Ghost Whisperer

O.K., this is a really stupid show and I’m embarrassed I’m watching it, but I am.  I tend to watch whatever is on in English, and the choice is limited.  Jennifer Love Hewitt is smoking hot and I do enjoy a good story of the supernatural.  Also, it’s one of the very few programs that my wife and I can watch together.

She likes Czech soap operas – Rodina Pouta, Misto Nahore, Nemocnice na Kraje Mesto, the current favorite is Eva- and I find them extremely irritating.  Partly it’s the language barrier, partly it’s the extreme melodrama of the soap opera format, but it just seems like

I Hate Myself for Liking This Show

everybody is constantly bitching and moaning at each other, and I hate that.  They’re actually much closer to reality than American soap operas.  Maybe that’s the problem.  If I wanted reality, I’d switch off the TV and listen to everybody bitching and moaning at each other right in my own living room.

I like the History Channel, Escape to Chimp Eden and occasionally other things on Animal Planet but I get way sick of the pet rescue shows.  Can’t understand the marketing mentality behind that, either.  Do they think that people who love animals get off on seeing abused, mangled and diseased animals?  Maybe they do, actually, and it’s even a sicker world than I’d imagined, but I’m guessing there’s another factor at work.  That is, it probably costs them next to nothing to do a ride along with the Phoenix Animal Rescue League and film it, but an arm and a leg to send a crew into the Amazonian rain forest.

So, we compromise on Ghost Whisperer.  But the show totally jumped the shark a while back.  It’s as if the writer’s were making it up as they went along and got themselves into a hole they couldn’t get out of without just writing in stuff that didn’t make sense (HE DIDN’T GET OUT OF THE COCKADOODY CAR!)  The whole thing with her birth father withholding evidence and keeping the biological father in prison was a stretcher, but if her ghost seeing power was inherited from her mother’s side, then how did her half-brother get the gift and if her father (mother’s husband) was such a bastard, and he did try to kill her, after all, why does she continue to go by the last name of Gordon when her and Jim Clancy are otherwise such a traditional and lovey-dovey couple.  It just didn’t all hold together.  Then there was that whole Jim dying and his spirit going into Sam’s body thingie.  Totally in conflict with her whole raison d’etre, the whole theory of how she related to ghosts, getting them to cross over into the light and such.

Now they’ve fast forwarded, they’ve got a kid who appears to be about 10, although Jim and Melinda haven’t aged much, and they just seem to have forgotten about this whole Sam mess.  I never saw Lost, but I imagine sort of the same thing happened.  Fucking writers.

In other news, not making any predictions, but I’ve got my fingers crossed for Jerry Brown, Barbara Boxer, Scott McAdams and many others.  I’ll probably blog about that tomorrow.