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No, I think it's the exact opposite. They introduced Scrappy Doo at the very end of this series and turned him into a literal dick eating serial killer to try and ensure that Velma Kaling wasn't the most hated character on this show. And they failed miserably.
she should have been the one getting investigated into because, like you said, SHE HAS JUST AMITTED TO COMMITTING TO SEXUAL HARRASSMENT!!!! AND HAS ALSO THREATEND TO FIRE THE PEOPLE WHO WITNESSED THE CRIME!!!!!
He became the most likeable and got the most character growth. He genuinely became a better person by the end of the show while everyone else didn't really change.
My favorite part was the part where Velma FUCKING DIES!! The only issue is even satan didn’t want her and her consciousness still exists on the mortal plane!
I'm imagining a headcanon multiverse scenario in which someone contacts Satan and makes a deal with him, a simple trade of souls (SPOILERS FOR 'EXORCIST: BELIEVER,' IF ANYONE ACTUALLY WANTS TO WATCH THAT CRAPPY FILM!): In exchange for Satan releasing the soul of Katherine West (the nice enough churchgoing 12- year- old girl from 'Exorcist: Believer' who gets possessed and ultimately is dragged to Hell because her idiot dad got tricked by the demon) so that she can leave Hell and ascend to Heaven, Satan can take Velma's FAR more deserving- of- eternal- damnation soul to Hell to torment to his dark heart's content forever. Everybody wins except for Velma, who doesn't deserve to win at anything.
@@Adamguy2003My headcanon is that, being too insufferable for hell, Velma instead went to the Labyrinth from “Hellraiser.” Remember how Sheriff Stone summoned the Cenobites in “Mystery Incorporated.”
I find the constant jabs towards rich people to be incredibly ironic because not only is Mindy Kailing herself incredibly rich, but her parents were apparently rich themselves to the point she attended a private school Edit: I've seen a few people say how we should separate the actor from the character and how there are plenty of characters who are voiced by the creators of their respective shows or movies (for example both Matt and Trey have played multiple characters in their projects) and while I get where people are coming from, I do personally see Velma in this show as a self insert of Mindy Kailing. Not only cause of the choice to change Velma's ethnicity to match Kailing's, but Kailing has had the habit of self inserting herself into projects she's worked on
It's not ironic, Mindy isn't rich, she's just a "millionaire", not a "billionaire". You're supposed to separate the voice actor from the character they portray but this show makes it really hard to do that because Velma has no character. You hear Velma insulting rich people but all you hear is Mindy basically saying, "I hate the rich, I'm so relatable, right guys?" while she's relaxing in her 15-million-dollar house.
I also heard a lot of reviews going easy on the whole r@ce blind casting saying it doesn't matter so we should ignore it. But r@ce jokes are 1/3 of the jokes(& they also repeatedly show more accurate designs of these characters as background gag), it is foundational to the show, so it is impossible to ignore the r@ce of the characters
Why not? She made a show that tons of people tuned in to and wouldn't stop talking about for weeks after it first aired just because of vitriolic hatred alone.
@@NakedOwl501 Negative publicity is still publicity. Someone hate watching the show and someone unironically watching the show are treated the same when it comes to these subscription service shows. Bad PR be damned.
He was always a hero. The franchise would have been cancelked ages ago without him. It was budget cuts, executive meddling, & incredibly shit writing that happened right after his introduction that made him the fall guy.
"And then it becomes meta, which is our generation's thing" is one of the most "How do you do, fellow kids?" things I have ever heard in my life. It's like the writers were saying "You have to like being told what to like, because that's what your generation likes"
tasteless metacommentary seems to be what they think "our generation's thing" is. Meanwhile metacommentary has existed for the better half of a century in media, and typically it was done better. 🤷♀
The youngest generation’s thing is existential black comedy ala The Amazing Digital Circus. Go give that show ten views before giving Velma even 0.000001 of one.
@@lalehiandeity1649 man, I read your comment and went to watch this show, it's hella fun. I don't usually watch cartoons, I like what I saw there. It's a shame the episodes are "on-demand" once every 7 months or so. I hope the creators don't get overly pretensious with the setting nor let the "fanbase" dictate the show's story on the long run, letting the spectator shape your creation most often ruins it.
There was a parody of these series where Scooby showed up and started killing the cast explaining that he was a godlike being who'd been trying to recreate the original gang in every one of their new series but was failing and the reveal that it's Scrappy killing here feels like an homage to that video
Don't forget, via the whole subplot with Norville and marijuana, it also teaches that the way to deal with guilt and other emotional or psychological trauma is not through seeking professional help such as talking to a licensed therapist, but just by getting high on a daily basis. Great moral.
It's like the show is saying, "here.. if your having trouble with anxiety choose a much worse vice like a sex addiction or eating disorder"! I'm surprised Velma didn't tell the audience to try fentanyl if you stubb your toe
Im glad you mentioned the hate watching not being a factor. I feel like many people didnt hatewatch. They let content creators watch it, then they watch content creators. Indirect views didnt cause a second season. Greed caused it.
@@jskywalker58It’s been a genuine conversation for some time. Executives don’t care why you’re watching a thing, only that you do. So the idea of hatewatching sustaining a show is a valid worry.
@izzieb.2926 I've been seeing variations of this line for a while now (e.g. "Not the hero we deserve but the one we need.") And I've always wanted to do one where it checks ALL 3, ( just for the amusement of it). PS I posted that comment before I reached the end of the video.
Velma season 2's existance is akin to the last remaining hornet that survived the demolition of its nest. An annoyance, but one that is reduced from its original state.
Personally if I’m gonna be honest, I think the idea of a Scooby-Doo adult show isn’t a horrible idea. In fact it has all the right materials to be centered into the horror genre. It’s just that the execution was just so terribly done in Velma.
I came up with a concept for an adult Scooby Doo series and I think it's definitely better as I have this part of a Hanna Barbera extended universe and pays homage to previous Scooby Doo cartoons
Well said! Also, I think this whole mess is doubly insulting BECAUSE it's shoe-horned into the Scooby-Doo universe. If it was a stand-alone show, we would have long stopped talking about this disaster, and it would have faded into history with every other poorly written original series.
Wait...this show is baised on Scooby-Doo?!? No way! I don't believe you. Where is your evidence to support your claim??? (Joking, or at least I think I'm joking. Am I joking? I can't even tell anymore.)
The thing is, it's not even a second season, it's just Season 1 cut into two, but they're advertising it as Season 2 because they'd have to pay the animators more if they ordered two seasons
Which is why this is the most hated series. Even your most lefty left friend who likes the show to "own the right" or whatever has to hate the show because it tried screw over workers.
I have a gnawing suspicion that this is one of those cases where the only way to defeat the bad thing is to ignore the bad thing and focus on some thing that is good.
@@collinkeyser6827the guy who is responsible for big mouth comes from a very rich family, billionaires, I wouldn't be surprised if he was bankrolling that show himself
It saddens me that a show like "Raised by Wolves" (a show that was quite unique and entertaining) gets cancelled on a massive cliffhanger, while garbage like "Velma" (and also Teen Titans Go) get a second chance. Have I stepped into the Twilight Zone or what?
When the White, anime-ish style Velma and Daphne walk by, it's a cruel reminder of what could have been. What did Scooby-Doo do to the powers that be to piss them off so much?
I love the fact that WB and Max didn't even bother with it this time around. They fucking knew that the bad retention rate from Season 1 would only be worse for this Season, so just drop it all on the same day with minimal advertising. That and the fact that they immediately started talking about the live action series means that they're done with this shitshow once the Halloween Special is thrown out to die.
I love that Fred is the only one who's worth giving a damn over. It reminds me of how the higher-ups for the 2021 Mortal Kombat movie made the studio create Cole Young because they didn't wanna use Johnny Cage, because "having another white male lead feels too Hollywood-ish". But then the only character that people ACTUALLY liked the most in the movie was Kano... a white male. Kind of goes to show when all you focus on is trying to give your non-white characters special attention and writing them to be absolutely perfect and able to do no wrong, somehow the white characters are the only ones who are treated normally and without special treatment, so it feels like they're written more naturally and then people are more drawn to them.
Didn't watch MK '21. . .but Kano was the character everyone liked? He's a villain and really nasty one at that. He went from regular villain to pure hate sink throughout the games.
@@chadharger9323 For some background context, in MK2021, Kano was captured by Sonya to help locate Raiden’s temple, so for a good chunk of the movie he was technically a good guy. Plus he was just funny and had a lot of personality, people largely said that Kano was a vehicle for the audience’s reactions/emotions to what was happening in the movie (at least until he dies, lol). People can like villains, especially ones that are funny/charismatic/compelling. Especially in a movie/game/show where the main characters are severely under-developed or just outright detestable (like most of the Velma cast). If you’re given a bunch of protagonists who are supposed to be seen as likable in multiple aspects but they really aren’t, then sometimes the villain ends up being better because they actually fill their role.
@@TheChildofAuraRebornit’s kind of like how in movies like the little mermaid, people often like Ursula, in spite of the fast that she’s, quite literally as per the movie, an evil sea-witch because she has charismatic qualities and is funny.
@@forsociopoliticalstuff2629 I mean, it definitely applies to almost ANYTHING. People like a good villain, people like seeing a total piece of shit because they're supposed to be playing a role in a story, they're supposed to be an antagonist. Maybe they're a tragic, sympathetic villain. Maybe they're a monstrous bastard with no redeemable qualities. Hell, maybe they're somewhere in-between (like Kung Fu Panda villains). People just like characters.
Something I feel needs to be mentioned, is that Scrappy Doo being the villain isn't even an original twist. The first live action Scooby Doo Movie already did that as a joke.
Velma ripped off better ideas and series and did them worse. What passes for intense drama - Scooby Doo Mystery Inc. Straight up parody of the series itself - Be Cool Scooby-Doo. Shaggy/Norville getting high or implied getting high - first live action movie.
I think the funniest joke about velma 2 is that its brought Scrappy back into the conv more than "man he sucked" or "maybe this character is kind of overhated" (personally I fall in the later camp cause.......honestly I never got the extreme hate)
Watch original Scrappy stuff. He never shut up in whatever scene he was in and was a huge distraction for whatever antics the rest of the gang(mainly Shaggy and Scooby) were getting into.
How are we getting a second and potentially third season of this tumour of a show but cartoons like The Ghost and Molly McGee, Owl House, and Amphibia will never see the light of day?? 😭🤦🏼♂️
So let me get this straight Norville comes back at the end of S1 because Velma said she loved him and now in S2 he barley thinks about her. What a consistent character.
nobody is consistent in this garbo, norville falls in love with the brain, she is happy because he sees her for her and not just her body... he sees her body again and gets it wrong... so you fell in love with him because he appreciated you for more than your body... then got mad at him because he didn't know you well enough to know what you looked like ? supposedly a smart kid... decides to electrocute his own brain, his only scientific source being testing it on a potato. i think he must've been taking his dads advice on what to smoke and just forgot with how much sense he makes.
Keep in mind when Norville shocked his brain the only people he insulted in that 24 hour span was his dad and the mailman. Who for Norville's dad they keep referencing him as the originally shaggy and they only do this when his dad gets high.
What I don't understand was how come the series brought Scrappy, but completely leaves out Scooby. That's a total disservice for me. Then again, this whole series is a disservice to the Scooby-Doo Franchise. Just like you said, it's like WB is giving us a big shitty middle finger.
If I had a nickel for every time Velma got a season I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's strange that it happened twice. P.S. I’m so glad Scrappy killed Velma, as a reward I tolerate him now.
The fact that there was basically no promotion for this second season, AND they released all the episodes at once, it really seems like they dumped this show on their streaming services and hoped everyone will just forget this show exist.
Imagine if Dennis Reynolds wanted to play Fred so much, he got in contact with Mindy Kaling and Max to make a horrible Scooby-Doo show to taunt Mac and Charlie.
I am praying we don't get a season 3, but I also see Mindy Kaling throwing a huge temper tantrum about it and will be blaming everyone around the world for not stroking her ego. and if somehow it does get a season 3 Then she almost has to have something on someone
She once sexually harass a male coworker (who was openly gay to boot) and got away with it by threatening to fire people if they talked. She bragged about it on Conan O Brian's show. . .so blackmail/extortion might not be a stretch.
9:17 OHHHHhh this is why theres all this dong plot, almost completely toxic lesbian stereotypes, and hate/love of fred. Mindy kaling is down bad and didnt want to pay a animator on deviantart T_T
Lol first time in a long time scrappy Doo been done justice. Killing this Velma was a god send and am not even a believer but some times i wanna believe.
It's been years since I watched the og Scooby-Doo so I can't speak for myself now, but I thought Scrappy was hilarious back in the day. And small dogs really are that bold and stupid, so it wasn't a bad running gag.
The problem was that Scrappy was a distraction from whatever antics the rest of the cast were up to. He was a 'scene stealer'. If Scrappy had been originally toned down A LOT he would've been better received by the fans.
I think the reason why they dropped it all instead of doing it in pieces, is because there are probably not enough people that actually hate watch the show. Most are probably just doing as I do, watch others cringe or critique at the show, since it is not actually worth the time to watch it in full.
The "oh white guy," jokes are still there, they're just more implied then out there in this season Anyway please let that be the end of velma! It's a happy one
I'd rather go rewatch that Knuckles spin-off show than having to waste my precious hours on Velma S2. Which, fun fact, they premiered on the same week together.
Velma only had one good character (well several but one of the main characters), Fred. We are supposed to view Fred as a misogynistic, racist, manchild who is supposed to be spoiled and rich. But we all view him as a great guy who is mistreated by others, grows as a character, has the better jokes, and does prove himself. Velma on the other hand is supposed to be a character that we sympathize with, understand, relate to, and care for. But in reality, we hate her for being a hypocrite, egotistical, self-centered, racist, misandrist, hateful person who cares about no one other than herself and what she thinks and wants. Daphne and Norville are both boring since Daphne only fills the role of Norville of season 1 and just take Norville out of the majority of season 2 and nothing would change. Norville's real purpose was to find out his grandmother is still alive, and Daphne's role is to be rebellious from Velma, but still go back to her.
I'd bet my bottom dollar that the season ending on a cliff hanger is just a tactic try try and FORCE a new season by having that as a reason to continue.
This show tried to tackle the debate of Scientific Materialism vs. Religious Spiritualism. Regardless of where you stand on that subject, I think we can all agree that this show doesn't deserve to tackle it.
Steve's upload schedule is wasted on this crap haha. I'm sure there's something out there he could watch without melodramatically groaning at his self-inflicted misfortune!
Remember everyone: do not engage with the show in ANY capacity. Don't watch clips of it on youtube or twitter, don't talk about the show with others, and do not hate watch it. The show wants your attention, so do not give it any. It will go away eventually.
I am convinced this show was originally going to be a mean girls reboot, but they couldn't get the rights to it, so they shoehorned it into whatever known IP they could get a hold of.
*Attempt #19* Would you consider reviewing the Redwall series?❤️ Its a childhood favorite of mine, but its a show with dark and depressing elements sprinkled in...that was broadcasted on PBS.
