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Velma: The Candy (Wo)man (2023)
Shocking U-Turn
I think they knew most people would switch off after an episode like that, so it eased off.
Don't get me wrong, the meta humor still lets down the show, the weird sexualisation is still there in the background, I absolutely hate the pregnancy gross-out, the 420 joke was horrible, an Norville's pointless romance subplot drags down the show. This Gigi (not called Scoobi, that's a hoax) can't come into the fray any sooner.
Fred's plot really drags down the episode. He's innocent, we know he's innocent, but the writer wants to drag this out, horribly failing.
The drug plot wasn't great.
That's all I hated. Daphne's arc is actually going great, I actually don't hate her. That's 1/4 main characters that aren't awful, and I can see Norville eventually joining that list.
Velma still is the worst part of the show, but her arc about coming to terms with her hallucinations is actually keeping me interested in her character.
Also, the humour and animation might be starting to recover. A few of the jokes were funny (the yarn for the conspiracy board coming from a sweater really got me) and the animation is great.
5/10 episode, I hope this show recovers, because I want it to shock me and be good.
Velma: Velma (2023)
Awful Start
Well, that could have gone better a lot of times. As someone who went in open (i liked High Guardian and Q-Force, so this could go the same) this was an abomination of an opener. The comedy is horrible and relies only on sex jokes and meta humor that sinks almost as low as those awful spoof movies that came out about a decade ago.
All the characters are painfully unlikable or flat-out annoying. Velma is easily the worst character. The writing doesn't do her character justice at all, and if anything makes her unlikable beyond recognition. Norville (Shaggy stand-in) isn't awful, but he just comes off as annoying. Daphne's unlikeable, but seems like the only character with development. Fred obviously isn't the killer, but he's making himself a red-herring when the audience knows it's not him, that's not how red-herrings work.
The story shows promise though. Despite the weird teen sexualisation and Riverdale-style high school drama, it seems like it can develop on the mysteries it sets up.
1/10 opening, but will continue.