Mindy Kaling's Scooby-Doo Series Velma Has Seemingly Been Canceled By Max - SlashFilm
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The Mindy Kaling-led Scooby-Doo animated spinoff TV series Velma has apparently been canceled after streaming two seasons on Max.
  • Subtracty@lemmy.world
    27·
    2 days ago

    This makes sense. With all the great tv shows getting canceled before they even have a chance to develop, I think it is only fair that something this lackluster suffer the same fate.

  • blackluster117@possumpat.ioEnglish
    20·
    2 days ago

    Ah, so there’s at least one good thing that came from Max removing a bunch of cartoons from the platform. Not exactly equivalent exchange, but I’ll take the dubs where I can.

    • dustyData@lemmy.world
      645·
      2 days ago

      I only have one criteria. Either I enjoy watching a show, or I don’t enjoy it. This thing caused me psychological pain in just the first 10 minutes. I think it was at least half as bad as the worst reviews called it.

    • ELO@piefed.social
      285·
      2 days ago

      I just recently defected from reddit for the umpteenth time and it is so wild to see how normal these comments are compared to the cesspool I’ve gotten so used to. I was ready to delve into how abhorrently bad the show was via the comments, only to find normal people!

      • metaStatic@kbin.earth
        161·
        2 days ago

        get used to it.

        also, sometimes you have a good response to a thread and it isn’t already the top comment with thousands of upvotes and you actually get to post it.

    • missingno@fedia.io
      278·
      2 days ago

      Bad media happens all the damn time. The degree to which this got singled out was always just weird.

      The true measure of progress is when media featuring minorities can flop and not be a bigger deal than all the other flops starring white men.

      • CptEnder@lemmy.world
        13·
        2 days ago

        Yeah that’s kinda how I feel about The Acolyte. Liked parts of it, but most was just kinda lame but not really a big deal as everyone else making it out to be. Things just suck sometimes.

        • PlzGivHugsEnglish
          11·
          2 days ago

          The main problem is just that a lot of this stuff is being tied to huge, (generally) well-remembered franchises so there is more eyes on it, and its directly comparing itself to better works. For example, The Acolyte might be okay by the standards of being just another sci-fi show, or as a fanfiction where the expectations are lower, but not when it puts itself alongside other main-line entries like the original trilogy, or even something modern like The Mandalorian.

    • southsamurai
      62·
      2 days ago

      Yeah, that was my take too. Interesting, and decent overall with no real high points, but it wasn’t some kind of horrible show at all. Just kinda meh, more of a fanfic idea than a real show.

    • johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world
      1223·
      19 hours ago

      The internet has a difficult time with nuance. Edit: I was wondering why this got so downvoted, but I probably didn’t get my point across. I’m not commenting on the quality of the show, I’m commenting on the internet’s tendency to jump straight to “this creative work lacks any redeeming qualities and the creators of said work should be punished for their role in it.” On reddit in particular, the backlash against this show was suspiciously vitriolic.

  • Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    102·
    2 days ago

    I thought Scrappy Doo was a bad idea. I REALLY like projects that stick to the source material.

    There’s a REASON that this was popular enough you wanted to make it again. Don’t change it. That’s stupid.

    • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.netEnglish
      3·
      1 day ago

      This is only tangentially related to what you just said, but I find adaptations fascinating because of how permeable the concept of “staying true to the source material” is.

      One of the best examples I can think of is the animated movie Nimona, based on a graphic novel (that started as a webcomic) by N.D. Stevenson. The movie changes a heckton from the graphic novel, but in a way that arguably leads to a more authentic adaptation of the “soul” of the graphic novel. An example from the inverse is Shyamalan’s adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender: there were parts that were copied over, shot for shot, from the animated show, and even this segments that closely followed the source material just didn’t work — things that worked in animation don’t work in live action and vice versa.

      I don’t think there’s any one interpretation of what the “soul” of a piece of media is, but watching Velma was perplexing because I wondered whether Kaling had actually wanted to make an adapted spin-off, or whether this was a completely separate show that later had a Scooby Doo veneer put on top. I wish I could’ve better understood what her vision was, because I can’t see what, if anything, resonated with Kaling from the original media.