![]() Of course, as is so often the case when a team of creatives try too hard to be sensitive, there are visible cracks in the PC edifice. There’s Eduardo, a snarky Latino Kylie, a genius goth girl Roland, who’s black and “does machines” and Garrett, an athletic paraplegic. The group itself was a sort of time capsule into the PC concerns of the late ’90s. The episode in question, “Deadliners”, was in Extreme Ghostbusters, a sequel series to the hit Real Ghostbusters animated series, where a semi-retired Egon mentors a group of college students who have been recruited into becoming a new Ghostbusters team. ![]() This is probably the closest you’ll ever come to the Cenobites officially sharing the screen with a Disney logo, by the way. If you were expecting me to talk about a certain controversy over a certain upcoming remake, where both sides are either First Amendment-hating radical feminists or raving misogynists nauseated by just the thought of women starring in a franchise film (at least that’s the impression I’m getting from Twitter), then you don’t know this blog! Rather than talking about the pointless Internet pop culture controversy of this five minutes, I’m much more interested in writing about the time another new “progressive” Ghostbusters team fought the Cenobites from Clive Barker’s Hellraiser -sort of. ![]() ![]() Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. ![]()
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