8.22 -- The Rest In One

It's Sunday, and I'm sad. I'm energized, but I'm sad. So with my energy, I decided to finish the rest of Forever Charmed in one post. It'll take away from my fleshed out opinions, but it will make the discussions better because, as we have seen, one comment can bleed into undeliberated discussion that I hadn't expected on my end. Okay, without further delay...

"Hey ring, undeath my sisters."
It was too easy of an action. It lacked the consequences of personal gain, it lacked the consequences of time travel. But let's face it, the first time travel the sisters did way back in season one didn't have any fallout either. Surely, the future would have changed if Nicholas knew in the past that the ring had been unblessed. He would have caused trouble for Patty and Grams in the attic, to which he would have been vanquished. So we know the writers don't think ahead, but they have been admit about person gain. We seen it in season six, especially in the end with Phoebe's stripped powers. We seen it in Styx Feet Under when Piper had to be death for a day. But then again the idea of personal gain has been swept under the carpet like the self-wanting world of Utopia the sisters helped created. There was no fallout there, not for the sisters anyway. And I think there should have been huge consequences for the sisters even if they undid what they helped set in motion. I'm rambling I know. But personal gain consequences should have been administered to Piper since she went back and changed the path that destiny was on, the path that they had set with their past deeds (even thought the Angel of Destiny outright dismissed it). I have to say, though, that the ring had a pretty sweet role. It allowed Coop to actually have some meaning, it gave us great glimpses into the history of the Warren witches and it gave Leo a chance to join in on the fun, which are all great things in my books.

Patty and Victor
I would have loved to have seen more of them over the years. In this episode, like in Cheaper By The Coven, James Read and Finola Hughes played great off of each other's lines, emotions and actions. I loved it. I love them...as a couple. That's how they made me feel, like they were a couple...a couple of what I don't know. A couple of parents, a couple of friends, a couple of soulmates. But let's not dream of what should have been, let's look at what did happen. Never in the world has Finola acted like she did in Forever Charmed. She has always acted the mother role, acted in control. But her performance was completely different. She was a mother yes, but a mother in love...a mother thriving with life. Her lines at the end (the "when one door closes, another one opens") of the episode were more of the Patty we've known in past seasons, but that didn't destroy the image she set in this episode. She will give me tons of things to dream on concerning her life, her love with Victor -- which is one huge plus for the series finale.

It's Not Crying Time
Never has Kaley Cuoco sucked more in her role as Billie Jenkins then her crying scene after vanquishing her sister. It was so forced as well as lacking any real emotion. But oh, ho. I was completely ecstatic that the little witch died, even though the death scene sucked, too. Her death had no action. There was no fight, no real interaction among the five character...action or emotion. I was hoping for more fireballs, fireball dodging, some orbing, some fireball freezing, some shocking levitation on Phoebe's end, some projecting fire into ice on Billie's end, something more than a telekinetic flick. I know the Charmed budget is low, but Brad should have given us something. He could have killed off Dumain in Kill Billie, Vol. 2 to give us a little more magical attack -- a little more P3 attack, after all the show is about Phoebe, Piper and Paige...it is about magic. But it's not crying time, so I'll move on.

Their Futures In Color
In short, I'd like to say that this is the best part in my opinion. As I already stated, the scenes at the end of Forever Charmed gave me a hope, a feeling of continuality. It delivered a calm clearness that the Warren witches's lives continued. That their legacy and heritage has bloomed year after year. That the world is still protected by the blood of Piper, Phoebe and Paige. That the sisters ended up with a life that satisfied them, a life that was just as Charmed out side of magic.

Posters, use my remarks, my opinions to generate discuss...to bounce off ideas. How do you feel about the ring? Do you think it was a splendid idea? How did you feel about Leo riding passenger to Piper? Was Patty and Victor as great in your opinion? How do you rate Billie's crying or Christy's death? What were your ideas about what should have happened during Christy's death scene? And finally, how did you like the scenes of how the sisters's lives progressed?