As a 70's child Scooby Doo was part of my saturday morning cartoon ritual. I can't bring myself to even hate watch Velma. So if anyone has taken one for the team and seen it please do fill us in.
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Wait, you're shitting me. You can't be serious. Even the shitty He-Man rewhatever you call it had He-Man in it. Sorta.
Velma's 50 now. The dog's been dead for thirty years.
Yeah, you hit the nail on the head there.
It's scooby doo in that it's wearing the skin of the characters. But it's absolutely nothing like it. It's a badly written writer vehicle for their pet ideologies using scooby doo characters as nostalgia prop bait.
And not all the characters are there anyway, last I checked in. And then checked out. Admittedly I did zone out a few times out of boredom.
All it reminded me was that I miss Casey Kasem voicing Shaggy.
Even the live action movies were way better. The ones with Mathew Lillard playing Shaggy anyway.
Velma was unironically hot, as played by Linda Cardellini…
sigh I miss the early 2000s…
To add: well, I think I actually underestimated how attractive she was/is (Cardellini)…
Like, wow. 😳
Although apparently she “loves” the idea of lesbian Velma. Because of course she does…
You sure you weren't just going through puberty at the time? It does things to your brain...
Anyway, I was definitely “pre-pubescent” at the time the movies came out, so… Again no, lol.
I see your point, but nah, she is definitely attractive, as an actress, regardless of what 7-8 year old me may have thought at the time, ahaha…
I ain’t talking cartoon Velma, here, lol… I never really thought about that version in this way, puberty or not, lol…
Just Cardellini’s portrayal! 😂
No, nope, I’m quite sure…
Regardless of what you think of the movies, I think we can agree she is clearly not ugly, lol…
It was the leather catsuit, wasn't it.
I mean, yeah, lol.
But like, two minutes on Google suggests she is a pretty damn attractive woman anyway (Cardellini, not Velma), pretty much regardless…
Even though it’s 20 years later.
But also yes.
Edit: well shit, I had forgotten that scene. Maaan. Ok, well, I actually underestimated the hotness, then, ahaha…
Lillard took over as Shaggy once Kasem died. And I must say, he has proven a more than worthy successor. Check him out in the excellent Mystery Incorporated.
This show fucking sucks, though.
Not even that! Velma is some ambiguous brown-skinned creature (Indian? Latino? Doon't knoo!), Daphne seems...Asian(?), Shaggy is now black and Fred is kept as a white guy to be the audience avatar who needs to learn all the lessons. Oh, and Fred is apparently a massive douchebag.
So in reality they just took the names.
Velma is voiced, written, and directed by Mindy Kailing (no, I don't care to check if that's spelled correctly) and is Indian (dot, not feather). Daphne is Chinese but dies her hair. Also they're both lesbian/bi and that shows up in the trailer.
I could probaby make a better black comedy show with scooby doo characters that actually tries to be respectful to the source material.
Honestly, nothing will ever beat the Johnny Bravo crossover or live action movie in terms of "meta humor with respect still for the source."
Its honestly one of those series where every angle you'd want to try, has already been done and probably good enough too.
It's almost impossible to produce a reboot or homage that respects the source material now. Millennials aren't capable of writing one.
Most crossovers suck with the minor exceptions frequently including shit from the same canon.
I would like to see a crossover where the character is simply some guy who uses said character as an alias.
Extra: speaking of the live action Scooby-Doo movie, I actually hate how Smurfette from the live action Smurph film is a knockoff of the James Gunn version of Daphine.
The Johnny Bravo one worked because it was simply a regular Scooby Doo episode, but he was there. It poked fun at the original, but with a clear affection instead of "ARENT THEY SO DUMB" like the usual. I'd call it one of those rare exceptions.
Also, if you've seen the live action Smurf movies you have suffered more than any of us.
I saw the TV adverts for the live action Smurf film.
Seriously though, what James Gunn did occoured at a less politically sensitive time and that characterization decision for the smurf film was unoriginal and clearly politically motivated despite it occouring in 2011.
I used to also watch Josie and The Pussycats - and I have to say, the movie is under rated gem. I mean fucking Du jour!
I'm a dancer, Imma romancer,
You're a Capricorn, I'm a Cancer HAH!
Sounds like She-Hulk. Thank fuck we still have Archer...touch wood
Sounds much like “Wednesday”, then… 😑
I thought she was Indian like Mindy is
Arch just posted a review of it. Whatever you thought it would be, it sounds like it is worse
fuck me, not literally of course
Aww
Worse.
The Venture Brothers version was more respectful
It seems like the usual modern day show meant to attack fans of the original.
i assumed that would be the case
Mindy Kalig is involved so it's woke trash by definition. She is one of the worst.
It's basically that comic "I'm Not Starfire" cranked up to 11.
thankyou for your service
Leftist zealot self insert fan fiction prioritizing message over quality with a fuck load of desperate "get it???" Style humor
Or, a modern adult cartoon
Hard for me to care. Scooby Doo from its inception is the most regurgitated formula I have ever seen. Ever since it started it was the same fucking thing over and over and over and over and over again. Say what you will about Scrappy, but he was the ONE GOD DAMN TIME they even tried mixing things up.
I guess you never saw Mystery Incorporated.
The others I'll give you. But Mystery Incorporated was unironically great.
You have to remember that in the 60's and 70's, cartoons were for kids