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Post by Girl Power on Jan 6, 2007 1:32:19 GMT -5
I've been hooked on this show since the pilot.
A lot of people think it's cheesey, but it has really good ratings. There's definitely too much of a predictable formula, with the creepy, scary stuff happening for the first part of the show, Melinda solving the mystery, then getting rejected by the ghost's loved one, then finally convincing them and the tear-jerker reunion between ghost and loved one, with Melinda giving a really translation of what the ghost is saying.
But I love this kind of stuff. I like the scary part and mystery, as well as the spiritual part. I think it's a really interesting, cool show.
I also just love Jennifer Love Hewitt's wardrobe. She dresses so romantically, with the Victorian influence, ruffles, full skirts, boots. I love that stuff!
Her fake hair and eyelashes, bug me though. She even wore the super plastic eyelashes when she was in a coma! JLH is pretty fake-looking all around, but it's a fun show. Her husband on the show is super hot, too. They do lots of gratuitious shots of him without his shirt on for the ladies to balance the mega Jennifer Love Hewitt mega cleavage.
Anyway, does anyone else like this show? If you like sentimental stuff and creepy ghost stuff, you'll like it. It's kind of like a horror Touched By an Angel, as weird as that sounds.
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Post by scullow on Jan 6, 2007 6:05:12 GMT -5
I watched it when it first came on TV because JLH is good eye candy but as you say in your 1st paragraph, it is formulaic so when it clashed with something else, even though I have Sky+ (allows me to record one show while watching another) I decided that I wouldn't miss it that much.
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Post by afer on Jan 7, 2007 11:46:49 GMT -5
I caught a few episodes of this, but it just seemed to me that they were ripping off Tru Calling. It just reminded me of Tru so much.
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Post by monkeycop on Jan 7, 2007 13:24:08 GMT -5
I like this show. It does have a predictable formula, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't entertained everytime I watched it. JLH is quite the eye candy to boot.
I haven't been able to watch it lately since I work the nights it comes on, and the fact that my show recording capabilities are kind of limited at the moment, so I don't know what's going on.
Maybe they could start having a significant story arc every season like they did with Buffy and Angel. That way, it could add a little unpredictability to the show.
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Post by Girl Power on Jan 7, 2007 19:33:44 GMT -5
Really, the only long-term arc seems to be the man in the hat and the laughing man who steal people's souls/convince them to not cross over so they live on the energy of the soulds.
I'm suspicious that they may be planning to kill off Melinda's husband and set her up for a romance with Jay Mohr. I think that would suck because the husband is hot and Jay Mohr is a fun secondary character, but is too weird to be with Melinda.
After they killed off Aisha last season, anything could happen. I really miss Aisha. I've never liked Camryn Manheim. I think she detracts from the show. And her 12 earrings bug me. She wore that look on the Practice. It's just lame to carry it over to her other roles.
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Post by gerry on Jan 8, 2007 19:09:50 GMT -5
After they killed off Aisha last season, anything could happen. I watched the show off and on, but I really did like the sixth sense thing they did with her. Overall, the endings were always too sappy for me, it brought my inner cynic to full light. So I just gave up watching it.
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Post by Girl Power on Jan 8, 2007 21:12:50 GMT -5
After they killed off Aisha last season, anything could happen. I watched the show off and on, but I really did like the sixth sense thing they did with her. Overall, the endings were always too sappy for me, it brought my inner cynic to full light. So I just gave up watching it. Well, I have an outer cynic, but an inner sap, so I like the endings. I guess I think that there are so many jerks and so much pain in the world, I really hope that people get some insight and values once their dead! It's my only hope, in fact.
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Post by gerry on Jan 12, 2007 19:08:56 GMT -5
New one on tonight.
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Post by becky on Jan 19, 2007 19:12:52 GMT -5
This is another show I watch. Its cheesy, but the good kind. I'm really worried that they're going to kill Melinda's husband. Please, don't! Jay Mohr is not that fun to look at!
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Post by Girl Power on Jan 19, 2007 20:07:55 GMT -5
This is another show I watch. Its cheesy, but the good kind. I'm really worried that they're going to kill Melinda's husband. Please, don't! Jay Mohr is not that fun to look at! I have the exact same worry, Becky! They are really foreshadowing his death! It also seems like they are setting up a future relationship between her and Jay Mohr. But his character is too squirrely and not attractive at all. Melinda's husband Jim is a super hottie. And all the shots of him in a wife beater, well, he's just a yummy yum yum! Those arms! That chest. That guy really works out.
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Post by becky on Jan 19, 2007 20:11:13 GMT -5
I know! He is just delicious! I was so angry when they killed Andrea, if they kill Jim too, I may have to stop watching the show.
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Post by buffyfannumerouno on Feb 8, 2007 0:34:33 GMT -5
I really love this show and Jennifer Love Hewitt is amazing. Although I didn't get a chance to see the first episode of Season 2 I couldn't watch the episodes after without messing it up so I will have to wait until it comes out on DVD to see the 2nd Season.
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Post by Girl Power on Feb 8, 2007 0:38:12 GMT -5
The season finale was so intense. But they have rerun the season opener. They might rerun it again during the summer, you should look out for it. Most of the episodes this season have been stand alones. There hasn't been much of an arc this season. The hat guy isn't around much, almost not at all.
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Post by Girl Power on Mar 4, 2007 17:32:36 GMT -5
I just read that Melinda will have an even more menacing, powerful nemesis stalking her than the wide brimmed hat dude.
Sounds like the plot is thickening!
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Post by insanity on Mar 4, 2007 18:42:23 GMT -5
I absolutely love this show!!! I've always really liked Jennifer and she is great in this series. Does anyone know when the new episodes come back on? the past two or three weeks were repeats.
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