charmed rewatch (s1-s4 premiere) hits-different-as-an-adult takewaways, in threes: $,$,$
- Phoebe's lack of a job s1-s3. granted, fighting the forces of darkness etc, *somebody* needs to be actually learning witchy ways & conveniently Buffy-level "self-defense". But aside from a couple eps addressing it, what was she doing all day every day before going back to school?! Every other episode I found myself going "is she still not working?!" And then once re-enrolled, are her sisters covering her tutition? she's already living off their shared income for groceries etc. Or is a loan in the mix? Wasn't she in debt from NY when she moved home? It's Friends style living, OK, but on a sisters-&-roommates dynamic basis I'm team Pull Your Damn Weight!
- Prue's creative career change. Her photography passion is a total retcon, part of her s3 "cooler" rebrand vs Latin-speaking antiquities/art expert Prue. Change itself aside - it's frustratingly easy. & somehow while Phoebe is still in school & not working. An instant full-time photography job that based on that BMW poses no income changes or challenges? Can't relate. Must be nice. Now that's fantasy.
- The window repairman. I wish we met the stained glass repair expert they must call biweekly - they are probably singlehandedly paying the repairman's mortgage. The house's episodic destruction is comical but at least lampshaded by them referencing this bill after the Banshee episode. Apparently fixing the windows magically is personal gain (though moving things around with magic for attic-cleaning is not?) Nor something your handyman/whitelighter can handle? Yeah this would be the temptation that would break me - I'd be rhyming my way into repaired windows before I'd be writing those fix-it checks.
psychoanalysing 8 y/o me to figure out why I saw this super shady, completely justified and well intentioned man who hates his father and decided I was in love with him
Screenshot redraw of sabo from the new opening :) original and more thoughts below:
I see a lot of redraws of this going around! It’s a rather difficult perspective to wrap one’s head around tho tbh especially since I don’t get much perspective practice lmao
I will forever live in sadness knowing that I tried so hard on the background only for my favorite tower to be almost completely covered up in the final result,,,,,
Like look at that tower on the second to left,,,,,
Anyways I do feel as if I’ve unintentionally made him pointier than I usually draw him but it was a good practice on both the perspective and some quick rendering :) I’m pretty happy with this piece
crazy that the charmed sisters in early seasons are all "can't believe i still live in the halliwell manor... i'm such a loser 😞😞" like why would you move out of that house??
now that i’m rewatching charmed, i remembered that 17 years ago I named my dog piper, after 6 years i wanted to name her son Wyatt but in italian it would have sounded too much like “white” and nobody would have pronounced it correctly so i named him sherlock
in retrospect, I should have stuck with Wyatt, as he is not a brilliant dog but he became powerful and evil 😅
the ninth doctor was so effortlessly funny he just went strutting around the galaxy in his leather duster with his plucky blonde companion insulting people & getting away w it bc he was charming as hell