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Post by vandergraafk on May 3, 2007 17:01:39 GMT -5
It may take Charmed a while to get going, but mid-season Charmed is starting to gain traction. Jenny is gone, Dan is hopefully on the wane and a new character is introduced (Bane Jessup) while an old nemesis resurfaces (Barbas). After the Charmed Ones are attacked by a paid assassin, Ms. Hellfire, they call upon Darryl's assistance to deal with a dead body. Unlike demons and warlocks, vanquished humans don't just disappear. There's a dead body left for all to see. When Darryl realizes that the assassin has been killed by her own bullets, the truth comes out. The Charmed Ones are witches, a fact that Phoebe eagerly endeavors to explain to a frantic Inspector Morris racing to save another witch, M. Steadwell, from an imminently explosive death, pre-arranged by the now deceased Hellfire.
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Post by vandergraafk on Aug 29, 2007 12:50:22 GMT -5
Obviously, this episode is centered around the character of Prue Halliwell who goes quite fashionably undercover to investigate why Ms. Hellfire, an assassin, had a list of 11 names and was systematically killing them off. What she discovers is that there are actually 13 names on the list. P Halliwell stands for all three Charmed Ones. With information from Phoebe and Piper, Prue realizes that the list consists of 13 witches who are to be killed on Friday the 13th to allow Barbas another chance to wreak havoc on the world.
From the perspective of Charmedverse, this episode is interesting in several respects. First, while attending an important staff meeting at Bucklands, whose new management has given its employees an ultimatum: find $100,000 worth of auctionable items or find another job. Prue, under pressure from Bucklands and pressed by Piper to break away from the meeting so that she and Piper can go to Ms. Hellfire's apartment to see what they can learn about this would-be assassin, discovers that she can astrally project, a skill which she will refine in this and subsequent episodes. In addition, while under attack from Ms. Hellfire, Prue exhibits the ability to reverse the momentum of incoming objects: bullets. She reverses their direction and sends them back to Ms. Hellfire who promptly succumbs to her own assassination attempt and leaves another puzzle for an agitated Inspector Morris who in this episode will learn that the Charmed Ones are witches.
We are also introduced to Marcy Steadwell, a wanna-be witch, who runs a hippy-dippy new age store. She is on Ms. Hellfire's list and just barely avoids falling victim to the plastic explosives that demolish her shop. Though Piper acknowledges in this episode that "good witches" don't freeze, she has no difficulty freezing Marcy. So, Marcy may not be a witch; or, she may not be a good witch. If she's not a witch, then why is she on Hellfire's list?
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Post by Reality Bites on Sept 16, 2007 16:16:55 GMT -5
I believe that Phoebe stated in the episode that Marcy is a witch practitioner. A mortal who studies the craft. Charmed has shown us that mortals can learn magical traits such as scrying (c.f. Season 4, Black as Cole) and possibly even spell casting (as Marcy claims Phoebe and Darryl saving her life are a result of her previously cast protection spell). It may be irrelevant whether the unmarried woman is a magical witch or mortal witch, as long as they are a devote practitioner of the craft, they more than qualify as the perfect target for Barbas, the Demon of Fear.
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Post by vandergraafk on Oct 23, 2007 18:00:36 GMT -5
A very good answer to a good question! Thank you!
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