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cjsdowg
05/19/22 3:11:18 PM
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https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1403098971191615492

It is kind of odd that they are making it a Velma show in that case. Does she really have a personality that stands out without her being next to the her gang. I mean besides Shaggy none of them really seems like they have that.

Beyond that I worry that this would give cover for people to hate it for other reasons. And they can just use that.


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Smashingpmkns
05/19/22 3:14:12 PM
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Entirely depends on the writing. It's probably going to be a lot like the Harley Quinn tv show, which is pretty good imo. But if Velma isn't solving mysteries then I don't see the point.

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NeonOctopus
05/19/22 3:14:12 PM
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Turbam posted...
I've wanted to fuck Velma for decades.
Same, in the series where she's in college >_>

Velma > Daphne

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spikethedevil
05/19/22 3:14:26 PM
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Turbam posted...
I've wanted to fuck Velma for decades.

Shes 15.

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Kitt
05/19/22 3:15:00 PM
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The only thing that's stopping me from caring about this is the fact that they're not getting Kate Micucci back to voice her. I felt like she was doing a great job.

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ZeroV2
05/19/22 3:15:18 PM
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its literally just "smart girl detective" show then

really has nothing to do with the IP at all

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Number090684
05/19/22 3:15:44 PM
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Velma doesn't have much of a personality besides being smart. People mainly like her because they think white nerd girls are hot and like to sexualize her and because other projected personality traits from memes. It's sad really. Posts #2 and #4 prove my point.
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Questionmarktarius
05/19/22 3:16:47 PM
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...are we looking at another Ghostbusters gambit here, yet?
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Axiom
05/19/22 3:17:38 PM
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It's about Velma's origin so that makes sense. It also doesn't really matter if Scooby Doo is involved or not as long as it's entertaining. This isn't going to be targeting the old school Scooby Doo crowd anyway

Looks more like a Venture Bros style thing
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NeonOctopus
05/19/22 3:17:44 PM
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Number090684 posted...
Velma doesn't have much of a personality besides being smart. People mainly like her because they think white nerd girls are hot and like to sexualize her and because other projected personality traits from memes. It's sad really. Posts #2 and #4 prove my point.
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Turbam
05/19/22 3:18:24 PM
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spikethedevil posted...


Shes 15.
I thought she was in college?

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NeonOctopus
05/19/22 3:19:10 PM
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Turbam posted...
I thought she was in college?
There's like 14 series and some of them have her in college. I'm only counting those >_>

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spanky1
05/19/22 3:22:05 PM
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There are some great thicc big titty velma porn ladies out there

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DipDipDiver
05/19/22 3:22:19 PM
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I really hate when pop culture stuff is used this way. Why even attach this to an establshed character if it has nothing to do with the character
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Questionmarktarius
05/19/22 3:26:53 PM
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DipDipDiver posted...
Why even attach this to an establshed character if it has nothing to do with the character
obvious possibilities are "fresh new take on [thing]" pretentiousness, or "this is ambiguously like [thing], let's make it be [thing]" executive meddling.

Given that Mindy Kaling keeps getting screwed over, probably the latter.
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toreysback
05/19/22 3:29:54 PM
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the pooch is canon

canon i say

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Ilishe
05/19/22 3:31:43 PM
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Scooby without the Scooby?

Fuck right off

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bigblu89
05/19/22 3:33:59 PM
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ZeroV2 posted...
its literally just "smart girl detective" show then

really has nothing to do with the IP at all

DipDipDiver posted...
I really hate when pop culture stuff is used this way. Why even attach this to an establshed character if it has nothing to do with the character


Because calling it "Velma" will get more people to watch than if it was just called "Mary Jones: Teenage Detective".

It only came on my radar because I was a big Scooby Doo fan as a kid, and so when i saw there would be a Velma show, it popped up on some social media feeds I follow.

If it was called "Generic Girl: Teenage Detective", I probably wouldn't never even heard of it.

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ZeldaMutant
05/19/22 3:34:27 PM
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spikethedevil posted...
>I've wanted to fuck Velma for decades.
Shes 15.
Decades ago most of us were younger than 15.

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toreysback
05/19/22 3:35:34 PM
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she's actually 900 years old

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angeleyes94
05/19/22 3:45:24 PM
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Ilishe posted...
Scooby without the Scooby?

Fuck right off


It's an alternative multi verse

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spikethedevil
05/19/22 3:57:54 PM
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NeonOctopus posted...
There's like 14 series and some of them have her in college. I'm only counting those >_>

Shes in her 20s in a couple of the movies IIRC Zombie Island and the Witches/Hex Girls one.

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uwnim
05/19/22 4:09:25 PM
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spikethedevil posted...


Shes 15.
Wait what. Why are 15 year olds driving around the country solving mysteries?

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Squall28
05/19/22 4:16:13 PM
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Gives me Harley Quinn vibes. It'd prob be decent

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Guide
05/19/22 4:17:28 PM
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There really isn't a point to this beyond brand recognition, and not having Scooby kills the point.

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DipDipDiver
05/19/22 4:19:20 PM
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bigblu89 posted...
Because calling it "Velma" will get more people to watch than if it was just called "Mary Jones: Teenage Detective".

It only came on my radar because I was a big Scooby Doo fan as a kid, and so when i saw there would be a Velma show, it popped up on some social media feeds I follow.

If it was called "Generic Girl: Teenage Detective", I probably wouldn't never even heard of it.
Makes me less likely to watch it tbh. I could be on board with a funny animated murder mystery show, but doing it this way completely turns me off
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FL81
05/19/22 4:32:21 PM
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Mystery Incorporated was a good reboot for the franchise at least

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bigblu89
05/19/22 4:46:48 PM
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DipDipDiver posted...
Makes me less likely to watch it tbh. I could be on board with a funny animated murder mystery show, but doing it this way completely turns me off
You're in the minority though.

The curiosity factor of an origin story of a character that's been around for 50 years is more appealing than a show starting from scratch.

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Kitt
05/19/22 4:48:43 PM
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Is it an origins story and Scooby, Shaggy, Fred, etc. just doesn't exist at all in this version, or she ends up meeting then eventually way down the line?

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Lunar_Savage
05/19/22 4:49:49 PM
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This has "automatic fail" written all over it.

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TMOG
05/19/22 4:52:52 PM
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Kitt posted...
The only thing that's stopping me from caring about this is the fact that they're not getting Kate Micucci back to voice her. I felt like she was doing a great job.
So... get a white woman to voice an Indian character?
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gunplagirl
05/19/22 4:54:05 PM
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Is Mindy Kaling even funny?

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toreysback
05/19/22 4:55:16 PM
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just her career

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Southernfatman
05/19/22 4:55:17 PM
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It might be fine and all, but who asked for this? Since it's an HBO show, will there be gratuitous sex and nudity? Seems like that would be a problem given the ages of the Scooby gang.

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DarthAragorn
05/19/22 4:55:36 PM
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TMOG posted...
So... get a white woman to voice an Indian character?
Or just get a white woman to voice a white character. Since Velma has always been white.

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YookaLaylee
05/19/22 4:57:01 PM
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bigblu89 posted...

You're in the minority though.

The curiosity factor of an origin story of a character that's been around for 50 years is more appealing than a show starting from scratch.

What origin story is there to tell though? Shes a a nerd who is always dropping her glasses and reads a lot of books about curses and monsters. Theres not much to expand on. If this was a show that actually had Scooby Doo in it but was told from Velmas perspective it would be much more interesting than this show that has none of the Scooby Doo cast except for her. There really is no point in holding onto the name Velma for this

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WaterLink
05/19/22 4:57:13 PM
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Southernfatman posted...
Since it's an HBO show, will there be gratuitous sex and nudity?

It'll be a female version of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8e5Ej4uyto

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TMOG
05/19/22 4:58:15 PM
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DarthAragorn posted...
Or just get a white woman to voice a white character. Since Velma has always been white.
Wait, really?

*checks*

Holy shit I never knew that
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bigblu89
05/19/22 5:14:57 PM
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YookaLaylee posted...
What origin story is there to tell though? Shes a a nerd who is always dropping her glasses and reads a lot of books about curses and monsters. Theres not much to expand on. If this was a show that actually had Scooby Doo in it but was told from Velmas perspective it would be much more interesting than this show that has none of the Scooby Doo cast except for her. There really is no point in holding onto the name Velma for this
What the origin story is, I do not know. It's not like her character (or any of the characters, for that matter) is so three dimensional in the cartoon that a story of "how they got the way they are" is really necessary.

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DipDipDiver
05/19/22 5:15:02 PM
#41:


bigblu89 posted...
You're in the minority though.

The curiosity factor of an origin story of a character that's been around for 50 years is more appealing than a show starting from scratch.
Maybe I am and maybe I'm not. This just looks like your own opinion not any sort of majority
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Southernfatman
05/19/22 5:16:34 PM
#42:


WaterLink posted...
It'll be a female version of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8e5Ej4uyto

lol. I swear Dennis has to be the head of HBO. I'm no prude, but 90% of the time it's just gratuitous, unnecessary, and just slows things down just for some titillation that one can get by watching porn.

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Ivynn
05/19/22 5:21:31 PM
#43:


This is is so strange. But so was the idea of a Harley Quinn show, and they made that work so who knows?

NeonOctopus posted...
Velma > Daphne

Always.

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pfh1001
05/19/22 5:39:03 PM
#44:


gunplagirl posted...
Is Mindy Kaling even funny?


No. She's annoying.

Also, Daphne will always be best girl-- there's nothing better than a gorgeous redhead.
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Nemu
05/19/22 5:41:55 PM
#45:


So it's basically just someone using an existing franchise as a vehicle for their fanfiction? Seems kinda weird if they're not going to use it to explore another side of an already established character.
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WaterLink
05/19/22 5:49:18 PM
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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/7/4/AAGkrsAADP7a.jpg

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Questionmarktarius
05/19/22 5:53:22 PM
#47:


Reminder that this existed:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/9/7/AAEhCpAADP7x.jpg

Pointless Scooby-Doo reboots are nothing new, and "Scooby Doo Babies" is somehow the least awful one.

This was mercilessly parodied well over fifteen years ago:
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Disengaged
05/19/22 5:56:27 PM
#48:


CE

You know it only gets worse from here.

There's no Scooby, because it's Scrappy.

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Hayame Zero
05/19/22 6:00:31 PM
#49:


Questionmarktarius posted...
Reminder that this existed:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/9/7/AAEhCpAADP7x.jpg


The DC Hannah-Barbera comics were so crazy. Snagglepuss was rebooted as a closeted gay theater director

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spikethedevil
05/19/22 6:02:37 PM
#50:


WaterLink posted...
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/7/4/AAGkrsAADP7a.jpg

Oh fuck you so hard for this lol.

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