Revenant prophetically said on 12/10 in another GHA thread: "It makes more sense to me to bring in two contestants.  In this manner, they come in as an established pair."

Hmmm…do I get bonus points? 

It will be interesting to see if Susan and Karl show up in the first episode won't it?  If they do….. that should prove very suspicious.  With the timing of the filming of GHA, GHI should have had their episodes done and in the can before filming of GHA was completed.  Guess that's where the "international" part of GHA comes in because last time I checked the East Coast, where all the episodes were filmed, is still in the U.S.

All I can say is thank goodness Jane is gone.  The rest should be as well but I guess they needed a thread to continue the show along its way.  I think we can all see that the guy from TN, unless he seriously screws up, will be going to GHI.

GHA appears to be the vehicle between GH and GHI to keep GHI and the franchise on the air.  There's your drama and the intrigue of foreign places.  Without GHA, which is being used as a life preserver, I believe we would be saying goodbye to GHI.

Yes Revenant, you do get bonus points!

To Learjet and Alicat:  Thank you for the bonus points.  I'll tell "Best Buy" to call you guys when I try to cash them in…

Nosfer said: "I found it odd that Jane, in her little sidebar slot, said she thought she had come a long way, etc. I laughed. Then, I started to wonder if perhaps it was just the scenes of her being the aforementioned bawler that were showcased. What of all the other footage, afterall, for all those episodes, what we see is really boiled down. Perhaps the producers picked and chose those moments."

Concerning Jane's sidebar slot…yeah, I laughed too.  I still maintain that she was a plant by Pilgrim and inserted solely for the purpose of drumming up a bit of drama.  With that said, even though what we see is "really boiled down," it really doesn't matter.  The outbursts and break-downs still happened and were shown for our amusement.  If she was shown in a bad light…well, she placed herself in the bad light, essentially giving them exactly what they wanted.

Nosfer also said: "Now, about all the wrong name calling…I wonder how much time these cadets have really spent together. I can think of at least 3 instances where someone was called by the wrong name. Do they really know each other? Do they really travel around in that RV? Or do they just stage a few shots in there?"

Yes, I caught that too.  You asked many valid questions and it would be very interesting to find out the answers.  Interestingly enough, I am infamous for calling people by the wrong name.  Typically, I do it on purpose.  Sometimes I just want to see how they react.  Other times, it's used as a "verbal body-check" to someone's self-importance.  I would also do it with new employees.  They didn't get called by their actual name until they had been there for a while and shown that they could do a decent job.  In a weird way, it became a "rite of passage" to actually get called by their correct name.  So were members of GHA doing something along these lines?  I don't think so.  But…it could be possible.

Nosfer said:

Doc, see my comment in the introduction about them not having enough experience….

Yep, See my multiple comments regarding residual haunts.

Since residual ghosts don't interact with or even notice that the "hunters" exist, the experience of the hunter means nothing.  Perhaps the Academy did not teach them the correct techniques for gathering evidence from the most haunted places ?