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[camwyn]

I have in my possession a DVD of the first season of Real Ghostbusters. It is undoubtedly illegally ripped from VHS or something similarly cheesy, but I do not really care. It's got the cartoon that I loved most as a kid and a high schooler and ...

... I am afraid to watch it.

It's all down to the Suck Fairy, you see. The Suck Fairy comes in the night when an artist does her or his work, and finds some piece that the artist hasn't looked at in a while. Then she takes away as much good as she can carry, and leaves only suck.

She's done it to me more times than I can count. I've taken to making sacrificial drawings for her before starting my good stuff, but it doesn't always work. She's done it to novels I've read and loved, stealing the good away from the authors. She tried to do it to Cosmos but all she got was the UNBELIEVABLE OMG SO WONDERFUL graphics I remembered, and they were so good she could only carry away part of that. She had very little suck to leave, and so Cosmos was not rendered sucky, merely not as visually appealing.

I am terrified that I've got a DVD full of suck where a magnificent cartoon used to be.

Three weeks' worth- no, four- of not opening the packaging because of that fear.

*stares pensively at case*

Can anyone who still has it on tape tell me if it's worth opening, or should I stick to my memories and pass this off on someone else?

Comments

[derien.livejournal.com]

I wish I could come watch it with you!! I so desperately want to see Real Ghostbusters again - where did you get a DVD? In reality, it might suck, but I don't think that will bother me. What I want out of it is refresh my memory on what it really was, what the canon really was, how Janine spoke before and after that Kourie-whatsit gave her the new look, and if they didn't change Peter's voice, too. I think there was a lot of timing that was off and probably I will be a tad bit disappointed, but I was in my early twenties when I was watching it, and it was good enough to still catch my eye, so I think it can't really totally suck. Obviously there was something there which inspired us, and it might not be visible in the first few shows, or even on viewing a few minutes of random episodes, but it was something which stuck with us. I think there was more depth implied than could ever really be portrayed in a 30 minute cartoon.

[camwyn]

I got it from a comic book store in Manhattan that didn't seem to be very worried about how it wasn't exactly what one would call 'legal'. There were two copies of the first season there, so I bought one with the intent of christening my DVD player with it. I left it in the wrong box when I moved, but when I finally found it, I was too panicked at the thought of the Suck Fairy to open it up and watch.

Going to have to watch it with someone, I think. Just in case I need to hide my face and whimper, or something.