|
Post by shadowii on May 26, 2011 21:22:37 GMT -5
I like it alot by the way when was this site created? (I understand mystery incorporated but I'm surprised this show did not have a lot of posts)
|
|
|
Post by ScoobyAddict on Jun 2, 2011 15:42:15 GMT -5
The forum and ScoobyAddicts.com went live on February 1, 2007.
|
|
|
Post by wileyk209 on Jul 4, 2011 17:46:49 GMT -5
Count me as the minority that did NOT like "What's New Scooby-Doo." To me it was pretty much the same as "A Pup Named Scooby-Doo," with the gang in their adult form. You had the dumbed-down Freddie, the fashion-obsessed Daphne, and Velma suddenly became kind of naive (and it wasn't as good as her "devil-may-care" SD:MI persinality.) Also, the show often had the habit of focusing more on Fred, Daphne and Velma rather than Shaggy and Scooby-Doo himself. This made me sad, because Scooby-Doo is my favorite character in the group! The major exception was the "Camp Comeoniniwannascareya" episode, which only had Shaggy and Scooby. The writing and jokes were lame, and they constantly had to parody the old formula to death. Almost EVERY episode had to have the running-through-the-multiple-doors gag, and almost always had to have a Scooby Snack bribe, and they pretty much always had to spoof the "meddling kids" line (such as having twin villains saying "And it would've worked if it weren't for you meddling kids!", or similar stuff) until they were practically beating it with a dead horse! Additionally the show took the modern technology thing way too far, in a "See how up-to-date and modern our show is compared to the outdated 1970s versions!" manner. I even recall one episode actually reusing (or stealing?) one of the Internet-related jokes from "The Fairly Odd Parents!" Villains were pretty much rehashes of older ideas in most cases, and some seemed more like villains out of "A Pup Named Scooby-Doo." This show also tried to be more "realistic" and "down-to-earth", compared to the older and more "cartoony" Scooby shows. The animation also wasn't the greatest. Sure, it may have been more high-quality than the Hanna-Barbera shows, but that's expected at the time, and usually the animation was actually rather inferior compared to other companies' shows of the time. The characters were redesigned a bit, though seemed to have a bit of the old Iwao Takamoto look in them but with updated outfits, and the other characters pretty much were drawn in the usual WB "house" animation style. I also did not like the music. The opening to "There's No Creature Like Snow Creature" used a rather subpar imitation of one of the classic Ted Nichols music cues, and the rest was all typical modern-cartoon synthesizer stuff. The sound effects were also at their worst; I LOVED the classic Hanna-Barbera sound effects used in the older pre-1990s stuff. Unfortunately, this show pretty much abandoned them for the most part, but sometimes used them for exaggerated comedy sequences, and it was usually the same ten or fifteen effects repeated over and over, often heard in very poor sound quality (in fact, such as in the opening to the episode "The Vampire Strikes Back" they use the classic Castle Thunder sound effect right at the beginning but is presented in very poor sound quality, almost as if it was recorded off one of Thomas Edison's wax cylinders, compared to the more pristine version heard in Disney's "The Great Mouse Detective" from 1986); the rest are the older Looney Tunes sound effects (it just didn't sound right hearing Scooby shivering to the teeth chattering noise used on the old Warner Bros. cartoons instead of the proper teeth chatter sound) and the usual WB "house" sound FX in use at the time. 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.) In fact, the way the sound effects are presented on this show, it doesn't look and sound much like Hanna-Barbera; instead it looks and sounds more like those later Warner Bros.- Seven Arts Looney Tunes shorts of the late 1960s (such as the ones with Cool Cat, Merlin the Magic Mouse, and the final Speedy Gonzales/Daffy Duck cartoons:) Either that, or I'm just crazy. So I'm sorry to say I did NOT like this show. And "Shaggy and Scooby-Doo Get a Clue" was no better either. Feel free to throw tomatoes at me if you want
|
|
|
Post by scoobyhead on Jul 5, 2011 14:46:18 GMT -5
I loved what's new it was prob my fav series since it had more episodes then SDWAY which is a close #2
|
|
|
Post by ClubPenguinAddict on Sept 11, 2011 12:10:23 GMT -5
I LOVED IT!!!! It brought a whole new life to scooby doo! . But too much Fraphne!
|
|
|
Post by ShaphneFan on Oct 4, 2011 19:36:21 GMT -5
I like what's new it's pretty good for being written by ghost writers
|
|
sharper
Mr. E
What's New Scooby Doo?
Posts: 39
|
Post by sharper on Oct 13, 2011 17:00:48 GMT -5
I liked it, (on at 11 am EST every weekday!) So I watched a lot of it in the summer. I plan on getting all three seasons though!
|
|
|
Post by groovyscooby on Feb 27, 2012 15:02:58 GMT -5
I love WNSD!!!!!!!!!!!! My favorite episodes are "It's all Greek to Scooby Doo and "Frighthouse of a Lighthouse"
|
|
|
Post by laescoobyfan on Jul 12, 2012 15:51:24 GMT -5
I love this series so much! Just everything about it is great. The animation style and character design, voice actors, writing, etc. With 42 episodes and 7 movies, I think it did great to keep the Scooby-Doo franchise going strong.
|
|
|
Post by russm on Jul 12, 2012 16:25:45 GMT -5
It was WNSD and the film 'Where's my Mummy' which got me into writing Fan Fiction. Having relatively poor eyesight I find the clean and clear animation much easier to watch than some of the older series. I also found the writing better and more coherent than some of shows that proceeded.
|
|
|
Post by nickle98499 on Jul 12, 2012 16:46:32 GMT -5
I thought the series was good(way better then Shaggy and Scooby Doo Get A Clue by the way).
Actually russm mentioning WNSD is what got him into writing fan fiction reminds me of the way I got into fan fiction writing. To tell the truth, Scooby Doo and the Goblin King, which was in the Get A Clue era but using the WNSD era animation, was what got me into fan fiction writing.
Specifically, that movie's poor storyline(at least in my opinion) and it's poor ending and use of certain plot points is what inspired me to write fan fiction, or to start writing it.
|
|
|
Post by ScoobyAddict on Jul 20, 2012 12:33:35 GMT -5
russm and nickle98499 - It's great that you are creative enough to write fan fiction! I can start out good, but as I get into it I just can't seem to keep the story interesting.
|
|
|
Post by russm on Jul 21, 2012 19:03:10 GMT -5
russm and nickle98499 - It's great that you are creative enough to write fan fiction! I can start out good, but as I get into it I just can't seem to keep the story interesting. I am of the opinion your should write to please yourself, if other people like it then it is a bonus. There are quite a few jokes I've put in which I'm not sure others will get, but I find them funny. What I can't do is start at the beginning and keep going in a linear fashion till I reach the end. Doesn't work for me like that, I work on bits of the story all over the place. I also have a number on the go, only when one is sufficiently fleshed out would I start to bring the first few chapters together and start posting it on FanFiction. I also have stuff I've written down that goes nowhere Ie.g. a scene or a bit of dialogue) but it gets the idea down on paper (or .rtf file in my case) where they may get recycled later on or I might just re-read them for fun. Fics don't have to be long, my first full story 'The Snack Strikes Back' came in at just under 9500 words but the size ranges from 'Writing' - 652 words (some Fred/Velma fluff), to 'He's Scared, She's Scared, On The Ski Slopes' - 43,687 words (WNSD style Shelma story).
|
|
|
Post by ScoobyAddict on Jul 30, 2012 21:19:58 GMT -5
Russm, thanks for the insight into how you write. It's interesting to hear you don't write from start to finish. I can see how that would make it better because you don't always think of things in that fashion.
|
|
|
Post by Doo on Jul 31, 2012 11:07:53 GMT -5
I agree, that is interesting!
|
|