cristovalc wrote: ↑January 5th, 2022, 2:51 pm Wait so that means he wasn't a deadbeat dad because of the whole trying to stop the apocalypse thing, but just a deadbeat dad for deadbeat dad reasons.
That is worse.
It seems so.
Afterlife told us he has left his family because of the Summerville discovery, but that was after the events of GB2. If it happened that way, he was with them the whole time in the 80s. If so, they would have known about him being a Ghostbuster and there would be no reason for him to not communicate with them about the importance of moving to Oklahoma. I mean, you're not going to save the world twice from evil spirits while being with your family and then leave them because you think they won't believe you when it happens again.
But then, we have the photos going back to 1983 and we have Trevor telling his mom, "maybe it's good you never knew your father", suggesting he wasn't there from the beginning. That makes him an ass. Also, Janine was flirting with him the whole time til the end of the first movie, so obviously he never told her about his family and daughter, even though they must have worked together for weeks and months.
Plus, Egon had no reason to not getting concrete with Ray. Ray is the believer, just send him a photo of the Gozer statue or the corpse of Shandor.
It's not just out of character, it doesn't fit. One could almost assume that the writers simply had no interest in making it understandable and wanted to get to the emotional closing moment at any cost. None of this fits in with the three years of PR talk about personal passion and it doesn't fit with what Jason is able to do with characters, and that's all irritating at best.