In honour of the fact that mephron offered to apply to play Egon Spengler at Milliways, I did some screencapping from the "Xmas Marks The Spot" episode of the Real Ghostbusters. Bases behind the cut. Mostly Egon. Four Peters.
Truth be told? I have no idea who that is. I just remember staring at that particular sequence and going "did the storyboarders even stop for ONE SECOND to think that they were filming something other than the PKE meter going berserk?". That one's from ... uh... I don't think it's 'Beneath These Streets', but it's definitely the episode where the subway workers hit a door that tells them 'do not open until Doomsday'.
George Manville Fenn (http://www.athelstane.co.uk/gmanfenn/index.htm) was a Victorian-era author who wrote adventure stories for boys, with lots of manly hand-holding and kissing of unconscious friends. daegaer was inspired by him to write "A Walk In The Karakorum" (http://daegaer.rulesthe.net/karakorum/index.php) and "On Her Majesty's Martian Service" (http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=derien&keyword=daegaer+fic+-+OHMMS&filter=all), the first of which is a sequel to his "Fix Bay'nets!" (which is unfortunately not yet available on the Athelstane site I linked above) and the second of which is a Jules Verne-ish Alternate Universe of same.
Oh! I ran across people talking about his stuff a lot this past year, but I never caught the author's name. I believe it got referred to as Extremely Manly Fiction, or something like that.
Yup, I think Daegaer started a fad. I actually read one, and I think GMF is not as good a writer as she is. :) (I do think it's ironic, though, that his middle name is Manville.) Apparently there was a bit of a fad back in Victorian and Edwardian times of writing stories where schoolboys (and girls) do a lot of being really attached to friends of the same sex, and get physical about it to an extraordinary degree, without apparently realizing there's anything possible odd about what they're doing. I ran across a mention in the book about gay history that I was reading a few months back of a review done in Victorian times of one of these purported kids books where the reviewer was complaining about the suspiciously feminine behavior of these manly boys, so apparently it wasn't just normal behavior for the time.
Peter should've known better than to let himself get stuck as the Ghost of Christmas Present. At least Ray (who got Christmas Future) just had to bundle up in something that vaguely resembled a burka.
Winston got green robes, stuck a wreath on his head, and wore an orange beard that came nearly up to his eyes. And he showed Scrooge around London by hanging onto a rope and swinging around in circles over the town with Scrooge in tow.
True dat. Though it did always bother me that I had no idea what they were swinging FROM. It's like what would happen to Spiderman if he'd been living in Raleigh-Durham when he got bitten; he'd only really be good for fighting crime within about a ten-block radius of the city center...
There was an issue of Amazing Spider-Man about 15 years ago (or more) that had Spidey's adventures in the suburbs. Spidey travels into the 'burbs of NYC to hunt the Scorpion, and discovers that the 'burbs are not the Big City. Included in the hijinks was Spidey trying to webswing away, and finding nothing to swing from. *Thwip* Webline goes up ... and comes down across the street. Spidey stands on a bright, sunshine-lit street corner, looking a bit baffled, while suburbanites stare and a local kid offers the use of his Big Wheel.
Moral of the Story: Unless you're a superhero in the inner city of a Northeastern metropolis, you'd better be able to fly or have a supermobile.
There was a reprise of the theme in Ultimate Spidey recently, the one where the hunter-obsessed asshole with the lion's face on his chest first started to go after him seriously. He was wayyyyy out in, like, Jersey, and he had to hitch rides on top of cars to get where he was going. With cute internal muttering monologues.
I'd say Egon 17 (between blue zappy space suit and gold glowy space suit) and Peter 4 are probably the best, Egon 8 if you don't mind a bit of implied pimp-slap.
I love the Spidey-Sense-Action Egon there at the end, too.
That one at the end is Egon as he's on his way into the containment unit. My response to that sequence was "Oh my God, is that Tron up ahead?"... but yeah. Dead on with the "Bitch, please" ones, except that I also think #13 is probably suitable. It's the eyebrow.
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Date: 2005-12-04 02:07 pm (UTC)And "Science is manly" - is this the sort of manliness popularized by the great G. Manville Fenn?
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Date: 2005-12-04 09:09 pm (UTC)Um... sorry, got pretty verbose there, didn't I.
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Date: 2005-12-06 06:35 pm (UTC)Moral of the Story: Unless you're a superhero in the inner city of a Northeastern metropolis, you'd better be able to fly or have a supermobile.
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Date: 2005-12-04 07:52 pm (UTC)The ever popular, "Bitch, Please" canditates
Date: 2005-12-04 10:27 pm (UTC)I love the Spidey-Sense-Action Egon there at the end, too.
- CD
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