#rip ghosts

I didn't like it - story-wise - THAT much. Obviously, I love the characters and the writers/actors and the story, so I enjoyed it and liked watching it---yet I just felt like,,, it wasn't that strong? And it almost disregarded and cheapened some of the meaning of S5?

I get the theme: moving on. You have to move on eventually, and life isn't always going to stay still. Sure. Life may be still for the ghosts, but their "family" is forever changing. They have a, while not infinite, almost endless amount of time --- but Alison doesn't. She needs to live her life while she still can, and it shouldn't be chained to the house and to those ghosts forever. She has her own family now - she should get to live her own life, not one dedicated to lives already lived.

The hotel is still made, and she still visits the ghosts. They aren't gone from her life, she just has gone off on her own to live her own.

I like that. I like the idea.

But I think they really could have done with more time. It all felt VERY quick, especially because of season 5 being so recent, and things seemed to go from 0 (staying) to 100 (moving on) very quickly. You could argue that's thematic - you don't get to choose when you're "sucked off" (move on). We learnt last season that there is no predicting it. Sometimes it just happens, and sometimes it needs to happen.

But all the same, from a story standpoint, it was just so sudden????

I think it made sense to happen eventually, and with Mike and Alison having a family now it MAKES SENSE, but it was just the speed with which we saw it that was jarring and somewhat disappointing, ending wise. It also felt like we missed out on a lot - like the hotel, for example.

In rough summary (I am clutching my ghosts book as I frantically write, this is not very coherent) - I love ghosts and im going to miss it. I liked the episode, as an episode of television, but I think it should have been longer to feel satisfying and not rushed.