Thread:StoryGirl83/@comment-24724229-20181229051218/@comment-3452092-20181230015027

Last question first. I am the "Librarian" at a Charmed ProBoards forum (here if you are interested in checking it out or seeing if it is the one you are talking about). My user name there matches the one here.

I'm not actually sure if I finished the third episode or not. I'm mostly sure I started it and I know for sure that I finished the first two, because I have distinct memories of watching them, but it's been a busy month or so and I can't recall if I did end up watching that third one or not. I'm not heard much about what the actresses are saying (though what I've heard isn't great). It was actually the producers that I heard bad things from and that's never good.

Okay, so as to the comics, if you don't want to be spoiled, skip this paragraph. I will try not go into too much detail, but I think in order to address your comment I need to address what appears to be a misconception on your part. Season ten did not bring back Prue. It ruined her return. She was brought back in season nine and considering they are apparently not allowed to use Shannen's likeness, they did a good job of it (I have some art from some of the artists who worked on season nine of Shannen as Prue that look lovely, but they could not use those for the comics). Pat has a tendency to kill off characters. He killed off one of Paul's original characters from season nine (Paul was not happy about this). He also obliterated a character from Charmed that Paul brought back and he essentially had Prue possessed for half of season ten. The absolutely best part of season was the very temporary return of Andy and the best scene was the reveal that Andy was back (at least for a little bit) Darryl's reaction to it. Do not get me wrong, I love some of Pat's work. I have read quite a bit of it due to following the comic book company that put out the two seasons of Charmed and the fact that he was writing for between three and six series every single month. However, I think he was the wrong person to do Charmed and while his work does have some points I really love (Andy, Darryl, Benjamin for the most part) how he handled Prue, Tyler (most of the time), and most especially the character I am not mentioning, really caused some big problems for me.

I actually started watching Charmed in 2006, shortly before the show ended. . . with a DVD set of season three. I watched it in a very bizarre order: 3, 2, 1, 4, 5, 8, 6, 7 or something like that.

P3H2O is good. All Halliwell's Eve is amazing. Heartbreak City is so. . . I just love Phoebe in that episode. She's great. Of course, she frequently was early on. Not that I ever hated her or anything. I just didn't love her as much later on.

Season eight does get a lot of flack and I understand where it comes from. It feels like there is a hostile takeover going on behind the scenes, but I actually like Billie most of the time and Christy is a really interesting character. Taking a step back from all the emotions I read on the forums back then, I can enjoy it. There are a lot of fun moments in it. Really for me the only parts of Charmed that are unbearable are the majority of Barbas's appearances after the second (the Demon of Love from the mirror world was fun, but other than that . . .). It's hard to say how I think of how Pat handled him in season ten (because he does make an appearance there as well . . . and actually, I think most of that issue is probably one of the best issues in Pat's run with Charmed).