Scooby-Doo fans the Scooby-Doo franchise has been around since the sixties having spawned dozens of TV shows ad movies. Well we have yet another new TV show featuring the mystery loving gang only this time without Scooby-Doo himself in it and well you all just knew that I had to check this show the very first chance that I got and since HBO Max have just dropped the first two episodes of this show join me as I give you my first impressions of the show that is the first adult animated series of in the Scooby-Doo franchise with the show in question being called simply just "Velma" enjoy.
The plot of this show is when two teenagers are killed it's up to Velma to find out who killed them and why and at the same time unravel the mystery behind the disappearance of her own mother. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in these first two episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in these first two episodes was in all honesty really bad with the shows plot being laughable at best and just straight up bad at it's worst in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in these first two episodes is the shows executive producer Mindy Kaling as Velma Dinkley and Constance Wu as Daphne Blake. Also starring in these first two episodes is Sam Richardson as Shaggy Rogers , Glenn Howerton as Fred Jones , Jane Lynch as Donna Blake , Wanda Sykes as Linda Blake , Russell Peters as Aman Dinkley , Melissa Fumero as Sophie , Debby Ryan as Krista , Gary Cole as Lamont Rogers , Cherry Jones as Victoria Jones and Scooby-Doo and voice acting legend Frank Welker as William Jones.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in these first two episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in these first two episodes was in all honesty not that bad. Granted the acting isn't that good either but it could have been so much more worse then what it actually was and given that we do have some good actors in these first two episodes does mean that we get some decent acting in these first two episodes.
Try as I might I really cannot find out who did the animation for these first two episodes and for the rest of the show. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty really bad with the animation looking amateurish at best with the animation also being very choppy and is also really very cheap looking as well.
As I mentioned at the very start of this post this is the first Scooby-Doo TV show not to actually feature Scooby-Doo, This is due to two reasons the first one being a studio mandate not to feature the character in an adult animated series and the second one being the fact that the makers of the show couldn't figure out a way to include the character in a more realistic way both of which are just ridiculous because there's a fan made web series that's an adult version of Scooby-Doo that features Scooby-Doo in a very realistic way so it can be done as for the mandate thing adult animated shows can feature characters from kids animated TV shows and believe it or not the kids could actually tell the difference and no harm was ever done to the brand.
There was no way in heck that I could do this post and not talk about the fact that three of the four mystery inc characters were race swapped. Race swapping a character that has been mostly known as one race for close to fifty years at this point will always be a bad thing and even more so when it happens to multiple characters and so I have wonder if the makers of this show only did it just so that they could claim that if we the audience don't like the show then they could call us every name under the sun because there's no other reason to do it and on top of all of that Velma in this show is literally a self insert since she looks exactly like this shows executive producer and leading voice actress Mindy Kaling.
I will give this show this it is trying something by being the first fully animated Scooby-Doo project that's aimed squarely at adults. However this show does that in the most stereotypical way possible and that's by including nudity and gore and not and not actually talking about adult themes look at The Simpsons for example which is an adult comedy but it also touches on rather adult themes HBO Max's Harley Quinn is an adult animated show that doesn't use nudity at all and both of those shows have a better understanding of what it means to be an adult animated show then what this show does which is a shame.
Now then these episodes has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty six minuets for episode one and twenty five minuets for episode two. Which is the perfect running times for both of these episodes to have since if you stretched this show out to have forty five minuet episodes then you'd be stretching this already pretty thinly drawn out story even thinner and even tho both of these episodes have some good pacing to them they still could have been at the very least five or maybe even ten minuets shorter.
So now then since this is a comedy show that means that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in these first two episodes and well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in these first two episodes was in all honesty OK at best. Since alot of the jokes that we got in thee first two episodes just fell flat and didn't even get a smile out of me but then the show would hit you with a decent joke out of nowhere in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall this show is one to avoid for any die hard Scooby-Doo or animation fan since it fails to be good at being a Scooby-Doo product and it's animation is so bad that it will make animation fans angry as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in these first two episodes in this very post and since this is only my first impressions I won't be giving this show a rating however if i'm still watching this show when this shows final episodes airs or is released then i'll give this a show review and a rating as well but so far it's not of to very good start at all.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very post well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very post from the official Scooby-Doo fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website that I personally preferred to use to get the images that I personally used in this very post being the wonderful the official Google Images since all of the images that are currently up and and featured / presented to us on Google Images are all fairly high in quality and as well as being fairly freaking high in definition.