The first two seasons of the T.V. series "So Weird" (1999) were some of the most clever, underrated, and original seasons to ever hit the airwaves! They tell the compelling story of a 14-year-old girl, Fiona Phillips, who encounters paranormal activities whilst sharing a tour bus with her skeptical older brother, family friends, and widowed mom, who is aspiring to her recent comeback as a rock star musician.

As they travel across the states together, Fi (for short) is ‘coming into her own' with the lack of support from those close to her about her paranormal investigations; she puts all her findings and theories on her online website, called "So Weird." However, throughout her journey, when all else fail to acknowledge the unexplainable occurrences that find them, Fi is positive that her deceased father, Rick Phillips, is on her side and looking out for their well-being from the spiritual world.

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Here are seven reasons why you should watch "So Weird:"

1. The Paranormal Activity

With ghosts, vampires, trolls, demons and angels, witches, mer-people, aliens, reincarnations, time traveling, etc., "So Weird" has great story lines involving each of these beings, most of them intricately related to the main plot of the show, in which Fi intuitively senses that her deceased father is somehow part of her paranormal journey.

Like when Jack joins an online academic community, whose founders are actually Transylvania vampires who’ve schemed to lure Jack, Fi, and Molly to their vicinity in order to seek vengeance for Rick’s actions in defeating the leader’s father. Fi fights off the vampires, rescues her family, and after escaping, finds out that there is no trace of these vampires and their organization online or otherwise.

Or when Fi, Jack, and their family friend, Clue, meet an aggressive boy, James, in the park, who saves her from a speeding car on the street without physically doing it himself. After, Fi visits him again, only to show him that she has bruises of a hand print on her arm and question him about the thing that threw her out of the way. James looks terrified of something only he can see behind her and pleads with her to leave him alone. Fi needs to know exactly what happened and tries to help him escape from the clutches of this dangerous force attached to him.

Aside from it being filmed in the late '90s and early 2000s, the visual effects are impressive and shot pretty well.

2. It's Endearing

Each episode presents kindness and empathy toward characters dealing with difficult situations. Fi willingly helps everyone in need when she comes across them, no matter their status and despite Jack refuting her obsession, and shows persistence in uncovering the reasons behind the occurrences she continually stumbles upon.

Like in the episode where Fi and her family bump into a harmless homeless man who hears voices while stopping at a rest stop and Fi offers him a ride to the same destination they’re all heading to, which is Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Or when Fi is haunted by a ghostly child who was aboard on the SS East Land and follows him, only to actually see the way he was separated from his parents and how he fell to his death by drowning. In seeing this, Fi researches where his parents' gravesides remain, and the boy spiritually rejoins them.

3. Historical and Theoretical Context

Before each episode begins, there is a brief narration by Fi explaining the origin of topics which the episode deals with. There are videos and pictures seen while Fi is talking. There is just enough information given to enlighten the audience and to keep them watching the rest of the show.

4. It’s Funny

Even though you may be a believer of most or all of the paranormal phenomena presented on this show and side with Fi, it’s still pretty funny when Jack and Carey, Clue’s brother, mock her interest, especially when some of her findings are not really what they seem. The audience doesn’t see this, and it’s just spoken about on the show. Trust me, Jack is hilarious, regardless. Everyone on the show has some funny dialogue.

5. The Characters Are Well-Developed

Fi is helpful, brave, smart, and powerful; she knows that there are realms of beings that gravitate toward her and somehow relate to her dad. Additionally, Fi investigates all types of phenomena, even if they are evil, and in most cases, they are.

Jack is very staunch at being the skeptic of the group. He is also respectful, kind, and a good person. He loves and protects his friends, mom, and Fi when they're in danger.

Clue is supportive of Fi's paranormal discoveries, but is timid when something unexplainable occurs, especially when it involves him. Also, he is Disney’s G-rated version of a pot-head. He and Jack are best friends.

Carey wants nothing more than to be a musician, but when he’s not working with Molly, his closest friends on the bus are Fi and Jack, and he is, by association, dealing with weird occurrences himself.

Molly was a rock star along with her late husband, Rick, who left the business to raise their family. Now, she's a single parent raising her children while touring and trying to get a record deal. She just doesn’t know about supernatural matters and never actually says whether she does or doesn’t believe her daughter. Besides, she’s rehearsing and performing throughout the show. However, there is a link from her past and lineage which is a direct reason as to why Fi is able to connect so strongly with the paranormal forces. Molly is, at times, scared of how similar her daughter and husband are, especially when there are some things she's kept hidden from her children.

Rick died in a car crash when Fi was three years old. There are a set of rings that were passed down to him, Molly, and Fi from Molly's grandmother, Fiona O'Shannon. This is the inanimate object that connects his family and himself long after his death.

Irene is Molly's manager and always busy scheduling her gigs and destinations to perform at.

Ned is Molly's head roadie and bus driver, along with being the kids' tutor.

6. The Power of Love

Though Fi is the only one who is too young to remember Rick and she never got a chance to even get to know him, through her incidental paranormal evidence, she feels a closeness to him and discovers that his passing was connected to his paranormal experiences. The unexplainable messages she receives from an unknown source about faith throughout gives her the steadfast confidence to continue believing.

Jack is a logical thinker and doesn’t believe at all in what Fi discovers, even when he’s at the very core of the happenings and witnesses most of the occurrences, but still ventures off with her each time. Being the only man in his family, he takes his responsibility of protecting his mom and his adventurous sister seriously. Despite their beliefs, they’re close to one another and care.

There is a specific episode in which Molly and Fi are overly nostalgic about Rick, when they go back to their home in Hope Springs, Colorado. Seeing all of his personal belongings and being off the bus, they just feel his presence around. It’s a really heartbreaking episode that just proves the longing and eternal love that remains even when you’re separated by life and death from the ones you love most. I don’t want to spoil it even further for you. It’s such a perfect and heart-wrenching scene (at the end).

7. It Deals With Very Dark Themes

Although this is, regrettably, a Disney Channel show, the first two seasons were originally building up to the final third season, which would have revealed and concluded the very reason as to why these weird recurrences kept following the Phillips family. Everything would have been explained and I wouldn't be so obsessed with the potential of the epic finality that could have been of this superb story.

The heavy themes to be further examined in season three included Hell, exorcism, alcoholism, death, reincarnation, love/hate battles, witches, aliens, murder, afterlife, prophesies, etc., and there were the reasons as to why Disney rebooted the show for a younger audience and with lighter season which, unfortunately, are the one we're stuck with. The producers and actress who played Fi, Cara DeLizia, left the show. DeLizia decided to leave the show in accordance to her own reasons. Actually, some episodes near the end of season two were changed from their original set-up to generic teeny-bopper story lines because they were heading toward their later, planned episodes of season three.

The show forever remains an unfinished story for myself and its original fans. Unless... reunion and comeback, please (only with the original cast and story line)?

The first two seasons of this show are amazing; I guarantee you'll love them, too. Here's a link to start watching.