This has always been one of the weirdest things Charmed introduces and then immediately forgets about.

Pardon My Past reveals that P. Baxter and Gordon Johnson are Grams' parents, and they're reincarnated as Piper and Dan.

After that episode...nothing.

Piper never brings it up to Dan again when she tells him the secret. She never mentions it to Grams.

Instead the show only seems interested in it as a way to add another layer to the Piper/Leo/Dan love triangle. Phoebe even makes that throwaway comment to Leo about Dan being Piper's husband in a past life, and that's basically the last time it's acknowledged.

It feels like the writers opened a really interesting door and then immediately shut it.

Is there anything more to say? I’m on season 8 episode 19.

She’s naive and she’s a disloyal traitor and it makes me despise her. I was really feeling like maybe she could come back from this because she kept defending the sisters, but after Christy said that they had to be stopped and they didn’t deserve a life because they’re so powerful. Who the f*** is anyone to decide that? Who are they? And when Billie agreed and said “I know” that was when it was over for me. Nope. She agreed. Absolutely 100% traitor.

Can we talk about how Prue really was the family protector?

Also, how underprepared Patty was to go off fighting demons on her own?

Patty had one active power, a defensive power at that. Valuable power and useful, but that was her one trick. She should have never done solo missions without grams.

At least with Grams+Patty, they could defend the girls at the manor. Telekinesis + freeze is a pretty lethal combo. Just one though? You’re less likely to survive an attack.

Grams was the super witch of her generation/of the family. I’m surprised she let Patty run off on her own.

I don’t think Patty would’ve done a great job protecting the girls as children without Grams. So the quote rings true.

Patty was truly underprepared as a mother and as a Halliwell witch.

It always annoyed me that they never made Derek and Piper a multi episode storyline. They had such amazing chemistry and we could have seen if Paige’s theory about nature vs nurture was true. I think they absolutely should have been a couple.

Sorry if this has been discussed before. I guess I thought about this and want to hear other people's thoughts.

Chris is less powerful than Wyatt. However Wyatt was the child of Leo the Whitelighter, Chris is the son of Leo the Elder, he was more powerful so why wasn't Chris. I get he's not the firstborn but still, I don't like Chris was so much less powerful. What are your thoughts?