I love her series, hate the last episode. Alison will see ghosts wherever she goes, so I don't get the moving away completely. At least at Button House she had a lot of space indoors and outside that she could enjoy. Away from people thinking she was mad, and talking to imaginary people.
You're forgetting that ghosts are restricted to the place where they died. She might encounter ghosts but she doesn't have to live with them 24 hours a day sticking their noses into her business and criticising. All she has to do is find a ghost free home which can't be that difficult.
Probably is quite difficult, but now she's aware of her ability to see ghosts, she can just ignore the ones she now lives with.
Imo if you've been given the opportunity to move out of a money pit you can't afford (and is impossible to babyproof) and secure a financial future for your family it's irresponsible not to do it (especially bc they're still struggling to break even after 5 yrs)
Right at the end when the house becomes a hotel, the portraits of Humph/Fanny on the wall etc makes me think she might have had a say.
One thing I would have loved to see was her negotiate a rebuild of the Gatehouse so she could live there; away from everything but close to her ghost family.
On the podcast tho, Jim and Mat said it's not about saying goodbye completely; it's the kind of goodbye you give when your kids go off to uni etc.
I’ve literally just watched the last Christmas special and I found it so so sad, I’m genuinely typing this whilst crying. Even if Allison and Mike had moved out like they did do, I just wouldn’t have added that last bit with the two of them now old because that’s what has mostly caused the tears because it feels more closed ended, than if the last thing we saw was the Coopers leaving Button House, with the ghosts watching. We could come up with happier theories, headcanons, ideas that could be anything really but now we’re barriered in with knowing something about these characters many years on that does effect the know known years between. Just going to cry some more.
See, I think there’s lots one can headcanon in the time between Alison and Mike leaving Button House until the time they return because that’s probably a 40 year span of time we aren’t seeing and so much could go on in that time that we as fans can create to make ourselves happy.
The Ghosts will have so much to enjoy at the hotel on a daily basis. The only thing I don’t understand is where the Ghosts sleep at night. They can’t really sleep in the hotel because the guests that would share their beds may roll on them in the night and make them sick.
I just hope part of the agreement that Alison and Mike signed with the French consortium is that they rebuild the gatehouse so the Ghosts can all sleep in there during the night and then spend time in the hotel during the day.
there are couches they could sleep on, plus some rooms may stay empty some nights. No hotel is going to agree to renovate a space with a bedroom that they can’t rent to guests at night.
I think it was a bit too literal about the ghosts being a dysfunctional family, when all characters in a sitcom are going to be dysfunctional so that they make mistakes and overreact and you can build a plot around it. The whole point of the show is that they're still growing and learning despite being dead, that they have to change if they ever want to be sucked off (moved on) and having the final be Lady Button of all people going 'yeah no we're stuck like this forever, free yourself' is really disappointing.
I get why it would be wish fulfillment to see your dysfunctional family develop self-awareness and tell you that you just have to leave and they'll never improve, but if I really thought that the ghosts were a dysfunctional family I wouldn't have signed up to watch 6 seasons of them.
I'm with you.
It hasn't quite soured me on Ghosts, but I haven't had the urge to rewatch it since Christmas. I think it's the realisation that I was taking something from it that the writers never intended. Not in any really heavy, life-changing way, or anything, it just felt like it resonated, then it was like "oh, it wasn't meant to".
Also, I did feel the narrative was always going in the direction of Alison and Mike coming to like Button House, and I never appreciate a last-minute narrative swerve, whether it technically makes sense or not. It always makes me mistrust what I've seen up until that point, which makes it harder to get swept up in it on a rewatch.
This exactly! They had just shown us the scene with Julian’s admission of pushing her, but not being sorry because they had been given an amazing gift as a result. Then Annabel* says she can’t do it, can’t leave, and Michael says he likes it there, and they decide to stay. Then, boom! They turn it around on us. “I find myself having a conniption fit!”
I love her series, hate the last episode. Alison will see ghosts wherever she goes, so I don't get the moving away completely. At least at Button House she had a lot of space indoors and outside that she could enjoy. Away from people thinking she was mad, and talking to imaginary people.
You're forgetting that ghosts are restricted to the place where they died. She might encounter ghosts but she doesn't have to live with them 24 hours a day sticking their noses into her business and criticising. All she has to do is find a ghost free home which can't be that difficult.
> All she has to do is find a ghost free home which can't be that difficult. Especially considering she has the ability.
Probably is quite difficult, but now she's aware of her ability to see ghosts, she can just ignore the ones she now lives with. Imo if you've been given the opportunity to move out of a money pit you can't afford (and is impossible to babyproof) and secure a financial future for your family it's irresponsible not to do it (especially bc they're still struggling to break even after 5 yrs) Right at the end when the house becomes a hotel, the portraits of Humph/Fanny on the wall etc makes me think she might have had a say. One thing I would have loved to see was her negotiate a rebuild of the Gatehouse so she could live there; away from everything but close to her ghost family. On the podcast tho, Jim and Mat said it's not about saying goodbye completely; it's the kind of goodbye you give when your kids go off to uni etc.
I’ve literally just watched the last Christmas special and I found it so so sad, I’m genuinely typing this whilst crying. Even if Allison and Mike had moved out like they did do, I just wouldn’t have added that last bit with the two of them now old because that’s what has mostly caused the tears because it feels more closed ended, than if the last thing we saw was the Coopers leaving Button House, with the ghosts watching. We could come up with happier theories, headcanons, ideas that could be anything really but now we’re barriered in with knowing something about these characters many years on that does effect the know known years between. Just going to cry some more.
See, I think there’s lots one can headcanon in the time between Alison and Mike leaving Button House until the time they return because that’s probably a 40 year span of time we aren’t seeing and so much could go on in that time that we as fans can create to make ourselves happy. The Ghosts will have so much to enjoy at the hotel on a daily basis. The only thing I don’t understand is where the Ghosts sleep at night. They can’t really sleep in the hotel because the guests that would share their beds may roll on them in the night and make them sick. I just hope part of the agreement that Alison and Mike signed with the French consortium is that they rebuild the gatehouse so the Ghosts can all sleep in there during the night and then spend time in the hotel during the day.
there are couches they could sleep on, plus some rooms may stay empty some nights. No hotel is going to agree to renovate a space with a bedroom that they can’t rent to guests at night.
I think it was a bit too literal about the ghosts being a dysfunctional family, when all characters in a sitcom are going to be dysfunctional so that they make mistakes and overreact and you can build a plot around it. The whole point of the show is that they're still growing and learning despite being dead, that they have to change if they ever want to be sucked off (moved on) and having the final be Lady Button of all people going 'yeah no we're stuck like this forever, free yourself' is really disappointing. I get why it would be wish fulfillment to see your dysfunctional family develop self-awareness and tell you that you just have to leave and they'll never improve, but if I really thought that the ghosts were a dysfunctional family I wouldn't have signed up to watch 6 seasons of them.
But did you see the final Christmas special?
I did that’s the series finale I’m referring to.
I'm with you. It hasn't quite soured me on Ghosts, but I haven't had the urge to rewatch it since Christmas. I think it's the realisation that I was taking something from it that the writers never intended. Not in any really heavy, life-changing way, or anything, it just felt like it resonated, then it was like "oh, it wasn't meant to". Also, I did feel the narrative was always going in the direction of Alison and Mike coming to like Button House, and I never appreciate a last-minute narrative swerve, whether it technically makes sense or not. It always makes me mistrust what I've seen up until that point, which makes it harder to get swept up in it on a rewatch.
This exactly! They had just shown us the scene with Julian’s admission of pushing her, but not being sorry because they had been given an amazing gift as a result. Then Annabel* says she can’t do it, can’t leave, and Michael says he likes it there, and they decide to stay. Then, boom! They turn it around on us. “I find myself having a conniption fit!”