word for word
So the husband and I have started watching that show, The Ghost Whisperer , and in one recent scene, Jennifer Love-Hewitt is standing in between a ghost and the ghost’s loved one, and she’s telling the loved one what the ghost is telling her.
Except she’s not telling what the ghost is telling her word for word - she’s paraphrasing. And that bothered me.
I ask the husband, why is she paraphrasing? If that were me talking to you from beyond the grave, wouldn’t you want to know every single thing I was saying?
He just stares at me, and I realize immediately that that’s a bad example. Especially when he starts to laugh.
I’m SO totally haunting him. Word. For. Word.
Steph T.
June 20th, 2006 at 10:13 am
Thank you! That’s always bugged me, too. And it’s not just that she’s paraphrases, she leaves out important stuff. I wonder why the writers do that? Do they think we don’t want to hear it twice?
June 20th, 2006 at 10:15 am
That drives me crazy. I’m always yelling “But that’s NOT what he said!”, at which point my husband calmly points out the show would be boring if over 50% of the dialogue was said twice. That when the ghost rambles on for five minutes and then Melinda says “He’s sad that you’re sad”, it’s a good thing.
So I hate the paraphrasing, but I’m not sure if I’d hate the duplicated dialogue more.
Most of all, I’d hate for my husband to be right.
June 20th, 2006 at 3:48 pm
Hi Norma! That was exactly the problem with the episode I saw - it was like, the ghost babbled for 5 minutes and ghost whisperer woman didn’t tell the people the most important part.
Shannon - Congrats on your release today!! It sounds like you’ve put a very cool twist in there, and I’m excited to read it.
And I’m totally showing this to the husband so he knows it’s not me…I’m guessing it is the, don’t bore the people by repeating it, but sheesh, they could get creative about it. And yeah, I’m thinking telling husbands that they’re right is never a good idea.:LOL:
June 20th, 2006 at 5:55 pm
I must be weird… (well, okay, we KNOW I’m weird
) but that’s never bothered me all that much. Hearing the same identical dialogue twice would make me crazy (crazier?), though.
June 20th, 2006 at 8:13 pm
I’ve only caught the show in bits and pieces, but I wondered the same thing.
My hubby probably wishes he had someone around to paraphrase for me NOW
June 20th, 2006 at 10:06 pm
LOL - Tori, weird is pretty much expected over here.
Hey April! I know my husband would love a full-time paraphraser (did I just make up a new word) for me.
June 21st, 2006 at 6:57 am
Clearly, it’s a guy thing. I agree that I would want to know EVERY WORD!
June 21st, 2006 at 6:25 pm
And it shall be so. *nodding vigorously*
Grins*
June 22nd, 2006 at 4:43 am
So…have you thought about how You’d Haunt him? As a ghost you could sick the grasshoppers on him. Might be sorta cool to freak himout that way. LOL