Scooby Doo: Mystery Inc

There are Flim-Flam fans?

Your No-Prize is in the mail for the desired response.

Do the newer movies retain the characterizations from this series?

In a sense, I think there was some back-and-forth during the production of the series and the movies. They were being made at about the same time, could have been some cross-pollination.

As for strictly continuity based... depends on the film. You could work them in if you really wanted to, but there's some wiggle room on whether they're High School or College age plus you don't get any kind of implication that the shit they saw in the Finale has effected them much, or at all. If you really wanted it to it could work, but it would require some effort to make it fit.

Oh, no, I get that. Hell, I'm still baffled that we managed one continuity for 52 straight episodes. I'm more wondering whether, say, Fred's still a Cloud Cuckoo Lander with a thing for traps or Velma's still having her skepticism and sarcasm played up.

Oh the first bit about Fred is definitely still a thing, and Velma isn't AS sarcastic as she was in MI, but it has been played up.

edited 1st Dec '13 11:19:25 AM by odafangirl

Alright. I might give some of them a shot, then.

They are trying a lot more than previous efforts and that counts for something. I'd recommend Camp Scare and The Legend of the Phantosaur myself.

If it was up to me, I'd play Scrappy more like a real kid. Maybe his bravado is actually trying to make up/compensate for his own fears. He desperately want to prove himself and make his uncle proud, but he doesn't know how yet. He has this inferiority complex because he doesn't have the talents of Freddy and Velma, but neither the confidence of Daphne or the carefree approach to life of Shaggy and Scoob. He wants and needs to find his place and his own talents, but until he reaches that point in his character arc, all he can do is coping by trying to overcompensate with exaggerated bravery.

I don't mind Velma's sarcasm and attitude being toned down a bit from MI, because frankly, at times she went a wee bit too far with it there and gave slight bitchy vibes. Overall, I'd say the modern movies find a nice balance between her good nature from the earlier works and her edge from MI.

And yeah, out of all the recent movies, Camp Scare is my second favorite after Zombie Island.

edited 1st Dec '13 12:14:13 PM by NapoleonDeCheese

I was a Flim-Flam fan.

But then for the longest time I wasn't even sure if he was real or a false childhood memory.

Note to self: Look into one of the recent movies maybe.

I just finished the show after starting it a couple of weeks ago.

Best Scooby Doo ever. They took my childhood and made it AMAZING!!!!!!

Also, I'm surprised that Fred of all people could be my favourite character.

Freddy always had the potential.

A Pup Named Scooby Doo showed us this.

And I always liked that Death Glare and then smug look he gave to that one monster chasing Daphne in the opening to Whats New Scooby Doo.

The potential was always there. They just needed to find him a niche to fit into.

That was just Scooby in a lizardman costume. And there was something bigger behind Fred, that scared them all off.

Yeah, I know, but it was still funny.

Just the look he gave like "You should get to stepping now. Seriously."

And he seemed so proud of himself when he thought it worked, like he was saying Who's boring now huh? Not Frederick T. Jones. No sirree!

Or that one part where they changed the usual teams for splitting up.

I'm convinced that Welker and Casem got a huge laugh out of that when they were done.

edited 24th Dec '13 2:20:41 PM by Handsomerob

Lillard voiced Shaggy in this one, not Kasem.

But yeah, potentially, Fred was the one with the most to explore about, to learn what made him tick. Glad they finally mined that to a big degree.

Sorry. I was still talking about Whats New Scooby Doo, where his voice was still Casey Casem.

I know it was Matthew Lillard doing it in this series, which makes that one joke in Looney Tunes Back In Action Hilarious in Hindsight.

I've only seen scattered episodes, but I have to concur, this was an amazing series.

I love my description of the finale "A tentacled Cthulhuian monstrosity literally destroys the world and begins eating people on-screen. I don't think that's Mr. Widdle from the Amusement Park in a mask."

So I'm curious, from what I understand this series is at same time kinda darker and yet kinda sillier(in terms that they are aware of how ridiculous show gets) scooby doo with relationship drama added? Did fans consider this series better or worse than previous shows? .-.

Superior in so many ways.

Reaction from Scooby fans is mostly positive, though there's still quite a few detractors. It does hold up on its own as well, though.

Huh, good to hear that they have done something interesting(in positive way) with series then. I mean, Scooby Doo is one of most formatic(sp?) shows I know of..

A lot of folks reacted negatively due to a lot of perceived breaks from the formula. Stupid little things like them not living in Coolsville anymore or Velma having those bows in her hair.

It's a show made with nothing but love for Scooby Doo as a concept, but it approaches adaptation of the previous material with a surgical bone-saw and steady hands. That is to say it wasn't afraid to change things, push boundaries, and try things never tried before.

Whether that is a good thing or not is up to the individual watching, but I had a hell of a great time with it.

I think I summed it up pretty well in the review I did of it on-site, which is that it's the first Scooby-Doo series to really nail what the problems are with the franchise rather than what it's perceived flaws are. It picks at things like the anachronisms and the catchphrases and so forth, but ultimately realizes that those things aren't what the other incarnations needed to change to thrive. The real problems are characterization, storytelling, and the formulaic nature of it and its spin-offs, and it fixes pretty much all of that near-flawlessly.

To think this show both premiered AND ended this day.