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:
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
What I want to know is why people keep rebooting and modernising something that clearly is supposed to stay in the 70s
Scooby Doo is eternal and shall be remade and rebooted until the sun itself smolders into ash...
I have not seen any Scooby Doo or Tom and Jerry since I was a child. These are children’s shows for children.
Why are useless adults getting mad? Let the children enjoy them.
I have not seen any Scooby Doo or Tom and Jerry since I was a child. These are children’s shows for children.
Why are useless adults getting mad? Let the children enjoy them.
Are you saying that adults are only allowed to consume arbitrarily selected "adult" shows or else they are "useless" to you?
Where are the minimum required standards of blood, gore, and sexual violence posted?
Are you saying that adults are only allowed to consume arbitrarily selected “adult” shows or else they are “useless” to you?
That's literally what the new show is, apparently Scooby Doo isn't even in it
apparently Scooby Doo isn’t even in it
Oh my. I guess that counts as trying something new.
It is a waste of time for adults to watch a kids show and get mad that it doesn’t cater to them.
I don't think a show that is marketing itself as a darker and edgier Scooby Doo with direct drug references and sex pest jokes about Fred is really intended specifically for children.
Getting mad at what you perceive as getting mad is still getting mad. You're not above this.
I didn’t know it did all that. I assumed it was for children because it is Scooby Doo. I apologise.
I didn’t know that. I assumed it was Scooby Doo, so it was for children. I apologise.
They reboot it all the time. I remember one of the ones they did right before the one they did that had the Family Guy art style was pretty good, but it's a pain to figure out which exact reboot that was.
Family Guy art style
:lea-why:
Though, to be fair, Lower Decks used a Rick and Morty art style and somehow I enjoyed Lower Decks a lot while hating Rick and Morty, so that isn't automatically a red flag I suppose.
"Be Cool" was the Family Guy art style, OP is talking about the one that preceded it
also BCSD sucked
Ah I misread, "Mystery Incorporated" then. (I never watched BCSD but I had heard that it was OK besides the art style)
Anyone remember A Pup Named Scooby-Doo? That shit rocked. The OG was dope as well. 13 Ghosts had Vincent Price but no finale. Scrappy is bad but Flim Flam is next level awful.
i haven't watcher 13 ghosts since i was a child, what's wrong with him? besides i'm going to assume racism
A Pup Named was fuckin great. Even that theme song comes out the gate being like "lets have a good time"
This is the kind of liberalism I hate the most (diversity in shitty content) because it's hard to critique on the merits. At least things like queer POC CIA operatives are fairly straightforward to critique (I hate all CIA operatives and the CIA is bad no matter who's there), but when it comes to art the additional subjectivity makes things harder.
I still haven't watched and probably won't unless comrades here make a strong case.
:zizek:
It’s too bad that vomiting tantrums everywhere will make any non-chud criticism of the most recent show almost impossible without being associated with the
Honestly I've seen way more ostensibly left wing people who have a beef with Mindy Kaling than chuds.
I only found out about that today. The usual pattern for these kinds of shows that do a little politics as a treat :us-foreign-policy: is chuds hating them for that and pretty much ignoring the rest of the show's content.
From what I've learned about Mindy Kaling today, I think those left wing people may have some plausible reasons to dislike her.
There was a 3D Scooby movie that had some brand of brown Velma a couple years ago. At least I think... I looked up "Scoob!" and that Velma is voiced by Gina Rodriguez but doesn't look as brown as I remember.
Now I feel like I'm in a time warp, fuck.
Well, I sat down and watched the damn thing. I regret even half-defending it to own the cons. :what-the-hell:
But yeah, Scooby-Doo is just one of those things that's going to get rebooted over and over, kinda like Star Wars or Tom & Jerry: Some will hit and some will miss, such is life. In a perfect world, something like that would be made public domain.
Did it stay just as bad as it started, or get worse?
There's a sort of "woke edgy" that liberals tend to produce, write, and direct, and it seems intentionally designed to piss as many people off as possible as a publicity gimmick. Star Trek Picard comes to mind. It's got plenty :us-foreign-policy: to piss off chuds but it's also a pointlessly grimdark and arbitrarily cruel misery parade with false sentimentality and hypocritical moralizing that the show itself can't even maintain or adhere to.
