In Charmed as the show progressed the charactered showed increased resistance to any of the magical stuff they encountered, in addition to being kind of terribly sexist towards men and women at the same time in a similar way to Twilight.
In Sabrina the focus remained balanced between magic and real life and wasn't nearly as offensive as Charmed could be sometimes.
In what way resistance? One of them was married a White Lighter (Who even when he lost all his powers, still became a teacher at Hogwarts "Magic School") and raised two powerful male wizards (at least), another married a Cupid (after finally getting over being married to an on-again, off-again Lord of All Evil) and the third one became a combination Social Worker/ White Lighter.
If it had an issue I'd have thought it was that the threats became too esoteric as they ran out of standard warlocks and demons to fight. They were dealing with entities who were closer to metaphysical concepts.
As the series progressed, they seemed to become annoyed at actually having to help people, willingly endanger the lives of thousands of people just to make a point (such as vanishing the Golden Gate Bridge while people were still on it, and not putting a power lock on their baby son so he couldn't summon dragons that destroy a chunk of San Francisco, for example).
And then there's things like them prodding Cole back into becoming a villain, and other morally skeevy things they got up to, in addition to a lot of shallow characterisation that got on once several of the actresses got in charge, leading to the show becoming more about them living vicariously through their characters.
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Date: 2013-06-26 06:50 pm (UTC)In Sabrina the focus remained balanced between magic and real life and wasn't nearly as offensive as Charmed could be sometimes.
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Date: 2013-06-26 08:53 pm (UTC)Hogwarts"Magic School") and raised two powerful male wizards (at least), another married a Cupid (after finally getting over being married to an on-again, off-again Lord of All Evil) and the third one became a combination Social Worker/ White Lighter.If it had an issue I'd have thought it was that the threats became too esoteric as they ran out of standard warlocks and demons to fight. They were dealing with entities who were closer to metaphysical concepts.
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Date: 2013-06-26 09:37 pm (UTC)And then there's things like them prodding Cole back into becoming a villain, and other morally skeevy things they got up to, in addition to a lot of shallow characterisation that got on once several of the actresses got in charge, leading to the show becoming more about them living vicariously through their characters.