Alyssa Devenport

So I want to say that I am a die-hard fan of the original Charmed. My mother named me after Alyssa Milano who plays Phoebe in the original and I carried on the tradition by naming my son Wyatt. I also have a triquetra tattoo. I rolled my eyes when I heard of the reboot, but I tried to watch it anyways and give it a fair chance. I got three or four episodes in before I couldn’t take it anymore. The acting was bad, the CGI was awful, and the story line was rushed with very little time to get to know the characters. I really did try but it was difficult to not compare the reboot to the original. When you hear “white-lighter,” you expect him/her to orb- not whatever that spiral, borderline “blinking” thing was. Piper and Leo’s love story was one of the biggest things in the original Charmed. The reboot made the charmed one’s white-lighter twice the eldest’s age which for me made hearing out the romance a big turn-off. There was no Grams, which really disappointed me because the girls growing up without a mother was an aspect I identified with. It didn’t bother me that the charmed ones were Latina or Afro-Latina or that one of them was a lesbian. That was in interesting spin but then I felt that the lesbian sister was a bad representation of lesbians. What also bothered me was that they went to a normal high school (for this generation to relate to) but automatically knew Latin for the spells. No witch training what-so-ever. In the original Charmed, all of the spells were in English. There was also some black goo left behind from demons and that goes against the whole “magic cleans up after itself” to keep it a secret. Possession demons were all of a sudden a dime-a-dozen and that made the demonic world seem smaller than I had experienced in the original. Again, being a fan of the original made me biased. I always wished they would continued Charmed in the same universe, but this reboot really disappointed me. I wanted a new series with the original Charmed Ones involved maybe (either in production or in the show as their characters) or have the original Charmed One’s children pick up where they left off like the end of the original said. I would also have liked to have a completely different family (not the Halliwells) for this new generation to relate to, but still be in the same universe (same rules, demon races, powers, etc.) while making homages time the original Power of Three.