That's kind of what I said in the point about Shaggy and Scooby teasing her. Had the show not shown Velma's self image issues about her body as a serious thing (or rather, not shown them at all) before, this wouldn't be as much of a problem. And even so, it still would've been nice to see this episode treat the issue of girls' looks and how guys view them as something other than just a big joke. Though I'm forgetting when Daphne was ever THAT heavily sexualized aside from that stupid Hex Girls episode.
I think maybe we're supposed to forget all that happened in the first half of the first season? 'Cause I sure as hell would like to! But as it stands, yes, those were the wrong characters to have tease Velma.
Yeah, while I see that it did nothing to refute "Velma is a fat she-beast", I didn't think it did that much to ENFORCE it either. A "Daphne=HOT, Velma=NOT" mentality isn't the same as "Velma is a fat she-beast". In fact, just the previous episode made the implications that Shaggy was UGLY because a person who's views were "ugly=beauty" found him attractive. Is that male appearance sexism? Coincidentally, that same episode was one of the ones that portrayed Velma and Hot Dog Water, neither of whom are conventionally attractive, in a positive light.
Hopefully when you have a child, MI will be off the air. XD
But as I've been really watching this second season, it only reinforced what I thought of the second half of the previous season. I'm just not seeing the colossal badness that you seem to see in this show. The stuff I enjoy about it just FAR outweighs what I find stupid or disgusting about it. And really, for this show, it's less that they have no place writing a show focused on romance and soap opera melodrama so much as those things have no place in a Scooby Doo mystery show. If those were taken out, the show would be near perfect rather than just good or great like I see it as now.
But like I said, I've got nothing to defend the loopy gas one. They'd be better off not having Shaggy ever do something like that.
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Date: 2012-08-31 01:23 am (UTC)I think maybe we're supposed to forget all that happened in the first half of the first season? 'Cause I sure as hell would like to! But as it stands, yes, those were the wrong characters to have tease Velma.
Yeah, while I see that it did nothing to refute "Velma is a fat she-beast", I didn't think it did that much to ENFORCE it either. A "Daphne=HOT, Velma=NOT" mentality isn't the same as "Velma is a fat she-beast". In fact, just the previous episode made the implications that Shaggy was UGLY because a person who's views were "ugly=beauty" found him attractive. Is that male appearance sexism? Coincidentally, that same episode was one of the ones that portrayed Velma and Hot Dog Water, neither of whom are conventionally attractive, in a positive light.
Hopefully when you have a child, MI will be off the air. XD
But as I've been really watching this second season, it only reinforced what I thought of the second half of the previous season. I'm just not seeing the colossal badness that you seem to see in this show. The stuff I enjoy about it just FAR outweighs what I find stupid or disgusting about it. And really, for this show, it's less that they have no place writing a show focused on romance and soap opera melodrama so much as those things have no place in a Scooby Doo mystery show. If those were taken out, the show would be near perfect rather than just good or great like I see it as now.
But like I said, I've got nothing to defend the loopy gas one. They'd be better off not having Shaggy ever do something like that.