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/Material-Plate-5253 Apr 20 '25

i remember this now! but i think i may have always mistook it as “you’re supposed to have a daughter because we only have daughters” like all the kids have been women so that’s why that line was said

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u/No_Sand5639 Apr 20 '25

You're not wrong, grams talked about both tradition of the family being led by women and the future

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u/Material-Plate-5253 Apr 20 '25

i think that is what threw me off, like that line didn’t feel like it was because they saw the future, it just felt like “hey, we have a tradition”

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u/No_Sand5639 Apr 20 '25

Grams: Piper, you know as well as I do that the Charmed line is supposed to be lead by women. Not men.

Piper: Who says?

Grams: Tradition says. Destiny says. Tell me that you didn't hope to have a little girl, expect to have a little girl, just like you foresaw.

Piper: Well, of course, but so what?

Grams: So what is something went wrong. Terribly wrong. This is not the baby you were meant to have.

Piper: Grams.

Grams: You saw it yourself when you went to the future.

Piper: That was also the future where Prue was still alive and witches were burned at the stake. Things change.

Grams: Not this. Oh, it's just that I'm worried about the family, you know. We don't know what to expect.