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10 RANDOM CHARMED BLOOPERS
By Sarah (Mystical_Piper)

OK, well this column is going to be a little different from normal columns as it is not just going to be written by one person the whole time. Its going to be a column that other people can submit to... You could either write something yourselves, to do with either Charmed or Neopets, (such as "10 ways/steps to vaquishing a demon..." or "10 things you always wanted to know about Boris'...") If you don't feel up to/don't want to write something yourself, you could suggest something and then either myself or someone else could find some info and write it for you (with a "note" saying it was requested by you) :)

So, in this issue I bring you 10 Accidents in Charmed Filming. (Also known as "bloopers"). It will consist of Plot Holes, Factual Errors, Continuity errors, Ausio/Visual Errors and just plain Scene Mistakes. Enjoy =)

*NOTE: The following may contain some spoilers about season seven, so be wary!*

  1. (Factual error) - In the episode "Little Box of Horrors,", series 7, Katya/Nina says that Pandora's Box is "a gift the gods gave to Prometheus.", but the Box was supposedly given to Epimetheus, not Prometheus.

  2. (Plot Hole) - In the series 7 episode "Ordinary Witches", the innocent who accidentally gets Piper's powers uses them to freeze both Piper and Phoebe, but in that episode (when they don't have their powers), they are able to scry etc. A good witch is not meant to be frozen, according to previous episodes.

  3. (Plot Hole) - In series 2 when Leo was "suspended" from being a Whitelighter, why was there no "substitute" filling in for him during that time, like in the later seasons?

  4. (Continuity/Plot Hole) - In "The Painted World", series 2, Phoebe had to touch both Jane and Malcolm for them to be trapped in the painting, so how come she didn't have to touch Piper and Prue for them to all be freed?

  5. (Audio/Visual Clash) - In the series 2 episode "Reckless Abandon", Baby Matthew is supposed to be screaming his head off, but when Prue turns him to the camera he is smiling.

  6. (Continuity) - In "Charmed Again, part 1" (Series 4), Piper does not light the candles before she summons their Grams, but in the episode 'PreWitched' we see that the candles must be kept alight to maintain the connection with the spirit.

  7. (Scene Mistake) - In "Enter The Demon", after Phoebe and Paige have switched bodies and Poebe is trying to teach Paige how to use her power of levitation, Phoebe's hair switches from her shoulder to her back, and then to her shoulder again.

  8. (Continuity) - In "Size Matters", series 4, Phoebe tells the woman who she had freed from the clay to run "before Gammill sees them", but Phoebe hadn't learned of Gammill's name yet.

  9. (Spelling mistake =P) - In "A Witch's Tail", when Phoebe goes to sign her divorce papers at the end, she spells her name as 'Pheobe'.

  10. (Continuity) - In the season 7 finale "Something Wicca This Way Goes", Tim's eyes keep on changing from opened to closed at the morgue, with Zankou.