From what I saw, the previous reboot was fine, even if it made the supernatural more directly "real" consistently which is a significant thematic change from the older shows.
It's too bad that :frothingfash: vomiting :us-foreign-policy: tantrums everywhere will make any non-chud criticism of the most recent show almost impossible without being associated with the :frothingfash: , but maybe that is the point.
From what I read about it, it seems to be a le drugs (as in, no more Shaggy "snacks" subtleties) and le sex pestery edgy reboot that it seems no one asked for and no one wanted, but because it pressed the right chud provocations button it has protection from criticism.
I think you're thinking of Scooby Doo! Mystery Incorporated, but there was two other Scooby-Doo shows in between that and Velma (Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! and Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?)
There were more reboots and relaunches than I previously thought. :surprised-pika:
Too many :chomsky-yes-honey:
I lost track of how many times Spider-Man was rebooted. I got sooooo sick and tired of origin stories and that lead to me quitting capeshit entirely.
Scooby Doo never really goes off the air. At this point it's a cultural institution not unlike the Simpsons - but while that show has tried over the years to hide the seams created by changing producers, writers, artists etc, the Scoobyverse embraces those seams, creating spinoff after spinoff and every time one show ends replacing it with another that's usually coming at the material from a completely different direction from the previous version.
And they're mostly shit.
I didn't watch more than a few episodes of Be Cool, Scooby Doo! but I liked how they changed Daphne's character into a goofy stoner girl as a contemporary to Shaggy
Her old characterization as a damsel in distress or rich girl was always the low point of the gang and this version of Daphne reminded me of some actual girls who smoke weed that I've known, plus she was funny
Mystery Incorporated was of course the GOAT