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Post by Fritz on Aug 31, 2006 9:31:38 GMT -4
Ghostbusters West Coast: Union Of the SnakeBy Fritz Baugh June 2005--Timeline Year Twenty Three Oscar Wallance is in LA, where he spent part of his childhood...but Peter Venkman's stepson isn't going to be able to lounge at the beach...someone is looking for the young man once coveted by Vigo the Carpathian...
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Post by EGBFan on Aug 31, 2006 13:05:44 GMT -4
This is a cool story. Vampirism, probing into Oscar's history... it's cool.  |
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Post by SuperStantzio on Aug 31, 2006 13:30:04 GMT -4
This is a great story, I enjoyed it very much!
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Post by ghostdiva on Sept 1, 2006 18:35:23 GMT -4
This was very interesting. Avatar of Zuul huh. That is a little confusing being that he was born way after that. Is there something to that? As in are you laying question to his parentage, or am I reading too much into that?
And I wouldn't bhave thought Peter would have let Oscar pretend to be a vamp. I guess Oscar has a wild side that lets him sneak off a lot.
And when are demons gonna learn not to mess with the ghostbusters kids! They are just asking for a world of hurt. Duh.
I liked the dark atmosphere in this story. For some reason your franchise stroies always seem a little darker than the main team stories you do. Probably has something to do with trying to keep the characters true to the cartoons though.
But kudos to Oscar for being true to his woman. Roland won't have to kill him now. lol
ghostdiva
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Post by Miss Janine on Sept 1, 2006 20:21:57 GMT -4
Oscar said as much to Big and Bad when he told him every GB in the world would be hunting him down. *gleefully anticipates Nodus's beatdown*
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Post by Fritz on Sept 1, 2006 21:17:03 GMT -4
Well, yeah. The idea has been floating around for years that maybe Dana has some sort of unusual mystic property that made her and her son targetted by entities like Gozer and Vigo. Dana even suggests it herself in the GB2 script. "Paranormal black hole" is the phrase Brian Reilly once used.
What that might be exactly we haven't said. Louis Tully and Jeremy Hicks are descendants of ancient Gozer worshippers (with Jeremy being of a more notable bloodline, which is why Vinz was more powerful and "with it" in him). Possibly, this applies to Dana as well. If so, it could have been passed on to Oscar and even Jessica (like Oscar, she has a bad experience with a vampire in one of EGB Fan's stories)
Hm...that's not intentional, but I guess that might be a subconscious aspect.
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Post by EGBFan on Sept 2, 2006 6:17:48 GMT -4
And I wouldn't bhave thought Peter would have let Oscar pretend to be a vamp. I guess Oscar has a wild side that lets him sneak off a lot. That's an interesting point. Peter never struck me as the kind of person who'd be a strict parent, and I always write him as such - I seem to have made Dana far, far stricter with the kids than he is ( she strikes me as the type) - but I guess maybe vampires and monsters and such would mean more to him than regular teenage stuff (like the kind of stuff he used to get up to). If Oscar's paternity ever was called into question, I should say I could spin a really fun angsty story out of it (not that it would bother him much if Andre turned out not to be his father, or just if it was questioned). But it can't really be an issue, his birth happening quite a few years after the Zuul incident (I don't know the exact number off the top of my head - maybe Fritz will tell us), after which Dana strongly implies that she's been married to Andre and had Oscar with him. And of course Oscar wouldn't cheat on AJ. He's much too nice.  |
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Post by Fritz on Sept 2, 2006 10:02:55 GMT -4
Here's the math:
GB1: 1983 (or 1984 if you're a movie purist)
GB2: Late 1988 (or late 1989)
Oscar's less than a year old...one estimate I heard is "eight months", giving a birthdate of around March 1988 (or 1989)
So either way, Oscar is born almost five years after GB1. Sigourney Weaver and Joe Medjuck both say "The Stiff" is Oscar's Dad. I think it's pretty safe to say that's the case.
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Post by Fritz on Nov 7, 2006 9:52:42 GMT -4
Eh...let's just do those last few bumps all at once and get it over with...
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Post by EGBFan on Jan 10, 2007 14:45:43 GMT -4
I've just been having another little lookie-over this one ( may have to make a tiny one-line change to the story I just sent to the betas...) - I didn't really say enough in my first comment here, but honestly, I like what's been done with Oscar in this one. There's some really great characterisation - I love him talking down the evil supervillain: He has to talk his way out of a life or death situation, and he starts with "My Dad" - that's just beautiful. He's so spoilt. ;D This only just occurred to me: it was an interesting idea, giving Oscar a nickname. It wasn't really intentional on my part, but names have become something of a problem for him - is he Wallance or Venkman, and I wrote a story that suggests when he was born the name Oscar was a compromise... I dunno, something to consider I guess. As I said to Fritz by e-mail, I really love the beginning of this one. It just jars slightly for me when she starts trying to undress him - it's impossible to take the word "pants" seriously in this part of the world. |
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Post by Dr. Vincent Belmont on Apr 4, 2007 15:49:16 GMT -4
I know it seems late, but I gotta mention that what piqued my curiosity about this particular piece originally was the fact that it's also the title of one of my favorite Duran Duran songs.
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Post by Fritz on Apr 4, 2007 18:12:35 GMT -4
I know it seems late, but I gotta mention that what piqued my curiosity about this particular piece originally was the fact that it's also the title of one of my favorite Duran Duran songs. I called this story "Setting Son" until kind of late in the process--I was listening to some music, that particular song came on, and I went "Aha!" Then I went "No, it's Duran Duran, not Aha" (rimshot) It perfectly fit the idea of using vampires--it finalized the use of the Settites and all their snake motifs. |
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Post by Dr. Vincent Belmont on Apr 8, 2007 17:46:42 GMT -4
I know it seems late, but I gotta mention that what piqued my curiosity about this particular piece originally was the fact that it's also the title of one of my favorite Duran Duran songs. I called this story "Setting Son" until kind of late in the process--I was listening to some music, that particular song came on, and I went "Aha!" Then I went "No, it's Duran Duran, not Aha" (rimshot) It perfectly fit the idea of using vampires--it finalized the use of the Settites and all their snake motifs. Clever |
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