Cartoon/Western Animation General

@Cosmas-the-Explorer
It’s Twitter, so, kind of a drop in the ocean.

I gotta say, Harley Quinn in “Batwheels” is a cutie-patootie.

With Velma S2 now confirmed (only like 2 episodes are out now) I thought I’d give it a shot. See how it really is.

It really is bad. A lot of people call it “Woke” but no, it’s like some anti-woke person’s view on what “Woke-ness” is.

The jokes are all awful. They really are just “reference gags” a la what Family Guy or Rick and Morty does. But worse, whereas those shows at least use a pop culture reference as part of the joke (whether as the setup or punchline), Velma’s reference gags are literally just “Hey remember this thing?” They’re on the tier Seltzer and Friedberg, except whereas those hacks made “Hey remember this thing?” joke about other movies Velma does it with racial issues.

Yes, Velma managed the dubious honor of being just as bad at comedy as Seltzer and Friedberg but with the added bonus of being offensive.

And as stated the characters are all awful. Once again this is less some satirical take on their established character traits and more like some hater’s parody of them. About the only one that semi works is -Shaggy- Norville being very anti-drug, which…haha, fans have joked about Shaggy being a stoner for decades?

Of course this also means their entire personalities is that they are awful people. The most optimistic I can be is that maybe this is intentional, allowing a lot of room for character growth over the series. It’s a pretty simple narrative trick and I’d almost bet that’s what they are going for. But geez, they really started on 0 so they can have all the room for a character arc on improvement.

That Velma show may be bad but no It is not making scooby a human woman and shaggy’s girlfriend.
Misinformation is still misinformation And just makes the hate And backlash look like a joke

While everyone else is binging Velma either out of curiosity or to review, I’m staying safe by going with “What’s New, Scooby Doo?” on HBO Max.

Besides, I don’t think I can handle a TV-MA version of Scoob.

@Jade Kitsune
Good call. I’m gonna watch A Miss Mallard Mystery.

…Did they really put this joke in a show right during the time when their very company was notoriously screwing over its cartoons?

Like, I get that this was probably made independently of that controversy, but yikes is that poor timing.

@TheHappySpaceman
Poor timing my foot, they always think that way of cartoons.

@TheHappySpaceman
Timing is definitely not the problem.

@Dustcan
It’s a common practice nowadays for an animated show to get renewed for a second season before it premieres (unless it’s on Netflix).

On one hand, it prevents shows from getting screwed over after the first season, and gives the creators more time to do what they want to with the series.

On the other hand, it means we’ve gotta deal with this shit for another whole season.

well it used to anyway. thank you netflix.

seems like anything can get canned for literally no reason.

@TheHappySpaceman
given how much this show seemed to hate itself and everybody i really wouldn’t be surprised.

@Angrybrony
Hence why I said “unless it’s on Netflix.”

@TheHappySpaceman
You know what they say; Hindsight is 20/20.

@TheHappySpaceman
It could been done to mock adults who watch cartoons.

Hot take: Teen Titans Go > Velma

I dropped TTG around Season…3 I guess? Back when it was just starting to get actively and intentionally bad.

But yeah, I will say that early TTG is not Velma levels of bad, and even later seasons still has a long way to fall before it gets there.

And a reminder that Velma is only 2 episodes in so far.

@Vivace
Both shows are bad, but Velma is actively worse in every way imaginable.

Velma>Masters of the Universe Revelation.

Mike Tyson Mysteries > Velma

@Hollowfox, Always The Worst Person
MTM is an adult Scooby-Doo parody done right.

Honestly, anything Adult Scooby-Doo related that Warner has made in the past is leagues better than the first two episodes of Velma. Episodes like the Supernatural x Scooby-Doo crossover or that Venture Bros. episode where the gang is parodied and based off of crazy criminals.

They Added little demon to Disney plus in the uk And Danny DeVito as the devil is not something I knew I wanted.
Lucky devito Is also the main character and the devil’s daughter