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Post by Fritz on Apr 17, 2006 8:51:51 GMT -4
I know it's been a while since I've put up anything new...and this isn't really "new", but it's something... Extreme Ghostbusters Apocrypha: Keeping It RealApocrypha Era Three Team Extreme finishes up a case at the phone company, and then is accosted by two strangely familiar bums at a Burger King. Who are they, and why do they insist that the Extreme Ghostbusters are imposters? This story is a follow up to the Apocrypha version of "Future Shocks", and also formed some of the basis for the GBOT story "Return of the Jersey Turnpike Terror". It's also part of the same "EGB but didn't forget about 'Janine You've Changed'" alternate timeline I'd worked with some in "Till the Night Closes In" and "Charlie Takes the Fifth" (Apocrypha Version)
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Post by SuperStantzio on Apr 17, 2006 17:27:23 GMT -4
that was nice, Fritz! Keep up the good work!
Farah
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Post by ghostdiva on Apr 18, 2006 16:32:04 GMT -4
The apocrypha continues yea! I would like to see the famed scene where Janine comes into the lecture hall with the drawn on diagrams complaining about the kids, and the necessary change in Egon's introduction of his wife.
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Post by EGBFan on Apr 18, 2006 17:07:45 GMT -4
Yeah, ok, it's not exactly "new". Kinda exactly the same as what we've already read of this (in "Return of the Jersey Turnpike Terror") with changes where the situation needs to be slightly different - essentially Egon and Janine have been together for a while, and most of the niggly little changes seem to be in Eduardo and Kylie's situation. But anyway, yeah, I've always liked this story. This version seems to be incomplete - any more coming?
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Post by Fritz on Apr 19, 2006 9:14:43 GMT -4
Yeah, ok, it's not exactly "new". Kinda exactly the same as what we've already read of this (in "Return of the Jersey Turnpike Terror") with changes where the situation needs to be slightly different - essentially Egon and Janine have been together for a while, and most of the niggly little changes seem to be in Eduardo and Kylie's situation. But anyway, yeah, I've always liked this story. This version seems to be incomplete - any more coming? Probably not. This was all I'd written of it before I started getting deep into the Timeline and the stories based on it--and the necessity of writing Jake and Eddie out. Peter Kong, a fan of the Filmation Ghostbusters, was a member of the GBWC at the time, so releasing the blatantly anti-FGB versions of the story weren't feasible. And the other reason it ended there...I got stuck. I really wouldn't have a "good" idea until you (Rosey) suggested bringing back Nick the Biker Punk, which gave me something to build the story around. If I had continued the "original" version, I was playing around with the idea of having Jake and Eddie join forces with three more disgruntled fomer would-be Ghostbusters: the Junior Ghostbusters. But I found myself violently opposed to acknowledging their existance in even the slightest way. Plus I still felt like I had to come up with some sort of supernatural twist, and nothing worked... Then I rewrote "Future Shocks" with Dweeb and Loone, the Nick idea came up, and thus the "Return of the Jersey Turnpike Terror" we know today.
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Post by Silent Seraphim on Apr 19, 2006 14:58:19 GMT -4
I’d always thought that Filmation’s Ghost Busters was a bit weird. I never could get past the gorilla thing. The idea that they were embittered guys with an eye on muscling into the real Ghostbusters’ business sounds quite plausible to me, and I loved the confrontation between them and the EGBs in Burger King (which could possibly be their next place of employment). I do like this story. The idea that Kylie had a bit of a crush on Egon isn’t new, but it’s touched on quite nicely here. I also love the Spengler twins, as adorable and mischievous as always. ;D
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Post by Miss Janine on Apr 21, 2006 6:04:42 GMT -4
I loved the part where the EGBs were discussing the OGBs voices- Egon and Brain, Ray and Scooby (hate that mutt), etc. And the line from Egon to JC about deactivating any electrical thing in the firehouse at will was priceless.
I just love to see the Spenglers acting like a family (in unusual circumstances- I mean, look at their jobs). I guess it's my personal situation coloring my views, but that's why Iove this stuff.
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Post by Fritz on Oct 30, 2006 7:33:07 GMT -4
Bump. I gotta admit, I see my comment about "violently opposed to acknowledging their existance in even the slightest way" (concerning the Junior Ghostbusters) and have to mention that I did indeed have them appear in "Gemini Rising"...in an alternate timeline. Where they get run over by a truck.
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Post by Miss Janine on Oct 30, 2006 8:16:45 GMT -4
And the award for "Best Use of a Motor Vehicle in Fanfiction" goes to... ;D
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Post by Jason Knetge on Oct 31, 2006 2:15:31 GMT -4
Em I the only one in the whole GB community that liked the Junior Ghostbusters they weren't that bad . I always so them as a fan club that moved on after the Ghostbusters closed in 1991.
H#!! now that I'm older I even like Dweeb but that's because I watch a lot of cartoons and as a character he's so off model and such a bad scientist . The fact that a character like that made it in to the GB universe makes me laugh ever time I see him. I love to hate him and I'm sad that it look's like he wont be in anymore fan fick's because he's a good character to get in over his head and stir things up fore the Ghostbusters .
I will say i do hate the slimer cartoons and in hindsight it may have made more sense to make it slimer and the Junior Ghostbusters .
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Post by Miss Janine on Oct 31, 2006 6:05:07 GMT -4
There's just a lot of hatred (?) out there for the JGBs because there seemed to be no real reason they were there, other than to give the kids watching someone to ID with, when the kids only wanted to see more of the guys. They were only in, what, two or three episodes? That says something.
And Dweeb, by appearing in the "Slimer!" segments, was automatically silly. The guys would have squashed him in a heartbeat.
My own personal opinion, they were stages of the suits' campaign to break an unbroken show.
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Post by Kingpin on Oct 31, 2006 10:31:36 GMT -4
My own personal opinion, they were stages of the suits' campaign to break an unbroken show. Yeah, when they try make something 'for kids to identify with' that disturbs and upsets what was the original balance of the show (And kids had been dressing up as Egon Spengler for years by this point) then that was when the executives were tinkering with a show that didn't need tinkering. And yeah, the JGBs appearing in only two episodes says a hell of a lot... three shoehorned in kid characters who would've likely gotten themselves killed if people actually died on the show. Especially when there was so much potential, wouldn't it make more sense for Boogie to go after the Carter kids? They helped defeat him, after all... not blunder across some kids who are the Ghostbusters fanclub but some stroke of contrived story telling. I'm not bitter.
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Post by BlackMaria on Oct 31, 2006 12:58:08 GMT -4
My own personal opinion, they were stages of the suits' campaign to break an unbroken show. ...three shoehorned in kid characters who would've likely gotten themselves killed if people actually died on the show. Attribute this evil thought to Halloween & Samhain's influence, but wouldn't it be great/sick if the JGB died & the RGB had to bust their spirits? I can hear Venkman say: "Sorry the JGB are dead, but those kids always wanted to be part of the organization" or "Those kids always wanted to be a cornerstone of the company...now they're IN a cornerstone of the company." I now return to my regular scheduled programming of just thinking tricky thoughts.
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