Thread:TheAtomicLight/@comment-850810-20180830050042/@comment-850810-20180830150538

TheAtomicLight wrote: It was too technical. He was already a ghost to begin with, that's good enough. If there was some extra form he took then that could be justified, probably, but if he was simply a plain ghost (no matter type of "form" it was) then that is good enough. What you want is to get overly technical about it and generalising it as a whole when all this is one episode for us. It all seems so bogged down as it is, without going in the outs of the series at large. None of that really matters.

And I pretty much explained this in the summary of edit on the episode page. I assume you don't watch Supernatural. I'm not getting too technical, he's not just a ghost, he's a Vengeful Spirit. In Supernatural there's actually different types of ghosts which are differentiated in the show. Sam and Dean always suspect a ghost of being a Vengeful Spirit, at least at first but that's not always the case. Vengeful Spirits are what the page describes: a type of ghost usually created because of the need for revenge. In the ghost kid's case he went Vengeful because of what Jay did to him. And ghosts CAN go Vengeful even if they aren't initially depending on their circumstances, we've seen that too.

There's also a Woman in White which is from the show's pilot episode, a Death Echo which is a ghost trapped in a loop of its own death, a Death Omen, which is a ghost that warns you your gonna die basically. Some want justice as in the first case of a Death Omen appearing on the show. In another case the Death Omen was trying to warn people that her psycho sister, also a ghost, was murdering people but they mistakenly believed her to be the killer. The most recent Death Omen was another one of those creepy kid ghosts Dean mentioned. Again he was mistaken as the bad guy (that tends to happen with Death Omens) but he helped take down the real bad guy. He was thought to be a Myling, a sort of kid Vengeful Spirit that lures people to their deaths with a baby's cry or something like that. I don't know, all I know is he wasn't that and that has never appeared on the show. Then there's a Specter which is a sort of avenging ghost and was frankly kind of weird but was differentiated from being a Vengeful Spirit in the one episode that one appeared in. I never liked that episode, it was too dumb and complicated.

And then there's what fans have termed a Violent Spirit. That one's a term never used in the show. Usually the Winchesters suspect them to be Vengeful Spirits and then when they are not, never use another terminology for them. These guys are ghosts who are evil in life and continue to be evil in death. They are not Vengeful because they do not revenge for anything they just enjoy causing death and destruction for the hell of it basically. That category includes some more of those creepy ghost kids Dean mentioned. And they WERE super-creepy. It was a case where the ghost kids were mistaken for the VICTIMS in the situation until it was too late!!!