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17th January 2023, 02:20 PM | #1 |
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The 'Velma' Conspiracies
It seems that conspiracist thinking can be applied anywhere, in this case the newly launched 'Adult Scooby Doo' series created by HBO has generated some really bad reviews (& not just from 'the usual suspects'.) which in turn has spawned claims that the whole thing is a 'psy-op' designed to make 'social justice' look bad.
There's a good article on Forbes discussing the claims:
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17th January 2023, 02:50 PM | #2 |
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From what I can tell, the conspiracy theories are a perfect example of Poe's law in action.
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17th January 2023, 03:49 PM | #3 |
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Apparently Warner Bros... HBO.. Discovery... whatever the **** they are now is actually bragging about its ratings. But it might just be that people are tuning in to see just how bad it is, sort of like rubbernecking to see a car wreck. Or... looking at imdb... the show is tagged with "female full frontal nudity". So theres that too.
I let my HBO Max sub expire after House of the Dragon ended, so I can't watch. I'll probably renew when season 2 is back. I would have kept a year sub but HBO is doing this **** where they feel as though they can randomly remove original programming. I was about to watch Westworld when it *poof* went away. So, no way am I keeping a sub all the time. |
18th January 2023, 10:09 AM | #4 |
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18th January 2023, 05:59 PM | #6 |
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So what's more plausible? Mindy Kaling is a crypto-fascist, trying to make progressives look bad? Or Mindy Kaling really believes she's the new Bob Smigel?
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22nd January 2023, 07:34 AM | #7 |
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22nd January 2023, 07:36 AM | #8 |
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“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?” Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago |
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22nd January 2023, 08:56 AM | #9 |
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I watched it and found no need for a conspiracy theory to explain why it sucks. It's blatant tokenism and the basest form of pandering disguised as parody. They could have done so much better with Velma as a killer nerd making smart sexy. Instead they checked gender, orientation and ethnicity boxes with the characters and wrote them crash, trashy and unimaginative jokes.
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27th January 2023, 03:42 PM | #13 |
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I watched the first half of the first episode; it sucks. On MovieChat.org (the old IMDB forum) the usual racists are having fits over the race swaps and other stuff.
If they had bothered to watch the show, they would know that race swapping an origin story is the least of this program's problems. Ranb |
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I dunno. The movie Crash has been criticized as "trite, racist, and dull", charged with stereotyping and demeaning its characters, and criticized by the wonderful Thandie Newton for neutralizing "the very real rage" that some minorities feel.
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