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Charmed 2.0 anon again: if they sacrificed the magic for sisterly bonds i wouldnt mind(@ least for the season) because then we could learn more about them, see macy x mel finally hash it out and come out close, have all 3 have sisterly bonds and familial story lines and have family centred epsiodes… im crying thinking about it lmao. in terms of magic, i wanna see folklore, spells, otherworlds, mythical creatures! idk it feels so low stakes and lame and i hate that bc i love the actresses :( 1

charmed 2.0 p2: and i see the potential. i love the magicians but i get that all shows cant be that but to me thats golden standard! also imagine THE SERVE it would have been if they actually explored macy x abi?? esp w macy relating to her being half demon as well? but we all know having 2 gays (esp gay woc) is a pipe dream.. but the convos between mel and macy about that? also jada should have stayed and mel becoming a potion master? #iwannaseeitnowpls. anyway. imma still watch though lol 

I would gladly sacrifice magic if they wanted to spend more time on the sisters but instead we just got a half-baked search for new magic. It’s not as if what they have now is cooler, it’s not as if they explored what the changes in powers meant to them, how the loss of the old ones affected them, it was just the new writers getting rid of the old show so they can have their command room and make fun of safe spaces.

It does feel low stakes, it’s all just so random and new, and because we know how easily they severed everything from before, we have no reason to not believe they’ll do the same again. Why does it matter where they live? Apparently it doesn’t.

Hah, Macy and Abigael, their first meeting was so interesting and even aside from the sparks between them, they wrote Abigael as an ally and then didn’t just drop that because she was tricking them, I guess that was fun for an ep, but then made them both fight over Harry. But yes, I could never expect this show to go with TWO queer main sisters. God, though, you’re right, the way Mel and Macy could have talked about it, I’ve always wanted two super main characters to be queer, so we can get the kind of thing that Station 19 just did, with a nod to the fact that there are multiple people going through their own journeys but they still have shared experiences too. If I was out and knew another out gay person in my own group, the things we’d talk about! 

But fine, they weren’t going to go there. Then why not set up Mel and Abigael from the start?? They’ve barely interacted, even on the missions they went on together! I mean, I’m behind by a few eps still and clearly now they’re adding more but why’d it take that time? Like throwing together the spares. 

Honestly, I’ve been trying to catch up but it just makes me so angry, the amount of interiority and depth they allow Harry, how much of a journey he gets, that none of the other sisters do, especially not Mel. Most of Macy’s story is just about Hacy, and Maggie’s is about her guys. The show has become such a disappointment. 

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Hi, so I started watching Station 19 due to your gifs and I really like it so far. I realize that I’m probably in the minority, but I liked Jack and Maya when they were together. I didn’t think they would last longer than they did, but for me it made sense that they would have gotten together. Both of them had trauma in their upbringing that each helped the other get through. Maya was taught to keep moving forward no matter the carnage she leaves behind and all that mattered was winning. 1/

And Jack had experienced abandonment throughout his entire life and thus had learned to figure it all out on his own. Maya came in and showed him that he didn’t have to do it on his own and that they were people who had his back. And Jack allowed her to enjoy life and that they were people who wanted to get to know the real her and cared for her. They were what each other needed at the time. However I much prefer her and Carina. 2/

Carina and Maya are good together because Carina isn’t someone Maya has to compete with and possibly hurt. She someone that Maya can enjoy for what it is and close enough to understand the choices Maya makes every day. She doesn’t push and lets Maya decide how fast she wants to take things. which is what she needs. The problem with GA and S19 is that the cast are so incestuous that everyone will inevitably hooks up with each other. Ex. Dean and Vic, Travis and Dixon and Andy and Rob. 3/3

Fair enough, anon, you can like what you like and those reasons do sound good! Jack just rubbed me the wrong way from the start and it never went away, it wasn’t him being problematic or whatever, I just don’t like him much. He does have his moments but for me that’s when it’s something not related to women.

But the Carina and Maya reason does sound good too, lol, one I’ll definitely agree with. Even Maya’s friendship with Andy has suffered because of her competitiveness, Carina offers something so valuable in being an also competent, ambitious professional woman who understands just what Maya’s job and life entail, but being removed enough to not actually be someone Maya feels she has to compete against. Although, like…Maya has to address that. There’s healthy competition and then there’s what her dad instilled in her and is making her think of death as a release from pressure and wrecking her relationships. Who’s to say she won’t think of a reason to compete with Carina anyway, like who’s earning more or gotten the most promotions within a certain amount of time? It’s silly to think like that but that’s what you end up fixating on. 

Though of course she is working on it, she seems to have made more progress within the last few eps than she did in the whole show before. Well, the competitiveness was dormant earlier, but clearly it was always lurking and she knew it was and was almost scared of it. And it’s not that the progress is because of Carina, it’s that the writers are writing the two things together, exploring her more, she’s understanding that her way wasn’t working (the “I’m the truck” breakdown), the panic attack. And Carina’s there to support her and also be someone who’ll stand against her “personal relationships only distract” mentality. I’m so curious to see the next ep, Maya with her mom and Carina both. So many threads meeting!

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My first thought as soon as I saw Niko again was WHY IS HE STILL HERE and then the end of the ep happened and I was like !!!!!!!!!!! How! Did! U! Do! That! And! Nikos! Still! Here! Honestly I wish s2 had just let eve and villanelle go the Bonnie and Clyde route lol

I know! It’s like…some writers subscribe to the vegetables and then dessert model, as if we have to suffer through plot and characters they know we don’t like, before it builds up to something worth it all, but like, who thinks we watch KE for freaking Niko?? Of the original crew of Bill, Elena, and Kenny, they’re all gone! Why. And keeping Eve and Villanelle apart because that has to be saved for later or something, come on.

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Sjukt Oklar-Long ask incoming ! (1/4) Can I be called the Sjukt Oklar anon ? Since I did like 99% your asked about the show ? (and the first one very important ?) You already started gifing the show ! That was actually the scene I was going to ask you to gif!(quite obviously aka best of S2) I’m OBSESSED with this show like it has everything I want in a show. It’s the kind of show that don’t need any headcanons or fanfics because how complete it is. Maybe it’s because of the format also idk…

(2/4) AND it’s so much FUN ! It has all the tropes : the lovers to exes to lovers, the weird but legal kind of teacher-student relationship, college life, some angst, some PINING (S1 mostly), and the DOMESTICITY (S2 was filled with it, love it) !

(¾) Speaking of domesticity, may I request you a gif from episode 2 of the S2 (~8:50min) when Ellen goes back in the apartment ? (love that scene idk why) or maybe the beginning scene from episode 3 ? (Lol the whole sequence was hilarious)

(4/4) Anyway what did you think of S2 ? I think I liked S1 better because of the buildup leading to THE scene episode 6 haha, but like S2 was also really really good ! WATCH ? SJUKT ? OKLAR ! (To clean your soul also for a bit of happiness in those times…) The end.

Hi! Thanks for those asks! Without them I’d probably not have been prompted to post anything for them and that’d have been a pity, they ARE exceptionally cute. It’s genuinely one of those shows where there’s so many good parts I get overwhelmed and can’t pick and just leave it all for later. You’re right, it is so complete, it doesn’t need anything more, it’s this level of focus and light-heartedness and romance where it’s got everything.

Heh, many tropes! “Weird but legal” student-teacher is so accurate, I’m so grateful they met and were a thing before we saw them in school because whew, was that phase awkward. I can’t imagine being in Vera’s shoes, what a nightmare for her. And sure, I’ll add those requests to the list.

I liked s2! But I preferred s1, for the same reason you said, there was a buildup. I do like seeing couples together and all, but there was a kind of upward trajectory in s1? While s2′s was kind of downward and then back up at the end. I much prefer seeing people come together rather than fall apart (even if they do get together again).

And again, if anyone wants to watch, here they are: 

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8Q2uIDpW493VGX3z3p8XVjDL-ytA2Es7

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yes on Charmed 2.0! it was shaky but I thought it found it’s ground in s1. but gooood it’s gone so far downhill. thought we would get like, more magic and some sisterly bonding(will mel and macy ever like talk? find out in episode 100 … maybe??) but it’s all about fucking Harry and sometimes Macy (who is my fave) but only if she’s standing nex tp Harry. who is also too old for her. and god they do nothing with mel. im so frustrated with the show but i continue because i foolishly have hope lol

I knowwww. It’s gonna sound silly but my friend and I used to excitedly gush about this show back in the first season, the things it was doing, the way it centered the sisters, didn’t make fun of them for being angry or hurt, took them seriously. Now it’s just so much more mean-spirited, and obviously the pivot to center on the white dude and the white villain has been extremely off-putting. I like Abigael but not to this extent. I don’t know which writer is in love with Harry but the way the characters constantly have to praise him and make him seem irresistible, uh, ease off. And to make Macy all about him now, like, what about her? And yes, yes, the way they’ve sidelined Mel has been so disappointing. Unless there’s a big change BTS, I don’t see the show going back to how it was, but it’s good to have hope, heh. 

And another anon:

Not the same charmed anon but I need to vent for a second. It does look like they’re moving toward Abigael & Mel being a thing but it’s SO forced. Macy & Abigael have all the chemistry, they just seem so set on putting Macy & Harry together and it’s awful.

Yeah, Macy and Abigael had noticeable sparks, but well, Macy’s a woman, Harry’s a man, it’s just inevitable! Feh. That’s the saddest part, that even in s1, when Gal was around, we KNEW what would happen and then of course they went there. It just hammers in even more how for f/f ships we have to be like, well, friendships, how deep, it’s more than romance, they can’t just write it because the fans want it, while m/f ships will happen no matter what.

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Different anon. I just read your answer about a possible fight between Carina & Maya… I swear IF it’s this, I’m going to lose my shit because I don’t want that Satan & Krista fuck up them. I just don’t want that kind of scene with Marina. Ugh when will we see the new episodes ?! ??

Oh, I just said that to hedge my bets and not raise anyone’s hopes too high, I didn’t actually think it’d be a fight, both because they seemed pretty pumped about it and because we’ve already seen one? In the captain’s office, no less? But you know, if there is one, that only means there’s gonna be a makeup scene, since they seem to still be together at the end of the season, so either way, win-win! 🙂