So Weird
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Season one
The season began with Fiona on tour with her famous rocker mother Molly, brother Jack (Scully to her Mulder), bus driver Ned, his wife Irene, and their son Clu. Stringing all of Fi's paranormal encounters was her search to communicate with her father who died when she was three years old. Fi first "encountered" her father in the second episode titled "Website" where an unknown force sent her internet articles warning her of the future. From alien invasions, time warps, and ghosts, Fi faced 13 episodes worth of paranormal activity. Also encountered- one powerful tulpa, a Bigfoot, angels, and of course, the Will o' the Wisp. The season finale featured Jack becoming possessed by an Scottish Will o' the Wisp, aka Spunkie. Fi found the spirit's true name - Bricriu - and saved her brother by speaking it. Bricriu had offered to protect Fi, and while it is understandable that Fi initially believed he was lying, subsequent events in the show proved that Bricriu may have been telling the truth, however this is questionable at best.Season two
The second season was even darker than the first, playing out over twenty-six episodes. The premiere picked up with Molly taking time off the tour to record an album. Fi and friend Candy meet a medium who is proven to be a fraud. However, the one who uncovers the fake is actually a medium himself who aids Fi in contacting her father through music on his old guitar. The episode ends in an emotional scene between Fi and Molly revealing how Molly really feels about Fi's search for her father. The character of Clu was reduced during the season as he went off to college. His brother Carey was introduced to fill in the gap. Many classic beasts surfaced within the season, including vampires, werewolves, banshees, trolls, sirens, and merfolk. In a pivotal episode, Molly revealed to Fi that her father investigated the same supernatural events as her. In fact, it was exactly what killed him. Fi was angered by her mother's deceit in covering up the truth about her father. Molly was eventually possessed by the same Will o' the Wisp as Jack was in season one, revealing that Will o' the Wisps, though not necessarily Bricriu himself, may have possessed and killed her father, resulting in the car crash that police assumed took his life. In this episode Bricriu used Molly to try and kill a firefighter who had been present at Rick's car crash and was aware of this information. Following this episode, Fi had further contact with her father, as the answer to a troll's question- Faith- was revealed at the last moment. The season ended with Fi discovering her father's twin sister received messages from him in her sleep. The messages led Fi to a rooftop where she was attacked by a demon and saved by the ghost of her father. He left her with a message that the spirit world was angry with what she does and would try to stop her. At last, Fi got the proper farewell to her father that she had been searching for. Many DeLizia fans consider this a proper, if not entirely fulfilling, conclusion to the spirit of the series.Season three
After skewing extremely dark and intricate in its second season, the show was forced into a lighter tone for its final batch of episodes. The original third season was plotted by producers Ali Marie Matheson and Jon Cooksey, with such ideas as Fi being possessed by Bricriu and rescued by Molly's priest brother; information about Molly's alcoholism; Fi going to Hell in the series finale to save her father and of course more of Rick's story. If it had gone as planned, Rick would have been thrown off the roof in Season 2's final episode, forcing Fi to continue searching. However, Disney did not agree with the premise, feeling it was too dark. Matheson and Cooksey subsequently left the show along with DeLizia. Cara DeLizia left after the first episode which introduced family friend Annie Thelen. Fi had yet another encounter with Bricriu that ended with him convincing her to give up her innate attraction to the paranormal in order to protect her family. Fi, unable for whatever reason to see that Bricriu was acting in her best interests, trapped him in a floppy disk. The attraction, manifested in the ring her father gave her, was passed on to Annie as Fi went to live with her aunt. Molly moved the family to a new, brightly colored house.Annie's story arc was the [[wikt:mystery|mystery]] behind a spirit guide that followed her in the form of a panther. Her character was also musically talented, and episodes featured more of her singing than that of the older Mackenzie Phillips. The season's stories were a far cry from previous episodes, playing such unimaginative plots as being sucked into a painting (which directly followed an episode of people being sucked into photographs) and a detention class that never ended. Fi never reappeared in the series, not even the final episode, which was a clip show of mostly the third season. Fans demonstrated extreme dislike for the season, sometimes separating it entirely from the DeLizia episodes. After 65 installments, Disney canceled the show as was standard practice at the time no matter how popular a series was. The show left syndication not long after its cancellation.
Music of So Weird
The series featured original songs sung by both Mackenzie Phillips and Alexz Johnson. Songs sung by Mackenzie Phillips included the theme "In the Darkness", "Another World", "Rebecca", "The Rock," and "Love is Broken". Each of the songs usually tied into the theme of the episode they were featured in. For example, "Rebecca" was featured in the episode "Rebecca" which dealt with Molly's former best friend of the same name who vanished when she was 13 years old. A compilation of Molly's songs were featured in the episode "Encore.""Last Night Blues," was the only occasion Cara DeLizia had to sing during her stint on the show. The song was supernaturally transferred to the characters from a murdered blues musician.
Season three mainly used the music of Alexz Johnson. One of Johnson's original songs, "Dream About You", was featured in the episode "Carnival." A music video by Alexz Johnson, "Shadows", was also featured near the end of the show's run on the Disney channel.
Main cast
- Cara DeLizia as Fiona 'Fi' Phillips (Seasons 1-2)
- Mackenzie Phillips as Molly Phillips
- Alexz Johnson as Annie Thelen (Season 3)
- Patrick Levis as Jack Phillips
- Erik von Detten as Clu Bell
- Eric Lively as Carey Bell (Season 2-3)
- Belinda Metz as Irene Bell
- Dave Ward as Ned Bell
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