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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.
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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!
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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?
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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.
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.
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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.
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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)
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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.
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I thought they were just going with the Ladyhawke theme, and were going to have a creative resolution, until the whole eclipse thing happened.
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