Charmed 5x12♡Uncut Reaction &Review ♡
Added 2025-09-10 01:39:01 +0000 UTCCentennial Charmed
After realizing that he will never get Phoebe back in this reality and getting tired of her sisters' constant attempts at vanquishing him, Cole agrees to become an avatar. The first thing he does with his new powers is throw himself into an alternate reality where he is once again Belthazor and Phoebe and Piper never met Paige, meaning the Power of Three was never reconstituted.
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My favorite post-Prue episode.
Shaun Stacy
2025-09-15 12:54:37 +0000 UTCPaige and Piper's relationship really is one of my favourites in the show, from where they started, the growth has been beautiful to watch. I'm so torn on the Cole stuff because I do agree with the sentiment that Cole and Phoebe just weren't meant to be. They loved each other, they really did, but it just wasn't enough. I also really love this episode, it's so good, I just hate the path it took us to get here. I thought his ending in 4x20 was great and his ending here is also great, everything in between, Cole wise, not great.
Dannielle
2025-09-10 13:12:31 +0000 UTCthe cole storyline was my personal favorite from the whole show. it was insanely emotionally impactful for me and i cry during so many of the episodes in it. i think it's a REALLY good metaphor for an abusive relationship. they're so insanely in love with each other, like just pure unadultered love, yet there are some tendencies in their relationship that are unhealthy. (cole showing up with flowers and refusing to leave after phoebe ended things, phoebe being too quick to forgive, and forgiving to her own detriment, cole pushing the marraige after phoebe explained her feelings, and cole immediately turning back to evil when phoebe sent him away for killing that witch) for the most part though, at this early point their relationship is very pure. (speaking about after she's aware he's belthazor) then they get engaged. now this point of commitment is a place where a lot of abusers ramp it up. whether it be consciously, because they feel like they're less likely to be left for their bad behavior, or unconsciously, because they feel ownership over their fiance now that they've committed like this. the very next episode, the source is reborn in cole, representing that abusive nature coming out it starts with lovebombing- the car, the penthouse, the dresses, the gifts for her family, the constant romance... phoebe senses something is wrong but pushes it down because she can't believe that a man who's treating her this well could be doing something nefarious. next he manages to gaslight the one family member who is suspicious of him into thinking she imagined it all. things are going very well. until, of course, phoebe gets pregnant. he feels so much closer to her and his human side grows stronger. (irl equivilant would be his loving and pure side growing stronger, while the demonic side would represent the abusiveness growing weaker) this leads him to have his guard down and make a mistake. (phoebe breaks through the sources powers and gets a premonition of cole's evil, irl equivalent would be showing your true nature bc u got too comfy) phoebe knows now and she's completely heartbroken. cole will do anything for her at this point, so he decides to remove the source from himself. (irl would be he decides to try and heal that sick part of himself) but before he can be rid of it, phoebe stops him. it turns out it's too late, and the seer has gotten to her. i personally think the seer represents the voice inside her head that loves cole more than anything and absolutely could not comprehend the idea of a life without him and a life without the baby they're having. so she makes the only choice she feels she can, and abandons/betrays her family. cole has successfully isolated her. the source grows stronger in cole, now that he has complete and utter control over phoebe. they're married, living together, and she has no one else. the capacity for power is just too much to resist and so his abusive nature comes out even more. he scolds her for trying to reach out to family, poisons her with evil, and tries to manipulate her into thinking it's all for her own good. he's becoming cruel and callous. he no longer cares about phoebe's feelings, even yelling at her to just go when she says she's writing two good-bye letters, unsure of which to send. he kills the innocent she saved knowing it would upset her then says she made him, and finally, turns on her family. he provokes them knowing they'll come and he'll be forced to kill them in self defense, the only scenario where he kills them and phoebe could possibly forgive him. (in his mind) this plan leads to the sisters vanquishing him, mirroring phoebe leaving cole. from this point on, the abusive behaviors are more obvious so all i really wanna say about that part is that the more he comprehended that phoebe would never love him again the more he went off the rails. the episode where phoebe tells him she thought he was dead and she felt nothing is his final straw. he still wants phoebe but he's also insanely angry and resentful of her. his fantasy has changed from having her to hurting her. and that's when he decides to become an avatar so he can take paige away. so yeah, that's my thoughts on that storyline!! i understand why people don't like it, it wrote off an enjoyable character, but ohmygod it literally penetrated a part of my soul so deep i was having super vivid nightmares about being the one in a relationship with cole. i'd half-wake up but still be ridiculously scared to leave the house because cole didn't want it. i don't know what it was because i haven't even been in an abusive relationship before but yeah i'm so grateful for that storyline, i LOVE tv that impacts me that deeply. i gained a whole new respect for the writers
esme
2025-09-10 11:31:05 +0000 UTC
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