No, I think it's the exact opposite. They introduced Scrappy Doo at the very end of this series and turned him into a literal dick eating serial killer to try and ensure that Velma Kaling wasn't the most hated character on this show. And they failed miserably.
she should have been the one getting investigated into because, like you said, SHE HAS JUST AMITTED TO COMMITTING TO SEXUAL HARRASSMENT!!!! AND HAS ALSO THREATEND TO FIRE THE PEOPLE WHO WITNESSED THE CRIME!!!!!
He became the most likeable and got the most character growth. He genuinely became a better person by the end of the show while everyone else didn't really change.
He was always a hero. The franchise would have been cancelked ages ago without him. It was budget cuts, executive meddling, & incredibly shit writing that happened right after his introduction that made him the fall guy.
I find the constant jabs towards rich people to be incredibly ironic because not only is Mindy Kailing herself incredibly rich, but her parents were apparently rich themselves to the point she attended a private school Edit: I've seen a few people say how we should separate the actor from the character and how there are plenty of characters who are voiced by the creators of their respective shows or movies (for example both Matt and Trey have played multiple characters in their projects) and while I get where people are coming from, I do personally see Velma in this show as a self insert of Mindy Kailing. Not only cause of the choice to change Velma's ethnicity to match Kailing's, but Kailing has had the habit of self inserting herself into projects she's worked on
It's not ironic, Mindy isn't rich, she's just a "millionaire", not a "billionaire". You're supposed to separate the voice actor from the character they portray but this show makes it really hard to do that because Velma has no character. You hear Velma insulting rich people but all you hear is Mindy basically saying, "I hate the rich, I'm so relatable, right guys?" while she's relaxing in her 15-million-dollar house.
I also heard a lot of reviews going easy on the whole r@ce blind casting saying it doesn't matter so we should ignore it. But r@ce jokes are 1/3 of the jokes(& they also repeatedly show more accurate designs of these characters as background gag), it is foundational to the show, so it is impossible to ignore the r@ce of the characters
My favorite part was the part where Velma FUCKING DIES!! The only issue is even satan didn’t want her and her consciousness still exists on the mortal plane!
I'm imagining a headcanon multiverse scenario in which someone contacts Satan and makes a deal with him, a simple trade of souls (SPOILERS FOR 'EXORCIST: BELIEVER,' IF ANYONE ACTUALLY WANTS TO WATCH THAT CRAPPY FILM!): In exchange for Satan releasing the soul of Katherine West (the nice enough churchgoing 12- year- old girl from 'Exorcist: Believer' who gets possessed and ultimately is dragged to Hell because her idiot dad got tricked by the demon) so that she can leave Hell and ascend to Heaven, Satan can take Velma's FAR more deserving- of- eternal- damnation soul to Hell to torment to his dark heart's content forever. Everybody wins except for Velma, who doesn't deserve to win at anything.
@@Adamguy2003My headcanon is that, being too insufferable for hell, Velma instead went to the Labyrinth from “Hellraiser.” Remember how Sheriff Stone summoned the Cenobites in “Mystery Incorporated.”
Why not? She made a show that tons of people tuned in to and wouldn't stop talking about for weeks after it first aired just because of vitriolic hatred alone.
@@NakedOwl501 Negative publicity is still publicity. Someone hate watching the show and someone unironically watching the show are treated the same when it comes to these subscription service shows. Bad PR be damned.
"And then it becomes meta, which is our generation's thing" is one of the most "How do you do, fellow kids?" things I have ever heard in my life. It's like the writers were saying "You have to like being told what to like, because that's what your generation likes"
tasteless metacommentary seems to be what they think "our generation's thing" is. Meanwhile metacommentary has existed for the better half of a century in media, and typically it was done better. 🤷♀
The youngest generation’s thing is existential black comedy ala The Amazing Digital Circus. Go give that show ten views before giving Velma even 0.000001 of one.
@@lalehiandeity1649 man, I read your comment and went to watch this show, it's hella fun. I don't usually watch cartoons, I like what I saw there. It's a shame the episodes are "on-demand" once every 7 months or so. I hope the creators don't get overly pretensious with the setting nor let the "fanbase" dictate the show's story on the long run, letting the spectator shape your creation most often ruins it.
There was a parody of these series where Scooby showed up and started killing the cast explaining that he was a godlike being who'd been trying to recreate the original gang in every one of their new series but was failing and the reveal that it's Scrappy killing here feels like an homage to that video
Im glad you mentioned the hate watching not being a factor. I feel like many people didnt hatewatch. They let content creators watch it, then they watch content creators. Indirect views didnt cause a second season. Greed caused it.
@@jskywalker58It’s been a genuine conversation for some time. Executives don’t care why you’re watching a thing, only that you do. So the idea of hatewatching sustaining a show is a valid worry.
Velma season 2's existance is akin to the last remaining hornet that survived the demolition of its nest. An annoyance, but one that is reduced from its original state.
@izzieb.2926 I've been seeing variations of this line for a while now (e.g. "Not the hero we deserve but the one we need.") And I've always wanted to do one where it checks ALL 3, ( just for the amusement of it). PS I posted that comment before I reached the end of the video.
Personally if I’m gonna be honest, I think the idea of a Scooby-Doo adult show isn’t a horrible idea. In fact it has all the right materials to be centered into the horror genre. It’s just that the execution was just so terribly done in Velma.
I came up with a concept for an adult Scooby Doo series and I think it's definitely better as I have this part of a Hanna Barbera extended universe and pays homage to previous Scooby Doo cartoons
Well said! Also, I think this whole mess is doubly insulting BECAUSE it's shoe-horned into the Scooby-Doo universe. If it was a stand-alone show, we would have long stopped talking about this disaster, and it would have faded into history with every other poorly written original series.
Wait...this show is baised on Scooby-Doo?!? No way! I don't believe you. Where is your evidence to support your claim??? (Joking, or at least I think I'm joking. Am I joking? I can't even tell anymore.)
Don't forget, via the whole subplot with Norville and marijuana, it also teaches that the way to deal with guilt and other emotional or psychological trauma is not through seeking professional help such as talking to a licensed therapist, but just by getting high on a daily basis. Great moral.
It's like the show is saying, "here.. if your having trouble with anxiety choose a much worse vice like a sex addiction or eating disorder"! I'm surprised Velma didn't tell the audience to try fentanyl if you stubb your toe
Something I feel needs to be mentioned, is that Scrappy Doo being the villain isn't even an original twist. The first live action Scooby Doo Movie already did that as a joke.
Velma ripped off better ideas and series and did them worse. What passes for intense drama - Scooby Doo Mystery Inc. Straight up parody of the series itself - Be Cool Scooby-Doo. Shaggy/Norville getting high or implied getting high - first live action movie.
The thing is, it's not even a second season, it's just Season 1 cut into two, but they're advertising it as Season 2 because they'd have to pay the animators more if they ordered two seasons
I love that Fred is the only one who's worth giving a damn over. It reminds me of how the higher-ups for the 2021 Mortal Kombat movie made the studio create Cole Young because they didn't wanna use Johnny Cage, because "having another white male lead feels too Hollywood-ish". But then the only character that people ACTUALLY liked the most in the movie was Kano... a white male. Kind of goes to show when all you focus on is trying to give your non-white characters special attention and writing them to be absolutely perfect and able to do no wrong, somehow the white characters are the only ones who are treated normally and without special treatment, so it feels like they're written more naturally and then people are more drawn to them.
Didn't watch MK '21. . .but Kano was the character everyone liked? He's a villain and really nasty one at that. He went from regular villain to pure hate sink throughout the games.
@@chadharger9323 For some background context, in MK2021, Kano was captured by Sonya to help locate Raiden’s temple, so for a good chunk of the movie he was technically a good guy. Plus he was just funny and had a lot of personality, people largely said that Kano was a vehicle for the audience’s reactions/emotions to what was happening in the movie (at least until he dies, lol). People can like villains, especially ones that are funny/charismatic/compelling. Especially in a movie/game/show where the main characters are severely under-developed or just outright detestable (like most of the Velma cast). If you’re given a bunch of protagonists who are supposed to be seen as likable in multiple aspects but they really aren’t, then sometimes the villain ends up being better because they actually fill their role.
@@TheChildofAuraRebornit’s kind of like how in movies like the little mermaid, people often like Ursula, in spite of the fast that she’s, quite literally as per the movie, an evil sea-witch because she has charismatic qualities and is funny.
@@forsociopoliticalstuff2629 I mean, it definitely applies to almost ANYTHING. People like a good villain, people like seeing a total piece of shit because they're supposed to be playing a role in a story, they're supposed to be an antagonist. Maybe they're a tragic, sympathetic villain. Maybe they're a monstrous bastard with no redeemable qualities. Hell, maybe they're somewhere in-between (like Kung Fu Panda villains). People just like characters.
I love the fact that WB and Max didn't even bother with it this time around. They fucking knew that the bad retention rate from Season 1 would only be worse for this Season, so just drop it all on the same day with minimal advertising. That and the fact that they immediately started talking about the live action series means that they're done with this shitshow once the Halloween Special is thrown out to die.
When the White, anime-ish style Velma and Daphne walk by, it's a cruel reminder of what could have been. What did Scooby-Doo do to the powers that be to piss them off so much?
9:17 OHHHHhh this is why theres all this dong plot, almost completely toxic lesbian stereotypes, and hate/love of fred. Mindy kaling is down bad and didnt want to pay a animator on deviantart T_T
It saddens me that a show like "Raised by Wolves" (a show that was quite unique and entertaining) gets cancelled on a massive cliffhanger, while garbage like "Velma" (and also Teen Titans Go) get a second chance. Have I stepped into the Twilight Zone or what?
I think the funniest joke about velma 2 is that its brought Scrappy back into the conv more than "man he sucked" or "maybe this character is kind of overhated" (personally I fall in the later camp cause.......honestly I never got the extreme hate)
Watch original Scrappy stuff. He never shut up in whatever scene he was in and was a huge distraction for whatever antics the rest of the gang(mainly Shaggy and Scooby) were getting into.
The "oh white guy," jokes are still there, they're just more implied then out there in this season Anyway please let that be the end of velma! It's a happy one
@@collinkeyser6827the guy who is responsible for big mouth comes from a very rich family, billionaires, I wouldn't be surprised if he was bankrolling that show himself
The fact that there was basically no promotion for this second season, AND they released all the episodes at once, it really seems like they dumped this show on their streaming services and hoped everyone will just forget this show exist.
Keep in mind when Norville shocked his brain the only people he insulted in that 24 hour span was his dad and the mailman. Who for Norville's dad they keep referencing him as the originally shaggy and they only do this when his dad gets high.
Lol first time in a long time scrappy Doo been done justice. Killing this Velma was a god send and am not even a believer but some times i wanna believe.
Imagine if Dennis Reynolds wanted to play Fred so much, he got in contact with Mindy Kaling and Max to make a horrible Scooby-Doo show to taunt Mac and Charlie.
So let me get this straight Norville comes back at the end of S1 because Velma said she loved him and now in S2 he barley thinks about her. What a consistent character.
nobody is consistent in this garbo, norville falls in love with the brain, she is happy because he sees her for her and not just her body... he sees her body again and gets it wrong... so you fell in love with him because he appreciated you for more than your body... then got mad at him because he didn't know you well enough to know what you looked like ? supposedly a smart kid... decides to electrocute his own brain, his only scientific source being testing it on a potato. i think he must've been taking his dads advice on what to smoke and just forgot with how much sense he makes.
Velma pitch meeting: Mindy Kaling: when people watch tv, whats their first thought? WB Producer: "i like this"? Mindy: uh-uh, its "why doesnt the main character come from the exact same background as i do?".
How are we getting a second and potentially third season of this tumour of a show but cartoons like The Ghost and Molly McGee, Owl House, and Amphibia will never see the light of day?? 😭🤦🏼♂️
What I don't understand was how come the series brought Scrappy, but completely leaves out Scooby. That's a total disservice for me. Then again, this whole series is a disservice to the Scooby-Doo Franchise. Just like you said, it's like WB is giving us a big shitty middle finger.
@SteveReviews Want to give yourself a good excuse to scare yourself and others on Halloween? Well, might I suggest reviewing Velma's new Halloween special. Yes, Max just released a Halloween special for Velma. You can even make it YOUR Halloween special. 👍🏼
I am praying we don't get a season 3, but I also see Mindy Kaling throwing a huge temper tantrum about it and will be blaming everyone around the world for not stroking her ego. and if somehow it does get a season 3 Then she almost has to have something on someone
She once sexually harass a male coworker (who was openly gay to boot) and got away with it by threatening to fire people if they talked. She bragged about it on Conan O Brian's show. . .so blackmail/extortion might not be a stretch.
the fact that they introduce scrappy as a character but dont even have scooby is the real crime. Likewise the fact that there was no goal in the killings is like pure anti scooby doo since the criminals always have a plot to achive a goal (always convoluted af but still)
I'd rather go rewatch that Knuckles spin-off show than having to waste my precious hours on Velma S2. Which, fun fact, they premiered on the same week together.
I just think of that episode of Justice League where the alien courts determined that a Lawyer suffers the same fate as their clients, and I think there should be a punishment for those who take another's IP and makes something horrible and hateful with it
God damn that comparison from 1:45, fkn hell. Made me spit out my drink, thanks for that. Doesn't help I have something of a vivid imagination, so that mental image is now just living rent free for at least a while. :D
I think the reason why they dropped it all instead of doing it in pieces, is because there are probably not enough people that actually hate watch the show. Most are probably just doing as I do, watch others cringe or critique at the show, since it is not actually worth the time to watch it in full.
I'd bet my bottom dollar that the season ending on a cliff hanger is just a tactic try try and FORCE a new season by having that as a reason to continue.
It's been years since I watched the og Scooby-Doo so I can't speak for myself now, but I thought Scrappy was hilarious back in the day. And small dogs really are that bold and stupid, so it wasn't a bad running gag.
The problem was that Scrappy was a distraction from whatever antics the rest of the cast were up to. He was a 'scene stealer'. If Scrappy had been originally toned down A LOT he would've been better received by the fans.
If I had a nickel for every time Velma got a season I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's strange that it happened twice. P.S. I’m so glad Scrappy killed Velma, as a reward I tolerate him now.
Awesome review of Velma season two Steve your videos always make me happy. Hope you review Code Lyoko next that show was my childhood from the plot, the animation, the voice acting and the music Overall a great review Steve 🙂
This show tried to tackle the debate of Scientific Materialism vs. Religious Spiritualism. Regardless of where you stand on that subject, I think we can all agree that this show doesn't deserve to tackle it.
At this point I’m convinced this entire show was one giant scheme to no longer make Scrappy Doo the most hated character in the Scooby Doo franchise.
And they unintentionally succeeded.
that or it was just rage bait cause any views are good views
Its what evil does. It doesn't create anything new but destroys it. 😢
truly Mindy is the Anti-James Gunn
No, I think it's the exact opposite. They introduced Scrappy Doo at the very end of this series and turned him into a literal dick eating serial killer to try and ensure that Velma Kaling wasn't the most hated character on this show. And they failed miserably.
This series single-handedly made Scrappy go from loved, to hated to now the most loved character in the series now.
Talk about one hell of a redemption arc
I never hated Scrappy
@@hannahmartin9705I always felt kind’ve bad for him.
I thought he was hated from the start before this piece of self-indulgent tripe came to existence.
@@hannahmartin9705 scrappy is the puppy dog relation of scooby
9:20 She just admitted to committing sexual harassment, especially the part where she told coworkers, “Tell anyone and you’re fired!”
Very ellen degeneres of her
she should have been the one getting investigated into because, like you said, SHE HAS JUST AMITTED TO COMMITTING TO SEXUAL HARRASSMENT!!!! AND HAS ALSO THREATEND TO FIRE THE PEOPLE WHO WITNESSED THE CRIME!!!!!
Oh, but nothing did nor will anything happen. She's part of the protected class in Hollywood. She is untouchable.
Ok I might get hate it’s because she’s a woman and there double standards
That's crazy
Ironic how Fred is the character the writers want us all to hate, yet ends up becoming the most likeable person in this whole damn show.
He became the most likeable and got the most character growth. He genuinely became a better person by the end of the show while everyone else didn't really change.
Rich White Men FTW!!!
@@keondramcintyre3444I came from Nuxanor’s reactions 😅
It’s Amaryllis from high guardian spice all over again. A character who your supposed to hate ends up being more likable than the main cast.
Its the antiwoke agenda. Suddenly, the white guy is the likeable one, while the poc are pos
F for our boy Scrappy, he was a true war hero killing that Velma
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He was always a hero. The franchise would have been cancelked ages ago without him. It was budget cuts, executive meddling, & incredibly shit writing that happened right after his introduction that made him the fall guy.
I find the constant jabs towards rich people to be incredibly ironic because not only is Mindy Kailing herself incredibly rich, but her parents were apparently rich themselves to the point she attended a private school
Edit: I've seen a few people say how we should separate the actor from the character and how there are plenty of characters who are voiced by the creators of their respective shows or movies (for example both Matt and Trey have played multiple characters in their projects) and while I get where people are coming from, I do personally see Velma in this show as a self insert of Mindy Kailing. Not only cause of the choice to change Velma's ethnicity to match Kailing's, but Kailing has had the habit of self inserting herself into projects she's worked on
It's not ironic, Mindy isn't rich, she's just a "millionaire", not a "billionaire".
You're supposed to separate the voice actor from the character they portray but this show makes it really hard to do that because Velma has no character. You hear Velma insulting rich people but all you hear is Mindy basically saying, "I hate the rich, I'm so relatable, right guys?" while she's relaxing in her 15-million-dollar house.
@@bluetiger2468 it's also hard because Mindy is (presumably) in the writers room and is therefore pushing for or approving all of these jokes
I also heard a lot of reviews going easy on the whole r@ce blind casting saying it doesn't matter so we should ignore it. But r@ce jokes are 1/3 of the jokes(& they also repeatedly show more accurate designs of these characters as background gag), it is foundational to the show, so it is impossible to ignore the r@ce of the characters
Millionaires lecturing the working class about the immorality of billionaires.
@@bluetiger2468you cant separate Mindy from Velma, cause Mindy is Velma and Velma is written to be Mindy
My favorite part was the part where Velma FUCKING DIES!! The only issue is even satan didn’t want her and her consciousness still exists on the mortal plane!
It's because Hell doesn't want a new ruler.
I'm imagining a headcanon multiverse scenario in which someone contacts Satan and makes a deal with him, a simple trade of souls (SPOILERS FOR 'EXORCIST: BELIEVER,' IF ANYONE ACTUALLY WANTS TO WATCH THAT CRAPPY FILM!):
In exchange for Satan releasing the soul of Katherine West (the nice enough churchgoing 12- year- old girl from 'Exorcist: Believer' who gets possessed and ultimately is dragged to Hell because her idiot dad got tricked by the demon) so that she can leave Hell and ascend to Heaven, Satan can take Velma's FAR more deserving- of- eternal- damnation soul to Hell to torment to his dark heart's content forever.
Everybody wins except for Velma, who doesn't deserve to win at anything.
My favorite parts of the show are when Velma got hit by a car in season 1 and when Scrappy killed Velma in season 2
the lothesome dung eater is still searching for her, she is the new heir
@@Adamguy2003My headcanon is that, being too insufferable for hell, Velma instead went to the Labyrinth from “Hellraiser.” Remember how Sheriff Stone summoned the Cenobites in “Mystery Incorporated.”
Says a lot about the quality of the show when the best moments are the main character getting hit by a car and dying.
dont you mean gets kill by a dog?
@@santiagomenchaca4248no she got hit by a car AND died as well
It really says something when Scrappy-Doo is the most likeable character in the show
That this is a Bizarro World or mirror universe version of the original ?
@@FrenchPaul1988 Maybe it's not an origin story anymore, but it's just another version now
And the reason is that he killed the main character 🤣
bruh i actually loved scrappy
@@pyroonbusinesschannel118 That's okay
This woman should never be allowed to touch media ever again.
I still cant belive she thinks of herself as a comedian, what a waste of time.
Why not? She made a show that tons of people tuned in to and wouldn't stop talking about for weeks after it first aired just because of vitriolic hatred alone.
@@infinitydragonoid2655 Yeah, imagine paying to produce a show everyone hates lol
@@NakedOwl501 Negative publicity is still publicity. Someone hate watching the show and someone unironically watching the show are treated the same when it comes to these subscription service shows. Bad PR be damned.
@@infinitydragonoid2655 Negativity leads to apathy. You can’t make money off of apathy of a piece of media.
"And then it becomes meta, which is our generation's thing" is one of the most "How do you do, fellow kids?" things I have ever heard in my life. It's like the writers were saying "You have to like being told what to like, because that's what your generation likes"
tasteless metacommentary seems to be what they think "our generation's thing" is. Meanwhile metacommentary has existed for the better half of a century in media, and typically it was done better. 🤷♀
The youngest generation’s thing is existential black comedy ala The Amazing Digital Circus. Go give that show ten views before giving Velma even 0.000001 of one.
What I like is Mystery Incorporated and I ignore that this series ever existed.
@@lalehiandeity1649 man, I read your comment and went to watch this show, it's hella fun. I don't usually watch cartoons, I like what I saw there. It's a shame the episodes are "on-demand" once every 7 months or so. I hope the creators don't get overly pretensious with the setting nor let the "fanbase" dictate the show's story on the long run, letting the spectator shape your creation most often ruins it.
@@boop004 Beat me to it!
For just one example, the 'Scream' series, since its very first film in 1996, has been all about metacommentary.
There was a parody of these series where Scooby showed up and started killing the cast explaining that he was a godlike being who'd been trying to recreate the original gang in every one of their new series but was failing and the reveal that it's Scrappy killing here feels like an homage to that video
Avocado animations!
@@izzieb.2926 yeah those guys. I couldn't remember the name
A homage, or a steal? Kaling's and her show don't know what respect is.
@@boop004 Agreed. It kinda feels like she plagiarized that plot point
tbh had that same exact thought
Anything deserved a second season except Velma
Even MILFord Manor?
@@collinkeyser6827 Yes.
Close Enough, Inside Job, even Paradise PD…
Even Nevermind Rules?
I've been wanting a season 2 of "buddy thunderstruck" for years.
Im glad you mentioned the hate watching not being a factor. I feel like many people didnt hatewatch. They let content creators watch it, then they watch content creators. Indirect views didnt cause a second season. Greed caused it.
i'm convinced the whole hate watching thing was created to turn viewers against each other and focus less on criticizing the people behind the show
@@jskywalker58It’s been a genuine conversation for some time. Executives don’t care why you’re watching a thing, only that you do. So the idea of hatewatching sustaining a show is a valid worry.
How does greed cause you to air something people don't like?
@@Dennis-nc3vw What few people will hate watch it is better than none at all.
It was already greenlit for a second season before the first season actually premiered.
Velma season 2's existance is akin to the last remaining hornet that survived the demolition of its nest. An annoyance, but one that is reduced from its original state.
Why'd you have to do hornets dirty like that
@@cradiculousThey know what they did
@@cradiculous Hornets and wasps are the insect world's serial killers
@@mitchfletcher2386they even get natures equivalent of the electric chair when they get caught (cooked to death by the rest of a bee hive)
If you wanna hate watch this series do it through piracy, don't give the corporate hacks behind the show any of your money
YEAH! YOU TELL THEM!
Scrappy doo: the hero we needed, wanted, AND deserved.
A sentence nobody ever would've predicted existing 😂
@izzieb.2926 I've been seeing variations of this line for a while now (e.g. "Not the hero we deserve but the one we need.") And I've always wanted to do one where it checks ALL 3, ( just for the amusement of it).
PS I posted that comment before I reached the end of the video.
Personally if I’m gonna be honest, I think the idea of a Scooby-Doo adult show isn’t a horrible idea. In fact it has all the right materials to be centered into the horror genre. It’s just that the execution was just so terribly done in Velma.
I came up with a concept for an adult Scooby Doo series and I think it's definitely better as I have this part of a Hanna Barbera extended universe and pays homage to previous Scooby Doo cartoons
Well said! Also, I think this whole mess is doubly insulting BECAUSE it's shoe-horned into the Scooby-Doo universe. If it was a stand-alone show, we would have long stopped talking about this disaster, and it would have faded into history with every other poorly written original series.
Wait...this show is baised on Scooby-Doo?!?
No way! I don't believe you.
Where is your evidence to support your claim???
(Joking, or at least I think I'm joking. Am I joking? I can't even tell anymore.)
And now, out of sheer embarrassment, we're probably never gonna get an actual adult Scooby Doo show again.
this show has the worst advice for panic attacks: kissing(SS1) & eating(SS2) both would cause you to choke to death
Don't forget, via the whole subplot with Norville and marijuana, it also teaches that the way to deal with guilt and other emotional or psychological trauma is not through seeking professional help such as talking to a licensed therapist, but just by getting high on a daily basis. Great moral.
@@Adamguy2003 Why do I get the feeling SS3(if it is green lit) will have drinking bleach as a cure for panic attack?
@@aokhoinguyenang3992 If Velma will be the one chugging I'll be all for it.
It's like the show is saying, "here.. if your having trouble with anxiety choose a much worse vice like a sex addiction or eating disorder"! I'm surprised Velma didn't tell the audience to try fentanyl if you stubb your toe
0:13 don't forget the Batman Beyond animated movie who it was going to be made by the people who MADE Spiderverse. WTF WARNER?!!
I hate Warner god dame just is for terry
I don't understand why Warner Bros reject the idea. Doesn't make sense.
And the batgirl
@@jor1469 because of the dumbass of David Zaslav. That's why.
@@jor1469 because of David Zaslav. That's why.
Something I feel needs to be mentioned, is that Scrappy Doo being the villain isn't even an original twist. The first live action Scooby Doo Movie already did that as a joke.
Velma ripped off better ideas and series and did them worse. What passes for intense drama - Scooby Doo Mystery Inc. Straight up parody of the series itself - Be Cool Scooby-Doo. Shaggy/Norville getting high or implied getting high - first live action movie.
*Scrappy kills Velma*
"Perhaps I treated you too harshly."
The thing is, it's not even a second season, it's just Season 1 cut into two, but they're advertising it as Season 2 because they'd have to pay the animators more if they ordered two seasons
So Season 1 was gonna have 20 episodes, why not just get it over then and just release it in one sitting instead of wasting our time
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@@toddm9910 And on that note this show really does expose the Leftist agenda in the most blatant way possible. Talk about unintended consequences.
But also it wants to virtue signal about how horrible rich people are.
@@nightmarefanatic1819Which it manages by exposing how horrible the (rich) producers of the show are.
Irony is fun.
Poetic actually Scrappy saved Scooby from cancellation, and Scrappy saves Scooby from being tainted
Saved from cancellation, then saved from continuation.
Hey, at least Scrappy Doo kills Velma
be thankful for the little things
A blessing in the sky
So, no one gonna talk about how she just admitted to SA on TV? Kissing someone without their consent is SA, legally. At least where I live.
I love that Fred is the only one who's worth giving a damn over. It reminds me of how the higher-ups for the 2021 Mortal Kombat movie made the studio create Cole Young because they didn't wanna use Johnny Cage, because "having another white male lead feels too Hollywood-ish". But then the only character that people ACTUALLY liked the most in the movie was Kano... a white male. Kind of goes to show when all you focus on is trying to give your non-white characters special attention and writing them to be absolutely perfect and able to do no wrong, somehow the white characters are the only ones who are treated normally and without special treatment, so it feels like they're written more naturally and then people are more drawn to them.
Didn't watch MK '21. . .but Kano was the character everyone liked? He's a villain and really nasty one at that. He went from regular villain to pure hate sink throughout the games.
@@chadharger9323 For some background context, in MK2021, Kano was captured by Sonya to help locate Raiden’s temple, so for a good chunk of the movie he was technically a good guy. Plus he was just funny and had a lot of personality, people largely said that Kano was a vehicle for the audience’s reactions/emotions to what was happening in the movie (at least until he dies, lol).
People can like villains, especially ones that are funny/charismatic/compelling. Especially in a movie/game/show where the main characters are severely under-developed or just outright detestable (like most of the Velma cast). If you’re given a bunch of protagonists who are supposed to be seen as likable in multiple aspects but they really aren’t, then sometimes the villain ends up being better because they actually fill their role.
I was wondering where that guy went
@@TheChildofAuraRebornit’s kind of like how in movies like the little mermaid, people often like Ursula, in spite of the fast that she’s, quite literally as per the movie, an evil sea-witch because she has charismatic qualities and is funny.
@@forsociopoliticalstuff2629 I mean, it definitely applies to almost ANYTHING. People like a good villain, people like seeing a total piece of shit because they're supposed to be playing a role in a story, they're supposed to be an antagonist. Maybe they're a tragic, sympathetic villain. Maybe they're a monstrous bastard with no redeemable qualities. Hell, maybe they're somewhere in-between (like Kung Fu Panda villains). People just like characters.
I love the fact that WB and Max didn't even bother with it this time around. They fucking knew that the bad retention rate from Season 1 would only be worse for this Season, so just drop it all on the same day with minimal advertising. That and the fact that they immediately started talking about the live action series means that they're done with this shitshow once the Halloween Special is thrown out to die.
When the White, anime-ish style Velma and Daphne walk by, it's a cruel reminder of what could have been.
What did Scooby-Doo do to the powers that be to piss them off so much?
Yep. White and anime is what we want 🤣 weeb weirdo
Have a white cast that smiled at the end of every episode
Actually be pretty wholesome and not “subversive” apparently
Why does Velma season 2 happen but Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, Coyote vs Acme, and Inside Job get canned?
This Velma was so toxic her spirit literally killed Scrappy. I know he can be annoying, but he doesn't deserve this.
9:17 OHHHHhh this is why theres all this dong plot, almost completely toxic lesbian stereotypes, and hate/love of fred. Mindy kaling is down bad and didnt want to pay a animator on deviantart T_T
It saddens me that a show like "Raised by Wolves" (a show that was quite unique and entertaining) gets cancelled on a massive cliffhanger, while garbage like "Velma" (and also Teen Titans Go) get a second chance. Have I stepped into the Twilight Zone or what?
Like steve says this isnt season 2 its season 1 part 2
@@fauzul4004 Regardless, it's sickening that this show continued.
@@tyrannozilla you missing the point. this show wasn't continued WB just releasing the rest of the episode of season 1
Teen Titans Go is award worthy compared to Velma
@@fauzul4004 Okay, I understand now. Still, though, this show shouldn't have been green lit in the first place.
I always did love Scrappy-Doo for a reason! Such a good doggy 🥰
I think the funniest joke about velma 2 is that its brought Scrappy back into the conv more than "man he sucked" or "maybe this character is kind of overhated" (personally I fall in the later camp cause.......honestly I never got the extreme hate)
Watch original Scrappy stuff. He never shut up in whatever scene he was in and was a huge distraction for whatever antics the rest of the gang(mainly Shaggy and Scooby) were getting into.
The only positive thing to come out of this show is that it helped relieve the hate that Scrappy has gotten over the years by offing off Velma.
Kind of ironic that when scrappy was originally added, he was well liked. Similar situation happened with scrappy that happened with new coke.
The "oh white guy," jokes are still there, they're just more implied then out there in this season
Anyway please let that be the end of velma! It's a happy one
I always liked Scrappy so it was quite funny finding out he was hated in the live action Scooby Doo movie lol looks like he’s had a redemptive arc
I keep forgetting this tumour of a show exists. I still have not seen season 1 and have zero plans to try.
inside job fans watching this atrocity happen:
Yeah why was inside job cancelled
@@darkmya19Probably Because Netflix Wanted To Keep Big Mouth Afloat.
@@collinkeyser6827the guy who is responsible for big mouth comes from a very rich family, billionaires, I wouldn't be surprised if he was bankrolling that show himself
Thanks Steve! For suffering through this so we don't have to
I never had a problem with Scrappy Doo growing up it’s the weird Gen X writers that do. I’m glad he’s doing the lord work and killed Mindy Velma.
Its admirable you endured all of this
Guys, I have come to deliver the message that Velma... Has been cancelled.
It will not return with a third season .
The fact that there was basically no promotion for this second season, AND they released all the episodes at once, it really seems like they dumped this show on their streaming services and hoped everyone will just forget this show exist.
Keep in mind when Norville shocked his brain the only people he insulted in that 24 hour span was his dad and the mailman. Who for Norville's dad they keep referencing him as the originally shaggy and they only do this when his dad gets high.
The best scenes in the entirety of Velma was when she got hit by a car and when she died
Something tells me WB had that planned from the start, considering how much hate both the show and the lead actress got from the start.
This is the only way I can watch the show. Steve's commentary makes everything hilarious.
Velma got a 2nd season, but fantastic animated shows such Thundercats (2011), Symbiotic Titan, and Cybersix got canned after 1 season.
Because the toys didn't sell. . .seriously that's the reason why Symbiotic Titan got cancelled. . .
2:32 I’ll admit, that background map gag is legitimately funny. Kudos to the background artists!
Just leaving my Obligatory “please review Sword of the Stranger” dude.
Definitely worth a watch if you haven’t seen it.
Who else is here after the show got cancelled? Cause I’m so happy
We did it we stopped Velma season 3 from happening as the series got officially cancelled after the Halloween special
How ironic it ends with Velma dead…..
@@osmanyousif7849 indeed
For crying out loud, are these writers so incompetent they couldn't even think up "I bit off their junk as revenge for being neutered"!?
Can't believe Scrappy Doo went through a redemption arc
Lol first time in a long time scrappy Doo been done justice. Killing this Velma was a god send and am not even a believer but some times i wanna believe.
Velma season 2? More like The Scrappy redemption arc season 1.
I’d unironically be hyped for a Scrappy Doo spinoff.
Imagine if Dennis Reynolds wanted to play Fred so much, he got in contact with Mindy Kaling and Max to make a horrible Scooby-Doo show to taunt Mac and Charlie.
So let me get this straight Norville comes back at the end of S1 because Velma said she loved him and now in S2 he barley thinks about her. What a consistent character.
nobody is consistent in this garbo, norville falls in love with the brain, she is happy because he sees her for her and not just her body... he sees her body again and gets it wrong... so you fell in love with him because he appreciated you for more than your body... then got mad at him because he didn't know you well enough to know what you looked like ? supposedly a smart kid... decides to electrocute his own brain, his only scientific source being testing it on a potato.
i think he must've been taking his dads advice on what to smoke and just forgot with how much sense he makes.
Velma pitch meeting:
Mindy Kaling: when people watch tv, whats their first thought?
WB Producer: "i like this"?
Mindy: uh-uh, its "why doesnt the main character come from the exact same background as i do?".
How are we getting a second and potentially third season of this tumour of a show but cartoons like The Ghost and Molly McGee, Owl House, and Amphibia will never see the light of day?? 😭🤦🏼♂️
disappointment
Be glad those shows atleast were released, Whilst Coyote vs Acme and the Scoob Halloween holiday prequel are unreleased
@@riley-dv8eu true
Not to mention infinity train!
There's a good chance there won't
What I don't understand was how come the series brought Scrappy, but completely leaves out Scooby. That's a total disservice for me. Then again, this whole series is a disservice to the Scooby-Doo Franchise. Just like you said, it's like WB is giving us a big shitty middle finger.
What if Velma was a giant stunt to make Scrappy beloved? It's unlikely, but I can kind of see it.
@SteveReviews Want to give yourself a good excuse to scare yourself and others on Halloween? Well, might I suggest reviewing Velma's new Halloween special. Yes, Max just released a Halloween special for Velma. You can even make it YOUR Halloween special. 👍🏼
With all the hype Scrappy has been getting maybe it’s time to bring him back into the franchise for real.
thank you for doing this so none of us had to watch this show. you are leading us to a better world of no Vemla season 3
On the bright side, Steve’s returned. On the bad side, it’s with Velma
It says something when Scrappy Doo is the best thing in the series. At least his Voice actor sounds like he's actually TRYING and wants to be there.
I don't remember the VAs name but he always gives it his best in the stuff he's in. It feels like he's doing it not just for a paycheck
@@osets2117Jason Mantzoukas. He's also Alex in Close Enough, and Rex Plode in INVINCIBLE.
Man, working on this as an artist must've been hell.
Update: the was just canceled. Let us all rejoice.
I am praying we don't get a season 3, but I also see Mindy Kaling throwing a huge temper tantrum about it and will be blaming everyone around the world for not stroking her ego. and if somehow it does get a season 3
Then she almost has to have something on someone
She once sexually harass a male coworker (who was openly gay to boot) and got away with it by threatening to fire people if they talked. She bragged about it on Conan O Brian's show. . .so blackmail/extortion might not be a stretch.
Pray to God we will make it pass the B,L,M, GAY, WOKE agenda crisis
8:11 dude wtf... Why do these guys look way better than the actual Velma and Daphne, like why ?
Bro I swear to God the voice for Velma is voiced by a MSA voice actor 😭
Fr
seriously sounds exactly like it
It's like a horror movie, it doesn't die
I avoided watching Velma so I can watch this Video.
the fact that they introduce scrappy as a character but dont even have scooby is the real crime. Likewise the fact that there was no goal in the killings is like pure anti scooby doo since the criminals always have a plot to achive a goal (always convoluted af but still)
I'd rather go rewatch that Knuckles spin-off show than having to waste my precious hours on Velma S2. Which, fun fact, they premiered on the same week together.
This show makes shaggy and scooby doo get a clue look like a masterpiece.
Everyone: this show sucks.
Directors who can't take criticism: it's all the audiences fault!
I just think of that episode of Justice League where the alien courts determined that a Lawyer suffers the same fate as their clients, and I think there should be a punishment for those who take another's IP and makes something horrible and hateful with it
Please don’t cause anymore suffering to yourself… that’s what this show is all ABOUT. SUFFERING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
God damn that comparison from 1:45, fkn hell. Made me spit out my drink, thanks for that. Doesn't help I have something of a vivid imagination, so that mental image is now just living rent free for at least a while. :D
I think the reason why they dropped it all instead of doing it in pieces, is because there are probably not enough people that actually hate watch the show. Most are probably just doing as I do, watch others cringe or critique at the show, since it is not actually worth the time to watch it in full.
And the best part: Velma dies in the end. Hopefully there's no third season so she stays that way.
Scrappy doo is the best redeem villain in media ever!
the only Velma content I've taken in has been your video essays and that's the only way I'm watching this load XD
The sad part is the animation is genuinely not horrible. Shame about the script and character design.
I feel like Vincent Van Ghoul will be coming to rescue Velma's soul in the cliffhanger
As if 2024 couldn’t get worse, we get Velma S2
Worse? It's been pretty tame for me.
@@cadendicky1855 Lucky...
2024 hasent been bad
@@mechapope9168 Pretty bad for films recently outside of Godzilla.
@@Seven_Suits_Up or desensitized; give or take.
I'd bet my bottom dollar that the season ending on a cliff hanger is just a tactic try try and FORCE a new season by having that as a reason to continue.
It's been years since I watched the og Scooby-Doo so I can't speak for myself now, but I thought Scrappy was hilarious back in the day. And small dogs really are that bold and stupid, so it wasn't a bad running gag.
The problem was that Scrappy was a distraction from whatever antics the rest of the cast were up to. He was a 'scene stealer'. If Scrappy had been originally toned down A LOT he would've been better received by the fans.
Part of me wonders if Norville's hallucinations were shoe-horned in after they saw it was pretty much the only thing people praised about season 1.
If I had a nickel for every time Velma got a season I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's strange that it happened twice.
P.S. I’m so glad Scrappy killed Velma, as a reward I tolerate him now.
Supposedly there's a special that is supposed to come out around halloween that will wrap up the series. So the horror isnt over yet.
Steve my man i have excellent news, the velma show has been canceled for good.
Awesome review of Velma season two Steve your videos always make me happy.
Hope you review Code Lyoko next that show was my childhood from the plot, the animation, the voice acting and the music
Overall a great review Steve 🙂
I never watched the first season and i will never watch the second season ive done my country proud
This show tried to tackle the debate of Scientific Materialism vs. Religious Spiritualism.
Regardless of where you stand on that subject, I think we can all agree that this show doesn't deserve to tackle it.
So they canceled Close Enough buuuut... Velma got a second season?!?!? Seriously!!! WTF HBO!
Scrappy killed Velma as far as I'm concerned he's earned his redemption.