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I watched episodes 1 and 2 of the new Velma series.

It was, uh, interesting.

My wife did not like the animation, so she only watched as far as cockroach sex, which I sold her on as hilarious, to get her that far into a cartoon which she is better than.

But now it's Young Sheldon time.
 
My wife did not like the animation, so she only watched as far as cockroach sex, which I sold her on as hilarious, to get her that far into a cartoon which she is better than.

But now it's Young Sheldon time.
Yeah, after two episodes, I just don't like it. It feels like they slapped the Scooby Doo IP on a failed edgy new animated series to get it approved by the corporate investors who want established franchises. Quite honestly, the nude scenes with the high school girls in the locker room toward the beginning was rather shocking, and not in a good way. The cockroach sex was less than appealing, yeah, there's the joke about the MeToo movement, and just all kinds of other really odd "angry at the sky" edge boomer style comedy. The show feels directionless, the characters do not match any of their previous iterations at all, the dialogue could have been applied to any franchise anywhere, and it still would have made as much sense.

It just feels like a massive misfire to me. I honestly regret watching the first two episodes. It's like when I watched Battlefield: Earth, but without the fun kitchyness of John Travolta looking like a low-rent Asylum films Klingon.
 
Killing Them Softly, Crossroads (1986), and Good Night and Good Luck.
Also started that TV series NEXT from a few years back. Only ten episodes but by Manny Coto, had Phlox in the first episode, and John Slattery doing his own Tony Stark.
 
Finished 2022 catching up with “Star Trek: Prodigy” and “Star Wars: Andor”. Just rewatched the Disney/Pixar “The Good Dinosaur” in my occasional, whenever-I-get-back-to-it Pixar rewatch. And U.S. NFL Football. (It’s “Super” Wild Card Weekend!)

—David Young
 
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