Oh, wow. I had forgotten how much I liked some of the later episodes in Charmed’s third season. Like the 7 Deadly Sins one, or Prue Turns Into a Dog! Which, yes, not the actual titles, the actual titles are often painfully bad, and let’s face it, you might remember “Look Who’s Barking” but Prue Turns Into a Dog? Definitely.

And. Wow. WOW the horrible bad lameness of Shax. I did not remember him looking that ridiculous. Ouch.

Watching this really makes me sad this is my last season. And y’know, if it was just a matter of switching out Prue and Shannen for Paige and Rose, I might be tempted to buy more. But the problem is, once Prue’s gone, everything likable about Phoebe starts going out the window, and as much as I like Rose and some of the post-Prue eps, the replaceable-sister aspect never really made sense, and just cheapened the whole thing.

Also? I really can’t stand how, S4 on, it often became the “Alyssa Milano is SOSEXYOMG” show. Just gag me. She’s cute, yes. Pretty, even. She has a nice smile and a decent rack. That’s about it. And yet we’re repeatedly bludgeoned with the idea of her as some uber-sexy femme fatale/love guru, and expected to believe that she goes to work in a newspaper office wearing “clothes” that look like they should be on the lubed-up slutty girl in a music video. It was just sickening and ludicrous (and hi, I’m talking about a show about witches and demons, and THE WARDROBE is the ludicrous part? What the fuck?) and even if she had been remotely sexy to begin with, all of that would have completely killed it.

*sighs* Probably best that my personal collection will end with this season. All the fun and butt-kicking, none of the “Phoebe becomes Ho-be.” And it even has its own (somewhat dark) wrap-up. You can’t ask much more than that from a show.