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A quick google search says people killed by moose are typically stomped or kicked to death. And that the most dangerous moose are cows (which don't have antlers) protecting calves. Sass doesn't look like he was stomped or kicked to death by a moose. I always considered it more likely he was killed by a European disease.

I really loved this one. This show is best when they balance the heart and humor. Special shoutout to Rose doing Nancy flawlessly. I also got the impression when Jay's actually hanging out with the ghosts they seemed pretty warm to him and I can believe that he could fit in better with them that Sam does, so I can see why she's insecure. Sass, Thor, and Flower's story was well done too and I like we got to see the moment when Thor and Sass met. I also like that Thor remembers Lenape, but speaks English because he's "more good" at it. Makes you wonder how his Lenape was. As for Flower pushing for the secret, I assume she thought it was something like robbing a bank and was thrown when she discovered that Sass died a virgin. As for the debate about Jay seeing ghosts again, I think to make it permanent would change the dynamics of the show, but having one off episodes where Jay can see them for whatever reason would be fun.

She should have demanded he find a safer career, like roofer, logger or powerline worker. And now he's dead. Didn't see that coming. In all seriousness, I would agree with @Grinaldi that there's been too many deaths. Dex would have been a fine side character: he turns up when uniformed cops are doing something, but other than that we assume he's got a good life in PC off-screen. Me: Considering she cheated with Michael, it isn't that hard to believe, Joss.

Kristina and Ava both sue the MetroCourt, win, and are awarded the hotel and have to run it together. Sasha walks in on Willow and Drew having sex in the kitchen, runs away screaming, and the turkey burned. Over pizza, Willow shoots Sasha snotty glances while throwing shade that the ruined turkey Sasha's fault. Sorry, I can't help it.

I know it's bad, but I always see her "fall" more like this:

Since I'm on a Leverage kick, I think they should give Lois any one of these accents (but especially the last one!):

Yeah, that's weird. Especially since I remember her from her Smallville days like this:

Because the livings want to avoid the tourists? In all seriousness, I suspect that a lot of tourists would mean they are more likely to get walked through. We saw what the ghosts imaged the Woodstone would be like as a hotel with crowds everywhere. A touristy location would be even worse.

This one was fun, even if they went a little hard on some of the bits. It would be interesting to see Sam side with Jay over the Ghosts for once. I'm not sure where they're going with Pete, and I understand it, he has a new power and thinks he's all that, but he is more annoying than he's been. I do wonder if they're setting up for a dramatic bit later. The escarghost was a beautifully done story. Kudos to Asher Grodman, I never thought that Trevor would be one of my favorite ghosts. As for Bucky, I assume that when Trevor went missing, one of the first places people would check would be his apartment and find Bucky. I love the escarghost getting sucked off at a snail's pace. I get for Sam it can be confusing but does she bother? Like Pete said with the reenactor, the Nike's were a dead giveaway (But what kind of reenactor wears Nikes?) And I'll assume all the real ghosts at Ft. Ticonderoga have learned to avoid the tourists. If the show was smart we would have a tie in novel: Isaac Higgentooth: Revolutionary War Vampire. Actually Varney the Vampire was popular in penny dreadfuls in the 1840s and John Polidori's "The Vampyre" was the first English vampire story in 1819 (which came from the same circumstances that produced Mary Shelley's Frankenstein). Still after Isaac's time though. I assume that he heard about vampires in the time since he died (although he didn't know about dinosaurs).

This one was fun, and we got to see how talented Rose McIver is. She has an incredible singing voice, but the scene where she taps with the plate on her head, that's skill. Followed by Jay's "Where are all our plates?" Pete's still smug, but after seeing him taken down a peg or two last week, he doesn't seem quite as bad. I can see why Alberta would go there, since we saw her passed over for jobs despite her talent, so I can see how she could believe in Sam but still want a hedge. And that was probably the best plan. But even Flower points out that telling Flower was the weak part. I didn't either, he was attracted to Marissa, the pretty girl who happened to show up in Jay's dreams. If anything, it was more like he was dating Jay's imaginary friend. Really, Sass should have had Sam comp the real Marissa a few nights at the Woodstone, so he could meet the real one.

When it's the situation of "Giant squid-monster eats the Empire State Building" you can pretty much bet that nearly every channel is going to cover it. But in that situation, rather than telling them to turn on the TV, it's just as easy to tell them, "Holy @#%& shit! There's giant squid-monster eating the Empire State Building!!"

Racism and misogyny definitely played a part and I won't deny it, but I think the economy really was a big factor. I saw something about 14% fewer people who make less than $100,000 a year came out to vote. They didn't see anything in either of the policies offered, and I can't really blame them. People are struggling and Biden/Harris failed to offer them anything. Trump didn't offer them anything either, but was able to at least play lip service to their concerns. Like the old saying, "You can't con an honest man, but you can con a desperate one." Due to an accident of history, mostly due to the pandemic, under Trump the US built up an almost European-style social welfare system and people found their situations somewhat more stable. Then under Biden all that went away. Now a lot of it was outside the control of either Trump or Biden, but just the optics meant Biden, and by extension Harris, was already running uphill. And since 2020 and the inflation crisis, nearly every incumbent government has been turned out. I don't think a lot of people voted for Trump, so much as voted against Biden and Harris. It didn't help with Harris running to the right and trying to court Republicans who were never going to vote for her. All of which, unfortunately, left only the alternative of Trump. I'm willing to bet that within six months, when Trump has failed to solve their problems, people will have turned on him.

I agree the show should avoid current electoral politics, both to avoid alienating the viewers, but also because most of the ghosts are old enough that politics really doesn't matter.

Tariffs are different than inflation, because by slapping a tariff on something that cost will be passed onto the customer (especially the 100% or more that Trump talks about). Tariffs targeted are to protect domestic manufacturing. However we don't have any manufacturing here anymore, we're dependent on cheap goods from China. But Trump throws them around like crazy and he just guaranteed that a lot of prices on necessities will go up, possibly by a lot (And China has plenty of other markets to sell to). Will it stimulate domestic manufacturing here? Maybe, maybe not, and either way, it will take years to spin up and a lot of that manufacturing will be automated anyway. I think a lot will get hung up in the courts for the next few years, and some of it will get stopped, but some will get through. It can cause a lot of damage in the meantime.