Episode Report Card Demian: A | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Stars shining bright above you
By Demian | Season 1 | Episode 5 | Aired on 11.03.1998
Sugar Johansen, meanwhile, is clad all in black. Oh, and he's walking, too. You see, he's slipped into Skye's dream for "a visit." Skye's bedroom has morphed into a soundstage bordered with a low railing and encircled by a scrim painted to evoke a blazing sunset. Skye's expensive sleigh bed sits incongruously at the center of the stage, but, you know, it's a "dream" and everything. A low fog of dry ice streams across the floor while Sugar Johansen makes like a meth-head Fred Astaire, deliriously twirling Skye around and dipping her. Incredulous, she asks him if he means to tell her he can invade her dreams. He goes one step further, telling her, "I can alter your dreams." He spins her around a bit more before she attempts to break away from him. He grips her hips firmly and pulls her body back into his, crooning with his lips pressed to her ear, "And I can kill you in your dreams." A true romantic, I see. He dances her over to the railing to ask, "Did you know that if you die in your dreams, you die in real life?" He dips her backwards over the railing, and we get her POV of a Deco facade dropping fifty or more floors down from the railing to a street far below. She wails, "Please don't hurt me!" then gapes at him in horror when she realizes he joined her word-for-word in his own mocking tone of voice. He swings her around again, sneering, "You rejected me, and now you gotta pay." Sigh. If she had only worn that fake wedding ring to work that evening. "Please! I'll do anything!" they both howl, she desperate and he, well, psychotic, really. "Sweet dreams," he coos, and then pushes her with one hand. Skye topples over the railing, screaming, and drops into the urban canyon below. Lightning flares as Sugar Johansen turns back from the edge to shriek giddily along with her, and the two howl all of us into the opening credits.
The Gap would like to dress me up in its love. All over my body, no less, from my head down to my toe-oohh-ohs. Unfortunately, this appears to involve forcing me into one of those cheap, hideous vests of theirs. I think I'd rather be flung from the observation deck of a Deco skyscraper by a cripple in a wheelchair.
Since I'm being so inappropriate, I should quote the lyrics to the ovarian warble that accompanies the opening travelogue, just to prove that the producers of Charmed can play that game as well as I can: "Sadness comes searching my room that aches by the light of the moon. You know the way to save me -- you hold me high up above my lonely life, and when you hold me high, you've given me the wind, and I surrender to your mystery again." They threw a woman off a building and then they played that song, people. I never want to hear another complaint from any of you again about these recaps, okay? I shouldn't criticize, because my pick for an opening tune after that pre-credits sequence would have been Cole Porter's "Down In The Depths," but we already knew I was a sick bastard, didn't we? By the way, Connie Burge wrote this episode, which I think has a great deal to do with how well it's been going thus far. Oh, my. That could be taken either way, couldn't it?