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One of my biggest questions about ghosts is the rules around their memories, cause the ghosts seem to remember thing that they probably shouldn’t, like Humphrey remembers what shoes Thomas’s cousin wear and that he was writing 2 letters and Robin remembers a lot of details about his death day even though it happened thousands of years ago. Robins memories could be explained by the fact that it was the day he died and that’s a significant thing but for Humphrey Thomas’s death was just another day, he probably didn’t even find out Thomas was a ghost for a day or 2. So did the ghosts get unnatural memories after death? And if so then Robin remembers almost everything he’s witnessed in his thousands of year of existence, having that many memories must be exhausting but that opposite is even worse, slowly forgetting everything about your life but still just being their gaining new memories as the old ones fade away

I think the reason non of the other ghosts have been sucked off yet is because they don’t want to.

Mary has said before that she wanted to be sucked off:

In The Thomas Thorne Affair(S2E4) she says “I used to dream of the day I would be sucked off’.

In Gone Gone(S4E4) she calls Robin a “lucky beggar’ when they think he got sucked off.

Whereas the other ghosts never express any want to move on:

In The Hardest Word(S4E3) the review(that Mary didn’t type) they say they never wanted to leave.

In Carpe Diem(S5E5) they’re all rather panicked at the thought that one of them may be sucked off.

So while I do think the ‘unfinished business’ trope does play a part in who gets sucked off (i.g. Mary had to talk about the trial), but those who want to stay will.

Why can’t Robin leave button house? There’s not really any reason for him to be bound the the property line, it wasn’t there when he was died.

I’ve got some ideas but they all have flaws:

The area of land belonged to Robin’s tribe, this is the most likely theory but is this was the case his boundaries would be different to other ghosts as it’s very very unlikely that the cavemen and house owners (Humphrey, Fanny, Francis, ect) had exactly the same boundaries to their owned land.

The property boundaries can change themselves and when the land was brought to build the house they changed to fit the owned area, meaning one day robin could go anywhere he liked then the next he couldn’t.

He chooses to stay, but probably the least likely as after millions of years he probably would of chosen to leave and in Part of the Family he could of followed the car to tell Alison about Lucy.

I think a combination of 1 and 2 are most likely (Robin having to live be dead inside his group’s boundaries, then when the house put there Robin’s boundaries changed shape), but I’m still not really sure.

Anyone got any better theories?

Is it weird that I’m more excited for the ghost Christmas special than I am for Christmas?

mary is the ultimate autism character change my mind

rip Mary you would have loved the “look at all those chickens” vine :’(