Posted by Dustin on 01.24.2009 at 5:20 pm

This week and last week’s episodes of “Ghost Whisperer” dealt in part with Sam finding Nicole, the woman he strung along for 10 years and was finally going to marry. Sam/Jim took a road trip to find her and Melinda made excuses to come along, saying she just happened to be going to a nearby town to pick up some antiques.

For the first episode Nicole basically ignored Sam’s calls, not wanting to have anything to do with him, suggesting they both moved on. Oh no, it couldn’t be that easy. She finally showed up at the end of the episode, realizing he really did have amnesia and didn’t know her.

In the second episode Nicole came back to Grandview to get to know the new Sam, and she liked what she saw. Basically he was a whole new Sam, one she always wanted, one she didn’t want to let go. He was JIM! Sam felt that Nicole wanted her, and maybe he should give things a shot with her. He still couldn’t explain all these feelings he had that didn’t match up with the old Sam, for example this feeling he wants children. The old Sam didn’t want them. Both Eli and Melinda tried to convince him not to settle, that perhaps Nicole wasn’t the one for him. He however didn’t want to let an opportunity pass by. Up until the very last second, the show played it out that he was going to leave with Nicole. However he didn’t, he stayed for Melinda.

I was so aggravated by both of these episodes! I really thought for a moment Sam/Jim would leave and we’d have to wait a few months before he ever decided to return to Melinda. At this point I just wish Melinda would tell him the truth, or he would take Eli’s suggestion and undergo past life regression.

Last week’s ghost story actually had to do with Delia. Old high school friends dropped by, bringing the ghost of an old stoner from school with them. She haunted both Delia and Ned in the episode. It was actually a fun episode in which Eli was the one to help them out, and Ned and Delia experienced a haunting first hand without Melinda around. It was one of the first episodes that I began to warm up to Eli . . . though he’s still no Payne!

This week’s ghosts were dumped in a lake by a mortician who pretended to cremate their bodies. His furnace broke and he was running out of money. They had become angry spirits, waiting for him to die from cancer to take their revenge. Melinda helped them all, and the mortician ended up joining “The Watcher” spirits. We finally got information on who the watchers were. They were spirits who because of their actions in life, felt they were not yet worthy to cross over and had good to do on earth still. The mortician joined them until he too felt he was clean enough to go into the light.

I was kind of disappointed in that explanation. I was expecting them to be bigger and play into some grander haunting storyline for the season. Perhaps they still will, but as of yet the Jim/Sam storyline seems to be the focus. I am hoping at some point we’ll get a big bad ghost storyline as we have in past season. Then again, last season’s storyline was so screwed up with the whole Dad/Half-Brother storyline that who knows, maybe we’re better off?