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camwynI 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?
... 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?
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Date: 2005-03-08 07:57 pm (UTC)I don't think Maurice LaMarche, who was doing that character's voice in addition to his usual stint as Egon, got the pronunciation right, but it does certainly sound close enough for horseshoes.
When you do fire up that DVD, see if the flutist (what was his name?) says:
Ash nazg durba-tul-ûk,
Ash nazg gimba-tul
Ash nazg thraka-tul-ûk
Agh burz-um-ish-i krimpa-tul
because I'm really curious if my friend, a major Tolkien geek, was right or she was just hearing what she wanted to.
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Date: 2005-03-08 08:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-03-09 06:56 am (UTC)