In a nutshell, sophisticated viewing for sophisticated audiences.
Before the AF, I used to work in the presentation area. Our job was to scrutinize every pixel. I cannot possibly imagine how silly and downright dishonest some people are to complain about the animation here. XGB is by far, the best animated show in existence, without the use of CGI in any form. Its interesting to see how newer shows struggle with CGI+hand-drawn hybrids and still fail to match up to this one.
Compared to this, the RGB was just plain, rubbish, so poorly animated in fact, makes me want to vomit. This is true for just about every other show before it. This is like comparing the Unreal-3 game engine to Wolfenstein-3D. In XGB, there is brilliant use of lighting, coloring, shading and seamless environmental blending to make some episodes a near photographic experience. The effect of rain/precipitation in a certain episode "Bird of Prey" was truly unbelievable. Admittedly, some eps didn't have the same animation standards as others, but the overall effort was groundbreaking. The music was highly original and gripping. This is exactly what I had come to expect from a "Ghostbusters" show.
What is disappointing is the small clique of RGB-fanatics whose minds are still stuck with what they saw as children and cannot accept a brilliant extension to the original concept, thus bashing the GBs themselves in turn, for reasons that are purely fake or made-up. The truth is that those who complain about XGB or claim that RGB was better, haven't seen XGB at all. They just assume things or have downloaded grainy partial video clips off the net. Others are simply dishonest.
Some hypocrites complain about the use of "Extreme" in the name. What about the "real" in RGB? Does that sound any better or moderately mature? I suppose that would mean that there are a "fake" ghostbusters as the name implies to distance itself from? After reading a pile of nonsensical claims of RGB's superiority, I spent a good amount to purchase all the episodes on tape for further review. If your viewpoint is that of serious nature, no way does this even compare to XGB. Some supposedly highly rated episodes namely "The Boogieman cometh" and "No one comes to Lupusville" etc were just plain pointless, highly conventional and downright boring. Without wishing to point fingers, the only reason some hypocrites who wish to impose their outright biased and arrogant views on others here and on forums/message boards, are because they can't stand the fact that their old faves (Venkman, Stantz, Winston) were replaced. They can't see beyond that. Another reason is that RGB ties directly in with the two movies unlike XGB which is more distanced. If the GBs were'nt redone the way they were, it would have been quite boring as 80% of the latter eps of RGB showed quite clearly.
Let's just get something straight. XGB is serious. RGB was an out and out comedy. Apples and Oranges. Difficult to compare. However, only a completely biased omadawn would say that RGB was better. One certain reviewer even claims that that RGB's ghosts were scarier, proving that he hasn't even seen both because the RGB ghosts were purely of comical purpose. Not to put an excellent series down, but RGB was just plain outdated, pale, childish and tacky in comparison if you take a technical standpoint. The villains were never even intended to look serious in RGB (not that it is a bad thing). In XGB, they dared to take on areas others would'nt touch. Once again, this is exactly what one expect from "Ghostbusters" Yes, RGB had 120+ episodes but any serious viewer would note that after one season, the quality dropped exponentially and finally crashed. Only a handful of episodes from the first and second season were worth their salt. What you got were a few good episodes intermixed with loads of fillers for quantitative value.
Lastly, if anyone dares to mention the word "PC" in this context, he should be thrown out or banned from the respective site or forum. It is indeed an extreme offense to use that term. There are certain "questionable" elements involved that I am not going to spell out but at no point, were they unrealistic to the level that one can blame it for any (nonexistant) drop in quality. In fact, it brought in a fresh perspective into a stale genre.
I apologise for some harsh sentences but they were purely to contradict some misleading information posted for purposes beyond informing others with the honest truth. I for one am disgustingly ashamed that such people like Mr. Skavlos are also a part of the same following.
