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Yesterday C informed me that my grandmother regularly reads this journal. *facepalm* Maybe to be flocking the porn now? But I don't want to! Oh, the problems of self-presentation in the digital age. Oh well, I'm sure she knows the proper use of the back arrow (though she has apparently not been informed of the etiquette rule of "if your read,
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I don't use ghost literally, no. The main reason I think Slings&Arrows is the best TV show I've ever watched was their ghost dynamic, and the way, right up until the end of the third season, it could be read just as fruitfully (but with such different conclusions!) as Geoffrey's insanity or Oliver's actual, you know, ghost. I always prefer the figment interpretation, because of the insights it gives us into the character doing the hallucinating (in the case of Frasier, how DIFFERENTLY he treats his father from how one would expect!). But even though I prefer the figment, I LOVE the double possibilities of interpretation (and was so sad when they tried to difinitively answer the question in Slings&Arrows- I hope they don't here). The ghost isn't used as well here as in Slings- mostly because they don't have the parallels with Shakespearean ghosts to work off, I guess, but it hits some story-kinks of mine hard. I'm a SUCKER for it.
I'm not going to put Frasier on any list of "best TV characters ever" quite yet, but he certainly gets the big huge trophy for coming the farthest in one season, as far as development from the slapstick start, of any character I've ever seen.
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