Given Winston Zeddemore, I seriously doubt any RGB fan is complaining because they thought a GB team (EGB or otherwise) should be exclusively about white men.
The Real Ghostbusters -First time watching since childhood
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Given Winston Zeddemore, I seriously doubt any RGB fan is complaining because they thought a GB team (EGB or otherwise) should be exclusively about white men.
Even so, if the "primary chief complaint" is exclusively about the diversity of the cast and nothing else, the point stands.
It has the same lyrics as the original, but with a more up to date tune.
The Batman Beyond one is just terrible.
Not necessarily. It could just as easily be a complaint that several beloved and usually well rounded characters-who happened to be white males-were replaced with newer, more cliched, characters for reasons other than improving the story. Use of an abbreviation like SJW is a common, if controversial, shorthand for just that sort of complaint.
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IMO most of the animated Ghostbusters episodes would have been better than the by-the-numbers sequel movie.
One of my favorite episodes I still remember was the one where the Ghostbusters found out they were making a movie and when they went to the theater for the premier you can hear the beginning of the movie dialogue in the movie. I thought it was a good use of the "The Real" in the title The Real Ghostbusters, and the animated characters were complaining about who they got to play them in the movie.
"Murray, Aykroyd, and Ramis? What's that, a law firm?"
It does handily explain away any inconsistencies between the film and the show, although there weren't that many. The main discrepancies I can think of are that Dana isn't around in the show (maybe the moviemakers added a love interest) and that the Sta-Puft Marshmallow Man was evidently captured rather than destroyed (typical of Hollywood to make the ending more explosive).
It gets trickier when we get to the second movie and the episodes that followed it. GB2 ignored the series, of course, but the later seasons of the series introduced elements from the movie, like the Louis-Janine relationship.
Oh, my God, that theme is just the absolute pinnacle of awful '90s buttrock.
Seriously, this sounds like one of the endless Nirvana / Pearl Jam / Soundgarden knock-off bands that were on the radio for like a decade.
The Batman Beyond theme is still the worst of the 90s imo.
I loved that era, and I loved those themes. Batman Beyond's theme was great for a younger man who was into electronica like Terry McGuiness was, and the music of Extreme Ghostbusters similarly fit the younger people that were now Ghostbusters.
Just to spook Ulster and Timby, and to familiarize Christopher:
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMXjtvMAFlI[/yt]
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTWKbfoikeg&index=1&list=PL6BighLiZBMsxgOhgtKpDluYpAtDl49Lj[/yt]
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvTm_BhZdOE&list=PLA4922A2C8AC5CE38[/yt]
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Yeah, but Terry McGinnis lives in the 2040s. Wouldn't he see a 1990s music style as that embarrassing stuff his grandparents liked?
I like both. They're products of their eras. Nothing wrong with that.
We're in the 21st century already, and EDM/electronica hasn't really changed much-I don't think that it'll be that different in the 2040's.
They added the series to Netflix a couple months ago and so I've gone back to it and watched some more episodes off and on. I'm really enjoying it now.
I watched Knock, Knock this morning.
It really surprises me how creepy some of these actually been, the possessed subway cars in this one were especially freaky. Some of the creature designs have been pretty good.
I watched Knock, Knock this morning.
It really surprises me how creepy some of these actually been, the possessed subway cars in this one were especially freaky. Some of the creature designs have been pretty good.
I liked the rave style of BB's theme. And it was darker than its predecessor. It fit the series, I thought.
My favorite episode was "The Collect Call of Cthulhu". (Shamed as I am to admit it, that was my first significant exposure to the Lovecraft Mythos.) I noticed that episode was a bit "darker" than others and it reflected more of a serious "anime" art style, particularly in the design of the Miskatonic professor who aided the team. And all things considered, their visual design for the "Great Old One" was not too bad.
I picked this up last November and binged both seasons of this show. My favourite episodes were the ones with the Irish singer who turns out to be a banshee and the possessed department store with all the vacuum cleaners and stuff becoming alive and that was a fun episode.
Does anyone know if the later seasons were ever shown in the UK?
I ask because whenever I see fans talk about it, they always talk about how the show went to crap after the second season and after looking into those episodes, none of it seems even remotely familiar and I was *obsessed* with Ghostbusters as a kid in the late 80's. By contrast, I have vivid memories of the earlier stuff.
So either that later stuff wasn't on over here back then, or maybe it got moved off terrestrial onto Sky or something (this was back in the "there's only 4 channels" days and my family couldn't afford satellite until the late 90's.)
I ask because whenever I see fans talk about it, they always talk about how the show went to crap after the second season and after looking into those episodes, none of it seems even remotely familiar and I was *obsessed* with Ghostbusters as a kid in the late 80's. By contrast, I have vivid memories of the earlier stuff.
So either that later stuff wasn't on over here back then, or maybe it got moved off terrestrial onto Sky or something (this was back in the "there's only 4 channels" days and my family couldn't afford satellite until the late 90's.)
Depends what you mean by later seasons but after the first two seasons (something like 78 episodes) they did show episodes that didn't have Lorenzo Music doing the voice of Peter Venkman which would be season 3 onwards.
Anyway, I love the hell out of TRG, watched the series, bought the comics. Was searching for a Real Ghostbusters T-shirt to buy today coincidentally.
Anyway, I love the hell out of TRG, watched the series, bought the comics. Was searching for a Real Ghostbusters T-shirt to buy today coincidentally.
Maybe you're thinking of when they rebranded it "Slimer and the Real Ghostbusters" and Slimer had his own segments centered around him, the Ghostbusters might be in the background or not there at all, but then they'd also show another segment with Ghostbusters so they were still there. Kind of like when they mashed some other Saturday morning cartoons together to form an hour long block but of smaller segments. I know they did that with Scooby Doo and I think Superfriends, not sure about who else. There was a Bugs and Daffy Hour but those shorts were always shown in blocks to fit the schedule.
That was the lowest ebb, but the show started to get dumbed down well before then, pretty much after the first network season and the one and only daily-syndicated season (which Netflix has lumped together as a 78-episode "Season 1").
Like I said, I've looked into those episodes people complain about and none of it feels at all familiar, hence my question: was any of this even broadcast in the UK? Because this Ghostbusters obsessed 8 year old somehow missed it all.
Also note, words like "syndication" and "network tv" don't mean a damn thing to a British kid in the 80's. We had four channels. That was it! We also tended to get things *years* after they'd been broadcast in the US.
