Ghost Whisperer: Death Is A Gay Ole Time!
So this week on “Ghost Whisperer,” Eli’s father was brought into the hospital were he suffered a fatal heart attack. His death brought Eli’s mother’s ghost back, she had died almost 8 years earlier. She was hanging around for a reason. She needed Melinda to get Eli’s dad to cross over before he started snooping and causing trouble. Of course Eli’s dad was stubborn and wasn’t going anywhere when he saw things happening between Eli and the daughter of his business partners, something he didn’t like!
The daughter and Eli grew up together and were each others’ first love/crush. However Eli’s dad, over the years, had told them both that Eli was dating someone, or she was dating someone. He also began haunting them as they got closer. Melinda began to piece things together . . . Eli’s mom had an affair which Eli’s dad found out about.
It turns out Eli’s parents shared a lake cabin with another couple, the mom was the dad’s business partner and the dad his best friend. Eli’s dad came up one night to find his wife setting up a romantic scene. He was shocked, and saw the husband’s car speeding off. He confronted the husband later, who wouldn’t confirm or deny what was going on. Eli’s dad worried if Eli was his son or not, which would make Eli possibly the brother to their daughter. This was why he was haunting them, to keep them apart.
Well as it turned out, Eli’s mom was having an affair, but with the wife not the husband! The other husband always suspected, which is why he let Eli’s dad think what he did. He didn’t want to break up his own family over this. The other wife basically loved her husband as well as Eli’s mom, she was caught in the middle. Eli’s mom however was gay, but felt trapped in the closet so to speak, and was afraid to come out.
My Thoughts
I have to say, I was shocked by the turn of events. I didn’t even guess this one! I just thought they were doing a generic “affair and now your in love with your sister” storyline. The gay twist was pretty good!
It also seems after all this time Eli might have met a girl that not only likes him, but doesn’t mind hi gift at all.
Melinda and Jim’s son got little air time in this episode, which I didn’t mind. I don’t think every episode needs to be all about him. We still got no answers about Sam, his past, how people think of Sam/Jim. I’m thinking we probably won’t at this point.
I actually kind of had the plot twist figured out about halfway through the episode, but it was still really good!
I agree with everything else – I like the Eli has a sort of love interest and I don’t think we’ll ever find anything about about Sam/Jim. I think they’re hoping that by having a five year buffer we should just accept that it happened and forget about it. Lol, sometimes I think that GW and Days at least share their writing values.
10.11.2009 at 3:04 pm