There are many ways to renew your cartoon characters star that may have become a bit outdated for modern audiences: ‘Looney Tunes Cartoons’, for example, approached Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and company by returning to the base but with more risky designs, and ‘Mickey Mouse’ he radically changed his tone and style while never ceasing to be the most famous mouse in the world in a fabulous series. Then there’s the ‘Velma’ thing.
Scooby Dooby Doo, where are you?
‘Velma’ is a disaster. Really. In his attempt not to get wet ideologically and to please everyone with a supposed adult humor that the ‘Scooby-Doo’ franchise didn’t need at all, he fails (at least in the first two episodes: I haven’t had the courage to continue). Now, its co-creator, Charlie Grandy, who is already preparing season 2, has given his view on the critical failure of the series.
“We couldn’t get Scooby-Doo. How do we do it in a fun way? What made it a series for children was him. He agreed with Warner telling us we couldn’t use the dog.“, he commented in his day at Comic-Con, before knowing the setback he was going to suffer from the fans. Now, he has qualified his words by playing the role of a victim.
“The original Hanna-Barbera series is still there. We’re not erasing the originals. We just want to be a little icy planet in the outer space of the Scooby-verse!“Note that when she and Mindy Kaling pitched the idea to Warner Bros., they responded with a spirited “Do it! Just make sure it’s good and fun!”. Spoiler: it came out so-so.
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