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    The Secret Circle (aka Gods Please Kill Me Now)

    I don't know if anyone else has caught wind of this, but I just wanted to warn y'all that we may get inundated by a new crop of teen witches with uber superpowers...

    http://screenrant.com/the-secret-cir...w-yman-132002/
    The forum member formerly known as perzephone. Or Perze. I've shed a skin.
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    #2
    Re: The Secret Circle (aka Gods Please Kill Me Now)

    Yeah, I had caught wind of this a bit ago. I figure if it lasts it won't be any worse than the Charmed crowd.
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      #3
      Re: The Secret Circle (aka Gods Please Kill Me Now)

      The books weren't horrendously bad when I read them in High School. I'll reserve judgement on the show till I actually see some of it. All told, I don't really have an issue with this type of show. Sure, it produces some teenagers with weird ideas but I can think of significantly worse things in the world. If the kids with superpowers are mildly entertaining, cool. Otherwise, I'll move on.
      life itself was a lightsaber in his hands; even in the face of treachery and death and hopes gone cold, he burned like a candle in the darkness. Like a star shining in the black eternity of space.

      Yoda: Dark Rendezvous

      "But those men who know anything at all about the Light also know that there is a fierceness to its power, like the bare sword of the law, or the white burning of the sun." Suddenly his voice sounded to Will very strong, and very Welsh. "At the very heart, that is. Other things, like humanity, and mercy, and charity, that most good men hold more precious than all else, they do not come first for the Light. Oh, sometimes they are there; often, indeed. But in the very long run the concern of you people is with the absolute good, ahead of all else..."

      John Rowlands, The Grey King by Susan Cooper

      "You come from the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve", said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth; be content."

      Aslan, Prince Caspian by CS Lewis


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        #4
        Re: The Secret Circle (aka Gods Please Kill Me Now)

        I guess my problem isn't so much the targeted market as the older ones...

        And I am still in recovery from the whole Charmed 'White Lighter' thing.
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          #5
          Re: The Secret Circle (aka Gods Please Kill Me Now)

          One of these days, I'm going to encounter one of these white-lighters. I've come across a handful of people who use primarily light based symbols and visualizations. One or two of which had strange ideas of what light could and couldn't do but I don't meet stereotypical white-lighters. I meet their Dark Snowflake cousins in every occult forum I visit but it's been years since I encountered anyone that put more focus on light based craft than I do and I've yet to meet a "white-lighter". If there weren't so many complaints about them then I'd revive my theory that they were hunted down and exterminated by the dark snowflakes of the world.
          life itself was a lightsaber in his hands; even in the face of treachery and death and hopes gone cold, he burned like a candle in the darkness. Like a star shining in the black eternity of space.

          Yoda: Dark Rendezvous

          "But those men who know anything at all about the Light also know that there is a fierceness to its power, like the bare sword of the law, or the white burning of the sun." Suddenly his voice sounded to Will very strong, and very Welsh. "At the very heart, that is. Other things, like humanity, and mercy, and charity, that most good men hold more precious than all else, they do not come first for the Light. Oh, sometimes they are there; often, indeed. But in the very long run the concern of you people is with the absolute good, ahead of all else..."

          John Rowlands, The Grey King by Susan Cooper

          "You come from the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve", said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth; be content."

          Aslan, Prince Caspian by CS Lewis


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            #6
            Re: The Secret Circle (aka Gods Please Kill Me Now)

            Maybe it's because I've been on the west coast & here in Vegas so long - there are still pockets of New Agery here and there, and because of Area 51, we get the added bonus of UFO chasers & people who welcome the Space Brothers. I can tolerate the New Agers for the most part - I grew up around it. I can tolerate people who other people call 'fluffy bunnies'. I can tolerate schizophrenics. I can even muster a small amount of civility for Christo-Wiccans. Buuuutttt...

            'White-lighters' are the witchcraft equivalent of Sunday afternoon Kung-Fu movie watchers who believe they are martial artists.

            /facepalm
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              #7
              Re: The Secret Circle (aka Gods Please Kill Me Now)

              I always thought white-lighters were something like this:

              altreligion.net
              http://altreligion.net/?page_id=2158


              And I keep running into the overly positive type. You know, the ones who think any grounding in realism is just "negative":P When you make "upbeat and energetic" people like me barf we've got problems. Those existed well before programs like Charmed, Buffy, etc. Plus, it's a rant best saved for another day.

              The real question-the one you presented, perz- is how many wanna-blessed-be's will be influenced by this show and perpetuate that fun Pagan stereotype, not to mention if Pagans should even brace for it. My prediction still stands at no worse than its predecessors. As for bracing for the influx? Probably not necessary.
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              "...leave me curled up in my ball,
              surrounded by plush, downy things,
              ill prepared, but willing,
              to descend."

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                #8
                Re: The Secret Circle (aka Gods Please Kill Me Now)

                LOL I saw a preview for it. To be honest those CW shows (Vampire Diaries, Supernatural, Gossip Girl, etc) are a huge guilty pleasure of mine, so I'll probably watch and enjoy it.

                Plus, executive producer Kevin Williamson? The man who brought us Dawson's Creek? I say awesome.

                EDIT: Checked it out....pretty entertaining. Bonus points for being filmed back home (I don't know how I always know something is filmed in Vancouver, even when it's set in Washington State, because it's not -that- different, but I just always seem to be able to tell..and IMDB confirmed that it's a Van production!)
                Last edited by DanieMarie; 18 Sep 2011, 02:11.

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                  #9
                  Re: The Secret Circle (aka Gods Please Kill Me Now)

                  This is ancient! I read the books YEARS ago. Didn't know they had don this though.
                  "You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me"- CS Lewis


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                    #10
                    Re: The Secret Circle (aka Gods Please Kill Me Now)

                    Originally posted by DanieMarie View Post
                    LOL I saw a preview for it. To be honest those CW shows (Vampire Diaries, Supernatural, Gossip Girl, etc) are a huge guilty pleasure of mine, so I'll probably watch and enjoy it.

                    Plus, executive producer Kevin Williamson? The man who brought us Dawson's Creek? I say awesome.
                    Yeah, I won't be able to resist. I will watch this and probably love it. I agree with well just about everyone else, I don't see it being any worse than anything else.

                    Originally posted by Caelia
                    I always thought white-lighters were something like this:

                    altreligion.net
                    http://altreligion.net/?page_id=2158


                    And I keep running into the overly positive type. You know, the ones who think any grounding in realism is just "negative":P When you make "upbeat and energetic" people like me barf we've got problems
                    If I ever found a person like this, I'm sorry I may actually have to bash in their head, cremate them then scatter their ashes across several bodies of water.
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                      #11
                      Re: The Secret Circle (aka Gods Please Kill Me Now)

                      A bit thorough there for a group that's unlikely to be using tricks to cheat death or be truly well versed in combative craftwork. Still need to meet one of them one day, I have to keep reminding myself that tuey aren't extinct.
                      life itself was a lightsaber in his hands; even in the face of treachery and death and hopes gone cold, he burned like a candle in the darkness. Like a star shining in the black eternity of space.

                      Yoda: Dark Rendezvous

                      "But those men who know anything at all about the Light also know that there is a fierceness to its power, like the bare sword of the law, or the white burning of the sun." Suddenly his voice sounded to Will very strong, and very Welsh. "At the very heart, that is. Other things, like humanity, and mercy, and charity, that most good men hold more precious than all else, they do not come first for the Light. Oh, sometimes they are there; often, indeed. But in the very long run the concern of you people is with the absolute good, ahead of all else..."

                      John Rowlands, The Grey King by Susan Cooper

                      "You come from the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve", said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth; be content."

                      Aslan, Prince Caspian by CS Lewis


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