Here are the highlights of the Ghost Whisperer Comic-Con panel:
– Melinda’s baby Aiden Lucas is the new addition to the cast this season. But Aiden will only be a baby for a “moment,” said Jennifer Love Hewitt. “Then we will jump the season five years in the future”—and see that 5-year-old Aiden (Connor Gibbs) is “more powerful” than even his preternatural mother.
– Show runner P.K. Simonds revealed: “We have a brand-new mythology, a place that becomes very central to the characters’ world [and] careers that people are building. You’ll find out in the first episode.”
– Now that it will be five years later, Ned (Christoph Sanders) is in college and dating: “He gets to make out with lots of hot girls,” Hewitt.
– Delia (Camryn Manheim) will also have a love interest or two.
– The third episode introduces Eli’s father (‘Barry Newman) and mother (Christine Estabrook). But Jamie Kennedy said that his dad is actually a ghost.
– Simonds later said “Melinda is a character who can see and hear things that the rest of us can’t. Wouldn’t it be interesting if someone could [sense] things that even she can’t? This child…introduces us [not only] to new characters but really to a kind of whole dimension. What happens to these spirits when they cross over? We never answered that question, really very deliberately. But now we’re going to get some really big hints about where beings go. Where spirits go after they leave this plane, their earthbound existence. And what that gives to us is a lot of stories. But also some real brand-new, very intense jeopardy…This is a child [who] because of his gifts has a greater responsibility. [Those are] big shoes to fill.”
Source: E! Online
