The series "Charmed" is considered to be a cult. His popularity fell on the late 90s - early 2000s, but so far he has remained a lot of fans around the world, and many television channels are happy to launch it every couple of years. Such fame and success is primarily due to the actors and characters that they embodied. The witch sisters themselves have already been discussed millions of times, but there are other excellent heroes who deserve special attention, in particular Cole Turner.
War inside
This is the most multifaceted, interesting, unusual and underestimated character of “Charmed”. According to many fans, the hero was stupidly "leaked", did not give him a worthy completion of the storyline, and in general was spoiled as they could. But all this is lyrics, because how many people - so many opinions. One way or another, a more odious, complex and non-standard character in the series can not be found. Why did Cole Turner “hook” the audience? The handsome actor Julian McMahon does not count. The whole story of this character in the series is fixated on a deep inner struggle. Is it possible to unequivocally answer that he won in this battle? Only if you analyze in detail the path of the hero and try to comprehend it.
Acquaintance and the origin of conflict
In the North American state of California on January 19, 1885, the son of politician Benjamin Colorridge Turner and the demoness Elizabeth Turner were born . Half-human half-demon Cole Turner, whose real name is Balthazar, lost his father at the age of three. Naturally, being brought up among demons, Cole himself was completely immersed in his second dark essence. Having mastered the profession of a lawyer, he used it for many years to cover up evil. Viewers will learn this information from a further plot.
Cole Turner appears for the first time at the beginning of the third season as the district attorney. He meets the Halliwell sisters and tries to rub his trust in them. The witches do not know this, but Cole is tasked with the task of the Triad to kill the Enchanted. Trying to fall in love with his younger sister Phoebe, the half-demon did not notice how he fell in love. He could not complete the task, opened his beloved, defended her and the sisters, betrayed his superiors and killed the Triad, openly going over to the side of the good. Actually, his internal conflict began already when the human side in love for the first time in a century began to prevail over the ruthless and cruel demonic.
Love, struggle, obsession
At first, Phoebe fought for Cole, supported, deceived the sisters who did not accept her man. For the first time in his life, Cole Turner loved and was loved. Previously, the demon did not even have friends, but now there is something worth fighting for, and first of all with its inner evil. As a result, the sisters even helped Cole get rid of the dark essence. But the story turned out so that Turner was tricked into taking away the dark forces of the defeated Master, and he became the Source of Evil.
At this stage, Phoebe surrendered. The desperate girl, although she married a demon, but in the end could not help him and killed her lover. Once in the demonic purgatory, Cole Turner was able to survive there and return only thanks to one power - love. But he came in a completely different way: no longer a demon, not a Master, but with something completely different and immortal. However, our hero remained the very Cole. He wanted to be with Phoebe and tried to be kind for her.
Having received repeated refusals, Turner, who had nothing more to catch on to, lost his mind. The former demon created an alternate universe to be with the one he longed for more than anything else. But there Cole became mortal, and the sisters killed him a second time.
End of story
It seemed that you can forget about the demon, but in season 7, Cole returns. At that moment, when Piper was in a coma, our hero was able to help her. Cole Turner was imprisoned in an alternative reality, from where there is no way out into the material world. All these years, he looked after the sisters, invisibly guarded them and even helped Phoebe find happiness with Drake. But he himself was doomed to eternal existence without love ...