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Forever Charmed

Episode Number: 178    Season Num: 8    First Aired: Sunday May 21, 2006    Prod Code: 62015-08-178
Piper & Leo, with help from Coop's ring, must travel back in time to change the events that lead to the deaths of Piper's sisters. Meanwhile, Billie uses her power of Projection to do the same thing; many familiar faces gather to help Piper in her time of need.

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Writer: Brad Kern
Director: James L. Conway
Star: Rose McGowan (Paige Matthews (Season 4+)),  Holly Marie Combs (Piper Halliwell),  Kaley Cuoco (Billie Jenkins (Season 8+)),  Alyssa Milano (Phoebe Halliwell),  Brian Krause (Leo Wyatt (Season 2-8))
Recurring Role: Jason Simmons (Wyatt Halliwell #2),  Steven J. Oliver (Baliel),  Soren Oliver (Asmodeus),  Ivan Sergei (Henry Mitchell),  Jennifer Rhodes (Penny 'Grams' Halliwell),  James Read (Victor Bennett),  Finola Hughes (Patty Halliwell)
Guest Star: Julia Di Angelo (Granddaughter),  Sierra Paris (6 Year Old Girl),  Alexis Raich (Little Girl),  Kristopher Simmons (Wyatt Halliwell #1),  Gordon Wells (Old Leo Wyatt),  Ellen Geer (Old Piper Halliwell),  Leland Crooke (Candor),  Denise Dowse (Angel of Destiny),  Anthony Cistaro (Dumain),  Victor Webster (Coop),  Wesley A. Ramsey (adult Wyatt Halliwell),  Drew Fuller (adult Chris Halliwell),  Marnette Patterson (Christy Jenkins)

Notes

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On its original airing, this episode was watched by 4.5 million viewers. (edit)

Quotes

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(Grams wakes up after fainting)
Grams: What happened?
Patty: It's okay Mom, you just fainted.
Grams: Well of course I fainted you're dead! (edit)
Phoebe: So much has happened over the last 8 years. So much has been gained and lost. Still, in some ways I feel like my life is really just beginning...and it was. For though I had loved before, I'd never really known love until I met Coop. A man who I shared the special little girl I had long ago forseen, but feared I might never have. Along with two other special little girls I had not forseen. I was suddenly so blessed to have a new family of my own, and old friends to share it with. And though I kept working and giving advice to those who asked, I was more interested in helping them find love. Since finally, having been loved.
Paige: Phoebe, had become somewhat of an expert on the subject. As for me, life without demons opened up similar avenues. Henry of course continued to look after his parolees, even if they didn’t want to be looked after. While still making time to help me with little Henry and the twins. Which allowed me time to finally embrace my inner whitelighter. And to help the next generation of witches come into their own.
Piper: So that Paige could pass on all the she learned. Not just to her own children, or to mine, or to Phoebe’s, but to other future witches and white lighters as well. Which filled the time between when we were doing the fighting and when our kids were old enough to take over. Allowing me time to get back to my roots and cook something other then potions for once. And open the restaurant I'd always dreamed of owning. As for Leo, after we reclaimed magic school he went back to teaching. Which he continued to do, until it was time to retire.
Older Piper (finishes reading the Book of Shadows to her granddaughter): And although we certainly had our struggles and heart aches over the years we’re a family of survivors and we will always be. Which is why we've truly been Charmed.
Piper's Granddaughter: Again, Grandmama, again.
Older Piper: Oh, dear. No, I can't. I need to rest. But you can look at it for a little while if you'd like. After all, it'll be yours one day.
(As older Piper and Leo walk up the stairs, the camera zooms in pictures spanning four generations of the Halliwell family, including a picture of Victor and Patty). (edit)
Grams: Oh no, don't do that. I mean there's so many things, wonderful things that I just don't wanna forget you know.
Patty: There's just as much I don't ever wanna know. Like what happened to Prue. Victor told me.
Piper: Oh Mom...
Patty: It's all right. I know everything happens for a reason. I believe that. I also know that when one door closes another one opens. (she looks at Paige) (edit)
Piper, Patty & Penny (casting a spell to get rid of the Hollow from the Charmed Ones, Billie & Christy): Yamis, ado, kick is ado, mailen ko onis, voks in caseses, shuper de conos.
(The power of the Hollow leaves all of them) (edit)
Older Leo: How do you spell Zankou? With a "Z" or an "X"?
Older Piper: That's cheating!
Older Leo: I'm not asking you, I'm asking me! Well...?
Leo: A "Z".
Older Leo: Ha! Told ya! (edit)

Trivia

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Shouldn't Victor in 1975 have looked more like Victor in season one? (edit)
In the final scene of this episode, when the sisters are recapping their lives, Phoebe is shown at the Bay Mirror typing. This is when she says that she started focusing on helping people find love. Behind her is sign just like any other "Ask Phoebe" poster but this one says something like "Phoebe's Finding Love" and the word author appears on the bottom of it. Could she have written a book? (edit)
In this episode, Piper seemed surprised when she arrived in the future and saw future Piper and Leo and asked who they were. However she has already met future Leo in the episode The Jung and the Restless that aired earlier in the season and took place before this episode. (edit)
TRIVIA: Once again the Charmed Ones change their future and do not die as previously mentioned in season 6. (edit)
After Adult Wyatt gets his powers, he orbs to Piper's side to prove that he has gotten them back. A portion of the stained windows' frame in the sun room moves, behind Piper and Wyatt as Wyatt orbed. (edit)

Allusions

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Patty: So...how do I look?

This is also the title of the Style Network TV show that Finola Hughes hosts. (edit)
Title: Forever Charmed

The title is a reference to the 1947 Otto Preminger film "Forever Amber"" and the 1944 novel of the same name by Kathleen Winsor. Also it's a reference to the song "Forever Young" by Bob Dylan and the one by Alphaville (later covered by the Youth Group). (edit)
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Forever Charmed
"Series finale"
Have you ever seen something on TV that just leaves you wondering what will happen next?? If not, this is that episode... It just has an addicting way of making you sit there, eyes glued to the screen.. Too bad its the series finale :(
Continue » Posted Apr 26, 2007 6:23 pm PST
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Forever Charmed
"Series finale"
Forever Charmed is an excellent finale for one of the best TV series ever made. This episode kept the characters alive in my imagination.
Continue » Posted Apr 25, 2007 2:29 pm PST
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Forever Charmed
"Series finale"
In the very last episode of Charmed, Piper and Leo go back in time to stop what happens in the ultimate battle, while Billie projects back to make her own changes.
Continue » Posted Apr 13, 2007 4:15 am PST
10.0
Perfect
Forever Charmed
"Tearjerker"
Amazing finale
Continue » Posted Apr 10, 2007 1:06 pm PST
9.7
Superb
Forever Charmed
"Exactly why I watch this series"
Excellent!
Continue » Posted Apr 7, 2007 10:02 am PST
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