Tuesdays are Supernatural!

[Desdichado]

Speaking of which, are "women in white" supposed to be some kind of supernatural phenomena? If so, I've never heard of it. The story is very similar to the folktale/ghost story of La Llorona, but I've never heard that that was anything other than a unique story.

 

[WayneLigon]

Speaking of which, are "women in white" supposed to be some kind of supernatural phenomena? If so, I've never heard of it. The story is very similar to the folktale/ghost story of La Llorona, but I've never heard that that was anything other than a unique story.

This link has some info and links to other places. A hitchhiking woman in white who disappears is a common ghost tale.

 

[Super Girl]

The show is suppoused to be big on google-fu, everything that they toss out there, like the Hellgate, and the haunted house they mentioned early on have some history, and they expect to be continuing on with that, at least according to interviews. Nothing they come up against is suppoused to be just a spur of the moment, no basis in local legends type thing, its all suppoused to have something behind it history/folklore wise.

 

[takyris]

Yeah, the ones I've heard usually involve a woman coming home from a party, or wearing her wedding dress, and when the driver gets her home, it turns out that she died a long time ago... the usual.

Welverin: Not sure what you mean by "What on earth am I talking about?" I'm talking about the last few minutes of the episode... Sp:

Spoiler

I knew that they wouldn't get to the end of the episode without getting Sam back together with his brother, but I didn't know if he was going to botch his law-school interview or what. But as soon as I saw that Jess had left cookies and a nice note (rather than an angry break-up letter or something), I knew that she was dead. Despite me being sure that that was what was going to happen, I was still spooked by the blood-dripping onto his face, even though the actual "woman pinned to the ceiling and then catching fire" effect was, for me, the weakest part of the show.

So... generally referring to the events of the last few minutes of the episode.

 

[Desdichado]

Yeah, the ones I've heard usually involve a woman coming home from a party, or wearing her wedding dress, and when the driver gets her home, it turns out that she died a long time ago... the usual.

Yeah, I've heard a few varieties of ghost hitchhiker before, but this gal seems to be an amalgamation of that story plus La Llorona; the Indian girl who killed her own kids in spite when her Spanish Lord lover decided to marry someone else instead.

I like that they used real folklore as the basis here; it made it resonate more with me. The details were sketchy, but the whole thing seemed kinda eerily familiar.

Anyway, I thought the horror aspects of it were relatively tame, but my wife; who's not as into supernatural horror as I am, had nightmares as a result of the show. She thought it was pretty disturbing, although in a fun way.

 

[Fast Learner]

This refined Google search reveals quite a lot of "woman in white" stories that bear more than a passing resemblence to La Llorna, fwiw.

I was extremely irritated by the opening dialogue between the brothers, where they do that horrible explanation of the situation by telling each other things they already know full well, very basic things about their childhood. At least when you tell a stranger it doesn't come off so awkwardly.

Otherwise, pretty enjoyable. I'll certainly check out one or two more.

 

[Agamon]

Meh. It was okay. We'll see, I guess.

 

[Blue_Kryptonite]

Try the alternate term "White Lady" too. We have one here that got made into a small film a few years back.

I wish I could watch this series, it sounds good. But, alas, WB is exclusive to cable, and my Dish Network means far too much to me now.

 

[takyris]

What are you talking about? Dish Network can get you like ten WB stations, depending on the package you want. If you can get ABC or NBC, you can almost always get the WB, except in rare cases where there isn't a local WB station in your area and thus isn't covered under the local package.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Came on tonight for me (Thursday) and I enjoyed it.