Charmed ~ The Molecule Thing 

Piper‘s power has always made sense to me freezing time to me is like slowing time down to the point where people freeze in the contained space where Piper is at least in the beginning because like you mentioned in the video in morality bites she can freeze everyone outside. On the other hand blowing things up makes sense to me because it’s speeding time up so much that things explode and with your example of the clock don’t forget that one of the first things we see Piper explode with her powers is a clock. She was in such a hurry that she sped up time for a clock to explode.

Did anyone else notice that after Piper got her exploding power she rarely used her freezing power again only like a few occasions after. And I know that the exploding power is more offensive especially when fighting demons everyday but I still wanted her use her other power as well.

My theory was that the girl's secondary powers were from the Power of One they used to fight abraxas. So when their powers grew they each tapped into another sister's powers. blowing things up by speeding up molecules and levitating seem like forms of telekinesis, and astral projection seems like a version of phoebe's power to see things in another place. That'a what i thought watching it but it never really developed into anything. Paige has prophetic dreams when the titans attack i guess

😱 OMG THANK YOU!!!!!!!!! In regards to P. Baxter (who holly plays in pardon my past) and her power of "molecular deceleration" it's legit like NOBODY even listen to the scene when P.Russell asks the Warlock Anton what he will be doing while she distracts P. Bowen in which he replies "by FIGHTING THROUGH HER POWER and posing as her former lover" what happens when a character is to powerful and is able to break though Piper's freeze. 🤔🤔🤔 But some they came up with the "weaker version of molecular immobilisation" and it went as far as one of the children of the charmed ones in the comic books has that power SMH

Oh you're totally right about the creative changes along the seasons, it shows. It started to get a lot more airheaded male gaze-y, and the thread of Constance's "the show is about sisters who happen to be witches, instead of witches who happen to be sisters" became simply "sexy witches" by the male execs. And then when they gave Holly EP control, it got even worse because her character was so enraged constantly. Show definitely devolved randomly, it's a pity!

I think my main problem with Piper's combustion power is how it effectively removed a lot of the stakes after a while. She could pretty much just one shot a lot of the demons that attacked.

Piper's powers are two forms of molecular manipulation. She can either slow molecules down to the point where they appear frozen or speed them up to the point where things explode.

The levitation power NEVER made sense to me. It was certainly NOT a progression.

Even though the Molecular aspect is interesting and was a pretty decent excuse to make Piper the strongest since Prue would eventually be killed off, so they needed an offensive power in some way, I stil think that freezing time is a much more fitting concept for the power. It works both for Piper's personality as a whole but also because of how it's portrayed everytime it's used. The power literally makes the background music and sounds stop when activated, and even the activation and deactivation sound effects seem like something slowly stopping and returning back to movement again, you know? Like an clock. And my problem with this molecular manipulation thing is that when you search for this power on the powers wiki you can see an enormous quantities of things you can do with this power, like reversing them as a whole, which could still pretty much fit into the concept of controling time! The explanation for the explosion power could have been that you could literally make things explode by making time go faster in minimum seconds, but anyway, at least it wasn't entirely inconsistent 😅

As you can tell by the comment section A LOT of fans are hung up on the molecule thing. However I agree with you, it was ONE LINE used to explain Pipers time freezing ability. The show refers to it directly as “stopping time” or the “power to freeze” or “freezing time” just because it works on the molecular level does not mean she’s not controlling time.

Great explanation. "We call things by their name/title, not their function".

By Charmedverse standards, no one in the 1600’s, as with rl, knew about molecules. So stopping them is like an optical illusion for the time power. Scattering is a molecular based teleportation. We’ve seen different appearances before, and I personally like the appearance in Little Box of Horrors (Pandora’s Box ep). Phoebe’s future power as long been fan named as Electo-Mental Ignition. But the comics calls it Psychic Reflection. I know u the poster don’t like the comics, but bear with me please 🙏🏻. It allows her to project emotions, just as she feels them. Pull can now push.

It made more sense that her Powers are Molecule based when you consider good witches are Immune to that Power unlike Temporal Stasis which is a higher Power only possesed by very strong beings no witch or demon is Immune to that power...back then Melinda thought its stopping time only because she had no idea about Molecules...

The retcon explination makes sense to me, her freezing power works by molecular immobilization, and it allowed for a more interesting growth path

I never understood the confusion with Phoebe's powers: her power was mind related and levitation is totally connected to that. You can see in X-Men for instance, Jean Grey can read people's minds and has telekinesis and she can also float. Prue herself, also having a mind related power, could "move her body" with her mind and nobody gets confused. Phoebe could move herself with her mind as well. Both Phoebe and Prue had psyche/mind related powers and Phoebe even developed a kind of astral premonition later in the series too. I totally can see her levitation power being connected to her premonition power (and empathy as well).

Oooo I love this subject in a debate/ brainstorming way. I am a perpetual fence sitter and can always see the pros and cons to all sides. So I agree with the point if the video. But I also think those in charge changed it for Pipers power because we learned more in science and physics that Time may not actually be a thing. Like math is not a thing. They are constructs and perceptions. Concepts we make by sensing and measuring, analyzing and existing. Time isn’t like water or gravity. Though it’s more similar to gravity than it is to a physical object. Time is relative to where you are in space and the gravity around you. Time is literally the distance and speed at which objects move through space. So it’s kinda semantics. It could be argued that stoping or freezing molecules is also temporal stasis. The slowing stoping or speeding up the motion of all molecules in an area would stop or speed up the effects and perception of time passing to those molecules. But I do like the Distinction that the power or energy she emits is interacting with physical and atomic structures not forces and laws of the universe. And honestly philosophically speaking all three aspects are inter related and deals with the observing, interacting, and manipulating the world and matter and energy at a molecular and near quantum level. To move an object is to move its particles, which means you can stop said particles or speed them up, and if you take it deeper to psychokinesis and senses then if you can move anything and everything anywhere with will and mind alone then you can move your own senses, your own molecules, your own energy and that of other living things to anywhere at any speed and at any point in space time. So you would only be limited by both your own senses and imagination. But you’d be able to do all the sisters did, even Paige’s Teleport. And if you pulled a Phoebe and do that learning knowledge with a touch thin she did and read biology books and medical and physiology and anatomy books? You’d be able to manipulate the speed of motion and replication of living cells and DNA. This really could go on forever!! Lmao I’ll stop here!

im super on board with her having time freezing powers. theres too many retcons and mistakes in the show to take one throw away line seriously after there being so many lines where they call it freezing time. also if you do think of it scientifically then it would have to be freezing time. because if she did stop molecules then they would freeze into ice since cold happens when molecules slow down. but if she froze a field of time then it would work like this. maybe her exploding power just works by speeding up the time of each molecule. that way you can get both answers and everybodys happy!

I kinda like the “retcon” they did with piper powers. Any power controlling time is op and piper had way too much rules concerning how her power works.

Giving piper the power to wilt would have made sense with her power of freezing time but would have made less sense with her character progression as the anxious and stern matriarch figure of the family

I used to think that the molecule thing was a reach, until a couple of years ago when I rewatched season one. In "That 70's Episode", when Piper freezes Nicholas at the beginning, the clock still continues to chime, which made me realise that if her powers were time based, wouldn't that also stop the clock? I do think that because the power appeared to freeze, it was stated that Melinda's power was time based, but it was also the 1600s, and from what we know, Melinda didn't have a Whitelighter to get info from the Elders, which she, and the rest of the Warren witches with the power to freeze, likely didn't need, if they never developed the exploding power.

It was always fun to watch Piper use her powers. The original or the upgrade at the end of season 3. When the show referred to it as freezing time, I liked it a lot. Even so, I enjoyed Leo's explanation to the upgrade, since I'm always seeking some sense in this kind of stuff. For me, there is a big difference between freezing time and slowing down or stopping molecular movements. I think time freezing affects the targets' connection to the constant time flux we all live in. When you consider that, a power like this is extremely strong. By contrast, to stop molecules just from moving, mimicking frozen time, seems much more appropriate for a witch power. By the way, I really like your videos. Please show us more of them. You're amazing!

Pipers power has always been referred to as freezing time until season 3 (when constance left) where they said her power was molecular based. It's possible that if constance was there for season 3, Piper would have gotten the power to actually manipulate time itself and eventually gain the ability to freeze a large variety or area. For example, the angel of destiny in season 4 froze everyone and it was referred to as temporal stasis similar to how Piper froze everyone in season 2 in Morality Bites so it could have been a nod to what Pipers powers could have been. There is a chance she could have gotten the ability to manipulate time aswell such as reversing it, travelling through it and controlling it. Similar to how billie went back in time but without the use of projection. I feel like the only reason they gave her molecular combustion was to give her some form of offense rather than her being a defensive sister like Phoebe. But since both prue and phoebe knew how to fight well they decided to give her powers a hit. Literally.

Another thing I noticed was that in season 6 when Piper, Phoebe and Paige traveled back in time to the 60's there was a warlock that could stop time and something Piper was frozen along with everyone else. I just always thought that was weird because I thought good witches don't freeze. That's something that was explained in season 1.

I just finished watching "Morality Bites" right now, and noticed something interesting. Ten years in the future, Phoebe is on trial for murder because she killed a guy using magic, which exposed the existence of magic. The entire world knows about magic; for instance, Piper freezes time in her future body, and while she's talking to Leo, a woman comes in, sees the frozen people, and starts yelling "witch." Now, here's the thing: didn't the Cleaners say they step in when magic is exposed to clean up the mess? Phoebe killing someone using her powers and getting caught doing it is a big deal, and on top of that, the entire world knows about magic, witches etc, and they are even witch hunters and Phoebe is being executed on live tv. So, where are the Cleaners? the cleaners should have appeared long before the Wyatt episode where he conjured up a dragon. Seems like the writers screwed up somewhere and didn't quite explain why this episode happened. Funny thing is, I never thought about this until I watched the episode again.

I liked it better when their powers were magically explained. Like Timing. Feeling and the Phases of the moon thing.

The molecule thing doesn't bother me because when Melinda was active, that's how her power would have seemed. Moleculesn wouldn't be something freely recognized by people, so describing the effect as 'stopping time' would have been an easy label.

Stopping time would break the space-time continuum as time is the energy that keeps the fabric of space woven and if you stop it space (reality) will unravel.

Pipers Molecular iMobilization and Prues telekinesis are pretty much opposites of each other. Pipers power halts matter while Prues Power moves matter

I hate that molecular thing too, but we can only imagine how the show would be with Constance all 8 seasons

The whole molecular manipulation explanation thing feels like a way to give their powers a half assed scientific explanation to a supernatural experience. It doesn't need it. If Piper's power's were really stopping and accelerating molecules, then that would affect temperature as well. If molecules stop moving, then in that space it's absolute zero. If molecules speed up, you get heat. That's how fire works.

Hahaha Paiges power could be called Molecular orbing 😂😂😂😂

I agree with you, but I think it applies to astral projection too which Prue got in Season 2 when Constance M. Burge was still running the show. Ultimately, the writers wrote themselves into a corner with the lore that the Warren line could only have the original three powers. Allowing new powers was a way to keep the show fresh. The powers were a bit random, but I think it's fine. It was cool to see ice versus fire on screen. Given that premonition and freezing time would be no threat to the cousin with telekinesis, I'm glad they changed it.

This is a weird one because time and molecular manipulation can be seen as the same thing. All molecules of an affected area in which time is stopped will be frozen in place and not able to be changed until the molecules are released or time is restored. They had the same issue in Heroes when Hiro Nakimora tries to keep Daphne from stealing a half of a formula. He "stops time" but being a speedster, is so fast that Hiro cannot stop her. Daphne explains that he doesn't really stop time or she would be affected too, but slows time down to the point of appearing to be stopped. Maybe it's just too OP to give someone true time manipulation powers, there has to be a scapegoat.

Speeding up objects dont make then explode. You need something as a catalyst. If they wanted to go the molecular route, I guess increasing molecular speed to increase temperature until objects changed state could have worked. As for the manipulating time route, giving piper the ability to time travel is just too powerful. It would take out all the stakes. Perhaps her freezing time power could develop into temporarily rewinding time like that one person or maybe she could speed up time in an isolated area to torture demons. Idk. Pure having astral projection also made no sense. Pure isn’t moving her body she is bi locating. Phoebe should have had traditional astra projection and pure should have had flight

Sidenote: But sometimes I wish that Phoebe could have the power of telepathy instead of levitation. Not only would it be way cooler and an actually extension to her premonition but they could easily find innocents and/or demons instead of scrying

Melinda Warren wouldnt have known about molecules and would have recorded it as she observed it. She froze spaces in time. Piper's power expansion makes way more sense than Prue astral projection or Phoebe's levitating (which would habe bith made more sense on the opposite sister). They didn't build up the powers in detail over the first two seasons at all; if anything Pardon My Past established that they can develop new abilities and lose them in their next life if abused. Piper's past life became Piper, whose freezing power was stronger and she got a new power. The molecule explaination retroactively made the fire and ice powers somewhat fit into the family since temperature is the result of molecular motion and heat can lead to combustion.

i just thought abt this yesterday out of the blue

Randomly this is the one thing I don't think that bad/inconsistent writing isn't the main problem with a Charmed issue. I think they are trying to make a quantum physics play into making sense of why molecular immobilizing things make sense. In the Salem witch times what Melinda Warren did "looked" like freezing time even though she didn't technically do this otherwise all time would stop a la Hiro from Heroes but we she she doesn't effect all matter. She only freezes things in her general vicinity. It is not just a time thing though through the way it's presented in the show. I understand why the explanation was needed give that. Otherwise I would have preferred a more obvious time based extension. One thing I think is interesting is Shannen knew her powers would grow as soon as the press for the first episodes of the first seasons. I wonder how far in advance they knew for each power extension.

To be honest this was my least favorite power in the show because if just became a cheap win button for the Charmed Ones and got used more over her freezing power because of lessened budget. Even though Piper is my favorite character despite how annoying she can be. lol I know people complain about Prue being overpowered in early seasons, and while I don't disagree necessarily, I also don't agree on the same wavelength. Piper's Molecular Combustion was the most overpowered move in the show. The reason being is starting in Season 5, almost any time they needed a way to get rid of a demon that wasn't PO3 or a spell they just used Piper to win button the threat of the episode every time. This feels even worse when potions by the end of the show just became the same thing as Piper's exploding power. Instead of earlier when the sisters needed things to make their potion's effect stronger. It also stepped on the toes of Paige's offensive power too as there were many times, especially around Season 5 and 7 where Paige is standing next to Piper and they are fighting a demon, despite Paige having her own offensive power than can be effective in his own right while not possessing the rawness of Piper's exploding power would just not be used, almost as if the episode forgets Paige didn't have her own offensive power, rather she opted to throw a potion just to make sure their threat of the day is solved by Piper exploding them. It felt like a cheap DEM. In spite of my criticisms though, I do think Molecular Combustion and Molecular Immobilization are cool powers that not a lot of media uses and made Piper stand out in that regard.

I suck at stem so I'll take your word for it

Agree pipers powers completely freeze nit slow down and they move for a bit

Good example with the clock - we don't call a gear changer lol. I always did wonder about her powers why they stopped called it the power to freeze time and then started referring it as the "molecule thing". The first two seasons established that she could freeze time just like the Angels of Destiny could. In the episode "Morality Bites," when Phoebe is in jail for murder, Piper freezes everything with a simple gesture and Prue could do some kind of energy blast which was cool, to bad we never got to see her evolve to use that power. Now, we know why her powers could speed things up; the writers just added that in and had Leo explain it to us the original creator must have have been mad watching her vision destroyed lol. P.S. Did you also notice the size of the laptop at 1:31? Lol, I didn't know laptop were that blocky at the bottom back in the day! Lol since I didn't have one.

Might as well call it the molecular of three

The later seasons relied too much on Piper blowing up the demons. I found myself missing the spells.

I like the concept of stopping time, but I guess it gets confusing because if time literally stopped, it would have to have a more global impact, which, as another commenter mentioned, is a bit overpowered, especially for Piper's early years. The molecular thing explains how, after a person is "frozen", literal time still advances by seconds or minutes. Still, actual time magic would be cooler.

Then, when Paige became one of the Charmed Ones, her power of telekinesis turned into one of teleportation, apparently due to her being half Whitelighter. Incidentally, how about doing a video on this idea: why is it that Charmed played into the old superstition that "good looking = good; ugly = evil"?

For me their secondary powers never made any sense. It should be levitation for Prue, astral projection for Phoebe and as for Piper it's a little more complicated... I accepted their explanation because I couldn't think about any other advancements. Their explanation is just very stretched. But still I prefer Piper's secondary power because at least it's trying to make some sense, not like Prue's and Phoebe's secondary powers which are reversed. Let's look for potential advancements that would make sense for this power from other sci-fi/fantasy shows... - Paralysis Inducement - useful to get some information from demons - Temporal Displacement - that would be interesting but it would go to much into Phoebe's visions of past, present and future - Speed Cancellation - very useful against speedsters - Time Dilation Field - for trapping someone and I think that one would be the best I've also seen other advancements of this power like being super fast or teleportation. But I think that the problem is that they made her too strong at the beginning and it's kinda hard to make this power grow. If they would start with just slowing down someone (like their ancestor did) then it could be slower and slower to the point time would stop and also grow from single objects/people to whole room, building, etc.

The future!Phoebe powers remind me of the comics where she DID get that power as the timeline caught up with the timeline of Morality Bites Speaking of - I'd be curious to see your take of the comic seasons as well!

If Prue was alive the entire show this is how i think her powers woukd have grown: Telekinesis Astral projection Telematerialization (since she already had this power from season 1, i think it could grow to the point that she doesnt need a liquid substance to move things. It could be like tj orbing hut without the orbs.) Advanced telekinesis (seen from the future) Thought projection (this may be controversial however my theory i think that since she originally used her mind to move things before her hands why not move things FROM her mind and materialize it) She would gain these powers in season 4, 6, 8. Similar to phoebe where she got new powers every 3 years, prue would get hers every 2 years.

I’ve always taken a bit of an issue with the power progression. A part of me wishes that they kept the powers bound to the three core tenants of the pilot: Movement, Time, Mind and progressed in those realms. From a writing standpoint, it probably would’ve been hard to give someone dominion over time without making them OP, so I’m ok in hindsight with what they did. For Phoebe, her premonitions always came randomly even as the seasons went on, but again if you make someone have unlimited control of seeing the future, that eliminates the possibility for a lot of plot lines. So I get why they kept her psychic powers tamped down, even though I don’t like it 😂 And her levitation makes NO sense. That would’ve made sense for Prue if anything Anyway, great video! 😊

Future charmed in season 2 Prue - Telekinetic Waves Piper - Advanced Immobilization Phoebe - Psychic Reflection & Levitation

I would love to ask Constance why didn’t they use Piper as a go around for tempus. It was still when she was around and tempus was the demon of time. Why was it just phoebe who really wasn’t affected by the time redos or they needed a spell make time go forward if pipers powers are time based

By the way Constance M Burgess she should come back she was the original creator of the show so they should bring her back Constance 0:33

can you do a video comparing the powers of the original Charmed to the powers of the Charmed Reboot? Cause I feel like the writers of the reboot fixed or attempted to fix the problems with the powers from the original.

What did you think of the CW Charmed's take on Temporal powers? I greatly preferred their range of powers.

Yeah… the power growth and power retconning didn’t make sense. I do like the idea of molecular inhibition being the version of Piper’s that she presented during Bride and Gloom I believe where she encased the lady in ice BUT her actual freezing power being temporal stasis will always make far more sense to me, retcon be damned lol. Same for Priscilla Baxter having temporal deceleration instead of molecular deceleration. As for Piper Molecular Combustion, idk why they didn’t just give her temporal acceleration which they could’ve shown as her causing rapid aging/degradation on select objects but of course that wouldn’t be as flashy as an explosion for Brad 😒. I also HATED the random growth in general. Prue’s astral projection works, especially if we take it as being the manifestation of her telekinesis given form but phoebes levitation irritates me. I wish they had given levitation to Prue which could further explain her enhanced combat skills (I know she went training with Phoebe off screen) and gave Phoebe astral projection or anything “premonition-esque” based power like Prue said. This is kinda the only time I’ll give the reboot series its props because for better or worse, the power growths/expansions did follow a categorical trend that made sense thematically.

"Fiji Halliwell"😂❤

I came back to comment this thing, haha. Maybe it could be of use for another video? One thing that I didn't like about the powers in general, was how in season 1, telekinesis was seen as this rare, powerful Warren power, and throughout the years, suddenly (imo) it seemed to become the most common power, also outside of the Warren line. How many demons and other witches did we see using it? How many students at magic school? And most annoyingly: Billie. I mean, this was basically the fifth main character witch (after the sisters) and they decided to copy Prue's power and have Billie use it as well, even though she had no familial relation to them? Come on... Haha, rant over

Please so a video on Brad Kern

Well I just got finished watching this video and yeah I see that it's about the Molecule deal, but seeing some bits of the second episode in the second season Morality bites, we see Prue a decade later from the present and yes, the future isn't set, but in some shape, matter, or form that Prue was still capable of being alive and that's how the show should of been while it was on the air. The program got screwed because of Prue being murdered which I say is UNACCEPTABLE thanks to Brad Kern🙄who my respect has slightly declined towards. But back to the Molecule business, it does make a lot of sense that Piper and slow down molcules and later on, learned that she can speed them up. And between Constance and Brad, I would respect Constance over Brad any day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I’m a little confused can anyone who knows science a bit please explain because her freezing power being the result of slowing down molecules makes no sense because then the object would loose it’s heat and crystallize like when she was a warlock right?

Well put. I enjoyed this video

Hey really love your vids. They always take me back to a better time. But I do have to disagree with you here. I think the "molecular manipulation" theory relating to Piper's power took off because it made more sense than the literal stopping of time thing. Especially because it was established that when she uses her powers, it only has limited range. Time is everywhere. It's all around us. And it all kind of goes together. If she were truly stopping time, wouldn't it be everywhere? Wouldn't the earth stop spinning, light stop traveling through space and the universe as a whole come to a stand still? If she is only stopping something in the room she is currently in but not outside, how could she truly be stopping time? Doesn't it just make more sense that she is freezing molecules or whatever instead? I think this is just an old fashioned retcon and a much needed one at that. Constance (in my opinion) didn't really think that one through. Now I wouldn't go overboard like the others and say that all of their powers are based on some form of molecular manipulation, but where Piper is concerned? It makes much more sense. And in my opinion to totally suspend my belief in this regard totally breaks immersion in the show. Those are my little thoughts on the matter. Can't wait for your next upload.

Would her Combustion ability have been more tolerable if she was shown to have a Temporal Acceleration ability? In that way, Combustion would have just been the power's offensive presentation.

Piper needed that power upgrade, and so did Phoebe. I understand what you are saying about it deviating from the source material, but Season 1&2 didn't utilize the sisters enough. Piper and Phoebe were always written around Prue. It felt like they were props or tools on Prues belt. Although it is stated in the first episode that one of the sisters could stop time, it never really made much sense to me considering that in season 1 the scene where she freezes the kitchen at quake and not the rest of the restaurant, or the episode where She freezes Matthew and he figures out they got their powers because the clock kept chiming while he was frozen. So going the molecular route filled in that plot hole. It also helped Piper expand on the power, because if she can slow down molecules, why cant she speed them up? I think it was really fun and the power brought out a lot of pipers personality and it gave her a Confidence boost. Melinda power was to see the future, but Phoebe didn't have that limitation; she could also see the past. So its safe to say that the sisters powers take on a form of their own relating to who the sisters are. Another thing, Astral Projection is tied to psychics therefore that power should've went to Phoebe. Levitation is also tied to psychics so that power fit Phoebe. I think that Prue should've gotten the levitation power first because she is in face moving her power. My theory is that Melinda couldn't stop time, she just thought she could because could freeze everyone around her and she interpreted the power as freezing time.

I haven't long watched your videos I just wanted to add which also does not make sense while you was on the subject of the titans in season 5 that particular episode has always bugged me as at the very beginning Phoebe says why do they not have air conditioning but going back to season 3 to Sight Unseen low and behold they have air conditioning as Cole turns it on to help them see Troxa its like you have said they haven't thought things through properly thanks for your uploads I shall look forward to watching more that you post in near future

I love your videos! I don’t really agree with you on this one, though. Do I believe that the growing of the powers was an afterthought, and that it was probably kind of ‘forced to make sense’? Yes. But personally, while I am kind of iffy on Phoebe’s levitation power, I do personally believe that Piper’s powers make sense. In my opinion, ‘freezing time’ was like a bit of a simplified explanation on what the power is all about. Because if you think about it, say the scene where she freezes everybody in the kitchen in Quake, but not in the restaurant itself? “Time” isn’t really frozen because time is for everybody, you know what I mean? That would mean that everybody in the kitchen, frozen in that moment, would be like, out of sync with the rest of the world? Maybe I’m thinking too much about it, but time as a concept in general is kind of messy like that - I mean, they said it themselves in the show. Don’t think about time traveling etc, you’ll get a headache. In that sense it really was a logical extension of her powers that she could blow things up if she sped up the molecules. The fact that it was only mentioned once, to me, to me also doesn’t feel like a hindrance, you know, it’s like you said, we’re not here to listen to the science behind it. Though it does sound kind of cool to me to know. Like it gives it more “realism”, more than just being told “that’s just her power”. With Phoebe, yes, the levitation does seem random, though, like you point out in the video, we see future Phoebe doing it while using another power, so I kind of always just thought to myself that it was like, levitation was an extension of her power that we never saw fully developed. Also, levitation is often associated with meditation, which we do see Phoebe meditate and levitate in the show, and we even see Paige levitating in orbs while she’s meditating. So maybe it could be explained in that sense, that it comes from that higher awareness of clairvoyance that Phoebe has, that allows her to do that. We’ll never know, of course, but it is nice to think about. At least I think so :-) Like I commented on your previous video, a bigger plot hole problem concerning the powers that I have is why does Melinda Warren have all three of these powers, and why do all of her family members that come after her, that are supposed to be stronger than her, have only one of them? EDIT: I once heard someone say that them giving Piper the explosion power was probably the writers knowing they were going to get rid of Prue. Before that, Piper's power was more defensive than offensive, and they realized that with Prue's character gone, they'd need to have someone else with an offensive power.

Constance worked on the 3rd season

can you make a video on Billie and Christy and give us moe of analysis on them or something ? I think they’re such interesting characters because of the backstory to them and why they were choose as the ultimate power

Hold on, I agree with the molecule thing being stupid but I don't agree that the powers didn't make sense. If any power didn't make sense it was Prue's astral projection(yes there is a decent explanation but if you think about it long enough you'll find that every power is connected somehow). Anyway what I am referring to has to do with astrology because the girl's personality are heavily based on the modalities of astrology. There are 3 modalities in astrology(and no their birthdays don't align well with them): Cardinal(the first signs of the seasons - aries, cancer, libra and capricorn) - what these signs have in common is that they're initiators of change and Prue fits this quite well. According to the show she's a Scorpio but the personality she has is very much Capricorn - grounded, in control, ambitious, hard working, gets things done well, professional... And her power of telekinesis literally allows her to initiate a change in the environment. This is why to me astral projection for her makes no sense. That fits mutable more(we'll get to that soon) Fixed(the second signs of the seasons - taurus, leo, scorpio, aquarius) - what these signs have in common is that they try to resist sudden, unexpected change, if they haven't envisioned it. Piper fits that perfectly and generally fits the personality of a Taurus(homey, searching for stability, rigid, stubborn...) and her power literally allows her to keep things as they are. Exploding things also makes sense because when change is pushed on these signs it is destructive. That's basically the thing, most of the time they're resisting change but when that's no longer an option BOOM. And that's what happened to Piper, her anxiety turned to anger Mutable(the final signs of the season -gemini, virgo, sagittarius and pisces) - these signs adapt to change somehow. And phoebe is a very adaptable, improvising person. Her powers allow her to adapt. She receives information(in the form of premonitions and empathy) so she can adapt to it(imagine if this was piper, like in the first episode, she would have hesitated to go save the kids, simply due to panic) and even her levitation as an indirect power allows her to adapt what she already knows(martial arts) in different ways, gives her more flexibility. Now the pathokinesis(the thing she did in the future) makes no sense because she's moving emotions and thoughts(creating a change instead of adapting). I would much rather phoebe had astal projection and prue had pathokinesis(literally moving thought and emotions to change a person's mind...) although with the plot of morality bites that would make no sense. But after paige came along this stopped making sense because orbing fits mutable while telekinetic orbing fits cardinal and that's the thing with paige, she exhibits both aries and sagittarius.

But Piper's power of freezing never actually was stopping time - if it was, then the idea of "good witches not freezing" wouldn't make any sense, as that would mean they'd exist outside time. Also, it's established early on that she can only freeze things within the one room, how can time stop in one area and still keep going in another? And then how can she selectively freeze some people and not others? The idea of Piper actually stopping time is laughable. It's obvious that her freezing power has something to do with freezing the target, so the idea of manipulating molecules is far more consistent and makes far more sense than the idea of Piper manipulating the entire fabric of space-time.

Were Piper just stopping the molecules, wouldn't the energy behind their movement (in the case of a bullet) dissipate upon freezing? The force moving the molecules isn't a molecule itself so the explanation is half baked at best IMO.

the molecule thing makes no sense when piper blows up the clock it didn't speed the clocks molecules up? a clock dosen't have molecules

Well, I don't think P. Baxter had the power of molecular deceleration, I think it was basically molecular immobilization. In one of the first episodes, it was stated that every new generation of the Warren witches is stronger than the older one. One of the powers Melinda practiced was molecular immobilization, which is a stronger version of molecular deceleration, so it doesn't make sense for P. Baxter to have a weaker version of it than Melinda. Also, when she froze Anton (or whatever his name was), he said "I love having this power." The only power that would make sense in that situation was immunity to getting frozen.

What about phoebe Levitation piper got new power because going kill prue

Oh sorry I wasn't trying to make you repeat yourself it's not my intention I get what you're saying probably it's me that I'm repeating all the time not realizing trying to ask the same question all over again and again 11:08

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