#it's fascinating that Carolyn reads the ghosts as crying out for help but the ghosts are the most helpful people in Collinwood. hands down.
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#ghost story enjoyers when the ghosts get revenge: [yelling]#fucking spectacular you funky little dead guy. maybe learn how to swim next time around the carousel of life and death.#anyway. speaking recreationally here.#do think it's cool that bill identifies how important revenge is to burke out loud. and. well.#yeah this kind of ignores the first thing that bill's ghost does is scare the shit out of vicki (accidental?) to warn her to get away;#before what happened to him happens to her.#(eta: but where bill's ghost shows up in 85 singing as though that was part of the invocation of the ghost story - it carries no emotional;#weight. for Vicki - i mean. in 126 bill's ghost does the same thing and it genuinely comes off like he /means/ to fuck with matthew;#that it's intentionally unsettling - even cruel.)#ghosts are multifaceted. they contain multitudes.#it's fascinating that Carolyn reads the ghosts as crying out for help but the ghosts are the most helpful people in Collinwood. hands down.#something something all the characters see in the ghosts what they want to see. Carolyn sees a trap; a cry for help;#Liz (and Roger. to an extent.) see ghosts as the threat of the unburied past come to unseat the present.#Burke sees a ghost as a revenge seeking fulfilment.#Vicki & David? they're lonely. the ghosts - however unsettling - are objects of fascination. friends.#dark shadows#bill malloy#burke devlin#sam evans#matthew morgan
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