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The Price of the Lost Youth

[claudio_carvalho · 6/10 · 15 March 2007]

Three old ladies summon the demon of vanity Kryto and promise to resurrect him, exchanging for health, beauty and youth for the senior trio. Kryto makes a further demand of magical powers, and one of the ladies, Aunt Gail, offers the abilities of the charmed ones. Aunt Gail visits the Halliwell sisters, steals one spell from the Book of Shadows to transfer the powers of witches and betrayals the naive sisters. Piper finally tells Dan her choice for Leo.

"How to Make a Quilt Out of Americans" is a reasonable episode of "Charmed", where Prue, Piper and Phoebe are easily deceived by an old friend of their grandmother. The argument of the old sick woman trying to be young again and finding the price of the lost youth is weak and even silly. This is the second consecutive episode with shootings outside the studio. My vote is six.

Title (Brazil): "Colcha de Retalhos Humanos" ("Human Crazy Quilt")

A Summary

[simplyy_charmedd · 9/10 · 30 July 2006]

Prue,Piper,and Phoebe's Aunt Gail had made a promise to a demon that if he made her young again she would give him the power of the Charmed Ones'. So she visits Prue,Piper,and Phoebe and tries to get near the book Of Shadows to get a 'remove powers spell'. So Prue,Piper,and Phoebe go in the attic with their aunt Gail because their aunt insisted on seeing the book again. So when their in the attic Piper says,"Prue Phoebe come over here". So when all three of them are outside of the attic Aunt Gail looks for the spell. She finds it and then tell Prue,Piper,and Phoebe that she has to go. But before she went she asked the girls if they could stop by her house. They said sure we'll come. So Aunt Gail made iced tea but she put something in there that would remove the girls powers once she said the spell. All three of them drank the "iced tea". There Aunt suggested they go out for awhile. So they did. When they where out Aunt Gail stole the spell and Summoned the demon. He made her young. Now the girls realized their powers were gone. The demon tried to destroy The Charmed Ones'. They went back to their aunt's house and they saw the demon. They made him Astro Project because Phoebe went upstairs so that he would Astro Project. While he was Astro Projected upstairs, Piper and Prue Poured the potion in the demons mouth. He was vanquished. Their Aunt Gail returned Old again.

This is where the cookie crumbles...

[m-47826 · 5/10 · 24 March 2021]

Unlike season 1, season two is losing steam near the end. The episodes are mostly fillers, as a pretext to create drama. Murphy's Luck always bothered me. It's not a bad episode and it includes Leo getting his wings back, but it is dull (with really bad acting by future movie star Amy Adams) and the showdown is disappointing. So moving on to episode 17. This is also one of those episodes I caught, on my early days of discovering the show on TV. I like it, it's nicely paced and wrapped accordingly, all the while raising several questions about the sisters and bringing new moral dilemmas to their training. I have no doubt it would be deemed offensive these days, but really for the wrong reasons. Eternal youth is a timeless topic that inspired plethora of popular tales, and the way they handled it on Charmed was fitting. The Piper/Dan relationship was going nowhere, and even their break-up scene felt weird and misplaced, so it's a good thing this storyline ended there.

Your who you want to be

[Realrockerhalloween · 28 September 2016]

Not ready to die the Charmed ones aunt Gail arrives to steal their powers and summon a youth granting demon known as Cryto. This is a depressing episode as Gail feels like she wasted her youth never finding love or having children and wants to expand her life line in exchange for her soul. In a way I wish the girls had told her about the afterlife where Grams went to or the reincarnation cycle before striking up the Faustian deal that way she wouldn't have to spend eternity in torment. Its a great commentary on vanity or trying to disrupt the natural order of the universe since it could lead to tragedy and hurt those you care about.

I'm so glad Phoebe learned it, to stop being embarrassed of her glasses and to be herself. Stop trying to live in the past, but make the future count before wasting her life away.