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Honestly, this might be one of the greatest Halloween episodes ever!

And they are part of Superhero Sunday because they’re heroes too.

Anyway!

This episode is riddled with fun little callbacks and things that will become true or are known only to the audience. And this is what I love about great TV, when the audience gets to be in on the plot, but the main characters still reman clueless.

It never makes for less compelling TV just because I know Cole is a demon. It only serves to make it worse because now I’m questioning a bunch of things.

I mean, just imagine you were watching this show when it aired for the very first time and you see the apple peel spell out ‘C.’

You’d freak the hell out! Just like Cole! Whose eyes went wide as he stared at the barrel and peel in disbelief.

Meanwhile, Phoebe takes this as a good sign. Maybe she and Cole are meant to be together. Maybe she’s found the one. After all the searching and all the very wrong guys, maybe she’s finally found the right one.

Except, the audience knows that might not be true.

After all, he just went back in time to destroy her family line before it started because defeating them in the present day was too much. Instead, he decided to wipe them out.

Except, the Elders, were ready for that and sent them back to save themselves.

Which they did.

But just imagine that moment otherwise, in that moment. As an audience member, you’d be like does Cole become a good guy? What happens? Is it him? Does Pheobe become evil? What the heck is going to happen?

How will it all work out?

Well, you know how?

Phoebe does marry a man whose name starts with ‘C,’ Coop. A cupid.

The callback to this episode lives until the 8th season when the writers remember their own history and write in a name that starts with the correct letter for Phoebe to marry. Something I was overjoyed with the first time I watched it through.

Because on Smallville, I’m still waiting for them to whip out the bracelet meant for Lois Lane that he got in season two. Eight seasons and a comic book series later and a crossover, I’m still waiting. I hate when shows drop tidbits and then never use them.

The C being used is one of my favorite moments and callbacks in TV history.

No doubt.

But then other shit happens too.

Phoebe is annoyed with how witches are seen by the population, but she’s the reason for it.

Whoops.

I love that she causes the very thing she despises about Halloween in the present day.

They’re sent back to save a baby, originally, they have no idea who they’re saving. But when they discover the baby is none other than Melinda Warren, they realize they were sent to save themselves. And the premonition that Melinda has is tied to them being the ones to save her. The three powerful witches she claims will come to be, saved her life.

How interesting.

The sisters also find a new appreciation, not only for their powers but for the world around them. How power can be found in anything.

Piper delivers the baby, a suggestion made by Phoebe, but she’ll help deliver her nephew just a season and a half later.

Cole appears at the end of the episode dressed as an angel. Something he claims he isn’t, not really. Which is the honest truth.

He’s half demon.

The best part of this episode were all the little things. Cole telling Phoebe the truth about himself in a way, because he was being honest about not being an angel. That’s Leo.

Apple peel.

Melinda Warren.

Learning that magic comes from a lot of places.

And that someone is trying really, really hard to kill them. So much so, they were willing to tamper with 400 years of history to erase them.

Damn.

I’d be worried if someone wanted me gone that badly.

Also, we have Leo and Darryl attempting to protect the world without the Charmed Ones.

Here, Darryl learns far more than he wants to about all of them.

Like Leo’s WW1 uniform still fits him. Which freaks him out on a whole other level.

And is also kind of amazing. Because Leo’s uniform fits him. From 80 something years ago. It’s so old now, he can wear it again as a costume, and no one will blink twice.

Darryl is forced to contend with real demons.

Not fun.

Also, one of my other favorite things is Piper’s costume.

Piper chose to be Glinda ‘The Good Witch.’

Which, if you watch the series in its entirety, and know it far too well as I do, Piper is the only one of the four sisters to have never regressed.

Don’t know what I mean by that? Let me tell you.

Piper’s former lives were never evil. Not once. Not a little.

And as pointed out in season two of the series, you grow more powerful with each life if you remain on the side of good. As Phoebe learned, she lost a lot of powerful powers because one of her past lives was evil. Therefore, she regressed.

As had Prue.

And Paige.

But not Piper.

Which in my opinion is what makes her the strongest witch of the sisters. It’s why she can combust things. It’s why she’s the toughest and can withstand more than most. Even to the point where she can still have kids even after she was told it might be impossible.

It’s why unlike Phoebe she was able to withstand the amount of power Wyatt infused her with while she was pregnant.

Because both she and Pheobe were pregnant at the end of season four at the same time. Meaning, Pheobe’s baby was eligible to be twice blessed like Wyatt ultimately became. However, her body couldn’t withstand the sheer power.

Except, we see in the next season, Piper manages with some nausea and annoying effects on her magic but sees her pregnancy through mostly invulnerable.

All foreshadowed by a simple choice in costume.

Interesting, wouldn’t you say?

Ah, I love this series and could talk about it all day. However, that’s it for this week! Thanks for reading!

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