"Matadder" <matadder@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "David E. Milligan" <davideml@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Just watched it again and as much as I liked it, a few questions--
>>
>> * Wyatt and Chris came from the future by casting a spell because
suddenly Wyatt's powers were
>> gone. But wouldn't his powers be gone from the time they were taken in
the "present" and not
>> just suddenly in the future?
>
> I thought the same thing when I saw it the first time. Here were my
thoughts then and they are
> still valid now (IMHO):
>
> OK, I know there are always issues with "time travel" shows, and part of
the "fun" can be the
> paradoxes that are brought up.
>
> But there was one in the "Charmed" finale that cannot be resolved. And
that's Wyatt and Chris
> coming back in time because Wyatt lost his powers and
> they had to find out why. Wyatt lost his powers to the Hollow;
therefore, he NEVER HAD THEM TO
> BEGIN WITH. There was NO POSSIBLE FUTURE that included Wyatt having his
powers. Wyatt got his
> powers because he came back from the future and changed the past, which
allowed him to get
> powers. At the time he "suddenly lost" his powers, he could never have
had them in the first
> place, since the only path to the future that ever existed had him
losing them as a child.
>
> And you can't say that "there's a future for every possible path,"
because the whole of Season 6
> was based upon the concept that there was ONLY ONE
> possible future, which is why Chris had to come back and change the
past. And we know this is the
> same Chris and Wyatt from Season 6, so we know there is only one future.
>
>
Maybe it's why the show ended <g> -- the timelines were so screwed
up, no one could unravel
them so that anything made any sense, and all the writers just said "Screw
THIS! Let's go get a
beer."
David
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