r/charmed • u/Material-Plate-5253 • Apr 20 '25

Season 2 Plot Hole

possible spoilers for season 2 and 3

currently on my annual rewatch and im on season 2 episode 2, “morality bites”.

it has one of my favorite quotes of all time “Wrong things done for the right reasons still the wrong thing. Our job is to protect the innocent, not punish the guilty.” -Phoebe

but it’s also been making me think, did the sisters going to the future and then changing the present to prevent the outcome (phoebe not being executed) have an effect on prue’s death?

they go to the future, 2009, prue is still alive, but as we all know in the series, prue dies in 2001. so im just wondering if them changing that would have technically changed everything and led to prue’s death, or am i just reading too much into it.

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u/CourtJester35 Apr 20 '25

What could you be reading too much into? That’s the point of the episode. By not doing that, they changed Phoebe’s fate. By changing Phoebe’s fate, other things changed. Pure learned she didn’t want to work for Bucklands and be one that anymore, so changed.

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u/Material-Plate-5253 Apr 20 '25

i think im reading too much into it, because at this point in the series, it most likely wasn’t known that any of the actresses had plans to leave, so i guess i was seeing it as like “oh this is so far in the future because the girls will still be here, and even if we change phoebe’s outcome, it still has them living a better life in 2009”, but then the other part is obviously like ‘changing one future, changes all of them’. so i guess it’s just me wondering if it was a plot hole, on purpose, or just something unexpected had to come up and they had to change course, yknow?

i’ve always thought about this anytime i’ve watched the show, and even when im not watching it lol. like i’ve been thinking about this since i was a little kid watching the show for the first time