PARANORMAL CONNECTION

There’s a faint rustling on the set of Ghost Whisperer. Could it be some troubled spirit trying to get medium Melinda Gordon’s attention?

No. It’s the frilly bodice of Jennifer Love Hewitt’s dress. It seems that each time the actress emotes, it gives off a noise loud enough to worry the sound engineer, consequently requiring several extra takes.

Apparently some fans of the CBS series, in which Hewitt plays a young newlywed with the ability to contact spirits, tune in mainly to see what the winsome star is wearing. But it’s the paranormal subject matter that seems to have connected with most viewers, earning the new drama an early pickup for next season.

“We really listen to our audience and they do want scary and low cut dresses”, laughs series consultant and executive producer James Van Praagh.

The well-known paranormal expert acknowledges some compromises have to be made in the name of entertainment, yet is essentially pleased the show is conveying his message that there’s life after death.

“I think especially in a time of war people question beliefs, and I don’t people are going to religions as much for answers. They are going within and being responsible for their own lives and their own quest for understanding”, says Van Praagh, who reports that many attending his recent lectures have said their interest was peeked by watching Ghost Whisperer.

“I love the theme. I definitely feel we are not just our bodies, that we are beings and that we go on”, says Anne Archer, who has joined the cast in the recurring role of Beth Gordon, Melinda’s mother.

“So from that standpoint, it didn’t seem weird to me at all”, continues Archer. “I think it’s interesting and obviously audiences do, too…I think there is a sot of emptiness in ou look at life in general lately, and think this is a way to explore that.”

The episode filming this day at Universal Studios is titled The Vanishing.

Hewitt’s chest heaves and faux tears flow. It seems a head injury has caused her character, Melinda, to lose her gift for communicating with earthbound spirits and she’s devastated. Her loving husband, Jim (David Conrad), is providing sympathy.

Meanwhile, mother Beth is happy. She possesses the same psychic gift as her daughter, but has always viewed it as a curse rather than a blessing. Now, for whatever reason, her gift has vanished, too, but she feels a burden has been lifted.

Archer says the whole story arc has given her something juicy to play beyond the usual standard mum fare often to an actresses in their 50s.

“it was a whole character coming in with a big problem. I love that, and then in this episode the gift goes away for both of us and I’m feeling liberated”, says the actress as she waits in her dressing room for her scenes to begin. “it’s great that they gave me something to act other that, ‘Hi, dear, how are doing?’”

Director and executive producer Ian Sander adds that Archer’s good looks are also an attribute, “because the role of Beth demands flashbacks, and she looks utterly convincing playing nearly 20 years younger.”

Van Praagh says it’s not essential that actors on his show believe in its premise, “but it certainly helps if they are opne-minded.”

Hewitt said earlier that spending time with Van Praagh and researching for the show has made it hard not to believe.

“What’s great and beautiful about this show is that it kind of makes you believe, if you don’t already, that the people you love the most maybe don’t actually leave you for good, that maybe they kind of look after you and are there to sort of see you through the rest of whatever your journey is.”

Archer’s thoughts echo that. “The show has charm because its characters are so likeable. I think it (the show) hits these buttons in people that….when you lose someone, very often you are left with these feelings about what you didn’t say to them”, she says.

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Friendship isn't always easily described. The Eskimos, they say, have a hundred different words for snow. Unfortunately, the English language isn't quite as innovative, though it has vast opportunities to differentiate meaning. Certainly, Love is one of those opportunities. And so, too, is Friendship.

Instead of different words, however, we're stuck with simple adjectives. Close friend. Best friend. Childhood friend. Intimate friend. Trusted friend. Beloved friend. But whether you use adjectives or different words, few could deny the nearly infinite meaning in such a simple word.

Friends are special people. We can't pick our family, and we're sorely limited in the number of them at any rate. Society and mores (and often our own conscience) dictate we select a single mate. But our friends can be as diverse and infinite as the adjectives we choose. Our friends, in a very real sense, reflect the choices we make in life.

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The show starts off by Akira and the team heading to the star shuttle but from above Ginzan is watching. While the team hears about there next match tomorrow as they begin there traing by battling each other. While Akira watches to see the results of all there metanorphisis. Until from above Ginzan comes down from there training room to try to destroy Daigunder as the bots try to work together to try to stop him but it does not work. Ginzan takes and kidnaps Daigunder and flees the scene. As the team finds out the location of Daigunder, they get underway. As for Daigunder, Ginzan has him traped in a abandon warehouse getting pounded badly. As Akira and his bots are on the way to try to rescue him at the location, Daigunder and Ginzan battle face to face heavly. As Akira finds out were exactly they are. Drimog stops Ginzan from finshing Daigunder/Ryugu as akira asks Ginzan why he's doing this and who is he working for. Ginzan reveals thathe is working for Professor Maelstrom. Akira starts the battle against Ginzan with all bots at once. Back in the lab, Eagle Arrow is fixed up ready for battle. As Ryugu fuses with Daigu to try to fight Ginzan one more time because Akira's bots are getting bashed badly. Daigunder is doing good by being able to withstand Ginzan's attacks untill he gives up and flees the scene. Back at the lab the team finds out that they don't have any extra time to get fixed up after the battle with Ginzan. As round 2 is about to start against Team Peair, they arrive late and are disqualyfied from the match. The team upset does not give up and decieds to train more. As from above Ginzan finds out that he needs to destroy Daigunder's cluster power to to win.

1. The Dream Begins

The argue continues with Ryugu and Akira still arguing. As Akira's grandfather places a head device on Akira's and Ryugu's head, while he talks about the history of technology and explains that with this device on their heads help them work together. Then Heruka a strange girl that manages teams steps in telling Akira what she masters in, while preparing for the next battle. As the battle is about to begin Akira looks at the info of his opponent the famous Jhon. In the crowd were Akira's grandfather is sitting the Commisioner decide's to sit next to him and watch the new Daigunder in action. The battle begins with Akira making the first move with Pholyeon knocking one of team Jhon's robots to a wall. As a sneak attack team Jhon's robot uses his secret attack and pretends to just sit down and do nothing to distract Akira's Pholyeon, when out of know here Jhons robot shoots missles to Pholyeon and then aims at Pholyeons knee joint with a big missle taking alot of hit points from him. As the missles keep flying it looks like Pholyeon can't take no more, so Akira calls for his conversion for his other robots to back up and attack, but no fazing, as then both robots start taking bad blows. When Akira decides to tell them to go into animal mode and start attacking, which at first it works but then with both teams fighting back it turns into a draw. To determine the winning draw its anchor bot vs anchor bot. With Ryugu vs team Jhons achor bot, Ryugu dodges most of Jhons missle attacks. But when team Jhon decides to go into achor bot conversion after Akira tells Ryugu to go into anchor bot conversion mode Ryugu refuses, thinking he can't take team Jhons conversion bot by himself . as Ryugu is getting badly hurt Akira decides that he has to work as a team with Ryugu and takes the hit for Ryugu as he is down. As they both realize its team work that makes the victory happen they both agree to call in Daigu to conversion with Ryugu to make Daigunder! to start the battle. So now its Daigunder vs team Jhons conversion anchorbot, Daigunder easily wins the battle without a sweat. For the victory the Commisioner hands over Akira's commander license. As the whole team is happy realizing as long as they work together they can go to the top. When Heruka decides to be the team manager as the team is in shock they realize its also a good thing to have a team manager. As the whole team celebrates it looks like Akira and Ryugu is about to start an argument again.

3. Training Battle

The show begins with Akira's battle bots traing against some bee bots as there being congratulated by Akira and Ryugu. With a little argument between the battle bots they hear big vibration coming from outside when they see that its Akira's grandfather inside a rocket getting ready for lift off on his litle research trip. As the team hears about an opponent that wants to chanllenge them they get ready for battle. But just when they find out that the location of the opponent is to far Akira's grandpa tells them threw via satllite that he builded a transport flyer to get there in no time. When they arrive at daigos town they meet team Mokoto. So the battle gets underway right away as they both agree on, Akira sends out Ryugu out first to battle. The battle bigins with Ryugu vs Gam as a unknown battle bot wacthes from above admiring Ryugu. When both teams battle it seems lke both bots are evenly macth so as they battle they decied to go to conversion mode (both teams). But before they can batle, the unknown bot blastes them both from above badly. As Akira and Mokoto wants to know who and why he did that, the unknown bots reveals his self as Ginzan, the most powerful battle bot ever! He starts to battle Akira's robots and easly takes all of them on easly when akira decides to send his battles bots to conversion mode to do a sneak attack from the back as for the front. Then Akira sends out Daigunder to battle to, but as they he launches his lasers Ginzan blocks it like it was nothing and overuns Akira's battle bots. so Ginzan says that he had fun battling with them and flees the scene making Akira's bots look like there were just to easy. Akira askes about Ginzan and his battle bots tells him that he is a battle bot. Later on, Akira talks to Mokoto and congrats the good macth and Mokoto talks to him about the Arksin City tournament and as Akira gets happy and excited about it they say good bye promising to Mokoto that he will meet him there in battle. So they flee in the tansport flyer. Above the skies, Ginzan is in a spaceship is talking to a professor as he demands him to defeat Daigunder.

The show begins with Akira heading to Arkin City when they find out they have 0 step up points. As they decied to win this tournament to win a lot of step up points. They find out the rules for the Hybird Match for the tournament. Akira suggests that his robots have better names for there first tournament with a little bit fo fussing. As they get a call by Akira's grandfather to help them out with there new names, they agree on. They register to the Arksin Tournament. They find out that they will be fighting Team Green as the team is happy with the decision they once again bump into Commissioner Spinklestarber to which he lets them know that they will be at least 50 teams that to do your best. As the team understands, they get underway for there battle with Team Green with a big crowd wacthing. As they find out about Team Green's strategies, they see other battles take place to advance. So Akira's in the battle platform as he calls out his battle bots Drimog and Ryugu to start the battle. As they face off against Team Green's red spider and moth monster. Akira starts off the battle by telling his team to remember the strategy. As they move in, red spider uses his web attack on them to take Akira's robots as Akira tell his robots to strike one time they once again, Team Green retaliates. As its times for conversion time, Akira's robots go to conversion Daigunder is unleashed, along with decending disater and underground fighter. so Team Green starts to attack with web attacks to trap them as Daigunder takes a beating from the front and the back looking as Akira's team is going down. Akira thinks that a reverse fusion cancel will do the job. As he tells his team to spilt up to take them all down. It works until Daigunder is trapped by webs badly. Akira thinks that Daigu and Bulion fused with Eagle Arrow and Drimon will do the job as it takes a lot of hit ponits from Team Green. With constant attacks, Akira is making the hit ponits even till he finally does the final attack and wins! They came back from nothing to winning. As both Team Commanders congrats each others, the team walks to there transport flyer talking about there victory and how they won some step up ponits. As from above, Ginzan looks from above saying that Daigunder is gonna get it real soon.

5. Enter Ginzan

The show starts off by Akira and the team heading to the star shuttle but from above Ginzan is watching. While the team hears about there next match tomorrow as they begin there traing by battling each other. While Akira watches to see the results of all there metanorphisis. Until from above Ginzan comes down from there training room to try to destroy Daigunder as the bots try to work together to try to stop him but it does not work Ginzan takes and kidnaps Daigunder and flees the scene. As the team finds out the location of Daigunder, they get underway. As for Daigunder, Ginzan has him traped in a abandon warehouse getting pounded badly. As Akira and his bots are on the way to try to rescue him at the location, Daigunder and Ginzan battle face to face heavly. As Akira finds out were exactly they are. Drimog stops Ginzan from finshing Daigunder/Ryugu as akira asks Ginzan why he's doing this and who is he working for. Ginzan reveals thathe is working for Professor Maelstrom. Akira starts the battle against Ginzan with all bots at once. Back in the lab, Eagle Arrow is fixed up ready for battle. As Ryugu fuses with Daigu to try to fight Ginzan one more time because Akira's bots are getting bashed badly. Daigunder is doing good by being able to withstand Ginzan's attacks untill he gives up and flees the scene. Back at the lab the team finds out that they don't have any extra time to get fixed up after the battle with Ginzan. As round 2 is about to start against Team Peair, they arrive late and are disqualyfied from the match. The team upset does not give up and decieds to train more. As from above Ginzan finds out that he needs to destroy Daigunder's cluster power to to win.

6. Robot Round Up

Akira and the team are in a town were they find out that there have been rebel robots stoping the mayor from building his ammusment park by the town's Sheriff. Team Akira decieds to help to try to stop them. Right there, he convinces the mayor to give them the job to stop the rebel robots. As Akira goes to the location of the mountians were the rebel robots hide and protect, Akira is soon confronted by 2 robots which start to battle with Akira robots (Ryugu and Bulion), they think they got these robots rounded up til out of nowhere a red robot comes from the sky and badly hurts Bulion. The red robot warns team Akira that this fight is over and that to never come back here. After making sure of his robot's health, Akira decides to go alone with Ryugu to find out what those robots ment by not coming back there and why they gurd it so much. As they finally meet the robots one more time, they luckly convince them that they are not the enemies and to tell theme why they protect the area. The robots tell Akria and Ryugu that they protect this place from being rebuilded because its where there ancestors were born and lived. Akira and Ryugu decided to not help the mayor and help the robots protect the area. Right there the mayor and army of robots ask Akira and the robots to surrender. Akira decied to join forces in battle with the robot protectors and easly sending out his whole team along with Daigunder! The town's sheriff scares some of the robot owners to flee the scene or be arrested, the mayor is easly defeated and deicede to make the area a reservation for people to see and visit the robots. The robots all happy thank Akira greatly and Akira and the team askes the robots if they would like to join the team. The robots agree and they celebrate new friends and a good job on protecting a sacred area.

7. Bots Will be Bots

This episode was about Akira and the team head for a rematch with Team Mokoto because of the last macth they had could not be finsh because of Ginzan. Well in this episode the Bone rex crew realize that there is no I in team and decied not to do things there own way but to follow Akira's commands. Because they realized that Daigunder and the rest perform like unbeatable warriors and because of team work and depending on each other to win. So because of that, Team Akira wins over team Mokoto to win a lot of step ups ponits.

9. Been There, Done That

10. Friend or Foe

In this episode Akira and the team are heading for there next macth in Senawood city. When Akira finds out that he left his licence to battle at his home, he freaks out finds out that Drimog and Eagle Arrow can just bring it to him because he left them at home. Meanwhile, the mysterious Professor Maelstrom gives orders to Ginzan to destroy Daigunder. Soon he attcks the DaiShuttle taking it down demanding a battle with Daigunder. So as the battle starts off Akira decieds to take the battle far from the DaiShuttle crash site, but with all the battling and explosion, they create while battling they fall in a underground pit that leads to a unknown factory made for disposing metal. As they battle again dispite them being trap underground, they notice a liquid substance that melts metal and its alive! As it attacks Ginzan badly and Akira decides to help him by destroying the liquid and help fix Ginzan up and getting out of there back to surface by fusing Daigunder with Ginzan. They find out that them both are compatable. After the DaiShuttle is fixed and Ginzan leaves the area in his own way of saying thanks, the team wonders if he will ever be a friend or foe.

Team Akira is set to battle Team X in a tournament where they're mysteriously registered in. When Commissioner Spinklestarber arrives saying that the 2 teams were entered through hacking, Akira then finds out the Team X's only mysterious Battle Robot and only member is really Ginzan with another plot to destroy Daigunder?

14. The Enemy Within

15. The Many Robots Spoil the Broth

After being yelled at by Eagle Arrow for his uselessness in battle because Akira never had him attack an opponent, Drimog leaves. Tigamaro and Rogamaro in disguise offer Drimog attachable wings. But when Tigamaro and Rogamaro are controlling the wings with a remote control as a part of a plan to destroy Daigunder, it's Eagle Arrow to Drimog's rescue. In the aftermath, Eagle Arrow and Drimog make ammends and Team Akira is invited to the Albatross Kingdom.

16. A Royal Pain

Team Akira arrives in the Albatross Kingdom. Akira, Heruka, Ryugu, Bulion, and Bone Rex attend a fancy party at the palace. They encounter Ginzan who also entered the tournament with Tigamaro and Rogamaro since the tournament is also for unliscened Battle Robots. The king emerges from inside the clown robot and tells them the tournament and the prize, the Albatross Kingdom trophy. Just then, the lights go out and robed robots appear and capture the king and the trophy. The robed robots shoot their lasers at the other Battle Robots (including Bulion and Bone Rex) with Ginzan pursuing them. Akira tells Heruka to contact Beebot to have him send Daigu. As Akira and Ryugu chase after them, Tigamaro and Rogamaro appear to attack Daigunder before Daigu appears. Daigunder is formed as Tigamundo and Rogamundo fuse, this time with Rogamaro at the top. Meanwhile, Ginzan pursues the robots as one of them shoots Ginzan's wing. Daigunder defeats the two of them. Back at the DaiShuttle, Bulion and Bone Rex are out of commission as Heruka is trying to fix them. Heruka tells Akira that she pinpointed the location of where those robots have the king and the trophy. Akira come up with a plan which involve Eagle Arrow and Drimog distracting the guards, which included attacking them, as Akira, Daigu, and Ryugu make their way to the door. Tigamaro and Rogamaro appear for another fight with Daigunder. Ginzan appears to tell his 2 partners that they'll defeat Daigunder in battle as he blasts them away. Meanwhile, Bulion and Bone Rex recover from the lasers. Heruka suggests that the lasers paralyzed the Battle Robots for a certain time. Inside the building, Akira, Daigu, Ryugu, and Ginzan go down a hallway as Ginzan blows up the door. They enter a dark room as Eagle Arrow and Drimog catch up and shows them the that the robot that they defeated has the crest of the Albatross Kingdom (shown in the tear in it's robe). The room lights up as TV screens with the king's transmission appears. He tells them that it was a test just as Heruka, Bulion, and Bone Rex arrive. He also show the viewing of the other tests that the other teams are in and announces that Team Akira and Team Ginzan have passed the test. Ginzan leaves to prepare for the match. 12 team will be competing in the tournament as Team Akira leaves for Tropicalis Island to battle Team Brit.

17. Brits, Bots, and Betty

After arriving on Tropicalis Island, Akira and Ryugu have some fun in the sun, then prepare for their match against Team Brit. Meanwhile, Eagle Arrow bumps into a robot used by a woman named Betty who is studying the Aurora lights above the island.

18. A Few Friend

After Team Akira defeated Team Ahab, Tigamaro and Rogamaro come up with another plan to destroy Daigunder by kidnapping Beebot and replacing him with Skippybot (an evil clone of Beebot) who places a remote-controlled device in the Dino Unit and the Daigunder unit. The next day, Skippybot's effect has the Daigunder unit and the Dino Unit fighting amongst each other during a battle with Team Blues. When Ginzan finds out what happens after Beebot frees himself from the cooler on Tigamaro's back, Skippybot is destroyed by Beebot giving Team Akira the opportunity to defeat their opponent's. In the next match, Team Ginzan is defeated by Team Oval.

20. Goon With the Wind

With Team Ginzan defeated by Team Oval, Team Akira faces off against Team Oval. Despite Team Oval's weatherly attacks and defenses, Team Akira defeats them and wins the Albatross Kingdom tournament and prize.

21. Fight Or Get Off The Bot

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