#like come on guys no need to fihgt

[kindheartedgummybears]

Bro istg Erin and Jamie are fighting to the death for my number 1 TDiM character like at this point they should just makeout with each other🙄🙄🙄🙄

[phoebehalliwell]

I love to read ur little essays so... tell us more about storylines in the show you would definitely develop more and about those arcs you would definitely cut off. thanks!

well i definitely love to write this lil essays so i’m glad y’all enjoy reading them! also this got really long but isn’t that what always happens?

storylines i would want to see:

i’ve said it before and i’ll say it again, they should have developed phoebe’s murder power on screen (i believe on the wiki it’s called “psychic reflection,” i tend to call it “empathic flood” or, if i’m feel less professional, deep frying someone’s brain). coming off the tails of a season four / season five phoebe in which her worst fear was genuinely being evil at her core and then giving her a power that she knows she has used to kill ooh the struggle in morality would have been so interesting to watch

while i’m on the topic of phoebe: her relationship with coop should have gotten so much more. the show got so bogged down with cole in season five even after they very much established that phoebe wasn’t going to come back to him (granted i did find batshit crazy cole really fun and “y tu mummy tambien” was a great episode for him from a comedic standpoint). i believe i’ve said before that i think the best introduction for coop would actually be in that episode as it very much feature phoebe actively dodging / swearing off love. like, to have him be just like any other cupid out and about in san francisco, see her, try to set her up with someone and she completely blows him off and coop’s never wrong but hey maybe this time he was wrong so he sets phoebe up for love again and she dodges it again and he’s like alright third time’s the charm works all of his lil cupid magic and it Still Doesn’t Work so he actually manifest in front of phoebe like hi hello nice to meet you that guy was perfect Do You Know how much effort i put into getting you this little meet cute and you just Throw It Away??? and to have phoebe completely not be game to his matchmaking antics but he just keeps trying and she just keeps having meet cutes and its now like a thing where her barista writes his number on her napkin and then she goes to drink her latte and coop’s at the table and she’s like no, he’s a libra i don’t do libras and coops like !!!! with obviously it developing into the whole phoebe keeps rejecting every man coop find for her because she now has feelings for him bc he’s the only man who has like every really wanting to know her and wanted her to be truly happy and he is willing to fihgt for her happiness you know the rest (actually you don’t wyatt Does Not show up with his uncle coop nonsense we do forbidden love good and proper)

also in relationship storylines: ideally henry would have more than eleven episodes to meet paige fall in love marry her and start a whole ass family but no such luck

Also In Relationships: chris and bianca. but mainly bianca. they introduced a full new subspecies of witch who are completely amoral and it just never comes up again??? guys????? i don’t care too much to learn about the dark future but i do really want the 411 on chris and bianca’s relationship like was bianca sent to kill him but she made a different call? did they start off allies and then evil wyatt sought her allegiance? who do the rest of the phoenixes stand with in this future? how long were they dating? was it some big moment that made chris want to propose to her? or was it more of a slow burn they had been allies for years and they realized that their movements were so settled into one another that there was no one else chris would ever want to wake up besides like give me details please

storylines that they really shouldn’t have gone with:

this first one is less of a they shouldn’t have gone with it and more of a they should have exercised moderation with paige’s violent pendulum between quitting her job to be superwitch in season five to wanting a life completely separate from magic in season six. there are ways to reason with the characterization but the execution was just sloppy

another bit of a minor Don’t Do That: piper and leo’s broken marriage. i don’t have too much issue with the whole marriage counselling thing i do think that was good even if the episode’s around it weren’t necessarily great i believe it is important to show that in media so that’s not my beef. my beef is that in almost every alternate plane, piper and leo’s relationship failed. past life 1920s? she chose dan over him. future life 2009? they’re divorced. au paige died? that’s an ix-nay on their relationship too. the alternate dark future is really up to interpretation as it’s implied there’s no melinda it’s likely to say things aren’t too hot for them in that timeline too. also the whole avatars plotline but whatever because here’s the thing. if you have a relationship that is like earthshatter moves heaven and hell with your love for one another, which it is state like multiple times that that’s what they have, it shouldn’t fail in every other reality. personally, i think the writers did that because they wanted ~relationship drama~ or whatever but like you can still do that and have their love remain a really core, grounded, pure thing (the courtship of wyatt’s father, vaya con leos)

now for an actual storyline storyline that should have been cut: baby crazy phoebe. need i say more?

but like while we’re on the topic: the avatars? it wasn’t great. they were like a villain, but they weren’t like evil, they also brought in kyle who was also like not a villain but like was evil, it was a bit of a mess. that and the whole debate of free will? i genuinely am not throwing shade but this show isn’t smart enough to be debating what is free will y’know like no one tunes into charmed to contemplate existence itself this isn’t westworld i don’t want to leave an episode questioning my own reality (and also while i’m on the subject the show yammers on about destiny and fate a lot to also take the stance of we all have free will, but like i could talk about the minutia of that for like A While and i don’t want to get into it right now)

oh also billie and christy. i almost forgot to add them bc quite frankly, i forget that plotline a lot. the way billie was written felt like a dollar store buffy and the was christy was written was genuinely too poorly written to even warrant a personality. it’s clear that they wanted new blood to try to do a spin off but it landed so flat man it felt like such an afterthought. the whole idea of an “ultimate power” was also weaksauce