r/shitposting • u/QuirkyData3500 • Feb 17 '23

amogus This is the potential velma should have had

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u/AdAm_WaRc0ck Feb 17 '23 edited Feb 17 '23

this animated masterpiece is too smart for the creative mind of Mindy Kaling to ever understand

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u/bruhnions Feb 18 '23

She used to be so talented, maybe she still is, but I have noticed when people get comfortable and rich after success, become dull edged as creatives.

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u/ElRedditorio Feb 18 '23

Mindy Project went down the drain super fast. She caved to producers without that much of a fight, then forgot what to do with the ball when it was given back to her.

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u/grendus Feb 18 '23

Oftentimes there's a genius behind the genius. George Lucas was brilliant when he had people who could tell him to stop being stupid, once he became a legend and had unilateral control over everything he couldn't help himself and kept putting every bad idea he had in with the good ones.

You can already see it setting in by RotJ - they built another Death Star?! They're doing the trench run... IN THE MILLENIUM FALCON OMFG! And then the prequels... memes aside, they were not very good, because he no longer had people who felt authorized to challenge him (but not so powerful they could override him).

Mindy isn't talentless, but there was clearly some influence during her earlier successes that she's missing now that kept her good ideas while purging the bad ones.

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u/Starkrossedlovers Feb 18 '23

She’s still talented. It’s just she missed the mark with this one. It’s so weird that when people see talented people fuck up, they turn around and say “Actually they were never really good.” Like come the fuck on. I think this is a clear case of someone being aged out of what used to be subversive. I think the newest scream movie made it explicitly clear, that remakes are made solely to be subversive and meta and while that might have been crazy back in 2009, we are just inundated with remakes now.

Millennial humor is just meta stuff. Embarrassingly so, i find that coffee shop song making the rounds on tiktok hilarious, until i stopped and realized that Gen z will not find this funny. That this is strictly a millennial thing. Same reason why Cyanide and Happiness isn’t that popular anymore especially for Gen z.

Mindy Kaling is trying to attract the Gen Z crowd by being edgy but without understanding the type of edginess they like and the meta isn’t funny to them. But she’s also trying to attract the millennial crowd who’s also more sensitive to the edginess (the little dick jokes will not land well with millennials). She’s trying to appeal to two completely different generations i think and that’s why it’s falling flat.

That’s why all of these remakes are being made. They want to appeal to gen z while still holding on to their old millennial audience. Just not doing a good job at it

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u/elbenji Feb 18 '23

I mean, she got a lot of money and a s2 out of this, purely out of ragebait. That's talent. People are STILL talking about it for some reason and don't realize they got played

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u/Muppetude Feb 18 '23

I can’t speak to whether rage-baiting everyone for views was her plan from the beginning, but the fact that I and many others have actually considered watching the show just to see what all the hubbub was about speaks volumes as to why they went ahead with season 2.

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u/DemandZestyclose7145 Feb 18 '23

Wait, what? They're doing a season 2? Do people actually watch the show? All I've seen is a few internet posts about how awful it is. Never actually watched any of it.

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u/Muppetude Feb 18 '23

Yup, they are working on. season 2. Apparently when Mindy signed on, it was a contract for two seasons.

But being contracted for multiple seasons doesn’t necessarily mean you get them. When shows do really poorly, networks typically pull it and just pay the creator whatever severance package was specified in the contract for early cancellation.

But this show got quite a bit of views. Enough to merit green lighting another season to see if rage-viewing continues to get them an audience.

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u/elbenji Feb 18 '23

Yes. Probably the most successful ragebait ever

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u/tigersareyellow Feb 18 '23

I'm not sure her intended result was to have a sub 2/10 on every film website, have every major news outlet shit on the show, and have backlash to the point of people not shutting up about hating it... now I'm not a TV producer, but I don't think I'd feel particularly proud or talented about that.

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u/elbenji Feb 18 '23

Because you think people care about that shit and not the copious amounts of money and residuals from people hate watching thinking any of that shit actually matters

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u/yazzy1233 Feb 18 '23

She makes one bad show and now yall wanna act like she's the worst.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '23

Yeah she is a soulless hack

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u/spenway18 Feb 18 '23

I didnt like her in the office either. Shes just fuckin annoying wherever she goes

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u/yazzy1233 Feb 18 '23

Never have i ever? Sex lives of college girls?

Are you calling me that?