As a fan of the Original Charmed to the point that I have the trinity symbol from the book of shadows tattooed on my wrist

I was kind excited to see a version where the Charmed ones were POC’S especially after seeing the billboards everywhere (I live in SoCal), but was apprehensive due to it being in the CW. My first worry was how they were going to treat the POC’S, are they essentially going to be “white” and add no nuance, but after seeing the trailer I have one concern, what the fuck did the do to Charmed?

Somehow in 2018 they managed to have worse CGI than the original (and trust me it wasn’t that great I remember that wendigo episode God awful), more campy than the original which I will give them the benefit of the doubt since OG Charrmed didn’t really get really really campy until later seasons but based on that trailer it’s worse than season 7 campy, and they ran a magic school.

And oh dear lord the acting, it’s probably more of a reflection of the bad writing but I can tell it’s going to be one of those shows that tells you the plot instead of shows you via their whitelighter which honestly takes away the magic of Charmed–it was about 3 girls discovering their power and they had silent guides who let them figure it out through Leo and Kit. We the audience learned with them. I can tell that the pilot is going to shove about 2 and a half seasons of the original into one episode all through exposition via dialogue.

I think my biggest gripe is that there’s nothing new or exciting about this version, and yes I got this all from the trailer but it’s the CW, what you see is what you get. They didn’t take Charmed and make it their own (which is how you make a reboot), they took Charmed and put it in a microwave hoping it would be just as popular due to nostalgia and this makes me really sad because I wanted to watch Madeleine Mantock again and in something that would last longer than a season.