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Post by BettyNewbie on Aug 31, 2020 10:28:05 GMT -5
Found this on YouTube, and I enjoyed it.
It predates Season 2 and only talks about the beginning of the show, but they do a good job of explaining how deeply flawed the reboot was from the get-go. It really feels like something the CW slapped together on the fly, with none of the care and quality that the original had in its first three years.
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Post by Tim on Aug 31, 2020 11:55:56 GMT -5
One of the people that wrote in to them, Amanda Manick, is Amanda from the Charmed Sons!
They nailed the thing that I, and most of us complained about, namely that the reboot was going too darn fast. The comparison of the situations with Paige and Macy really pointed that out. It took several episodes for Paige to move into the Manor. She didn't do it five minutes after meeting Piper and Phoebe.
And the rushed storylines left no time for us to get to know the Vera's like we did the Halliwell's.
Yeah, this couple is pretty spot on.
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Post by BettyNewbie on Aug 31, 2020 13:13:02 GMT -5
One of the people that wrote in to them, Amanda Manick, is Amanda from the Charmed Sons! Didn't even realize that!  Googled her, and she has an Instagram. Apparently, she's a Wiccan, just like these two Youtubers. They nailed the thing that I, and most of us complained about, namely that the reboot was going too darn fast. The comparison of the situations with Paige and Macy really pointed that out. It took several episodes for Paige to move into the Manor. She didn't do it five minutes after meeting Piper and Phoebe. And the rushed storylines left no time for us to get to know the Vera's like we did the Halliwell's.
Yeah, this couple is pretty spot on.
It's the difference between a show that was created organically and a show that was created by committee. With Reboot Charmed, storytelling took a backseat to fulfilling a laundry list of nostalgic callbacks, wokeness, and CW marketing conventions. That's why everything felt so rushed and sloppy. The story was created after the show, not the other way around.  |
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Post by Tim on Aug 31, 2020 17:01:18 GMT -5
Yeah, I've kept in touch with her.
And that is why it failed. As many have said, it's like they rushed right through the Connie era and straight to Kernus. They had barely had time to mourn their mothers death, when we got tossed into a massive story arc which was not clearly thought through. They shoved all these characters in, and didn't know what do with them, so they were simply dropped (hello Nico and Jada), or quickly disposed of (hello Charity, Fiona, and neo-Rex). it was a mess, a unmitigated mess.
Compare that to Season One of the original series. We had time to get to know the sisters. Connie just didn't throw us into a huge arc from the get-go. And while they did have arcs, like Rex and Hannah, said arcs were well planned out and the writers had an idea where they were going. And that arc was six episodes long, and didn't drag on, and on, and ON!
Classic Charmed is the clear winner here.
Sometimes the past is best left in the past.
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Post by Sunday on Aug 31, 2020 20:52:16 GMT -5
So glad, I didn't waste time on it. Classic Charmed will still hold up years from now, I doubt anybody will remember care for the reboot in 10 years.
But The CW really hasn't produced an original female lead show in years, and they still will keep on doing the same old same old, as we've discussed countless times here.
The original had more effort because the sisters were based on Connie and her two sisters, and the writers of the reboot, put little effort into the characters and who they were, and the chemistry wasn't the same. I doubt the reboot writers treated as nothing but a job to make a quick buck.
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Post by Trinity on Aug 31, 2020 20:55:23 GMT -5
Yeah, I've kept in touch with her.
And that is why it failed. As many have said, it's like they rushed right through the Connie era and straight to Kernus. They had barely had time to mourn their mothers death, when we got tossed into a massive story arc which was not clearly thought through. They shoved all these characters in, and didn't know what do with them, so they were simply dropped (hello Nico and Jada), or quickly disposed of (hello Charity, Fiona, and neo-Rex). it was a mess, a unmitigated mess.
Compare that to Season One of the original series. We had time to get to know the sisters. Connie just didn't throw us into a huge arc from the get-go. And while they did have arcs, like Rex and Hannah, said arcs were well planned out and the writers had an idea where they were going. And that arc was six episodes long, and didn't drag on, and on, and ON!
Classic Charmed is the clear winner here.
Sometimes the past is best left in the past.
The mothers death was handled poorly, and also dropping characters left and right, and their LGBT sister has countless relationships and the love interests disappear, that why should fans care about them. It was evident from the first three episodes, it was rushed. I so wished they slowed down. But, oh well, I won't be watching it now, so glad, I gave up on it. Classic Charmed was so much better with how they handled the building of the worlds from the start. |
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Post by BettyNewbie on Aug 31, 2020 21:03:56 GMT -5
A big problem is that they were trying to force a show that was created in 1998 to conform to the TV show conventions of 2018. It wasn't enough to just take the original premise and add diversity. It needed to be a murder mystery. It needed to have a huge ensemble cast. It needed to have a season-long story arc. It needed to have a grim, joyless tone. It needed heavily-handed references to current events.It needed to get CW-ified and turned into Riverdale With Witches.   |
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Post by Tim on Aug 31, 2020 23:20:23 GMT -5
Someone needs to tell the CW that the 90's are over, and they won't be coming back.
Some 90's shows should be left in the 90's. The failure of the new Sabrina show proves that.
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Post by Squad 51 on Sept 3, 2020 9:04:11 GMT -5
Yeah, the same reasons mentioned here are also mine why preferring the old Charmed against the new one. *sighs*
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Post by Tim on Sept 3, 2020 11:03:10 GMT -5
Most of us had high hopes for the reboot.
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Post by Trinity on Sept 3, 2020 21:25:23 GMT -5
Exactly, it failed big time. Really, I would have been happier, if they created a brand new witch show, that has nothing to do with Charmed, than be inspired by it, the way Witches of East End was its own thing, the only nod to Charmed was their manor looked a bit similar but was different.
I really hope in the next decade we get a new witch series, which stars a family of witches. But, I doubt that, but I can hope.
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Post by Dark Avenger on Sept 4, 2020 22:32:37 GMT -5
So glad, I'm not coming back for Season 3, the Classic series still stands, we'll S1-S3.
As Kyle said, give us a new witch series to enjoy. I'd gladly, watch something new and original, that features witches.
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Post by Tim on Sept 4, 2020 23:22:04 GMT -5
I gave the reboot every chance. And I was let down every time.
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Post by Trinity on Sept 5, 2020 6:23:52 GMT -5
You have it a good chance Tim, that is more than most people gave, but I'm sure most regret wasting time on it. I guess, we all had high hopes.
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Post by Tim on Sept 5, 2020 11:08:47 GMT -5
At least the original series had a few good seasons, before everything went to Hell.
The reboot was in Hell from the get-go.
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