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[–] 167 points 1 year ago (22 children)

FWIW I heard the show was extremely bad, and I had to see for myself.

It is very, very bad.

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    One of the worst parts of it is that Scooby Doo has had tons of successful series and they've all been pretty good. Yet they somehow managed to fuck this up despite it being an incredibly simple formula for a show.

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

    It was never about Scooby Doo. IIRC, this was supposed to be an original show, but latching it to a successful 90s franchise must have looked like a sure money maker.

    Edit: did some fact checking, this was a theory. The show actually was an unfortunate reimagining of Scooby Doo since its inception.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Regardless of what the official story is, that's probably what really happened. Same thing with the Halo tv show.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I don’t know. Seeing how modern shows like Foundation, The Witcher, or Star Trek Discovery, to name a few, have gratuitously walked over their own canon, I can understand how the producers thought Velma was a good idea for a new Scooby Doo show.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I think Discovery is a little different. They had way too many producers and writers on that show, all trying to get their little ideas in so when they moved onto a new project, they could get a sexy "By the creators of Star Trek" tagline on it. The situation Walter Mosley described when he left STD made the writer's room sound like a viper pit.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Foundation was so strange because it felt like the writers split into two isolated groups.

    The team that was trying and failing to "reimagine" the original story, and the team the totally abandoned the original story and was doing their own thing with the clone emperors story.

    Unlike other examples where the show felt like an existing story twisted into the framework of an unrelated franchise, Foundation felt like the clone emperors story came out of the talented writers getting frustrated by the quality of the adaption.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Scooby-doo is a 90s franchise now?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The second season's arc is about uncovering what SCOOBY was within the show, and there were lots of goofy references to how silly the old cartoons were, and how silly cartoons are in general

    i enjoyed the Velma tv show immensely

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    FWIW I heard the show was extremely bad, and I had to see for myself.

    It was okay, better than the shitty Netflix adult animations. The worst part of it was the Velma character, if they got rid of or changed her it would be better.

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