Velma is Worse Than I Expected. Velma: Insults fans and dramatically changes the core characters. Also Velma: “Why does everyone hate our show?”

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[–]Chipit[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

A quote from Mindy Kaling why they race swapped Velma:

"We were really inspired by Into the Spider-Verse — it's animation, we can do anything. The essence of Velma is not necessarily tied to her whiteness. And I identify so much as her character, and I think so many people do, so it's like, yeah, let's make her Indian in this series."

The narcissism. I'm voicing her so she's gotta be like meeeeeeeee. There was also some other quote where she says Velma has always been a LGBT icon. No she hasn't. It was just a stupid joke everyone made back in the day based on the fact she was a frumpy nerdy chick, like how people joked about Shaggy being a stoner. She wasn't written/created to actually be a dyke.

[–]UncleWillard56 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

"we can do anything." Except write a decent how without fucking with a known property. Why not just write an original cartoon with an Indian and or gay character. And this "tied to her whiteness" is utter, racist bullshit. If you get your head out of your ass and stop looking at everything through the lenses of race, gender, sex, orientation, politics, you just might be able to write a good story that stands on its own. Then your characters can be whatever.

[–]Musky 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I couldn't finish the trailer. I'd still watch it with the race swapping if it was a good show, but the characters are unlikeable. They tried to do an edgy ideologically correct show, and the characters come off as entitled bratty assholes. I think it's a little too close to reality for comfort, people don't want to watch someone just like how they actually are, they want to watch an idealized version of what they think they are.