#ghosts cbs rant

[higgintoothsblog]

🚨 GHOSTS CBS SPOILERS 🚨

I’m genuinely intrigued, like wdym Jay that you ‘dabble in the devils lettuce’ 🤨 when literally in season 1 you told Sam she should be ashamed of herself for smoking (Season 1, Halloween). She wasn’t smoking ofc, but I wonder what would’ve happened if Sam knows about that?

Also is it just me, or have I been seeing slight red flags with Jay all season? Like I love Jay, but something is off… like in Season 4, A Star is Dead, he was doing research so Sas can see the actress, but Sam said ‘Spring Break?’ And he goes it’s for Sas. I like how he does it for the ghosts, but something seems odd about it. And he is still following her on social media in A Very Arondekar Christmas, revealed by Pete when he possess him, three episodes away from when Sas had gotten over her???

I know Sam also has her red flags, like lying to Jay about where she lived to see him, lying to him about things the ghosts said, but idk guys something is off…

[catsandclassics]

Kinda unpopular opinion:

I think Trevor is most at blame for the fact that he and Hetty aren’t together at the moment. He has a habit of exploding and saying things without thinking, in order to keep himself guarded (we saw him do this big time in the Shelley episode). It’s kind of a recurring thing with him. Whenever he is hurt or nervous about being hurt, he walks away. He did that way back with the Nigel room situation, but then he calmed down and worked with Hetty on her level, realizing that she likely hadn’t had a guy who considered her needs, and she was very willing to compromise with him.

Hetty, for as far as she’s come, still has a habit of deferring to men in certain situations…especially when it comes to romantic things. She is very outspoken and no-nonsense in 90% of situations, but romance is still something pretty new to her and that takes a lot of learning more updated views and unlearning a lot of old ones. Throughout their relationship, (which we found out definitely seemed like a pretty serious relationship this past season), Trevor kept referring to it as “hooking up”, despite his actions saying otherwise. Heck, he even referred to it as “whatever this is” while breaking up with her.

Yes, Hetty could have been more caring and spoken to him regarding the Good Luck Chuck scenario. However, in that scene HE really didn’t explain himself. Just got really mad and ended things. The scene ended with Hetty looking completely devastated. But, he had ended it, so what could she really do? The moment she found out he had been hurt by it, (like, a year and a half later), she immediately apologized for hurting his feelings and felt terrible about it.

Hetty doesn’t really seem mean and cold; she just honestly doesn’t know what he’s doing since he’s all over the place. Any time she realizes he’s upset, she immediately apologizes for hurting him and seems truly regretful that she did.

And that’s not to mention how “Power Friends” came to be due to him being all “I’m not saying I want to get back together or anything” after he had just thrown a whole tantrum over how they weren’t together anymore, (and then immediately backtracked on his ‘not wanting to get back together’ statement all within the same sentence).

Like, bro…she likes you. You like her. Stop with the emotional whiplash 🤣

[blaithnne]

CBS Ghosts is my new guilty pleasure so take my new OCs. The Blanchet family were distant French cousins of the Woodstones who visited the house in the early 1900s, only for a violent house robbery to take the life of their youngest daughter, Mercedes, and her loyal self appointed guard dog, Horse. Only 8 years old, it takes some time for Mercedes to understand her fate, and for some time she’d be very distressed that her family seem to be ignoring her. On the bright side, the other ghosts are there to try and make things easier, though the misfit collective have a hard time caring for a child given their circumstances, and conflicting ideas on how best to raise a little girl.

Of all the ghosts, she is closest with Thorfinn. He has a soft spot for the little girl.

[fishyboisworld]

I fear I've reached my peak as an ao3 author when I called Thorfinn a "ticking time bomb with an axe"

[themischievousronster]

Ik the fandom is kind of dead anywhere except TikTok but what If I combined Ghosts US, and Ghosts UK, took what I liked about both, and rewrote the entire thing. What if I did that. What if. What if I’m crazy enough to do that.

[mymiraclewitch]

Sometimes I forget I have a tumbler, and I can literally rant on here and not just like and repost stuff. Anyway, on to my rant.

This is about the last episode of Ghosts, the Halloween one, not the recent trevor one.

So, I understand that Jay and Sam have the running joke where they aren't the best business owners, like giving a ghost $10,000 and the likes, but omg, the Halloween episode made me unbelievably angry as a Hetty Stan and as a vintage/antique special interest girlie.

So, as someone who knows a little bit about antique and vintage items, those are not the type of items you sell at a FUCKING YARD SALE! One of the main things we see in the show is that Sam and Jay are strapped for cash and they even got Elis's old watch and sold that shit for a damn good price. But, if you get seemingly perfectly preserved items from the Gilded Age era, you get that shit inspected and sold for what it's worth, hell they could sell some of that shit to a fucking museum, like the mummy!!! I love this show to death, but as a vintage girlie, my heart breaks when they do dumb stuff like this. You gotta get that stuff looked at to see the value of it. You can't just sell it at a yard sale. People probably saw two dumb idiots who are trying to make a quick buck and buy it for cheap and turn around and make a small fortune. UUGGGHHHH AHHHHHH, IT MADE ME WANT TO SCREAM SO BAD!

Every one of the ghosts gets to keep something that means of value to them or gets to be heard about the thing they value but hetty kinda gets pushed aside when they are selling HER stuff, granted she's dead and she can't even touch any of it, but again, they gave money to a damn ghost. Like, let her keep the stuffed ravens since she actually cared about those things and held sentimental value to her. I'm not really heated about this, I just wanted to say it bc I seemed unfair to me.

[frogsndogs]

Unpopular opinion: the way that the ghosts cbs fandom and show treats Trevor really bothers me sometimes. people can treat him as this uwu angel who did nothing wrong ever and was secretly totally misunderstood and while I agree he was better than his “bros” the bar isn’t very high. He made so many inappropriate comments towards Sam when they first met, objectifying and insulting her constantly even though she was married and clearly didn’t show any interest in him. He makes a lot of misogynistic and sexist remarks in general, which usually just get written off both in the show and in the fandom. In D&D he kept making comments about the US, in spite of Sasappis being pretty obviously uncomfortable with it and in the pilot he flicked Pete’s arrow - which is in his neck, the cause of his death, which Pete later says is usually pretty painful all on his own. (He has come a long way since season one though, but this post is more about how the fandom treats him, not his character.)

I also often see his trauma treated more seriously than the other ghosts. And again, don’t get me wrong, I agree he has trauma, but most of that stems from his death itself. But I saw a post earlier that said that Trevor is one who needs therapy the most and I was just baffled.

You’re telling me that the straight white-passing guy from 2000s needs therapy more than the gay man from the colonial era who for the longest time didn’t understand what was “wrong” with him, was unable to marry or be with a person he truly loved because it was illegal, was ridiculed and excluded by his peers at every turn, and had to fight in an awful war? You’re telling me that the straight white-passing guy from 2000s needs therapy more than the black woman who lived during the roaring twenties, in the US, through segregation, racism, sexism and was discriminated for her body type, who was fucking murdered? You’re telling me that the straight white-passing guy from 2000s needs therapy more than the Chilean woman in 1969 who made her way through law school only to drop out after losing her fiancee, got tricked into a cult, thought her brother was dead, and was ripped to shreds by bears and now spends her afterlife in a constant state of forgetting? You’re telling me that the straight white-passing guy from 2000s needs therapy more than the Viking warrior who was callously abandoned by his shipmates, his brothers, for reasons he never knew, who spent so much time wandering alone that he befriended a squirrel whom he later had to eat to survive and then spent another 500 years by himself again, as a ghost with no sort of explanation for what was happening to him? You’re telling me that the straight white-passing guy from 2000s needs therapy more than the Lenape man who died right before the biggest night of his life and was forced to watch the colonization of his land and the genocide of his people, unable to do anything, and having to live with his culture and history being erased? You’re telling me that the straight white-passing guy from 2000s needs therapy more than the woman from the 1800s who was married off in a land deal, raped by her cousin and then killed herself in a desperate attempt to save her son, only to watch him grow up and murder the woman who would become her best friend? No he doesn’t. 

Honestly, to me, Trevor is one of the more boring characters, and the only reason he gets so much attention and sympathy both from the show and from the writers is bc he’s a straight white-passing man from the 2000s. I will not be taking criticisms at this time. 

[ragsweas]

So Youtube has made me obsessed with CBS ghosts and m wondering...bagginshield Ghosts AU?

[pebble-person]

Tried watching the American version of Ghosts again. It's worse. Definitely worse. But in, like, an *insulting* way. They removed every subtlety! Do they think my American brain was incapable of comprehending that Captain was in the closet without him making stereotypical jokes about it every three sentences??? And they made Fanny younger and "hotter". For why? Hhh. Agh. Argh. I need to make art of the original BBC series.

I miss Kittie.

I'm gonna draw Kittie.

[kimtiny]

If a fic has Jenkins named as a character, I just don't read it. Especially if it got..specific tags. Not worth the risk.

I am happy that there is slowly an uprising of people not hating his guts and even getting some more fans, he even is getting more edits on tiktok.

And I can see it both ways with him, he absolutely is able to make his own choices, even if they are questionable but he likes it more if someone else makes the calls and he can just go along with whatever.

Yeah, in the start of the show honestly most people used him to be a villain in their fic. He was used as the abuser Isaac saved Nigel from, an assaulter that took advantage of Nigel (so they could escuse his liaison, like Nigel has no responsibilities), or simply as a form of evil ex that had to be fought like in fucking Scott Pilgrim. He's not any of that.

Like I explained in my video, I understand wanting to baby a character we like and acting as if they do nothing wrong, and that when only faced with the wrong of a character we are bound to dislike them. But these characters are all flawed humans and should be analised as such. Remember all these Nigel haters that turned every single interaction with him as a proof he was an abuser and bad person? That's how I feel with Jenkins.

Jenkins is a weird character, he's petty, random and makes most people uncomfortable. Yes. But exagerrating these traits and making him assault an other character is not fun, at least it's not my vision of fun. And having Dead Dove Don't Eat in tags doesn't escuse turning a character into a monster just so an other can be the gay knight in shining armor. But of course, people doing it don't care about my opinions or what is logical in the canon of the show, they want a villain and made one- no matter if it upsets Kimtiny on tumblr.

At the end of the day, Jenkins is a weird character on purpose and this makes me like him and others hate him.

But it is true, anon, I have also noticed people disliking him less and less. And if they don't outright like him, they at least aren't hating anymore. I'm not sure if it's because of I or seaslugsapphic, a friend of mine who also likes Jenkins. I know that privately, my interest in this characters have changed my friends' mind on him, where they do see the issue of his portrayal in the fandom and don't hate him anymore. Maybe it is because people kinda forgot about him? I mean, since season 3 he hasn't done anything that could make others hate him and his role is rarer even if (if I count my anons and other anons on other blogs) people are starting to suspect he might have a role in the finale. After all the finale has always been nisaac centered and whatever we like it or not, Jenkins has been tangled in nisaac since season 1.

Maybe it's my video? I keep talking about it because it's the base analisis I have for any news about Jenkins. Maybe this changed people's mind on how they interact with the character. I do not know, but I like it. I like that Jenkins isn't a villain anymore, and no character is treated the same as him! Would hate for someone else's character to be villainized again like it happened with Nigel or even Stephanie (she's 17 guys CHILL) As for the last part, I am on the same page as you. Jenkins can make his own decision and has shown mutiple times that when he takes a decision he stands by it (like Baxter's wedding). But he's still pretty passive on everything out of these decisions, he kinda let others guide what they do. Probably because he's 1- a third character 2- a soldier that's used to take orders and obey them.

BTW since we're here, check my Jenkins and Baxter hc past fic! I'm supposed to write Nigel's but I'm procrastinating lol

[xxbrightshadowxx]

I just started watching the U.S’s version of Ghosts and I was skeptical at first. Basically almost everyone I knew on the internet was like this version sucked and the UK one is better. Like all the comment were about that so I thought this show would be bad. But it’s not. It’s entertaining and funny and has really good emotional moments in it. It’s fun!

I haven’t seen the UK one and sure, maybe it might be better but people shit on this show so much and compare it to the UK. Like we fucking get it, you like the UK one better move on already. No hate to the fans of the UK who just couldn’t get with the U.S one. You are guys are cool. The ones that bother me are the ones that constantly shit on the show unprovoked instead of just scrolling and ignoring it.

[the-gayest-fungus]

Cbs ghosts spoilers

IM SO HYPED THERES FINALLY A THROUPLE

They've been laying groundwork for this sort of thing for ages, and obviously Alberta's right it's gonna be a trainwreck since it didnt start with enthusiastic consent from all parties, but im still so excited to see it actually depicted.

I will say I think the plotline for it in this episode falls flat a little in the way a lot of cbs ghosts episodes do. It's like there was an inciting incident and a resolution but we didn't really see how it got resolved. In this case, what made thor decide to come clean? We the audience didn't see that at all.

Sorry this post is a mess I just got really excited and wanted to get my feelings out

[jonathanrook]

every day of my life i think about how it's canon in cbs ghosts that flower taught hetty how to masturbate like it was the entire b plot of an episode and then they just never brought it up again

[roseofithaca]

Gotta vent my frustrations with that finale because holy fuck. If you don't want negativity then don't click the cut.

So far I've been praising this series for drifting away from one of my biggest gripes with the show and that's the oversaturation of romantic couples over found family and friendships. That hasn't been much of an issue this series, I've loved all the little moments of comradery, for example how it was Isaac and Sam who came to talk to Hetty after her reveal rather than Trevor, as well as Sas bonding with Jay even if just for that one episode. I liked Flower's polyamory being brought up again and had hopes it wouldn't just be mocked again....we'll get to that.

But then this last episode decided to leave me with such a vile taste in my mouth I dunno if I'm gonna bother watching more.

First off I'm not a big Isaac and Nigel shipper so it's not like I'm super devastated they didn't get married but I thought they were cute enough. I praised the show before about having an on screen gay couple as opposed to the typical tragic bury your gays of Caphavers, even if they didn't have nearly as much chemistry as the couple who have three scenes together.

But now Nisaac is dead, or on a respite (OK that made me giggle), and we didn't even get to see them have their emotional talk, just have Isaac sum it up afterwards. The show had an opportunity for a really heartbreaking moment with just the two of them but instead we were left with "He took it well". And Isaac has been dragged into the mud which, I'll admit, was incredibly cathartic on behalf of the basement ghosts and Nancy in particular.

Honestly it's the Thor/Flower/Nancy stuff that angers me the most and had it not been there then I might not have brought up what happened with Nisaac, but it just adds into the whole "queerphobic" narrative by having your mlm couple split while the mlw couple admits their love and another random mlw couple gets their wedding (one half of which is a horrible character). I knew the throuple thing wasn't going to be long term but....why bring it in at all? Just to mock poly people? Why not just have Flower say she needed space to think before being with Thor again? Why the need to mock Nancy as the "disposable unconventionally attractive" third wheel?

As for Flower...talk about character assassination. So last week she's all "how dare you be so cruel to Nancy?" and in the premier the basement ghosts are saying how kind she was to them - now she's abandoning Nancy in the basement and doesn't care that Nisaac didn't invite them - yet Carol was there?! Flower is the only other queer main ghost besides Isaac yet her wlw relationships are treated as jokes of her being a "silly hippy" and apparently she wasn't into Nancy at all? That's that for the only wlw rep in the show I guess. It doesn't help that Thor and Flower have zero chemistry imo.

I'm not gonna pretend the main guys in the BBC show treated the plague ghosts that great but at least they were invited upstairs to watch the panto. Again the thing with Patience was the only saving grace and I like that the guys had no idea she would do that so they're not painted as evil.

As for Pete's subplot, I actually did like Donna and was glad she didn't turn out to be some femme fatal like she was coming off as. But again, we have yet another mlw romantic subplot - when instead we could have had Pete with his daughter and her family and having the same dilemma of if he wanted to disappear there or return to his new 'home'.

Not to mention how irrelevant Sam and Jay felt to the point I forgot they were even there. All previous finales have had some sort of stakes going on with them whether it be the floor collapsing or the fake cousin, but here they were barely spectators.

I think worst of all, it just wasn't that funny. Often I can forgive a comedy's writing so long as it still makes me laugh but I got nothing from this other than disgust. Maybe my feelings will cool by the time S4 rolls around but I can't see myself wanting more of this show.

[h1gg1nt00t]

ghosts cbs & ghosts bbc

Okay, my username is my tiktoks, so people as peachygoblin may know me. but, what annoys me so much is that today I posted that trend where its pictures of your favourite show with "Me ______" Well. today I did that with ghosts cbs pictures you know it was fun and stuff I was giggling while writing them but what got me upset is when I was making a upcoming edit I saw I got a comment so I clicked the notfication and it was someone saying "The british version is better" Yes I am british, but I prefer the US/Canadian one. I never had a problem with BBC ghosts fans. Actually a few have liked my videos/followed me. I'm glad they don't and try to make you like the BBC one. but its when people who say that is what annoys me. If you like BBC ghosts go ahead who am I to stop you? If you like CBS ghosts idc, my point is its annoying that people say it on every CBS video respectfully please stop. This isnt meant to offend anyone.

[seefasters]

having watched all of us ghosts and s5 of uk ghosts i do wonder how much of uk ghosts' show bible the us showrunners got to see because some of the details and plots got really similar