Episode Report Card Demian: B- | 7 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Forever CANCELLED!
By Demian | Season 8 | Episode 22 | Aired on 2006.05.21
Old Dolt: Ah-ah-ah! Don't say too much, hon. We don't want them to mess up the future.
Piper Piper And The Entire Viewing Audience, Vastly Diminished Though That Audience Might Be: Isn't it already messed up?
Old Dolt, condescendingly, as if this were entirely obvious: Oh, no!
The Entire Viewing Audience, But Not Piper Piper, Because She Is An Idiot: Wait. What? How?
Old Dolt: ...
The Entire Viewing Audience: [Unintelligible garglings of rage, followed by several choice deleted expletives.]
If you really must wank out an explanation for all this, though, you could think back to The Angel Of Teasley's line at the end of the last episode regarding the unexpected outcome of the final battle, and interpret it to mean that the Destined result did not include the destruction of the Manor and the deaths of...oh, my holy Christ, what the fuck am I doing? Who cares at this point? CANCELLED!
"You keep using the ring," Old Piper instructs her younger self, "but focus on who you want to go to with your heart, not with your head." Old Dolt assures them that this method will, in fact, lead them first to Grams, then eventually to Phoebe and Raige. "But what do we do when we get there?" Patty wonders. "How do we save them?" "You get rid of The Hollow together," Old Piper replies, placing particular emphasis on that final word. Piper activates Stoop's ring, and the screen flares pink to whisk our intrepid adventurers...
...about five feet from where they'd been sitting. D'oh! Also, riddle me this: How did they start this leg of the journey seated on the wicker sun porch furniture with Piper on the Dolt's right and Patty on his left, only to end up standing in the middle of the sun porch floor with Piper and Patty's positions reversed?