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Its is very heartening to know that such an excellent classic series was the product of the Ghostbusters franchise. The popularity and quality of the original two movies by Ivan Reitman, followed by the cartoon titled the Real Ghostbusters, is best represented by the bell shaped curve. That is, they were initially good and then progressively got worse and finally died. In particular, the Real GBs cartoon started off somewhat poorly, got better through the first season and then got worse towards the second season and then as expected, produced terrible episodes in the following seasons and finally died.
To revive things, the XGB series takes a step in evolution and introduces a bunch of new elements and changes. Without doing a stupid move of trying to bring back the already dead elements of the RGBs, some new characters were introduced. As expected, the new characters are truly fantastic but also much more realistic.
Through some brilliant writing, animation and mood which all raised the bar for standards, the franchise could be revived to strength at one point. Even though it was much better than the Real GBs series, the XGB series unfortunately lasted only a single season and could thus only revive the franchise to a certain level and extent. Even so, it needs to be appreciated for what was done. Whether that itself was the point or whether it was intended as a stand alone series, there can be little doubt that the producers came out with the arguably best series ever seen in animation. It will thus always remain a classic.
score 10/10
nuclear_unclear 3 August 2006
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