Some thoughts on Ghosts (UK)
Sep. 20th, 2022 06:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icepixieI speedran the three existing seasons of Ghosts (the BBC version) this weekend. Helps that each season is only 6-7 episodes long. Anyway, I did it on the strength of the Horrible Histories cast who created/star in it (apparently they're called "The Six Idiots" by their fandom--wonder what the story is behind that name). And I was not disappointed! It is very fun.
...But can I just say that a sitcom has no right to make me tear up this damn much? Ooof. The second season Christmas episode was especially tearjerky in a number of very sweet ways.
I like all the ghosts, but, yes, Thomas is probably my favorite, closely followed by Robin and Julian. Not that I am predictable in any way.
I have a bone to pick with Mary's characterization, though. I mean, crying that the devil is at work over everything, and all the other stuck-in-the-17th-century dialogue she gets, is funny, but, like...all the other characters have at least acknowledged that time has progressed and things that didn't exist or weren't understood in their time do/are now, even if they don't like the current time (FANNIE). Mary's obviously supposed to be none too bright, but it's an odd discordant note.
But that's my only criticism. A+ for the rest of it.
I do appreciate that they went the route of having Thomas be his hapless self at Alison while she's married and is completely uninterested in him, because that's definitely hilarious, but I know in the alternate universe where she's single, the AU me is shipping the ABSOLUTE HELL out of them. (I hope we get a dream sequence from Thomas at some point...but then again, given the sliiiightly evil streak that seems to run under his hopeless romanticism, maybe I don't.)
I hope at some point we get an explanation of why only half the ghosts have some ability to interact with the living world. And of course backstories for the ones who haven't gotten them yet. The other backstories have been excellent, and honestly really moving, for some of them.
...But can I just say that a sitcom has no right to make me tear up this damn much? Ooof. The second season Christmas episode was especially tearjerky in a number of very sweet ways.
I like all the ghosts, but, yes, Thomas is probably my favorite, closely followed by Robin and Julian. Not that I am predictable in any way.
I have a bone to pick with Mary's characterization, though. I mean, crying that the devil is at work over everything, and all the other stuck-in-the-17th-century dialogue she gets, is funny, but, like...all the other characters have at least acknowledged that time has progressed and things that didn't exist or weren't understood in their time do/are now, even if they don't like the current time (FANNIE). Mary's obviously supposed to be none too bright, but it's an odd discordant note.
But that's my only criticism. A+ for the rest of it.
I do appreciate that they went the route of having Thomas be his hapless self at Alison while she's married and is completely uninterested in him, because that's definitely hilarious, but I know in the alternate universe where she's single, the AU me is shipping the ABSOLUTE HELL out of them. (I hope we get a dream sequence from Thomas at some point...but then again, given the sliiiightly evil streak that seems to run under his hopeless romanticism, maybe I don't.)
I hope at some point we get an explanation of why only half the ghosts have some ability to interact with the living world. And of course backstories for the ones who haven't gotten them yet. The other backstories have been excellent, and honestly really moving, for some of them.