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Miranda x Virginia GHOSTS Australia 1.08

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Miranda Munchen

Ghosts Australia (2025)

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I keep seeing people complain about there being no Indigenous ghosts in Ghosts Australia, and saying things like the writers didn't know how to handle it, that they avoided it because it was too hard to put into a comedy, that they were cowardly or lazy. Clearly none of these people have looked up who the writers actually are.

IMDB lists 4 Indigenous women on the writing team for this show - Steph Tisdell, Shontell Ketchell, Ursula Yovich and Leah Purcell. These names may not necessarily be recognised to international audiences, but they are well known in Australia as comedians, actors, and screen writers. It was their decision to present Aboriginal culture in a way that they felt was right, that was respectful, that showed the nuance that non-Indigenous writers might miss. Representation isn't just the person on screen, it's also whose story is being told and how.

They've chosen to make Kate (the living woman) the Indigenous character, partly because of cultural taboos around depictions of dead people, but also from what I've heard part of that decision was to represent Aboriginal culture as it is now in a modern world. One of the slogans for the Aboriginal rights movements is just "We are still here". After a couple of centuries of race science treating Aboriginal people as primitive, as "the dying race" and bullshit like that, having the only Aboriginal characters be ghosts can just reinforce some of those stereotypes, just have them relegated to the past and pre-colonial times. There's still an attitude around that Aboriginal people who grew up in urban settings aren't "real" Aboriginal that the only real Aboriginal culture is that which is preserved either by isolation in remote outback or in a museum. And it's not that a shitty tragic history isn't there, but it's not the only part of the story. Kate is the centre of this story, being alive and present and with a voice that can be heard and not just an echo of the past preserved and forgotten in an old house.

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An underlying theme/question in every iteration of Ghosts is: how does a man respond when there is something that plays an enormous role in his wife/girlfriend's life but that he is incapable of experiencing or even really understanding? How does a man deal with knowing that there are people who are important to his wife/girlfriend but whom he can never interact with directly? It's one of the reasons why it feels like the right choice to me that it's always the woman in the central couple who can see the ghosts. I'd say that, traditionally, there's less of a societal expectation on men to be interested in the things that matter to their female partners than vice versa.

In the different versions of Ghosts, the central man responds to the situation differently at different times. It's a situation that can prompt frustration, curiosity, jealousy, embarrassment, affection, and amusement. But it's a fundamental part of the basic premise that the non-ghosts-seeing partner consistently believes and supports his partner who sees ghosts, even if they might have some relationship ups and downs.

I think this is one of the things that's lovely about Ghosts, that it is built around a genuinely loving long-term romantic relationship but that relationship allows plenty of room for other significant interpersonal connections and interactions to be just as important in the narrative. It's a show which has a romantic long-term relationship as a key ingredient but which is really about found family.

And having just watched the Australian version of Ghosts, I think this is why I love Sean's proposal so much. Because he planned a proposal flashmob that he would be entirely unable to see or hear but that he knew would mean a lot to Kate. After stressing about doing a suitably big romantic gesture, he settled on something that wasn't really about him but was just about Kate's experience. When the ghosts are singing and dancing, the camera shows us Sean looking over to watch. But of course he's not watching the ghosts - he can't see anything they are doing. He's watching Kate's reaction, while she's looking away from him at what appears to him to be thin air. And this is how he looks at her looking at them:

I think that's a such important part of love, to be able to gain joy from someone's happiness, even when the thing that they are happy about isn't something you can share in.

#Ghosts Australia #AusGhosts #Not used this sideblog in so long but this is a thought I wanted to share #Really enjoyed the Aussie series of Ghosts #Definitely preferred it to the US one but the BBC one is still my favourite (ignoring the last episode 🙃)#Lindy was my favourite ghost #but I think Kate is my favourite character #I thought it was interesting that unlike the other versions I've seen #the central couple weren't married at the start of the show #so I did wonder if there would be a proposal arc #I usually don't particularly enjoy proposal being a plot point in fiction #especially cos so often it's a surprise public proposal where the couple have never talked about marriage before #and that feels like it puts too much pressure on the person being proposed to #But this was sweet because Kate had made it so clear that she wanted him to propose #so it was just about the gesture #The fact that Sean got a little inside joke with the ghosts around the Yed typo was so sweet #And I loved how Kate picked that up with 'a thousand times yed!'#Anyway part of what I'm saying is that it is essential to the premise of every Ghosts show that the man in the central couple is a Wife Guy #which is refreshing when so many narratives about long-term relationships are about people who mostly just complain about each other #ghosts australia spoilers #ghosts aus

Made an edit of Miranda from the Australian version of Ghosts (episode 8 scenes used)

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Ghosts Australia First Thoughts

So I went into this spin-off very uncertain about how a major network would adapt the BBC Ghosts format to Australian history and cultural diversity. And to be honest, they did much better than I expected.

My Main Concern:

So for non-Aussies, some cultural context: in many Aboriginal Australian cultures, it is taboo or disrespectful to name, depict, or disturb the remains of an Aboriginal person who has died. That person has joined the ancestors, Country, and/or the Dreaming and it disturbs their spirit. So it would be wildly inappropriate to depict an Aboriginal Ancestor as a ghost, even fictionally. But if you're not going to depict Aboriginal people in a show about history, well you're missing 65,000+ years (99.4%) of that history.

Now, Ghosts Australia gets around this problem two ways. One, the main character, Kate, (Allison equivalent) is Aboriginal. Two, they specifically mention the fact that it's weird that there's no mob (Aboriginal) ghosts. They've made it part of the lore of the show.

The Characters:

We get a good mix of originality and homage in the character concepts.

Kate is our lead and as mentioned she is an Aboriginal woman. Now, as of yet they haven't mentioned who her mob is, I believe because they don't want to place the show as happening in any particular state, but they have mentioned that she isn't the local mob for the Country that Ramshead Manor is located on. She's characterised as bored of her sexist and racist job and coworkers and keen turn the manor into a hotel.

Sean is Kate's boyfriend. He's notably a 'city slicker' but otherwise a very milquetoast white millennial man.

Lindy probably gets the most characterisation of the ghosts in the first two episodes, as she takes on the role of a spokesperson for the ghosts. She's adapted a bit from Kitty (BBC) in the sense that she wants to be Kate's best friend and is really energetic and into dancing. It should be noted that Lindy (and most of the other ghosts) express era-accurate sexism, as Australia has historically and somewhat presently idolised masculinity. Lindy has electricity powers like Robin (BBC) and Thor (US).

Satan also gets a fair bit of screentime as he is the one who causes Kate's accident. Satan is the lacky of Gideon in the first episode and has the power to move objects, like Julian (BBC) and Trevor (US), which Gideon orders him to use on Kate. Satan clearly has a softer side and expresses emotions and empathy a lot more than the other ghosts but hides it behind his tough, biker gang exterior. I see a lot of potential character development as he learns to open up more.

Gideon as a person sucks, however his character is almost entirely a gag. He is a former officer from the "Third Fleet" and constantly refers to everything as "his," particularly the manor. This is clearly done to make a joke of how the British colonists declared Australia to be "theirs" despite the Aboriginal population. He has an Aboriginal war spear through his chest and Kate constantly owns the shit out of him. I do think his characterisation will get old quite quickly if nothing changes though.

Eileen. I fucking love Eileen. She's a tell-it-to-ya-straight Irish woman who ran a pub with her bucket loads of kids. She's fed up with all the hoity toity ghosts (Gideon and Miranda) and talks sense into the others. Like Mary (BBC) she has some old fashioned ideas on how one should go about living life.

Joon is a beautiful himbo. Like Julian (BBC) and Trevor (US) he is missing his pants. Why? Who knows. He's not much more than a friendly airhead in the first two episodes, so I don't have much to say. I do like him but they'll need to do more with him to make him interesting.

Miranda is a spoiled rich girl. She's seen to be lounging around most of the time and is extremely classist (on-top of the era-accurate racism and sexism). She wants Kate to be her typist for a book she wants to write. She has the ghost power to chill a room (with her cold heart).

The Convicts are the equivalent to the plague ghosts (BBC). They hang out in the dark because it reminds them of being on the First Fleet, which is narratively treated like it was schoolies or Corey Worthington's party (like a frat, for Americans).

Thoughts:

I am pleasantly surprised by this adaptation. There's some really good jokes, the characters seem interesting, and the writers have really put thought into the world they're constructing. I much prefer the humour in this version to the US version, being more similar to the British style of humour in the original. There's some really quick blink-and-you'll miss jokes, particularly to do with Australian culture and humour, which I did appreciate.

I'm interested in seeing where this show goes, and hopefully it will continue to be pleasantly surprising.

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