30 Day Shipping Meme: Day 1 - What is your current favorite ship?

[brendala]

Finally jumping on the "30 Days" meme bandwagon. Yay me!

My current favorite ship is a famous duo who took over 40 years to enter into a cannon relationship: Velma Dinkley and Shaggy Rogers from Scooby Doo: Mystery Incorporated.




I was torn on whether or not to choose this couple because the past few episodes of Mystery Incorporated have majorly altered Shaggy and Velma’s established personalities (thereby eliminating some of the traits that made them compatible to begin with). The show itself has an infuriating need to inject tons of melodrama into this relationship and chose to do so by violating cannon in a pretty nasty way (mainly by making Scooby hate Velma and making Velma act desperate). 

Despite all that, it’s still compelling to watch (if only on a soap opera level) and I’m still rooting for them because, damn it, I waited over 20 years for them to be cannon! I just hope we get some indication in the near future that the relationship isn’t just built on teenage lust (I swear that’s what the current implication is! O_o). It’s weird to see characters who have been sweet and mellow in previous shows have one of the most dramatically messed up romances in kiddie cartoon history (in episode 8, Velma outright says “I hate myself for loving him”)!

*sigh* But, even if Mystery Incorporated does royally screw up a ship that Scooby fans have waited over 40 years to see, at least we'll still have these awesome screenshots to gawk at (hat tip to the person who captured them):




















Day 01 - What is your current favourite ship?
Day 02 - What was your very first ship?
Day 03 - A pairing that needs to happen now?
Day 04 - The pairing with the most chemistry?
Day 05 - The pairing with the least chemistry?
Day 06 - The best kiss?
Day 07 - The most heartbreaking scene?
Day 08 - The pairing with the most baggage?
Day 09 - The most believable relationship?
Day 10 - Why aren't these two married in real life?
Day 11 - What is your dream pairing?
Day 12 - Who had the best wedding?
Day 13 - What is your favorite television pairing?
Day 14 - What is your favorite book pairing?
Day 15 - What is your favorite real life pairing?
Day 16 - What is the absolute worst pairing?
Day 17 - A pairing you thought would never work out, but did?
Day 18 - What is the cutest pairing?
Day 19 - A pairing you've rooted for since the beginning?
Day 20 - The "can't stand the sexual tension anymore" pairing?
Day 21 - A pairing you like and no one else understands why?
Day 22 - A pairing you hate and no one else understands why?
Day 23 - A crazy love triangle/quadrilateral that worked out great?
Day 24 - A crazy love triangle/quadrilateral that worked out badly?
Day 25 - A pairing that was/would-be adorable, but could never work out?
Day 26 - A pairing that you hated and ended up loving?
Day 27 - A pairing that you loved and ended up hating?
Day 28 - A pairing that you will never understand?
Day 29 - What ship had the best proposal?
Day 30 - Your favorite ship forever and ever and ever?

Comments

[earthstar-moon.livejournal.com]

Hey, this looks like a fun meme too. Hmm...maybe I'll tackle this one next. XD (I did just finish the Disney one).

I haven't watch the last two episodes, but I know what you mean. Velma is becoming way too controlling to my tastes. I really hope the writers go back to what made they pairing so cute in the first place. With that said, it's been confirmed the show will be airing in Canada on September 9th. ^_~

[dqbunny.livejournal.com]

Noooo, that really does scare me. I was planning on hunting down the episodes, but not if they're going to do that to them.

[brendala.livejournal.com]

I recommend at least checking out the first 3 episodes before writing off the show entirely. The first 3 episodes were REALLY good and didn't go crazy with melodrama or screw up anyone's established personalities.

Mystery Incorporated is a strange beast. It got the Velma/Shaggy/Scooby dynamic terribly wrong (and it looks like the writers did it solely to add ~drama~ to the relationship); but it does a FABULOUS job with Fred and Daphne! For the first time, Fred and Daphne are interesting, 3-dimensional characters and not just "the handsome leader and the hot chick". And the unsolved mystery behind the gang's hometown is really compelling.


*sigh* This may seem like an odd comparison, but this show makes me think about what it would be like if a new season of Slayers came out, made Lina and Gourry an official item, but then had them behave like a bad shoujo manga couple. We'd all watch it to squee over the pics of them hugging and kissing (and make a buttload of icons out of those screenshots); but we'd still be sad that the writers dropped the ball.

[brendala.livejournal.com]

Thankfully, Velma stops being a control freak once Shaggy agrees to stop hiding their relationship. But...

--SPOILERS FOR EPISODES 7&8 BELOW (highlight to read)--
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...now <i>Scooby</i> is the one acting like a jealous control freak! He's really mean to Velma for no reason in the latest episode. And that really bothered me because part of the reason I've always thought Shaggy/Velma would be good together is the close relationship Velma and Scooby had in most of the previous Scooby shows (she was the keeper of the Scooby Snacks for cryin' out loud!). If they don't reconcile soon, I'm gonna be a very sad fangirl. :(

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[earthstar-moon.livejournal.com]

I remember in one of the Scooby Doo movies when Scooby was beyond thrilled to see Velma after she'd been away for months. Once he caught her scent, Scooby jumped out of a moving van so he could find, pounce and happily lick Velma. Him not liking Shaggy and Velma as a couple makes no sense. Seriously, let's pray the writers get their act together soon.

[earthstar-moon.livejournal.com]

I would agree with brendala The handle of Shaggy and Velma's relationship is probably the biggest flaw, but the rest of the show is really good. Fred is hilarious because he's so obsessed with traps (he even makes a scrapbook of them) and poor Daphane keeps dropping hints that she loves him. However, there are moments when it's clear Fred cares for Daphane but he himself hasn't realized yet.

I won't say which episode so I don't spoil you, but there's one episode when Daphane is missing and Fred can't think of any traps because he doesn't know what to do without her. The show also has all these references and callbacks to other Scooby Doo shows/specials. There's even a brief appearance of Vincent Van Ghoul who was a major character in the 13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo (and was played by Vincent Van Price.)

Finally, these is an ongoing plot of this huge mystery the gang is trying to solve that will probably go on all season. So, it's still worth a worth. Just be warn Velma and Shaggy will make you head desk a bit. (No more than say Yue and Sokka did probably. XP)

[brendala.livejournal.com]

You're thinking of Scooby Doo in Where's My Mummy. I remember that one because it (a) nailed Velma's character and (b) had the coolest "unmasking the villain" twist ending EVER. ~_^

The weird thing is that previous episodes of Mystery Inc seemed to imply that Scooby did know about the relationship and was fine with it. So it was a serious WTF moment when Scooby growled at Velma for no reason in the latest episode! O_o
I'm assuming that Velma and Scooby will get stuck together at some point and forced to make up. And when they do, I hope they team up and chew Shaggy out for his idiotic insistence on keeping the relationship secret in the first place.