CHARMED REVIEWS

Season 6 Reviews:

Valhalley of the Dolls

Forget Me ...Not

Power of Three Blonds 

Loves A Witch

My Three Witches 

Soul Survivor 

Sword in the City 

Little Monsters 

Chris Crossed

 

Past Reviews
Season 5 :

Witch's Tail 

Happily Ever After 

Siren's Song
 
Witches In Tights 

Eyes Have It 
 
Sympathy For The Demon 

A Witch In Time 

Sam I Am  

Y Tu Mummy Tambien
  
Importance of Being Phoebe
 
Centennial Charmed 

House Call

Sand Francisco 
Dreamin
 

The Day Magic Died 

Baby's First Demon 

Lucky Charmed 

Cat House 

Nymphs Wanna Have Fun 

Sense And Sense Ability
 
Necromancing the Stone 

Oh My Goddess



"Witchstock"
By Julie Burk

 

  Although this episode was funny and interesting, because we got to see Grams back when she was young, it lacked the development that Chris Crossed gave us. I love time travel episodes, and the sixties were one my favorite time periods, but this episode was really just a filler. We didn’t find out any more about Chris or about Piper’s baby.

But I really loved seeing Grams again, and seeing what she was like when she was younger, although I had never thought of her as a peace loving hippy. However, seeing Young Grams brought a question to my mind: how old is Grams, exactly? Because if my calculations are right (and it is very possible that they aren’t) Grams was in her forties when the sisters went back to 1975, putting her in her thirties in Witchstock. I think that the time line would have worked a lot better if they had made Patty the hippy, as Prue was born in 1971. I had heard that the episode was originally meant for Patty, and I wish they would have stuck with that. Either that, or make Grams a few years older or set the episode in the 1950s. Time line nitpicks aside, the episode was nice. Fluffy, but nice.

Phoebe

Who besides me saw the trouble that comes with living separately a mile away? Anybody? Oh, so you all did. Hmm...I’m pretty sure that this isn’t a permanent thing, although I have to wonder why Phoebe even moved to Hong Kong in the first place, as she mentioned origami (a Japanese craft, by the way) about three times and Jason once. I thought the writers were going too far with the "Hong Kong" stereotypes: putting Phoebe in a Chinese outfit, having her do origami and quote Chinese proverbs. Seriously, I get that she lives in Hong Kong, you can quit pounding it into my head. I did think that Phoebe looked really cute in her outfit at the beginning. (Not when she went back to the ‘60s though, that was awful.) I also like her hair more, now that it has grown out a little. It suits her. She looks like a little pixie.

Paige

Why exactly won’t Paige use magick in front of Richard? And why doesn’t she want him to use it? I still don’t get it. I understand that she thinks the last time he used magick he went crazy, but as I didn’t see much craziness (he thought his mom died, for goodness sake) it doesn’t make any sense to me. I really liked Paige’s outfit throughout the episode. The subtle clothes suit her well, and even matched the boots. I did resent her remark about the ‘60s being the worst fashion era, as I love the clothes. If she had said the ‘80s, I would have agreed with her. (Ugh, leg warmers and spandex, shudder) I liked the fact that after only a few minutes in the past she was really starting to "dig" the time. "Right on!"

Piper

I have heard a lot of complaints that Holly Marie Combs’ acting wasn’t up to snuff in this episode, but I disagree. I think she was going for "sad and resigned" throughout the episode, as in the last year Piper’s life has really started to, well, to suck. She lost her husband and her two sisters moved out all within the year. How depressing is that?

Although they did a good job of hiding her pregnancy in this episode, much more so than in the past few, I was so distracted by looking for it that I wish they would hurry up and out with it!

I loved her spell to attract the cop when she and Phoebe were in jail. That was one of the better spells I have heard in quite some time. "Trust me mister, she’s my sister!" I liked her delivery on this one.

Leo

Hippy Leo cracked me up. Seriously, when Hippy Leo came on the screen the first time I started laughing so hard I missed what happened next. Although this was a fun alternate Leo, I have a hard time believing he was ever like that. Did you notice that Young Grams seemed to be kind of creeped out by him, too, and sympathized with Paige after Leo hit on her? That was great.

Normal Leo and Chris seem to be really bonding well. Hmm...wonder if this means anything? Guess we’ll have to wait and see. I loved watching Grams lay into Chris about his inexperience. "Are you giving me lip?" Ha! I love Grams!

I don’t even know what to think about Black Panther Darryl - I mean, Luther. It was funny, but I think they could have found a better wig!

I really miss the days when the sisters had real dilemmas when it came to vanquishing evil beings. That blob (I loved how Grams pointed out the ridiculousness of no one in the future naming the thing) seemed pretty unbeatable, then the sisters came in and kind of muttered, "I call upon the power of three" and the slime was gone. They didn’t even have to strain their brains for a real spell. I hope in some future episodes we see some seriously scary demons again, like Shax or The Source. Now THEY were demons. You never saw them slip on a pile of marbles and vanquish themselves.

~Julie

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