#School Spirits spoilers

[laughable-umbrella]

i’m sorry. you’re telling me that at split river high school, on separate occasions, various students have been electrocuted in closets, chrushed by stage lights, tackled to death, KILLED BY GUIDANCE COUNSELORS, had deadly allergic reactions, and died in a mysterious fire. also the bUS CRASH THAT KILLED SIX KIDS??

hate it break it to you, but your school is for sure cursed

[flashbacksechoes]

MADDIE and WALLY in School Spirits' season 2 teaser

[raviposting]

Oh my god, what is your problem with me? What, I can’t even breathe now? Um, for starters, maybe because you hooked up with my best friend’s boyfriend? 

SCHOOL SPIRITS 1x08: MADISON’S BODY 

[websterss]

𝐈 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰...𝐢𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥, 𝐌𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐞. 𝐌𝐚𝐲𝐛𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐮𝐩 𝐜𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐧— 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮. 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞...𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐦𝐲 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝. —No. Simon this is real. This is me! Simon! No Simon. Simon I’m real!

[media-thots]

So I’ve been watching School Spirits, not done yet, but I just finished episode 7 where we learn what happened to Dawn. And I was struck by a realization of why Dawn had her special spot in the alcove. A raised, dry place without poor electrical connections where she could be plainly seen. Even in her afterlife Dawn was keeping herself safe from what harmed her in her last moments; she wasn’t being kooky, Dawn was trying to cope with the trauma of her death. Absolutely beautiful environmental/behavioral foreshadowing, no notes.

[wallyclarksnewmom]

Okay quick teaser observations:

We see the school on fire - I wonder if that's a Mr. Martin/Janet flashback although idk if that fire took out so much of the school

Wally and Maddie kiss my beloved

Re: resports from the panel the shot of Maddie chasing Mr. Martin is the first scene - presumably we're picking up right after s1

I'm obsessed with the way Maddie seems to be purposefully looking away from her Janet reflection paired with narration being about facing yourself - how linked have these 2 become through the possession?

[nine-is-not-a-ten]

School Spirits SPOILERS

i just finished School Spirits

why didn't anyone warn me about the ending.

okay firST OF ALL WHAT THE FUCK

JANET DIDN'T FUCKING CROSS OVER? MR. MARTIN'S A BITCH? SIMON DOESN'T BELIEVE HER ANYMORE? AND WORST OF ALL:

SHE DIDN'T GET WITH WALLY??

simon is not worth it honey ;-;

[endyourpartofthestory]

so um how we feeling everybody

[todaysgenderisthemummybooppaw]

Also on the topic of the new school spirits episode I haven't seen anyone mention this but can we talk about how triggering Rhondas scene with Mr Martin had to be for her?? Like idk if it was intentional or not but a male figure she trust, someone who is acting in a counceling role (I can't remember if he was a guidance councilor or just a teacher before he died) screaming at her and walking towards her intimidstingly. I hate Mr Martin and I think he was involved in maddys death but even if I didn't before I WOULD HATE HIM NOW.

[bisexualmultifandommess]

So, in the finale we find out that Maddie technically isn’t actually dead she was just pushed out of her body by Janet which means that eventually they could find a way to get her back to normal and set Janet back to being a ghost.

This means that Maddie will be back with her friends and will be alive but she’ll also not be able to stay with Wally or stay friends Rhonda and Charley 😭😭

I think for the first time ever I’m wishing that a character I love would stay dead lmao

[theories-and-theorems]

The current theor(ies) rolling around the most in my head is for School Spirts

In the last episode we learn that Mr. Martian was aware that Janet took over Maddie’s body

We also learn that they both died in a fire that may have been started by a student or may have been started by Mr. Martian

So the show is, and has been for a while, (I knew he knew more than he let on like episode two or three when he said something super suspicious) leading us to believe that Mr. Martian is the, or at least, a bad guy

And while I’m not clamoring to claim his innocence, I do think it’s interesting that he told Janet not to move when she jumped into Maddie’s body

It’s entirely possible that Mr. Martian is the ultimate villain and Janet did what she did because she’s trying to escape him or because she feels cheated being stuck in limbo with her (maybe) murderer (Not fair to Maddie in any way but more sympathetic than my next thought)

It is also possible that the show is leading us to the conclusion that Janet started the fire, woke up angry in the afterlife that she got caught up in her own craziness, and has been trying to find a way out ever since, (maybe even causing some of the other’s deaths in her attempts?)

This would make her the big bad of the show, and Mr. Martian (while not completely innocent) a misguided man trying to prevent her (and unfortunately for Maddie, failing) from succeeding her goal to possess someone else and escape

What do y’all think? Am I overthinking or on to something? Do you think Janet is an opportunist, a runaway victim, or a killer Queen? 🤔

[phantomoftheorpheum]

I know there are a lot of theories bouncing around that Maddie is still alive and it feels very weird to say this about a character that I genuinely like, but... I hope not? I mean, don't get me wrong, I totally see where the theories are coming from & it would explain why she's so different from the other ghosts, but I also feel like it would really undermine the emotional core of the show for me.

[purplerakath]

Current theories for who killed Maddie in School Spirits.

1. Xander - We never really investigated him, the teacher became suspect 1 because he was creepy and had a bunch of money he shouldn't have. So looping back to him still feels fair.

2. One of the non-Claire cheerleaders - Claire is too early to be the one who did it, BUT, if we show more of her idiot friends being not an idiot maybe they did it for or to Claire.

3. Mr. Martin - No human murderer explains why Maddie isn't a normal ghost. Why her memory is missing, or why Simon can see her. But if a ghost did it, well, that means the rules change.

Add to that his rules don't really seem to matter, and how the antilife society seems to be wrong about the other ghosts, he's a good suspect.

(Wrong in that the Theater Ghost is aware of her afterlife, she's just dedicated to her own death in an unhealthy way. And Dawn isn't trapped in 1972, she's fully embraced 2023. To such degree it weirds out the ghost clique.)

(...Band Ghosts are still weird though, no getting around that.)

[karin848]

Maddie Nears and Wally Clark in School Spirits episode 8: Madison’s Body

[mcufan1066]

School Spirits 1x05

Mr. Martin doesn't know what micro-aggressions are. That sort of gives a cultural time frame to him.

That kid had a lunch of tater tots. My hero.

Still not here for this "redemption" of Xavier.

Pussy-toes?

Was thinking that it was a little self-centered of Wally to do this, but then he put in how he's showing up for his family. I can respect that.

Claire, you're acting like you want to get caught. Texting him over and over. Visiting his house. Why not just light a signal fire in front of the police station?

Wally gave Charley a kiss. Glad that they didn't go with the typical alpha male homophobic jock from the 80's stereotype with him.

Wally's mom is here. Hope this doesn't go bad for him.

Claire did something. Something serious. She's not paranoid like that because of buying grades.

It was the other teacher. She's the one that recorded it and sent it to the three.

Maddie is simply saying what Mr. Martin's been saying. The ghosts need to move on from what is holding them trapped to the world.

Before people start going all conspiracy theory, Maddie's body is NOT in the trunk of Nicole's car. Those boxes wouldn't fit in that small trunk with her body, and her body would be seriously rank after a week. People would smell it from a distance in that car.

Guessing that Mr. Martin died in that room.

[arrow-jsy]

SCHOOL SPIRITS SPOILERS

Me and my sibling's interpretation of why simon can see maddie. Going largly off of the whole '[mom] broke my spirit'

Sibling said (moments after finishing season 1) "I think the reasom simon is the only one that can see maddie-"

I interrupt with "because he knew her spirit???"

"Because her leaving broke his"