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Posted: December 8th, 2021, 12:45 am
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tylergfoster wrote: ↑December 8th, 2021, 11:28 am It would make more sense ifI think so too. I didn't remember this but from watching what others have thought about the movie someone pointed out that after releasing the terror dog everyone just goes back to life as normal. If releasing the terror dog had happened like, right before the battle with Muncher, it may have made more sense. So Egon leads her around, fixes the pack. All the stuff that happened in the movie after releasing the dog from the trap that seemed off happens. Phoebe then finds the trap and the let it out. She wants to get it back so it doesn't cause trouble and thinks it was Muncher. Catch Muncher, but finds his notes about his plan pointing to Muncher not being the threat. Everything then plays out like it did from the police station onward.This Post Contains Spoilers
l3w1sb159 wrote: ↑December 8th, 2021, 10:55 pm That trap bugs me.I always thought the traps had a power supply similar to the the packs. Maybe not a half life of 5000 years since they're smaller, but still. If I'm mistaken it's possible Egon modified that trap to specifically try and hold one of the Terror Dogs. Them needing to use the batteries to open it may have just been them not knowing how to properly open it up. For all we know it just needed the step pad. Egon didn't put it away with it on, right? Do they say how long it was between Egons death and the family arriving on the farm?
Traps are supposed to have limited battery life; hence the need to transfer the ghosts into the containment unit for permanent storage.
That trap with the terror dog in had ran out of battery; which is why they had to connect the jumper cables to it to give it enough juice to operate.
If it had ran out of battery how did it still manage to contain the terror dog?????!!!!
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I had thought egon led her to it so soon as the battery was close to running out and releasing vinz. However in ghost form he couldn't tell her what needed to be done with it and didn't expect them to try to open it?
But the first part of this cancels that theory out so nevermind.
l3w1sb159 wrote: ↑December 8th, 2021, 10:55 pm That trap bugs me.May in the 30 years since GBII Egon put a fail safe in the traps that if they lose power the stay sealed.
Traps are supposed to have limited battery life; hence the need to transfer the ghosts into the containment unit for permanent storage.
That trap with the terror dog in had ran out of battery; which is why they had to connect the jumper cables to it to give it enough juice to operate.
If it had ran out of battery how did it still manage to contain the terror dog?????!!!!
(Back to OP)
I had thought egon led her to it so soon as the battery was close to running out and releasing vinz. However in ghost form he couldn't tell her what needed to be done with it and didn't expect them to try to open it?
But the first part of this cancels that theory out so nevermind.
tylergfoster wrote: ↑December 8th, 2021, 9:26 pm Others have also pointed out thatMuncher was probably a local ghost story in Summerville like the haunted theater. No one really believed it but in the same vein avoided going to the Foundry because of the spooky vibes. Muncher as we saw in the movie couldn't manifest, probably was just sounds and feelings for decades. Just because "nobody's seen a ghost in 30 years" was said by a seismologist/GB fanboy shouldn't necessarily be taken verbatim across the world. People just stopped believing in other people's claims and people stopped reporting them out of fear of being ostracized. The zeitgeist shifted as the Ghostbusters went out of business. Then the P.K.E. spike allowed Muncher to fully manifest. And I suppose even if Summerville was a small town, of all the places Phoebe and Podcast chose to test out the gear -- that's Hollywood. About as a convenient as the 84 movie opening on the trio finally encountering a ghost for the first time after what was implied to be a lot of dead ends.This Post Contains Spoilers
mrmichaelt wrote: ↑December 9th, 2021, 12:40 amOh for sure the first movie had convenient things happen for the plot. I just feel in Afterlife's case that shuffling around scenes would make it much less coincidental and much more fully connected.tylergfoster wrote: ↑December 8th, 2021, 9:26 pm Others have also pointed out thatMuncher was probably a local ghost story in Summerville like the haunted theater. No one really believed it but in the same vein avoided going to the Foundry because of the spooky vibes. Muncher as we saw in the movie couldn't manifest, probably was just sounds and feelings for decades. Just because "nobody's seen a ghost in 30 years" was said by a seismologist/GB fanboy shouldn't necessarily be taken verbatim across the world. People just stopped believing in other people's claims and people stopped reporting them out of fear of being ostracized. The zeitgeist shifted as the Ghostbusters went out of business. Then the P.K.E. spike allowed Muncher to fully manifest. And I suppose even if Summerville was a small town, of all the places Phoebe and Podcast chose to test out the gear -- that's Hollywood. About as a convenient as the 84 movie opening on the trio finally encountering a ghost for the first time after what was implied to be a lot of dead ends.This Post Contains Spoilers
tylergfoster wrote: ↑December 8th, 2021, 9:26 pm Others have also pointed out thatIt's not a huge coincidence. The appearance of Muncher is like the Mini-Pufts: manifestations appearing with the growing influence of Gozer in our realm, something already established in the first-two movies.This Post Contains Spoilers
RealGhostbusterJay wrote: ↑December 10th, 2021, 7:12 am I also found the muncher thing kind of easy out. If maybe it had been what flies up from the mine when Trevor and Lucky are at the top it would have at least shown that a small spirit can get out but not a group of them in mass.That seems too obvious to me to not be the intent they had, or at least originally.