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Jun. 20th, 2007 09:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethBeen watching Ghost Whisperer. I felt like watching something sort of snuggly where everything works out okay by the end, for a given value of okay. I mean there's always still a dead person, but they're a happy dead person, so that works out.
... it's kind of a weird thing to want to watch I guess ...
but anyways, I have therefore been crying for about an episode and ten minutes.
I forgot the second one was the one with the little kid ghost. Kids should never be ghosts. The whole point is being alive. And I hate how plausible it is, the bad thing that happened, cause his mom told him to run and then she had to pick up the baby and get away and he'd run the wrong place and she couldn't do anything about that because baby and no time and I hate that because it's just horribly plausible. You know, assuming the car stalls in the worst possible place in the first place.
Also he has the same name as my mini cousin, which just makes it worse.
So that was mostly being miserable and not fun. I should probably have skipped it once I remembered which story it was but once it's started you've got to see it work out okay or it's just stuck in the bad place.
... or, you know, I'm weird.
I could put my meta hat on and talk about what people find useful and valuable in different narratives with superficial similarities. I mean Supernatural has ghosts, but mostly you don't fix them with hugs and talking. And I am mostly in the mood for Supernatural style salt and burn fixing, which seems weird when you think about it, because applicability to daily life is all in the help-with-grieving show not the burn-the-corpse show. One would hope.
They feel kind of like polar opposites cause Supernatural is a guy show and Ghost Whisperer is a girl show, except for how I generally don't like categories like that.
I like on GW her husband being helpful and supportive and her helping him and they're building a house and a marriage together and sometimes things fall over but they put them back up again and it's like a house metaphor. And also he's hot and a paramedic who fixes people. Win, basically.
I can't watch medical shows because they make me feel all fragile, but I like the hero who heals type. On DS9 for instance, lots of heroic adventure and sometimes medecine. And enough distance behind not-real to not make me worry I'll come down with shapeshifter plague or something.
GW is harder to watch than Supernatural cause I'm not actually worried about homicidal ghosts but the sort people carry around - like Highlander says, everyone you've loved and everyone you've killed - the grieving for them, that's a lot closer to real. I mean they might not be physically present per se, but the dead are very real to the living and the living have to learn to deal with them. And that's where the focus of the stories has to be to be really useful. Like the pilot was mostly about telling the guy to stop looking back at absence-of-father and get on with being-a-father. And the one with the dead little kid was so the mom would be able to let it go and concentrate on alive little baby instead. Those are good.
The half that's about the ghost learning to let go of the alive world, that's kind of weirder. I mean it's nice that the ghosts get happy and go to a good place, but it's weird to have a show where every week it's like it's teaching people to be okay with getting death. That whole "It was their time" idea isn't something I'm about to accept. No fate. Just stuff that happens. Fight back at it.
But that's what the paramedic guy does, what he's there for. Like in the pilot, he's saying how he spent 20 minutes reviving a guy so he wouldn't end up a ghost. So it's like when they're alive he saves them and when they're dead she deals with the fallout.
Good line from the pilot "We're in the life business, death's just a part of that"
I think I like it better when it's stories about the scary dark things and you get to blow them up a lot. Easier.
... it's kind of a weird thing to want to watch I guess ...
but anyways, I have therefore been crying for about an episode and ten minutes.
I forgot the second one was the one with the little kid ghost. Kids should never be ghosts. The whole point is being alive. And I hate how plausible it is, the bad thing that happened, cause his mom told him to run and then she had to pick up the baby and get away and he'd run the wrong place and she couldn't do anything about that because baby and no time and I hate that because it's just horribly plausible. You know, assuming the car stalls in the worst possible place in the first place.
Also he has the same name as my mini cousin, which just makes it worse.
So that was mostly being miserable and not fun. I should probably have skipped it once I remembered which story it was but once it's started you've got to see it work out okay or it's just stuck in the bad place.
... or, you know, I'm weird.
I could put my meta hat on and talk about what people find useful and valuable in different narratives with superficial similarities. I mean Supernatural has ghosts, but mostly you don't fix them with hugs and talking. And I am mostly in the mood for Supernatural style salt and burn fixing, which seems weird when you think about it, because applicability to daily life is all in the help-with-grieving show not the burn-the-corpse show. One would hope.
They feel kind of like polar opposites cause Supernatural is a guy show and Ghost Whisperer is a girl show, except for how I generally don't like categories like that.
I like on GW her husband being helpful and supportive and her helping him and they're building a house and a marriage together and sometimes things fall over but they put them back up again and it's like a house metaphor. And also he's hot and a paramedic who fixes people. Win, basically.
I can't watch medical shows because they make me feel all fragile, but I like the hero who heals type. On DS9 for instance, lots of heroic adventure and sometimes medecine. And enough distance behind not-real to not make me worry I'll come down with shapeshifter plague or something.
GW is harder to watch than Supernatural cause I'm not actually worried about homicidal ghosts but the sort people carry around - like Highlander says, everyone you've loved and everyone you've killed - the grieving for them, that's a lot closer to real. I mean they might not be physically present per se, but the dead are very real to the living and the living have to learn to deal with them. And that's where the focus of the stories has to be to be really useful. Like the pilot was mostly about telling the guy to stop looking back at absence-of-father and get on with being-a-father. And the one with the dead little kid was so the mom would be able to let it go and concentrate on alive little baby instead. Those are good.
The half that's about the ghost learning to let go of the alive world, that's kind of weirder. I mean it's nice that the ghosts get happy and go to a good place, but it's weird to have a show where every week it's like it's teaching people to be okay with getting death. That whole "It was their time" idea isn't something I'm about to accept. No fate. Just stuff that happens. Fight back at it.
But that's what the paramedic guy does, what he's there for. Like in the pilot, he's saying how he spent 20 minutes reviving a guy so he wouldn't end up a ghost. So it's like when they're alive he saves them and when they're dead she deals with the fallout.
Good line from the pilot "We're in the life business, death's just a part of that"
I think I like it better when it's stories about the scary dark things and you get to blow them up a lot. Easier.