# Charmed

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charmed/187012>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 8, 2003, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charmed/187012 "2003-07-08T15:22:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![meathead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@meathead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meathead)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charmed/187012/21 "2003-07-09T21:56:29Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Bobby Roberts \*  
> \*\*Makes sense with the time travelling that the 3 (4) have done in other episodes. I can only think of 4 time travelling shows and only 2 of those were within their lifetimes. One was way back to colonial times, save the Halliwell line. No corresponding selves to replace. One to the future, burn Pheobie. The 3 replaced each other. One to a previous life in the roaring 20’s, evil Pheobie. They replaced themselves again. And the last with Page going back to the death of her parents. Here she replaced herself.  
> I can’t think of any others. \*\*

There was also one where Prue, Piper, and Phoebe went back in time to stop their mother from making a pact with a Warlock to make him immune from their powers.

They remained adults and co-existed with their childhood selves - except for Phoebe, because Patty was pregnant with her at the time. They even got in trouble for kidnapping their young selves.

(There was a pretty cute scene in which a young Piper - who hasn’t had her powers bound yet - freezes a young Andy)

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**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charmed/187012/22 "2003-07-10T01:04:55Z")

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> I can only think of 4 time travelling shows and only 2 of those were within their lifetimes. One was way back to colonial times, save the Halliwell line. No corresponding selves to replace. One to the future, burn Pheobie. The 3 replaced each other. One to a previous life in the roaring 20’s, evil Pheobie. They replaced themselves again. And the last with Page going back to the death of her parents. Here she replaced herself.  
> I can’t think of any others.

There was also the one where Phoebe cast a spell to see if she should marry Cole, and the spell sent her a future Phoebe who was an old lady, and a past Phoebe, who was a little girl. The old woman Phoebe remembered Cole, and slapped him. The little girl of course didn’t know Cole yet.

I’m currently hooked on the TNT episodes and have watched every one in sequence since the first one on my Tivo. I’m right at the point where Cole got Phoebe pregnant and they’re just starting to figure out that something is amiss with him. (Although they don’t know he’s the source). Don’t tell me anything. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Bobby\_Roberts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Bobby\_Roberts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobby_Roberts)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charmed/187012/23 "2003-07-10T13:21:16Z")

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Thanks for informing me of those other time travel episodes, I missed those. So basically it looks like sometimes the time traveler replaces him/herself and other times they co-exist.

So it’s very reasonable to think that Chris is a future Wyatt co-existing with baby Wyatt. Plus, if he is to be the death of both demons and witches, then he may not be considered good or evil and thus be able to touch the book of shadows.

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