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I loved Scooby Doo ever since I was a small child. I could sing the lyrics for Scooby Doo Where Are You, What's New Scooby Doo, and hum the tunes to Mystery Incorporated and Be Cool Scooby Doo. I love them all in their own ways. They all had their good and bad points, but mostly good.

So when I heard there was a new series about Velma, I was interested. The art looked different but I was willing to try [like i did for Be Cool], and the voice cast was different but so was SCOOB. I was unsure about the lack of Scooby, but whatever. Black Shaggy, Asian Velma and Daphne, real murders, bad parents, innapropriate humor, etc. I was fine with that, no prob. I have always felt that the Scooby Franchise was one of the few who could go between PG to R without losing the core principles [like Stranger Things or Fear Street trilogy]. But I never got around to watching it.

Thank every merciful god for that.

I decided to watch reviews just to see if it really was as shitty as they said. I normally view low ratings as just "perhaps it will get traction later in life" or "there is an audience for everything" but no. I cannot see any audience for Velma. I never really cared about actors or celebrities, so I don't know much about Mindy Kaling [my father and siblings love The Office, I just go along with it]. But if Velma is a representation of who Kaling is, I don't like her one bit.

Hypocritical, cruel, sexist, and racist in weird ways I didn't know was possible, bad writing, bad story, terrible plot-twists, and every character on screen at any given time seems to suck.

Velma herself is the absolute worst. She is literally the worst character I have ever seen [or at least of any that come to mind immediately]. Be Cool Velma was a bit abrasive and emotionally stunted, but she obviously still cared deeply for her friends, Mystery Inc. Velma was controlling, a bit too sarcastic, and still felt like an outcast, but she would do anything for her friends especially their safety. [OG Velma and What's New Velma are pretty down to earth nice people]

Kaling has butchered my favorite Teen Detectives, and I am so happy Scooby Doo was not there to see it.

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