Post by wileyk209 on Sept 29, 2012 13:24:31 GMT -5
OK, I think I'm going to be heavily criticized for this, but I thought I'd just get it out.
I'm sure anyone who knows me well, I did not like "What's New Scooby-Doo." I could even go as far as saying I hated it! "What's New Scooby-Doo." With Sander Schwartz (the worst president of Warner Bros. Animation EVER) running things, you know things aren't going to go well. It didn't have that Hanna-Barbera look and feel; instead it was more like the Bill Hendricks Warner/Seven Arts cartoons (but without the twangy Bill Lava music), and the animation was the usual 2000s "house" animation style many WB shows at the time were using, animated in Korea (mostly by Lotto and DongWoo Animation.) It was also pretty much just a parody of the old show, up to the point where the parodies were no longer funny! (EVERY episode had to parody the "meddling kids" line, and EVERY episode had to feature some wacky musical chase, etc.) And their use of modern technology as a "See how up-to-date and modern this show is compared to the old version!" sort of thing didn't help either (I seem to recall one episode they swiped the "Uh... Internet?" joke from the Fairly Odd Parents.)
Fred was also drastically dumbed down, sort of like on "A Pup Named Scooby-Doo," but not as funny. And the show rarely focused on Scooby-Doo himself! Usually it would just focus on Fred, Daphne and Velma (though the major exception was that one bizarre episode "Camp Comeoniwannascareya" which only had Shaggy and Scooby.) The show also generally tried to be more "realistic" compared to the older, more cartoony shows. In fact, as part of this they even dumped using the classic Hanna-Barbera sound effects! (Well for the most part, they still used some, but usually it was the same ten or twenty effects repeated over and over, again ala the Warner/Seven Arts cartoons!)
Definitely not what I hoped for. There were only a few good episodes, like the aforementioned "Camp Comeoniwannascareya," "Homeward Hound" and a couple others, and then there were some that were absolute garbage, like "The Vampire Strikes Back" (sorry, even the Hex Girls couldn't save it
!) or "High-Tech House of Horrors." Also, it's no surprise many of the staff members that worked on this show also worked on the aborted 2003-2004 Looney Tunes cartoons.
I was very disappointed and angry at Warner Bros. Animation for ruining the Scooby-Doo franchise, after making four great direct-to-video Scooby-Doo movies. It also makes me sad, because Warner Bros. Animation also made some great Looney Tunes cartoon shorts from the 1930s until the 1960s. I can't believe the company that brought me such classics as "One Froggy Evening," "What's Opera Doc," "Duck Amuck" and "The Great Piggy Bank Robbery" would sink so low to making a very subpar Scooby-Doo revival. Ever since then, I haven't trusted Warner Bros. Animation with their new stuff when being announced (such as when "The Looney Tunes Show" was about to come out, I was afraid they'd screw up in the same way.)
So, a comparison of sorts, using Looney Tunes. This is what "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?" was like...
And this is what "What's New, Scooby-Doo?" was like...
(Ironically, "What's New, Scooby-Doo?" was by the same company that did those Looney Tunes cartoons! "Where Are You" was made by Hanna-Barbera, which may be why it was more superior.)
Sorry if I offended anyone (to try and prove I'm not crazy, I hated "Shaggy and Scooby-Doo Get a Clue" too!)
I'm sure anyone who knows me well, I did not like "What's New Scooby-Doo." I could even go as far as saying I hated it! "What's New Scooby-Doo." With Sander Schwartz (the worst president of Warner Bros. Animation EVER) running things, you know things aren't going to go well. It didn't have that Hanna-Barbera look and feel; instead it was more like the Bill Hendricks Warner/Seven Arts cartoons (but without the twangy Bill Lava music), and the animation was the usual 2000s "house" animation style many WB shows at the time were using, animated in Korea (mostly by Lotto and DongWoo Animation.) It was also pretty much just a parody of the old show, up to the point where the parodies were no longer funny! (EVERY episode had to parody the "meddling kids" line, and EVERY episode had to feature some wacky musical chase, etc.) And their use of modern technology as a "See how up-to-date and modern this show is compared to the old version!" sort of thing didn't help either (I seem to recall one episode they swiped the "Uh... Internet?" joke from the Fairly Odd Parents.)
Fred was also drastically dumbed down, sort of like on "A Pup Named Scooby-Doo," but not as funny. And the show rarely focused on Scooby-Doo himself! Usually it would just focus on Fred, Daphne and Velma (though the major exception was that one bizarre episode "Camp Comeoniwannascareya" which only had Shaggy and Scooby.) The show also generally tried to be more "realistic" compared to the older, more cartoony shows. In fact, as part of this they even dumped using the classic Hanna-Barbera sound effects! (Well for the most part, they still used some, but usually it was the same ten or twenty effects repeated over and over, again ala the Warner/Seven Arts cartoons!)
Definitely not what I hoped for. There were only a few good episodes, like the aforementioned "Camp Comeoniwannascareya," "Homeward Hound" and a couple others, and then there were some that were absolute garbage, like "The Vampire Strikes Back" (sorry, even the Hex Girls couldn't save it
!) or "High-Tech House of Horrors." Also, it's no surprise many of the staff members that worked on this show also worked on the aborted 2003-2004 Looney Tunes cartoons.I was very disappointed and angry at Warner Bros. Animation for ruining the Scooby-Doo franchise, after making four great direct-to-video Scooby-Doo movies. It also makes me sad, because Warner Bros. Animation also made some great Looney Tunes cartoon shorts from the 1930s until the 1960s. I can't believe the company that brought me such classics as "One Froggy Evening," "What's Opera Doc," "Duck Amuck" and "The Great Piggy Bank Robbery" would sink so low to making a very subpar Scooby-Doo revival. Ever since then, I haven't trusted Warner Bros. Animation with their new stuff when being announced (such as when "The Looney Tunes Show" was about to come out, I was afraid they'd screw up in the same way.)
So, a comparison of sorts, using Looney Tunes. This is what "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?" was like...
And this is what "What's New, Scooby-Doo?" was like...
(Ironically, "What's New, Scooby-Doo?" was by the same company that did those Looney Tunes cartoons! "Where Are You" was made by Hanna-Barbera, which may be why it was more superior.)
Sorry if I offended anyone
(to try and prove I'm not crazy, I hated "Shaggy and Scooby-Doo Get a Clue" too!)
