#bbc ghosts episodes

[moo9395]

6 and 11 for ghosts asking game!

6 - What is your favourite moment from each series?

This is probably all subject to change because there’s so many moments that I absolutely love. I have other favourites that I could include but if I did that this would be far too long.

Series 1 - Probably Pats death scene, I know it’s not exactly a nice scene to watch but I just adore the way it’s done, particularly when he falls against the front of the bus, idk it plays with my brain chemistry in ways I can’t explain. Jim’s acting in that scene is just incredible.

Series 2 - The scene right at the start of episode 1 when Alison goes round the house doing her little morning routine. I just love looking at what each ghost does and I love all their little interactions.

Series 3 - The whole camping thing in Woodworm men is just lovely. We get Patcap and we get the cute little ghosts holiday vibe. I just love all of it.

Series 4 - Mary’s death episode (again quite morbid I need to stop picking death related favourite scenes) I love seeing how they all deal with grief, we really get a range of methods and they all suit the characters. If I had to pick a particular moment I’d go with Cap and Julian’s ‘very manly’ arm touch.

Series 5 - Probably achy breaky heart just because it’s hilarious but also the whole build up with Pat and the Captain having their moment and the Thomas hug it’s all just so lovely (minus the heart wrenching interval of death).

11 - What is your favourite thing about the show in general?

Found family.

I am found family obsessed and I adore the dynamics between all the characters in this show.

Also the fandom, I’ve been in so many fandoms over the years and this is genuinely the most lovely fandom I’ve been in. Particularly because I’ve only actually been in it since the end of October last year. So thank you <3

[masterofiodine]

cap is in his element

[patcaps]

GHOSTS SERIES 5 | GOOGLE DRIVE

All 6 episodes are now on my Google Drive in HD 👻

If playback/download limit is exceeded, you either need to make a copy to your own Drive and watch it that way, or wait 24 hours to view it on mine

The 2023 Christmas special will also be added on release, and I’ll also add the new series of the Inside Ghosts podcast

Reblog my main masterpost HERE (link also in my pinned post)

Enjoy.

[patsmassivekeychain]

Ok more coherent thoughts now. I can already see how this ending is probably going to be divisive and to an extent I understand why. Before it aired, I wasn't keen on the idea of the show ending like this. People don't like endings where the found family go their separate ways, except that isn't really what's happening here. And I think the way they did it was perfect.

Alison has come in and completely turned these ghosts' unlives around. She's given them purpose, connections with the outside world and each other, and above all a lack of boredom. Boredom is one of the main existential challenges the ghosts face. Alison isn't abandoning them to what they had before she came - she's leaving them with the tools to actually live rather than just exist after her.

And she's not gone forever! Families don't have to live together to be family. She comes back and visit them regularly! Maybe it's just because I moved out from my parents' in the last few years and I'm back for Christmas, but her being a regular at the hotel, coming back and visiting them at least every Christmas (maybe more) was very moving to me. Just because she's moved out doesn't mean they're not still family.

Having it become a hotel is a nice bookend and I bet it's improved the ghosts' quality of unlife a lot. As I said, their biggest challenge has always been boredom. A hotel/golf course probably isn't at all boring. How many affairs do you think Julian has watched? It's perfect for them, with all the people coming and going. I bet they even stage the odd haunting for fun. A constant, varied existence is a great fate for them.

Ending the episode with the plague ghosts was PERFECT. Obviously, it was great to see them again and it was hilarious as they always are. But it struck me just how much this decision has improved their situation - they've gone from dingy cellar to sauna. And that's the analogy of how much things have improved for all the ghosts.

Change is scary. It's sad when things come to an end. But sometimes it's for the best. And an end doesn't always mean a closed door.

[golyadkin]

"My second in command" "My CO"

[almondcroissantsandink]

Not so fast, you blighter!

[todayisyourturntolose]

it's his month too!

[kami-ships-it]

the honorable Peter Sandys-Clarke posted this poem on twitter vv

[ghosts-of-love]

[carpe-mamilia]

Ghosts’ Larry Rickard Explains Why They Chose the Captain’s First Name

Photo: Monumental,Guido Mandozzi

It couldn’t be a joke. That was one rule laid down by the Ghosts creators when it came to choosing a first name for Willbond’s character. Until series five, the WWII ghost had been known only as The Captain – a mystery seized upon by fans of the show.

“It was the question we got asked more than anything. His name,” actor and writer Larry Rickard tells Den of Geek. “Once we got to series three, you could see that we were deliberately cutting away and deliberately avoiding it. We were fuelling the fire because we knew at some point we’d tell them.”

In “Carpe Diem”, the episode written by Rickard and Ben Willbond that finally reveals The Captain’s death story, they did tell us. After years of guessing, clue-spotting and debate, Ghosts revealed that The Captain’s first name is James. At the same time, we also learned that James’ colleague Lieutenant Havers’ first name was Anthony.

The ordinariness of those two names, says Rickard, is the point.

“The only thing we were really clear about is that we didn’t want one of those names that only exists in tellyland. It shouldn’t be ‘Cormoran’ or ‘Endeavour’. They should just be some men’s names and they’re important to them. The point was that they were everyday.”

Choosing first names for The Captain and Havers was a long process not unlike naming a baby, Rickard agrees. “It almost comes down to looking at the faces of the characters and saying, what’s right?”

“We talked for ages. For a long time I kept thinking ‘Duncan and James’, and then I was like ah no! That would have turned it into a gag and been awful!” Inescapably in the minds of a certain generation, Duncan James is a member of noughties boyband Blue. “Maybe with Anthony I was thinking of Anthony Costa!” Rickard says in mock horror, referencing another member of the band.

Lieutenant Havers wasn’t just The Captain’s second in command while stationed at Button House; he was also the man James loved. Because homosexuality was criminalised in England during James’ lifetime, he was forced to hide his feelings for Anthony from society, and to some extent even from himself.

In “Carpe Diem”, the ghosts (mistakenly) prepare for the last day of their afterlives, prompting The Captain to finally tell his story. Though not explicit about his sexual identity, the others understand and accept what he tells them – and led by Lady Button, all agree that he’s a brave man.

Getting the balance right of what The Captain does and doesn’t say was key to the episode. “It wasn’t just a personal choice of his to go ‘I’m going to remain in the closet’,” explains Rickard. “There wasn’t an option there to explore the things that either of them felt. That couldn’t be done back then – there are so many stories which have come out since the War about the dangers of doing that.

“We wanted to tell his personal story but also try to ensure that there was a level at which you understood why they couldn’t be open, that even in this moment where he’s finally telling the other ghosts his story, he never comes out and says it overtly because that would be too much for him as a character from that time.

“He says enough for them to know, and enough for him to feel unburdened but it’s in the fact that they’re using their first names which militarily they would never have done, and in the literal passing of the baton”.

The baton is a bonus reveal when fans learned that The Captain’s military stick wasn’t a memento of his career, but of Havers. As James suffers a fatal heart attack during a VE day celebration at Button House, Anthony rushes to his side and the stick passes from one to the other as they share a moment of tragic understanding.

“From really early on, we had the idea that anything you’re holding [when you die] stays with you. So it wasn’t just your clothes you were wearing, we had the stuff with Thomas’ letter reappearing in his pocket and so on. And the assumption being that it was something The Captain couldn’t put down, it felt so nice to be able to say it was something he didn’t want to put down.”

Rickard lists “Carpe Diem”, co-written with Ben Willbond, among his series five highlights. He’s pleased with the end result, praises Willbond’s performance, and loved being on set to see Button House dressed for the 1940s. He’s particularly pleased that a checklist of moments they wanted to land with the audience all managed to be included. “Normally something’s fallen by the wayside just because of the way TV’s made, it’s always imperfect or it’s slightly rushed, but it feels like it’s all there.”

Rickard and Willbond also knew by this point in the show’s lifetime, that they could trust Ghosts fans to pick up on small details. “Nothing is missed,” he says. “Early on, you’re always thinking, is that going to get across? But once we got to series five, there are little tiny things within corners of shots and you know that’s going to be spotted. Particularly in that very short exchange between Havers and the Captain. We worried less about the minutiae of it because you go, that’s going to be rewound and rewatched, nothing will be missed.”

The team were also grateful they’d resisted the temptation to tell The Captain’s story sooner. “We’d talked about it every series since series two, whether or not now was the time, but because he’s such a hard and starchy character in a lot of ways you needed the time to understand his softer side I think before you had that final honest beat from him.”

“What a ridiculously normal name to have so much weight put on it for five years,” laughs Rickard fondly. “Good old James.”

From Den of Geek

[captain-grammar]

"I was no hero." "Perhaps..." // "Well, baby butterflies are caterpillars, Katherine... And one day, they come out. And they are their true, fabulous selves."

[majestic-kestrel]

that part in Redding Weddy where the Captain slips up for a sec while talking about Havers and says "he left me .... I mean he left for the front", I cannot believe how long it took me to notice how Alison and Fanny's heads both SNAP up when he says "he left me" like they're just there kind of ignoring him, Alison's pissed off about the whole bomb thing, earlier he told Fanny to bury her emotions, but when they think he might be about to talk about his own feelings for someone suddenly they are paying attention, love that detail

[rochenn]

insane about him! hope i get to see him die very soon!!

[ineedpepsi]

its havers innit its havers

[ferociouslycreativemystery]

So close ↳ Yonderland s1e4 | Ghosts s1e1

[walkingcontradiction42]

Be gay do crime - the captain