RichardLess wrote: ↑July 24th, 2021, 10:36 pmThe bad guy is…just some dude.
In fairness, sometimes that's what they are... A dude who just kinda snaps, rather than Magneto.
What I liked about Rowan, even if large chunks of his execution were flawed, was that he was a living, breathing menace for the Ghostbusters to face (before ultimately becoming supernatural), a nice contrast to the ghosts and monsters the teams usually encountered, and something that's been used to great effect in numerous episodes of the cartoons (Peck, Mr. Tummel, Dr. Crowley, Clark Ashton, Artie Grendel, Alan Favish, Edward Kirilian...), which help to underscore it isn't always the ghosts that present a threat to the Ghostbusters (an idea also excellently used in the
Torchwood first season-episode
Countrycide).
Sometimes the worst monsters out there are our fellow human beings... And given the first two movies had featured threats brought about by dead humans (and subsequently
Afterlife as well), it was a interesting change of pace that the villain of the reboot still had a pulse when the Ghostbusters first met him.
Some of the worst acts in the real world have been committed by the quiet, otherwise unremarkable people... And while Rowan came off as two-dimensional, with a bit more plotting and work he could have been a compelling villain whilst also being human rather than a ghost.
deadderek wrote: ↑July 25th, 2021, 12:42 am So has anyone here bought any of the new toys that have gone out yet?
I'd like to get my hands on the electronic Hasbro thrower, the electronics in that look like a perfect doner for custom particle-thrower props, like replicas of Winston's IDW Proton Pistol.
Chicken, He Clucked wrote: ↑July 25th, 2021, 4:35 am The challenge for future Ghostbusters films/tv shouldn't be to contrive a way to write the same four characters, but to write new characters who are good in their own right or are written in a way which pays homage to the originals.
If there's to be a continuation of the films, then yeah, we do need new characters.
As for TV? To be honest, if I was to watch a new cartoon, or a live-action series, I'd really prefer the central characters to be the New York team. Having watched the various
CSIs and
NCISs, the spin-off teams just never seem quite as compelling as those in the originating shows...
Law & Order is perhaps the exception where I like the original show's team as much as the
SVU team.
I think that there's a lot of scope for new stories featuring the four original Ghostbusters if you were to do a live-action series... Just as long though as they're not depicted in their late teens/early twenties. The Ghostbusters need to be average guys, not Abercrombie & Fitch models.
jonogunn wrote: ↑July 25th, 2021, 4:49 am It’s the perfect time to jump on the multiverse train.
I enjoyed
101 and
Crossing Over, but Ghostbusters doesn't need a cinematic/televisual multiverse.