>show made specifically to prove that supernatural shit is a hoax
>Practically every other entry in the franchise featured real supernatural shit
What gives?
>show made specifically to prove that supernatural shit is a hoax
>show made specifically to prove that supernatural shit is a hoax
>Practically every other entry in the franchise featured real supernatural shit
What gives?
They probably thought the formula was gonna get stale. And to be fair, they weren't entirely wrong.
Btw this is just a me thing, but I like having real monsters as well as fake monsters. I would kinda like a new show to have a mix
I agree. I like in when Mystery Inc comes from a place of "ghosts might be real but let's investigate it." Like they're open to the idea but skeptical. I hate how as time goes on theyre more jaded just adamantly saying "nothing supernatural exists." And any evidence to the contrary is met with them being mindbroken or heavy denial.
>They probably thought the formula was gonna get stale.
I mean, it did. Binging every episode of every Scooby Doo series sounds like a good way to give yourself brain damage
I've done this. It's mostly fine except for a few stinkers. The late Scrappy seasons being 3 bad shorts with no mysteries at all was terrible, all the guest star series are mediocre, and Get a Clue and Velma are both differently bad. Also avoid most of the live action stuff. Not the puppet one though. That one is good.
>s. I would kinda like a new show to have a mix
Guess Who had wonder woman
Monsters actually existing gives the fake ones a whole lot more legitimacy. In the classic formula you already know it's a fake so it's hard to buy anyone being fooled by it.
IMO the best mix would be:
>Every mystery results in someone being unmasked
>There's one random episode where it's an actual monster, like completely random with no real relevance to the show overall
>If it has an overarching villain, make whether they were human or not ambiguous
It'd freak the frick out of kids that one of them was actually a monster and keep them second-guessing the formula
This.
In my opinion, the composition should be something like:
> Mostly deceptions or hoaxes which get fully unambiguously resolved
> A light peppering of cases which are either inconclusive or left with a couple lingering details left ambiguous
> Extremely rare outliers where the investigation encounters a genuine supernatural event.
ace attorney was better
Having to come up with plot to explain why people fell for the fake paranormal stuff and how it worked require intelligence to be interesting, or it'd get stale fast
By making the paranormal real, they could think of more braindead plots that didn't need half decent explanations
In fairness some the plots where the supernatural is real are pretty elaborate in getting into how it worked. The most braindead ones actually seem to be more "We've got an original monster themed movie.....how do we sell this? Put Scooby Doo on that b***h" Like Ghoul School and Reluctant Werewolf could've been any Hanna Barabera character.
Boo brothers, Ghoul School and Reluctant Werewolf all felt like backdoor pilots for shows that never got made.
That's exactly what they were.
The franchise has been going on for so long, that it's the main subversion. Although, some of the recent year direct to video movies claimed stuff like Zombie Island was fake, and the Courage the Cowardly Dog stuff was explained by advanced science due to a meteor.
If they do another adult animated series, I'd want there to be murder, but the monsters are fake, but still a real threat since they're killers.
A bit like Scoobynatural, where the characters still act like themselves mostly even with higher stakes.
>Although, some of the recent year direct to video movies claimed stuff like Zombie Island was fake, and the Courage the Cowardly Dog stuff was explained by advanced science due to a meteor.
What the frick
No you're correct. Though theyre a bit tongue in cheek about it, it's heavily implied that everything they experienced the first time was staged. They also do the same thing with the 13th ghost where they also imply none of the ghosts were real but leave juuuuust enough space in the conclusion for you to be able to make your own conclusion.
Which is insane to me because there's another movie in the same continuity where they meet fricking batman and have to deal with his rogues gallery. And if clayface and poison ivy can exist I don't know why ghosts can't.
Yeah, Nowhere is weird because it's where the dinosaur killing meteor hit and said meteorite has bullshit reality warping powers.
>I'd want there to be murder
That thinking is what gave us Velma
You're right, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have potential with capable writers.
Instead we're getting stuff like Velma and live-action Scooby-Doo by CW's Riverdale producer, which will completely prevent the franchise from having a well-done take on this franchise for an older audience due to all the poor reception.
Shaggy was turned into a werewolf and teach some monster girls how to play volleyball
And race!
Weren't the original ideas for what would become Scooby-Doo a lot more serious than the final product? IIRC, the old plans were going to feature real monsters, but HB told them to tune it down.
>show made specifically to prove that supernatural shit is a hoax
It was made because pressure groups were complaining that cartoons had become too violent.
The original show had real monsters from time to time (The Yeti who fell to his dead, the skull ghost who was scared of dinosaurs, the frozen shark monster that a guy dressed up as him wanted to steal), but they mostly used them as gags, I liked What's New Scooby Doo the best because that show had more outlandish monster designs and even had real monsters from time to time like the giant sea monster in the Smash Mouth episode and the evil AI house
It was like Patlabor, you had mostly regular criminals and fake monsters, but once in a while a real monster showed up
And just like Scooby they still had at least one member acting like a fedora tipper even after they meet a real monster
>Oh clearly this is going to be an underwater Labor that was unaccounted for that some crooks are doing crimes with
>Nah Dr. Serizawa just made a Gargantua in his lab and it got out
>Gargantua and Mama's boy have a moment and it's just out there....the end
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>implying the reason the monsters were fake wasn't that soccer moms at the time thought real monsters would be too scawy
Stop making about Velma and actually made about Velma!
What's the point of investigating leads when most of them are false leads or more clues are missing? I mean, the culprit is someone we don't know or the guys find off-screen clues that they don't reveal until the end.
>show made specifically to prove that supernatural shit is a hoax
I completely doubt this show was created to have a point other than being cheap.
What's wrong with it. I think it's pretty cool....
The best Scooby Doo media was Zombie Island and that was real supernatural shit and they've tried to recapture lightning in a bottle again.
>hannah barabra cartoon PROVES something
No it doesn't.
I know it's not meant to be consumed that way, but I like to imagine all of scooby doo content as one schizophrenic canon, so Shaggy and the crew just go from unmasking deranged plumbers dressed like killer clowns one day and then he ends up teaching literal Dracula's husky daughter at a boarding school the next week, before stopping by Area 51 to fight actual Martians and end with a nice unmasking of the Ice-cream Ghost as an angry cashier.
Let's all meet back at the Malt Shop