I love how we have modern shows that try to make "strong, tough, witty, intelligent, and confident characters" by making them outright bullies. And the best part is I'm betting whoever's creating these consider themselves as champions for anti-bullying, anti-oppression, anti-bad, yet look at this.
they're not even doing it right. literally everyone's agreeing this characterization is for like 2 different crowds at once and it's not working out for either of them
Almost like all the talk of the progressive style people, when put into practice, turn out to he just as bad as what they claim to be fighting against.
I keep hearing reviews ask "who is this for?". The answer is easy, the show is for Mindy and the people in her circle. Show creators, actors and writers are so detached from the rest of us. They make shows for themselves and get upset at us for not liking it.
The fact that this version of Velma is portrayed as an extremely narcissistic asshole and Mindy says she really relates to her, that says everything we need to know.
The show is made for unlikeable bitter resentful SJW’s like there main character. They actually think she is a role model. They always make their heros into villains and don’t realize it
God forbid you have a non douchy smart white guy in media anymore. The butchering of Fred's character and the way they made fun of him made me more mad than anything else in this show.
They decided she must be a lesbian; ergo they need to have a series about her. And in this series, she represents the woke creators point of view and constantly trashes everyone who isn't woke. Fred, the all-American boy, has a small penis. Shaggy is a contemptible incel who Velma can freely abuse. And Daphne is obviously her love interest because that's what the woke creators think.
@@Heike-- the thing is Velma can be made into a lesbian character (and it can actually be done quite well with the characters personality and character traits) that isn’t the issue to me, the issue is they threw away all of her key characteristics and were way to focused on pushing a dumb agenda and making it woke that they completely threw out everything that made Scooby doo, well scooby doo. They made Fred (who was the likable leader that was the heart of the gang even if he was a bit dense at times) into a daddy’s money rich kid and completely demeaned him for it. They completely missed the point of shaggys character, and they tried to make daphne and Velma the stars of the show but completely and utterly failed to understand their characters, and tried to make it as woke as possible and completely destroyed the scooby doo franchise in the process.
@@leviuzumaki3903 I don't really care that they made Velma/Daphne lesbians. Did those characters have canon relationships with male members of the group in the past? Sure, but I can get behind the sexuality thing, that doesn't really matter too much in the long run. Completely rewriting the character personalities at a base level, while missing everything that made each of the characters tolerable(let alone likable...), is where they show that they don't actually care about the source property.
This show literally feels like petty revenge against people who didn't like you in high school. Not the people who bullied you in high school, just the people who didn't like you enough to want to be your friend. If the show is any indication, you don't need Mystery Inc to figure out why no one liked the creator in high school
OMG bro you're almost there, if you had one more braincell then you'd be able to understand that Velma's character is purposefully written that way. She harshly judges people only to be proven wrong soon after. It's almost like they wrote her to be a bad person so that she could gradually become a better one over the season. She's complex, like an actual person. I'm sorry she's not as easy of a character to understand as Goku.
@@shadowsta9 fair, but even so it’s such a lazy writing technique that only provides a sort of linear development. However, it could be done well, but Velma is literally an ass to almost everyone for no reason in particular except maybe Norville if you will. And despite many other problems with the character and show itself, the real icing on the cake is that this is supposed to be a parody of Scooby Doo. With barely any mystery and plenty of one-note characters and unfunny jokes, it’s just a better looking big mouth with a confusion of who’s target audience it’s for other than the people who made it. Velma is not nearly as complex as you say it is, and even goku has far better writing than her.
In that case it’s not Velma, or any other scooby doo characters and it should be an entirely independent animation with no attachment since all the scooby-doo characters are fully fleshed out and well done in ways drastically different from how this show redid them. Also they’ve gone about this whole this atrociously
@@iceefear1720 REALISTIC CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT IS LAZY WRITING? Omg you are actually braindead. Velma is a "weird" loner that judges people harshly so that she can have an excuse later. Ex. (I didn't like them anyways so who cares if they don't like me) She is scared to be vulnerable because being vulnerable opens the possibility of being rejected. That's why she's an ass to everyone. She's not a good person towards Norville. She uses him like a tool and doesn't think about his feelings. Norville is a super simp that either can't or won't accept that the feelings he has for Velma aren't reciprocated. You can't *make* people like you. These are relatable issues but most people can't even pick up on them because they have the same issues themselves. The show is a mirror. It's attempting to show you your flaws. But most people aren't smart enough to understand so they think it's just making fun of them. Big Mouth is the exact same. If you got a small dick and are mean to your friends like Nick. You'll either: 1. Identify the issue within yourself, laugh, then work to fix the problem. or 2. Think the show is making fun of you. It's an intelligence problem. People do not like to self reflect and look inside themselves, it hurts. Introspection is society's Kryptonite. Sometimes it hurts a lot but how else would you grow as person? The show isn't a parody of Scooby Doo. It's more of a spin and a prequel. The mysteries are Velma's missing mom and who's the Killer. The show will end when the characters go through their character arcs of being flawed people and at the end they'll likely resemble "The Gang" from the OG show in personality, but then it'll be over. I guarantee you in the last episodes they find Scooby but not during.
@@shadowsta9 you know what, that made me think a little more about the show, and maybe it’s got more to it than i give it credit for. still not my kind of show, and definitely not a fun watch in my opinion, but your explanation helped me understand why the show does what it does and the message behind it all. thanks for the insight.
Velma is the creators' self-insert of this show. It's so embarrassing to see how different Velma and the others are from the Scooby Gang that we all know.
Cartoons have always had self insert characters, it juat shows that modern creators are terrible people. That's why it's soo good that Velma is getting universally shat on - the writers/creators that self-insert need to be shown that their personally is total fucking trash.
Self insert cartoons seem to be the next big thing. “Are you an overweight asshat no one likes and judges everyone but expect to be respected, make a comic”
@@LockeRobsta They probably won't take much more away than woke money. Can you imagine as easily as I can that they'll never take the time to entertain any amount of criticism? Even after getting cancelled, it'll be another person's fault.
"Stinkier than three garbage trucks having sex in a sulphur factory." Thank you from the bottom of my heart for posting this. I don't think there's a better description of VELMA on the internet.😂
Listening to this, I’m thinking of a head cannon where Scooby and the real Shaggy are alive but their friends have turned into *this* and they’re trying to save them from this horrible fate
I actually enjoy this show and She-Hulk in particular because it is a wide open window on how upper class (I use that term loosely) over the hill feminist women view the world. Only they would think these shows are good but what they do is display their hatred of men, whites and any society that refuses to accept how wonderful, insightful and great they are. Any man who has broken up with that toxic girlfriend we have all had at one time or another knows what the very first thing she will say to anyone she can get to listen. "He's got a small dick." How many small dick "jokes" are in this show? This show is written by those very toxic girlfriends all grown up and no longer girlfriend material. This show is Mindy desperately trying to stay relevant by lashing out at everyone who doesn't think she is stunning and brave.
Mindy has always been off, self hating to seek validation and always pushed the “I only date white men” onto her shows also personal life. She’s so cringe, a clown, an entire circus 🤡🎪
You know that feeling where you ponder over deliberately writing something awful for the sole purpose of pissing people off, but are stopped by your common sense? Where your conscience rightfully interrupts with "Yeah, but this is actual garbage and everyone will hate you for creating such a thing"? This show is the result of (fanfic) writers with no such feelings, who proceed to deliver the most vile shit you've ever seen straight into your eyes.
Mindy admitted to sexual assault in an interview about the show and had threatened her producers if they told anyone about it and laughed along with the crowd… the double standard is insane and the fact they can laugh at the fact she literally admitted to sexual assault is insane. She’s a terrible, narcissistic, selfish, and self absorbed human being who doesn’t deserve any type of respect or grace. She should’ve been “cancelled” a long time ago.
The reason Velma is such an unlikeable character is because she's literally just a fictionalized version of her voice actress, who is, by all conceivable metrics, kind of a terrible person.
@@patricksalone5871 The titular character is based on her, and voiced by her. She's the second-in-command executive producer for the show. One of the production companies that made the show is hers. The only thing that is at all relatable to the original Scooby IP is the character names they've hijacked for this egregious waste of animation talent.
You can see the pain on his face and hear it in his voice. This show killed a little bit of Charlie's spirit. I hope he was able to watch a little Captain Pronin to feel better.
I bet if Scooby was in the show there would be cringe jokes about him humping Velma's leg, or licking his own balls. That's the top tier level comedy we're dealing with here.
He'd be a little yappy thing and when *Norville* is pressed about having such a wimpy dog, he'd say something like, "What, you think I'd own a great dane or something because I'm black? Tch, racist much?"
that or since strictly speaking it wouldn't break Harkness' Rule Scoob n Velma would have a secret relationship behind Daphne's back ... that's a thing I've typed now
95% of hack directors: "I've had this amazing, ORIGINAL idea!" Studios: "What do you need?" 95% of hack directors: "A beloved childhood IP." Fandom: "Fuck all the way off and when you're there, keep fucking off some more."
As an amateur animator myself, I feel so bad for the animators who worked on this because I just know they spent hours trying to perfect the animation only for everyone to sh¡t on this show because of the screen writers poor writing.
Honestly, the animation is not bad because it similar to Venture Bros. But the problem is they race-swapped 3 of the main characters of Scooby Doo and makes them unlikable. The only character who still same is Fred but he becomes an insecure spoiled rich kid who can't cut a steak. Probably Shaggy or Norville in this show isn't a bad person from what I heard but is it really neccesary to make him fall in love with Velma who is toxic as hell in this show. And Daphne is a drug dealer who has 2 lesbian moms? What the fuck?
I love the art style, the way Velma is drawn is very nice to look at But the writing…the writing makes we wish humanity WAS destroyed by nuclear warfare during the Cold War
I feel this same way about game devs, the people that are actually coding the game and making all the graphics. They just want to give it their all, but it's the suits in the corporate office that rush them into releasing an unfinished, broken game. The suits put profit over entertainment, I generally like capitalism, but it needs to stay out of the entertainment industries. If you make an entertaining show, game, or movie the money will roll in naturally.
They should have called this show "Mindy's Mysteries", which was originally what they had in mind until they thought "No no, make it about Velma. Let's ruin the Scooby-Doo franchise!"
Lke actually. Mindy Kaling is just not funny. Besides the office every project she has been a part of has just been insufferable. I could not stand her character on the Office either. I didn't mind oscar, I liked stanley and didn't like andy or angela. While they all had an occasional moment or line that was good I could not wait for them to get off screen. Mindy Kaling Peaked in the office. Apparently she did lots of writing there but now her writing has regressed to old tired jokes. Maybe it's bad delivery or she is out of ideas or her original ideas are worn out. I think it's the latter.
I have a firm belief HBO Max intentionally hired the worst possible team to create an adult animated show so they can send it out to die and use it as justification for them cutting animation from the service in general.
I was talking about this the other day with my sister (I’m someone who wants to work in animation) and she said this exact thing. It’s very likely being used as a scapegoat to terminate animation and say no one likes it, when it’s not true. We love animation, we just don’t want to see whatever Velma is supposed to be
Honestly that makes a whole lot of sense actually, I was trying to wrap my head around how they can cancel basically everything they were making but somehow this dodged the chopping block but yeah if they're trying to justify purging all animation this is a great way to do it.
I wouldn't be surprised that this could be the reason. The jabs at adults who watch cartoons, the constant punching down on people who watched it cuz they liked the original IP, I'm only hoping that this backfires spectacularly in HBO Max's face when people aren't saying "We hate animation" and instead saying "We loved our old shows, bring them back"
I love that all of my friends said that I was narrow-minded because I said this show was going to flop. They told me it would be good, but they couldn't have been more wrong.
Yeah same, my faith in humanity was nonexistent after the “giant” incident but knowing humanity is sane enough to know how terribly horrendous this show is actually restores a little bit of my faith in humanity
@@genericcommentarychannel5343 the bots that gave it a 7% instead of 0% liked it. Actually no, that’s not fair to the bots. They weren’t created with free will.
@@genericcommentarychannel5343 There was somebody who was ass mad about it on Reddit a few days ago, so yeah. Somehow this abominable show has fans. I guess some people just have shit taste.
The fact she has the audacity to claim Fred as rude for saying he has a condition to not notice people who are hot when she, herself, judges everyone by looks and smarts. 🤦🏻♀️
The way Fred and Daphne were portrayed in this show literally made me so mad,I never got mad at any adaptations,yeah many are bad but this one killed me
They base it on what they "think" the internet would like. I always hate how Stan twitter people would put Velma on pedestal and disrespect my girl Daphne who did nothing but be pretty and unproblematic. Like why is the world these days trying to convince me to dislike Daphne and it ain't working. Poor Fred also doesn't deserve to be drag so what if he looks like he has privilege he's still has always been a likable chatacter who has his own personality more than having a small p. like why do them like that they have always been admirable they look like the popular kids in school hanging out with the nerd and weird kid and his dorky dog on ghost adventures and that pretty damn cool
@@lazerdim17001 you fuckin right Soon as I seen how they changed Velma and no scooby I said fuck nope especially how they probably made it so she don’t like shaggy no more yeah they fucked up big time
This show is a spit in the face to not only every animation fan in the world, but to the people who helped make Scooby-Doo the fun mystery cartoon that it is.
Robot chicken once made a sketch where the Scooby gang is all murdered by an ax murderer with the exception of Velma who bangs said murderer. That 5 minute skit had more accurate characters and at the very least didn't forget Scooby Doo
You know a show is REALLY bad when both sides of the aisle hate it. From what I understand, a lot of the folks on the left are claiming the show is a conservative take on diversity. How they arrived at that conclusion, I have no idea. It's like claiming a fart came from a person with no butt-hole.
To be fair to these adult children parading around as "creatives", they've been told for the last two decades or so that anybody who disagrees with them or doesn't like what they are doing is obviously just an 'ist' or a 'phobe'. Nothing they do is ever shit, it's the ever oppressive society holding them down, man! It would be funny if they were just failing with their own creations and ruining one or two networks.. But instead they are pissing over the entirety of pop culture that came before them... because can't you see how ohhh so enlightened and righteous they are?!?
@@stephenthomas1492 That is interesting that "both side of the aisle" are not liking it. My guess is the show probably lean or pander so heavy on one side that it appears to be mocking to the people they are trying to cater.
@llyis if you enjoyed the martian I highly recommend another book by the same author titled "Project: Hail Mary". It's pretty much more of the same with a new situation that they put the protagonist in.
Like that movie Return To Sleepaway Camp with the fat kid who kept yelling "your ass stinks." He was constantly bullied, but when he wasn't, he'd bully someone himself and act horrible to everyone else. Basically take that character, make him "self-aware" and "meta," and make it Scooby Doo-related for whatever reason.
Sounds like this show is a fanfic from someone who was an asshole in school and got picked on for it, so they "identified" with Velma and thought she was just like them, completely missing that Velma is a perfectly nice person and not just a geek trope.
I watched it not knowing anything. My gf sat down to watch it with me. The second episode ended, and she turned to me and said “wow….this…this is really bad.” And I started dying laughing. I was just so in shock about how bad it was.
"Sup guys it's manlet tiny man white shirt here. Just wanted to say this thing im talking about it fat stinky poo pee. Well that's about it. Alright see ya"
I wonder if someone told Mindy Kalhing "hey, you kind of sound like Velma!" - and after a few laughs, two hours, and ten beers, they had an entire season of a show written, recorded, and storyboarded. I refuse to believe any more thought went into it than that.
@@-aquamarine-324 She writes terrible self-insert characters that are horrible people and horribly unpleasant to watch/be around. Do you expect people to like her?
@@-aquamarine-324 she speaks openly about sexually harassing former employees, she's threatened to fire people for non work related things, she's a TERF, and a very selfish conservative
Saying it's the best animated show on HBO max is like saying your mom/dad was the best mom/dad you ever had when they're the only mom/dad you've ever had
my favorite thing about him. his ability to come up with funny metaphors at the top of his head is a real talent, lots of people wish they could do that
It gives warmth to my cold black heart to know Scooby-Doo is remembered so fondly this show ended up being universally hated. Edit: (Holy crap this comment blew up and I was not expecting that. Thanks everyone!)
As a show that came out in the 70's, basically everybody alive now watched it growing up as kids. Anything going off that path that has been put in concrete was doomed from the start, they should've just continued Mystery Incorporated, or made a new IP but clearly it didn't sell to the network the first time or two so they decided to just make it Scooby-Doo but with no Scooby-Doo
Velma has literally a kids show level writing and characters but has blood, swearing, drugs and nudity to make it look like an adult animated show. By Kids show, i mean like Sesame Street or Play School, not good shows like Gravity Falls or SpongeBob
i thought he was exaggerating about the jokes being all the same. But literally the first joke is her about to tell you her story and interrupting herself saying "i know youre probably confused because detective stories are usually about tall, handsome guys who get handed even more power" like wtf
I think the original show was already pretty "Inclusive" or whatever the word they use nowadays. It had two woman, two men, two popular kids and two less popular kids and a talking dog. And they all came together even with them all being different people. It was great.
And Mystery Inc had this pretty badass black DJ lady that was also a former member of the previous Mystery Inc generation. I mean, that version of the show was a matter of taste, but at least it was much more watchable than this. 😂
I mean that’s not really what diversity is but it doesn’t matter Lmfao, the show was fine as it is. Mindy kaling doesn’t care about diversity she just thought it would make “the kids” like her show. Changing the race of characters in an ANIMATED show is just weird. This isn’t what diversity is
@@fart63 At the time, it is quite the diversity it needed to represent. If they wanted to revamp the show with more diversity, they'd just add honorary members because messing with the main cast is disrespectful to the origins.
Also, the Mystery Inc. Are full of 4 teenagers with one talking dog with different backgrounds. Fred is coming from rich family but he's very down to Earth and likes to help everyone and also act as the leader and he's also likes to prepare the traps. Daphne is a pretty girl from rich family and she used to be the damsel in distress only later they tone it down and makes her more vulnarable Velma is a nerd and she's the brain of the group and she also likes to lose her glasses clumsily Shaggy is a stoner and a coward but he has to face his fear to solve the face Scooby-Doo is Shaggy's dog who's also similar to him and they both also love snacks. And just like any dogs, he's loyal to his Master and anyone who cares of him.
I can’t believe they took the OG nice popular kids (and the most realistic portrayal of how popular kids act) and made them horrible. We need Justice for Fred and Daphne.
Our institutions, especially Hollywood, are basically chock-full of losers who can't get over their childhood days and so are trying to make our lives as miserable as theirs are.
And Scooby I've really started to vent about this mistake being created, whoever greenlit this crap is going to live to regret it and not only regrets, the shear messages from the original Scooby-Doo fanbase is going to be a furnace of texts slowly roasting.
It's been a long time since high school but I distinctly remember the popular kids being popular because they were charming people. Anyone who acted like a snob or a sociopath got mocked
@Logan Stairs Me to bro, those flightless arctic dwelling birds have no chance against a homosapien such as myself. Critikal would fuckin annihilate those penguins in a content war.
Im pretty sure that the creator/writter of the show is the same as the voice actress of velma, so much that they changed the race and background of velma to match theirs. Kinda of a Marysue kinda thing.
The best thing to come out of this mess is independent writers and animators realizing the "giants of the industry" have nothing left to give, they literally have to go to through the IP trash bin and have some influencer come up with a storyboard to stay afloat, but they're only sinking harderd. If you're currently working on something of your own, I encourage you to promote it independently, anything remotely entertaining will put those corp "writers" to shame
FX feels like the only place to still get quality TV. Rez dogs, Archer, Snowfall etc. Get your hulu memberships, and drop your netflix memberships everyone, you'll all be Beyer for it
That's quite a selective comparison. I'd agree on being rich and privileged but Fred is more than that. He is kind to others and has a fascinating hobby (making traps) . Mindy on the other hand... EDIT: Apologies for my mistake. He's referring to this show's Fred and not the canon Fred Jones. WTF did they do to my boi, Fred!?
The reason Velma is such an awful person is because Mindy herself is an awful person. She literally admit and joked on Conan about how she sexually harassed her employee by randomly kissing him without his permission, then said while laughing and smiling that "if you tell anyone, you're fired." Again, not only did she admit all of this live on Conan, she said it as if it were some hilarious life story and not a blatant admission of sexual harassment. If you don't believe me, just search on RU-vid "mindy kaling about her kiss with lee pace" and click the first video.
The joke that weirdly got more under my skin than the rest is when not-Shaggy looked dead into the camera and said something like, "I hate drugs" with a smirk on his face.
Yeah they took away his drugs, but that seems like a characters arc where he'll discover weed lol. Make him black, whatever, who gives a shit. Don't take away his drugs though.
That doesnt work very well bc Big Mouth is actually a decent enough show. You need to pick a better but still pretty shitty show for that joke to work.
Sad part is after all this backlash towards this the last animated show on HBO means they'll never allow another. No matter how good the pitch is, they'll always reference the failure of Velma.
@@paulyguitary7651 considering that Mindy has turned Velma into a self-insert, it makes me wonder if the rest of the characters she plays are exactly the same and it's actually Mindy that everyone hates from how insufferable she is.
@@paulyguitary7651 Never heard of Mindy before,or any other character she voiced...But she sounds like someone who deserves an anti-vaxxer for a parent.
Velma was incredibly intelligent and brilliant as a character and person in older renditions, Fred was very clever and deductive in investigating. Oh how far they have fallen, I agree with Charlie, Scooby-Doo not being here is good because we don’t want to have his name besmirched
Don't you feel that for nerdy, awkward girls who maybe saw a bit of themselves in Velma, that’s something that’s been _taken_ from them? Yeah, we can laugh at Velma fumbling for her glasses, but that’s only because there’s something about _every one of us_ we can laugh at. Now, Indian-American girls have gained “representation” in an unlikeable character, but nerdy, awkward girls have _lost_ representation in a likeable character.
It's possible to know every definition in the dictionary and still be incredibly ignorant, Velma here imo is just using her vocabulary to amaze the sheep on her quest to gain hugs and kisses , those types can't function in a society without ,,typical gr00mers tricks .
@@DeflatingAtheism hollywood feels the need to make the neerdy girl characters into toxic cunts to show their "strong side" even though it just goes to show why nobody likes them. i feel like velma was literally made for anti social twitter users tieing every joke to race gender and sexuality for no reason.
It really feels like this show is using the IP characters only because it was once something original and a parody, but someone in the department saw similarities to Scoody-doo and got the rights to brand it as such. I don't know anything about the developers behind Velma, but it just feels like that's how it went every time I see clips and it's writting.
This reminds me of a comic from the Aliens franchise. a man was taken by the Xenomorph to a hive to be impregnated. out of fear, knowing these could be his last moments, he closed his eyes, covered his ears, and went so deep into his own head, imagining a fantasy to escape to, that he completely shut himself off from the real world. he put it all in reverse. the real world is the dream, and his fantasy is reality. the Xenos did horrible things to him, but he was so deep into his own fantasy that he barely reacted. he was much happier inside his head and ignoring all that happened around him. That's how I'm seeing the creators of Velma. they cannot accept their show is a disaster, so they are creating a fantasy world for themselves to live in to escape reality and all the bad things happening around them.
the #1 thing to remember when rebooting is to stick to the canon. When you reboot a show your main audience is the people who grew up and watched the original show and their kids, thats how you get a renewed interest in an IP is to show the younger generation something that you loved to watch as a kid in hopes they like it too.
The fact that they made an "entirely new" character named Norville banking on people not knowing that Shaggy's real full name is Norville Rogers is wild.
It’s not a new character. Norville “Shaggy” Rogers is his real name. Shaggy is a nick name that people are probably gonna start calling him later in the series
The biggest problem I have with this is that it's funny that his name is norville rogers, but the crux of the joke is that they don't talk about it. Calling the character Norville makes it suck
The irony of this show trying to use the progressive mask is that Scooby Doo was already a very progressive one ahead of its time, by having four kids from completely distinct backgrounds (jock, rich, nerd and stoner) that would NEVER interact with each other in the real world be friends and solve mysteries together. Everyone loves each of them and their dynamic, even at their lowest points.
It's not trying, this is progressivism when it doesn't have to pretend to be fair. Just violently anti white racism and vindictiveness for anything good and beautiful
I think that the 60s countercultures they represented were Prep (Fred), Mod (Daphne or Velma, I can't remember which though I'm leaning towards Daphne), Hippie (Shaggy), and a fourth one I can't remember (for whichever of the girls wasn't the Mod). I don't *think* that Talking Dog was a 60s Counterculture, but with the amount of drugs that were being used then, I may be mistaken.
Its wild because it uses meta humor and self-references racist sterotypes while never elevating itself beyond sterotypes. Also Velma just acts like an asshole which really doesn't fit the Velma character. I think a big issue is that the Velma voice actor is also co-creator. Its never a good idea to make your actors also creative leads. It never goes well.
@@tristantully1592 I agree with you on everything except the last part. Sometimes making an actor a creative lead is a good idea, take Breaking Bad for example. Bryan Cranston directed some of the best episodes of the show,
*Top 5 Reasons Why Warner Brothers Hates Us* 1. Velma Season 1 2. Velma Season 2 3. Suicide Squad Kill The Justice League 4. Batman Arkham Shadow 5. Batman Beyond Movie
The best way I've heard it described is Mindy Kalling pitched a show that was about her friends growing up, got told no, came back a week later with the same pitch but added "but with scooby-doo" and the exec's lost their mind and said yes, this is why that company is sinking like a rock
This was pitched four years ago and all the woke idiots previously at Warner Bros/HBO, like Ann Sarnoff and Walter Hamada, have already been fired. Zazlov is the new guy in charge and has been steering away from the wokeness as much as possible, but this show made since 2018-2019, had to be released for financial reasons since it was already made. But more so, it was released as justification to the shareholders to fire the remaining woke people at Warner Bros/HBO. This show literally is only being released to purge the remaining Wokèmon from HBO; they are all aware how bad it is.
@@MarvinPowell1 its so weird to me they would can Batwoman, arguably one of the most anticipated Bat-family projects as it would bring back Keaton as Batman again before The Flash and green light this, but that makes a lot of sense that is why this show got released
@@thatoneguy3332 Not in the room with us, unfortunately. That would be preferable, but instead they're living a comfortable life sitting the high seats of most corporations and pushing for the production of shows like Velma.
Yup, he was a positive (sometimes dumb) leader that showed courage and held the team together. I doubt these writers ever watched Scooby Doo, like at all!
It's so sad that they did this to Velma and the group. I'm all for kind of modernizing certain types of art and creating something new and different, but they changed the characters and their personalities altogether. Changing the race of each character is one thing, but changing who they are - Velma who is supposed to be an intelligent, caring, and beautiful character is now an asshole. Straight up. And to do what they did to Shaggy, my main man, my beautiful stoner and best friend of a being made of pure love and scaredy-catness. There's none of the original character to any part of the crew. There's no charm, just horrible humor and lame attempts at really vulgar content, that does nothing but enrage people and make them cringe. That's not what Scooby Doo is, that's not the gang or what they do; they solve mysteries and put away bad guys while being silly and enjoying each others company in one way or the other. They respect and care for each other, they don't shit on everyone and make gross jokes about their dicks. All these asshole writers did was take the names of the characters and their clothes. Gross. So gross. Beyond disappointed in whatever this nasty show is. I hope it gets canceled and removed.
Truly, to this day I have no idea what's the target audience or what's the point it's trying to make, it's not trying to be a Scooby-Doo reboot because the characters don't even act like they're supposed to, (also no scooby), but it's not a full parody either, it's like a mystery show about some random teens that happen to be cosplaying as Scooby-Doo characters, I just don't get it
I'm pretty sure it was created to generate as much responses as possible, along the philosophy of "bad publicity is still publicity". AND it WORKS. It's easier to make a really bad show and generate outrage than to make something good, and maybe it's even more lucrative at least in the short term. Possibly even to polarize the public further.
The biggest Jedi mind trick made by Velma was them making the trailers so obnoxiously bad, garnering attention from community to community, and then dropping a real stinker. They are probably celebrating after finding out that they got 2 videos from Charlie out of this
The worst part is that these videos run the chance of getting people to check out the show to see if it's as bad as they say or to actively hate-watch it. Not that I don't like Charlie's videos, but I would prefer it if he just let the show die in obscurity.
@@Adrian-zs3ol to be fair, even without him making videos Velma is going viral for how terrible it is and just how much everyone hates it. At least he's trying to discourage us going and watching it by telling us himself it's not worth doing lol and there are lots of people who will take Charlie's word for it
Fun fact: norville is actually shaggy's name, that's not a thing with this show that's just shaggy's name. It's rarely used, kind of just one of those trivia things
"It's not a fun character arc to follow this person become less insufferable as she learns to not be a judgmental piece of shit." "My body knew this was a comedy going into it, but there wasn't any hahas" "Everything out of Velma's mouth is just rude and almost everything she says is about a persons skin color, their occupation, or what they're going through/hardships and shitting on them for it." "She is just unlikeable, like a character you can never root for in any capacity." This describes literally *EVERY. SINGLE. ROLE.* Mindy Kaling sinks her toethumbs into.
"It's not a fun character arc to follow this person become less insufferable as she learns to not be a judgmental piece of shit." The funny thing is, this could be said about so many characters in modern shows. Like Galadriel in Rings of Power, and Kit in Willow. Characters the writers think were great strong women, but were found absolutely evil, selfish, unlikable and detestable by the audience, which the writers then reacted to by claiming "she's on a character arc!" I think the problem about all these characters is that they're self-inserts by the writers. And when the writers are entitled, insufferable narcissists in real life, that will bleed into the characters they created for their personal wish fulfillment.
HEAR ME OUT: They purposely made the show horrible so they could be like “See animation is so bad, this is why we cancelled all our animated shows!” Just so they could justify their actions :(
The craziest part is that in anime which is rife with child-sexualization, it is seen as completely normal. Nobody ever talks about how unbelievably creepy it is and a lot of viewers even like that about them. Absolutely terrifying imo
I actually burst out laughing when I checked IMDB only to see that she show currently holds a 1.8/10. I was expecting maybe like a 5.2 or something (which is still considered extremely poor reception), but I seriously wasn't ready for it to be *that* bad lmao
I wasn't expecting Google's ratings to be so low. Like the people who rate shows and movies on Google usually like a lot of shit and are more generous, but not with this one lmfao
The difference between this show and Harley Quinn, is that you can tell the Harley Quinn writers genuinely wanted to make the show, plus while the jokes are just as edgy, they fit the characters.
I'm fully convinced that Mindy Kaling is using this show as an outlet for all her feeling she had in high school. She trying to get back at everyone who thought she was unattractive and unpopular in High School.
Ikr? She has a lot of "mean girl" energy and it baffles me as to how the hell she managed to get the role of not only director of a show, but also of a scooby doo show. Let that sink in, SCOOBY DOO - a very popular cartoon series. They couldn't have picked a worse director than mindy and she clearly has no interest in scooby doo and I doubt she'll get any further director roles (or any role) after this show either concludes or gets cancelled, cuz after seeing her past behavior, she clearly isn't capable of having what it takes to being a good director (that and also not a good person while at that).
@@dragonlord0784 Bold of you to assume she won't continue to fail upwards because she ticks the right demographic boxes, noxious personality and incompetence aside.
Velma's Mom is the smartest character in the show because she knew to shut her mouth and exit stage left before her duration in the show is more than 2 minutes.
