OK, this is a pilot and they already judged sororities and men in general.
The lesbian one checks all the preconceptions there are about lesbians (for example: they hate men). Well, at least thats my take on her character.
Who goes around telling everyone what consent is and that it can be revoked at any time.
And then using the phrase while advertising for pilates?
using one or the other would have been kind of cool.
Using both in the same scene is just desperate.
Besides the SJW-Stuff: The speech about winning prices for deciphering magic scientifically was way too much.
Also: "Baking-Powder works too"? It exists for quite some time now, if witches are powerful and intelligent women you should think someone would have thought of it already or at least it would have happened by accident...
Also: Way too extreme special effects.
The Original Charmed worked as a mirror for boys/men who watched it (Can't speak to what it did for girls...), while still being fun.
This Pilot felt more like being judged for things you haven't even done.
edit:
To make it clear: Consent can be revoked at any time. I just have a problem with people, who feel the need to tell it to everyone every chance they get and kill the mood for people who are clearly both consenting.
And I also hate it, when people assume that a man won't respect a no. The ones that don't are an absolute minority.
Scenes like this strengthen that preconception...
Review by wakandawarriorVIP 5BlockedParent2018-10-23T11:41:49Z
I had high hopes for this and i'm trying not to compare it to the original charmed and will continue to give it ago but quite disappointed from the first episode.
It felt like they were speaking about things just for the sake of speaking about it - as if they had a list of social issues that they needed to talk about and were just bringing them up to tick them off the list.
In the first 20 minutes they managed to talk about:
Feminism
Cis males
Rape
Consent
Lesbians
He said, she said harassment
Women being perpetrated as girls
Sexual harassment
Trump
To be clear, i'm a trump hating female who believes in fighting for women's rights so i'm not against any of these things but also don't see the point of mentioning them for no real reason and making everything feel forced.
And honestly? the acting so far is sub-par. They're trying so hard to be funny and it's just falling flat and the reactions are way way over done.
It also feels like they're trying to show how much more technologically advanced we are compared to the original charmed - the jokes about how witchcraft is just science, the baking soda and the constant phones.
Hopefully episode two will be better now that they've seamily ticked everything off their list.