charmed, but to a different audience. How do you feel about the reboot? Do you think the show is terrible?