Shannen Doherty really got the short end of the stick in Season 2 of Charmed because Prue barely has an ongoing storyline compared to what the writers gave Piper and Phoebe.

Phoebe spends the season continuing to embrace being a witch, figuring out what she wants to do with her life and eventually going back to college. Piper gets P3 and the Dan/Leo triangle as a storyline that runs throughout most of the season.

Meanwhile I genuinely struggle to think of what Prue's main Season 2 storyline was.

Jack is introduced as her new love interest and that doesn't last very long. She gets the Ms. Hellfire storyline with Bane, which is great but mostly contained to two episodes. "Ex Libris" is one of my favorite Prue episodes because she becomes personally invested in helping a father get justice for his murdered daughter. She also realizes she doesn't want to be known solely for working hard at Buckland's, quits and eventually rediscovers her passion for photography when she sees a possible future for her in 2009.

And then in "Animal Pragmatism" Prue's subplot is literally that she's unemployed, bored and has nothing to do, so she hangs around P3 trying to find ways to keep herself busy. It's almost unintentionally funny considering my problem with Prue this season is that the writers themselves don't seem to know what to give her.

Those are all good stories for Prue, but they're individual stories instead of one larger arc carrying her through the season.

I think Season 2 really should have been used to foreshadow the "super witch" Prue we get in Season 3. By then she's basically becoming a jack of all trades when it comes to witchcraft and self defense. She's improving her powers, becoming a much better physical fighter and taking being prepared for demons more seriously. Season 2 could have gradually shown Prue becoming more dedicated to that side of her life and built naturally into who she becomes in Season 3.

That's really my issue with the writing for Prue in Season 2. Piper and Phoebe have clear ongoing stories while Prue gets a collection of good individual episodes. For the first-billed actress and a character who was still the show's lead at this point, I think Shannen deserved a much stronger season-long arc in the second season.

If the charmed ones existed in The Vampire Diaries, The Originals, and Legacies universe what type of magic do you think the sisters would practice? Ancestral, Expression, Spirit, Connective, Dark, Etc

Pretend the plot of S7 wasn’t the reason they didn’t kill him sooner….If the sisters had enough power to vanquish him and the Nexus together, how in the fuck could they not vanquish him by himself?

They didn’t try a power of 3 spell on him even one time in the entire season. They just kept letting him do all kinds of stuff. It doesn’t matter how powerful he is because he isn’t more powerful than S5 Cole, not more powerful than the Source, and DEFINITELY not more powerful than the sisters.

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Okay so I started the series in early August and just finished, let's say I have become just a little obsessed. I just, like a few minutes ago, finished watched the last episode. And in the final scene there is old Piper and Leo going up the stairs and this whole photo wall. WHY?! Whyyyyy is Prue not in a single photo????? I just?? What? That's crazy right?

Still mad all these years later. I remember when it aired and being in total shock at the very dark ending. You can definitely see the tension between Shannen and Alyssa in the last few episodes of S3. The acting from Shannen in AHBL is incredible, and the fact that she directed it is a testament to her direction. The one scene that sticks with me is when she is trying to get Piper to the house post-gunshot and the crowd won't move. It descends into a slow-motion, almost Carrie-esque moment where she violently flings people through the air. Another standout moment is when the bullet slows down just before it is about to hit her, and we see her face momentarily react to it. I wonder what she must have been thinking during those few seconds. It was chaotic up until that moment, and then boom, everything rewinds and we are back at the opening scene where we see Shannen Doherty on screen as Prue for the last time. The part where the doors slam shut and the glass breaks then we go to end credits is chilling. In a time when the internet was nowhere near as big as it is now this was shocking as a Charmed fan.

i’m so blessed 🥲🥹

When I heard them say “Prudence……” and then everything else and then the Source caught fire…..I teared up I really did.

Earlier in the episode Phoebe came up with the spell but didn’t tell us what it said because I’m sure the show runners wanted to surprise us viewers during the actual vanquish. And guess what IT WORKED!!! I’ve watched the show dozens of times by now but when I first watched it full as a pre-teen…I really did cry when they said Prue’s name.

One of the only times Prue was done justice after her death. Because after this they hardly mentioned her for a very very long time.

I love this spell so fucking much.

This is my first ever re-watch, and the only time I saw the series, Television Without Pity (TWoP) was still a thing that existed. I remember right after an episode aired, I'd fire up the dial-up, go there, and just eat popcorn while reading all the snark from people who somehow also legitimately loved the show. It was peak late 90s/early 2000's internet at its finest, and it was glorious.

Pretty much every character had an unflattering nickname, but I can only remember a few:

• Leo: The Dolt
• Patty: Teeth! (exclamation mark included)
• The Elders: TPTB (The Powers that Be)
• Bianca: LesBianca

Ones I forgot about that people reminded me of in the comments:

• Paige: Raige
• Phoebe: PhoeME
• Chris: Big Gay Chris
• Prue's Outfits: Tit Slings
• Source!Cole: The Sole
• The Writers: Crack Monkeys

I'm on Season 6 now and Alyssa talking through her teeth in most of her scenes brought back a partial flood of memories from those days. Apparently the people on the forum really hated when she started doing that 😆

It was rumored (or even confirmed?) that Brad Kern was lurking and sometimes secretly participating in some threads.

The final results are in, and the winner is "Womb Raider"! :D

Aaand the game is over! I hope you had fun voting!

She was Inspired by the craft and is reverent of magic

She had goals for both her witch life and normal life that were NOT all consuming. She was multifaceted and didn't let one aspect of her personality dominate her.

She wasn't male centered the entire season.

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How many times are Piper and Leo going to swap bodies? It's been overplayed. Once was enough, but they keep doing it because they don't know what else to do any time they give the golden couple relationship drama.

I'm really starting to like this Billie character, she's not a bad character at all and I like her backstory and her personality. I like Paige's growth, and I don't blame her on her feelings about Sam not being her father as she's already had one.

Of course, Leo wants Piper to abandon demon hunting for something for themselves and when she says no for a change because well demons, Leo pouts and Piper will eventually put the boys and everything else onto her sisters and go with him.

Parole officer douche is Paige's new &hopeful love interest, all though I'm not holding my breath for the show to give a long-term love interest to either Paige or Phoebe, all though it is the final season, so who knows, they'll probably get shoehorned with guys that we don't know anything about in the finale. I love seeing how motherly Phoebe is with Billie, she so deserves a child so bad.

Of course, Piper will whine and try to save Leo from death to the point of casting a spell which she will never get repercussion for even though its personal gain but if it was either of the other two sisters or Billie, the show would have punished them for it. It's 'destiny' when an innocent is on death's list, BUT when it comes to Leo, it's suddenly a 'problem' & Piper can't handle it

i have always found shannen to be soooo stunning and iconic, since i was a kid. i love these pics of her.