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Past Innocence Review
Written By: Melissa

This certainly falls into the 'great' episode category.  Parts really made me laugh out loud, I thought it was incredibly funny; the writer has definitely got those one-liners down pat.  I sensed a little input from the actual Charmed season 5 but that was cool.  I didn't really get the significance of the 'sacred blade', I thought it was a good storyline that maybe could have been developed further, and also the explanation for the non-vanquished demons was a bit weak.  And the innocents were funny but entirely too bolshy for my liking.  The spells were fun but they don't really make sense or have a rhyme and rhythm, maybe you could work on that.  I did like the way Phoebe's protection spell was worked into the previous episode, that was subtle yet effective, they don't do that enough in the 'real' show.
 
The reason it's a 'great' episode is simply because it was so funny and the characters could not have been any more realistic, natural or more themselves.  Phoebe was fantastic, suitably over-protective but again, where was Cole?  Paige was perfect and though I love Matt and I really don't want them to split up, how naive can you get?  He has to tell Paige about the Draco/Max thing or when she does find out she'll be so mad!  I love her whole new power thing, though I'm not sure what it means, and the other people's thoughts in her mind-reading spell were great.  I can't describe how wonderful I thought Piper was, and (yay!) her pregnancy, and her one-liners were wicked, there were far too many to mention them all but I thought her 'cannon fingers' were particularly apt.  Leo was back and he was terrific, the writer certainly got his character right.  The episode has to have 9/10 for pure amusement factor.

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