Moriarty, who has played the spirit of late 1980s-era Pinecone Troopers leader and travel agent Pete Martino since the show’s launch in 2021, is eagerly awaiting word from “Ghosts” showrunners Joe Port and Joe Wiseman about the fate of his character - but is bracing for the worst.
“They got back in the writers’ room about a week ago, and they’re trying to figure it,” he told Variety. “Everyone, the whole cast is a little nervous, including myself, obviously. We’re five seasons into this show, and we haven’t yet lost any of the main eight ghosts. I think at a certain point, as hard as it may be, you do kind of have to lose someone to keep the stakes of the show feeling real. So, I don’t know what they’re going to decide to do. I’m anxiously awaiting the news! I hope for my sake that it’s not Pete, but we’ll see.”
I read that as doubtful but possible.
Not bad episode. They finally more or less assured the Mansion will survive - at least economically.
If they were referring to her being elected Ghost Representative (and making that “co” with Isaac), they were being a bit cute. As you say, her actual powers don’t seem to have been changed in any way we saw.
As for Pete’s fate—mean of the showrunners to make one of the actors worry about their continued employment! Could Moriarty’s agent have been playing harder hardball over his contract than is true for the others??
Regarding the season five finale episode, I thought it odd that the local historian accepted the locket as proof that Adeline died at Woodstone Manor, given that they just pulled it out of a drawer.
All the writers need to do is have the baby be able to see and communicate with the Ghosts. It will be tons of fun when Jay gets even more isolated from what seems to be every other living person in Ulster County. It would be even more fun if the ghosts could actually touch the baby without simply passing through. Ghost babysitting would open up a bunch of stories.
I saw the title of the finale before I watched it and I thought we were somehow going to end up at Button House. I liked the episode, but was a little sad we didn’t end up at BH.
My thoughts exactly. Thor could sing to little Apsara, like he did to Hetty, presumably songs about killing Danes or eating rams’ testicles. Flower may offer to “soothe” her when she’s teething, and Sam will have to explain that that is Not Done. Trevor will secretly make an Instagram account of her and make a ton of money. The jokes write themselves.
The wonderful thing about babies in situation comedies is that they’re like Stephanie the prom ghost. You see them when they’re important to the storyline, and the rest of the time they’re asleep upstairs.
On a TV series, however, a birth marks not the beginning… but the beginning of the end. In many cases, the addition of a new baby to the cast has been the show’s “jump the shark” moment — the turning point after which the series begins to experience a noticeable decline. It can’t be a coincidence that a number of once-popular shows left the air just a season or two after a baby’s arrival.
There are any number of reasons for this: The newcomer altered the initial premise of the show, upset the chemistry of the existing cast, introduced less interesting storylines, or was a plot contrivance too ridiculous for the audience to accept (or all of the above).
I like Ghosts too much to take that very risky move.
In the UK version, the baby did indeed bring about the end, in the sense that her arrival was the mechanism that moved the plot towards its conclusion. I imagine it was all planned, however, and not the result of the baby ruining the show.
And also, Ghosts UK kind of dropped the ball on this, in that their baby never reacted to the Ghosts, even though in an earlier episode they specifically mentioned that babies can see ghosts but grow out of it.
I’m disappointed that there wasn’t any kind of crossover with the original series when they went to England. Nancy’s portrait should’ve ended up at the Button House Hotel & Spa!
I, too, am disappointed. I thought for sure Button House (er, whatever became of it) would be involved when I learned the show would have an England episode.