So scooby is going to be a trans furry identifying as a large male dog. Velma will still be a black lesbian. Shaggy will be a gaysian stoner. Fred and Daphny will be polyamorous swingers. They will go from town to town catching coirrupt police officers who are killing unarmed black people for everyday things. The whole first episode will be about what pronouns they all use, and I am here for the outrage and people burning their mystery machines. Quick someone make a device that will capture all the rage from the right who were never going to watch this thing anyway. Why do we waste all their anger when it could be harvested for energy Kyubey style?
Shaggy is now built like a linebacker. Fred is on a quest to find the limburger salesman that killed his pa. Limburger is far more popular in this world than you'd expect. Daphne uses corporatespeak like "leveraging" and "solutions" and "a competitive situation" in practically every sentence. Velma has a parrot on her shoulder the whole time that nobody ever seems to take notice of. To the point that it gets creepy. And Scooby provides cultural diversity by being a hyena.
For "Velma" to be the worst thing in the universe, it has to be prime-canon, so "Velma" haters aren't allowed to acknowledge anything new that undoes it. That's the rules.
Greg Berlanti seems to have done reasonably well with most of what he's been involved in. Most of the Arrowverse was pretty solid, Riverdale was pretty good with the exception of a season or so. I could think of worse things than something that mixed the sensibilities of Sabrina/Riverdale and applied it to Scooby, as long as the labeling made it clear that it's not G-rated.
Under normal circumstances, I'd expect the internet to groan at yet another cartoon going live action, but I highly doubt it'll be worse than Velma, so....
It could be done well like the beginning of Sabrina or what I have seen of riverdale. The setup has a possibility for being a decent semi campy live action series. The internet will always have that negative drama because it gets views. I have not been interested in scooby for years, but if the previews look good I will give it a chance. They will have to do something with Fred's design if they are not making him a rich villain or a gay swinger. What other grown ass man wears an ascot? Accept for maybe Don Knots. Thinking about that they might go for an older Fred who is sort of a Vincent Price version of Fred. So that fred got together with BuffyTVS/daphne, semi goth lesbian girl tech support with the moe glasses Velma, and the gay furry guy and his stoner boyfriend coward. They all cruise around in a van trying to solve the mysteries of cult activities which are bringing spirits from the depths of hell through portals into the local town full of quirky twin peaks type people.
I generally don't like for them to go back to the well over and over, but to be fair, Riverdale would be a similar sort of project I'd assume (probably, hopefully, less teen romance drama) and DBD is quite enjoyable and also in the spooky genre (in fact, one character credits her talent as a detective to watching a lot of Scooby Doo)
I wish they had at least given us a look at the live-action Powerpuff Girls. I wish they had an "Americna Idol" voting system for pilots. "American Idol" meets "The Gong show". If the pilot stinks, gong it. Why's it gotta go into a fucking vault? Let's see that shit.
NBC did that back in the 80s once. It was when they were really at their nadir and people thought that the network was going to go bankrupt. So, they took a bunch of pilots, and put them in blocks that they aired for a couple of nights. I can't remember if any of those shows actually went on to become a series. I remember that Paul Williams had a show where he was the host of a Syd and Marty Croft style kid's show. It was supposed to be a sitcom centered around his life as a host, but it wasn't funny as I recall. Anyway, if Kevin Smith ain't involved in this, I'm not interested.
Was that the one with Misfits of Science? I had my crush on Courtney Cox before friends because of that show.
