Post by EGBFan on Jun 29, 2007 6:27:52 GMT -4
Let us imagine that all of the ghosts, demons and monsters across the Ghostbuster universe are real and there is a vague possibility that we may meet them. Which of them would scare you the most?
(I'm posting this thread in the animation forum because there are considerably more ghosts in RGB and EGB collectively (and, indeed, separately) than in the movies - but of course the discussion can include the films if your answer is Gozer or Vigo or something.)
Unspurprisingly, my answer will be from EGB as I know it significantly better than RGB. There are a few contenders. The demon in "Fear Itself" obviously materialises your worst fears, which is of course terrifying and could be fatal (but, in the episode, is not), but the demon is shown ultimately to be more or less harmless and, like snakes and spiders, more scared of you than you are of it. The house/ghost in "Home is Where the Horror Is"... unpleasant, but easily avoidable - just don't go into a creepy old lady's creepy old house.
The Grundle (also made an appearance in RGB, of course), is pretty disturbing, as is Tenebrach of "The Unseen" to someone like me with a weird eye phobia - but he doesn't kill anybody, so I'd probably rather face him before a few others. Let us now stretch our imaginations further and pretend that the effects of some of those monster attacks really are fatal. As Fritz pointed out when reviewing my latest story (scheduled for a July release), in the show people did tend just to "pop back to life" when the threat was dealt with (but we've discussed that enough times, surely - except to say again that I don't apply this to "The Unseen" because that is a poor example) - but let's be realistic and say that wouldn't happen to us.
In which case, The Winners:
"Killjoys": Well, for one thing, they're clowns. I don't have a clown phobia, but I wouldn't want to be chased down and killed by one either. But with that said, they seem in the episode to realise that chasing people and scaring them isn't going to make many of them laugh, so they start invading people's homes and, at one point, a comedy club. When you're laughing, you're completely relaxed and pretty sure you're safe. But when these guys are around, you laugh, you DIE.
"Dry Spell": Like the clowns, it looks pretty scary, being sort of like a giant red jellyfish. And what does it do? It sucks all the moisture out of the body. I'm not remembering the episode wih perfect clarity just now, but I do know that somebody questions why a demon that lives in water would do that; Egon says it just sucks up all the moisture instinctively, being a water-based creature, but it's not for the water that it attacks its victims but (I think) their life force. That's not nice - and the victims look pretty nasty once it's finished with them. The opening scene is lovely: somebody (with a very similar character design to Beth Rivera) is looking at some kind of undersea wreck in her submarine; her bosses on the boat call her back, and when they open up her submarine she's all dried out. And definitely dead.
(I'm posting this thread in the animation forum because there are considerably more ghosts in RGB and EGB collectively (and, indeed, separately) than in the movies - but of course the discussion can include the films if your answer is Gozer or Vigo or something.)
Unspurprisingly, my answer will be from EGB as I know it significantly better than RGB. There are a few contenders. The demon in "Fear Itself" obviously materialises your worst fears, which is of course terrifying and could be fatal (but, in the episode, is not), but the demon is shown ultimately to be more or less harmless and, like snakes and spiders, more scared of you than you are of it. The house/ghost in "Home is Where the Horror Is"... unpleasant, but easily avoidable - just don't go into a creepy old lady's creepy old house.
The Grundle (also made an appearance in RGB, of course), is pretty disturbing, as is Tenebrach of "The Unseen" to someone like me with a weird eye phobia - but he doesn't kill anybody, so I'd probably rather face him before a few others. Let us now stretch our imaginations further and pretend that the effects of some of those monster attacks really are fatal. As Fritz pointed out when reviewing my latest story (scheduled for a July release), in the show people did tend just to "pop back to life" when the threat was dealt with (but we've discussed that enough times, surely - except to say again that I don't apply this to "The Unseen" because that is a poor example) - but let's be realistic and say that wouldn't happen to us.
In which case, The Winners:
"Killjoys": Well, for one thing, they're clowns. I don't have a clown phobia, but I wouldn't want to be chased down and killed by one either. But with that said, they seem in the episode to realise that chasing people and scaring them isn't going to make many of them laugh, so they start invading people's homes and, at one point, a comedy club. When you're laughing, you're completely relaxed and pretty sure you're safe. But when these guys are around, you laugh, you DIE.
"Dry Spell": Like the clowns, it looks pretty scary, being sort of like a giant red jellyfish. And what does it do? It sucks all the moisture out of the body. I'm not remembering the episode wih perfect clarity just now, but I do know that somebody questions why a demon that lives in water would do that; Egon says it just sucks up all the moisture instinctively, being a water-based creature, but it's not for the water that it attacks its victims but (I think) their life force. That's not nice - and the victims look pretty nasty once it's finished with them. The opening scene is lovely: somebody (with a very similar character design to Beth Rivera) is looking at some kind of undersea wreck in her submarine; her bosses on the boat call her back, and when they open up her submarine she's all dried out. And definitely dead.