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No because I could go on for hours about how good the writing was for school spirits because
every suspect they have has motive and it makes sense, like its got you convinced, and even though they aren’t it still ties into the plot and the actual person so well??
they write mr. martins character so well because hes trying so hard to keep a control on the group but they are slipping away
the slow reveal that something happened to janet that wasn’t her crossing over?? fucking amazing because you could just slowly put the pieces together and realize
the foreshadowing of maddie in the first episode saying “but what if I’m not dead? what if i’m like- in a coma somewhere?”
and many other things
por uma momento eu acreditei nessa possibilidade pela forma meio passiva agressiva dele em certos momentos, mas ficaria mto triste se o plot twist fosse ele como assassino, ia ser mto pobre pro roteiro, mas no final o fato dele ser o único q vê ela, por uma forte ligação com a maddie n sei..., é um ponto mto importante pro conflito da 2 temp
No cuz why did I think for a long time that Simon was the killer since he was the only who could see Maddie i had a theory that killers can see the ghosts of their victims
Mr. Martin: Imagine if someone handed you a box full of all the things you lost throughout your life.
Maddie: It would be nice to have my sense of purpose back...
Charley: Oh wow, my childhood innocence! Thank you for finding this.
Rhonda: My will to live! I haven't seen this in years.
Wally: I knew I lost that potential somewhere.
Mr Martin: ...Could you guys lighten up a little?
!!!!!!! Exactly!!!
As far as I'm aware, Maddie is the first ghost since Charlie in the 90s, so it's been twenty years since the dynamic of the group shifted. On top of the fact that, when we look at our main ghost characters, they often end up going with the majority (Wally being popular and feeling those social pressures, Charlie being gay and making himself small to avoid being a target) or have anger and frustration but no way to channel it into change (Rhonda expressing her contempt for certain things, like field day, but participating anyways).
Maddie was the catalyst!!!! She caused these patterns to change!!!
school spirits spoilers
the main message of the show being that you can’t just ignore the past and move on, you have to address it.
the school doing it by changing the mascot from devils to bandits, turning the counselors office into classrooms, turning the chemistry lab into a bunker.
and the ghosts embody it through mr martin’s “guidance”. wally never told anyone he didn’t like football. rhonda never came to terms with her murder. charley never got over emilio. dawn never got reassured. mina never got appreciated. mr martin and janet never told anyone the truth about their deaths.
and mr martin wanted them to just move on. not try to come to terms with their life, just restart and ignore the past.
and maddie forced everything to change because she refused to just ignore her murder. she had to understand her past and her death before she would be okay moving on and starting her afterlife.
and she then caused everything else to do the same. simon and her uncovered mr anderson’s scam, and the mascot switch. simon and maddie realize the counselors office just got turned into classrooms. maddie’s prodding sent charley, rhonda, and wally straight into mr martin, and the schools attempts to ignore the past.
wally opened up to maddie. so did rhonda. charley got closure with emilio. dawn opened up and crossed over! mina was appreciated for the first time. maddie prompts everyone to go through newspapers until they found out the truth about the fire.
maddie is the catalyst for the entire school to address the things they tried to ignore, including her death.
I have some questions about School Spirits
1. If Wally tries to jump the fence, does his outfit reset?
2. If ghosts can’t bleed, how can they swell?
3. Why can’t Rhonda Charley and Wally escape through the murder tunnel in the fallout shelter?
4. Who are those weird extras in the support group?
5. Why did nobody find it even a little suspicious that Maddie showed up at the exact same time that Janet “crossed over”?
I apologize I am addicted to making these for every fandom
🛑School Spirits Episode 7 Spoilers🛑
Okay so I have a theory, for those of y’all who don’t want to read that much just look for the timelines, also disclaimer not everything might be perfect info so feel free to correct me if I get something wrong :)!!!
In episode 7 we see Maddie’s mom, Sandra, sitting in her daughter’s room with a thick envelope. She’s clearly distressed in some capacity by it and decides to hide it in Maddie’s dresser. I think this is the money, and her hiding it in Maddie’s room is important.
Later, we see Simon and Nicole realize someone took the money, and Simon asks if Sandra followed her, to which Nicole reacts confused and a tad spooked, “why would Sandra take this money?”
This immediately triggers a bunch of blurry flashbacks and I think the scenes they show are important.
1. Sandra arriving at the school and hitting a curb, which was shown to us not long after Maddie reveals her mom is not supposed to be home for another 2-3 weeks (iirc).
2. Maddie reacting to the event, showing us that she is aware that her mother is back, first of all, but more importantly that she showed up at the school for some reason. It is revealed in one of the episodes that Sandra was not exactly involved in her daughter’s education so her showing up at the school, even if you ignore her supposedly being gone another 2-3 weeks. So, Maddie sees her mom show up at school weeks early and clearly in a bad state (potentially drunk driving) so she is likely concerned.
3. Maddie walking down the hall looking upset or stressed about something, all while playing with her necklace emphasizing that she had it as she walked toward this destination. I doubt the directors would’ve told her to do this if it weren’t important in some way, as it is a short scene that is very plot heavy so it needs to convey its intended message in a small period of time, so why give attention to something unimportant? She is also, quite clearly, in the school.
4. Maddie and her mom argue. The first time I saw this I assumed it was just a flashback to a fight at home but as I thought about it I realized there is no evidence of this. Despite the previous 3 scenes being fairly linear, I just assumed this one had nothing to do with them. But if her mom is at home, why is she wearing what looks like a coat, and why is Maddie in the outfit she died in throughout this sequence? So, hear me out, this is in the school.
The most important part of scene 4 to me is the dialogue, which is the explanation for a huge aspect of my timeline I’ll provide later. It goes like:
Sandra: You’re being a brat!
Maddie: that belongs to me!
Sandra: you have to get over it!
Sure sounds like that might be related to the money that the episode is so focused on, huh?
My theory’s interpretation of this flashback sequence is a prelude to Maddie’s death. While this show doesn’t shy away from darker topics, it has never shown a death scene, rather the build-up and aftermath (which I very much appreciate, but that’s another thing entirely lol) and I doubt they would start right before the big finale, so I think this is the prelude. The timeline would go something like:
1. Maddie realizes her mom is back early, not only that but is at her school (unusual) and might be drunk (alarming)
2. Maddie goes to find her mom, who is very much drunk, and freaks out that someone might see her mom like this so she somehow gets the two of them into the first secluded room she can think of in the middle of a school day: the boiler room.
3. Maddie’s mom reveals the reason she is there is because she found out about the money and wants to use it to pay off debts she’s accumulated over her years of being an alcoholic who clearly is not able to care for herself enough to get a stable job.
4. Maddie, rightfully upset and frustrated, argues that since the money is hers, her mom has no right to take it, and probably provides the many reasons a high schooler aiming for a big university needs money.
5. In a fit of drunken rage, Sandra injures her enough to draw a considerable amount of blood and knock her over. Maybe she uses the crowbar?
6. Out of shock, Sandra runs off, and her brain blocks out the memory through a mixture of how drunk she was and blocking it out because it was traumatic. She is more determined than anyone that Maddie ran away because she’s mad at her, maybe because she’s aware something happened between them but is unaware of the true nature of it all.
I think at some point she takes Maddie’s necklace, because she knows it’s important to her daughter. Why would someone else take the necklace? Idk, I can’t figure this one out but the mom makes the most sense for a potential necklace thief
Here’s where my theory kinda becomes two, sorry
7A. Maddie dies at the hands of her mom.
8A. The counsellor is a ferryman of sorts but has become lonely and jaded and doesn’t want people to move on because it means he’ll be alone again so he intentionally keeps info from them and holds them back.
Where my theory gets foggy is with Maddie’s death. By that I mean how Maddy was hit with a crowbar and dragged through a tunnel to hide the body. Maddie’s mom is not a good person, but I don’t believe she’s a monster who would hit her daughter with a crowbar and hide the body, especially since she’s been shown multiple times to be unable to care for herself or remember things or even clean up after herself. What reason would she have to use the crowbar? How could she have planned a disposal in the state i theorize she was in?
Sandra does seem to show genuine anger towards the janitor suspected of harming her daughter, and while you could argue she did that on purpose to make her sadness believable, with how distraught and mentally frail she is I really doubt she’s capable of scheming at that level right now.
That’s where the counsellor dude comes in. He’s clearly not good, and something is up with him. He seemed almost desperate to know more when it was slightly hinted that Maddie may have contact with the living, and that leads me to wonder if the ghosts may be capable of more, but are unable to find that out because from day one you’re encouraged to leave the living alone and focus on the sessions, and don’t forget, nobody can interact with the living!
Also, a thing I want to point out bc it’s important to the next part is how nobody, more importantly none of the ghosts, were there when Maddie died and her whole situation is iffy, but when the swimming girl almost dies there’s a bunch of ghosts around, so nobody (the counsellor) can mess with her spirit because of the witnesses.
So to continue my timeline, though this part I’m less sure of;
7. The counsellor sees an opportunity to do something when Maddie is on the brink of death and nobody is around.
8A. The counsellor somehow manipulates the physical world of the living and hides her body somewhere
8B. The counsellor either out of cruel curiosity experimentation or a desperation to help has Janet take over Maddie’s body, somehow kill Maddie out of her body with the crowbar, then take over her body and run off with her stuff into the woods in some abandoned house.
Idk what the motive would be for either of these but hey it’s just a theory, a gam-
So basically,
Sandra injures Maddie, the counsellor is heavily involved. Janet will be important later.
Since y’all enjoyed the previous one
Okokokok here me out. We know very little about Charley and Rhonda's interest (beyond Rhonda and Berkley but that umbrella is vague), and next season we're probably going to start finding what Wally really wants to do with his afterlife. Maddie suggests that one weekend they have a talent show. No need for big demonstrations, just do what you want to do and share with everyone!
We could get the roaming ghosts in on it to. Mina working lights, the band could play a song beyond "When the Saints Go Marching In". Learn a bit more about the side ghosts and their deals. Not to mention, both Milo and Sarah can sing so I'm just saying- 👀
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