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I've just finished season four of Ghost Whisperer (and in some semi-related IMDBing just found out there's a fifth session that's just not on hulu) and wanted to share the following random things that have stuck in my memory from my watchthrough:

Mark Snow killing it as per usual, may he rest in peace

It's clichéd by now but I do think they handled the whole Andrea doesn't know she's dead thing well (although I did find it just a bit odd to write off the only recurring black character and replace her with a white lady, regardless of how much I like Delia)

I was quite sad when Jim cut his hair (having opinions on actors' haircuts is becoming something of a theme in my posts)

In like season two, I think, the dead lady tells her, "I was gonna be a mommy." And I distinctly remember going, "you died of complications from an ectopic pregnancy. The only thing you were gonna be was the proud owner of an invoice for 1 (one) abortion."

Wow do they like to set up big overarching concepts only to do nothing with them (which I'm mostly fine with chiefly because I think this particular show works better on a small scale) maybe they get resolved in season five, but I find it unlikely

If I had a nickel for every time JLH played a very empathetic character whose narrative purpose is to help people in crisis and is also married to a paramedic and whose name begins with M, I'd have two nickels

I took a break between seasons 3 and 4 and when I came back, I'm pretty sure I had fallen asleep while watching and the three or so episodes that I unknowingly missed included professor Payne's exit and Eli's entrance, so for a hot minute before I realized what happened I thought I was having a terrible instance of face blindness due to them like, dying the actor's hair or something

Melinda finds out that the man she thought was her father is actually the man that put her real father in prison and tried to have him killed there while swooping in on her vulnerable mother, eventually beating him to death in the front yard, which Melinda saw, and burying him in the basement; this man tries to kill Melinda when she realizes what happened but her real (dead) father's ghost saves the day because she calls him Dad. This is never brought up again

I loved that following his introduction, Eli's primary character traits are being an absolute Ride or Die friend and an Unrepentant Slut

All of Melinda's new friends in the show are haunted by the ghost of an old deceased romantic connection

I didn't like how or even that they killed Jim, but there was a touch of, "God, finally!" Just because of how long they had been telegraphing the fact that they were going to kill Jim Clancy at some point, so I do have to respect the follow through. Negative points for the backtrack but positive points because I love Jim for a sum of zero.

Kind of hilarious that the thing that made Delia a believer was JimSam reincarnation basketball and not, yknow, talking to her dead husband

Did want to smack Sam upside the head when he told Melinda she needed professional help in an episode that touched pretty heavily on the institutionalized abuse of the American psychiatric system

At first I thought they were going to pull a, "She got pregnant right before he died so their baby is really for true his in every way" but then there were so many episodes after his death that I figured they wouldn't, and then they did and it turns out those episodes were real time apparently

Jim Clancy's pick for a second-first wedding/vowel renewal elopement is the middle of the road. Not on the sidewalk where they actually first interacted, just in the middle of the street, which does not appear to be closed for the occasion

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source: @dysfunctionalqueer and @chronic-nerd

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I find it very offensive that the more unwell you are, the more things you have to do to maintain your health. Things like following special diets, going to medical appointments, making big and important decisions about what treatments to use. At the same time, the more unwell you are the less energy you have to do all of these extra things. It seems grossly unfair.

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I think I understand the point this person is trying to make, and I really agree with the second half of this post like - yeah the vast vast majority of Americans do not understand the different ethnic groups that make up most other countries and the relations between them. But I think it’s pretty ridiculous to say that the United States has “functionally non-existent cultural variety”…. The USA has noteworthy immigrant communities from like every other nation on earth. It is more racially and culturally diverse than many, many countries that are ethnically homogeneous. Even looking at this more broadly than specific nationalities… are we saying African American culture is the same as white American culture? That those are the same as the massive culture of Mexican Americans? Also… Seattle and Pittsburg just ARE different, not that they comprise different ethnic groups but it would feel different to live in one vs the other. Bad and strange take

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You're not immune to being the bully btw. You're not immune to being in the wrong

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how to say "I love you" in x-files [225/?] ⤷ 4.22 — “Elegy”

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This is neither here or there. But I’m watching TikTok tonight.

And guys there’s so much content. So much MSR. There’s so many new young fans out there. So many babyphiles taking so much time to carefully edit and construct these beautiful fan edits. What. Is. It. About. This. Show. It’s 30 years old for God’s sake. Does anyone actually fully understand? I’ll be 80 and this damned ancient piece of art will be breeding new disciples. Obsessive. Inconsolable. Rabid. Just like us.

And honestly, nothing makes me happier.

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x files but i take a shot for everytime they Almost kiss and black out by the 3rd episode

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part two: scully (my beloved) + posts i have saved to her pinterest board

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never ever ever getting over the fact that after Mulder tells Scully that he makes everyone, including his parents, call him Mulder and not Fox, it is shown over and over again that this is not true. because not only does it highlight the way Mulder was trying to divert Scully, but it also shows just how much he was trying—it wasn’t a conveniently timed truth, it was truly just him grasping at anything to stop her. but it’s Scully and she sees right through him, she indulges him and goes back to Mulder and then says nope, you’re not getting out of this. You’re going to listen to me say this thing that neither of us is quite ready to acknowledge and we’re both gonna deal with it. AND THEN it just never goes away!! She just continues to be the one person to keep calling him Mulder at all times!! It becomes a Thing!!!! These two make me absolutely insane!!!!!!!!

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there should be a competition where people write alternative and more intricate ways for frodo to have brought the ring to mount doom that get judged by panels of tolkien lore experts based on likelihood of success

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when drawing Spock it is important to be aware of the fact that if you draw his hair even slightly wrong, he is about to become the fifth Beatle

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dai was insane because they wrote all of that banter (like 5 hours worth of it if i remember right?) and put so much character relevance and development and plot importance in it and then it came out and you were lucky if you got 10 conversations in a single 100 hour playthrough. and they just left it like that .