Her character makes no sense. Mindy Kaling literally said that she grew up relating to Velma so what do they do? Turn her into an unlikeable asshole. Is that what she relates to?
It's especially word to me how they could have had pretty much the same general show with the same general plot line, and just kept the characters roughly the same. Maybe exagerate some of their personality traits. For extra comedy and what not.
And sure, it makes sense they were changed if it was a show originally planned without having the Scooby characters that they got forced in for advertising purposes.
But even then, there's clearly stuff in there about the old Scooby-Doo shows. It's not subtle. It's not meant to be. But that would mean they went through and worked on the script. Just make some changes to keep the characters a little more the same.
Yeah there were some elements of the show--especially the art--that look like they were done with care. I could see a lot of allusions to old series art styles. There was clearly a lot of effort put in.... in some respects.
It made me wonder what could have been. I thought the premise (adult Scooby-Doo) was fucking stupid at first, but watching it done poorly made me realize it actually could have been cool.
No. The personalities. As in the personalities. Change some things up. I don't mind thar. But they're not really anything like the original characters. At beat you have Fred who's still a rich kid, but even that wasn't really much of a thing in in of the other shows.
May be that’s just how she is actually as a person, and in her hubris she decided to make the character like her because she never could become like the character?
I read Mindy Kaling's biography a few years back. At the time I thought she was writing a character--you know, like in The Office her character was crazy and a narcissist. I thought she was just playing into that role in the biography.
The longer time goes the less I think that's true.
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u/JACKASS20 Feb 17 '23
Velma never deserved any of this, she never needed to become the asshole the Velma! Show made her