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I just discovered the Halliwells & Company this year and am having a great time catching up with all eight seasons. In fact I'm being tempted to write a crossover Rainbowland/Charmiverse story. If anyone's interested, keep an eye out on the fan fiction forum. "Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore--we're in San Francisco!"
Okay, Charmed fans, I just finished the story. It's in the edit/rewrite process so we'll see what happens. If Idol was still on the air in Pookie's time, she would not be sitting chastely in a pool of silver light singing a wistful ballad, she'd more likely be a cross between Daughtry, David Cook and Amanda Overmeyer. Tune in if you're curious.
I'm not familiar with "Charmed" but I'm a fan of the super writing here at KMF. I miss reading Katfan49, Gregoriancant, Sjwolves and your writing, Groucho. Pleez hurry up Bill...
I just discovered it this year myself and got totally hooked. The briefest way I know how to put it is that the Halliwell sisters discover after the death of their grandmother who raised them, that they are actually a trio of very powerful witches, who work best in conjunction with each other. In fact they are practically a legend in the magical community, which has been waiting for the advent of The Charmed Ones much like the Jews await a messiah. There is a lot of demon fighting going on, but the best aspect of the series, and the one that really holds it together, is the relationship between the sisters, who fight and carry on and act just like a real family, and sometimes they're funnier than hell. The acting is good, the writing is good, and they blend all the elements into a believable whole full of action, romance, fantasy, and very engaging characters. The details pertinent to Rainbowland are that one of the sisters, Piper Halliwell, starts out the series running a restaurant, which she later leaves when she buys a nightclub called P3, which she owns jointly with her two sisters but runs herself (Piper, Phoebe and Prudence = P3). Later in the series she goes on to have her own restaurant, which has always been her dream. In my world, she owns a whole chain of restaurants and nightclubs, some of which she runs herself, while some are run by her two sons, Wyatt and Chris, who appear in the story. The clubs are real businesses but also serve as "fronts" and bases of operation for their demon fighting activities. (For some reason San Francisco seems to be as demon ridden as Sunnydale.) The sons are accomplished witches in their own right, standing as they do at the end of a long line of very powerful witches, most of whom were female, but for some reason that all changed when Piper fell in love with her guardian angel, a nice guy named Leo, and they produced two male children. The merging of the two magical strands evidently produced some hyper-powerful DNA, especially evident in the firstborn, Wyatt. The Halliwells live in a big shockingly pink Victorian house on Prescott Street, which is full of antiques and beautiful stained glass windows, the kitchen is stocked with everything necessary to brew potions, and up in the attic is a huge magical tome called The Book of Shadows, which contains spells for every occasion and is something like their own private encyclopedia full of information on every type of magical being known to man, good or evil. Rainbowland IX, subtitled Mamma Mia, revolves around what happens when a local band called The Faultliners plays a weekend gig at P3 and some of the local demonry takes an unusual interest in their female lead singer, one Pookie McDonald.
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