Trekkie2063;151151
I only had a few problems with the series, but they're kind of biggies.

1.) There was one dedicated trap person. In the original, every member of the team carried a trap. And, if Kylie could get what was essentially a “mini-proton pack” so that she could wear the trap on her back (which is kind of a dumb design situation and awkward placement for a trap IMO), why not make those same changes for the rest of the team so they could all have a trap? How many times did they split up and they encountered a ghost when Kylie wasn't around?

2.) The redesign of the equipment. I understand that they needed to redesign the equipment to be more powerful. Fine. But, why did they need to redesign it to look more like weapons? I mean, I've never thought of the equipment as weapons. In fact, in a lot of the early interviews for Ghostbusters: The Video Game, they make it a point that it's equipment and not weapons. I mean, except for a few and RARE times when the equipment names where “dumbed down” to include “proton gun”, it's always been the proton pack and particle thrower or neutrona wand. So, why do the particle throwers/neutrona wands now look like guns?

3.) Speaking of dumbing down, it feels like, they dumbed down other aspects as well. Anyone else remember the pilot/first episode? Eduardo asks why they shouldn't cross the streams. Now, us fans will remember that the result is “all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light. Total protonic reversal.” The explanation given here however, is nuclear explosion.

I never liked how they added those power pack things that looked like a can of peanuts… It made the show SO cliche. Like how many times did they run out of power/say they were running low on power just so it could facilitate the furtherance of the plot? I remember in the “Back in the Saddle” episodes they really struggled with the whole, “original packs are infinite and the newer ones aren't” concept… It left me saying "why the hell don't they just still use the old packs!?

Yeah, and in a way, the “proton canister” concept is part of the weapons thing….swapping canisters=reloading a new clip

As I've grown older, I've become more tolerant of EGB.

I think now I realize that some of my prejudice comes from my dislike for that style of animation.

I liked the look of the RGB (especially the first season) and to me the series just reminded me too much of the sepia toned/MIB style of animation. To me that style was also a bastardization of Batman TAS (which I loved).