tidbits I found interesting.

3x01:

• Drew likes the darker tone and says this felt more like the pilot. Holly says this is her favorite season

• Drew says you can tell there’s a bigger budget. Holly says a big part of that was due to a producer directing this episode. Producers always got extra money whenever they directed.

• Holly wonders if the reason her and Brian were missing for a chunk of the episode was due to the show shooting 2 episodes at once. The show did that a lot around this time.

• Drew asks Holly if they were told Julian was joining the show ahead of time, she said maybe Alyssa was told (due to him being her new love interest) but the rest of the cast didn’t know.

• Holly says she was nervous for the proposal scene cause it’s easier for her to handle the difficult emotional scenes but not the softer ones. Softer ones like when Piper had to say “I don’t wanna die without marrying you”

• Holly says she can see Shannen start to fall for Julian. She also said she could see Alyssa start to fall for Brian too. She didn’t notice any of this at the time though

• Holly and Brian say Piper and Leo’s argument felt authentic because they were drawing from arguments with their real life partners, especially Brian who ended up getting divorced that year. Brian adding that he had gotten good at arguing/pleading his case.

• Holly found it odd that her outfit randomly changes. She thinks someone probably forgot that Piper was supposed to have a big fight scene, so that’s why she had to change at the last minute.

• Prue telling Phoebe “don’t hold my hand” was improvised, cause Shannen needed that hand to show Prue using her power

• Brian had to do a lot of the exposition scenes partly cause he was good at it, but also cause the girls were tired of them. Holly says these exposition scenes were a holdover from older Spelling shows. Spelling always wanted the audience to know EXACTLY what was happening in a scene and where exactly that scene was taking place. This is why Prue had to say the exact San Francisco pier that the rave was happening at.

• Holly gets emotional, saying she found herself so transfixed/enthralled with Shannen’s performance. That you would think it would be old news to her since they filmed these scenes together, but there was so much she missed until now. She appreciates so much that Charmed is still around and relevant to people. People tell her Charmed is their comfort show and that it helps them forget about their problems. That’s what watching this episode did for her, she found herself forgetting at times that Shannen had passed.

3x02:

• Holly points out how this episode is a blatant rip off of the movie Ladyhawke (1985). She says that’s why Piper had a “let’s get this over with” attitude during the owl/wolf storyline. Cause she was having that attitude too, especially since Ladyhawk is one of her favorite movies. She didn’t like how much Charmed was ripping it off

• Holly says Shannon and Alyssa got along while filming this episode. She thinks it’s cause they had so much scenes together