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)
I say "Marcy got the shaft" because the gang dumped her the second Daphne returned and Velma went along with it. It's not like the gang never had a fifth member before (see: Angel); so them refusing to let her stay after all she did for them was bullshit. And character-wise it didn't make sense for Velma to let the others walk all over her and kick Marcy out. Velma KNOWS the gang can't solve a 10-piece jigsaw puzzle without her help. She could have twisted their arms and made them keep her.
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?
That NC review was AWESOME, wasn't it?
I doubt the creators behind "Pup" intended any romance between Shaggy/Velma. There are a few moments where it comes across that way (like Velma playing the damsel in one of Shaggy's superhero fantasies and Velma basically being Scooby's second BFF); but that may very well have been accidental.
...this is "Show, Don't Tell" at work....
I think that describes many of this show's shortcomings. For most of season one, I was firmly on the "F**k Velma, she had it coming" bandwagon because of the way the show presented her (ie that she forced a timid man-child into a relationship he didn't want and then browbeat him until he finally grew some balls and broke it off). But then the Mai Lee episode happened and we get the implication that HE may have started it and then we witness him being a horn dog with Velma's friend. So now it's impossible to know who's to blame for the train wreck that was their relationship.
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
AGREED! I prefer to believe that Shaggy really was loopy because my inner child might die a little if I let myself believe that Shaggy could molest one of his friends. But even if he really was out of it, there's NO excuse to be so tactless about it afterward. Fred should have beat him up. No jury in the world would have convicted him for it. XD
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Date: 2012-09-05 04:50 am (UTC)I say "Marcy got the shaft" because the gang dumped her the second Daphne returned and Velma went along with it. It's not like the gang never had a fifth member before (see: Angel); so them refusing to let her stay after all she did for them was bullshit. And character-wise it didn't make sense for Velma to let the others walk all over her and kick Marcy out. Velma KNOWS the gang can't solve a 10-piece jigsaw puzzle without her help. She could have twisted their arms and made them keep her.
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?
That NC review was AWESOME, wasn't it?
I doubt the creators behind "Pup" intended any romance between Shaggy/Velma. There are a few moments where it comes across that way (like Velma playing the damsel in one of Shaggy's superhero fantasies and Velma basically being Scooby's second BFF); but that may very well have been accidental.
...this is "Show, Don't Tell" at work....
I think that describes many of this show's shortcomings. For most of season one, I was firmly on the "F**k Velma, she had it coming" bandwagon because of the way the show presented her (ie that she forced a timid man-child into a relationship he didn't want and then browbeat him until he finally grew some balls and broke it off). But then the Mai Lee episode happened and we get the implication that HE may have started it and then we witness him being a horn dog with Velma's friend. So now it's impossible to know who's to blame for the train wreck that was their relationship.
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
AGREED!
I prefer to believe that Shaggy really was loopy because my inner child might die a little if I let myself believe that Shaggy could molest one of his friends. But even if he really was out of it, there's NO excuse to be so tactless about it afterward. Fred should have beat him up. No jury in the world would have convicted him for it. XD