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what’s funny about velma (2023) is that they’ve already tried a dark and edgy scooby doo remake. the first live action movie from 2002 was originally directed towards adults, and was rife with dirty jokes, drug references, and cleavage shots of daphne and velma.

you know why the final product didn’t resemble that at all? bc they realized early on that the edgy grimdark angle fucking sucked. they reworked the movie to be more family-friendly— still with a complex plotline, but without the gratuitous sexual references and adult jokes. they did end up keeping a few references to shaggy smoking marijuana (his love interest being named mary jane, for one) but they were super toned down so that they’d go right over the heads of any kids watching.

it wasn’t necessarily a kids movie. i was five years old when it came out, and i loved it, but it was fun for teens and adults to watch too. and even with the dated cgi for scooby, it still has a lot of rewatch value. ask yourself if you think anyone is going to be rewatching velma in 2043 the way people still watch scooby doo twenty years after it was released.

this weird trend of the past few years of remaking fun and campy media into something edgy and full of shock value (wednesday, riverdale, and that awful winx club series come to mind) is so boring and trite and misguided. if you want to make dark media so bad, write something original instead of borrowing the barest skeletons of existing media and distorting them until they’re unrecognizable. it’s such an insult to the creators to have their stories mutilated by people who have no understanding of or appreciation for the characters or audience.

ah yes, my favourite team, the cockers

Worlds best worst dads 🏆

don't be fooled by their cool looks they are actually just a bunch of buffoons :D

S.2 E.43 Me too Maria lmao

Oh they're the bad boys?

What are they bad at?

Surviving?

“My biggest mistake was trying to protect you by changing this beautiful, good witch into something she wasn’t.”

Redraw of this scene because it was so important and so good and i love them ;v;

It really is nice how obviously fond Elphaba is of Glinda right off the bat in the movie, with What Is This Feeling showcasing how much Elphaba enjoys their little feud. For the first time in her life, someone's judging her for her, rather than her skin or her magic. Glinda doesn't give a shit that she's green, she's mad that Elphaba's taste in clothes and decor clash so severely with her own! She doesn't care that Elphaba could accidentally kill her if she got too angry, she's too busy being upset that Elphaba keeps minorly inconveniencing her! How refreshing that would be, to meet the most annoying person in the world and discover that her own narcissism has caused her to be the only person who sees you for who you really are. Of course Elphaba would take the hat seriously as a gift -- has anyone other than Dulciebear ever gifted her anything? Of course she would gamble her own self-confidence at the Ozdust -- at worst, Glinda's ego is so massive that she would never allow her mortal enemy to be the butt of someone else's joke. And in the best case, well, Glinda recognizes how important she is to the one person that she knows has no one. The only one who gets her, the only one who has ever understood her, standoffish and rude the way a stray cat is before it finally follows you indoors.

It's a real shame this story couldn't be anything other than a tragedy, huh?

Martyn: --of really boring, slow, decision making on what we were going to do. I literally had Grian, like, dm'ing me on discord, being like--he literally said the words "for a good story, now is the time to turn on Scott." And that was a couple minutes after I already tried to initiate one, by dumping lava on Scott for the first time. Um, and then I said, "I've already tried to do that, I think everyone's already a bit too exhausted / focused on what's going on," and Grian was like, "it's painful." And I was like, "no, I know," (laughter).

Martyn: but then, like, it played out the way that it did, um, and as soon as it was all done and dusted and everything finished, Grian just messaged me and was like, "that was the right move." So, like, its the thing where, I think I'm in this really weird position within the Limited Life, or the Life Series in general, where all the Empires lot have got their die hard fans, all the Hermitcraft lot have got their die hard fans, um, whereas me--I do have an audience, don't get me wrong, but, I think my audience is rational, and calm, and they understand that entertainment comes first versus--you know, mechanics, and things like that.

Martyn: um--and I think that if I were to ever do something wrong or something to hinder one of the other players, I knew for a fact that I would get a ton of flack for it. But also--I don't care (laughs). You know what I mean? It's like--I know for a fact that the people I collaborate with, they don't care, they were doing it for entertainment purposes as well, we're all on the same wavelength, and like we've said many a time before, if it makes it to the episode, its seen by the public, then everybody that was in the session agreed with it. Everybody that, y'know, took part in it agreed that was the decision, the right thing, whatever.