I know I SHOULD be happy that the Shaggy/Velma/Scooby thing has been dropped by the wayside. But, at the same time, the whole "what happened to the original team and how does it effect the kids today?" parallel story in season one was actually interesting (and one of the few things that kept me watching despite my HATE for New-Velma and the show's disturbing sexist vibes). And seeing it get dropped without closure now is kinda irritating.
We still don't know why Cassidy's team went from a group of (assumed) friends and lovers similar to the current MI to a bunch of amoral assholes willing to kill one of their own for a shot at some treasure that might not even exist. Maybe the final episodes will finally show us why these kids stopped being friends after Mayor Jones screwed them over (you'd think they would have banded together) and why they sat around doing nothing about the disc/Nibiru thing for the 20 years that passed between their "disappearance" and Fred's team taking up the Mystery Incorporated mantle. But the end of the show is a bit too late to finally give us that (ESPECIALLY now that one of them is presumably dead).
Or maybe they just used Daphne because her romance with Fred was still a thing going on in the show, whereas Shaggy and Velma were no longer dating.
IMO, Cassidy's final moments shouldn't have hinged on her giving romantic advice to ANYONE! Regardless of whether or not Fred/Daphne or Velma/Shaggy belong together; the middle of a life&death investigation is so NOT the time to be hashing out teenage romantic woes. It's just another example of this show's obsession with making the female characters ALL ABOUT THE ROMANCE no matter how much it hurts the plot and how nonsensical it is. That episode was supposidly Cassidy's last huzzah. As one of the few sympathetic characters in this show, she deserved a better swan song than being stuck as Daphne's marriage counselor before becoming some dumb White kids' "Noble Black Shield".
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Re: YAY! Myotismon icon!!
Date: 2012-10-06 05:35 pm (UTC)We still don't know why Cassidy's team went from a group of (assumed) friends and lovers similar to the current MI to a bunch of amoral assholes willing to kill one of their own for a shot at some treasure that might not even exist. Maybe the final episodes will finally show us why these kids stopped being friends after Mayor Jones screwed them over (you'd think they would have banded together) and why they sat around doing nothing about the disc/Nibiru thing for the 20 years that passed between their "disappearance" and Fred's team taking up the Mystery Incorporated mantle. But the end of the show is a bit too late to finally give us that (ESPECIALLY now that one of them is presumably dead).
Or maybe they just used Daphne because her romance with Fred was still a thing going on in the show, whereas Shaggy and Velma were no longer dating.
IMO, Cassidy's final moments shouldn't have hinged on her giving romantic advice to ANYONE! Regardless of whether or not Fred/Daphne or Velma/Shaggy belong together; the middle of a life&death investigation is so NOT the time to be hashing out teenage romantic woes. It's just another example of this show's obsession with making the female characters ALL ABOUT THE ROMANCE no matter how much it hurts the plot and how nonsensical it is. That episode was supposidly Cassidy's last huzzah. As one of the few sympathetic characters in this show, she deserved a better swan song than being stuck as Daphne's marriage counselor before becoming some dumb White kids' "Noble Black Shield".