#bbc ghosts series 4

[vexonlegs]

specific ghosts series 4 things i would like to point out:

- the captain saying "men" and looking off wistfully

- alison is perfectly willing to commit vandalism for profit

- the captain's attempted limerick

- robin practically killed a man in cold blood (an intentional pun)

- thomas is canonically an opioid addict

- the great war (of the ants)

- "lucky cow"

- robin flat-out calling julian a bitch

- the captain's wink to kitty. peak dad behaviour

- captain gun noises (and all variations thereof)

- "apologies "not accepted" "understood"

- being in the right club

- "no no no that's just my wife screaming"

- the sorry song

- pat can't say quiche

- alison's crisis about death in the middle of a childrens' birthday party

- the captain almost crying followed by "she was so angry we had to hide the nuclear launch codes"

- "that is international space station"

- kitty's fascination with maddocks' mangled foot

- "please, call me-"

- barclay planting the asbestos. legend

- the captain reaches his full mega bitch potential

[mermaid-trash]

when pat does that thing where he grips the hems of his shorts like if you agree

[violetgauze]

honestly i'm still not over this

[londonsvenus]

Watching Julian be a Proud Dad to Alison when she was scheming with him against Barclay made me realise that Alison is about the same age as his daughter would be and now I’m sad.

[captainsatspeed]

i’m laughing so hard cap is such a bitch sometimes thomas finally had some admiration and cap is like “yeah their love for you is empty. if they actually knew you they wouldn’t like you“ like cmon cap give the poor fella his 5 minutes of fame. i mean was he wrong? no but damn

[inkwell-illustrations]

i love this scene when Annie holds Marys arm and how happy Mary looks

[dothetoothsteethhaveteethtoo]

GHOSTS S4 MEMESSSSSS

yes, it’s the moment you’ve all been waiting (an incredibly long time) for...we’re at that sweet spot where it’s been too long for them to be relevant but not long enough that I still have to tag spoilers, have fun xoxo

Fanny

Pat

Kitty

Robin

Thomas

Julian

Mary

Humphrey

The Captain

BONUS: Maddox

[lazydino420]

I love them

[ghostsofbuttonhouse]

I actually adore that Mary's backstory episode (Season 4 Episode 2) wasn't focused on her death. I love that she was able to tell the story of her death to the other ghosts, but it wasn't really shown to us.

It's easy, both for us the audience and for the characters to fixate on how the ghosts died, particularly with Mary. Throughout the show, we've seen the other ghosts' eagerness to hear about the witch trial and Mary's unwillingness to talk about it. But in terms of themes about moving on from trauma, it's actually far more powerful that when we did get proper Mary-focused flashbacks, they were mostly about her experiences after her death.

Instead of focusing on how she was demonised and killed, the show showed us how she made a friend and came out of her shell. How she died is only really covered in a short cold open scene, and the witch burning itself isn't shown. And I think that's important, because Mary should not be reduced to how she died. Even after that terrible trauma, she made interpersonal connections, learned things, and grew as a person. She was more than just a person who was accused of being a witch - people are more than the awful things that have happened to them, and the show made an effort to show that.

[octopusoptimusprime]

it really is just me and my little autistic headcanons against the world huh.

[squtternutboshing]

If we assume, given the evidence of Robin and Mary, that the ghosts' powers can reflect the way in which they died, do we really want to know what Julian was doing with his 'magic finger'?

[benisasoftboi]

Texts sent moments before the disaster

[magidragon12]

I want to post my thoughts on each individual episode, but I've decided to go for this one first because I have a lot of thoughts and feelings.

The opening is pretty funny, Julian's "tits" joke, Captain and Pat sharing braincells, just the usual stuff you'd expect to see. I didn't read any episode descriptions, so I was wholly unprepared.

Then they quietly introduced the idea of us losing a ghost, the Robin fakeout. A sigh of relief is breathed when he is revealed to be okay.

And then the golden light shines over Captain's face.

I feel like the Robin fakeout is what lead to Mary's sucking off (I like the term I'm using it, you can all shut up). It caused the entire room to question for a few precious seconds, what would it be like of we lost one of us? What would it be like if I was the one to move on?

I feel like when these questions went through Mary's head, she found her answers immediately. She's told the story of her death, overcome her trauma, made her peace with it. She's wanted to be sucked off to a better place ever since series 2. And when the possibiltiy of it happening comes round again, she finds that she's ready. Her unfinished business is finished. She's at peace with life. She's at peace with herself.

Her arc showed her becoming more confident, just like Annie always hoped for her. Probably her first real friendship got her started on the path of becoming the sort of assertive person who can face vindictive witchhunters, not with fear, but with courage.

Gotta say, this scene shocked me to my core. I never thought they'd actually do it, which really made the moment, and by extension, the episode.

[notacaravan]

Over the Garden Wall

[silverspadesss]

if robin’s flashback doesn’t include him coming home from a successful hunt, being greeted by his tribe and his children running at him and cheering as he sweeps them up and twirls them round in a hug then what even is the point /lh

[captainsatspeed]

SLIGHT SPOILERS

lads this is my EVERYTHING i just came home from school to this like idk if i can live this is the greatest picture ever