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Charmed - The Final Season (Season 8)
Actors : Alyssa Milano, Holly Marie Combs, Rose McGowan
Studio : WB Television Network, The
by WB Television Network, The
Brand : Paramount
Release Date : 2007-09-11
Publisher : WB Television Network, The
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 6
EAN : 0097361225241
UPC : 097361225241
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 112 reviews)
List Price : $38.99
Our Price : $20.65
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Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 02/05/2008 |
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Americancivilwar.com |
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Season eight of Charmed brings the story of the Halliwell sisters to a satisfying conclusion, but not without a lot of bumps on the road for the witchy trio. The season begins with Paige (Rose McGowan), Piper (Holly Marie Combs), and Phoebe (Alyssa Milano)--exhausted after years of magical responsibility for protecting the mortal world and fighting off demons--pretending to be dead and hiding behind new appearances. (The characters, when seen in mirrored reflections or through the eyes of others, are played by different actresses.) The gambit works smoothly for awhile, until each of the sisters begins missing aspects of her old life and feeling a sense of responsibility for protecting the innocent. Meanwhile, a gaggle of restless, young demons suspect that the Halliwells aren’t really dead at all, and are out to prove it. While fending off new demonic plots to take over the sisters’ San Francisco home and seize control of a school of magic, Piper and Phoebe’s father, Victor (James Read), takes care of Piper and Leo’s kids at the near cost of his own life. Also, Phoebe falls for a sculptor (Jason Lewis) early in the season and Cupid (Victor Webster) himself later on; Paige considers a career in law enforcement; and a newcomer arrives on the scene: Billie (Kaley Cuoco), a young witch with a flashy, Buffy-like style as demon-slayer. Billie’s story provides a narrative backbone to Charmed: The Final Season. Powerful but untutored, Billie reluctantly becomes a protégé of Paige, learning the ropes of witchcraft just as Paige did a couple of seasons back. The problem is that Billie makes a well-intentioned mess of a number of situations (at one point, she draws the attention of a Homeland Security agent to her powers), and then goes rogue when her long-lost sister shows up and turns Billie against the Halliwells. The latter half of the season slowly draws to a showdown between the two sets of siblings, but as always, there are lot of storylines with plenty of other issues and action to worry about. Longtime Charmed fans will certainly enjoy the series finale, an imaginative, time-travel tale in which some of the main characters meet different versions of themselves, and we all get a peek into what the future holds in store for the Halliwells as individual women. --Tom Keogh The Power of Three on DVD 
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Charmed Season 8 Review |
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I was really disappointed that the intro song was replaced with the guitar riff, although I understand it's due to licensing issues. Probably not the strongest of the seasons, but I do enjoy the play on the idea of the apprentice turning against the teacher. Still fun to watch, and the series finale is quite satisfying. |
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THIS ITEM ARRIVED JUST AS PROMISED AND SHIPPING WAS SUPER FAST ! \THERE WAS AN AMPLE SUPPLY OF CHOICES AND THE ITEM WAS REVIEWED PREVIOUSLY WHICH MADE THE TRANSACTION CHOICE MUCH EASIER. |
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Jumped the Shark with Billie and Christie |
Great series that I still enjoy from time to time on TNT, except for the final season. While I understand the writers wanting to move the sisters into more of an advisory role to new witches and whitelighters after years of kicking demon butt themselves, the addition of the whining Billie and her snarky sister definitely jumped the shark for me. Boring and repetitive, the writers seemed to forget the history of their own show. For example, in previous seasons they drum into our heads that Wyatt, the heir of Excalibur, is the "ultimate power" and then suddenly they declare that Billie is. What??? Not to mention the "give her the benefit of the doubt" treatment of Christie, even though the Charmed Ones knew that firestarters are trained from a young age to be bodyguards for the Source (Season 4 "Lost and Bound".) Knowing that Christie was in the hands of evil for over ten years, it made no sense at all that the sisters would ignor her until things got critical.
Anyway, great series except for the last season. |
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Season 7 was the true finale, this is just for the younger fans... |
I was never into this show when it first came on the air back in 1998. I was starting my second year at college and living in the dorms and there were too many distrations to ever find time to sit and watch TV. I got into a bad car accident last year and was hospitalized for a couple months. I had nothing to do except lie in a bed and watch TV all day. Because TNT plays 4 hours of this show during the week and it was the only thing that really caught my fancy during the dull days, I watched it at some point in the cycle when Paige was part of the cast. Well, when I got back home, I went ahead and bought season one and started the long journey throughout the winter of 2007 to today and watched all 8 seasons. Having done that, here is my evaluation of the final season.
I think that most of the older adult fans of this show that probably got into the characters more than the witchcraft probably will agree with me here by saying that season 7 should have been their last. Although it did have a couple of bland moments, it ended the show on a unique, original, and one-of-a-kind way that did it real justice.
This season seems more of an after-thought. The Americancivilwar.com review goes in pretty accurate detail about its major plotlines so I'll only mention a couple tidbits for the hardcore, older fans. The biggest problem with this season is that it was still stuck in the old good vs evil storyline that kept Piper busy while she worked as a chef at Quake! I had to say it was quite tedious and boring to watch. The writers of the show were really fresh out of ideas by this point because they had already done everything. They had vanquished the Source of all evil once before and so their boogeyman of the season was vaguely called "The Ultimate Power." At least season 7 offered them the chance to move away from this idea and live in a utopian world. This season, I just wished my DVD player could play audio at 2X speed so I could just watch about 20 minutes of everyone talking in chipmunk voices. The real thing I wanted to see on each episode was what the conclusion was going to be like. At this point in the game, everything was pretty much over anyway and I just kind of wanted to rush to it. Very quickly I'll mention everyone's highlights.
Pheobe's most intriguing moment came on the episode "The Jung and the Restless" where she's trapped in a dreamstate and made to pursue her true desires. We're flashed back into her office at the Bay Mirror only to see the place crawling with toddlers and little children. It certainly showed that Alyssa Milano was going through some serious baby pangs in her life at that time and kind of gave a glimpse into the darker elements to female sexual desire.
Piper's best moment was the episode where she was with Leo sitting down at a pre-school drama being performed by her son, Wyatt, with Leo recording the show. It was really a sweet, carefree moment, and I would have liked to see their relationship explored more since it was the centerpiece of the show since way back in the first season. But, I guess the writers felt they could not escape from the forumla this late and everything was vastly overlooked.
Paige's story reached it's conclusion in another marriage at the Halliwell manor. In this marriage, she weds a parole officer at the same precinct that Prue's old beau, Andy, worked at. Daryl, however, isn't in this season. It was a small treat to see everything kind of wind down full circle this way, and although the marriage was kind of dull and not worth seeing, the hidden references to the faithful were a welcome treat.
This season ends with an elderly Piper going upstairs with Leo and a young girl, presumably their granddaughter, thumbing through the Book of Shadows on the living room couch. Just then, another group of kids rush inside the manor leaving the door open behind them. The camera closes in on the girl who simply waves her hand and it shows the door shutting outside, magically, as it pans away just like the last episode of the first season. Although it could be a nice moment, the older fans will only like it because of all the great things that happened 8 years before.
To wrap up, it's more of a Coda than anything else. The symphony is over; this is just exit music and watching it all really becomes a chore. The ending of the 7th season left everything open-ended and that's how I'll remember everything finishing. Whatever happens after that, I can just imagine it in my head better than the crap the writers made the sisters go through here. |
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Finding the seasons on DVD was not hard. I liked the ease of it. The season arrived in a timely manner and was not damaged in shipping. I was really happy with this sale. |
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