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jonnerbloo

Ragnarok and Roll

Oct 19, 2007 22:43

During its second season, The Real Ghostbusters briefly experimented with more serious, sophisticated stories than one would expect from a Saturday morning kid-vid cartoon based on a deliberately cheesy movie.

"Ragnarok and Roll" is one of the successful results of that experiment, I think.

Love the moment in the climax where Egon murmurs a certain ( Read more... )

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sasuga October 20 2007, 04:11:20 UTC

Ohh, yeah, I remember that one. It always was rather chilling. I liked the one with Marduk & Tiamat, too, and of course the one with Cthulhu. :)

jonnerbloo October 20 2007, 17:16:49 UTC

Those were good!

Man, up until the series got retooled into a zany Slimer-fest, they had some surprisingly mature episodes for the time. My personal favorite was the one where sly, sarcastic Peter (before they recast him with that "Full House" twit) does an out-of-character act of charitable compassion for a reason that gave him far more depth than just "the guy who quips".

(Or in later seasons, "the guy who mostly is a foil for Slimer")

hazard_barzard October 20 2007, 18:01:09 UTC

Dang, I fogot how well drawn and animated this show was. I really used to love it back then when I was a wee cub.

jonnerbloo October 20 2007, 18:45:19 UTC

Hard to believe it came from DIC, isn't it? By 80s US TV animation standards (and certainly by DIC's standards) it's almost lavish.

hazard_barzard October 20 2007, 22:02:11 UTC

Seriously. I used to love US toons back in the 80's. Ghostbusters, Bionic Six, Thundercats, Transformers, Silverhawks, Jem... ahhh, the nostalgia.

Nowadays, it's all about the Teen Titans and all that kiddy crap. BP

jonnerbloo October 21 2007, 01:51:30 UTC

*hides his 'Teen Titans GO!' poster* =^.^=;