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If dying unbinds powers...


Shouldn't Tyler, the Stillman sisters and any other witch or demons' powers the Charmed Ones binded be reversed considering how many times they've died?

Also wouldn't the deaths of the sisters set free any immortal demons they've trapped? Like the one who had been turned into a tree in the Nymphs episode?

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Can you give me another exmaple of powers being unbinded from death?

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Right now all I can remember is Grams dying unbinded the sisters powers.

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She's right - that's the main one:

Grams: We must keep the girls safe until we can reverse it. I'll have to bind their powers.

Piper: Uh, bind our powers?

Grams: Strip them from the young ones. So Nicholas can't get a hold of them. It doesn't have to be done straight away. As soon as Phoebe's born. I'll cast a spell and suspend, uh, your powers.

Prue: Um, but that's exactly what you did... or do... will do... you know what I mean.

Piper: Well, that explains why we don't remember having our powers when we were younger.

Grams: What do you mean? Well, how old were you when you got your powers back?

Piper: We just got them. Grams: What? I unbound your powers without having unbroken the pact? Why would I do that? I mean unless I died which of course automatically ... unbind your powers. I guess I'm not going to make it to the next millennium, huh?


SOURCE: http://transcripts.foreverdreaming.org/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=4963

So if it happened when Grams died, it should happen when the Charmed Ones died. But in the same way, wouldn't their powers become bound again when they come back to life?

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I got the impression that death breaks the binding magic, so if you're resurrected, you have to redo the whole binding thing all over again. When Grams was resurrected by Piper tapping into unborn Wyatt's powers, she and Phoebe didn't suddenly lose their powers. Even Piper bringing a living Grams from the past and she and Phoebe still retained their powers.

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LoL!! I'm just imagining Tyler walking around accidentally starting fires every other week. Gym class?? Start a fire. Bad dream? Start a fire. Kiss from his crush? Start a fire. But, getting attacked by a demon who SAW him start fires.....nothing. His powers keeping getting rebound every time the Charmed Ones return.

I do have 3 theories as to how to maintain Charmed's already fragile continuity in that department...

1.) As the sister's bindings used the Power of Three, all three sisters must be dead to truly set the magic free
..........Basically speaking, while we see a sister or two die, it's very rare that ALL of them are dead at the same time. Thus, the bindings wouldn't wear-off until the Power of Three itself could no longer exist.

2.) As even a single Charmed One is stronger than a single witch, their binding spells/potions are bit more potent.
..........When even a witch of Gram's level binds a magical being, her death is enough to lift the spell. But, her daughter Patty, the Charmed Ones, and every subsequent witch in the Halliwell/Warren line is presumably stronger (as Melinda Warren didn't set any limits to her prophecy). So, theoretically, ALL their spells would grow stronger than even their intended uses.

Perhaps a Charmed One or potential Charmed One Wyatt, Chris, Prue, Tamora, ect have enough power to bind a magical being and keep them bound for an extended time after death?

3.) All that magic WAS unbinding but rebinding every time the Charmed Ones were resurrected.
..........Like I detailed in my comedic but plausible intro, Tyler, the Stillmans and whoever were getting their magic back. But, only for a time. And possibly even so little time they wouldn't even know they had their powers back. While we know the death of the one who cast the binding spell to be enough to break it, we DO NOT know if a true resurrection is enough to reestablish the spell. I could see this being the case. As the witch's life is restored, so is all her active spells.

Note: TRUE resurrections. Grams has come back many time but was never truly back to life. She was being held to the world with magic. Had she actually come back fully, her binding spell may have returned too.

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LoL!! I'm just imagining Tyler walking around accidentally starting fires every other week. Gym class?? Start a fire. Bad dream? Start a fire. Kiss from his crush? Start a fire. But, getting attacked by a demon who SAW him start fires.....nothing. His powers keeping getting rebound every time the Charmed Ones return.



Lol. Besides Tyler, the Stillman sisters realize their magic is back and try to escape jail only to have their magic taken away again when one of the sisters comes back to life. But that would also mean the Stillman sisters would be aware the Charmed Ones weren't really dead in season 8 or else their powers would've returned permanently.

Besides binding powers, Melinda Warren cursed Matthew Tate and then died, but Matthew still remained trapped. But Prue was able to break Melinda's curse and set the warlock free. So could the binding spells be tied that way also? To Halliwell magic? Even if the Power of Three died and wasn't reconstituted in the next generation, people born from that power still existed and hence the binding spell stays intact as long as Wyatt, Chris and the cousins still lived and don't end up accidentally unbinding powers.







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Hmm... I don't think it works like that though. I'm sure the Charmed Ones being binded was more of a specific binding spell. Because I don't think that every spell that has been said would be undone after you die. That doesn't really make sense. Besides, Tyler drank a potion anyways.

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