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Felt wrong to try to post this in Anime, as the usual animation quality, vc, key frames, bgm choice discussions will probably take the backfoot.
So what do you feel about Velma?
It appears to be the new show that's making sales in pitchforks the best investment of 2023. To preface I have not watched the show, but its appears to have become infamous enough to pop up everywhere.
I definitely had goodwill towards Scooby Doo growing up: However Velma producers have said ages ago that this show will be very unlike the original; which begs the question why they had to use the Scooby IP? Was it just to burn an old favourite for angry viewership fuel? If it is meant to be an origin show does that mean the gang will resolve their differences later on and become the favourites that we know and love? (...So somehow Fred is gonna get 100 IQ points, Shaggy is gonna get stoned, Velma is gonna turn nerdy and less mocking, Daphne is gonna fall in love with Fred? Ignoring a lot of Melanin changes)
From snippets of commentators it appears that Velma is quite Meta and criticizes a lot of tropes and cliches...but also uses those same tropes of bad writing; such as reducing the intelligence of everyone in the show so that problems that occur need the MC with their superior intellect to fix (which may suggest that the creator was not smart enough to make a complex problem that they themselves could solve). But as someone who hasn't watched it; perhaps it might be that the in later episodes, there is actually some great demon or culprit that has made everyone dumb, so the gang can't figure out and stop their nefarious plans. I think that might be a good twist and explain why the Scooby IP was used and the supposed intentional/unintentional hate mongering to prove the people who hate the show wrong.
Does this show try to follow the dark humor of animated Harvey Quinn? Or is it completely different? Surely some accountant somewhere crunched numbers on this show as a success, so maybe the hate is intentional? Or else there must be some audience demographic that the producers are betting on to be a cult classic?
Anyways, I think if I ever watch this show, it'll probs be only after it finishes and the whole story is out. There has only been 2 episodes, lots of time to grow or trainwreck and if its a trainwreck, as a wholesome slice-of-life enjoyer; there's no reason for me to watch it, since I will neither enjoy it and will just help their viewership numbers.
So what do you feel about Velma?
It appears to be the new show that's making sales in pitchforks the best investment of 2023. To preface I have not watched the show, but its appears to have become infamous enough to pop up everywhere.
I definitely had goodwill towards Scooby Doo growing up: However Velma producers have said ages ago that this show will be very unlike the original; which begs the question why they had to use the Scooby IP? Was it just to burn an old favourite for angry viewership fuel? If it is meant to be an origin show does that mean the gang will resolve their differences later on and become the favourites that we know and love? (...So somehow Fred is gonna get 100 IQ points, Shaggy is gonna get stoned, Velma is gonna turn nerdy and less mocking, Daphne is gonna fall in love with Fred? Ignoring a lot of Melanin changes)
From snippets of commentators it appears that Velma is quite Meta and criticizes a lot of tropes and cliches...but also uses those same tropes of bad writing; such as reducing the intelligence of everyone in the show so that problems that occur need the MC with their superior intellect to fix (which may suggest that the creator was not smart enough to make a complex problem that they themselves could solve). But as someone who hasn't watched it; perhaps it might be that the in later episodes, there is actually some great demon or culprit that has made everyone dumb, so the gang can't figure out and stop their nefarious plans. I think that might be a good twist and explain why the Scooby IP was used and the supposed intentional/unintentional hate mongering to prove the people who hate the show wrong.
Does this show try to follow the dark humor of animated Harvey Quinn? Or is it completely different? Surely some accountant somewhere crunched numbers on this show as a success, so maybe the hate is intentional? Or else there must be some audience demographic that the producers are betting on to be a cult classic?
Anyways, I think if I ever watch this show, it'll probs be only after it finishes and the whole story is out. There has only been 2 episodes, lots of time to grow or trainwreck and if its a trainwreck, as a wholesome slice-of-life enjoyer; there's no reason for me to watch it, since I will neither enjoy it and will just help their viewership numbers.
