its amazing how well the character of Ghost has aged, he was such an evil character but so charismatic and so feared at the same time. Someone told me that Ghost is stringer bell, Tony Soprano and Walter White combined. What's interesting with Ghost is no matter how horrible his actions were, he never viewed himself as a bad person but simply someone trying to forge a better life for his kids and become "legit"
It's crazy because his character betrayal was so good. I (Ada viewer) didn't necessarily see ghost as evil. All of the justifications for most of his actions made sense but ultimately he was a monster 🤷🏾♂️
Ghost wasn't good person but he was capable, smart, confident, composed, seemingly in control of everything and ofc charismatic. He did so many bad things in the show but because he had all these qualities that people value and even envy is why he was never disliked throughout the show. If there's one thing I learned from watching Power is that you can get away with so much as long as people view you in a good light. James was always trying to keep this perspective on him and was so good at it that he became a politician.
Don't forget its also just a show. Peope usually fear or hate people like that irl. Only people who like him in reality are family or people attracted to darkness in general. Not the average person.
Ghost is a high function sociopath similar to Sherlock Holmes,Tony Montana,Bruce Wayne and etc. They have the capability to have SOME empathy but not all like normal people of society. They are not inherently evil like Patrick Bateman, Michael Myers or Jack the Ripper but they can switch like a light bulb to those personality’s that make them act psychotic like Ryan Gosling does in (Drive 2011) They thrive in POWER,MONEY RESPECT AND SEX. Hope this was helpful👌🏽
@@shereefullwood8221 High function sociopaths are extremely calculated,nonchalant and intelligent they’re mainly CEOs and entrepreneurs. They usually get confused with psychopaths due to their similarity’s, but truth of the matter is they are not. Low function sociopaths are people like Kanan and Tommy Eagan mainly gangsters who don’t do anything legitimate just stick to crime because they have very low conscience.
@anjr9915 Psychopaths are the ones who typically are more calculating, as they are less prone than the sociopath to the emotional "mistakes" such as impatience, fear, or concern for any form of consequence whatsoever outside of what directly affects their personal goals. However, I think the high-functionong sociopath would have a higher propensity for the effort it takes to control their emotions, and perhaps with their "weak" conscience, can still grow to sometimes use their "powers" for a relatively selfless purpose
Yesss!!! Can't ask for more. One of the best character to men look up to. One and only James St. Patrick "Ghost". Bro, thank you for this one! Wish you all the best!
I think to analyze Ghost, you have to look at Power as a literal representation of the crabs in a barrel/bucket mentality. The bucket is the streets and James is the crab desperate to get out, while those closest to him are the ones trying to keep him in. From day 1 he was consistent about 3 things. 1. The nightclub thing was his childhood dream, not some way to clean up the money; the show was clear about that. 2. Not wanting to be a drug dealer anymore 3. leaving legit money behind the kids for the rest of their lives. He has a convo with Tommy about it in Episode 1 of the series. Tommy laughs at him. If you look at Ghost's face in that scene, he looks like a child who's dog just died. You could literally see how much it crushed his spirit. Then you see shortly after he speaks to Tasha about it with the whole "Biggest drug dealer in new york" line. He has another convo with Tasha about it in episode 3 of season 1 where he says he doesn't know any old wrinkled drug dealers because they're either dead or in jail and asked whether or not that scared her. She says no because he's the best. Ghost's personality fits someone who is desperate to be saved. He was so desperate to be legit that he was literally willing to do whatever it took for him to be able to get out of the street life, from lying to people who didn't want that for him (Tasha and Tommy) to killing anyone that wanted to keep him in the game (Kanan, Lobos, Milan, Jason, etc) and was also desperate to provide a life for his kids like he never had. The VERY FIRST convo he has with Tasha after signing the Basset Deal in season 3 Episode 9 near the end of the episode about how Truth would expand beyond anything he imagined, but how the kids would have legit money behind them for the rest of their lives. Tasha then apologizes to him for being wrong for doubting he could make it with the nightclubs. I was curious about if Ghost was really as bad (at heart) as he was made to seem at the end of the series, so i've watched this series through multiple times. It makes a difference if you look at his actions at face value, or if you look at his actions from the way he was described. For instance, Angela (After accepting the new position at that banquet) reveals that Ghost was smart enough to go to Choate, but stayed in the streets because he didn't want to leave Tommy behind. Even though what he wanted was to be Legit and be with Angela, Angela bounced, and so Ghost gave up chasing her at that time but never gave up the nightclub dream despite not going to Choate.
@@makonyauchi3760 he's one of the most interesting characters I've seen in tv/movies Like... He's better than any of the murder thriller serial killers like Jason Voorhees or Michael Myers, he's more interesting than Hannibal Lectern even
Ghost is a bad man his personality is of a man who is willing to do whatever it takes you to get what he wants by any means. Every decision Ghost has ever made done good or bad was because he wanted to do so for his own personal reasons not because anyone else had any real influence over his life.
@@jakeviouspollard9287 and his personal reasons were getting out of the game and leaving a legit legacy behind for his kids so they wouldn't have to live in that. Look at this season of Book 2. Tariq is finally having that sink into his head
I’m a new subscriber, I first found out about your channel after the dark psychology of Tariq was suggested to me. My favorite video of yours is the planet of the apes video (I’ve seen it a 100 times, I watch it at least once a week). Keep these videos coming.
I find it funny how characters from tv shows have their good traits no matter how small outweigh the bad especially if its the main character whereas in real life no matter what good deeds someone does they seem to be remembered for the bad
i haven't finished this, only started it. BUT I have always told people, GHOST to me is easily one of the GREATEST characters CREATED. If the show had better writers and, what I tell people why Game of Thrones is SO GREAT, that ANYONE CAN GET IT mentality, it would've been easily one of the greatest tv shows ever
@@niax782 As the body of work before us, NO, I def don't think Ghost is lets say BETTER than those, well I'll say he is better than Ned and Joffery because Ned was to PROUD and it got him beheaded, Ghost is a smarter person than Ned. Joffery was a brat and Jackie KILLED it making us all hate Joffery but Joffery isn't on the level of Ghost intellectually. H3ll I don't even think Joffery is anywhere as bad as Tariq but that 's a story for another day LOL. Tyrion is my fav GoT character and their intellect could possible be equal. the only thing of course Jamie had over Tyrion is that he wasn't an imp and could def hold his own. Lets say it took two people in GoT in Tyrion and Bron to make up a Ghost. Take Tyrion's intellect in scheming and planning and Brons intellect in killing and you got Ghost. Had Ghost had GoT level writing, I'll put money that Power would be one of the greatest tv shows we'd ever seen alongside GoT.
@@guilliman1990 I love power, but I honestly can not say that lol. GoT when I first saw it Immediately became one of my top 5 shows i've ever seen. Power is literally held back by it's writers, they had the character and content but they didn't engage them right. Power could have been better than Sons of Anarchy, Breaking Bad (even though I don't think it's as great as some may think BUT it is better than Power I think), and maybe a few other shows. Power, Sons of Anarchy, and GoT, have one similarity that connects them together for me and it's with the mothers in the show. All three have mothers who play a role of being afraid to lose their status and claim they will do anything for their kids even though the things they do hurt them even more, but Tasha is worse cause she wasn't smart at all, Gemma is almost as worse as Tasha but she was just a little smarter, but none of them were more intelligent than Cersi, Cersi was a beast when she needed to be and made the right moves for her, even though it got those closer to her killed she was still smarter than most. Sorry i love these shows and can talk for days on them LOL
Power is not better than GOT they are similar shows but GOT cinematography is eons above power power looks like a damn soap opera some episodes lol Got is always masterfully shot
I found it interesting that when Ghost was killed Tommy was crying like a baby like he didn’t try to shoot him literally a couple episodes before lol. Him ans ghost was truly brothers and everytime they wanted to ‘kill’ each other they couldn’t. Angela was his only weakness & represented the life he’s always wanted but foreshadowing in her death that would never be attained. Tasha was ghosts wife but not James’s.
Friends have squabbles all the time but not to that regard lol but yeah friends argue and fight, at the end of the day if the friendship is important we squash that shit
Yo when you said Tasha was Ghost's wife and not Jamie's i FELT that! I always said that it was Tasha's fault that he stepped out and wanted to end his marriage, only because he had an endgame that no one else wanted. He wanted to be legit like ALL these other families outside the black community be obtaining and she just wanted to be the wife of a drug dealer.
Tasha is exactly why he couldn’t be happy. She loved the danger and the risks associated with being with a “bad” man and at the end of the day Ghost was right she wasn’t really ride or die.
I truly enjoyed your break down! The only thing I would add is from my own studies most therapists and psychologists say that not all narcissists are socio or psycho paths but all sociopaths and psychopaths are narcissistic and more than likely have NPD along with their other mental health disorders. And your break down even on the Machiavellian personality all those were identical to people with high narcissistic traits as well as full blown NPD. I don’t know if his guilt was genuine for his loss of his two girls or rather it was just his possessiveness of them that caused him to feel temporary grief. But he did seem genuine as he was getting to know Ramona and how he was moving with her. But he was very complex just as they said. But I loved your break down my favorite part was when you talked about him having split personality and how it caused him to be conflicted as he had yo switch between the two. Great work!👊🏽🙌🏽💯⭐️
No, hes one of the main characters, but franklin is the focus of the show, just like tommy egan, is one of the main characters but not the focus of the show
I love to hear you break down The Dark Psychology of Tommy Edgan , The Dark psychology of Raquel / or The dark Psychology of Love featuring Angela from Power
Ghost's only weakness, and I hope they show it in Raising Kanan, was Angela. An interesting dynamic will be seeing how Tommy and Paz seemed to undercut their friendship
Unpopular opinion. Ghost wasn't evil. He was somewhat selfish at times but out of everyone his head was in the right place. From the beginning, everything the man did was geared towards getting out of the game. Literally, everyone kept pulling him back in. It makes sense that Tasha who said saw him as nothing more than a drug dealer and rolled her eyes at his club aspirations.. would guide Tariq in selling drugs.
Exactly and you can even see in the show he only killed when absolutely necessary. Even leaving witnesses and loose ends when they didn’t pose a real threat
Unfortunately ur opinion is the popular opinion. Ghost is not somewhat selfish. He is completely selfish. He has over and over again chased and claimed whatever he wanted REGARDLESS of the consequences that he is smart enough to forsee. He set Kanan up and robbed him of over a decade of his life and usurped the maturation process of his son. Only to turn around and want to go legit 10 or so years later. He hyped up Tommy to be a lightning rod for the feds, He at a certain point prioritized his relationship with Angela than the one with his kids, which was the start of Tariq's unyielding resentmenttowards him. Tasha was making things difficult for him by kicking Ghost out and other things, but there were still many key moments he had with his kids, especially Tariq, in which he chooses to prioritize business or Angela. Tommy throughout the series no matter what crisis they are in, always made time to talk to or visit Tariq and Reina, especially Tariq. Hence why after Kanan is killed and Ghost and Tommy are yelling at Tariq, Tariq flat out ignores his father and addresses his Uncle Tommy. Ghost constantly hurts and puts those he love in fucked up situations or dynamics as long as it serves HIS grand plans. I'm not saying that all of his motivations or logic was flawed I'm just acknowledging that one of if not his most defining trait was his selfishness, and how it played into his actions and relationships. Funnily enough while being more than selfish enough to be classified as evil, Ghost isn't even the most selfish person in the universe. That goes to Tasha. Raq and Monet fighting for 2nd place😂
Ghost is my favourite character but I think one thing that really set him apart was the fact that he had the most brutal kill on the entire show when he got that prison guard. Like that moment for me was just as savage if not moreson then when Kanan killed Shawn. I mean think about it, I don’t even remember soprano or Walter white having a kill so brutal although soprano probably did lol. Ghost needs to come back forreal.
Yep. Ghost taught Tasha the game to get to a place where he could go legit. He totally used her. Once he got the club he tried to drop Ghost and live as James full-time...with a legit woman. And that legit woman got killed behind all of his mess. Crazy!
Very wrong on all accounts. Tasha loved Ghost but didn’t love James. A huge difference. He wanted to change and get out the business but she didn’t. Once you realize that your spouse doesn’t have your best interest at heart you have to make decisions. Even after he told her the end result of being a drug dealer, she still wanted that life. A placeholder. Angela left when they were young he wasn’t expecting to ever see her again but he realized that Angela loved James St Patrick it lined up with what he wanted. Tasha wasn’t even on board to change and go legit, you can’t sleep with someone who desires to keep you in harms way.
@@reginaldsmith8489 Tasha was holding onto the version of him she knew and loved “ghost”🤷🏽♀️ she didn’t know Jamie, and feared that she couldn’t keep Jamie’s interest… in the end she was right.
I could be pleased if I see The dark psychology of Frank Underwood of House of cards. Man That character one thing i'm sure is impossible to predict what action is going to do next.
The way I saw it, Ghost was always selfish psychopathic and power hungry, but as the seasons went on he slowly became more and more delusional due to the death of Raina, drinking, Angela’s death etc.. he seems pretty narcissistic throughout the whole show but especially in the last couple of seasons.
This was good but it could've been iconic. Give it 20more minutes and deep dive on certain big moments where you directly illustrate certain traits? It would be a masterclass. I still think you should, break down a few moments and share that as a "Part II", loved this though!!
The way I saw it was that Tasha was more of a business partner & more a part of his ambitions & cover up! Angie was where his heart was, his home, most of all of where his vulnerabilities lived! I believe he loved Tasha & his kids & even Tommy like a brother, even Tommy's mother & also Kanan like a big brother & Kanan's son like a nephew too, but it was like destiny for him & Angie to be together! That was pretty much a once in a lifetime opportunity & even more beautiful to see that she still loves him after all that time, still thought about him, & still wanted him too! It was like having the best of both worlds, but also it was like a monkey wrench being thrown into the machine that was helping u strive!
I don't see why Ghost cheating on his wife is a sign of psychopathy. The relationship was over in his mind when he told her repeatedly that he wanted to leave the drug game and she wouldn't listen. She wanted him to keep risking his life and freedom and he realized she wouldn't want the person he was trying to become.
It’s crazy to revisit the series and see how well ghost was done in every way. And they don’t milk him at all unless it’s of use to someone like his son.
This video is amazing and skillfully done. Thank you for taking the time to make this. I’ve never seen Power but you have paid a great attention to detail with your, in my opinion, fair analysis 🤝
Great video bro. This guy is one hell of a character. I love how he always found a way to come out on top of most situations. I strongly admire the ability you have to break down every single characteristic of these characters which allows us to have a deeper understanding of their motives and thought patterns behind what they did in the series/movie 💯 Would love to see a Jeffrey Dahmer version of this Dark psych series!
I hate when the fandom brings up the Tasha “biggest drug dealer in NY” thing as Ghost reason to go stray from his family. She only ever knew that one version of him. All of a sudden he randomly pops up talking about quitting. Her response was definitely trash, but he never tried again to make her get it. It’s like he was looking for a way out already & that was his escape excuse
I said this! He literally asked her to leave on his biggest night. He loved Angella because she was a constant motiv for him to leave, and he had already despised Tasha long before angella because to him, she was nothing but a reminder of his position in the drug business.
He left Tasha not his family. That's what y'all refuse to get and she was never gonna accept that side of him but doesn't stand on her own decisions and rationale. So the sympathy for her goes out the window.
I'm rewatching the series and boy.. was this ahead of it's time. Episode 1 when Ghost goes back home after murking dude.. you see all those split mirror images of Ghost. Brilliant.
Great video by the way , I love the way you put this into detail. It really opened my eye to who his character reminds me of. Ghost reminds me of King Von.
I am impressed by your profound wisdom and psychological knowledge regarding the "Ghost" character. I would add that 'Ghost' had a 'healthy' narcissism and unfortunately it got toxic. There is no black and white in regards to narcissism. Simply put, we all have episodes of displaying a narcissistic behaviour once in a while and we should not let it be inflated or become toxic. As such, thank you for taking your time to share your knowledge, wisdom and understanding.
Season 6, bearded Ghost was the most savage, and sociopathic. He was ready to turn his own son in, so he could advance in the Political Game. The way he treated Tate, when he was just trying to warn him about an attempt on his life. I feel this is when he was most detached and dangerous.
Out of six seasons James never made one proactive move. He spent all of his time reacting to everything around him. He couldn’t control his urges and in the end he died the only way he could and was killed by the only person who could kill him.
That's just not true at all. He has plenty of example where he was in control. one example is how he knew Angela cloned his phone and was following him, so he led her directly to lobos and got him arrested, then sent a hitter to stab him, then freed Tommy by using her illegal sketch
@@anjr9915 what you are missing is the fact that he gets himself into these situations by not controlling his urges and just doing things off of impulse. There is no power in this man. He lost all his power on the first episode by impulsively getting involved with Angela at the club. All those actions you mentioned are not examples of him being in control but rather examples of him having to react to what an outside player (outside of himself) direct his actions instead of the other way around. He his exerting to must energy sending Angela on this trail to lobos. Why do Angela even have knowledge of your involvement with lobos? Why is your friend even in a position to be arrested? What is his actual goals? What direction is he going? All I see is a man pretending to be powerful and understand the laws but actually has no power and never actually did. James is a fraud at his core. (P.s. all of this is entertainment if I say anything that might offend you personally I’m sorry. I’m just expressing my opinion on the character).
@@cheolwulf There are certain things even the most powerful person can't control, angela knew he was Ghost because of Holly, that's not on Ghost. Most of the situations he reacts to and handles very well btw are because of factors he can't control. Ghost knew deep down angela was suspecting him as Ghost, so he took CONTROL and delivered lobos to her. Ghost also was in control when he made a deal with stern's soon to be ex-wife by revealing the hidden off-shore accounts and buying back truth plus three more clubs. Another brilliant example of Ghost exercising power is when Tate tries to remove Ghost from the QCP, but Ghost gets a recording of Tate skimming funds and blackmails him. These are all power moves from someone who had real POWER, not just someone that understands power. Ghost was as rational, smart, strategic and astute as they come.
@@anjr9915 with all due respect, I still disagree. One of his major flaws (and one of the main reasons to gain power) is his relationship with his family. As a show we (the audience) understand that Angela is a cop and yes at some point ghost could find himself in a situation where he has to choose between maybe killing her or not killing her. But this whole break up my family for this high school fling situation is childish. This to me (especially since it happened right at the beginning of the show) is his biggest flaw. Yes some men will step out at times but a real man of power would never jeopardize his entire family on something as childish as a high school crush. This also shows me that he never truly loved Tasha and this is one of the main reasons his son hated him because deep down he knew that his father would have rather been with Angela meaning his life and the life of his siblings really doesn’t matter to James in the end. Everyone around him is a chess piece, but no real man of power actually moves like that. Yes as a street guy dealing with all those variables he was the best and he was able to translate most of that knowledge to the business world but in the end he failed as a father and gave away his power to a woman who would have put him in jail.
You should do one on Ayanokoji in classroom elite it’s an anime where the main character constantly outsmarts everybody by using people as his thumbscrew similar to ghost.
ghost was good at heart and his heart was always in the right place and everything he did was for his family and the penthouse life they had was all because of him he was taken for granite.
We will realized that Ghost did what he needed to do. In life and in the streets. Ghost(James Saint Patrick) didn’t want to be a drug dealer. Go back to earlier episodes they were only lookouts according to Angela and the last episodes his uncle said he didn’t want this life. The entire show was him not wanting to be in the life. Yo can blame him all you want to, but his love for everyone and their needs hurt him. He wanted to leave the game and become something more than a drug dealer gangster, but he couldn’t because his wife was like making money at the club ain’t real money and you are going to be the biggest drug dealer convincing his bestfriend that he is changing. What type of mother says some shit like that not understanding the street life that when people can’t get you they will tough your family and they become collateral. He loved Angela, but he didn’t leave the kids he left Tasha the same women acting like a highs chooler with a dress showing cheeks than bottles instead of building an empire with him she was acting like a damn child. He love kanan but couldn’t kill him so he framed him. You can’t grow with certain people and sometimes you gotta cut your losses. Every change in each episodes his so called family drag him into this life that’s what got Raina killed
its amazing how well the character of Ghost has aged, he was such an evil character but so charismatic and so feared at the same time. Someone told me that Ghost is stringer bell, Tony Soprano and Walter White combined. What's interesting with Ghost is no matter how horrible his actions were, he never viewed himself as a bad person but simply someone trying to forge a better life for his kids and become "legit"
And tbf, In the series that’s exactly what he said as trying to do for the most part, forge a better for his kids and become legit
he really was spamming that “legit” shit alot😂😂
@@ST-uz4fc facts he started becoming delusional 😂
It's crazy because his character betrayal was so good. I (Ada viewer) didn't necessarily see ghost as evil. All of the justifications for most of his actions made sense but ultimately he was a monster 🤷🏾♂️
nah he was def a bad person 😂
Don’t forget after he popped Miguel, he said “clean THAT up” as if “that” wasn’t an entire human
“Clean this shit up” 🤣🤣🤣
Yep bruh seems very removed from human emotion to, he turns it off easily
wish they brought him back he owned everyone in power
If you want ghost rewatch the old show,Cause complaining about it does nothing
@@SupportGamin2025 i never knew thanks for telling me
Except for Tariq technically
@@drewb8212 Lmaooo
@@jordan3xs what’s funny ?
Ghost wasn't good person but he was capable, smart, confident, composed, seemingly in control of everything and ofc charismatic. He did so many bad things in the show but because he had all these qualities that people value and even envy is why he was never disliked throughout the show. If there's one thing I learned from watching Power is that you can get away with so much as long as people view you in a good light. James was always trying to keep this perspective on him and was so good at it that he became a politician.
Don't forget its also just a show. Peope usually fear or hate people like that irl. Only people who like him in reality are family or people attracted to darkness in general. Not the average person.
Well said.
Ghost is a high function sociopath similar to Sherlock Holmes,Tony Montana,Bruce Wayne and etc. They have the capability to have SOME empathy but not all like normal people of society. They are not inherently evil like Patrick Bateman, Michael Myers or Jack the Ripper but they can switch like a light bulb to those personality’s that make them act psychotic like Ryan Gosling does in (Drive 2011)
They thrive in POWER,MONEY RESPECT AND SEX.
Hope this was helpful👌🏽
I thinks he's a psychopath. He's very calculated
@@shereefullwood8221 High function sociopaths are extremely calculated,nonchalant and intelligent they’re mainly CEOs and entrepreneurs. They usually get confused with psychopaths due to their similarity’s, but truth of the matter is they are not. Low function sociopaths are people like Kanan and Tommy Eagan mainly gangsters who don’t do anything legitimate just stick to crime because they have very low conscience.
well said, he did a good job breaking Ghost down but trying to pin Ghost as mostly a phsycotic killer is wrong.
@@shereefullwood8221 he's more of a sociopath, they are smarter and calculating as opposed to pyscho's
@anjr9915 Psychopaths are the ones who typically are more calculating, as they are less prone than the sociopath to the emotional "mistakes" such as impatience, fear, or concern for any form of consequence whatsoever outside of what directly affects their personal goals. However, I think the high-functionong sociopath would have a higher propensity for the effort it takes to control their emotions, and perhaps with their "weak" conscience, can still grow to sometimes use their "powers" for a relatively selfless purpose
Yesss!!! Can't ask for more. One of the best character to men look up to. One and only James St. Patrick "Ghost". Bro, thank you for this one! Wish you all the best!
I think to analyze Ghost, you have to look at Power as a literal representation of the crabs in a barrel/bucket mentality. The bucket is the streets and James is the crab desperate to get out, while those closest to him are the ones trying to keep him in.
From day 1 he was consistent about 3 things.
1. The nightclub thing was his childhood dream, not some way to clean up the money; the show was clear about that.
2. Not wanting to be a drug dealer anymore
3. leaving legit money behind the kids for the rest of their lives.
He has a convo with Tommy about it in Episode 1 of the series. Tommy laughs at him. If you look at Ghost's face in that scene, he looks like a child who's dog just died. You could literally see how much it crushed his spirit. Then you see shortly after he speaks to Tasha about it with the whole "Biggest drug dealer in new york" line. He has another convo with Tasha about it in episode 3 of season 1 where he says he doesn't know any old wrinkled drug dealers because they're either dead or in jail and asked whether or not that scared her. She says no because he's the best.
Ghost's personality fits someone who is desperate to be saved. He was so desperate to be legit that he was literally willing to do whatever it took for him to be able to get out of the street life, from lying to people who didn't want that for him (Tasha and Tommy) to killing anyone that wanted to keep him in the game (Kanan, Lobos, Milan, Jason, etc) and was also desperate to provide a life for his kids like he never had. The VERY FIRST convo he has with Tasha after signing the Basset Deal in season 3 Episode 9 near the end of the episode about how Truth would expand beyond anything he imagined, but how the kids would have legit money behind them for the rest of their lives. Tasha then apologizes to him for being wrong for doubting he could make it with the nightclubs.
I was curious about if Ghost was really as bad (at heart) as he was made to seem at the end of the series, so i've watched this series through multiple times. It makes a difference if you look at his actions at face value, or if you look at his actions from the way he was described. For instance, Angela (After accepting the new position at that banquet) reveals that Ghost was smart enough to go to Choate, but stayed in the streets because he didn't want to leave Tommy behind. Even though what he wanted was to be Legit and be with Angela, Angela bounced, and so Ghost gave up chasing her at that time but never gave up the nightclub dream despite not going to Choate.
Facts I completely agree he’s not as bad as everyone makes out yes his actions show different but his intentions are mostly pure in my opinion
@@makonyauchi3760 he's one of the most interesting characters I've seen in tv/movies
Like... He's better than any of the murder thriller serial killers like Jason Voorhees or Michael Myers, he's more interesting than Hannibal Lectern even
I agree he’s not a sociopath.
Ghost is a bad man his personality is of a man who is willing to do whatever it takes you to get what he wants by any means. Every decision Ghost has ever made done good or bad was because he wanted to do so for his own personal reasons not because anyone else had any real influence over his life.
@@jakeviouspollard9287 and his personal reasons were getting out of the game and leaving a legit legacy behind for his kids so they wouldn't have to live in that. Look at this season of Book 2. Tariq is finally having that sink into his head
Please do one on Kanan and Tommy and Kate would be a good one to actually all the mothers Tasha as well. Love your work🙌🏽
I’m a new subscriber, I first found out about your channel after the dark psychology of Tariq was suggested to me. My favorite video of yours is the planet of the apes video (I’ve seen it a 100 times, I watch it at least once a week). Keep these videos coming.
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Insanely high quality content, hope to see you blow up
I find it funny how characters from tv shows have their good traits no matter how small outweigh the bad especially if its the main character whereas in real life no matter what good deeds someone does they seem to be remembered for the bad
i haven't finished this, only started it. BUT I have always told people, GHOST to me is easily one of the GREATEST characters CREATED. If the show had better writers and, what I tell people why Game of Thrones is SO GREAT, that ANYONE CAN GET IT mentality, it would've been easily one of the greatest tv shows ever
Power is 100% better show I loved got but power truly ties everything up an keeps a new story going.
You think Ghost is better than IDK… Tyrion, Ned Stark, hell - Joffrey?
@@niax782 As the body of work before us, NO, I def don't think Ghost is lets say BETTER than those, well I'll say he is better than Ned and Joffery because Ned was to PROUD and it got him beheaded, Ghost is a smarter person than Ned. Joffery was a brat and Jackie KILLED it making us all hate Joffery but Joffery isn't on the level of Ghost intellectually. H3ll I don't even think Joffery is anywhere as bad as Tariq but that 's a story for another day LOL.
Tyrion is my fav GoT character and their intellect could possible be equal. the only thing of course Jamie had over Tyrion is that he wasn't an imp and could def hold his own. Lets say it took two people in GoT in Tyrion and Bron to make up a Ghost. Take Tyrion's intellect in scheming and planning and Brons intellect in killing and you got Ghost.
Had Ghost had GoT level writing, I'll put money that Power would be one of the greatest tv shows we'd ever seen alongside GoT.
@@guilliman1990 I love power, but I honestly can not say that lol. GoT when I first saw it Immediately became one of my top 5 shows i've ever seen. Power is literally held back by it's writers, they had the character and content but they didn't engage them right. Power could have been better than Sons of Anarchy, Breaking Bad (even though I don't think it's as great as some may think BUT it is better than Power I think), and maybe a few other shows.
Power, Sons of Anarchy, and GoT, have one similarity that connects them together for me and it's with the mothers in the show. All three have mothers who play a role of being afraid to lose their status and claim they will do anything for their kids even though the things they do hurt them even more, but Tasha is worse cause she wasn't smart at all, Gemma is almost as worse as Tasha but she was just a little smarter, but none of them were more intelligent than Cersi, Cersi was a beast when she needed to be and made the right moves for her, even though it got those closer to her killed she was still smarter than most.
Sorry i love these shows and can talk for days on them LOL
Power is not better than GOT they are similar shows but GOT cinematography is eons above power power looks like a damn soap opera some episodes lol Got is always masterfully shot
I found it interesting that when Ghost was killed Tommy was crying like a baby like he didn’t try to shoot him literally a couple episodes before lol. Him ans ghost was truly brothers and everytime they wanted to ‘kill’ each other they couldn’t. Angela was his only weakness & represented the life he’s always wanted but foreshadowing in her death that would never be attained. Tasha was ghosts wife but not James’s.
Friends have squabbles all the time but not to that regard lol but yeah friends argue and fight, at the end of the day if the friendship is important we squash that shit
@@leondreamcast U forgiving your bro for murdering the woman you love? lmaooo cmon bro
Yeah, it’s just bad writing. Some of the characters in Power are interesting, but after the first few seasons, it was like a tela novela.
Yo when you said Tasha was Ghost's wife and not Jamie's i FELT that! I always said that it was Tasha's fault that he stepped out and wanted to end his marriage, only because he had an endgame that no one else wanted. He wanted to be legit like ALL these other families outside the black community be obtaining and she just wanted to be the wife of a drug dealer.
Tasha is exactly why he couldn’t be happy. She loved the danger and the risks associated with being with a “bad” man and at the end of the day Ghost was right she wasn’t really ride or die.
The way you break these characters down is amazing, keep them coming
I truly enjoyed your break down! The only thing I would add is from my own studies most therapists and psychologists say that not all narcissists are socio or psycho paths but all sociopaths and psychopaths are narcissistic and more than likely have NPD along with their other mental health disorders. And your break down even on the Machiavellian personality all those were identical to people with high narcissistic traits as well as full blown NPD. I don’t know if his guilt was genuine for his loss of his two girls or rather it was just his possessiveness of them that caused him to feel temporary grief. But he did seem genuine as he was getting to know Ramona and how he was moving with her. But he was very complex just as they said. But I loved your break down my favorite part was when you talked about him having split personality and how it caused him to be conflicted as he had yo switch between the two. Great work!👊🏽🙌🏽💯⭐️
Very true, thanks for pointing this out🤝
Great video bro, Ghost is definitely up there as one of the coldest tv show characters ever . Would love to see a Dark Psychology of Gustavo Fring.
Ik Teddy isn't the main character in snowfall but it would be fire to see him analysed
TEddy is literally the main character next to Franklin
@@MansoryGSthat’s true but that doesn’t mean the og comment is wrong . Franklin IS the overall the main character of the show
@@RedTapeCrew Yes of course it is but Teddy is next to him,since id say he is the main villiain
No, hes one of the main characters, but franklin is the focus of the show, just like tommy egan, is one of the main characters but not the focus of the show
This channel is insanely good
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I love to hear you break down The Dark Psychology of Tommy Edgan , The Dark psychology of Raquel / or The dark Psychology of Love featuring Angela from Power
Ghost's only weakness, and I hope they show it in Raising Kanan, was Angela. An interesting dynamic will be seeing how Tommy and Paz seemed to undercut their friendship
That show is about kanan, not ghost
Angela was not FBI, they are federal law enforcement. She was a Federal Prosecutor, working for the Justice Dept.
Dark Psychology of Tommy Egan will be great video to learn more
I need longer video essays from you! I’m thoroughly entertained!!
Thank you🙏
@@JWisdomdo a video on Jax Teller or Christopher from the sopranos
He outsmarted everyone in Power…don’t hate the player, hate the game.
Unpopular opinion. Ghost wasn't evil. He was somewhat selfish at times but out of everyone his head was in the right place.
From the beginning, everything the man did was geared towards getting out of the game. Literally, everyone kept pulling him back in.
It makes sense that Tasha who said saw him as nothing more than a drug dealer and rolled her eyes at his club aspirations.. would guide Tariq in selling drugs.
EXACTLY‼
Yeah he was an angel..he snitched on his mentor but whatever right?
Exactly and you can even see in the show he only killed when absolutely necessary. Even leaving witnesses and loose ends when they didn’t pose a real threat
Unfortunately ur opinion is the popular opinion. Ghost is not somewhat selfish. He is completely selfish. He has over and over again chased and claimed whatever he wanted REGARDLESS of the consequences that he is smart enough to forsee. He set Kanan up and robbed him of over a decade of his life and usurped the maturation process of his son. Only to turn around and want to go legit 10 or so years later. He hyped up Tommy to be a lightning rod for the feds, He at a certain point prioritized his relationship with Angela than the one with his kids, which was the start of Tariq's unyielding resentmenttowards him. Tasha was making things difficult for him by kicking Ghost out and other things, but there were still many key moments he had with his kids, especially Tariq, in which he chooses to prioritize business or Angela. Tommy throughout the series no matter what crisis they are in, always made time to talk to or visit Tariq and Reina, especially Tariq. Hence why after Kanan is killed and Ghost and Tommy are yelling at Tariq, Tariq flat out ignores his father and addresses his Uncle Tommy. Ghost constantly hurts and puts those he love in fucked up situations or dynamics as long as it serves HIS grand plans. I'm not saying that all of his motivations or logic was flawed I'm just acknowledging that one of if not his most defining trait was his selfishness, and how it played into his actions and relationships. Funnily enough while being more than selfish enough to be classified as evil, Ghost isn't even the most selfish person in the universe. That goes to Tasha. Raq and Monet fighting for 2nd place😂
@@Timquan.Not that serious for this long whined novel. Get a life!!
the qualities of videos keep getting better and better and we love to see it
That means a lot my brother thank you🙏🏼
Nice video! I came across the channel after seeing the videos about Dushane Hill and Franklin Saint.
Great video! As someone studying behavior analysis, i can never get tired of these type ofvideos
Ghost is the greatest character on television hands down!!
Most definitely 💯
Ghost is my favourite character but I think one thing that really set him apart was the fact that he had the most brutal kill on the entire show when he got that prison guard. Like that moment for me was just as savage if not moreson then when Kanan killed Shawn. I mean think about it, I don’t even remember soprano or Walter white having a kill so brutal although soprano probably did lol. Ghost needs to come back forreal.
Perfect video on this iconic modern day tv gangster
Tasha was never really the wife Ghost wanted. She was merely a placeholder and Angela was who he really loved.
I think she definitely the wife GHOST wanted she just could keep up once he started to transition to be the more legit James St. Patrick.
Yep. Ghost taught Tasha the game to get to a place where he could go legit. He totally used her. Once he got the club he tried to drop Ghost and live as James full-time...with a legit woman. And that legit woman got killed behind all of his mess. Crazy!
Very wrong on all accounts. Tasha loved Ghost but didn’t love James. A huge difference. He wanted to change and get out the business but she didn’t. Once you realize that your spouse doesn’t have your best interest at heart you have to make decisions. Even after he told her the end result of being a drug dealer, she still wanted that life.
A placeholder. Angela left when they were young he wasn’t expecting to ever see her again but he realized that Angela loved James St Patrick it lined up with what he wanted.
Tasha wasn’t even on board to change and go legit, you can’t sleep with someone who desires to keep you in harms way.
Yeah a decision that messed up their whole lives lol. Angie dead, Tasha jail and ghost dead. Smh
@@reginaldsmith8489 Tasha was holding onto the version of him she knew and loved “ghost”🤷🏽♀️ she didn’t know Jamie, and feared that she couldn’t keep Jamie’s interest… in the end she was right.
If you make ghost put that hoodie on,your as good as dead😂
I could be pleased if I see The dark psychology of Frank Underwood of House of cards. Man That character one thing i'm sure is impossible to predict what action is going to do next.
Ghost is one of the best power characters alongside Tommy,kanan and milan
Nice touch with the Bruce Wayne/ Batman comparison 😊 True Ghost fan..
BRO I BEEN WAITING FOR THIS ONE!
The way I saw it, Ghost was always selfish psychopathic and power hungry, but as the seasons went on he slowly became more and more delusional due to the death of Raina, drinking, Angela’s death etc.. he seems pretty narcissistic throughout the whole show but especially in the last couple of seasons.
Yep
How was he selfish when he tried to put everyone in a better position, he wanted to leave the game but everyone hated him for that
This is a very very good analysis. I am sure I will watch it over and over. Thank you J Wisdom.
You’re good at this, I’m always immersed in each of your videos
I appreciate that🙏
This was good but it could've been iconic. Give it 20more minutes and deep dive on certain big moments where you directly illustrate certain traits? It would be a masterclass. I still think you should, break down a few moments and share that as a "Part II", loved this though!!
The way I saw it was that Tasha was more of a business partner & more a part of his ambitions & cover up! Angie was where his heart was, his home, most of all of where his vulnerabilities lived! I believe he loved Tasha & his kids & even Tommy like a brother, even Tommy's mother & also Kanan like a big brother & Kanan's son like a nephew too, but it was like destiny for him & Angie to be together! That was pretty much a once in a lifetime opportunity & even more beautiful to see that she still loves him after all that time, still thought about him, & still wanted him too! It was like having the best of both worlds, but also it was like a monkey wrench being thrown into the machine that was helping u strive!
Sounds like the typical modern marriages of today marriage is a business, the side piece is what you really want smhh
The way they mostly showed ghosts violence or schemes at the end of the outcomes was a smooth way of portraying his mindset
Very nicely edited video. Thanks dude.
First time subscriber. Looking forward to more great content 😊
I don't see why Ghost cheating on his wife is a sign of psychopathy. The relationship was over in his mind when he told her repeatedly that he wanted to leave the drug game and she wouldn't listen. She wanted him to keep risking his life and freedom and he realized she wouldn't want the person he was trying to become.
It’s crazy to revisit the series and see how well ghost was done in every way. And they don’t milk him at all unless it’s of use to someone like his son.
Let's goo!!!.... Another banger video🔥💯
This video is amazing and skillfully done. Thank you for taking the time to make this. I’ve never seen Power but you have paid a great attention to detail with your, in my opinion, fair analysis 🤝
Great video bro. This guy is one hell of a character. I love how he always found a way to come out on top of most situations. I strongly admire the ability you have to break down every single characteristic of these characters which allows us to have a deeper understanding of their motives and thought patterns behind what they did in the series/movie 💯
Would love to see a Jeffrey Dahmer version of this Dark psych series!
Thank you bro 🙏🏼appreciate it
Tommy literally shot at him and Angela pushed him out the way taking the bullet herself
This is amazingly put together 👏🏿
I hate when the fandom brings up the Tasha “biggest drug dealer in NY” thing as Ghost reason to go stray from his family. She only ever knew that one version of him. All of a sudden he randomly pops up talking about quitting. Her response was definitely trash, but he never tried again to make her get it. It’s like he was looking for a way out already & that was his escape excuse
I said this! He literally asked her to leave on his biggest night. He loved Angella because she was a constant motiv for him to leave, and he had already despised Tasha long before angella because to him, she was nothing but a reminder of his position in the drug business.
He left Tasha not his family. That's what y'all refuse to get and she was never gonna accept that side of him but doesn't stand on her own decisions and rationale. So the sympathy for her goes out the window.
@@trollsworstnightmare3769exactly somebody gets it
i’ve been waiting for this one🔥🔥
After they killed him I was gone after that 😅
The writing in that last season was aids
Same
I'm rewatching the series and boy.. was this ahead of it's time. Episode 1 when Ghost goes back home after murking dude.. you see all those split mirror images of Ghost. Brilliant.
Discovered today on Twitter that’s there’s a band of people that genuinely think Ghost was a good guy just tryna get out the game ☠️
your channel is incredible. love the visuals and the well thought out word play. keep going!
Love the videos bro and the editing is class 💯
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Great video by the way , I love the way you put this into detail. It really opened my eye to who his character reminds me of. Ghost reminds me of King Von.
Michael Beach as Ghost father is legendary
He wears two faces and is the master of Street Smarts, White Collar Progression and Systematic lesions.
I am impressed by your profound wisdom and psychological knowledge regarding the "Ghost" character. I would add that 'Ghost' had a 'healthy' narcissism and unfortunately it got toxic. There is no black and white in regards to narcissism. Simply put, we all have episodes of displaying a narcissistic behaviour once in a while and we should not let it be inflated or become toxic. As such, thank you for taking your time to share your knowledge, wisdom and understanding.
love the editing
Very detailed and interesting video! Keep up the content and good work. Big fan of power and I genuinely agree with majority of your conclusions.
Love your content, man❤ please do a video on Big Meech from BMF (Black Mafia Family)
Dre is basically what Rolla would’ve been had he lived past the first season
Well put together and great analysis of his character
Great video my friend, keep up the good work.
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I deplored how he called Tasha a hoodrat when she was great at accounting and kept his businesses afloat and up and up. He wanted her at home...smdh.
The annoying thing for me is that Tariq thinks he's better than his Father.
Yooo Facts, till this day Tho
@@JoelleRambo he'll never surpass Ghost
We need the physiology of tommy Eagan
Let’s go bro ! Long awaited bangers🔥
Can we give a hand for this wonderful edit and analysis 🎉😊
Great video! Very insightful. Could you do one on Vito Corleone next?
Such an amazing video, definitely got yourself a new subscriber.
Michael Beach would be the perfect casting for Ghost father. Omari always looked just like him to me. I see I’m not the only one who’s sees it.
Excellent analysis J! 👍🏽👍🏽 I just subscribed!
Amazing work bro made me see the show differently keep this up 🆙
Also u real af for using a pic of that dude for his father 🤣🤣that’s exactly who I thought should be his father
Same!!
Great video. I must say
I really need one on Teddy Mcdonald from Snowfall
Whatta remarkable explanation of Ghost/JSP. Very well done video.
Your work is amazing. I asked long time ago, could you analyse Ivar the boneless character from VIKINGS
Season 6, bearded Ghost was the most savage, and sociopathic. He was ready to turn his own son in, so he could advance in the Political Game. The way he treated Tate, when he was just trying to warn him about an attempt on his life. I feel this is when he was most detached and dangerous.
1:49 the fact that y’all use little dude from shameless as young tommy is wild 😂
This dude definitely deserves more subs
New sub, nicely done breakdown
THIS WAS AMAZING
fantastic piece of work. A lot of effort put into this had to clap after watching
Out of six seasons James never made one proactive move.
He spent all of his time reacting to everything around him.
He couldn’t control his urges and in the end he died the only way he could and was killed by the only person who could kill him.
That's just not true at all. He has plenty of example where he was in control. one example is how he knew Angela cloned his phone and was following him, so he led her directly to lobos and got him arrested, then sent a hitter to stab him, then freed Tommy by using her illegal sketch
@@anjr9915 what you are missing is the fact that he gets himself into these situations by not controlling his urges and just doing things off of impulse.
There is no power in this man.
He lost all his power on the first episode by impulsively getting involved with Angela at the club.
All those actions you mentioned are not examples of him being in control but rather examples of him having to react to what an outside player (outside of himself) direct his actions instead of the other way around.
He his exerting to must energy sending Angela on this trail to lobos.
Why do Angela even have knowledge of your involvement with lobos?
Why is your friend even in a position to be arrested?
What is his actual goals?
What direction is he going?
All I see is a man pretending to be powerful and understand the laws but actually has no power and never actually did.
James is a fraud at his core.
(P.s. all of this is entertainment if I say anything that might offend you personally I’m sorry. I’m just expressing my opinion on the character).
@@anjr9915 also I had a few mistakes in my writing hopefully you can still understand.
@@cheolwulf There are certain things even the most powerful person can't control, angela knew he was Ghost because of Holly, that's not on Ghost. Most of the situations he reacts to and handles very well btw are because of factors he can't control.
Ghost knew deep down angela was suspecting him as Ghost, so he took CONTROL and delivered lobos to her. Ghost also was in control when he made a deal with stern's soon to be ex-wife by revealing the hidden off-shore accounts and buying back truth plus three more clubs.
Another brilliant example of Ghost exercising power is when Tate tries to remove Ghost from the QCP, but Ghost gets a recording of Tate skimming funds and blackmails him.
These are all power moves from someone who had real POWER, not just someone that understands power. Ghost was as rational, smart, strategic and astute as they come.
@@anjr9915 with all due respect, I still disagree.
One of his major flaws (and one of the main reasons to gain power) is his relationship with his family.
As a show we (the audience) understand that Angela is a cop and yes at some point ghost could find himself in a situation where he has to choose between maybe killing her or not killing her.
But this whole break up my family for this high school fling situation is childish.
This to me (especially since it happened right at the beginning of the show) is his biggest flaw.
Yes some men will step out at times but a real man of power would never jeopardize his entire family on something as childish as a high school crush.
This also shows me that he never truly loved Tasha and this is one of the main reasons his son hated him because deep down he knew that his father would have rather been with Angela meaning his life and the life of his siblings really doesn’t matter to James in the end.
Everyone around him is a chess piece, but no real man of power actually moves like that.
Yes as a street guy dealing with all those variables he was the best and he was able to translate most of that knowledge to the business world but in the end he failed as a father and gave away his power to a woman who would have put him in jail.
your content is so high quality bro
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Yooo dark psychology of Tommy asap
You should do one on Ayanokoji in classroom elite it’s an anime where the main character constantly outsmarts everybody by using people as his thumbscrew similar to ghost.
You should do Walter White from Breaking Bad or Pablo Escobar From Narcos next.👊🏽
great content man keep it up
Great analysis!
ghost was good at heart and his heart was always in the right place and everything he did was for his family and the penthouse life they had was all because of him he was taken for granite.
W video. You think you can make one on Tommy from the same show?
LOL the pic of Carl from shameless for young tommy is perfect
We will realized that Ghost did what he needed to do. In life and in the streets. Ghost(James Saint Patrick) didn’t want to be a drug dealer. Go back to earlier episodes they were only lookouts according to Angela and the last episodes his uncle said he didn’t want this life. The entire show was him not wanting to be in the life. Yo can blame him all you want to, but his love for everyone and their needs hurt him. He wanted to leave the game and become something more than a drug dealer gangster, but he couldn’t because his wife was like making money at the club ain’t real money and you are going to be the biggest drug dealer convincing his bestfriend that he is changing. What type of mother says some shit like that not understanding the street life that when people can’t get you they will tough your family and they become collateral. He loved Angela, but he didn’t leave the kids he left Tasha the same women acting like a highs chooler with a dress showing cheeks than bottles instead of building an empire with him she was acting like a damn child. He love kanan but couldn’t kill him so he framed him. You can’t grow with certain people and sometimes you gotta cut your losses. Every change in each episodes his so called family drag him into this life that’s what got Raina killed