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When I saw that Netflix had gotten their grubby hands on the first season of the Charmed reboot, I was pretty excited to see it. I loved the original Charmed when I was growing up, but let's face it, it was bad. It was all over the place, both in terms of character development and plot. They kept adding weird rules to the magic that often were in contradiction to the previous ones. They loved to have an episode here and there about how evil wasn't inherent, then had whole character arcs dedicated to how it actually IS *coughCOLEcough*. After a while, the show just became a vehicle to showcase the most hideous outfits I had ever seen in my life.
It was BAD.
So, I figured this reboot could only go up from there. How can you possibly do worse than all of the above in addition to a boy-child who turns out to be even more powerful than the super-powered women who were supposed to be the most powerful witches of all time?
I don't know, try tying your protagonists to their chairs while their white lighter comes out in the open right off the bat to exposit everything about the premise of the show about a third through the pilot. Try having said white lighter also summarize each witch's personality as it relates to her powers like an ASSHOLE. Try entirely SKIPPING OVER important character interaction between the unknown elder sister and the two younger to feel one another out and grow to trust each other, so that they can deal with some demon dog that attacked the youngest like we're already halfway through the season and they're used to each of their witchy roles. Except they're not halfway through the season. They're halfway through the PILOT.
I mean, the original Charmed didn't start out with a surprise sister (even if it had one in the fourth season, I know), but it STILL had to have the sisters reacquaint themselves and establish how they felt about each other. And they at least let them have a magical adjustment period longer than TEN FREAKING MINUTES.
Damn, I just can't figure out how they managed to make it WORSE. It's bizarre. It's like the world doesn't DESERVE a good show about the original female superheroes vanquishing evil or something.
Wait...
It was BAD.
So, I figured this reboot could only go up from there. How can you possibly do worse than all of the above in addition to a boy-child who turns out to be even more powerful than the super-powered women who were supposed to be the most powerful witches of all time?
I don't know, try tying your protagonists to their chairs while their white lighter comes out in the open right off the bat to exposit everything about the premise of the show about a third through the pilot. Try having said white lighter also summarize each witch's personality as it relates to her powers like an ASSHOLE. Try entirely SKIPPING OVER important character interaction between the unknown elder sister and the two younger to feel one another out and grow to trust each other, so that they can deal with some demon dog that attacked the youngest like we're already halfway through the season and they're used to each of their witchy roles. Except they're not halfway through the season. They're halfway through the PILOT.
I mean, the original Charmed didn't start out with a surprise sister (even if it had one in the fourth season, I know), but it STILL had to have the sisters reacquaint themselves and establish how they felt about each other. And they at least let them have a magical adjustment period longer than TEN FREAKING MINUTES.
Damn, I just can't figure out how they managed to make it WORSE. It's bizarre. It's like the world doesn't DESERVE a good show about the original female superheroes vanquishing evil or something.
Wait...
