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Radio Times making me cry this morning! Oh well! Merry Christmas

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Honk crrring us, every one

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Wonder how the ghost fans r gonna take it this year with no more Christmas special

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Decided to give CBS Ghosts a try and it’s actually not too bad.

Jay seems like a decent man but Sam is kind of annoying. I like the opera singer and Thor. Hetty seems like a much less repressed Fanny which could be fun. Obsessed with how much she hates the Irish. (“Now it could get sold to God knows who. Murderers. Perverts. Irishmen.” / “*inhale* O’Malley”)

Interesting decision to make Sam’s injury an accident. Still Trevor’s fault for knocking over the vase but Julian, on purpose, pushed Alison out of a window. Trevor at least appears to be remorseful. This changes things I think. Curious to see where they go especially because I know people have said it gets much better when they stop trying to copy the original.

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alison’s friendly and personable and well-meaning and all but she’s also a devious schemer who doesn’t seem to be aware of how insane her plans sound from an outside pov. it’s not talked about enough. what do you mean slash the tires of the couple staying at your airbnb to save their marriage so they leave you a good review. i wouldn’t be surprised if miss lucy scammer was an actual relative of hers. and this isn’t a criticism if anything it’s a compliment i love mildly unhinged women

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Most unbelievable part of Ghosts is not someone being able to see dead people, it's the appraisal guy in S5 not finding anything worth selling in that ancient house, when he's standing next to the same tapestries that were hanging there in Humphrey's day.

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13/11

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GHOSTS (2019-2023) | IMDB Top 10 Episodes

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I had a virtual ticket for the Ghosts Q and A event, here’s some fun things I learned:

If Pat had a tattoo, it would be a dolphin on his ankle surrounded by stars

If Robin had a tattoo, it would be a bum on his bum

The original pilot for Ghosts contained many other characters and truly horrendous costumes

Robin’s original chess partner was a permanently drunk monk

There was going to be these two ghost characters who were a husband and wife who hated each other to the point that the husband killed his wife and then instantly fell down the stairs so he was stuck with his wife for eternity

Mary was initially eternally emitting smoke, which was a problem because it was a practical effect which involved piping smoke from under her skirt (from what I could gather)

Martha Howe-Douglas has never seen Star Wars

The team who made Ghosts initially considered making a show set in space instead because they weren’t sure how to do the ghost plot - Martha would’ve been a cyborg (she doesn’t know what a cyborg is)

Laurence Rickard (Robin and Humphrey) once encountered a little Northern Pat trick or treater during Halloween who had no clue who he was and didn’t intentionally come to his house

Laurence Rickard has a model of his severed head just on his person (presumably at all times)

There was initially going to be a ghost called Ancient William, who was one of the oldest and wisest of the ghosts, a soothsayer type character like Yoda, except he was only six years old

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Can’t we just watch Friends again?

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01/11

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Thinking about how Thomas and the Captain are two sides of the same coin.

Both are inept in their chosen fields, but they put their heart and soul into it. Each is mocked by (most of) his peers, but yearns for their respect.

One lives in a world that encourages him to embrace emotional expression and individuality; the other lives in a world that forces him to repress them, stripping him of all identity but his rank.

Each of them is loved by someone who finds his idiosyncrasies charming, even as everyone else laughs. And yet, the pursuit of this love leads each to an ignominious death.

The Captain dies having learned that his feelings are requited, with Havers by his side. Thomas dies alone, believing that Isabelle no longer loves him.

They are a soldier who died from a broken heart, and a poet who died from a gunshot.

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28/09

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The Faces of Ben: small roles, part 2

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The Faces of Ben: small roles edition, part 1

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alison. 🧍‍♂️ aLISON 🧍‍♂️🗣️ ALISON ! ! !

(julian canonically says lol and awks so I’m not excluding emojis from his boomer vocab)