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What would Prue say if she met Season 8 Piper & Phoebe?


Saw this at another site and had to bring it over here.

The OP wrote:

I always wondered that what would Prue would say to both season 8 Piper & Phoebe if she meet them?

Not only their attitude had completely changed, in terms of their attitude towards magic and becoming witches, to their attitude towards their life. Prue seems to always know what her sisters were thinking and then guiding them to the right path.

So what do you guys think?


A second member replied:

"What happened?"


A third member (me) replied:

I could wish that it would happen something like it does in PCP's fantastically wonderful 'Forever Charmed' rewrite "Forever Sisters". In hers, rather than Piper using Coop's ring to find Patty and Grams, she uses it to find the one she'd *really* want to help her - Prue. And the way Piper brought Patty and Grams to her present, PCP's Piper bring Past Prue to her present.

After an emotional reunion between Prue and Victor and Prue getting to see her nephews, this happens:

<blockquote>Paige and Phoebe stood at the foot of the Book.

“Haven’t we already looked through this thing a hundred times?” Phoebe pushed the issue. “ If we didn’t find something to stop them before, there’s nothing in there now.”

“I’m not giving up that easy. Maybe we missed something before…I’m just trying to come up with something, anything.”

Piper and Prue rushed into the attic.

“We were right. They used Wyatt to get the Hollow.” Piper sounded furious.

“Sweetie. I know you’re angry, but right now we need to focus. And Dad is taking great care of the boys. They’re safe. The sooner we get rid of the demons that used them; they’ll be even safer.” Prue turned to Phoebe and Paige, a clear signal that she was ready to get down to the business of vanquishing. “Have you two come up with a plan?”

Prue noticed Paige winced when she said the word ‘demons’.

Prue glanced towards the girl she thought was just a close friend, an innocent-Paige. “Did I say something wrong?”

Paige shrugged, “ I don’t know. I guess it’s just the word ‘demons’. It kinda hits hard.”

“Isn’t that what they are… Billie and Christy- demons. Not to mention that other guy Piper mentioned and the Triad.”

Phoebe jumped in to explain, “Well, Billie and Christy aren’t exactly demons.”

“Warlocks?”

Both Phoebe and Paige shook their heads, giving Prue a response that screamed no.

“Wait a minute. You’re telling me that we are about to vanquish, VANQUISH humans? You know that qualifies as murder don’t you?” Prue began to rant. She stood in disbelief, shock, and anger that her sisters would allow this to happen. “What are they then?”

“Witches. Half-witches to be exact. Half-human.” Phoebe explained. The tone of her voice trickled with the guilt of knowing her sister was right. They couldn’t murder. Even if the Jenkins had been after them, they couldn’t vanquish them. It would be wrong. Wrong things done for the right reason, were still wrong.

“Exactly like us.” Prue whispered. She thought about Patty and Victor. Then about Patty and Sam. Something clicked in her mind about Paige. Though her eyes lit up, she didn’t say anything. She had to deal with other pressing issues.

It was Piper’s turn to talk. “Making them the Ultimate Innocents, not the Ultimate Evil.”


If only this is what had happened... But I truly wonder if S8 Piper and S8 Phoebe would've truly reacted this way.</blockquote>

A fourth member replied:

Myself personally I think season 1 Prue or season 2 even would be quite shocked really seeing how different her sister's lives have changed in the 6-7 years between them.

She'd be a mixture of upset, frustrated and angry at how little they've come to stop caring about innocents and only fight demons or save people when they want to and not when they should do if Phoebe got a premonition.

Prue wouldn't like how the girls have done the wrong things for the right reasons in certain situations and would be, little them for that reminding them of their Charmed duties.

She'd hate how self-absorbed Piper's become putting her family above the world, how rotten Leo's being treated after giving up his Elder powers becoming human and how whiny and self-complaining she is from the shy nervous girl Piper used to be.

Phoebe would be moaned at for what happened to Cole and not owning up to past mistakes plus all those men she's using for her baby quest thing.

And Paige even though Prue doesn't know her would be shorted out for quitting her social worker job and not standing up to the Elders more about whether she wants to be a full-time white lighter or not then.

Prue's sisters may not well listen with Piper retaliating how little she knows them now citing what hardships they've endured and how they've had to change to protect their family which Prue would understand but say she wouldn't let it define her or change who she was or what she did that being a sister first and then a protector of the innocent second.


A fifth member wrote:

See that's the thing, I don't think Prue would have worked in season 8, it would have been awesome for her to have come back, but Piper and Phoebe had become so irredeemable by that point that I don't think even she could have fixed it, no, imo, better for Prue to have died and remember her sisters the way they were when she was alive.


And my response:

You are so very right about that. That's why I love fanfics - where they *can* be redeemable, just like Billie and Christy can.

I could almost wish that Prue had stayed lost during "Armageddon Not" so she could remember Phoebs before she met Cole.


What about you?

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"I get thown through a wall which is lame to begin with saving an innocent who screwed us over and this is how you turn out!!! Yet another reason I was needed. No wonder I had such an ego! And Phoebe! I still haen't forgotten you weren't there to call Leo in time to revive me while you were playing with your boyfriend...WHO YET SCREWED US OVER! Are you understanding where I'm going with this?"

No wonder she never came back to visit after her death. Well it was Doherty and Kern's argument that made that happen but still.

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Oh, am I going to copy your reply over to that other site! That sounds *exactly* what she'd say!

But I'll bet they *wouldn't* understand what she's saying.

This reminded me of a signature I use at a different site:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v228/rschmitt/Req/gf2.jpg

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Something in Prue fashion, it would be snide and bitchy I'm sure

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Nah, that's to other people, not her sisters. To them, it would be extremely sarcastic and snipey. Something like what WhiteManFromTown1986 suggested so sounds exactly what she'd say to her sisters!

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I am sure she would be disappointed. Prue and Patty both died attempting to save innocents, yet Piper and Phoebe used this as an excuse to not save innocents. "We've saved enough people and we don't want to end up like mom or Prue." They made it seem like Prue was wreck less or too hard working..she was just doing her job

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If they felt that way, they should've taken the Angel of Destiny up on his offer and given up their powers and let that be the end of the series. MUCH better than that stupid flashfoward which makes no sense.

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Prue: Who are these strangers? What happen to my sisters?

Piper: We are your sister's.

Prue: Your more like the demons we fought than my sisters. Killing, stealing and using your powers for personal gain. Not the sisters I grew up with.

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 Even better!

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In an alternate universe, where Shannen could/would actually reprise her role, that could be SUCH a great episode where Prue made them realize how off track they have gone, and completely forgot what their responsibilities were

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Shannen Doherty was offered the chance to return for the finale but turned it down feeling it wasn't the right way to properly utilize Prue but I do wonder what they had in mind to bring her back if she did agree.

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Knowing Brad Kern, it was probably getting her to agree to let the picture that Grams took of them in PreWitched could be used in the flashforward, but not in the special "last thing seen" spot, which would've been the shot of the second set instead.

That's my guess, but based on the episode, I don't see very many other spots where she would've fit in.

The funny thing is that would've made *me* very happy if it had been included.

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“Exactly like us.” Prue whispered. She thought about Patty and Victor. Then about Patty and Sam. Something clicked in her mind about Paige. Though her eyes lit up, she didn’t say anything. She had to deal with other pressing issues.


Ooooh! What do they mean by that??? Is it that she realised Paige is Sam's daughter or..something more sinister?

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LOL, no, that's when she realized that Paige was her half-sister.

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LOL, I just assumed that Prue would already know that for some reason. Although it's probably because the spirits supposedly watch the living on Charmed.. So I just thought maybe Prue was wondering if Paige is also a ranging alcoholic or something.

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But this Prue isn't a spirit. When Piper goes time-traveling rather than finding Patty and Victor, she ends up in Season Three, *before* that Prue dies. And that's the Prue she brings forward. In the same way, when they go to the future, rather than finding Future Piper and Future Leo - they find Future Phoebe. Hence the title "Forever Sisters" rather than "Forever Charmed".

I absolutely love this version - one of my favorite 'Forever Charmed' rewrites, even more than my own. Only one I like better is GZV969's version. In hers, Piper brings Paige back with her and Paige heals Prue...

So many what-could've-beens. It's why I'm so glad 'Forever Crap' sucked so much - it's inspired some fantastic fanfics!

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