It was bad, but not much worse than a bunch of other shows where they “force” a point across for the sake of politics. Saw some of this in Rick and Morty too

The wackiness/cringe levels were honestly comparable to Gravity Falls.

I think people just hate it because 1) race swapped in a way that erases whites instead of POC and 2) they heard other people hate it so they just bandwagon

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    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).

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      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.”

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        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!”).

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      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

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        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

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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.

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    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.

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    I feel if they werent using Scooby Doo characters it would be just remembered as yet another “comedy” adult cartoon.

    Remember slippy jimmy?