u/Bibixina

when he saved the sisters and Leo in the episode where the Source freed the Hollow.

Leo should've defended Cole, the human, as he had the knowledge of it, unlike the sisters.

Also, Phoebe should've faced the Trial for crossing over the other side and suffer more than just a temporary suspension, like in later season.

She and Cole should've been forced to prove themselves to the Elders to deserve a chance to be back to the Good side, instead of Phoebe being back to business just for the sake of being a Charmed one by blood.

The show quickly switched to Piper and Leo drama, when Phoebe and Cole case was far more deserving of action on Elders' part.

Piper and Leo did nothing THAT wrong, Phoebe on the other hand has endangered the whole Good-Evil balance by crossing over and making a child with the Source of all Evil and feeding it with a centuries of power of Good magic. She should've paid a higher price and Cole deserved a chance to be back into the family as he only became evil while saving his loved one and her family, including Leo.

from Elders as Piper did, giving the three of them equally fought the evil all these years (we keep the hypotheses that Source's magic shield the insight, so for the Elders, Cole was just a mere mortal, otherwise wtf, you crushed Piper's first wedding, but you kept this one running ?).

Also, who were all these people of all ages at Phoebe&Cole's wedding ? Phoebe had life in New-York, yes, but she was unemployed, then a student in San-Francisco + Cole said Darryl and Leo are the only ones he knows (which is also strange, even for a loner, but who still hanged around for 117 years nonetheless!).

It would've been nice to have a family-rooted episode before Phoebe's wedding where these 4 characters interact before all the hell broke loose.

Like that episode of fairytales, where Paige had to connect with Grams and break the ice, it was a nice storyline, knowing Paige never had any previous relationship with her, comparing to the other two.

Basically, I can't do anything but wait until the next restriction expires. Did anyone had this situation ? I tried to appeal, but they just wait util it expires on its own.

Reason why I skip Season 2 is that this whole love triangle was absolutely filler, forced and insufferable.

I get that the show is a bit detective / a bit soap opera, but we've seen Prue-Andy / Phoebe-Cole - they absolutely can write love stories in a way that's not annoying.

I still don't understand why Dan and Jenny were introduced (probably because Ted King quit and they've told themselves "we need another 'will they, won't they' side story" ?)

- Leo was introduced very early in S1 and by the end of it Piper already cries on his death bed and saves him, proving her feelings for him weren't surface level and she loves him.

- In the episode 2 of S2 they travel to the future and show Piper married / divorced to Leo (even though writers later understood their mistake and made Piper married to Dan in the past to "equal" the odds of the outcome).

But what's even more frustrating is that Dan actually was everything she seeks in a man - normal, patient, dependable, no problems with communication, always took initiative and skillful.

Every single argument Piper had with Leo since S2 - it's because Leo wasn't something that Dan was. Even worse - Piper admits it and articulates it in Leo's face in like episode 1 of season 2.

The only thing Leo has to reply 'but will he accept you're a witch ?' It's a lame argument and it sets a bar for Piper's man so low, that literally any warlock can fill the application to be a Piper's husband.

Piper wanted a normal relationship where a man can tell her where he is, what he does and with who - Dan was that.

He didn't make Piper go dig his personal files to find out he's married and his wife is still alive.

Piper wanted a normal wedding and a normal pregnancy with her husband being around and helping her to prepare herself for motherhood. All of that Dan could and was willing to give her, but she picked a lane where she'll suffer the most + Elders opposing and complicating this union to its last day.

I also don't buy Dan rejecting Piper's witchiness, it's Andy 2.0 cause the actor was quitting the show and character's storyline needed to be terminated, a pure aftermath of the break up. When you truly love someone, you accept the ugly parts too. It's a lazy out, cause 'oh, now they really can't be together".

Sisters' father was a mortal and not a magical man and just because he left, doesn't mean Dan would.

The next episode after Piper and Dan finally break up (start of Season 3, where screenshots of my post are from), the nagging and bitching start right away - they come back and argue about how they can't work as a couple, something they both diagnosed a season ago, at the start of Season 2.

If it wasn't an ultimate obsession of writers to rewrite their mother's story with her white lighter and 'prove everyone around wrong about witch + white lighter can't work' - well they did exactly the opposite.

Their marriage gave the Elders a permanent control over the sisters. When they didn't like something the Charmed ones were doing - they took Leo away, sending Piper into hysteria, so she makes the two others sisters bend to their will.

Even Phoebe and Cole had more freedom in their relationship, despite crossing the borders of good / evil.

We've had an episode about Leo's past, it's too bad we didn't have a one about Cole's, especially since the show gave us details about his background - his father was a good human who did a lot of good things for his community and his mother was a demon.

Kinda like Phoebe and Cole, gender-reversed.

How his parents met ? Why did his mother kill his father, what happened after ?

It's too bad this wasn't developed, it was definitely more interested than that Ice Cream Wagon episode, for example.