It kinda sucks...


Most people say the Filmation Ghostbusters sucks, they're comparing it to The Real Ghostbusters. I, in other hand, think it sucks compared to Filmation's earlier effort; namely He-Man, in both story and animation.

For one, Prime Evil is a complete idiot. Unlike Skeletor, he rarely comes up with a plan that has even a slightest chance of actually working, and he often punishes his underlings just for the hell of it. This is why I like the episodes where he ISN'T the primary antagonist, because he comes off as too much of an incompetent oaf to ever really present a real threat to the heroes.

The stories are often mind-bogglingly stupid. Although He-Man had some stupidity in the writing, at least it got away with it by taking place in an alien world where things understandably work differently from earth, but Ghostbusters is supposed to take place in the real world. The episode "Inside Out" for example, had a hollow earth with totally different kind of world inside. You know, I'm sure most kids at that time knew that earth was solid rock. And the little literature fan in me died when they decided to make Captain Ahab and the White Whale *the best friends*. And the episode where Prime Evil crashes a huge meteor into the south pole to...make the erupting volcano shoot earth from it's orbit...is wrong on so many levels. And whose idea was it to drop the incredible amount of puns and physical comedy of the live action series? Did they think that mid-80's kids wouldn't find it funny?

Not saying the entire show is bad, though. There were some great episodes, like "The Battle for Ghost Command" which was actually the very first episode I ever saw of this cartoon. I liked how the ghosts were little more than a convenience and the real villain was a human who brought the damage upon himself with his selfish actions. "He went Brataway" was also a very fun episode, and I liked "The Looking-Glass Warrior" too; the mirror world and the scene where they showed humans stored in huge canisters reminded me of the movie "Phantasm".

Animation wise? Way too much stock animation. I blame this on the smaller core cast, thus requiring less new animation cels to be drawn.

"Laser and Future Rock" was a proof that if there's one thing Filmation COULD do, it's music. I was honestly surprised to see genuine MUSIC when any other series, like Transformers or GI Joe, would've settled with just looping some stock rock music track. Same applies all the other music in the series, really. I wish they'd release a soundtrack!

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Agreed on the music! I was hoping the various volumes would have different menu music so we could hear a lot more of the background music uninterrupted. It was awesome to hear the theme song without words in the storyboards part on Volume 1.

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"Hollow Earth" stories are an archaic, mythological belief that later became a sub-genre of science fiction.

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The Ghostbusters franchise only did this to attempt to catch up with the BIG success of the Hollywood movie they signed their own rights away too.

Otherwise they would not have rushed storylines, production...etc.

He-man was not trying to play catch up with anything it had signed away when it debuted. Big difference even to a little kid.

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I've only seen four episodes. Bought a cheap dollar store "Best of" DVD yesterday. The show is decent, I suppose. It's just SCOOBY-DOO levels of goofy, and at times feels completely insane. Like the scenes where they just change their clothing, or the living transformer car that can also fly through space, or the alien woman Futura. It almost feels like children literally came up with the ideas for this show.

The DVD includes the episodes MUMMY DEAREST, SHADES OF DRACULA, THE WHITE WHALE and LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON.

THE WHITE WHALE has the ghosts of Ahab and Moby Dick on a prison planet in space. It's so bonkers. But at least they're friends now. :)


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