Dang you are right and the fact that the crossover movie has some character development and the second part spoiler alert Start with them addressing Ruby reckless and Weiss trauma from Atlas.
Seriously we still don’t know how they are going to beat Salem. Hell they haven’t really accomplished that much and even manage to destroy a kingdom and lose two relics.
Yep. All that time is spent either licking their wounds or on pointless sidequests that do nothing to give them any meaningful insight on how to move forward after their last failure.
I absolutely agree on Number 1, Critter. Velma is the absolutely WORST abomination that has ever came out in 2023. They didn't just butchered an entire classic series, but also allowed a MORON to live out her fetish dreams and destroy so many people's childhoods. Velma is the biggest flop of 2023 and it needs to be burned to the ground. Wiped out from history. Without evidences about it's existance. Give it the Damnatio Memoriae treatment.
It honestly feels like her own fanfic where she's velma. I think if they had made their own story instead of having to use a big name like scoobydo to try & gain an existing fanbase, it might have been better.
And yet Velma is getting a second season. Meanwhile people like us will have to wait 2, 3 or 4 years for season 2 of Chainsaw Man, Hell’s Paradise, Castlevania Nocturne, Zom 100 Bucket List of the Dead and My Happy Marriage to come out. Worst of all, shows like Praise Petey get cancelled after one season.
@@samflood5631 God... Why is that, that the worst series ever gets a second season? It had the lowest viewers raiting. Nobody liked that. Not even the audiance, they have intended to make that garbage.
My biggest problem with Velma was how it felt like it hated being a show. Every third joke was about breaking the 4th wall or story tropes. They were trying to copy Deadpool and Rick n Morty but they over used it. Deadpool was the only character who broke the 4th wall and the other characters just thought he was crazy. Rick n Morty only had a couple jokes like that. At most they had 1 episode about tropes.
As someone who feels rick and mortuary can be too cynical occasionalky but is still fun sometimes I agree. At least I see passion in the rick and morty bits I don't like too.
Not gonna lie, I applaud Velma for one thing. Advertising to me how awful of a person someone is upfront, Mindy Kaling. I have never encountered a show where they portray their main character as so toxically venomous and the VA behind it proudly presenting it as an exact match of her personality. Like, I would usually think maybe this was the fault of the writers, but Mindy is so vehemently eager to take credit for how extremely OC-ish Velma is that I cannot help but take her at her word. And looking at evidence of Mindy’s past, it only makes me believe her word even more. Wow, just……bravo at advertising what a stupidly hateful person you are of everyone and yourself. Glad I could have the pleasure of never knowing or meeting you.
27:12 From what I heard, Warner Brothers apparently didn't want Scooby Doo to be in the show... honestly good job! It's nice to see someone unharmed from this show
Velma was the first show or piece of media I distinctly said to myself "I ain't watching this!". Just from the very very first teaser alone, I felt like that one meme with the guy taking out his headphones when Velma said "Dear HBO Max"
Best thing about Velma is it didn't get to be the first time Velma was into girls in a Scooby Doo thing, yeah it's pretty much a long running joke the fans had, but I am so happy it happened in 'Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo!' first, because, well A: her crushing on Coco was adorable in that film, and B: It means Velma doesn't get to even be a footnote in the franchises history (Beyond, maybe 'Our first atempt at being for adults exclusivley was a terrible idea) (Also dumb thought: Adult Scooby Doo surley can't be that difficult, you could just do like, a standard mystery show but the villians wear elaborate costumes to hide and like, murder people. Heck maybe our gang can be in serious danger and get shot at or something? Like why did we need a stupid brain stealing plotline where everyones an asshole?)
The live-action movies are probably the closest we got to a more "adult" Scooby-Doo. Though mostly in terms of comedic tone; the jokes they make, rather than something like hiding a murder.
Live action show where rather than amateur mystery solvers they're private detectives (with a similar background, with some changes) Scooby's a former bomb squad dog, but the experience left him skittish and easily frightened. Velma's the standard academic of the group, skilled in the sciences and forensics from a childhood spent obsessing ovee them Daphne is the badass in heels, coming from old money and a bit of an adrenaline junkie Shaggy flunked out of military school and police academy, and is a bit of a foodie, but he's very good with people that aren't in Daphne's crowd of the higher social elite Fred is the heart and leader of the team, choosing cases and driving the van they use (it was the cheapest vehicle they could get that would fit all of them)
Man, 2023 was a wild year in terms of quality. Just a rollercoaster of highs and lows. For movies, we had the highs of The Super Mario Bros Movie, Godzilla Minus One, and Barbenheimer, but we also had the lows of Shazam 2, Quantumania, the Flash, and Napoleon. For video games, we had the hits of Baldur’s Gate 3, Tears of the Kingdom, Armor Core 6, and Lies of P. At the same time, we had the horrors of Gollum, Kong, Walking Dead Destinies, The Day Before, and that horrible Avatar the Last Airbender game that everyone forgot about. And then we have TV shows! It’s crazy to realize that RWBY V9, Ahsoka, Secret Invasion, and Velma all came out the same year as The Last of Us, Legend of Vox Machina S2, My Adventures with Superman, and the absolutely incredible live action One Piece. I think we overall got more good this year than bad, which is great and hopefully a good sign for next year, but when we got something bad, it was scraping the bottom of the barrel in terms of quality
Loki season 2 was amazing. Not that there cant be any criticisms of it, but I definitely dont think it's one of the worst shows this year. Actually I'd say its one of the best.
Same Here! I Don’t get People’s Aversion to some of the Marvel Streaming offerings. But I won’t lie, Secret Invasion Should’ve been Higher up On this List! How Loki made it in the Dishonorable category makes me Question a lot of people’s choices! But back to the argument. Loki S2 is by far One of the Better Shows! Definitely up there with Moon Knight, as we get to Delve Deep into Loki as a Character, Separating him from his Mythical inspiration before returning him to his (Literal) Godhood as he finally starts understand what his purpose is! And it’s so Good!
Worst part is that all of these didn’t HAVE to be bad. All they needed was better writing, people who actually cared about the products, and a reason to happen.
RWBY was destined to be terrible but Volume 9 completely destroyed my faith in the series. I permanently left RWBY after the worst Romance became "Canon" due to LGBT+ bullcrap
Loki's ending is actually surprisingly good. Probably some of the best MCU stuff we've had in a while. I'm definitely hoping that the literal multiverse altering drama that happened in it is actually important and gets addressed in the movies, cause if not, absolute waste of the show and the amazing actors in it. It's probably worse that you stopped half way considering that would just leave you confused as fuck if anything.
What makes Secret Invasion even more embarrassing is that the Avengers Earth’s Mightiest Heroes animated series - a cartoon from 2010-2012 that is over a decade old - was able to do the whole Skrull invasion storyline over its two seasons in a more interesting and well-written way than this big-budget live action series. Like… wow, imagine doing such a bad job that a decade-old animated show that Disney cancelled after Season 2 just to make another different Avengers cartoon that was closer in style to the MCU was able to outclass Secret Invasion 10+ years before Secret Invasion even came out.
What's _really_ embarrassing is that Doctor Who did the same thing with just _two episodes._ Not only did The Zygon Invasion/Inversion also deal with shapeshifting aliens trying to find a place for themselves, but it also goes into what happens to the _people_ who just want to live peacefully. Most of the episodes' runtime is dedicated to showing how the actions of a small, radicalised group impacts the rest of the people they're supposedly trying to protect, whilst also making full use of the Zygons' shapeshifting abilities. Some of the most memorable scenes include the Zygons taking the forms of a drone operator's family members, making her hesitate for long enough that the drone strike was aborted. Another scene had them pretend to be captured relatives, with one of them disguised as a soldier's mother and _begging_ not to be shot. Having shapeshifting villains gives writers an _immense_ amount of opportunities for drama, conflict, and character growth, but somehow the writers at Marvel managed to screw it up.
"Don't you wanna just hear someone else validate your frustrations by venting about it too?" - Critter 2023 Damn, Critter is telling the truth. (And describing 1/3 of my liked videos and RUclipsrs I Subscribe to.) I was surprised to see both The Mandalorian and Loki make this list until I realized you were talking about the latest seasons. After the all the flak BOBF received, I wasn't jazzed about Disney making more Mandalorian. The first two seasons were good and helped stack up the Disney Era roster, but they drew it out too long and fumbled it. Loki I was optimistic for because the first season was great and more of Tom Hiddleston's Loki is always welcome. I have yet gotten a new subscription to Disney + to watch this and more of the Bad Batch. Even after your review, I might still check it out. And yes, Velma needs to burn in hell with the rest of its outdated humor. Thank you for the video and have a nice day. P.s. Speaking of an Echo Chamber of Frustration, I am curious to see you review Paramount's Halo show since it is now free on RUclips. It would be interesting to hear an opinion from someone unfamiliar with the franchise and its lore.
I agree, the first couple episodes of loki were alright. But I would recommend finishing it if you can. It's such an amazing ending. But don't force yourself if you don't want to.
Mindy Kaling can be funny, but only when someone else writes her comedy. She literally stole the show as Disgust in Inside Out, but after she came out with Velma, I don't think Disgust would have been nearly as funny or memorable if Mindy wrote her own jokes
No one seemed to care about the other civilians who may have ended up in Wonderland with them. I guess they all died off screen without the benefit of plot armor.
I honestly really liked loki season 2. It was a fun time for me and the god of story's was really cool and just felt like a good show. On the other I agree with many of your choices being worst tv shows star wars, secret invasion suck!
Yeah, Secret invasion by Far is the Worst Thing that Marvel has put out. And Honestly, Not even She-Hulk was as Bad as Secret Invasion! I at least could enjoy some of the Campier Elements of She-Hulk. But Secret Invasion is just, lack luster and terribly executed! Not to mention the logic threw out was really bizarre.
The ending of Secret Invasion is a joke. It reminded me of the Sailor Moon meme where the guy with a hat says "My job here is done" and the girl retorts that he didn't do anything. It's the same here : Fury goes back to space after having accomplished next to nothing and the show treats it like a good thing. I mean, the situation is even worse than at episode 1 : the Skrulls are now exposed, hunted by countless people and have no real leadership anymore. Fury just helped killing the vilain of the week and it fixed nothing.
Yeah, Season 3 of Mandalorian kinda dipped in quality. I hope Season 4 can be better. Goosebumps had a promising start, but it fell really hard towards the end. I was really disappointed after the first few episodes. I haven't seen Velma, but I'm gonna take your word for it.
The story was told. It should have ended after season 2. They clearly had no idea what to do with it and I don't have any hope that it will suddenly become better.
As someone who watched both Clone Wars AND Rebels, I had a lot more of an appreciation for Ahsoka. Leia is at least somewhat familiar with Hera and the Ghost crew (they were at the Battle of Scarif), so their relationship and the C-3PO cameo made sense. The relationship between Ahsoka and Sabine was… unexpected and unfounded? They didn’t interact like that in Rebels, and it’s a pretty lazy parallel between them and Ahsoka/Anakin, the snappy/unruly apprentice and the experienced yet bold master. Thrawn’s presence was undoubtedly underplayed, from an Expanded Universe badass warlord, to a legitimate and intimidating threat in Rebels, to the guy who’s basically Caesar from Fallout New Vegas, a man on the throne, barking out orders without actually doing anything. Enoch was hard as fuck though. The other villains were, aight. Skoll and Hati, while being a fun allusion to Norse mythology, were interesting additions to the universe. Morgan Elsbeth was, something. Just sort of boring, I’m glad to see Nightsisters in more canon. Ezra’s return was sick. He felt so, Ezra. Even after years of being stuck in this other galaxy, his optimism and humor hasn’t been lost, which might sound unrealistic, but that’s just how Ezra was. I really don’t like how he was switcherooed with Sabine and Ahsoka though. It makes some sense thematically and to keep certain relationships, but it just feels like nothing has been accomplished. I agree about the character interactions, they were very lackluster. I hadn’t really noticed since it’s Disney Star Wars, but even in comparison to previous shows this shit stank. The action was fairly entertaining. That whole flashback sequence with Anakin was so fanservicey, but I fucking loved it. Only time fan service has actually made me hyped for a whole episode, and that’s saying something in this show. I’d give the show a 6/10 or maybe a 6.5/10. Needs some work, but as a continuation to Clone Wars and Rebels, it was serviceable and sometimes really successful. But for the love of god, can people please stop surviving LIGHTSABERS TO THE FUCKING STOMACH-
I wouldn't say Thrawn's presence is underplayed here, they make mention of him dozens of times throughout the first part of the show, and they def don't try to downplay what might happen if he were to return. He's a chessmaster, moving and sacrificing pieces throughout the (admittedly few) episodes he's actually in to achieve greater goals. He's calculated, he's knowledgeable about the threats at hand (on basically all fronts). He's more of a strategist than any of the other villains, and that's what makes him such a threat. I agree with the Caesar comparison to an extent, but he's less of a tumor-addled angry shitstain in the desert than he is a Johan Liebert without being an unapologetic sadist. Gotta agree with the casting call for him and Ezra though. Eman Esfandi was absolutely phenomenal, and I'm genuinely glad we're getting to see him again. Morgan was weird to see in the series because she looks like someone I know personally, but that doesn't take away from her role in the show (being sort of an uninteresting antagonist until the very end of the show. Overall, yeah, I'd agree with your scoring. Totally serviceable, just like Loki imo, but they could've done a LOT more with it. Hopefully they do so, if they have a second season
It is a shame seeing RWBY V9 being on here, as much as I personally enjoyed it, the criticisms you gave were very valid, but for me when I enjoyed out weights the negatives. but overall epic list
V9 i really enjoyed too :) probably in my top 3 RWBY volumes. Loved ruby and the setting , but yeah with the girls especially yang being oblivious to ruby's struggle was very bad on the writers part >:( they did a sister ark between ruby and yang in the justice league part 2 and that just felt like lame damage control
I agree, RWBY V9 ain't perfect, but it is waaaaay better than V8 by a long shot IMO. I can forgive some of the negatives because the season was under duress from being released because of the two-year COVID-19 delay among other behind-the-scenes issues. That kind of stuff can hurt the production and writing of a new season. Plus it creates plot holes. Plus, in WBY's defense, every time they noticed something wrong with Ruby or when she tried them herself, the next plot point or inconvenience interrupts them and they drop it altogether. It would make more sense if Ruby had actually made an effort to hide her pain from them. Them ignoring her pain can still work as they're so caught up trying to make the best of their current situation while trying find a way home. They put so much faith in Ruby that they're unintentionally putting more pressure on her. The way I see it, Ruby's hero complex combined with her failures and insecurities are what's holding her back from talking to her teammates about it. She doesn't want them to think she's weak. Plus, I can see Ruby acting indifferent about Yang and Blake's relationship because she feels insulted that they get a happy ending after she just lost her close friend. It was too soon.
I’ll give Mindy this, she got to live the emo basement dweller’s dream of having her edgy OC character on an actual show where she got to whine about all her insecurities and secret fetishs to a captive audience. Captive as in being unable to look away from a gruesome car accident
I'm not disappointed that RWBY V9 didn't show us anything of Vacuo. I am disappointed that the Everafter was such a let down. There is no real character development or plot involvement. It really is just filler. No wait! Blake & Yang are now together and Weiss has a crush on DILF Jaune. Very little of it was interesting and you could easily cut large swarves of the plot because it does not matter.
Rwby v9 and velma HAD potential due to things like art style soundtracks but loki season 2, and ashoka just felt like franchise fatigue, and don't get me started on mado season 3 just felt like Kathleen Kennedy just trying to kill the brand.
I think we should start naming blatant self inserts after the main writers to make fun of the fact that they're self inserts. She's not Velma, she's Mindy Kaling dressed as Velma.
14:59 Yep. I've been wanting and waiting for and anticipating an Ahsoka show for YEARS. The Clone Wars series might just be the best thing to come out of Star Wars as an IP, and words could not describe how much I wanted to see the dynamic, developed, well written, unique, flawed, badass character that was Ahsoka in her own show. But they just COMPLETELY demolished her character. It doesn't feel like Ahsoka at ALL. Clone Wars Ahsoka and this Ahsoka are written like entirely different characters to the point where it feels like she doesn't HAVE a character anymore. NONE of the characters from Ahsoka feel like characters. They feel like plot devices. They feel like lines of script stuffed into an actor that says their lines at an abominably slow pace to stretch out runtime. Ahsoka was fiery and passionate, headstrong but still wise and kind, and most importantly, she was INTERESTING. But it's as if she was killed off and the character we have now is her watered-down corpse. What a thorough disappointment
You know...while we're talking about Velma... So, when it was revealed that the cast was being race-swapped, my initial thought was "I don't care, but why?". I mean, Scooby-Doo has an iconic set of characters, so why change the look? Then I saw that each main character was a different race and thought "Oh I get it. We're mixing things up with diversity here. Now it's more than one race being represented. Good on you!" And then.... Velma starts barfing out white guy this, black guy that, just...nothing but stereotypical shit "jokes" that the punchline is "haha get it? They're -insert race here-". Fred kept stereotyping Velma with racist stereotypes, Norville hates weed because it's against a typical black teenager STEREOTYPE. Half the damn jokes relied of stereotypes. The reason, the ONLY reason, they decided to swap the races of the main characters was so they had a excuse to make racist jokes. It's actually vile that the creators thought this was an okay thing to do. News flash! If the punchline of a joke is your race, gender or sexual orientation then that's racist or bigoted. And to change the races JUST SO you have an excuse to make such "jokes" is just...awful. (also the ending with Velma and her mom kicking her father, step-mom and a BABY out of the house is framed as a good ending? wtf is wrong with Mindy)
I imagine Norville hating drugs was specifically because Shaggy was always steroetyped as being a druggie, rather than it being race-related. Also, about Velma's family? There's an entire episode dedicated to Velma mending the bridge with her father. And if you want a good example of race-swapping in media, I highly recommend The Wiz. It's The Wizard of Oz, but with an all-black cast, even having Michael Jackson as the Scarecrow. I do also hear there's an all-Indian (as in, from the country of India) version of the Archie series called, well, The Archies.
I actually liked RWBY volume 9 but not everyone does and I accept that! Everyone has their own opinions or preferences on which show everyone loves or hates but if someone starts drama just because another person expressed their opinions or preferences… then that person who started drama is a psychopath judgemental critter
From what I saw, its more like people saw the volume as pointless. A lot of stuff that happened didn't need to happen in the Ever After. At most, maybe Ruby coming to terms with everything and herself. But everything else could have been saved for Volume 10. Like Black and Yang finally becoming a couple.
The three things that ruin art Number 1. Corporations Number 2. Politics Number 3. mindy kaling and people like her The fact there are people defending hitler and stalin, mussolini, osama bin laden, ted bundy on the internet yet noone is defending velma tells you how bad it is
Notice how a lot of Disney projects sideline the main character? Loki, boba Fett, mando season 3, dr strange and Ashoka all had the focus on someone else.
I hate how Mindy tries to roast her own heritage with the Indian dessert joke, when me, a white person, and all my white friends, agree that the town’s best restaurant is the Indian place and their desserts are genuinely fantastic and usually people’s highlight of the meal.
26:38 I never understood this argument against the Velma show. It was terrible. Everyone save for MAYBE Daphne is a complete asshole and only one of them is putting in any effort to correct it. The show itself is wierdly misandrist and racist to the extent every single episode has at least 8 disses about how men, especially white men are terrible or rapists. Why do you WANT Scooby to be dragged into this? It wont make the show better just spare the character the embarrasment of being in the same show with these versions of his friends who literally twerk over peoples corpses
So what are your thoughts on other shows of 2023 like My Happy Marriage, Zom 100 Bucket List of the Dead, Hell’s Paradise, Praise Petey, Rip Digman and Agent Elvis?
speaking as a HUGE scooby doo fan, velma was a big disappointment for me because i really, genuinely did want to like it. it had a decent premise, an eyecatching art style, and nice redesigns. but in the end it was just... empty. no soul, no heart, nothing-- just a bitter, gross mess. it doesn't even make me angry, like certain other scooby media (scoob is much worse than velma, i promise you. at least velma was TRYING to be something, even though it sucked), just disappointed. what a waste of potential. so, as a pallet cleanser, here's some other, much better, scooby doo titles to watch that also have an edge to them without stripping away the fun of the series: - mystery incorporated (HIGHLY recommend) - be cool scooby doo (push past the artstyle, i swear its a solid show) - scooby doo on zombie island - scooby doo and the witch's ghost - moon monster madness - scooby doo and the curse of the thirteenth ghost - happy halloween scooby doo - straight outta no where: scooby doo meets courage the cowardly dog and if you're looking for some purely goofy and wholesome fun: - scooby goes hollywood - sccoby doo and the alien invaders - both the live action scooby movies - scooby doo in where my mummy - legend of the phantosaur - scooby doo and kiss: rock and roll mystery (HIGHLY reccommend, this movie is ridiculous and it knows it) - both the lego scooby movies - whats new, scooby doo - the thirteen ghosts of scooby doo - a pup named scooby doo scooby doo is, genuinely, a super diverse franchise with a lot of hidden gems to find. even though the characters usually stay the same, the setting and premise is always changing, and it always makes sense because scooby can work in any setting! that's the joy of an episodic mystery show, and that's why its lasted as long as it has! not every piece of scooby media is good, but personally, i always find some joy in seeing how they shake up the formula. to all who choose to partake: good luck on your scooby doo journey!
I haven’t seen Ashoka, but from what I’ve heard, if you haven’t seen Clone Wars and Rebels it’s awful, but if you have seen them it’s great. I also skipped Mando S3, but geez how bad is it that it’s considered worse than RWBY?!
Ahsoka is awefull if you haven't watched Clone Wars and Rebels because you neither know the most prominent characters. If you however watched Clone Wars and Rebels you spend the majority of the episodes wondering where the hell their personalitys went. Mado Season 3 had as far as I can remember was bad written and boring. A litteral waist of time. Rwby V9 was at least a bit of fun and it had better fights then Ahsoka.
I haven't watched the RWBY X Justice League movies, but the fact that they are apparently better than the actual show (which does get me a little excited) is honestly hilarious in a sort of sad way.
"Barry"'s third season sounds like someone fired the entire writing staff and put their boring bible studies teacher in their place. It sounds like RWBY's 9th season, Mandalorian's 3rd Season, and Ahsoka had the same thing happen. Goosebumps sounds like it was written by someone who desperately wanted in on that Stranger Things vibe/fame/money, but had literally 0 talent to make it a thing. Secret Invasion sounds like they got the idiot who decided on the "make Captain America a secret Hydra Agent.... oh and he's also from another dimension and really REALLY cares about test scores because that somehow maybe proves his point" storyline and put them and the person responsible for the She-Hulk series together as the head of cocaine... and scriptwriting.
To be fair, Grogu isn't the first character to be suddenly extremely popular, so it's expected that he has more focus (and merchandise). He's like Fonzie and Steve Urkel in a way, as they way are more popular than the "average" main protagonists that came before them to the point that they were promoted to main protagonist status themselves in later seasons. The other characters are likable on their own right, but they just don't hold a candle to the likes of Grogu, Fonzie, and Steve, who are all better by a mile.
I know Velma is bad but honestly the true worst show of 2023 has to be Squid Game: The Challenge. Completely misses the point of the original show, not to mention all poor treatment of the contestants received behind the scenes; all to make one garbage reality show.
Ahsoka realy had potential, especially with Thrawn coming back, but it turned out so boring and slow and as a fan of the character Ahsoka, I just wonder how Filoni could write her so stern and almost emotionless. I also don't get why we needed to travel in a whole nother galaxy when we could have done unknown regions. They would need the map to travel into the unknown regions because without a route they would get into a black hole or something. At least Rwby V9 was more fun and, just an opinion, the fights where better. The Mandalorian S3...I can't say anything about it because I can only remember how there where B2 droids and the dark saber got destroyed. Thats how memorable the season was for me.
Well this is my list for best and worst (I only have 5 worst) Top 10 Best 10) Monster High G3 Season 1 9) The Amazing Race season 34 8) Shark Tank season 14 7) Traitors US season 1 6) Survivor 45 5) Survivor 44 4) The Mole season 1 3) High School The Musical The Series season 4 2) Goosebumps season 1 (Loved this show, really shocked you didn't actually!) 1) Traitors UK season 1 Top 5 worst 5) MLP G5 Make Your Mark Chapter 4 4) Rainbow High Season 4 3) MLP G5 Make Your Mark Chapter 5 2) MLP G5 Make Your Mark Chapter 6 1) Velma
This was great! But I want to respectfully disagree with the Barry entry specifically. I only recently watched Barry from start to finish, and the thing is that I think season 4’s deviation from the original premise is perfectly acceptable, when you acknowledge what all the characters represent thematically. Barry’s probably the easiest example, his religious shift sounds super weird, but it makes sense when consider that he kind of person he is. Barry isn’t confident enough in himself to make decisions, so he needs to externalize his life choices to someone/something that’s easy to follow. He’s never really passionate about acting or being a hitman, because neither of those things were central To who he is, he did them for the sake of having a purpose. Having a “purpose” is so central To who he is that he really doesn’t care what purpose he’s serving so long as he has one. Religion is the newest, and frankly easiest purpose he’s chosen, because it gives him the most security with the least strings attached. I could say similar things about the rest of the cast, they aren’t acting out of character, they’re being challenged in ways that push them to show their deepest possible motivations. Sally and Gene are spineless cowards who don’t want to face the consequences of their actions, and only care about being out on a pedestal. Sally never really loved Barry, he was just easy did her to be around. The second he became inconvenient, she dropped him, which is why their marriage is so stale and depressing. Hank and Fuches become intertwined in this season, not out of their surface level personalities, but out of what they both represent. Fuches represents coming to terms with one’s own self deception and manipulation, finding strength by acknowledging one’s weakness and shortcomings. He gets what is probably the happiest ending, because he finally drops the bullshit that is the defining theme of the series. Hank on the other hand can’t cope with the fact that he lost the love of his life to his own selfishness, so he constructs a persona where he’s a noble, kind team player that honors Cristobal. By the finale, Hank and Fuches are polar opposites, and I’d argue that those parallel journies have groundwork back in season one. I totally get if people disagree, but I do wanna say one final thing. Barry was never a good person. Sally and Hank and gene, these people arent good or moral. Your not supposed to care deeply for them like your friends ir family. this show is a statement amount the consequences of lying to yourself and manipulating others, and it’s not supposed to and you happy, it’s supposed to make you think. Atleast that’s what I think.
TLDR; Barry’s cast isn’t acting out of character or deviating from the premise, it’s just reframing the show’s themes and ideas to make them more dynamic.
So why C-3PO would know Herra it's because they met with Leia during Rebels. This show is supposed to follow the events of Rebels. Granted I didn't bother watching the show but without watching rebels you'll be lost just like people who didn't watch clone wars were when Maul made an appearance in Solo.
I hand it to people who can comment on bad TV and watch every episode of it. I tune out after the first episode if I see it was bad. Like the Mandalorian, screw that show. The first episode I had ZERO idea what was happening and went online and saw you had to watch all of ANOTHER unrelated show to understand it? That was just the first and last straw. Disney just imploded this year, bad. This video nailed it. They renewed Mando because of baby yoda and needed their one good show around. Pascal is too big an actor to be slumming in a bad TV series on fumes. If I were him, I would be heading for the door.
Volume 9 Weiss actually tried to talk to Ruby about it but Ruby ran off before she could get a word out, how did you not notice this, also originally Weiss found Ruby in the tree not Yang that moment got changed so Yang finds Ruby instead, we were robbed of Whiterose moments in this Volume
They ruin Fred so badly it hurt me mentally When it say that Fred has a secret I thought He would be gay but NOPE! He didn't go through puberty and has a mentality of a 5 year old and I HATE IT!
Loki s2 is the most boring thing in the whole MCU, even more than Ms marvel s1. Even the writers don't know what happened at the end. His power flux was inexcusable.
I’m gonna disagree with Loki and Ashoka. Loki was by far some of the best things I’ve ever seen from Marvel. The pacing, the acting, the character development and their interactions. And the writing was just fantastic. I absolutely loved the series and how perfect it ended. And despite its issues, I still really enjoyed watching Ahsoka. The acting and the action was great. The characters and the writing could have been better, but then again, the 1st season of Clone Wars wasn’t great either. Besides that, calling these the worst shows of 2023 is a bit harsh because there’s a lot of fantastic stuff in them.
Loki season 2 was okay, not good, not bad, it was okay. I wouldnt rewatch it. It was whelming, it exist. It just exist it made The Marvels good, (I only accept propper discussion without name calling at every end of every sentence). Loki S2 was just so slow paced, and made no logical sense and so FORCED to break anything that we know about MCU that I just couldnt help but notice the little details that the writers and directors wants in. It was okay 4/10. I agree with your number one. Good list.
Barry being on this list is extremely disappointing for two reasons. 1 i'd seen clips of it that got me super excited to eventually check out the show. And 2 it did the exact same thing that ruined True Blood, long time skip that causes huge character growth off screen in ways that change the characters dramatically. How could writers that could make such an obvious mistake?
Its sad to see shows that could have been good fail miserably, well I'm not to sure about Velma, I personally have never liked Mindy Kialing but then again my first introduction to her was that doctor show where she could be absolutely insufferable at times.
While I agree animal control wasn’t a hit, I hope it gets another season because it feels like the kind of show that could hi it’s stride after the first season, I think the cast is good and the premise is nice, even if the comedic pacing of the first season was mostly lacking
7:45 OK. This is where I stop you and say. I'm angry that I have to agree. This SEASNON was a filler. For a bit there I thought they were going to do something cool and interesting. The tree was going to turn out to be cruel and eat the "others". I thought the jester cat was going to be a servant of the tree but also not care about the outcome. But no, they had Tree god... thing. And at the end, the WHOLE jury was irrelevant. Leave Jaune old, set the jester free, have Ruby suffer relapse of PTSD, make Weiss become more and more angry with Black and Yang because they are to busy with each other to see Ruby suffer. ANY of these... maybe not all, would have worked. I mean could you imagine Jester Cat vs Salem??? Two powerful villains with very different goals that seam similar.
Your 1# WORST pick got a 1.6 on IMDB. It Is #9 Worst Cartoon of All Time. Gen Zed is still the worst... but that was 2015. Glad I ignored ALL of them. I turned to YT for my entertainment and recommendations. Like the last vid, thanks.
I agree that Velma is #1. It's literally the worst show I've ever seen. I couldn't get past the first few episodes, and I'm a big Scooby-Doo fan. I, for one, thought the redesigns were stupid. Why would you change how a character that already exists looks? It just comes across as virtue signaling. But I thought that as long as the show was good, then I wouldn't really care. But... it's just... I don't have words. I don't know what I witnessed. I don't usually insult people who make terrible shows, but there is something mentally wrong with the person who wrote this. It's genuinely disturbing
Tbh I really liked Animal Control. It felt like it was trying to be the next Brooklyn 99 (which it's not) but I felt like it had some charm. I'm pretty sure it's getting a second season so I hope it gets better.
With rwby they were able to at least place what was happening in remainder and make several plots like in volume 4 and i know that there was development for the rwby character but apart from that and other details i can't say that it was a great volume.
Would love to hear critter talk more about star wars and Mando in general. Agreed that Mando s3 is the worst of the bunch, but that show has been dogshit since season 1
I think loki was really good, & I've heard most of the marvel side of the internet believe it's one of the best they've made. Asoka is kind of worse then you think because the story is basically a part 2 of star wars rebels not clone wars. They could have easily made this the next season of rebels, I don't know why the called it asoka because she dosen't feel like the main character. I think it's a shame because they have the perfect place for a story all about her, right between clone wars & rebels. There's a pretty good time gap they could play with.
Critter, while I totally agree with the vast majority of choices on this list, frankly I think it's a little disingenuous to have both Ahsoka and Loki on here when you; 1. Didn't watch either Clone Wars or Rebels, which sets up a large amount of the conflict that leads up to the show. I agree that it probably could've been a movie instead of an 8-episode series, but for being what it was? It was a helluva lot better than a lot of the shit on this list. I'd STRONGLY encourage you to watch Clone Wars and Rebels first, then go back and watch Ahsoka again. Maybe it'll give you a fresh perspective. 2. Didn't get through the first three episodes of Loki Season 2, which were mainly filler episodes to depict the aftemath of the first season's events. It's very slow to start, but once it picks up it goes HARD. It's like Persona 3 if it had time travel and shit and without the Personas, right down the ending. Maybe it another shot from where you left off?
I would argue the problems I had with Ahsoka didn't have to do with not knowing about the prior characters from Clone Wars or Rebellion, my real major problem was the pacing, editing, and script. I don't personally think prior knowledge of the cast would change my mind about those things. Loki IS only a dis-honorable mention, like if I had done my "Worth Watching" format for Loki instead, I still wouldn't have felt compelled to watch the rest of the show. Especially now after Johnathan Majors was found guilty, I'm not so sure I want to watch his performance as Kang for the rest of the season.
@@thejudgmentalcritter6584 Okay, I'll concede that point about Ahsoka. And while I think that the sins of a single actor shouldn't take away from the ability of a character or show, I can respect that decision about Loki out of principle.
I liked She-Hulk. The first episode was really bad, and did a terrible job establishing the idea it was a slice of life situational comedy. But the rest of it was fun :)
Is it bad that we got a volume and two movies, and yet we feel like we've accomplished nothing in terms of RWBY?
Yeah. But, tbh, I'm convinced that the fanbase is as impressionable as ever.
Dang you are right and the fact that the crossover movie has some character development and the second part spoiler alert
Start with them addressing Ruby reckless and Weiss trauma from Atlas.
Seriously we still don’t know how they are going to beat Salem.
Hell they haven’t really accomplished that much and even manage to destroy a kingdom and lose two relics.
Yep. All that time is spent either licking their wounds or on pointless sidequests that do nothing to give them any meaningful insight on how to move forward after their last failure.
I was surprised we didnt get the rwby characters in 2d animation with the DC crossover. I would like to see some 2d rwby stuff at one point.
I absolutely agree on Number 1, Critter. Velma is the absolutely WORST abomination that has ever came out in 2023. They didn't just butchered an entire classic series, but also allowed a MORON to live out her fetish dreams and destroy so many people's childhoods. Velma is the biggest flop of 2023 and it needs to be burned to the ground. Wiped out from history. Without evidences about it's existance. Give it the Damnatio Memoriae treatment.
It honestly feels like her own fanfic where she's velma. I think if they had made their own story instead of having to use a big name like scoobydo to try & gain an existing fanbase, it might have been better.
And yet Velma is getting a second season. Meanwhile people like us will have to wait 2, 3 or 4 years for season 2 of Chainsaw Man, Hell’s Paradise, Castlevania Nocturne, Zom 100 Bucket List of the Dead and My Happy Marriage to come out. Worst of all, shows like Praise Petey get cancelled after one season.
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God... Why is that, that the worst series ever gets a second season? It had the lowest viewers raiting. Nobody liked that. Not even the audiance, they have intended to make that garbage.
Velma should be the show written off for tax purposes instead of anything else.
@@KritoSkywakerI choose to believe it's contract BS
My biggest problem with Velma was how it felt like it hated being a show. Every third joke was about breaking the 4th wall or story tropes. They were trying to copy Deadpool and Rick n Morty but they over used it. Deadpool was the only character who broke the 4th wall and the other characters just thought he was crazy. Rick n Morty only had a couple jokes like that. At most they had 1 episode about tropes.
As someone who feels rick and mortuary can be too cynical occasionalky but is still fun sometimes I agree. At least I see passion in the rick and morty bits I don't like too.
Not gonna lie, I applaud Velma for one thing. Advertising to me how awful of a person someone is upfront, Mindy Kaling. I have never encountered a show where they portray their main character as so toxically venomous and the VA behind it proudly presenting it as an exact match of her personality. Like, I would usually think maybe this was the fault of the writers, but Mindy is so vehemently eager to take credit for how extremely OC-ish Velma is that I cannot help but take her at her word. And looking at evidence of Mindy’s past, it only makes me believe her word even more. Wow, just……bravo at advertising what a stupidly hateful person you are of everyone and yourself. Glad I could have the pleasure of never knowing or meeting you.
27:12 From what I heard, Warner Brothers apparently didn't want Scooby Doo to be in the show... honestly good job! It's nice to see someone unharmed from this show
Velma was the first show or piece of media I distinctly said to myself "I ain't watching this!". Just from the very very first teaser alone, I felt like that one meme with the guy taking out his headphones when Velma said "Dear HBO Max"
Best thing about Velma is it didn't get to be the first time Velma was into girls in a Scooby Doo thing, yeah it's pretty much a long running joke the fans had, but I am so happy it happened in 'Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo!' first, because, well A: her crushing on Coco was adorable in that film, and B: It means Velma doesn't get to even be a footnote in the franchises history (Beyond, maybe 'Our first atempt at being for adults exclusivley was a terrible idea)
(Also dumb thought: Adult Scooby Doo surley can't be that difficult, you could just do like, a standard mystery show but the villians wear elaborate costumes to hide and like, murder people. Heck maybe our gang can be in serious danger and get shot at or something? Like why did we need a stupid brain stealing plotline where everyones an asshole?)
The live-action movies are probably the closest we got to a more "adult" Scooby-Doo. Though mostly in terms of comedic tone; the jokes they make, rather than something like hiding a murder.
Live action show where rather than amateur mystery solvers they're private detectives (with a similar background, with some changes)
Scooby's a former bomb squad dog, but the experience left him skittish and easily frightened.
Velma's the standard academic of the group, skilled in the sciences and forensics from a childhood spent obsessing ovee them
Daphne is the badass in heels, coming from old money and a bit of an adrenaline junkie
Shaggy flunked out of military school and police academy, and is a bit of a foodie, but he's very good with people that aren't in Daphne's crowd of the higher social elite
Fred is the heart and leader of the team, choosing cases and driving the van they use (it was the cheapest vehicle they could get that would fit all of them)
Man, 2023 was a wild year in terms of quality. Just a rollercoaster of highs and lows.
For movies, we had the highs of The Super Mario Bros Movie, Godzilla Minus One, and Barbenheimer, but we also had the lows of Shazam 2, Quantumania, the Flash, and Napoleon.
For video games, we had the hits of Baldur’s Gate 3, Tears of the Kingdom, Armor Core 6, and Lies of P. At the same time, we had the horrors of Gollum, Kong, Walking Dead Destinies, The Day Before, and that horrible Avatar the Last Airbender game that everyone forgot about.
And then we have TV shows! It’s crazy to realize that RWBY V9, Ahsoka, Secret Invasion, and Velma all came out the same year as The Last of Us, Legend of Vox Machina S2, My Adventures with Superman, and the absolutely incredible live action One Piece.
I think we overall got more good this year than bad, which is great and hopefully a good sign for next year, but when we got something bad, it was scraping the bottom of the barrel in terms of quality
i didnt even realize there was an atla game??? damn
Loki season 2 was amazing. Not that there cant be any criticisms of it, but I definitely dont think it's one of the worst shows this year. Actually I'd say its one of the best.
Same Here! I Don’t get People’s Aversion to some of the Marvel Streaming offerings. But I won’t lie, Secret Invasion Should’ve been Higher up On this List! How Loki made it in the Dishonorable category makes me Question a lot of people’s choices!
But back to the argument. Loki S2 is by far One of the Better Shows! Definitely up there with Moon Knight, as we get to Delve Deep into Loki as a Character, Separating him from his Mythical inspiration before returning him to his (Literal) Godhood as he finally starts understand what his purpose is! And it’s so Good!
@@danielramsey6141moon knight? The show that barely showed Moon Knight? That’s a low bar.
@@PeopleRTheProblem It's easily a great show because of the ending at the very, very end
Worst part is that all of these didn’t HAVE to be bad. All they needed was better writing, people who actually cared about the products, and a reason to happen.
RWBY was destined to be terrible but Volume 9 completely destroyed my faith in the series. I permanently left RWBY after the worst Romance became "Canon" due to LGBT+ bullcrap
Loki's ending is actually surprisingly good. Probably some of the best MCU stuff we've had in a while. I'm definitely hoping that the literal multiverse altering drama that happened in it is actually important and gets addressed in the movies, cause if not, absolute waste of the show and the amazing actors in it. It's probably worse that you stopped half way considering that would just leave you confused as fuck if anything.
Bro thats crazy, I loved Loki, I thought it was one of the best marvel shows ever
Just because of you like things, that doesnt mean other people cant dislike it. (Neither side can be right or wrong.)
Tbf- Critter said she only watched the first 3 episodes of Season 2. A lot of those first 3 episodes it setting up the rest of the episodes.
What makes Secret Invasion even more embarrassing is that the Avengers Earth’s Mightiest Heroes animated series - a cartoon from 2010-2012 that is over a decade old - was able to do the whole Skrull invasion storyline over its two seasons in a more interesting and well-written way than this big-budget live action series.
Like… wow, imagine doing such a bad job that a decade-old animated show that Disney cancelled after Season 2 just to make another different Avengers cartoon that was closer in style to the MCU was able to outclass Secret Invasion 10+ years before Secret Invasion even came out.
What's _really_ embarrassing is that Doctor Who did the same thing with just _two episodes._ Not only did The Zygon Invasion/Inversion also deal with shapeshifting aliens trying to find a place for themselves, but it also goes into what happens to the _people_ who just want to live peacefully.
Most of the episodes' runtime is dedicated to showing how the actions of a small, radicalised group impacts the rest of the people they're supposedly trying to protect, whilst also making full use of the Zygons' shapeshifting abilities. Some of the most memorable scenes include the Zygons taking the forms of a drone operator's family members, making her hesitate for long enough that the drone strike was aborted. Another scene had them pretend to be captured relatives, with one of them disguised as a soldier's mother and _begging_ not to be shot.
Having shapeshifting villains gives writers an _immense_ amount of opportunities for drama, conflict, and character growth, but somehow the writers at Marvel managed to screw it up.
"Don't you wanna just hear someone else validate your frustrations by venting about it too?" - Critter 2023
Damn, Critter is telling the truth.
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I was surprised to see both The Mandalorian and Loki make this list until I realized you were talking about the latest seasons. After the all the flak BOBF received, I wasn't jazzed about Disney making more Mandalorian. The first two seasons were good and helped stack up the Disney Era roster, but they drew it out too long and fumbled it.
Loki I was optimistic for because the first season was great and more of Tom Hiddleston's Loki is always welcome. I have yet gotten a new subscription to Disney + to watch this and more of the Bad Batch. Even after your review, I might still check it out.
And yes, Velma needs to burn in hell with the rest of its outdated humor.
Thank you for the video and have a nice day.
P.s.
Speaking of an Echo Chamber of Frustration, I am curious to see you review Paramount's Halo show since it is now free on RUclips. It would be interesting to hear an opinion from someone unfamiliar with the franchise and its lore.
I FULLY suggest giving Loki Season 2 a watch through, it gets SO MUCH better. Probably some of the best MCU has put out in a while.
The sad part about rwby is that this one the last few roles billy kametz did before he passed
I agree, the first couple episodes of loki were alright.
But I would recommend finishing it if you can. It's such an amazing ending. But don't force yourself if you don't want to.
Mindy Kaling can be funny, but only when someone else writes her comedy. She literally stole the show as Disgust in Inside Out, but after she came out with Velma, I don't think Disgust would have been nearly as funny or memorable if Mindy wrote her own jokes
No one seemed to care about the other civilians who may have ended up in Wonderland with them. I guess they all died off screen without the benefit of plot armor.
I honestly really liked loki season 2.
It was a fun time for me and the god of story's was really cool and just felt like a good show.
On the other I agree with many of your choices being worst tv shows star wars, secret invasion suck!
Same!! I loved the ending of Loki season 2!
Yeah, Secret invasion by Far is the Worst Thing that Marvel has put out. And Honestly, Not even She-Hulk was as Bad as Secret Invasion! I at least could enjoy some of the Campier Elements of She-Hulk.
But Secret Invasion is just, lack luster and terribly executed! Not to mention the logic threw out was really bizarre.
The ending of Secret Invasion is a joke. It reminded me of the Sailor Moon meme where the guy with a hat says "My job here is done" and the girl retorts that he didn't do anything.
It's the same here : Fury goes back to space after having accomplished next to nothing and the show treats it like a good thing.
I mean, the situation is even worse than at episode 1 : the Skrulls are now exposed, hunted by countless people and have no real leadership anymore.
Fury just helped killing the vilain of the week and it fixed nothing.
Yeah, Season 3 of Mandalorian kinda dipped in quality. I hope Season 4 can be better.
Goosebumps had a promising start, but it fell really hard towards the end. I was really disappointed after the first few episodes.
I haven't seen Velma, but I'm gonna take your word for it.
The story was told. It should have ended after season 2. They clearly had no idea what to do with it and I don't have any hope that it will suddenly become better.
As someone who watched both Clone Wars AND Rebels, I had a lot more of an appreciation for Ahsoka. Leia is at least somewhat familiar with Hera and the Ghost crew (they were at the Battle of Scarif), so their relationship and the C-3PO cameo made sense.
The relationship between Ahsoka and Sabine was… unexpected and unfounded? They didn’t interact like that in Rebels, and it’s a pretty lazy parallel between them and Ahsoka/Anakin, the snappy/unruly apprentice and the experienced yet bold master.
Thrawn’s presence was undoubtedly underplayed, from an Expanded Universe badass warlord, to a legitimate and intimidating threat in Rebels, to the guy who’s basically Caesar from Fallout New Vegas, a man on the throne, barking out orders without actually doing anything. Enoch was hard as fuck though.
The other villains were, aight. Skoll and Hati, while being a fun allusion to Norse mythology, were interesting additions to the universe. Morgan Elsbeth was, something. Just sort of boring, I’m glad to see Nightsisters in more canon.
Ezra’s return was sick. He felt so, Ezra. Even after years of being stuck in this other galaxy, his optimism and humor hasn’t been lost, which might sound unrealistic, but that’s just how Ezra was. I really don’t like how he was switcherooed with Sabine and Ahsoka though. It makes some sense thematically and to keep certain relationships, but it just feels like nothing has been accomplished.
I agree about the character interactions, they were very lackluster. I hadn’t really noticed since it’s Disney Star Wars, but even in comparison to previous shows this shit stank. The action was fairly entertaining.
That whole flashback sequence with Anakin was so fanservicey, but I fucking loved it. Only time fan service has actually made me hyped for a whole episode, and that’s saying something in this show.
I’d give the show a 6/10 or maybe a 6.5/10. Needs some work, but as a continuation to Clone Wars and Rebels, it was serviceable and sometimes really successful. But for the love of god, can people please stop surviving LIGHTSABERS TO THE FUCKING STOMACH-
I wouldn't say Thrawn's presence is underplayed here, they make mention of him dozens of times throughout the first part of the show, and they def don't try to downplay what might happen if he were to return. He's a chessmaster, moving and sacrificing pieces throughout the (admittedly few) episodes he's actually in to achieve greater goals. He's calculated, he's knowledgeable about the threats at hand (on basically all fronts). He's more of a strategist than any of the other villains, and that's what makes him such a threat.
I agree with the Caesar comparison to an extent, but he's less of a tumor-addled angry shitstain in the desert than he is a Johan Liebert without being an unapologetic sadist.
Gotta agree with the casting call for him and Ezra though. Eman Esfandi was absolutely phenomenal, and I'm genuinely glad we're getting to see him again.
Morgan was weird to see in the series because she looks like someone I know personally, but that doesn't take away from her role in the show (being sort of an uninteresting antagonist until the very end of the show.
Overall, yeah, I'd agree with your scoring. Totally serviceable, just like Loki imo, but they could've done a LOT more with it. Hopefully they do so, if they have a second season
It is a shame seeing RWBY V9 being on here, as much as I personally enjoyed it, the criticisms you gave were very valid, but for me when I enjoyed out weights the negatives.
but overall epic list
V9 i really enjoyed too :) probably in my top 3 RWBY volumes. Loved ruby and the setting , but yeah with the girls especially yang being oblivious to ruby's struggle was very bad on the writers part >:( they did a sister ark between ruby and yang in the justice league part 2 and that just felt like lame damage control
I agree, RWBY V9 ain't perfect, but it is waaaaay better than V8 by a long shot IMO. I can forgive some of the negatives because the season was under duress from being released because of the two-year COVID-19 delay among other behind-the-scenes issues. That kind of stuff can hurt the production and writing of a new season. Plus it creates plot holes.
Plus, in WBY's defense, every time they noticed something wrong with Ruby or when she tried them herself, the next plot point or inconvenience interrupts them and they drop it altogether. It would make more sense if Ruby had actually made an effort to hide her pain from them. Them ignoring her pain can still work as they're so caught up trying to make the best of their current situation while trying find a way home. They put so much faith in Ruby that they're unintentionally putting more pressure on her. The way I see it, Ruby's hero complex combined with her failures and insecurities are what's holding her back from talking to her teammates about it. She doesn't want them to think she's weak. Plus, I can see Ruby acting indifferent about Yang and Blake's relationship because she feels insulted that they get a happy ending after she just lost her close friend. It was too soon.
@@prawnprotector244Wouldn't have happened if COVID-19 hadn't set them back. That way V9 would've been longer and better.
tbh, i will give rwby volume 9 one thing
the cats voice work is god damn perfect. (robbie daymond you legend)
Robbie also voices Chai in Hifi Rush, this year’s game
@@ProperNeko fsir but, to me, he will forever be Goro
I’ll give Mindy this, she got to live the emo basement dweller’s dream of having her edgy OC character on an actual show where she got to whine about all her insecurities and secret fetishs to a captive audience.
Captive as in being unable to look away from a gruesome car accident
I'm not disappointed that RWBY V9 didn't show us anything of Vacuo. I am disappointed that the Everafter was such a let down. There is no real character development or plot involvement. It really is just filler. No wait! Blake & Yang are now together and Weiss has a crush on DILF Jaune. Very little of it was interesting and you could easily cut large swarves of the plot because it does not matter.
I respect your opinion , but i have to disagre
@@joaovictor-oy4wzare you gonna elaborate?
Rwby v9 and velma HAD potential due to things like art style soundtracks but loki season 2, and ashoka just felt like franchise fatigue, and don't get me started on mado season 3 just felt like Kathleen Kennedy just trying to kill the brand.
I think we should start naming blatant self inserts after the main writers to make fun of the fact that they're self inserts.
She's not Velma, she's Mindy Kaling dressed as Velma.
14:59 Yep. I've been wanting and waiting for and anticipating an Ahsoka show for YEARS. The Clone Wars series might just be the best thing to come out of Star Wars as an IP, and words could not describe how much I wanted to see the dynamic, developed, well written, unique, flawed, badass character that was Ahsoka in her own show. But they just COMPLETELY demolished her character. It doesn't feel like Ahsoka at ALL. Clone Wars Ahsoka and this Ahsoka are written like entirely different characters to the point where it feels like she doesn't HAVE a character anymore. NONE of the characters from Ahsoka feel like characters. They feel like plot devices. They feel like lines of script stuffed into an actor that says their lines at an abominably slow pace to stretch out runtime. Ahsoka was fiery and passionate, headstrong but still wise and kind, and most importantly, she was INTERESTING. But it's as if she was killed off and the character we have now is her watered-down corpse. What a thorough disappointment
You know...while we're talking about Velma...
So, when it was revealed that the cast was being race-swapped, my initial thought was "I don't care, but why?". I mean, Scooby-Doo has an iconic set of characters, so why change the look? Then I saw that each main character was a different race and thought "Oh I get it. We're mixing things up with diversity here. Now it's more than one race being represented. Good on you!"
And then.... Velma starts barfing out white guy this, black guy that, just...nothing but stereotypical shit "jokes" that the punchline is "haha get it? They're -insert race here-". Fred kept stereotyping Velma with racist stereotypes, Norville hates weed because it's against a typical black teenager STEREOTYPE. Half the damn jokes relied of stereotypes.
The reason, the ONLY reason, they decided to swap the races of the main characters was so they had a excuse to make racist jokes. It's actually vile that the creators thought this was an okay thing to do. News flash! If the punchline of a joke is your race, gender or sexual orientation then that's racist or bigoted. And to change the races JUST SO you have an excuse to make such "jokes" is just...awful.
(also the ending with Velma and her mom kicking her father, step-mom and a BABY out of the house is framed as a good ending? wtf is wrong with Mindy)
I imagine Norville hating drugs was specifically because Shaggy was always steroetyped as being a druggie, rather than it being race-related.
Also, about Velma's family? There's an entire episode dedicated to Velma mending the bridge with her father.
And if you want a good example of race-swapping in media, I highly recommend The Wiz. It's The Wizard of Oz, but with an all-black cast, even having Michael Jackson as the Scarecrow. I do also hear there's an all-Indian (as in, from the country of India) version of the Archie series called, well, The Archies.
24:08 THIS CAME OUT THIS YEAR!?? I swear it feels like it came out like a year or two ago. It's crazy how much this didn't stick at all in my brain...
When it first came out, it was already dated.
As much as I still don't mind Mindy's Velma easily bein' #1, I think RWBY should take this one Incase we get to the true series finale someday.
Hell no, RWBY will never be Velma level bad.
@@andrewrogers3067 True... *BUT IT"S CLOSE OF BEIN' STAR VS. LEVEL OF NOT GIVIN' A SHIT ANYMORE!!*
RWBY V9 is way better than V8. But Velma? I'd rather watch RWBY V8 than watch.... whatever that abomination is.
2023: The year the public attended the Marvel's sunset.
Man, i feel old now.
At least volume 9 is a lot better than volume 8. Then again, you have to try to worse than the rock bottom of rwby volumes.
Thank you. V8 was trash. RWBY V9 saved the show for me. It ain't perfect, but I'll take it over V8 any day.
I actually liked RWBY volume 9 but not everyone does and I accept that! Everyone has their own opinions or preferences on which show everyone loves or hates but if someone starts drama just because another person expressed their opinions or preferences… then that person who started drama is a psychopath judgemental critter
From what I saw, its more like people saw the volume as pointless. A lot of stuff that happened didn't need to happen in the Ever After. At most, maybe Ruby coming to terms with everything and herself. But everything else could have been saved for Volume 10. Like Black and Yang finally becoming a couple.
The three things that ruin art
Number 1. Corporations
Number 2. Politics
Number 3. mindy kaling and people like her
The fact there are people defending hitler and stalin, mussolini, osama bin laden, ted bundy on the internet yet noone is defending velma tells you how bad it is
Notice how a lot of Disney projects sideline the main character?
Loki, boba Fett, mando season 3, dr strange and Ashoka all had the focus on someone else.
I hate how Mindy tries to roast her own heritage with the Indian dessert joke, when me, a white person, and all my white friends, agree that the town’s best restaurant is the Indian place and their desserts are genuinely fantastic and usually people’s highlight of the meal.
I wonder if RWBY Volume 10 would in this if it came out this year.
26:38 I never understood this argument against the Velma show. It was terrible. Everyone save for MAYBE Daphne is a complete asshole and only one of them is putting in any effort to correct it. The show itself is wierdly misandrist and racist to the extent every single episode has at least 8 disses about how men, especially white men are terrible or rapists. Why do you WANT Scooby to be dragged into this? It wont make the show better just spare the character the embarrasment of being in the same show with these versions of his friends who literally twerk over peoples corpses
So what are your thoughts on other shows of 2023 like My Happy Marriage, Zom 100 Bucket List of the Dead, Hell’s Paradise, Praise Petey, Rip Digman and Agent Elvis?
I haven't watched any of them unfortunately!
@@thejudgmentalcritter6584 If you watched all of them, would you give your thoughts on which is good and which is bad?
speaking as a HUGE scooby doo fan, velma was a big disappointment for me because i really, genuinely did want to like it. it had a decent premise, an eyecatching art style, and nice redesigns. but in the end it was just... empty. no soul, no heart, nothing-- just a bitter, gross mess. it doesn't even make me angry, like certain other scooby media (scoob is much worse than velma, i promise you. at least velma was TRYING to be something, even though it sucked), just disappointed. what a waste of potential.
so, as a pallet cleanser, here's some other, much better, scooby doo titles to watch that also have an edge to them without stripping away the fun of the series:
- mystery incorporated (HIGHLY recommend)
- be cool scooby doo (push past the artstyle, i swear its a solid show)
- scooby doo on zombie island
- scooby doo and the witch's ghost
- moon monster madness
- scooby doo and the curse of the thirteenth ghost
- happy halloween scooby doo
- straight outta no where: scooby doo meets courage the cowardly dog
and if you're looking for some purely goofy and wholesome fun:
- scooby goes hollywood
- sccoby doo and the alien invaders
- both the live action scooby movies
- scooby doo in where my mummy
- legend of the phantosaur
- scooby doo and kiss: rock and roll mystery (HIGHLY reccommend, this movie is ridiculous and it knows it)
- both the lego scooby movies
- whats new, scooby doo
- the thirteen ghosts of scooby doo
- a pup named scooby doo
scooby doo is, genuinely, a super diverse franchise with a lot of hidden gems to find. even though the characters usually stay the same, the setting and premise is always changing, and it always makes sense because scooby can work in any setting! that's the joy of an episodic mystery show, and that's why its lasted as long as it has! not every piece of scooby media is good, but personally, i always find some joy in seeing how they shake up the formula. to all who choose to partake: good luck on your scooby doo journey!
I haven’t seen Ashoka, but from what I’ve heard, if you haven’t seen Clone Wars and Rebels it’s awful, but if you have seen them it’s great.
I also skipped Mando S3, but geez how bad is it that it’s considered worse than RWBY?!
Ahsoka is awefull if you haven't watched Clone Wars and Rebels because you neither know the most prominent characters. If you however watched Clone Wars and Rebels you spend the majority of the episodes wondering where the hell their personalitys went.
Mado Season 3 had as far as I can remember was bad written and boring. A litteral waist of time.
Rwby V9 was at least a bit of fun and it had better fights then Ahsoka.
Leia knew Hera since way before the death star Wars built, so that wasnt that bad
I respectfully think Mandalorian Season 3 was slightly better than Vol 9 due to its religious themes, but that’s my personal take.
I haven't watched the RWBY X Justice League movies, but the fact that they are apparently better than the actual show (which does get me a little excited) is honestly hilarious in a sort of sad way.
I've seen the first one, and I'll be honest, I was not impressed.
"Barry"'s third season sounds like someone fired the entire writing staff and put their boring bible studies teacher in their place. It sounds like RWBY's 9th season, Mandalorian's 3rd Season, and Ahsoka had the same thing happen.
Goosebumps sounds like it was written by someone who desperately wanted in on that Stranger Things vibe/fame/money, but had literally 0 talent to make it a thing.
Secret Invasion sounds like they got the idiot who decided on the "make Captain America a secret Hydra Agent.... oh and he's also from another dimension and really REALLY cares about test scores because that somehow maybe proves his point" storyline and put them and the person responsible for the She-Hulk series together as the head of cocaine... and scriptwriting.
To be fair, Grogu isn't the first character to be suddenly extremely popular, so it's expected that he has more focus (and merchandise). He's like Fonzie and Steve Urkel in a way, as they way are more popular than the "average" main protagonists that came before them to the point that they were promoted to main protagonist status themselves in later seasons. The other characters are likable on their own right, but they just don't hold a candle to the likes of Grogu, Fonzie, and Steve, who are all better by a mile.
Velma is an insult to Scooby-Doo and the WORST Show of 2023 and an insult of Cartoons ever
please don't remind me that Velma exists
I know Velma is bad but honestly the true worst show of 2023 has to be Squid Game: The Challenge. Completely misses the point of the original show, not to mention all poor treatment of the contestants received behind the scenes; all to make one garbage reality show.
Thank you! How I Met Your Father always felt like an old Disney teen sitcom trying to be an adult.
Ahsoka realy had potential, especially with Thrawn coming back, but it turned out so boring and slow and as a fan of the character Ahsoka, I just wonder how Filoni could write her so stern and almost emotionless. I also don't get why we needed to travel in a whole nother galaxy when we could have done unknown regions. They would need the map to travel into the unknown regions because without a route they would get into a black hole or something. At least Rwby V9 was more fun and, just an opinion, the fights where better. The Mandalorian S3...I can't say anything about it because I can only remember how there where B2 droids and the dark saber got destroyed. Thats how memorable the season was for me.
She left the Jedi Order, but she acts like a typical Jedi Master. I don't understand that.
Well this is my list for best and worst (I only have 5 worst)
Top 10 Best
10) Monster High G3 Season 1
9) The Amazing Race season 34
8) Shark Tank season 14
7) Traitors US season 1
6) Survivor 45
5) Survivor 44
4) The Mole season 1
3) High School The Musical The Series season 4
2) Goosebumps season 1 (Loved this show, really shocked you didn't actually!)
1) Traitors UK season 1
Top 5 worst
5) MLP G5 Make Your Mark Chapter 4
4) Rainbow High Season 4
3) MLP G5 Make Your Mark Chapter 5
2) MLP G5 Make Your Mark Chapter 6
1) Velma
I actually like Loki season 2. It was great, especially the ending
This was great! But I want to respectfully disagree with the Barry entry specifically. I only recently watched Barry from start to finish, and the thing is that I think season 4’s deviation from the original premise is perfectly acceptable, when you acknowledge what all the characters represent thematically. Barry’s probably the easiest example, his religious shift sounds super weird, but it makes sense when consider that he kind of person he is. Barry isn’t confident enough in himself to make decisions, so he needs to externalize his life choices to someone/something that’s easy to follow. He’s never really passionate about acting or being a hitman, because neither of those things were central
To who he is, he did them for the sake of having a purpose. Having a “purpose” is so central
To who he is that he really doesn’t care what purpose he’s serving so long as he has one. Religion is the newest, and frankly easiest purpose he’s chosen, because it gives him the most security with the least strings attached. I could say similar things about the rest of the cast, they aren’t acting out of character, they’re being challenged in ways that push them to show their deepest possible motivations. Sally and Gene are spineless cowards who don’t want to face the consequences of their actions, and only care about being out on a pedestal. Sally never really loved Barry, he was just easy did her to be around. The second he became inconvenient, she dropped him, which is why their marriage is so stale and depressing. Hank and Fuches become intertwined in this season, not out of their surface level personalities, but out of what they both represent. Fuches represents coming to terms with one’s own self deception and manipulation, finding strength by acknowledging one’s weakness and shortcomings. He gets what is probably the happiest ending, because he finally drops the bullshit that is the defining theme of the series. Hank on the other hand can’t cope with the fact that he lost the love of his life to his own selfishness, so he constructs a persona where he’s a noble, kind team player that honors Cristobal. By the finale, Hank and Fuches are polar opposites, and I’d argue that those parallel journies have groundwork back in season one. I totally get if people disagree, but I do wanna say one final thing. Barry was never a good person. Sally and Hank and gene, these people arent good or moral. Your not supposed to care deeply for them like your friends ir family. this show is a statement amount the consequences of lying to yourself and manipulating others, and it’s not supposed to and you happy, it’s supposed to make you think. Atleast that’s what I think.
TLDR; Barry’s cast isn’t acting out of character or deviating from the premise, it’s just reframing the show’s themes and ideas to make them more dynamic.
The /one/ good idea was Shaggy doing a food blog thing. Build a story around that. :)
So why C-3PO would know Herra it's because they met with Leia during Rebels. This show is supposed to follow the events of Rebels. Granted I didn't bother watching the show but without watching rebels you'll be lost just like people who didn't watch clone wars were when Maul made an appearance in Solo.
I hand it to people who can comment on bad TV and watch every episode of it. I tune out after the first episode if I see it was bad. Like the Mandalorian, screw that show. The first episode I had ZERO idea what was happening and went online and saw you had to watch all of ANOTHER unrelated show to understand it? That was just the first and last straw. Disney just imploded this year, bad. This video nailed it. They renewed Mando because of baby yoda and needed their one good show around. Pascal is too big an actor to be slumming in a bad TV series on fumes. If I were him, I would be heading for the door.
Rhodey was probably swapped with a Skrull after the events of Endgame.
The thing I read said Rhodey was swapped after his legs broke during Civil War.
I actually liked RWBY volume 9.....
Volume 9 Weiss actually tried to talk to Ruby about it but Ruby ran off before she could get a word out, how did you not notice this, also originally Weiss found Ruby in the tree not Yang that moment got changed so Yang finds Ruby instead, we were robbed of Whiterose moments in this Volume
They ruin Fred so badly it hurt me mentally
When it say that Fred has a secret I thought He would be gay but NOPE! He didn't go through puberty and has a mentality of a 5 year old and I HATE IT!
technelly the two rwby crossover movie is quote "Cannon Ajacent" it's somehow connected to the orginal show
Loki s2 is the most boring thing in the whole MCU, even more than Ms marvel s1. Even the writers don't know what happened at the end. His power flux was inexcusable.
I’m gonna disagree with Loki and Ashoka. Loki was by far some of the best things I’ve ever seen from Marvel. The pacing, the acting, the character development and their interactions. And the writing was just fantastic. I absolutely loved the series and how perfect it ended. And despite its issues, I still really enjoyed watching Ahsoka. The acting and the action was great. The characters and the writing could have been better, but then again, the 1st season of Clone Wars wasn’t great either. Besides that, calling these the worst shows of 2023 is a bit harsh because there’s a lot of fantastic stuff in them.
Loki season 2 was okay, not good, not bad, it was okay. I wouldnt rewatch it. It was whelming, it exist. It just exist it made The Marvels good, (I only accept propper discussion without name calling at every end of every sentence).
Loki S2 was just so slow paced, and made no logical sense and so FORCED to break anything that we know about MCU that I just couldnt help but notice the little details that the writers and directors wants in.
It was okay 4/10.
I agree with your number one. Good list.
Barry being on this list is extremely disappointing for two reasons. 1 i'd seen clips of it that got me super excited to eventually check out the show. And 2 it did the exact same thing that ruined True Blood, long time skip that causes huge character growth off screen in ways that change the characters dramatically. How could writers that could make such an obvious mistake?
Imma keep it honest with you I clicked just to see why the fuck Gordon Ramsay was in the thumbnail
I thought volume 9 wasnt that bad tbh I feel it to be unfair to lump it in with *gags* Velma
Its sad to see shows that could have been good fail miserably, well I'm not to sure about Velma, I personally have never liked Mindy Kialing but then again my first introduction to her was that doctor show where she could be absolutely insufferable at times.
Are you gonna review the RWBY x Justice League movies?
God, Velma was this year??? It felt so long ago
Gods I forgot Velma came out this year
While I agree animal control wasn’t a hit, I hope it gets another season because it feels like the kind of show that could hi it’s stride after the first season, I think the cast is good and the premise is nice, even if the comedic pacing of the first season was mostly lacking
When i seen Joel MChale i was flabbergasted, what happened to my favourite community guy!?
Totally forgot that the garbage that is Velma came out this year
Ahsoka was about Rebels more than Clone Wars actually. Still disappointing when you watched both
7:45 OK. This is where I stop you and say. I'm angry that I have to agree. This SEASNON was a filler. For a bit there I thought they were going to do something cool and interesting. The tree was going to turn out to be cruel and eat the "others". I thought the jester cat was going to be a servant of the tree but also not care about the outcome. But no, they had Tree god... thing. And at the end, the WHOLE jury was irrelevant. Leave Jaune old, set the jester free, have Ruby suffer relapse of PTSD, make Weiss become more and more angry with Black and Yang because they are to busy with each other to see Ruby suffer. ANY of these... maybe not all, would have worked. I mean could you imagine Jester Cat vs Salem??? Two powerful villains with very different goals that seam similar.
Your 1# WORST pick got a 1.6 on IMDB. It Is #9 Worst Cartoon of All Time. Gen Zed is still the worst... but that was 2015. Glad I ignored ALL of them. I turned to YT for my entertainment and recommendations. Like the last vid, thanks.
Honestly if you swapped the droid instead of grogu for mando season 3 you basically dont get much change
I agree that Velma is #1. It's literally the worst show I've ever seen. I couldn't get past the first few episodes, and I'm a big Scooby-Doo fan. I, for one, thought the redesigns were stupid. Why would you change how a character that already exists looks? It just comes across as virtue signaling. But I thought that as long as the show was good, then I wouldn't really care. But... it's just... I don't have words. I don't know what I witnessed. I don't usually insult people who make terrible shows, but there is something mentally wrong with the person who wrote this. It's genuinely disturbing
Velma hurt my feelings.. and I'm not going back to that nonsense
Tbh I really liked Animal Control. It felt like it was trying to be the next Brooklyn 99 (which it's not) but I felt like it had some charm. I'm pretty sure it's getting a second season so I hope it gets better.
I feel like sitcoms don't really start to get good until their 2nd season in general, hopefully I like it better starting with season 2! :)
9:42 Disgaea and Unicorn Warriors Eternal handled reincarnation with moral lessons better
3 another Shows
Chip Chilla Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures Cleopatra
With rwby they were able to at least place what was happening in remainder and make several plots like in volume 4 and i know that there was development for the rwby character but apart from that and other details i can't say that it was a great volume.
26:29 If only it stayed that way.
Honestly season 2 was way better in comparison to season 1
Would love to hear critter talk more about star wars and Mando in general. Agreed that Mando s3 is the worst of the bunch, but that show has been dogshit since season 1
I think loki was really good, & I've heard most of the marvel side of the internet believe it's one of the best they've made. Asoka is kind of worse then you think because the story is basically a part 2 of star wars rebels not clone wars. They could have easily made this the next season of rebels, I don't know why the called it asoka because she dosen't feel like the main character. I think it's a shame because they have the perfect place for a story all about her, right between clone wars & rebels. There's a pretty good time gap they could play with.
Where is The Idol on this list?
I have to disagree with the Goosebumps one
Loki Season 2, unquestionably the best show of the year is a dishonorable mention? Yeah this ain't it chief. Neither is Volume 9 being on here
Was just here to hear more RWBY V9 slander but hearing more shit talk about that dumb Scooby-doo show is also great!
Critter, while I totally agree with the vast majority of choices on this list, frankly I think it's a little disingenuous to have both Ahsoka and Loki on here when you;
1. Didn't watch either Clone Wars or Rebels, which sets up a large amount of the conflict that leads up to the show.
I agree that it probably could've been a movie instead of an 8-episode series, but for being what it was? It was a helluva lot better than a lot of the shit on this list. I'd STRONGLY encourage you to watch Clone Wars and Rebels first, then go back and watch Ahsoka again. Maybe it'll give you a fresh perspective.
2. Didn't get through the first three episodes of Loki Season 2, which were mainly filler episodes to depict the aftemath of the first season's events.
It's very slow to start, but once it picks up it goes HARD. It's like Persona 3 if it had time travel and shit and without the Personas, right down the ending. Maybe it another shot from where you left off?
I would argue the problems I had with Ahsoka didn't have to do with not knowing about the prior characters from Clone Wars or Rebellion, my real major problem was the pacing, editing, and script. I don't personally think prior knowledge of the cast would change my mind about those things.
Loki IS only a dis-honorable mention, like if I had done my "Worth Watching" format for Loki instead, I still wouldn't have felt compelled to watch the rest of the show.
Especially now after Johnathan Majors was found guilty, I'm not so sure I want to watch his performance as Kang for the rest of the season.
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Okay, I'll concede that point about Ahsoka. And while I think that the sins of a single actor shouldn't take away from the ability of a character or show, I can respect that decision about Loki out of principle.
@@My2Cents.iF7934 I'm sure I'll get back to Loki sooner or later!
Velma number 1, why am I not surprised?
Velma and she hulk are the two worst by a good margin
I liked She-Hulk. The first episode was really bad, and did a terrible job establishing the idea it was a slice of life situational comedy. But the rest of it was fun :)
Goosebumps wasn’t even scary😒 such a shame
Triscuts are really good tho
You left out Robyn Hood
Goosebumps is my 2nd BEST show O-O HOW DID YOU NOT LOVE IT?!?! IT WAS AMAZING WHAT?!??! but hey life is made on disagreements, I suppose.