That's exactly what I meant. (But Velma's friendship with Marcy wasn't given the shaft when she left the gang. It turned up again when Marcy was the culprit behind another mystery and let Velma have a piece of the disk (none of the gang was around when this happened, BTW), and AGAIN when she infiltrate's Mr E's hideout to steal his pieces of the disk for Velma and her friends.) And ugh...I don't like even remembering the Baylor Hotner thing. But to answer your question, IIRC Daphne was the one who discovered Brad and Judy's locket to begin with and she had the most curiosity over what happened to the original Mystery Inc., while Velma had that whole thing with Cassidy Williams in the last season too. She's also been shown to be a little more "really smart" this season, as well. Otherwise, their non-man related moments are comedic moments, like Daphne's recent chocolate addiction, or Velma's various snarks.
I recently watched the Nostalgia Critic review for the first theatrical live action Scooby Doo movie. I do enjoy that one for how awful it is, actually. XD As for Shaggy/Velma, wasn't it hinted at in "Pup" alot, or does that not count because they were just kids and thus not into romantic relationships?
I think we're meant to assume that they were just fine as friends like they were in past Scooby shows before they started dating, but this is "Show, Don't Tell" at work. If only we could've had flashbacks that SHOWED what Shaggy, Velma, and Scooby were all like as just friends and how the Shaggy/Velma relationship got started to begin with.
Also, I thought I once said how, while a shmuck move on Shaggy's part, hiding their relationship was not "intentioanlly cruel" on his part, since he was just terribly insecure about the whole thing and didn't want to be a real man yet. The Mai Lee thing, on the other hand, was cruel. As was what he did with Daphne in the loopy gas episode. (Yeah, I hate to keep bringing that up but GAH. Not only did they make it too vague whether or not he was truthful about thinking he was Fred, but ALL THE SAME, he had NO remorse for it! He even gushed about being "kissed by an angel" RIGHT IN FRONT OF FRED AND DAPH! It was just....RRRGH! Stupid, STUPID writing! XD)
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Date: 2012-09-04 01:09 am (UTC)I recently watched the Nostalgia Critic review for the first theatrical live action Scooby Doo movie. I do enjoy that one for how awful it is, actually. XD As for Shaggy/Velma, wasn't it hinted at in "Pup" alot, or does that not count because they were just kids and thus not into romantic relationships?
I think we're meant to assume that they were just fine as friends like they were in past Scooby shows before they started dating, but this is "Show, Don't Tell" at work. If only we could've had flashbacks that SHOWED what Shaggy, Velma, and Scooby were all like as just friends and how the Shaggy/Velma relationship got started to begin with.
Also, I thought I once said how, while a shmuck move on Shaggy's part, hiding their relationship was not "intentioanlly cruel" on his part, since he was just terribly insecure about the whole thing and didn't want to be a real man yet. The Mai Lee thing, on the other hand, was cruel. As was what he did with Daphne in the loopy gas episode. (Yeah, I hate to keep bringing that up but GAH. Not only did they make it too vague whether or not he was truthful about thinking he was Fred, but ALL THE SAME, he had NO remorse for it! He even gushed about being "kissed by an angel" RIGHT IN FRONT OF FRED AND DAPH! It was just....RRRGH! Stupid, STUPID writing! XD)