Now that we’re past knee-jerky anti-velmoid whine, can someone give some actual criticism about what’s supposed to be wrong with this show? I enjoyed it.
Now that were past knee-jerky anti-velmoid whine, can someone give some actual criticism about whats supposed to be wrong with this show?
I don't
The characters are unlikable, which would be fine if it were funny.
But it's not funny.
Hey Mindy. What they said
it’s a comedy that’s not funny
This. I laughed at more of it than I expected, but it's generally just "not very good".
Dunking on wh*tes is a fine craft and Velma is just too crass and plebian with its deliveries
You're not an interesting person
This show confuse me. It's not for SJW or right wings.
It's like they hate all of them
Velma hates herself, people in the show hates her, and people irl hates her.
Yeah. And unfortunately, it's one of those where instead of appealing to everyone else while pissing off extremists, it just pisses everyone off.
She is not a lesbian anymore.
I'm cautiously optimistic for Season 2.
the shaggy is a better velma than the actual velma character the show would be better if we followed norville blacky rodgers instead
It's unfunny, all of the characters are unlikable, and it's mostly just using the Scooby Doo name for free promotion, despite it being another vanity project for Mindy Kaling, a b***h so thoroughly unlikable and repulsive that even lefties think she's some kind of alt-right psyop to make feminists look bad.
>I enjoyed it.
There you go, the problem's on your end.
>relies to much on “dude is this trope I’m do SOOO dumb XDDDD” humor.
>Velma is unlike even in-universe but it’s never really addressed
>none of the characters resemble their classic counterpart’s at all
>the main “mystery” required so many contrivances to work
>none of the characters are likable
>Velma feels like a mindy self-insert
>it isn’t all that funny
>relies to much on “dude is this trope I’m do SOOO dumb XDDDD” humor.
Lampshading, but doing nothing better or more clever is just obnoxiously self-aware writing that tells you that the people working on it didn't have any confidence in their own shit either.
>Velma feels like a mindy self-insert
Because she is. If I recall, the whole show wasn't supposed to be Scooby Doo at all, but Mindy just wanted to try doing a cartoon about herself, because she's a narcissistic c**t. The studio told her no until they retooled the idea to be a scooby doo thing, because they needed to do something with the IP.
Velma is like a lot of recent reboots and remakes. They feel like the writers have spent hours on tvtropes, reddit, twitter, etc. more than they've even watched the originals, in fact it feels like they don't watch the originals they read stupid fricking fan theories and fan jokes and YouTube "critiques" instead.
The reboot or remakes regurgitates fourth-hand "observations" and criticisms of the originals and mocks or apologizes for all the ways the originals were "problematic" even if it's unknowingly based not on the originals at all but on an internet meme parody of the original and it's full of shit.
Instead of a real movie or show it's someone who read a tvtropes page or a reddit thread without seeing the original than made a meme and the person who saw the meme writes the show. The writer never read any books or comic books, played any video games, or watched any film or television. Their whole life their only "art" consumption has been critical twitter memes of those things. And this is what you get.
It's a thoroughly incestuous style of writing that has nothing to say and no confidence in itself. The kind of sludge that people who have been raised entirely on derivative media always make because everything they've watched all their is derivative crap.
1. I didn't find any of it funny at all. Not even a chuckle. That's totally subjective but a lot of people didn't find it funny at all, and it's a comedy. That's why they disliked it.
2. It has nothing to do with Scooby-Doo. It's not even a parody of Scooby-Doo. It's a parody of CW shows. The characters have absolutely nothing to do with the Scooby-Doo characters. They are not even parodies of the Scooby-Doo characters. There have been actual parodies of Scooby-Doo that were funny. This has a Mindy Kaling self-insert (another one) and a It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia character rip-off or two.
They shouldn't have pretended it had anything to do with Scooby-Doo.
3. The show was just one sparky meta where the characters turn to the camera and say something that "TV shows do" after another. They weren't even jokes. They weren't even accurate observations. One was about how lesbians are always detectives or vice Vera on television. Are they? I haven't seen that enough that I'm laughing and think "wow that's so true." I mean I'm sure there's an example somewhere, but always?
4. Besides just the characters saying "TV shows always do this" it's just a collection of Twitter hot takes that are bad and don't add up to coherent characterization or plot or anything which would be fine if they were funny. They are not funny.
The animation is good though. That's it.
>I enjoyed it.
get a better taste on stuff
and a personality
Isn’t it just a blatant self insert show, that decided to use a well known IP to (poorly) obfuscate this I mean this isn’t out of the ordinary for Mindy at all.