Post by vandergraafk on Feb 1, 2007 11:32:26 GMT -5
Continuing the spate of disconnected, modular episodes, The Truth is Out There and It Hurts represents a twist for Charmed. For the first time, we have time travel as a topic, one that Charmed will revisit again and again and again. Next, Prue becomes the first Charmed One to have to face the truth. Will the mortal she is in love with - Andy - be open towards and accepting of wicca? Or, will Andy blanche at the possibility and flee as quickly as he can? Again, this is a topic that Charmed will revisit repeatedly over the seasons.
Prue cannot allow herself the risks that revealing herself to Andy will pose. She fears that he will not accept Prue as she truly is: a powerful witch. Prue, too, had been in that position not long ago. Initially, she had wished to reject the possibility that she was a powerful witch, descendant of a long line of female witches and one of the Charmed Ones, protectors of the Innocent. Almost grudgingly, but with increasing enthusiasm, Prue embraced her new found nature and became the leader of the Charmed Ones. Perhaps Andy, too, could accept and eventually embrace Prue as a witch. Still, Prue was reluctant to walk this path. Rejection was an equally likely outcome, even if she and Andy had been friends since childhood and had already had a brief high school romance.
Phoebe, of course, had a way out of this dilemma. In the Book of Shadows there was a truth spell, one that could be invoked for a brief period of time and would compel any and everyone who came in contact with the person or persons invoking the spell to tell the truth. Phoebe urged Prue to embrace the spell, even if it meant using magic for personal gain. Prue, ever wary of Phoebe's efforts to bend, stretch and extend magic for her own pleasure, initially rejected Phoebe's suggestion. But, the pressure to come clean with Andy persuaded her that casting the truth spell was the path of least resistance.
While this drama is unfolding, Phoebe has had a premonition that a strange creature, a demon perhaps with a deadly third eye, would kill an unknown female innocent. Phoebe's premonition seemed all the more ominous when the first victim shows up in the parking structure near the cinema where the sisters had spent the evening and where Phoebe had her premonition.
Prue cannot allow herself the risks that revealing herself to Andy will pose. She fears that he will not accept Prue as she truly is: a powerful witch. Prue, too, had been in that position not long ago. Initially, she had wished to reject the possibility that she was a powerful witch, descendant of a long line of female witches and one of the Charmed Ones, protectors of the Innocent. Almost grudgingly, but with increasing enthusiasm, Prue embraced her new found nature and became the leader of the Charmed Ones. Perhaps Andy, too, could accept and eventually embrace Prue as a witch. Still, Prue was reluctant to walk this path. Rejection was an equally likely outcome, even if she and Andy had been friends since childhood and had already had a brief high school romance.
Phoebe, of course, had a way out of this dilemma. In the Book of Shadows there was a truth spell, one that could be invoked for a brief period of time and would compel any and everyone who came in contact with the person or persons invoking the spell to tell the truth. Phoebe urged Prue to embrace the spell, even if it meant using magic for personal gain. Prue, ever wary of Phoebe's efforts to bend, stretch and extend magic for her own pleasure, initially rejected Phoebe's suggestion. But, the pressure to come clean with Andy persuaded her that casting the truth spell was the path of least resistance.
While this drama is unfolding, Phoebe has had a premonition that a strange creature, a demon perhaps with a deadly third eye, would kill an unknown female innocent. Phoebe's premonition seemed all the more ominous when the first victim shows up in the parking structure near the cinema where the sisters had spent the evening and where Phoebe had her premonition.
