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[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by Leo656

It is a kind of weird discrepancy. Yours is probably the best way to rationalize it.

Going back to the plain-old Ecto-1 feels sort of like a step backwards, though, regardless of reasoning. I mean, that car's iconic. But Ecto-1A had a much greater Cool Factor. Since then, every time I see the "regular" Ecto-1, I'm like "...Oh. Yay." Still cool, BUT once upon a time we got something better, and it's weird that one didn't become the standard going forward.

And in a way, when I first saw it was just the old Ecto-1 in that barn I felt like the kid in me was a little betrayed. At first, because right away I figured it meant GB2 was retconned away... but we know that's not so. But still, even if we now know the Ecto-1 and Ecto-1A were different vehicles... I went my whole childhood thinking around the time GB2 came out and after, "Wow, how cool it was that they souped up the Ecto-1 like that!" and never gave it a second thought. Now, not so? My childhood was a lie!

Though again, and I think I've brought it up earlier in this thread. If the Ecto-1A WAS the same car as the Ecto-1... why would they even bother to change the license plate # at all? Like, for what? Like, they stopped in the middle of the new ghost invasion in GB2 and bothered to tell Janine, "Hey, make sure you go to the DMV and change the license plates to 1A!" Why on earth would they do that? It HAD to be another vehicle, right?

I suspect that GB: Afterlife is not at all like Halloween 2018 but more like "Jurassic World." As in, the old sequels happened but we're not filling/burdening our soft reboot with references to them. We will, however, eventually get around to that (as we see with Jurassic World 3, full of the whole cast of them). Guaranteed if there's a sequel to Afterlife we'll meet adult Oscar, played by a 30s comedian.