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Jun. 13th, 2019 02:22 pm I finished watching New Charmed. It's not as good as Original Charmed, tho? Like, somehow, it feels more white. I mean it's one thing to have an almost entirely white cast of characters, it's another thing to go for diversity points by including as many races as possible - and then pick the whitest possible looking people to represent each of those races. And then never touch on race as an actual issue. Except to include random throwaway lines with afterschool special style The More You Know facts that sound really forced and don't add anything to the scene in question. And also there's a straight white man in charge of them in a supposedly woc driven show. (Although, interestingly, one of the few canonically cis characters out there, even if the way they introduce that is transphobic af.)
Also they completely do not know what a feminist is, or what feminism is, or honestly what 'women's studies' is either because you know these days it's going to be called 'gender and sexuality studies' or 'women's, gender, and sexuality studies' or 'women's and queer studies' or something like that, not just 'women's studies' unless you want a bunch of radfems just doing colonialisms on people??? In which case that type of person absolutely would not be a fan of The Cure.
Anyway leaving aside the Copaganda (which the original was also guilty of) and the Really Terrible Science which I think is to be expected from any and all TV (although I think they lost something by sciencifying the magic, and also, scientists are not Vulcans wtf), most of my problems with the show were artistic rather than about the uncomfortable social space it was written from. Although I don't know which it falls under that the Charmed Ones are basically sexist stereotype characters, and the men in the show got a lot more character development despite being secondary characters. And also that they killed off my favorite character again, although I have to expect that'll happen during the first season of any character I particularly like (two of them, this time, in fact, that I thought were going to be recurring supporting cast).
Like the pacing is just,,, not good,,, and after the first couple of episodes they forgot they needed more than just an A story, and an A story that explicitly built toward the Big Bad from the very beginning no less. Plus everything was concentrated on Magic This and Magic That and didn't really leave room for anyone to have non magic related personal lives which stifled their character development. Also made the story kind of flat because the whole appeal of Charmed is that it's supposed to be A Soap But With Magic. Also they have extremely expository dialogue and also have dramatic reveals about things that not only have we as the audience known for several episodes, but that prior to that scene I thought all the main characters already knew as well???
The point being the bones are good but it's poorly executed so I'm going to rewrite it according the mechanics of Regular Charmed.
Also they completely do not know what a feminist is, or what feminism is, or honestly what 'women's studies' is either because you know these days it's going to be called 'gender and sexuality studies' or 'women's, gender, and sexuality studies' or 'women's and queer studies' or something like that, not just 'women's studies' unless you want a bunch of radfems just doing colonialisms on people??? In which case that type of person absolutely would not be a fan of The Cure.
Anyway leaving aside the Copaganda (which the original was also guilty of) and the Really Terrible Science which I think is to be expected from any and all TV (although I think they lost something by sciencifying the magic, and also, scientists are not Vulcans wtf), most of my problems with the show were artistic rather than about the uncomfortable social space it was written from. Although I don't know which it falls under that the Charmed Ones are basically sexist stereotype characters, and the men in the show got a lot more character development despite being secondary characters. And also that they killed off my favorite character again, although I have to expect that'll happen during the first season of any character I particularly like (two of them, this time, in fact, that I thought were going to be recurring supporting cast).
Like the pacing is just,,, not good,,, and after the first couple of episodes they forgot they needed more than just an A story, and an A story that explicitly built toward the Big Bad from the very beginning no less. Plus everything was concentrated on Magic This and Magic That and didn't really leave room for anyone to have non magic related personal lives which stifled their character development. Also made the story kind of flat because the whole appeal of Charmed is that it's supposed to be A Soap But With Magic. Also they have extremely expository dialogue and also have dramatic reveals about things that not only have we as the audience known for several episodes, but that prior to that scene I thought all the main characters already knew as well???
The point being the bones are good but it's poorly executed so I'm going to rewrite it according the mechanics of Regular Charmed.
