#Ghosts season 5

[creamyberries-lovely]

MAFF?

[zarophod]

you’re kidding me. the show literally ends with Captain being gay about the weatherman. what a brilliant way to finish off this wonderful show. i’m gonna miss it :(

[parttimesarah]

A good deal of the BBC Ghosts fandom after S5E5…

[thewaywardlights]

I couldn't resist. Haud yer wheesht has to be my favourite phrase so far!

[caeran]

FANNY WITH HER HAIR DOWN ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[dnickels]

RE: 5x05. I have no idea how much I'm supposed to read into this, but that has never stopped me before:

It's VE Day. Havers is back in England. The post office, telephone system, communication infrastructure etc all still work. So where is Cap's sense of urgency coming from? He knows the full name and regiment of a serving officer, a letter will get where it needs to go, they're very good about that over there. Yes, Cap's been waiting, but its been six years, he can wait a little longer-- hang out in the bushes until he sees Haver's car drive away and bang on the window, if he insists on being an insane person (<3). Figure out where he's billeted. Japan hasn't surrendered yet, so I suppose there's a chance Havers could get shipped to Burma or something and potentially die there, but he's not going to go straight from the cocktail reception to the troop ship, especially if everyone there is about to get "Hitler defeated"-levels of drunk. ("They're all red tabs, surely decency and decorum--" they are going to roll those old soaks out of there in wheelbarrows)

The urgency isn't because Havers might die. I think Cap knew his time was short.

He's a middle aged man in tolerably good shape, all that ration food aside. He make good time on his morning jogs, and his biggest ailment is 'creaky knees'. "Widowmaker heart attack out of nowhere" isn't an unheard of COD for someone who seems otherwise fine, especially someone who has been under a fair amount of stress (six years of wartime, including the fucking Blitz would do a number on my heart) but his sudden relocation makes me pause. It's only been about a year since he got relocated away from Button House, right? What was all that about? It's presumably still requisitioned, given that they're throwing a swanky victory party there and Heather Button is nowhere to be seen, but has the weapons program been disbanded? Or was there some reason to pull the CO out of a high-stress position and send him to the beach to take potshots at seagulls? (I am being glib here-- the coast was NOT a stress-free place when you can see your enemy just across the Channel). I genuinely forget what he said he was doing in season three-- was he even still in the army at all, or did they send his ass to the Home Guard? Even they got a campaign ribbon.

I think Cap made one last push to get to the front, and while its very clear that this dingus should under no circumstances be on the front line (<3) they humored him with a medical-- and found something really troubling. Or maybe he went in of his own accord, the old flutter, or maybe it was just a routine checkup. Either way he got some very serious news, so sorry old boy, just one of those things, could be any day now-- best make sure your affairs are all in order.

Hence the single-minded desire to meet, once last time. Everyone else clearly drove-- did he walk all the way from the train station, down the country lanes? Did he feel a little short of breath scaling all those walls? Did every set-back and stressor make him more determined-- just give me a little more time, just a little more time...

It could also be that he just got yelled at so hard he died of it, which is almost certainly how I will go, but that was my immediate impression and it has not left me, nor have I known peace. I know there's a few holes in my theory but I haven't talked myself out of it yet. For me the kicker is that he experiences at least ten devastating emotions in the last moments of his life, but "surprise at entering cardiac arrest" does not appear to be one of them. It looks more like grim acceptance. Stoic in the face of death-- a soldier to the end.

[cursedchildofchaos]

when Kitty thinks she's pregnant but Alison whispers to her how it happens and she just looks at Julien, Robin, and Pat in horror eruivbiuervbhwei i died

[glowinggreeneyes-e]

"and there was even a kind of- an idea that like Alison would go off and buy a piece of furniture and a ghost would burst out of it and they were an awful ghost" - Ben Willbond, inside ghosts s5e5

all the capvers fics that had this EXACT premise is sending me (except it’s the wonderful Havers)

the fact that they were all within the ghosts universe canon now is a gift fic writers should use

[thosesillylittlegayghosts]

Ghosts season five spoilers!

FUCKING JAMES?!?!

HE DIED WITH HAVER HAND ON HIM

I-I. I know UNWELL RIP ME IM DECEASED WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN I KNOW?!

Anthony. James. IM GOING TO CRY MYSELF TO SLEEP TONIGHT FUCK RIGHT OFF I DID NOT READ A STUPID AMOUNT OF FANFICS AND HAVE THE ACTUAL CANON BIT BE SADDER

HAVERS GAVE HIM THE BLOODY STICK THING THATS WHY HE LOVES IT SO MUCH

[visceral-viscera]

british ghosts is soooo good btw guys i just finished the last ep (before a possible Christmas special... ohg) but ohhh my god this show is so genuine and theres so few shows that let characters change so much but let them keep their original traits so well WITHOUT flanderizing them and . whag. good show

[oatmilkenjoyer79]

so in the trailer it looks like one of the flashbacks we’ll see is cap returning to button house after the war is over:

(the signs read Victory! and then something i cant make out)

so maybe its like a commendation ceremony or smth and thats how he dies? but he doesn’t have a hat as a ghost so idk

[happylittleghost]

I just love this sad gay man so much

[bearsinpotatosacks]

Funny how the ghosts line dance to achy breaky heart when we find out the captain died of a heart attack

[ghostsbestepisodetournament]

Parings are, once again, done by a random picker wheel, may the best episode win!! :)

[leftabit-leftabit]

Ahhh the Eps are already on iplayer!!!

[caeran]

Dead captain and sad lieutenant :(