HBO Max's new animated series Velma is drawing wide criticism, prompting one newspaper to call the show, based on characters from the Scooby Doo universe, "the most hated series on TV." AILSA. Velma herself is this odd, revengeful high school outcast who hates the cool kids and may have driven her mother to leave her family. 154 0 obj <>/Filter/FlateDecode/ID[<2F2204601EA99A42B980C9B037669121>]/Index[132 41]/Info 131 0 R/Length 111/Prev 278397/Root 133 0 R/Size 173/Type/XRef/W[1 3 1]>>stream Therefore, when you hear that the characters on a cartoon are based on X characters, do note that we're almost always just talking about a "jumping off" point, and not a specific one-to-one adaptation (although, again, you have things like The Flintstones that get pretty darn close to a one-for-one adaptation). Visit our corporate site (opens in new tab). "They took the stoner, cast a Black actor, and redesigned him to be Black. It unfortunately depends on the showrunners and producers. NPR's own TV critic, Eric Deggans, joins us now to talk about what happened. Heres how it works. 7 Things to do in Villa Elma | Hidden Paradise of Lucban - Hungry Byaheros For my kids. In the latest TV Legends Revealed, discover how Velma's roots as a lesbian character go back to the actor whose character Velma was based upon! Unfortunately, the trope has seen a rise in usage that veers into clich territory, showing up in everything from children's films to laugh track sitcoms. Velma is so bad in fact, that it's spawning conspiracy theories that creator Mindy Kaling made what is essentially a parody of what the right wing thinks left wing comedy is like. Velma made her live-action debut in the 2002 Scooby-Doo feature film written and directed by James Gunn. RuPaul's Drag Race Wiki is a FANDOM TV Community. People generally like Velma as a character, but they really, really hate HBOs Velma. He was expected to receive up to 10 years in prison, but, shortly before his sentencing in January 2021, he was pardoned by Pres. To many fans, the idea that Velma would be gay in her latest iteration seems to naturally follow her long history of queerness. So just like how Kuehl came out decades into her public life, so, too, has Velma come out decades into her public existence, as well. While fans have debated Velma's sexuality from the beginning, Gunn intended to explicitly show that Velma was indeed a lesbian. The subsequent I Am Not a Human Being (2010), released while he was in jail (he ultimately served eight months of a one-year sentence), was stylistically more consistent with his previous work and was better-received. Vomma: The rate at which the vega of an option will react to volatility in the underlying market. RELATED:DC: 5 Best Team-Ups with Hanna-Barbera Characters (& 5 Worst). And I understand that she's gotten a lot of criticism for the whole series even though she didn't create the show. And I identify so much as her character, and I think so many people do, so it's like, yeah, let's make her Indian in this series. Bigotry and prejudice are learned behaviors, and genre stories have always tried to inoculate their audiences from that particular sickness. Updates? As an adult animated series, it's to be expected that the show would redesign the Mystery Machine universe. Velma made her live-action debut in the 2002 Scooby-Doo feature film written and directed by James Gunn. And those revamped heroes, like Miles Morales Spider-Man, have become very popular. Lil Wayne is a Grammy Award-winning rapper who became one of the top-selling artists in hip-hop in the early 21st century. Although "Velma" features a few central characters from the "Scooby-Doo" franchise, it's hard not to notice the very prominent absence of the linguistically gifted Great Dane himself, an absence that many fans of the franchise find hard to swallow. Lil Wayne debuted the single 6 Foot 7 Foot in late 2010, several months before embarking on a North American tour with Nicki Minaj and Rick Ross. He also founded that year Young Money Entertainment, a record label that would eventually release numerous hits by Lil Wayne,Drake, andNicki Minaj. Of all the controversial things about "Velma," the biggest of the bunch has to be the joke that pokes fun at the #MeToo movement. The relentless meta humor begins moments into the series when Velma ruminates on origin stories and continues through the first scene with Daphne's proclamation that "pilot episodes of a TV series always have gratuitous sex and nudity." "It's taken too many auspicious liberties with its TV-MA rating to be unnecessarily crass and crude (The Baby Bump photo op scene, I still cannot scrub the disgust and horror from my eyes)," Redditor ThatstheTweest said.