"Post Season Three Leadership of the Charmed Ones"

"POST SEASON 3 LEADERSHIP OF THE CHARMED ONES"

I am probably going to get bashed for this, but I never thought it was a good thing for the writers to automatically allow Piper to become the new leader of the Charmed Ones in S4 because she because she had become the oldest.

I am sorry, but I do not think that Piper ever had the personality to be a real leader. And I found her "growth" as a character and a leader rather hard to believe. Even by the seventh or eighth seasons. Her idea of leadership was to be curt and bitchy a lot. And to be honest, the Halliwells made some really bad decisions during her tenure as "leader" - Cole's death in "Long Live the Queen", Piper's decision to allow Leo to change her personality in "Oh Goddess!", Phoebe and Paige's theft of Darryl's soul in "Valhalley of the Dolls", Paige talking Richard into stripping his powers, the murder of Rick Gettridge in "Hyde School Reunion", and the deal with the Avatars in "Extreme Makeover".

Phoebe probably would have made a slightly better leader if she had not been so self-absorbed and immature at times. And Paige would have made an even better leader, despite her inexperience in S4. Unfortunately for Paige, Kern and his writers were so hellbent upon turning her into a flake between mid-Season 5 and the series finale.

Do not get me wrong. I like Piper. But unlike Prue, she never really knew how to think matters through. I'm not saying that Prue always did. There were times when she jumped to conclusions. But never at the scale in which Piper, Phoebe and Paige did. Especially Piper. And more than anything, I never understood Kern's decision to turn Piper into Uber Bitch or a second-rate Prue, because she was the new leader. It really seemed to go against her personality. I have no problem with Piper becoming a stronger personality. It is another when Kern's decision to make her the new leader because of her age, ended up turning her into a second-rate Prue or an Uber Bitch.