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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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.
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.