-There is a male mayor, but he's clearly just a dumb figure head. the female aid is painted to be clearly in charge and running the city over him. for some reason the FBI has been investigating the paranormal, and after thanking the ghostbusters, wants to discredit them so as not to cause mass hysteria? the whole scene didn't make sense.
That's actually part of Feig's original vision for the film. Having the government already be aware of the existence of ghosts, and yet also trying to downplay it. Early on, the theory was that there'd be some female head of a government agency that would constantly discredit the GBs and say they were frauds, while simultaneously relying upon them to save the world. To be honest, it's one of the few original ideas that I actually kinda liked.
- the feigbusters deduce that rowan is behind this after patty recognizes him from a photo. somehow wig deduces that the sightings follow ley lines (despite only being told two sightings) and they follow those ley lines to 'the most haunted hotel in the city'. they then bring up the photo from the companies website and head there.
I don't follow what the problem is here. I mean, if she knows where the ley lines in a city are, then it's at worst a case of badly interpreting scant data and still being right. Again, I actually think this is kind of a cool idea, that the bad guy is trying to control ghosts, raise the dead, or become lord of the underworld or something himself, and will use things like the occult and ley lines and sites of spiritual significance to do that. I'd rather see it be treated like how the original film talked about Ivo Shandor, though.
- Patty's cousin got killed in the middle of the street there, but, she doesn't care because he was 'just a dumb male'.
Now THAT I have a problem with. Like, (A) that's just not funny, and (B) it's just crapping on dudes to crap on dudes. That's not feminism and it's not funny. I'm guessing that line doesn't make it into the film.
