Melinda Gordon is a fictional character in the famous mystical television series Ghost Talking, which was released between 2005 and 2010.
Character Background
The creator of Melinda Gordon, as well as the entire series, is John Gray, who acts not only as one of the main screenwriters of this project, but also as a director.
According to the series, Melinda is married to paramedic Jim Clancy, who is aware of her superpowers. She is at any moment ready to make contact with ghosts, build a dialogue with them.
According to the plot, Melinda, which is often called simply Mel, Meli or Meloni, is the owner of her own antique shop.
Besides her husband Melinda Gordon, her abilities are also known to Rick Payne, a professor and expert in occultism and history. Melinda personally shared her secret with Rick in the hope that he would help her. Also among her assistants are Andrea Moreno, who passed away at the end of the first season, Delia Banks, the son of Delia Ned and psychologist by profession Eli James.
Character abilities
The main feature of Melinda Gordon in the film is that she is a hereditary medium, like her great-grandmother and mother, she is also able to communicate with ghosts. Thanks to this ability, she gets in touch with the spirits of dead people and helps them complete unfinished business on earth, after which they can rest in good conscience.
In addition, she receives signals from the spirits, as, for example, at the end of the first season she was able to receive a message from the ghosts from the plane that was supposed to crash, even before it crashed.
In the final season of the series, Melinda has to combine her activities as a medium with parental responsibilities, since she has a son named Lucas, who, by the way, has even more power than his mother.
Screen appearances
In the first season, Melinda and her husband move to live in Grenview. Here she opens her small business - an antique shop. She finds a partner in the person of Andrea Moreno, who has become helping Melinda in her difficult task of communicating with the other world.
In the second season, having lost his partner, Melinda finds new partners in the person of Professor Rick Payne, Delia and Ned Banks. Throughout the season of the series, events demonstrate that the line between the world of the living and the dead is becoming thinner, and ghosts increasingly penetrate our world.
Throughout the third season, Melinda searches for her dead father and brother, believing that they are both dead.
In the fourth season, Melinda Gordon and her husband finally decide to have a baby. As a result, they have a son, who was named Lucas. This season was also marked by the fact that in it, Melinda has another assistant in the person of Eli, who, after a clinical death, he is able to hear the souls of the dead.
The fifth season is associated with the child of Melinda, because, having given birth to a baby, she became a mother. But every year on the occasion of Lucas’s birthday, strange things happen to him: inexplicable illnesses, weakness, etc. The situation is aggravated by the fact that Melinda is the spirit of a woman who died during childbirth by the name of Amber, who assures that Lucas is her son, and not Melinda.
Moreover, Melinda soon learns that her son has superpowers that surpass even her own. He is an empathy and can see things that even Melinda herself is not able to see, despite the fact that she is an experienced and strong medium in the seventh generation. Apparently, the abilities of all members of her family with each generation become stronger and stronger.
Conclusion
Melinda Gordon is known to all fans of the series "Talking with Ghosts," because it is its main character. The series itself is quite successful and has a large number of fans in all corners of the planet. He also has high ratings and many positive reviews from both ordinary viewers and professional critics of movies and TV shows.
Many girls were delighted with the style of Melinda Gordon, whose role was played by actress Jennifer Love Hewitt, in clothes, so thousands of fans of the series began to imitate her, taking her image as the basis of their own style. Such success of the heroine herself in many respects contributed to the growth of the series as a whole, which from now on began to be watched not only because of an interesting plot, but also thanks to the audience sympathy for the main character Melinda.