Ghosts wrapped up it's 3rd season last week. In a strike shortened season with only 10 episodes, a lot of ground still got covered.
We learned holes are bad. Floor is floor and wall is wall and they do not work the same for our spirits. Ghosts can past through walls and they cannot touch material objects. Yet they can sit on chairs, lie on beds and walk on floors.
Which means being trapped in a well is bad. A ghost can stand at the bottom of a well BUT cannot climb the walls of the well without passing through the walls into the dirt.
Which is why Flower has been trapped in a well.
Turns out it was a basement ghost who was sucked off at the end of season 2. Nancy who gave the report that the basement ghosts were all accounted for at the start of season 3 never had a formal education and doesn't know how to count.
Thor, Sass, Isaac and Patience were trapped in the well in the 1890's.
Wait! Who is Patience? She was a Puritan woman who died on the grounds of Woodstone Manor.
But what happened to her?
Well, funny story....
Or not.
After a long time cursing their predicament, (as Thor tells it, bemoaning their wretch fate as to why floor is floor and wall is wall), the 4 decide to join hands and move slowly through the dirt in the direction of the manor.
Then Isaac sneezes and let's go of Patience's hand and she is...
Wait! Ghosts can sneeze?!? They were immaterial! They lack substance! What could possibly cause a the nose of a formless spirit to...?
I ask too many questions.
Let's try again.
Then Isaac sneezes and let's go of Patience's hand and she is lost in the dirt by the time Thor, Sass and Isaac emerge back in Woodstone Manor.
It's 1895 and Hetty has joined their ranks as a ghost.
It is the tragedy of Hetty's death that provides the outlet to rescue Flower from the well. The ghosts pull Flower out of the well using the rope that is still looped around Hetty's neck from where she hung herself in 1895.
It's an unexpectedly dark and somber revelation that underscores the why this show works so well. Yeah, it's very funny but it's not afraid to explore for serious themes, especially as they relate to the lives of the people who becomes the ghosts doomed to forever wander the grounds of Woodstone Manor.
Except Pete. He discovers he has a unique power to leave the place of his death. When he was alive, Pete was a travel agent who ironically enough never travelled. He uses his new found ghost power to visit St. Lucia where members of his living family are on vacation.
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And this going really well until parts of Pete start disappearing.
His hand has vanished.
It appears his power to leave Woodstone Manor has limits and he is vanishing into oblivion.
Peter makes it back to Woodstone in time for his missing body parts (he peeks down the front of his trousers and sighs with relief) are back.
Just in time for the wedding of Isaac and Nigel to take place.
Except it doesn't.
One might expect trepidation from CBS executives over a gay wedding. Look, their audience is mostly older white people who are crying over the end of Blue Bloods and think Bible thumping Mary is the hero of Young Sheldon so the idea of two men getting married might be a problem.
But to be honest, it never felt quite right. After 250 years of haunting the grounds at Woodstone, Isaac had only in the last couple of years admitted to himself he was gay. (Everyone else already knew.) Isaac had feelings for Nigel (both alive and dead) that he wasn't quite sure about and it did seem a bit much to rush into marriage when he's still working out his feelings about being gay and in a relationship with another man.
Isaac's timing sucks. "You couldn't tell me this an hour ago?" asks a perturbed Nigel in front of the gathered wedding party.
Speaking of timing, Patience has arrived and yanked Isaac into the dirt!
To be continued!
Well, we're on a summer break and please, no strikes. I do not want to wait any later than September (maybe October) to see this resolved.
Well, Rose McIver (who plays Sam) can finally have her baby and stop hiding behind the reservation desk and strategically placed potted plants to hide her pregnancy.
Next week's Touchbase, I commune with more ghosts with Dead Boy Detectives.
Until next time, remember to be good to one another and try to keep it down in there, would ya? I'm trying to watch TV over her
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