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Post by scoob16 on Aug 6, 2014 7:05:31 GMT -5
Loved the chase song in this one! Other than that, not a brilliant episode...
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Post by somebody-doo on Apr 1, 2016 14:15:25 GMT -5
Yeah this one for sure wasn't my favorite.
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Post by somebody-doo on Apr 1, 2016 14:15:47 GMT -5
Surprised there aren't more posts on some of these reviews.
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Post by 90s2000sDoo on Oct 12, 2017 8:05:37 GMT -5
I love this episode. It is an awesome first episode for Melbourne O'Reilly. I also love seeing JJ Hakamoto. The museum and caves with the dinosaur are action-packed. The culprit reveal is really great too
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Post by matt on Jan 4, 2021 15:50:06 GMT -5
A pretty middle of the road What's New episode. Which means that it is good
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Post by candy1026 on Apr 25, 2023 19:43:51 GMT -5
I didn't like it. I hate to be THAT guy but while this episode did make me laugh (especially everything about the bat guano) there are some parts that I was sort of worried by. I DON'T know enough about certain issues to straight up condemn the episode, but I am a bit worried.
Let's start with the frustrating part.
I know. I know Scooby's a dog, and dogs like bones, and he was in an ancient history museum...and really, it's not THAT Scooby stole one, I give him a pass for that because he doesn't know any better. But NOBODY else seemed to care! And he did all his shenanigans at a party FULL of museum goers! I feel like a better gag would have been for Scooby to keep trying to get at the bones and using really stupid plans (that for once even Shaggy isn't his accomplice in, since, you know, Shaggy doesn't chew on bones) but always being foiled. If Scooby wants the bones, then it's funny and tolerable. If Scooby is stealing the bones and nobody, not even Velma, cares about it whatsoever feels unrealistic and disrespectful. The museum owner, his museum was trashed and he just shrugged and said "we'll rebuild" struck me as unrealistic. What about the artifacts? What about the dinosaur bones? As a kid I probably wouldn't have thought twice about that, but now that I know how much hard work goes into recovering those bones. Every single one is really valuable for science and there were just tons of them destroyed by the bucketload by the time the episode was over? It just felt disrespectful somehow.
The mystery wasn't super solid either, and I couldn't really follow Velma's logic. Especially the part with the "Beta". The reveal that it was actually the dinosaur felt wonky. There should have been a scene where they noticed that it was missing from its exhibit. And it ran off from when they failed to capture it, how did Velma get the thing, dino skin and all, for her presentation without the culprit noticing? Once again (I watched Snow Beast before this) I feel the reasoning behind the culprit was weak...I feel like that Aussie guy would have been a better culprit since he lied to Shaggy about it being fool's gold and all. And why did she need that big machine when Shaggy could just grab them and stuff them in his shirt?
Even though it turned out to be a lie, the whole coverup invoking "this belongs to natives" and how the guy just stole it for a museum...this isn't a hard and fast condemnation of the episode. I am caucasian and have never been super involved in this kind of issue. But I know just enough about it to be worried and bring it up in case someone who does know more about it can explain whether there's actual reason for concern.
See, in the beginning, Cepeda (I think I'm spelling that wrong) claims that "the bones are sacred to these people". O'Riley doesn't refuse because he knows that's not true-it is true as far as he knows, he just doesn't care. He just sneers "watch me" and it reeks of entitlement. He didn't care about even the possibility of disturbing something sacred to someone else. And what's worse the episode sides with him because it turns out that it was just a lie to keep him away. Except...
I know that this thing DOES happen. Things that are sacred to other cultures get taken away and put in museums, simply because they can. And those people aren't the villains, they are the victims. I don't know much about this, again, I would say just enough to feel uncomfortable. If someone who is better versed in this kind of thing could help that'd be fine. And the fact that it WAS a lie would absolutely NOT absolve O'Riley to me, as he had no reason to believe it was a lie-he just ignored them and tried to steal something that he felt the museum was entitled to and ignored the potential for upsetting others. This is how he would act if the museum became interested in something of genuine cultural importance. And it's just yucky. I can't say I really like O'Riley, and it appears he's a recurring character based on the above comments. :( I had to go to a tutoring session just before I finished and I highly doubt he can absolve himself within the last minute or so of the episode, so...I'm posting this. Is my concern founded or am I reading too much into this?
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Post by martianganja on Apr 25, 2023 20:20:46 GMT -5
I enjoyed the second half of this one more than the first half personally
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Post by candy1026 on Apr 27, 2023 16:58:57 GMT -5
I found even more plotholes...Cepeda seems to only realize that O'Riley is after the bones seconds before the monster attacks, and how did Heather and Cepeda know how to operate the moon vehicle? I want to like this series but it's hard when they just seem to randomly pick the culprit out of the secondary cast
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