You mean "sixth" member: Scooby counts as a member too.
Oh right. My bad.
Never mind that Daphne had done nothing to EARN her place back in the gang: she just came crawling back to them when her boy toy turned out to be a crazy method actor.
Agreed. I would have been pleasantly surprised if Daphne's return had happened because Daphne missed Velma and felt terrible/ashamed for blaming her for the events of season one. This would have been great character development for the girls and their relationship (that had NOTHING to do with their romantic woes). And it would have made Velma's reluctance to stand up for Marcy a little more understandable.
Having Daphne return simply because she doesn't have a boyfriend to hang out with anymore just makes her look like a flakey bimbo and the rest of the gang look like idiots for choosing her over a smart, dependable person like Marcy.
That makes sense. Accidental Ship Teases in kiddie shows happen sometimes.
And people will read things into a show that the writer(s) never even thought about.... No joke, I've seen people say they hate Pup because they think it has "romantic" Scooby/Velma overtones (because Scooby and Velma are all cutesy & cuddly with each other in that show). O_o
The Shaggy/Scooby/Velma triangle just sucked so much as a plot point, was entirely meaningless to anything in the end, and I'm glad it's been thrown away as of season 2
I'm glad they abandoned it, too. But, at the same time, I'm still angry that it happened AND that it happened for no good reason (ie it didn't tie into the Big Mystery the way we were lead to think it would). All three characters got dragged through the dirt for the sake of some pointless melodrama. That just isn't cool when someone is writing a reboot of a beloved cartoon franchise.
Oddly enough, the same guy wrote both those episodes, but he also wrote the Krampus one that re-aired today. My guess is that the material for that episode was SO awesome that he just couldn't mess it up. ;)
Well, the Krampus episode was pretty complicated. I guess the writer simply didn't have time to insert a romantic subplot or a bunch of sexist fat jokes. LOL
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Date: 2012-09-07 01:30 am (UTC)Oh right. My bad.
Never mind that Daphne had done nothing to EARN her place back in the gang: she just came crawling back to them when her boy toy turned out to be a crazy method actor.
Agreed. I would have been pleasantly surprised if Daphne's return had happened because Daphne missed Velma and felt terrible/ashamed for blaming her for the events of season one. This would have been great character development for the girls and their relationship (that had NOTHING to do with their romantic woes). And it would have made Velma's reluctance to stand up for Marcy a little more understandable.
Having Daphne return simply because she doesn't have a boyfriend to hang out with anymore just makes her look like a flakey bimbo and the rest of the gang look like idiots for choosing her over a smart, dependable person like Marcy.
That makes sense. Accidental Ship Teases in kiddie shows happen sometimes.
And people will read things into a show that the writer(s) never even thought about....
No joke, I've seen people say they hate Pup because they think it has "romantic" Scooby/Velma overtones (because Scooby and Velma are all cutesy & cuddly with each other in that show). O_o
The Shaggy/Scooby/Velma triangle just sucked so much as a plot point, was entirely meaningless to anything in the end, and I'm glad it's been thrown away as of season 2
I'm glad they abandoned it, too. But, at the same time, I'm still angry that it happened AND that it happened for no good reason (ie it didn't tie into the Big Mystery the way we were lead to think it would). All three characters got dragged through the dirt for the sake of some pointless melodrama. That just isn't cool when someone is writing a reboot of a beloved cartoon franchise.
Oddly enough, the same guy wrote both those episodes, but he also wrote the Krampus one that re-aired today. My guess is that the material for that episode was SO awesome that he just couldn't mess it up. ;)
Well, the Krampus episode was pretty complicated. I guess the writer simply didn't have time to insert a romantic subplot or a bunch of sexist fat jokes. LOL