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Charmed
1998 · TV series · 8 seasons
Created by Constance M. Burge
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Three sisters (Prue, Piper and Phoebe) reunite and unlock their powers to become the Charmed Ones, the most powerful good witches of all time, whose prophesied destiny is to protect innocent lives from evil beings such as demons and warlocks. Each sister possesses unique magical powers that grow and evolve, while they attempt to maintain normal lives in modern day San Francisco.
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This same music licensing issue happened to Charmed as well. The opening credits theme is gone; the guest bands that played at the end of each episode are gone. A ton of late 90s early 2000s culture, just... gone. No one who watches that show today will ever understand why it was enjoyable to those who originally watched it.
I've been doing vfx for 20+ years. So...
- watch a movie :
2020 Upside Down Magic
2017 The Fate of the Furious (visual effects artist)
2015 San Andreas
2015 Avengers: Age of Ultron
2013 R.I.P.D.
2011 Happy Feet Two
2011 Mars Needs Moms
2009 A Christmas Carol
2008 The Tale of Despereaux
2007 Enchanted
2006 The Shaggy Dog
2005 Constantine
2004 Hellboy
2003 The Matrix Revolutions
2001 Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
- or a more recent TV show:
Another Life
Gabby and the Unsittables
Charmed
There's certainly other things I've worked on, but they're lost down the memory hole for good.
> If we didn't do that, we'd be completely inundated with American shows flogged off on the cheap
Absolutely. I deleted it from my post, but I was going to mention that on non-primary Australian TV stations that don't have the same content restrictions, we get 2 hours of non-stop Big Bang Theory reruns, or endless repeats of Frasier, Sex And The City, Charmed & Becker.
> What kind of tv show do you consider 'culturally significant'?
Glitch is my favorite recent Australian TV show, started on ABC but apparently Season 2 has been sold as a Netflix exclusive. Back in the 90s it would have been shows like Seachange, Frontline, Kath & Kim. Maybe Offspring & Packed To The Rafters are recent equivalents.
(Outside Australia, I'd think of shows like The Bridge, Springfloden, The Killing & Occupied, that have exported Scandinavian culture onto Australian TV.)
While we are on the subject of philosophy, I find on something of a philosophical note, the interesting ways and manners in which truth can unveil itself. Of course "unveiling" has a distinct meaning in Heidegger, but I am using this more generally, just to mean how the "deep truths of life" come to us/emerge/unveil from unexpected sources. I am reminded, then, in this case of a 'Charmed' episode where Prue Halliwell (Shannen Doherty) is trying to save somebody from the Angel of Death. She ultimately is confronted by the Angel of Death who tells her that he is not good or evil, but simply inevitable. She has to let go of her hatred of Death and see him as simply part of the natural course of things. Thus death from the point of view of hairless apes like us or the point of view of galaxies or even the whole universe, is in fact neither good nor bad, it simply is. Fearing it does not make it not so. Thus, one way or another it must be accepted, it must be seen as an inevitable part of the "rerum naturum". I really think on this subject the only way to sort of deal with our own annihilation or the fear thereof is to say that as long as we are fearing it, we have not encountered it. To fear, we must be alive. Therefore we have not an object of fear to fear. What is it to fear without an object? Anxiety. Undirected fear is anxiety. It is the antithesis of rationality. As human beings we must seek to be rational. We must seek to free ourselves from irrational fear. It is not rational to fear that which by definition we can never experience. We cannot by definition "experience" annihilation. We cannot experience annihilation, anymore than we really "experience" falling asleep. One moment we are drifting off in bed. The next moment the alarm clock goes off. Death is the same thing, except without the alarm clock. Either way, there is no "experience", and therefore no object of fear. Death is not bad. Death is not good. Death is inevitable, as Prue Halliwell came to see. I take comfort in knowing though that as death is inevitable so is birth. And perhaps even out of the ashes of the current universe new big bangs could spring forth, as some theories hint at. And so life (and death) goes on, ad infinitum.
We are, as Gregory Corso wrote in one of his poems, 'Homer', "alive, as always, forever ignorant of that death you'll never know."
Fearing the inevitable which cannot be even experienced is just not rational. The only thing to do is enjoy our moment in the sun. We all die, but spending our time fearing this just means we are not ever really alive, and that is just sad. Myself, I will leave eternity to the multiverse, and enjoy my brief tenure as a gene-carrying robot for all it is worth! :-)