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brendalaSo, a few little birdies told me that Mystery Incorporated improved in season two and I should give it another chance (despite all my VERY COMPELLING REASONS to avoid it like leprosy). So I tuned into today's new episode because I had nothing better to do this morning.
Today's episode featured a Puritan ghost who attacks teenagers on Lovers Lane for acting "impure". Specifically, he likes to target the teenage girls for dressing like harlots. When the gang first meets the ghost, the ghost chastises one random girl for her low neckline, chastises Daphne for her short skirt, and when he gets to Velma.....he remarks that he wont attack her because she is "plain, wholesome, and completely un-tempting to the male gaze". No, really. I AM NOT EXAGGERATING! THE SHOW REALLY DID THIS AGAIN!!!!
Apparently, despite the fact that Velma's skirt is shorter than Daphne's, even sexually repressed Pilgrims are so repulsed by her hideous, fat, masculine body that it doesn't bother their orthodox sensibilities to see her traipsing about with her legs exposed (because religious rules about modesty only apply to hot chicks).
Believe it or not, it gets worse...
--The episode shows a couple of teenage boys cheering the ghost on as he tells Velma that she's not hot enough to be attacked for immodesty. Her "friends" are right there as this happens; but none of them say or do anything to defend her. Presumably, it's because they agree with the ghost.
--There's a scene at Fred's house where Shaggy AND Scooby tease Velma by saying "What's wrong? Are you upset that you're not 'tempting' enough to get onto the ghost's hit list?"
Again, I am not exaggerating! This happens! These two are back to behaving like total assholes toward her for no goddam reason!!
--Later in the episode, Velma is sitting in the back of the van fiddling on her laptop while the gang sets traps. Scooby gets into the van, smiles, and snuggles up next to her. At first I thought this show might be attempting a cute Scooby/Velma friendship scene. But, surprise surprise, when Velma asked, "Why are you sitting so close to me?", Scooby replied, "Since the ghost doesn't want you, you're the safest place to be right now!".
Well, at least he's not trying to bite off her face or calling her a slut like he was for half of season one. I guess calling her ugly is somewhat of an improvement. -_-
--At the end of the episode, it turns out the ghost was a pair of teenage boys who teamed up and staged the attacks so they could rescue the "hot" girls and gain their affections. The boys went out of their way to avoid attacking/rescuing Velma because EEEEW! WHAT MAN IN HIS RIGHT MIND WOULD WANT TO DATE A FATTIE, AM I RITE?!?!?? I MEAN, JUST LOOK AT THIS MONSTROUS HAM-BEAST!!!!
YOU CAN'T EVEN TELL IT'S A GIRL UNDER THAT FRUMPY TIGHT SWEATER AND MINI-SKIRT!!!!!!
CLEARLY, DAPHNE IS THE ONLY "REAL WOMAN" IN THIS PICTURE!! VELMA'S BODY HAS ICKY BIG BOOBIES AND HIPS AND A BUTT!!! WHAT TEENAGE BOY IN HIS RIGHT MIND WANTS A WOMAN WITH BIG BOOBIES AND HIPS AND A SHAPELY ASS!?!?!? NONE, THAT'S HOW MANY!!!!!
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**sigh**
I tried to give the-show-that-shall-not-be-named another chance because I heard that one of the other season two episodes was focused on Scooby and Velma trying to become BFFs again. I'm pretty sure that whatever good things happened in that episode were just erased when Scooby teamed up with her douchebag ex-boyfriend to remind her how fat, ugly, and unappealing she is.
This shit has no place in a children's show! It's cruel, inappropriate, insulting to the franchise & characters, and just plain wrong. And a vindictive part of me hopes that the reason this show got shafted with long hiatuses and bad scheduling and whatnot is because some executive realized what a mistake this show was and is doing all s/he can to help it die a quiet death.
I should have known better than to do this again.
FUCK THIS SEXIST FUCKING SHOW AND THE CREEPY MISOGYNIST DOG IT RODE IN ON!!!!!
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Re: YAY! Myotismon icon!!
Date: 2012-10-05 02:51 pm (UTC)If the official tumblr lied about Cassidy's death just to screw with fans, it would be the most epic act of trolling EVER!! XD
My personal theory is that it'll actually be Nova who dies in Scooby's place, because she's a dog who belongs to original MI members.
Yeah. There is NO WAY Warner Bros will let the MI people kill Scooby off (unless it's a "Disney Death" that he magically recovers from later on). And Nova is such a worthless character that it's obvious she's either going to turn evil or get killed (and be added to the list of females who got fridged by this dumb show LOL).
Part of me is still annoyed that the show went out of its way to draw parallels between Scooby/Velma/Shaggy and Pericles/Cassidy/Ricky only to suddenly drop that storyline like a hot potato and not tell us how Cassidy and Ricky's relationship played out. Maybe it'll come up later; but it should have continued to parallel Shaggy&Velma's story instead of being forgotten for 20+ episodes.
And it really confused me when Cassidy's final moments consisted of her giving DAPHNE relationship advice. I mean, why does Cassidy care if Fred & Daphne rekindle their romance or just stay friends? And shouldn't her final "sage advice" moments have been with VELMA instead (aka the kid she was closest to AND who shared similar woes regarding being used by friends, lovers, and animal mascots)!?
It just seems like, once again, Daphne screwed Velma out of time with someone she cared about without even really trying. And people continue to treat her and Fred's romance like some perfect fairy tale when it clearly is not! AAARG!
Re: YAY! Myotismon icon!!
Date: 2012-10-05 04:31 pm (UTC)Seriously, that will always be annoying. But if dropping the parallels meant dropping the Shaggy/Velma/Scooby story, and thus the character derailments, I think you should be happy with it. I know I am: I don't miss it at all.
I don't get that either. It's like whoever wrote the episode forgot who should've been in that situation. 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.
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".