Mme. Blahblatsky and the Talking Mongoose will be recapping Ghost Hunters, arguing about ghosts, and discussing other mysteries of life.
About the Bloggers:
Mme. Blahblatsky and the Talking Mongoose know as much about ghosts as anybody, which is to say, next to nothing. But they’re enthusiasts. The Talking Mongoose has always bemoaned missing out on the year that Harry Price rented Borley Rectory. Mme. Blahblatsky prefers her ghosts less up close and personal, but can’t resist a good second-hand frisson.
Mme. B. has a semi-impressive library of the paranormal, in which the Talking Mongoose had borrowing privileges until Mme. B. got sick to death of listening to the T.M. talk about how boring the books were. Mme. B., who has a high tolerance for mindlessness, found this ungrateful. “So they’re a little repetitive. There’s still the fundamental strangeness…” at which the T.M. would snort and start pawing through the X-Files tapes
So disagreement about the reality show Ghost Hunters, now in its fourth season on the SciFi Channel, was probably inevitable.
Mme. Blahblatsky: I discovered Ghost Hunters through Netflix last summer. I thought it was swell. I couldn’t believe I hadn’t heard about it before now. Yes, it can be really dumb. But I like that about it. It’s real. Ghosts are kind of boring. The Talking Mongoose has a very short attention span.
The Talking Mongoose: So she was disappointed that Television without Pity was snubbing this show. When I told her I expected hell would freeze over before TWoP recapped such plot-free tedium, she waved The Hills at me, but that’s not fair. Totally different market, and besides, they’re not recapping. They’re weecapping, and they only started during the third season, and really, can you blame them? Calling Rumpelstiltskin.
Mme. Blahblatsky: But the Talking Mongoose loves loves loves ghosts and ghost stories, and you should have seen the hair standing up when… oh, spoiler. Anyway, surprise, someone gave me dvd’s for Christmas, and a promise to help with the recapping, if not an agreement that this will benefit mankind and significantly contribute to the sum total of human knowledge. I rejected a suggestion of “Paint Drying” for our blog name.
The Talking Mongoose: I get to choose my episodes, though. Otherwise I’m liable to hurt myself when I fall out of my chair.
The first few recaps will be more along the lines of annotated transcripts. We are still flummoxed by the general concept of Ghost Hunters, because if there’s anything that doesn’t respond well to being caught on camera on schedule, it’s the paranormal. The Talking Mongoose is still trying to gauge how fake the “reality” is, and Mme. Blahblatsky is still fascinated by little character quirks that will eventually drive her insane. Neither of us gets the SciFi Channel, so we might as well start at the beginning. Next post: Season 1, Episode 1.
Tags: ghost hunting, ghosts, paint drying, reality shows
