Dr.D wrote: ↑July 5th, 2022, 10:58 am They needed something where Egon is proved wrong in front of the other GBs. Something to make them question the state of his mind. Maybe he got the dates wrong at first and the GBs all showed up ready to fight and nothing happened. Maybe Egon's absence during routine calls put the others in danger some how? Who knows? But I agree we needed a little more to help swallow the pill that Ray wouldn't believe Egon.
I remember we all had theories before Afterlife that maybe Egon died due to some kind of experiment he and Ray were running in Summerville and part of me wishes they'd have gone that route.
I agree. I'm surprised how much attention the "Starbucks" thing is getting. I didn't even think twice about that. I know many Starbucks where they never go into the basement / pipe room. They probably thought the containment unit was part of the plumbing or power grid. It's a complete non issue for me.
Much more important is the Ray-Egon thing in my opinion. Why didn't Ray check up on him? Or try to establish what happened? I mean, Egon only: "
stole all the equipment on his own" causing the GBs to just about end. Not a thing you'd go: "
Oh well, I guess that's that". After all they went through? I mean, it's a friend with whom you battled actual Gods together.
"
He called me 10 years later" Was really not enough. No way Ray would have let that go for 10 years (and then still not believed him).
Here's how they could solve it: the beauty about
Afterlife was how it "encompassed" GB1. It made GB1 a better movie with all the callbacks. There is no way GB:
Firehouse doesn't call back to
Afterlife. It's what modern movie making is about. It's gonna link up somehow. I think the challenge for the script writers now is how to link GB:
Firehouse to the prior movies (and GBTVG). How could they link it in some way that makes all prior media cohesive and expand the GBs universe?
I think going to the prime question of Ghostbusters:
Ever wonder -why-
Sumerian Gods (and specifically that one) targeted NYC? I think that is the real question of Ghostbusters which deserves a creative answer. Why
Sumerian Gods? Why was there a map of Summerville in cuneiform?
I don't know, what I do know is that
Sumerian mythology is so old, it is the closest timewise to the (reconstructed)
Proto-Indo-European religion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Ind ... _mythology The ancestor of all modern western religions. The prime religion all religions we know today spawned from.
It would be an interesting development going from GB1 (Ghosts) -> GB:
Afterlife (human afterlife) -> GB: "
Firehouse" (larger scale). Plus using actual
Sumerian Gods (or even going further back) would grow the GB universe with actual real word concepts and history (as opposed to "Gozer").
EDIT: Like I mentioned before, GBTVG and some GB comics introduced Tiamat as a rival to Gozer. Maybe it had a role to play in all this from the start? Perhaps causing Egon to act that way. I don't know, just my opinion / an option