Bob is onboard with another cartoon getting an edgy, adult remake.
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If you too don't recognize the name Mindy Kaling, I am here to inform you that she's Kelly Kapoor from the American version of The Office. She has a writing, executive producer, and director credit for the show as well. What she actually did for The Office and what that means for Velma, I don't know.
Let's take a better look at the tweeted pic
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So not only is Velma black. not only did the top of some girl's head and brain get removed
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she's in a locker room with a bunch of naked women with tasteful bubbles covering their naughty bits. Bob don't try to smugly dismiss people because they watch degenerate animu when your are proudly saying that you back this.
This whole thing is so bizarre. Yes, it is obvious that they are hopping on the Scooby-Doo brand for easy recognition and get the coverage, but the thing is Scooby-Doo is a thing of the past, the whole Hanna-Barbera brand lives in nostalgia, and even good shows like "Mystery Inc" don't quite get off the ground because people just don't see Scooby-Doo, or Fintstones or any of those shows as "shows"anymore, but more like brands in products they see on the super market.
Hell, that last big CGI Scooby Movie WB tried to push fell of the tracks because even if it was "okay", it doesn't have the pull anymore.
So now comes "Kelly from the Office" puffing her chest and going "Yeah, Velma Dinkley is now indian, and if you don't like it, suck it incels!"
Fucking what? Who gives a shit? When peole talk about Scooby Doo now they think about the Ultra instict Shaggy meme. So much so that it is now being used by WB on their Smash Bros rip off.
I know a lot people say "why don't you just make a new character so people can identify with?", and the easy (and cynical) response is that changing a stablished and popular character is easier to get attention around it.
But a show about the "origins" of Velma Dinkley, brown girl extraordinaire that is so well known and popular that they still had to give the indian girl a bobhair style from the 60's so just people know its "Velma"? What the fuck? Just make a new character and give it a big push on stream, it can be done you know, cartoons ain't dead, you can make new shit, like this:
Disney's Amphibia, which also have a south-Asian brown girl as the hero. I haven't watched it, but it is the hit "Owl House" wanted to be and seems like the serie finale just aired with a big positive reaction.
So yeah, it can be done. I don't give a singular fuck about which color you are trying to revamp a 50 year old character, but it always comes across as pathetic that you have to do it instead of just having the balls to make your own, and act brave as if it some great defiant stand to make a character brown.
This story is really pathetic and depressing. If he stopped playing videogames but continued to argue with people about new games he never played, he sounds like an irritating poseur (and he is a poseur so that tracks). He even admits that his brother and sister were still getting videogames and playing them, but he preferred arguing on America Online forums about them without ever playing them.
When was the last time Robert mentioned playing a videogame? Does he have any recent favorite games? Does he have some hidden gem game that he particulary likes? Anything?
Same with comics? Has he even commented about his favorite comic artist? Has he ever mentioned one when it wasn't a news thing? What about BD or Manga? Does he read those? Can anyone tell what is his favourite comic run or storyline?
Even movies, besides his self-proclaimed foundness for Godzilla and 80's nostalgic shit, has Robert ever comment on movies in a way that wasn't just spewing trivia about some obscure shit or just comentary about whatever crap was screened for him recently?
It seems like Robert likes to skim read about stuff rather than actually engage with the movie/Game/comic. That is why he always comes across a poseur, and that gets worse because the fat ass insists that he needs to give is "educated" opinion on everything, so he read every book, saw every movie and is a "insider" of the tech industry.
Which brings the question, does he even like this shit? I don't even think Robert likes Marvel or Nintendo to be frank.
The only thing I think Robert likes is twitter, this is where he deposits most of his energy, and videgogames, movies and news around it is just a way to engage it and to distillate his wikipedia reading as trivia dispensing for the likes whenever he takes a break from political sperging.