Okay, people. I have watched Charmed since the VERY beginning, and have not turned away from it yet, even though Shannon left WAY back in Season 3. Here is my defense:
Also on Charmed they had an episode called Brain Drain, basically piper was made to believe by the Source that she wasn't a witch and that she was in fact in a mental hospital. Sound familiar
And if you would actually look BOTH episodes up, you would see the air dates as followed:
Brain Drain: First aired: 11/8/2001
Normal Again: First aired: 3/12/2002
The biggest example of this was, i believe, Piper's son, rapidly aged in a time travelly way, turning up with a grudge against his parents. How they got away with that Angel/Connor ripoff i will never understand.
Are you, and i'm probably right in thinking you are, talking about the show's 6th season? Because, you have that ALL wrong. Chris came back to save his older brother, Wyatt, from becoming evil. WAY different than the Angel/Conner thing.
Leo: Why do you hate me so much?
Chris: You were always there for everyone else - Mom, Wyatt, half the world, but you were never there for me.
Okay, it seems similar to the Conner/Angel thing, but Chris was never taken to a hell dimension and taught that his father was a murderer. He had a whole different grudge. Sorta like your father leaving your family.
From what i've read they have introduced a new character who just happens to be a blonde teenage girl who just happens to be in high school and it just so happens she kills demons in her spare time ... now where have we heard of a character like that before ...
Okay, Billie, the blonde girl, could have been anyone. She could have been a redhead, a brunette, etc. But, they chose Kaley Cuoco for the role, whose hair happened to be blonde.
The problem i have with Charmed is that it does it so blatently. It makes little or no attempt to hide the fact that it is using ideas previously seen on Buffy or Angel despite the fact that the show is constantly criticised for doing so. It's one thing to take a basic idea and rework it to suit your own characters, that has been done for as long as fiction has been written, but at the very least you should try and make it seem original. That is something Charmed never does.
Besides, Joss using a Charmed episode title as a single line in one of his episodes is a far cry from them copying the plot of an entire season of one of his shows!
Just curious, but how many episodes have you actually watched? Cuz I wanna know which season of Charmed was a rip-off of Buffy, cuz not seeing it.
Which was taken from the manga "Ah My Goddess" I'd suspect.
Actually, I believe it was taken from the common phrase "Oh My God" they just changed it to goddess, to fit the characters.
Yeah it was season 7 polexia. It was called Chaarrmed! Not a very original episode name either!
Okay, you said you do watch charmed. If you had noticed, all episode titles were taken from common phrases or popular movies.
Also Principal Snyder was the wizard in the episode called :we're off to see the wizard" (i think thats it) and also Ben off buffy was the handsome prince in th epsiode when paige bought the prince into their world and the episode when buffy can hear what everyones thinking is similuar to the epsiode primose empath when prue can feel everyones emotions/feelings and starts getting ill (too much emotions) and the canteen lady out of buffy was in this episode and she was the mental ward nurse (weird same sorta episodes with the same actor!) yeah there are sooo many similuar episodes and as someone said above charisma carpenter was the oracle in charmed and cordy in buffy... there are other similuar epidoes just too much too write!!
Okay, I'm going to tell you about these people that are called actors. They read for a role. They land the role. They act the role. They get money. It's their job. J-O-B. They do it to get paid. Hello! Where are you brains?
I totally agree with you about the show being about the charmed ones (power of three) and all they have done is had season 8 all about Billie... and the fact daryll and leo like arent even in it.... so lame...
Okay, here's the only Season 8 dig I'm going to discuss. The budget was cut for this season. This is why Darryl and Leo are out. The Billie plot is to give the girls less time. TV Shows can't just go off and do their own thing without word from the Network. The WB tells them the rules, and they stick to them while making a season.
BUt the people on Charmed dont seem to be as invested in it like everyone who worked on Buffy was. Charmed has major continuity errors and the writers dont really care about the past that much, they just like to write up new rules for ones already made and act as if we arent suppose to notice.
I might not say they arent as "invested", but there are continuity errors. I've noticed that, I ignore them. Except one that really bothered me. It was one about the Source coming back, or something, and Paige says "How did you guys vaquish him last time?" When the ONLY times the Source was vanquished were in season 4. When Paige was there.
The worst rip off of Buffy I have ever seen, is an episode in the last season (I think) an ep where The guardian of Pandora's Box comes into it. Ok listen to this for the mythology of the Guardian of Pandora's Box:
"NINA": Back to the box?
PIPER: Right. Okay. Let me guess. A demon took it.
"NINA": No. But we better find the next Guardian before one does.
PHOEBE: Guardian?
"NINA": Like you, we're chosen beings, part of a magical lineage, one in which
every generation a girl is born, meant to guard Pandora's Box.
I actually could not believe they like completely took the whole idea of Buffy!! I literally stood up from my chair and my mouth dropped open!!
I've heard many story lines in which there is "one girl in every generation" that has some magickal gift. Tru Calling for example.
Now, feel free to debate my defense.
