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What really killed this show


I'll give you facts why this show was cancelled its because there was so many issues that were unresolved. There are 5 issues with each season.

1. Who was this Romano guy (the guy with the black hat who leading the ghosts who perished in a plane crash) When or how he vanished? In my opinion, he should've been a villain in the show.

2. Gabriel (Melinda's so-called half-brother) and he too didn't come back and left out of thin air, the third season finale made no sense at all, its like the writers weren't even paying attention in previous episodes adding to Melinda's missing father and why Gabriel had any relation to her. They threw that story away like garbage and was quietly buried since. Shame on them.

3. The Jim/Sam fiasco really made me mad they should've thought of another way if the guy playing Jim was having contract issues. It was very pointless to try to kill him off and then come back in a different body.

4. Melinda's kid was just annoying to me and was another pointless plot figure against the shinies or whatever they were called.

5. was the entire show too focused on the melodramatic sob stories of Melinda running into ghosts who were pissed for the wrong reasons. The show just should've had evil ghosts, supernatural forces, and demons. It could've been better had they explored that many opportunities and they kept missing every time. It was still unfairly canceled though. That is all.

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Yes. You all make valid points and they might have been some of the reasons why the network chose to cancel the show but you are missing one small detail and that detail is the network lied to Jennifer Love Hewitt and killed the show. If you read some interviews with Jennifer Love Hewitt about ‘Ghost Whisperer’ the network was actually going to sell her the rights of ‘Ghost Whisperer’ but when they found out she had another channel interested in picking it up for a sixth season they refused to sell it to her so a sixth season never happened because the network didn’t want the show to be successful on another channel.

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The Jim/Sam thing killed the show. It was stupid, and unnecessary. Either kill the character off, or don't. How would it have looked to her neighbors to see her dating a new guy so soon after Jim's death?

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I agree with every point that you made. I personally couldn't stand Jamie Kennedy's character, for me he was unbearable to watch and he was part of the reason why I stopped watching the show, if only Rick and Andrea were still on!
I also couldn't stand that whole Jim/Sam storyline. I remember 13 year old me thinking at the time that the show was changing, and not for the better. I was done after that.

It also kind of bothers me to this day that they never followed up with Gabriel/LaughingGhost/Romano. The show could have been better if they completely resolved those storylines before moving on to new ones!

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nothing killed the show. it ended strong.

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It didn't end all that strong, it's just amazing they didn't do their usual cliffhanger and the show went off on SOME closure. But there's still a lot they left unresolved and then there's the plot holes on top of it.

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I personally didn't like all the supernatural good versus evil story arcs. I preferred the human stories about ordinary people with unfinished business with the living. However, I was hoping for more stories about ghosts from the far-distant past. There were so many potential vintage period-piece stories that the writers never tapped into. This is what made the Cold Case series so interesting.

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agree.human aspect were the best part of the show./

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