Did anyone else connect their recent season finally involving the "Avatars" with Cards "Worthing Saga"
or am I just strange in that particular way.
Posted by blacwolve (Member # 2972) on :
I'd say you're strange. But I haven't been watching every episode, so I am missing stuff.
Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
Charmed is the most thievery show of all. I watched one recently that was based plot point by plot point on the terrible eighties fantasy movie LadyHawke. Except no synthesizer music, thank GOD.
Posted by Risuena (Member # 2924) on :
quote: terrible eighties fantasy movie LadyHawke.
Hey! I love that movie!
Ok - I love it mostly because I saw it during my formative years and it's nice and nostalgic and all the rot for me...
I do agree about the music, though...
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
quote: Hey! I love that movie!
So do I! I just added it to my DVD queue yesterday, in fact. I haven't seen it in ages.
Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
It was not a direct theft.
The girl turned into the wolf on charmed, not the guy...
and the guy turned into an owl, not a hawk...
so there!
ok, otherwise pure theft.
Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
Oh, I admit, I liked the movie for its pure campiness and inclusion of Matthew Broderick. (had huge Broderick crush in my younger years.) But man... The cheesiness. The music!
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
quote:Did anyone else connect their recent season finally involving the "Avatars" with Cards "Worthing Saga"
Yes, immediately. But it's not quite a ripoff - they kill those who can't comply with utopia, not modify their minds.
I actually see this as less evil for some reason.
Dagonee
Posted by Theca (Member # 1629) on :
I watched a few minutes and thought of OSC immediately. But, Dag, if they didn't modify minds to some extent, then why didn't the girls feel grief?
Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :
Yeah, I thought of Worthing immediately, too. And I thought the killing made it weaker. Realizing that it was wrong even in the absence of killing would be a deeper and more powerful message. But it would also perhaps require more thought than most Charmed watchers are used to, or at least than the producers/writers of the show expect of them.
--Pop
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
quote:But, Dag, if they didn't modify minds to some extent, then why didn't the girls feel grief?
I didn't watch enough to pick up on that. I just saw them kill the two people fighting, and the arguments about it right before that.
Posted by Grisha (Member # 6871) on :
I have watched a lot of the old episodes of charmed, but lost track of the new episodes a couple seasons ago, around the time of the whole goddesses thing, i think. The show definately steals ideas, and visuals at least with some regularity it seems, but it is entertaining most of the time.
Posted by Amka (Member # 690) on :
Ladyhawke was a great story, I thought. But it was rendered fairly poorly, and suffered a lot from the synthesizer music and other anachronisms. (like her dress towards the end)
Posted by KarlEd (Member # 571) on :
I liked Ladyhawke and was totally bugged by the Charmed ripoff of it.
I didn't immediately connect the Avatar story line with the Worthing Saga either, and I'm not sure there's a connection there. The idea might have some similarities, but it isn't like it enough (in my mind) to be called a rip-off.
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
I thought they were just going with the Ladyhawke theme, and were going to have a creative resolution, until the whole eclipse thing happened.