How do good witches feel about the TV show Charmed?

Question

I love the show Charmed, but I wonder how real witches and wiccans feel about the show? Do you feel it portrays you in a good, bad or really fake Hollywood light? Any shows or movies you recommend that have a positive witch/wiccan story to it?

Thanks

I apologize for using the word "good witch". I was told this termnology by a wiccan who stated it can be used when speaking to a nonwiccan who may associate all witches with the devil.

Answer 1

Yes, occasionally they tossed around the term "Wicca", but there was almost nothing based on fact about Wicca. But I don't think it portrays witches in a bad light because it's not really meant to be based on reality. It's fantasy, and highly entertaining at that. I haven't met a single witch who has the types of powers the sisters had on the show, but that's ok. It's perfectly fine to dream. Besides, the central focus of the show was not on magick, but of the relationships between the sisters.

Being Wiccan, I can proudly say this was one of my all-time favorite shows. I miss it.

Answer 2

First of all, just because someone is nonWiccan, doesn't necessarily make them not a witch. You can be a witch and not be Wiccan. The terms are not one and the same. While Wiccans do practice witchcraft, so do many other Pagan religions. Some who are not Pagan also practice witchcraft as well. I figured that should be clarified.

To answer your question, I don't like the show. I found it uninteresting and tacky, I guess. But I have a few Wiccan friends who love it. While I many, many years ago, I used to get upset about Hollywood's misrepresentation of Witches...after the Harry Potter movies, I just gave up on that because dammit I love those movies, I can't help it. They are SO entertaining. LOL!

There are no Hollywood movies or TV shows, that I know of, that have ever properly shown a real witch, without adding some kind of weird gothy or rediculous influence to them to give it some edge. Blair Witch 2 had a Wiccan in it and she explained what Wicca was, but the girl was not your average girl. They made her weird. The truth is, Wiccans, Witches and Pagans are usually normal people who lead normal lives like everyone else. There is nothing spectacular about us, therefore we are pretty uninteresting and would make for a boring movie. So, Hollywood feels the needs to spice things up by adding bullsh*t.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

I love Charmed. I think it is cute, I don't think that it has any negative or positive repercussions.

One of my favorite movies is Practical Magic. Of course it isn't true, but I think it is a really sweet movie. The part where they do the Midnight Margarita's reminds me of some nights spent with some of my Wiccan friends. (They didn't claim to be Wiccan in the movie either.)

Answer 5

I am not a witch or wiccan or pagen. But I love the show! Also, it appears that some people are taking way to heart and lightly the way you use your terms of different kinds of witches, etc. I think they need to lighten up!

Answer 6

It's Hollywood, thus has almost no real link to real Wicca. It's TV, its for entertainment. I know a lot of people who claim to be pagan who love the show, personally I think it's too fluffy and over the top for my taste.

My all time favorite is Bell, Book and Candle.

Answer 7

At least it portrays us as nice people - which we are - even if it doesn't portray us accurately.

And I have to ask that you not refer to us as "good witches". That implies that there are "wicked witches". "Wicked witches" exist only in Oz and other fairy-tale lands. Also, from everything I've seen on Charmed, the characters are not Wiccan. At all.

)O(

Answer 8

I watched it for a while but quickly became bored with it.

It is sort of typical Hollywood fluff in my opinion. Anyone with a lick of common sense will realize that there is nothing “real” about the show.

It does encourage some folks into believing in zipping and zapping magical stuff but they probably believed in that sort of nonsense already.

Answer 9

Not a bad show. Gets a bit above realistic, but in order to keep interest all shows have to.

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Answer 10

I watched it when it was on, and always enjoyed it.

My only problem is with the people who don't understand that TV is not reality. :)