- September 3rd, 2022, 9:54 pm#4972331
RichardLess wrote: ↑September 3rd, 2022, 9:12 pm Gozer is back because it’s foretold. There we go! This is something I feel like in the original movies they would’ve gotten into the weeds in a bit. Gozer comes around every so often. But…why? To destroy the world…again? What stopped her those other times? So…does she truly want to destroy the world or is there another goal? Why would it be foretold Gozer comes around and destroys the world…a bunch of times. Unless that’s not what being foretold. That’s the kinda thing I’m talking about. Now I’m sure a bunch of you all have some theories on that. But that doesn’t mean it’s addressed.Earlier scripts of the first movie I think made it very apparent initial ideas for Gozer was Old Testament God-Sodom and Gomorrah, where Gozer destroyed civilizations that became too decadent. But that changed a bit by the final version. If someone could foretell the most amicable years in which Gozer could manifest, that person foretold its defeat? Perhaps the implication was apocalypse is like a cuckoo clock -- stopping it once, doesn't mean it's not going to happen again, it'll keep circling around until you break the parts inside. Or however Gozer came to be constrained by the ritual either of its own volition or another party i.e. a sorcerer felt like it wasn't a given Gozer would succeed the first time around and cursed it to keep trying to return should it fail the first time it manifests. Like in the TVG canon, it's implied Gozer's role was something else in ancient times and Tiamat and her cult were responsible for the latter and banishing it, then it became known as Gozer the Traveler, the Destructor, etc.
RichardLess wrote: ↑September 3rd, 2022, 9:12 pm Let’s say it’s true that Gozer doesn’t do the destructor bit because Pheobe interrupts her. After she’s back in one piece…the GB’s shoot at her and she does the uncrossing the streams thing. I’m interested why things didn’t progress the way they did in the original film where she disappears. When things don’t happen the way they should and no one comments on it and the movie doesn’t comment it…I’m left wondering why?Some lowly mortals disrespected her and she's gonna become whole again and kill them all then she's going back to the natural order of the ritual, making someone choose the Destructor. Gods can be vindictive like that. The Ghostbusters interfered so she added them to the kill list. She wasn't done with getting revenge.
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