Think Early On Endora
Was more menacing because that is what producers (and or Mrs. Moorehead) thought witches would be like. It also provided a counter balance to Samantha's blonde/blue sweet, innocent and all so nice.
Of course that would only go so far in a series that lasted a few years, so over time Endora toned things down. She realizes her daughter loved Derwood and despite whatever nasty things she and other witches did, wasn't going any where.
Not to get all soppy, but love is the most powerful force in the universe supposedly. Where it exists in true, pure and steadfast form evil cannot wholly destroy or even break it apart. One assumes this is why every single spell placed upon Ding-Dong is eventually reversed when Sam threatens to forever shut out who ever did the mischief. Even when Maurice saps Darrin to smithereens, Sam's tears and threats (along with Endora planning to move in with him), force the powerful warlock to reverse course.
Of course Bewitched never really got too deeply into the witch thing. I mean Sam is often depicted as being very involved with the local church for instance.
To me the interesting thing was always what would happen as Darrin visibly aged but Samantha did not. Endora was supposed to be a thousand or whatever years old, and Sam two or three hundred. By the 1970's Darrin would have been in his late thirties or reaching forty. Suppose it would be rather like vampires that live among the living, Sam and Darrin eventually would have to move away to someplace new to stop persons from talking.
While we are "out there" it amazed me that Sam and the other witches often came down with weird illnesses specific to them, but yet Samantha saw mortal doctors each time she had children and was delivered of them in a normal hospital without any problems or anyone noticing she was "built different".
The other "odd thing" is that mathematically witches like Sam's family couldn't exist without some sort of reproduction "control". I mean when you live for hundreds or thousands of years you cannot reproduce that often or the world would be flooded with your species. Same one supposes with vampires. If everyone who died from being infected with that lot became one as well the entire world shortly would become like Salem's Lot.
Was more menacing because that is what producers (and or Mrs. Moorehead) thought witches would be like. It also provided a counter balance to Samantha's blonde/blue sweet, innocent and all so nice.
Of course that would only go so far in a series that lasted a few years, so over time Endora toned things down. She realizes her daughter loved Derwood and despite whatever nasty things she and other witches did, wasn't going any where.
Not to get all soppy, but love is the most powerful force in the universe supposedly. Where it exists in true, pure and steadfast form evil cannot wholly destroy or even break it apart. One assumes this is why every single spell placed upon Ding-Dong is eventually reversed when Sam threatens to forever shut out who ever did the mischief. Even when Maurice saps Darrin to smithereens, Sam's tears and threats (along with Endora planning to move in with him), force the powerful warlock to reverse course.
Of course Bewitched never really got too deeply into the witch thing. I mean Sam is often depicted as being very involved with the local church for instance.
To me the interesting thing was always what would happen as Darrin visibly aged but Samantha did not. Endora was supposed to be a thousand or whatever years old, and Sam two or three hundred. By the 1970's Darrin would have been in his late thirties or reaching forty. Suppose it would be rather like vampires that live among the living, Sam and Darrin eventually would have to move away to someplace new to stop persons from talking.
While we are "out there" it amazed me that Sam and the other witches often came down with weird illnesses specific to them, but yet Samantha saw mortal doctors each time she had children and was delivered of them in a normal hospital without any problems or anyone noticing she was "built different".
The other "odd thing" is that mathematically witches like Sam's family couldn't exist without some sort of reproduction "control". I mean when you live for hundreds or thousands of years you cannot reproduce that often or the world would be flooded with your species. Same one supposes with vampires. If everyone who died from being infected with that lot became one as well the entire world shortly would become like Salem's Lot.
