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Dec. 10th, 2007 08:45 amI have a meeting this morning about a server move project my office is undertaking, and this morning is one of those 'I'm awake, be happy you get that much' types for me. The green tea/yerba mate blend hasn't kicked in enough yet to make with the happy-making, so I'm just going to have to wake myself up with the following image that was discussed last night at some length in a phone call in RL:
Assuming that we get past the first movie scenario in a hypothetical smoosh-together of Ghostbusters and the Transformers ("Nobody steps on a church in my town!" "... particle stream weaponry"), there is one element of Ghostbusters 2 that I would absolutely love to retain for a second crossover, and given my feelings towards movie 2 that's saying a lot. Chuck Vigo the Carpathian out the window, skip over the lawsuit issues, let Dana stay a cellist, keep Tully's hands off Janine (Janine + Egon = OTP all the way), whatever, but we need the River of Slime.
Because you just know that a river of psychomagnetheric substance that animates metal objects into something very nearly self-willed and fueled almost entirely by hostility would totally wind up as a Decepticon performance enhancer.
And you know that Starscream would accidentally overdose on the stuff, rage himself into a thousand pieces in a frenzy of "OMP MEGATRON YOU SUCK I SHOULD TOTALLY RULE!!!!1!:!!!"...
... and that because of the slime, and because this is Ghostbusters, the shattered fragments would each and every one become a perfectly functional self-willed Starscream toy Transformer and the entire cloud of them would then all insist that 'we are Starscream, we should be leader' and start driving everyone around them out of their minds. Also probably allying with each other and betraying each other.
I'm pretty sure the appropriate collective noun for this entity grouping would be 'a chorus of Starscreams'.
Assuming that we get past the first movie scenario in a hypothetical smoosh-together of Ghostbusters and the Transformers ("Nobody steps on a church in my town!" "... particle stream weaponry"), there is one element of Ghostbusters 2 that I would absolutely love to retain for a second crossover, and given my feelings towards movie 2 that's saying a lot. Chuck Vigo the Carpathian out the window, skip over the lawsuit issues, let Dana stay a cellist, keep Tully's hands off Janine (Janine + Egon = OTP all the way), whatever, but we need the River of Slime.
Because you just know that a river of psychomagnetheric substance that animates metal objects into something very nearly self-willed and fueled almost entirely by hostility would totally wind up as a Decepticon performance enhancer.
And you know that Starscream would accidentally overdose on the stuff, rage himself into a thousand pieces in a frenzy of "OMP MEGATRON YOU SUCK I SHOULD TOTALLY RULE!!!!1!:!!!"...
... and that because of the slime, and because this is Ghostbusters, the shattered fragments would each and every one become a perfectly functional self-willed Starscream toy Transformer and the entire cloud of them would then all insist that 'we are Starscream, we should be leader' and start driving everyone around them out of their minds. Also probably allying with each other and betraying each other.
I'm pretty sure the appropriate collective noun for this entity grouping would be 'a chorus of Starscreams'.
