Things to Look for on the DVDs
Recently we e-mailed a good friend our recommendations on what to look for on the season 1 and 2 DVD sets. It occurred to us that this list might be of interest to other fans of the MelindaVerse so here it is.
Season 1:
- The commentary by Creator John Gray and Executive Producer Kim Moses for the “Pilot” episode has a lot of information about how they wanted to do the series.
- The commentary by Executive Producers Ian Sander and Kim Moses for “Ghost, Interrupted” is also good. They are Sander/Moses Productions and also married to each other.
- The commentary by Ian Sander and David Conrad (Jim Clancy) for “Lost Boys.”
- The scene in “Friendly Neighborhood Ghost” where Mel is caught snooping in his garage by new neighbor Todd Darger. He grabs her around the neck for protection from the ghost grandfather but we suspect the two actors probably had to shoot the scene several times to get the emotions right. That’s because Todd is played by Ross McCall – the Scot Jennifer recently announced her engagement to. Nobody’s talking but we suspect it was love at first hug since she was exclusively dating him soon after this episode was shot.
- Special Features: Be sure to check out “Can You See Me? The First Season of Ghost Whisperer.” A good introduction into how the show was created.
- Special Features: Ghost Whisperer Mythology. This is all about the title sequence – how it was made and what it means.
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Season 2:
- The commentary by John Gray and Kim Moses for “Love Never Dies.” (We were not as impressed with the other commentaries for the second season but that may just be because we have been following the show so closely.)
- Special Features: A Conversation With The Living. This is the main place you get to hear from the cast members.
- Special Features; Melinda’s Closet. It was just as we thought – It takes most of the second floor of their house to hold all those different outfits Mel wears! A good discussion of Melinda’s wardrobe by costume designer Joseph Porro, Jennifer, Kim Moses and a few others.
- Special Features; Jennifer Love Hewitt Speed Painting Video. A visual treat where you get to see a time-lapse version of the graphic designer creating a realistic portrait of Mel.
All the episodes are great, IMHO, but The Bears just wanted to call your attention to some things that stood out for us when we first looked.
Like the one for whom you wrote these suggestions, I am a recent devotee of GW. I am most intrigued by the use of characters in mirrors and as mirrors. At Melinda and Jim's wedding his brother appears and tells Melinda that Jim takes away fear. That comment foreshadows so much of the conversation and physical gesture between Melinda and Jim. In the episode, Don't Try this at Home, Bloody Mary is juxtaposed with Jim's character in Fury. Bloody Mary appears in a mirror behind the one who has called her name, and frightens them, diminishing their presence. In Fury, when Melinda is in the square at night, and one of the dark figures appears, Jim is suddenly behind her (like Bloody Mary in the mirror), but he brings relief , not fear. His presence is no reflection, but his visceral substance deflects or scatters fear. This is a lovely quality to the relationship and a cerebral pull to the story.
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Thanks so much for your comment Paula. Your comments about mirrors echoes what Goldie posted in the MelindaVerse Forum in the thread Don't Try This At Home #302 (repeat) (25 January 2008)
We think you might get more reactions to your comments if you posted them on the thread in the forum. http://melindaverse.forumer.com/ and register. You don't have to register under your own name -- you can be anybody you want just like us, The Bears. You do have to give a real e-mail address but no one but Chief Rodney D. Rat will ever know what that is.
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