Gimme a show which is just the dog and no humans
this post was submitted on 17 Mar 2023
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Glad someone else shares my opinion on Gravity Falls. I've had it recommended to me a lot, and man, the wackiness/cringe is an impenetrable barrier to me getting into it at all.
I feel if they werent using Scooby Doo characters it would be just remembered as yet another "comedy" adult cartoon.
Remember slippy jimmy?
For me it was mid (also tbh I'd say Gravity Falls is better than Velma by a mile). If it was a show without being attatched to Scooby Doo it'd likely have been forgotten or emulsified into the vast sea of Brickleberry clones. Also I loved the cope seething on the initial race swap from chuds, but I gotta say I'm really fuckin' sick of shows that are nothing but bathos and malice (like fuckin' endless Rick and Morty clones forever).
but I gotta say I’m really fuckin’ sick of shows that are nothing but bathos and malice
I could accept everything about that Velma show except that. The show seemed to have outright contempt for its own foundational material. I don't mean skin colors. I mean "people in a van solving mysteries."
I just wanted them to uncover how rich white guys were behind 99% of financial fraud (and that one time George Takei was behind it in a Kabuki theater in a bayou...) and also to help out the ghosts of Native Americans by burning down some plantations or something (you know how every major movie had the "guess what this cryptid/monster is real!").
Also I loved the cope seething on the initial race swap from chuds
I hate it when chuds do this shit because it poisons the discourse so much that you can't say you like or dislike the property in question without being conscripted into a culture war
That's understandable, at this point I just troll those I can and ignore those I can't as debating fash without proper equipment :xi-gun: is folly
Gravity Falls was charming.
Velma felt like Rick and Morty but Netflix pacing, and the cutaways of Family Guy.
It also really didn’t use its cast of characters effectively. The core 4 have a great dynamic and they are funny together.. The show basically refused to put them together as a group.
It’s a bad show in a “most cynical show” Way. As it’s also afraid of having a heart or being too ironic.
Mindy Kaling going for that "Gen X slacker" street cred in the year of our landlord 2023
I just flat out don't understand why you'd use the Scooby Doo characters if you weren't going to shove them in a van and drive around solving real-estate crimes.
I didn't watch it but the advertising for it was absolutely horrendous which is what stopped me from checking it out