Back to the obsession at hand
May. 3rd, 2009 10:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
omorkaWell, I think RGB and I have gotten to the point where we can see other fandoms, but we're still totally into each other. It's a relief to get to the point where you can acknowledge each other's faults. This is a nice, fuzzy stage to be in.
Finished Season 4. It's . . . deeply flawed. Some episodes are as well-written as anything else in the series, and the voicework doesn't degrade (as I had feared it might), but - ugh. Louis Tully doesn't belong in the animated series, and the animation takes a turn for the worse; the boys are consistently off-model, and the not-quite-Movie-II-Janine is hard to look at even when she's on-model. On the other hand, the prime-time Halloween special is in this season, and it uses the Season 3 character models (except for Janine and Louis). The story is fabulous, the musical numbers aren't too bad, and the story is about the true meaning of Halloween (not Samhain, Halloween) in a way that makes my heart flutter. It's a JMS script, and there's a bit of an Author Rant at the end, divided into the mouths of Egon and Ray, but it's all stuff they really would say, so I'm not too mad. And the animation is quite pretty (I suspect they sent it back to the studio they used for Season 3, but with a budget this time, rather than the stretch-and-squashy studio that Season 4 got).
Am now seven eps into Season 5. This one is really just frustrating. The quality of the writing is back up to Season One levels in places, and only the last episode on the disc is a stinker. But the animation is wretched. (There are some transfer problems, too - I suspect that two of the episodes, including the stinker, are from second- or third-generation tapes.) These might as well be radio plays. It's a shame, because Coulier, Jones, and Soucie have finally gotten good grips on the characters.
I'll finish out Season Five in hopes that the writing holds up (I haven't recognized anything after the first few episodes of Season Four, so these are new to me again). I don't think I'll watch the Slimer! shorts, which are on the last three discs of Box Five, despite the boys in grey being in some of them - I don't know of anyone who considers those part of canon.
Finished Season 4. It's . . . deeply flawed. Some episodes are as well-written as anything else in the series, and the voicework doesn't degrade (as I had feared it might), but - ugh. Louis Tully doesn't belong in the animated series, and the animation takes a turn for the worse; the boys are consistently off-model, and the not-quite-Movie-II-Janine is hard to look at even when she's on-model. On the other hand, the prime-time Halloween special is in this season, and it uses the Season 3 character models (except for Janine and Louis). The story is fabulous, the musical numbers aren't too bad, and the story is about the true meaning of Halloween (not Samhain, Halloween) in a way that makes my heart flutter. It's a JMS script, and there's a bit of an Author Rant at the end, divided into the mouths of Egon and Ray, but it's all stuff they really would say, so I'm not too mad. And the animation is quite pretty (I suspect they sent it back to the studio they used for Season 3, but with a budget this time, rather than the stretch-and-squashy studio that Season 4 got).
Am now seven eps into Season 5. This one is really just frustrating. The quality of the writing is back up to Season One levels in places, and only the last episode on the disc is a stinker. But the animation is wretched. (There are some transfer problems, too - I suspect that two of the episodes, including the stinker, are from second- or third-generation tapes.) These might as well be radio plays. It's a shame, because Coulier, Jones, and Soucie have finally gotten good grips on the characters.
I'll finish out Season Five in hopes that the writing holds up (I haven't recognized anything after the first few episodes of Season Four, so these are new to me again). I don't think I'll watch the Slimer! shorts, which are on the last three discs of Box Five, despite the boys in grey being in some of them - I don't know of anyone who considers those part of canon.
