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anim8rFSK
Mar 1, 2015, 1:29:51 AM3/1/15
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GOOD WITCH (note there's no "The" - imagine the meetings they had over
that - I bet they thought it was clever that it could refer to either of
them).
Apparently 15 years have passed, as the baby from the movies is now in
9th grade.
Cassie chopped off all her hair and looks like an older Mac.
They say they live in Gray House again, although we didn't get a look at
it.
Chris Potter is gone. They refer to him in past tense, and are
preparing a dedication. They're being cagey about what happened. The
grandfather is still in place. The son's band just got a new gig (and I
think that's all we're gonna hear about them). The daughter is coming
in for the dedication.
The younger daughter, Max from 'Alex Doesn't Deserve To Be The Family
Wizard Of Waverly Place' (who has turned into a pretty good little
actress) has magic. The grandfather is perplexed by this.
Max has a guy BFF who doesn't know she's magic. Max may or may not know
she's magic herself. She knows she has some sort of insight, and
doesn't know why she didn't foresee whatever happened to her dad.
The fat woman from Forever Knight is the Mayor again.
The entire thing is badly dubbed or drifting in and out of sync. It
feels like a Godzilla movie.
They have interviews with Bell at the commercial breaks, saying the
challenge was trying to figure out how to make Cassie imperfect for the
series.
Cassie still runs the Bell, Book and Candle.
The new neighbor (at home and work) is a doctor with a son Max's age.
Nobody liked the doctor before him, so they all go to Cassie now.
Cassie has a hot-to-trot divorced blonde friend, Stephanie, who owns the
bistro.
"You haven't dated anyone since Jake. He's been gone for awhile now."
Cassie uses the name Nightingale, not Russell.
Matthew Knight's character, Brandon, has been recast. His wife has one
scene before she leaves on some job thing because they aren't getting
along.
Lori, the daughter, comes in for the dedication. It's the same actress
from about 5 of the movies but I don't think we'll be seeing much of her.
The doctor is a moron. The fat mayor screwed him on his new doctor
office, telling him it was fully equipped, and it's not at all.
Wouldn't you freaking ASK what 'fully equipped state of the art'
doctor's office entailed? His son is a juvenile delinquent, and Max
takes an immediate vow not to fall in love with him. Gee, I wonder how
THAT will work out?
Grandpa George is sick!
Brandon has become a cop! In secret!
The wimmen folk are horrified that he's a cop! So is grandpa! After
all, they lost dad!
Max finally said it. Her dad passed away a while ago.
Stephanie goes to the doctor and makes up illnesses because she wants to
get laid.
Because everybody hated the old doctor, the new doctor has NO patient
base, and yet refuses to speak to the fat Mayor's wimmen's group,
leading her to assume he's evil.
The doctor confronts Cassie about her illegal doctor quackery. This
makes Cassie sad. Where can they possibly go with this? Either he gets
her put in prison, or he accepts that she's magic and better than him
and quits being a doctor.
The name of the bistro is apparently BISTRO (with 'Cafe' in small
letters under it). It has hot waitresses that give the new doctor free
food.
Cassie keeps insisting she's not practicing medicine and simultaneously
referring to what she's doing is 'alternative medicine'
Cassie decides to reopen the Bed and Breakfast with George, because
George is old and sick and she has a full time business as well as being
the de facto town doctor, as well as baking for the BISTRO.
All the hot single women in town start coming to the new doctor.
It's Brandon's first day as a cop. The fat Mayor wants him to man a
speed trap. The first person he catches is the fat Mayor.
Cassie and the Doctor conspire to get sickly George to have tests done.
I'm not sure how the Doctor is gonna do tests since his office didn't
actually come with any equipment.
The cops and the reporter daughter conspire to blackmail the Mayor into
letting Brandon off the hook for busting her for speeding and a series
of infractions.
Doctor's son frames Max for one of his crimes. It could go on her
permanent record! She knows, her BFF knows, just rat the guy out.
George is just sick from all the paint fumes he's been inhaling.
Older Sister gives Older Brother the "super stellar inter galactic
portable protection device" pin she gave her father to protect him to
her brother to protect HIM. Real nice, given that her father is
freaking dead.
Will Cassie start dating her real estate buddy, or will horny Steph get
to him first?
Doctor's crummy son turns himself in microseconds before Max was going
to rat him out.
Reporter daughter quits her job! She's going to take her old job back
at the local paper. Because she doesn't want to be a reporter anymore.
Um Š okay.
They dedicate a wing of something to dead Jake.
So Cassie has her family back together, with everybody having tossed
their jobs and spouses aside (this is the happy ending, conspicuously
ignoring that, you know, JAKE IS DEAD).
--
Wait - are you saying that ClodReamer was wrong, or lying?
that - I bet they thought it was clever that it could refer to either of
them).
Apparently 15 years have passed, as the baby from the movies is now in
9th grade.
Cassie chopped off all her hair and looks like an older Mac.
They say they live in Gray House again, although we didn't get a look at
it.
Chris Potter is gone. They refer to him in past tense, and are
preparing a dedication. They're being cagey about what happened. The
grandfather is still in place. The son's band just got a new gig (and I
think that's all we're gonna hear about them). The daughter is coming
in for the dedication.
The younger daughter, Max from 'Alex Doesn't Deserve To Be The Family
Wizard Of Waverly Place' (who has turned into a pretty good little
actress) has magic. The grandfather is perplexed by this.
Max has a guy BFF who doesn't know she's magic. Max may or may not know
she's magic herself. She knows she has some sort of insight, and
doesn't know why she didn't foresee whatever happened to her dad.
The fat woman from Forever Knight is the Mayor again.
The entire thing is badly dubbed or drifting in and out of sync. It
feels like a Godzilla movie.
They have interviews with Bell at the commercial breaks, saying the
challenge was trying to figure out how to make Cassie imperfect for the
series.
Cassie still runs the Bell, Book and Candle.
The new neighbor (at home and work) is a doctor with a son Max's age.
Nobody liked the doctor before him, so they all go to Cassie now.
Cassie has a hot-to-trot divorced blonde friend, Stephanie, who owns the
bistro.
"You haven't dated anyone since Jake. He's been gone for awhile now."
Cassie uses the name Nightingale, not Russell.
Matthew Knight's character, Brandon, has been recast. His wife has one
scene before she leaves on some job thing because they aren't getting
along.
Lori, the daughter, comes in for the dedication. It's the same actress
from about 5 of the movies but I don't think we'll be seeing much of her.
The doctor is a moron. The fat mayor screwed him on his new doctor
office, telling him it was fully equipped, and it's not at all.
Wouldn't you freaking ASK what 'fully equipped state of the art'
doctor's office entailed? His son is a juvenile delinquent, and Max
takes an immediate vow not to fall in love with him. Gee, I wonder how
THAT will work out?
Grandpa George is sick!
Brandon has become a cop! In secret!
The wimmen folk are horrified that he's a cop! So is grandpa! After
all, they lost dad!
Max finally said it. Her dad passed away a while ago.
Stephanie goes to the doctor and makes up illnesses because she wants to
get laid.
Because everybody hated the old doctor, the new doctor has NO patient
base, and yet refuses to speak to the fat Mayor's wimmen's group,
leading her to assume he's evil.
The doctor confronts Cassie about her illegal doctor quackery. This
makes Cassie sad. Where can they possibly go with this? Either he gets
her put in prison, or he accepts that she's magic and better than him
and quits being a doctor.
The name of the bistro is apparently BISTRO (with 'Cafe' in small
letters under it). It has hot waitresses that give the new doctor free
food.
Cassie keeps insisting she's not practicing medicine and simultaneously
referring to what she's doing is 'alternative medicine'
Cassie decides to reopen the Bed and Breakfast with George, because
George is old and sick and she has a full time business as well as being
the de facto town doctor, as well as baking for the BISTRO.
All the hot single women in town start coming to the new doctor.
It's Brandon's first day as a cop. The fat Mayor wants him to man a
speed trap. The first person he catches is the fat Mayor.
Cassie and the Doctor conspire to get sickly George to have tests done.
I'm not sure how the Doctor is gonna do tests since his office didn't
actually come with any equipment.
The cops and the reporter daughter conspire to blackmail the Mayor into
letting Brandon off the hook for busting her for speeding and a series
of infractions.
Doctor's son frames Max for one of his crimes. It could go on her
permanent record! She knows, her BFF knows, just rat the guy out.
George is just sick from all the paint fumes he's been inhaling.
Older Sister gives Older Brother the "super stellar inter galactic
portable protection device" pin she gave her father to protect him to
her brother to protect HIM. Real nice, given that her father is
freaking dead.
Will Cassie start dating her real estate buddy, or will horny Steph get
to him first?
Doctor's crummy son turns himself in microseconds before Max was going
to rat him out.
Reporter daughter quits her job! She's going to take her old job back
at the local paper. Because she doesn't want to be a reporter anymore.
Um Š okay.
They dedicate a wing of something to dead Jake.
So Cassie has her family back together, with everybody having tossed
their jobs and spouses aside (this is the happy ending, conspicuously
ignoring that, you know, JAKE IS DEAD).
--
Wait - are you saying that ClodReamer was wrong, or lying?
Ian J. Ball
Mar 1, 2015, 2:20:01 AM3/1/15
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On Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 10:29:51 PM UTC-8, anim8rfsk wrote:
> GOOD WITCH (note there's no "The" - imagine the meetings they had over
> that - I bet they thought it was clever that it could refer to either of
> them).
>
> Apparently 15 years have passed, as the baby from the movies is now in
> 9th grade.
>
> Cassie chopped off all her hair and looks like an older Mac.
>
> They say they live in Gray House again, although we didn't get a look at
> it.
>
> Chris Potter is gone. They refer to him in past tense, and are
> preparing a dedication.
Ugh.
> GOOD WITCH (note there's no "The" - imagine the meetings they had over
> that - I bet they thought it was clever that it could refer to either of
> them).
>
> Apparently 15 years have passed, as the baby from the movies is now in
> 9th grade.
>
> Cassie chopped off all her hair and looks like an older Mac.
>
> They say they live in Gray House again, although we didn't get a look at
> it.
>
> Chris Potter is gone. They refer to him in past tense, and are
> preparing a dedication.
> Matthew Knight's character, Brandon, has been recast. His wife has one
> scene before she leaves on some job thing because they aren't getting
> along.
anim8rFSK
Mar 1, 2015, 9:39:35 AM3/1/15
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In article <bc910385-37a7-415d...@googlegroups.com>,
Yes. She only had the one scene so I had to dig up the credits at the
end. Brandon, Lori, and Tara all have tiny credits at the end - that
doesn't bode well for the series.
Let's see - the above the title credits are
Catherine Bell
Bailee Madison
and James Denton
GOOD WITCH
the secondary credits are
Catherine Disher
Anthony Lemke (that's the real estate guy)
Peter MacNeill (grandpa)
Kylee Evans (Stephanie aka hot to trot blonde from The L.A. Complex)
and then the teensy end credits are
Derek Sanders - Noah Cappe (deputy from the movies, now lead cop)
Brandon Russell - Dan Jeanotte
Amber - Niamn Wilson
Anthony - Shane Hart (his only credit ever)
Lori Russell - Hannah Endicott Douglass
Tara - Ashley Leggat
Nick Radford - Rhys Matthew Bond (doctor's delinquent son)
-second page
Jerry - Ron Lea
Frisbee Kid - Paul Giurgeu
Waitress - Anna Hardwick
Mrs. Cavanaugh - Rishma Malik Scott
Vice Principal - Derek McGrath
Patient - Perry Mucci
So Jake's original kids are credited below people that I don't even
remember. Cassie's two new besties are people that weren't even in the
movies. Her husband is dead, her hot sister is unmentioned, and there's
next to no magic in the entire plodding 2 hours; as big as it gets is,
she has somebody take a pie someplace so they'll run into someone else.
I think this is an incredible misfire. The Good Peach says it would be
okay for her to watch, as she's never seen the movies but ... how much
of the audience is *that*? I think anybody that liked the movies will
find the magic is gone, if you'll forgive the expression.
end. Brandon, Lori, and Tara all have tiny credits at the end - that
doesn't bode well for the series.
Let's see - the above the title credits are
Catherine Bell
Bailee Madison
and James Denton
GOOD WITCH
the secondary credits are
Catherine Disher
Anthony Lemke (that's the real estate guy)
Peter MacNeill (grandpa)
Kylee Evans (Stephanie aka hot to trot blonde from The L.A. Complex)
and then the teensy end credits are
Derek Sanders - Noah Cappe (deputy from the movies, now lead cop)
Brandon Russell - Dan Jeanotte
Amber - Niamn Wilson
Anthony - Shane Hart (his only credit ever)
Lori Russell - Hannah Endicott Douglass
Tara - Ashley Leggat
Nick Radford - Rhys Matthew Bond (doctor's delinquent son)
-second page
Jerry - Ron Lea
Frisbee Kid - Paul Giurgeu
Waitress - Anna Hardwick
Mrs. Cavanaugh - Rishma Malik Scott
Vice Principal - Derek McGrath
Patient - Perry Mucci
So Jake's original kids are credited below people that I don't even
remember. Cassie's two new besties are people that weren't even in the
movies. Her husband is dead, her hot sister is unmentioned, and there's
next to no magic in the entire plodding 2 hours; as big as it gets is,
she has somebody take a pie someplace so they'll run into someone else.
I think this is an incredible misfire. The Good Peach says it would be
okay for her to watch, as she's never seen the movies but ... how much
of the audience is *that*? I think anybody that liked the movies will
find the magic is gone, if you'll forgive the expression.
Ian J. Ball
Mar 1, 2015, 12:29:35 PM3/1/15
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In article <anim8rfsk-BCAAD...@news.easynews.com>,
series better, or worse.
Well, no matter - with no Matthew Knight, and with what sounds like no
Ashley Leggat, I'm not about to find out!
--
"He's not just a driver - he's a transporter." - Juliette Dubois
(Delphine Chaneac) in "Harvest", "Transporter: The Series" (11-10-2014)
anim8rFSK <anim...@cox.net> wrote:
> So Jake's original kids are credited below people that I don't even
> remember. Cassie's two new besties are people that weren't even in the
> movies. Her husband is dead, her hot sister is unmentioned, and there's
> next to no magic in the entire plodding 2 hours; as big as it gets is,
> she has somebody take a pie someplace so they'll run into someone else.
>
> I think this is an incredible misfire. The Good Peach says it would be
> okay for her to watch, as she's never seen the movies but ... how much
> of the audience is *that*? I think anybody that liked the movies will
> find the magic is gone, if you'll forgive the expression.
As someone who found the movies excruciating, I wonder if I'd find the
> So Jake's original kids are credited below people that I don't even
> remember. Cassie's two new besties are people that weren't even in the
> movies. Her husband is dead, her hot sister is unmentioned, and there's
> next to no magic in the entire plodding 2 hours; as big as it gets is,
> she has somebody take a pie someplace so they'll run into someone else.
>
> I think this is an incredible misfire. The Good Peach says it would be
> okay for her to watch, as she's never seen the movies but ... how much
> of the audience is *that*? I think anybody that liked the movies will
> find the magic is gone, if you'll forgive the expression.
series better, or worse.
Well, no matter - with no Matthew Knight, and with what sounds like no
Ashley Leggat, I'm not about to find out!
--
"He's not just a driver - he's a transporter." - Juliette Dubois
(Delphine Chaneac) in "Harvest", "Transporter: The Series" (11-10-2014)
anim8rFSK
Mar 1, 2015, 1:23:02 PM3/1/15
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In article
<ijball-NO_SPAM-EDD...@88-209-239-213.giganet.hu>,
a dull half hour at best.
<ijball-NO_SPAM-EDD...@88-209-239-213.giganet.hu>,
"Ian J. Ball" <ijball-...@mac.invalid> wrote:
> In article <anim8rfsk-BCAAD...@news.easynews.com>,
> anim8rFSK <anim...@cox.net> wrote:
>
> > So Jake's original kids are credited below people that I don't even
> > remember. Cassie's two new besties are people that weren't even in the
> > movies. Her husband is dead, her hot sister is unmentioned, and there's
> > next to no magic in the entire plodding 2 hours; as big as it gets is,
> > she has somebody take a pie someplace so they'll run into someone else.
> >
> > I think this is an incredible misfire. The Good Peach says it would be
> > okay for her to watch, as she's never seen the movies but ... how much
> > of the audience is *that*? I think anybody that liked the movies will
> > find the magic is gone, if you'll forgive the expression.
>
> As someone who found the movies excruciating, I wonder if I'd find the
> series better, or worse.
So far, definitely worse. The pilot is 2 hours and has enough plot for
> In article <anim8rfsk-BCAAD...@news.easynews.com>,
> anim8rFSK <anim...@cox.net> wrote:
>
> > So Jake's original kids are credited below people that I don't even
> > remember. Cassie's two new besties are people that weren't even in the
> > movies. Her husband is dead, her hot sister is unmentioned, and there's
> > next to no magic in the entire plodding 2 hours; as big as it gets is,
> > she has somebody take a pie someplace so they'll run into someone else.
> >
> > I think this is an incredible misfire. The Good Peach says it would be
> > okay for her to watch, as she's never seen the movies but ... how much
> > of the audience is *that*? I think anybody that liked the movies will
> > find the magic is gone, if you'll forgive the expression.
>
> As someone who found the movies excruciating, I wonder if I'd find the
> series better, or worse.
a dull half hour at best.
>
> Well, no matter - with no Matthew Knight, and with what sounds like no
> Ashley Leggat, I'm not about to find out!
--
> Well, no matter - with no Matthew Knight, and with what sounds like no
> Ashley Leggat, I'm not about to find out!
--
Dimensional Traveler
Mar 1, 2015, 1:50:05 PM3/1/15
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--
Veni, vidi, snarki.
Arthur Lipscomb
Mar 1, 2015, 4:27:08 PM3/1/15
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little better than the last couple of movies.
anim8rFSK
Mar 1, 2015, 7:29:32 PM3/1/15
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In article <md005v$2ql$1...@dont-email.me>,
I'll give it one more shot to see what a regular one hour ep is like.
icebreaker
Mar 1, 2015, 7:55:15 PM3/1/15
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On Sun, 01 Mar 2015 17:29:28 -0700, anim8rFSK <anim...@cox.net>
wrote:
I watched it this PM. Seemed pretty much like the movies. I didn't
care for either the dad or the kid. They could have done better with
the writing and casting for those roles.
wrote:
care for either the dad or the kid. They could have done better with
the writing and casting for those roles.
anim8rFSK
Mar 1, 2015, 8:03:34 PM3/1/15
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chicagofan
Mar 1, 2015, 9:48:39 PM3/1/15
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up to date. :)
bj
RichA
Mar 1, 2015, 10:38:51 PM3/1/15
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Fascinating. A flop series from 2008, but followed by a presumably successful group of TV movies, then it becomes a series again. I don't know if any other "idea" has followed this kind of trajectory.
David Johnston
Mar 1, 2015, 11:15:15 PM3/1/15
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anim8rFSK
Mar 1, 2015, 11:16:44 PM3/1/15
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In article <md0j0p$poj$2...@dont-email.me>, chicagofan <m...@privacy.net>
wrote:
> > Um Sť okay.
"I watched it so you don't have to"
wrote:
> >
> > They dedicate a wing of something to dead Jake.
> >
> > So Cassie has her family back together, with everybody having tossed
> > their jobs and spouses aside (this is the happy ending, conspicuously
> > ignoring that, you know, JAKE IS DEAD).
> >
> WOW ... what a great job! I don't feel the need to watch it now, I'm all
> up to date. :)
> bj
hee hee
> > They dedicate a wing of something to dead Jake.
> >
> > So Cassie has her family back together, with everybody having tossed
> > their jobs and spouses aside (this is the happy ending, conspicuously
> > ignoring that, you know, JAKE IS DEAD).
> >
> WOW ... what a great job! I don't feel the need to watch it now, I'm all
> up to date. :)
> bj
"I watched it so you don't have to"
chicagofan
Mar 4, 2015, 1:24:57 AM3/4/15
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anim8rFSK wrote:
> In article <md0j0p$poj$2...@dont-email.me>, chicagofan <m...@privacy.net>
> wrote:
>
>> anim8rFSK wrote:
>>> GOOD WITCH (note there's no "The" - imagine the meetings they had over
>>> that - I bet they thought it was clever that it could refer to either of
>>> them).
>>>
>>> <snipped great review>
> In article <md0j0p$poj$2...@dont-email.me>, chicagofan <m...@privacy.net>
> wrote:
>
>> anim8rFSK wrote:
>>> GOOD WITCH (note there's no "The" - imagine the meetings they had over
>>> that - I bet they thought it was clever that it could refer to either of
>>> them).
>>>
>> WOW ... what a great job! I don't feel the need to watch it now, I'm all
>> up to date. :)
>> bj
> hee hee
>
> "I watched it so you don't have to"
>
Now, that's the kind of friend you want! Thanks! :)
>> up to date. :)
>> bj
> hee hee
>
> "I watched it so you don't have to"
>
bj
anim8rFSK
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