What a joy we were blessed with when we were given Ghosts. Thank you to all involved from Series 1 all the way through to the end! You’ve left a legacy.
so during the lockdown years i had a secret identity as a moodboarder on instagram and i just relapsed and spent two and a half hours making this 😭😭 i might make some for the other ghosts if i can be bothered
there is something so fucked up about the prospect of memory for the ghosts like. their physical state can't change right, their clothes right themselves and cap's lap isn't getting any faster. but they can learn. robin picks up french, mary learns to read. so their brains can change. how scary it must be then, to forget. the thomas thorne affair proves that everyone's memories are slightly different, and they can misremember things. so even events that happened before they died aren't set in stone. does robin remember his children's names? does kitty picture alison as her sister at first because it takes a minute to conjure up her face? does humphrey remember sophie's voice? can fanny picture petting dante or is it a blur? as someone with adhd, my memory is an absolute sieve. I can't remember what I ate for dinner two days ago. imagine that compounding for decades. centuries. and you can't write anything down, you can't save trinkets to remind you, you can't ask someone else what you're forgetting. imagine the grief and the weight of not being able to take those memories with you. having to leave pieces of your life behind as the days march on. the sadness and the loss. it's horrible.
Just thinking about Alison and her artistic skills and imagining if she'd decided to do a painting or drawing of herself and Mike and all the ghosts. Like a family portrait. And she would have left it for the ghosts after selling Button House so that they knew they would always be family. And literal decades later this old family portrait is just knocking about in the attic as a memory of what they had; a dysfunctionally perfect family. And they'd never have to forget her face from that time.