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Post by spankydoo on Oct 25, 2009 15:38:53 GMT -5
I'm the one that enjoyed high school the most and the most modest dresser though orange really isn't my color. I'm supposed to where glasses but I can see just fine usually with out them.
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Post by ShaphneFan on Oct 19, 2011 15:08:28 GMT -5
I like velma I can relate to the older her then the newer velma
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Post by sagg on Oct 19, 2011 17:22:29 GMT -5
The newest Velma is the most developed Velma (In CHARACTER, not the OTHER thing, though she's that as well! ) ever. Previously, she was the boring nerd of the group. I know some folks here don't like the newest one, but count me as a supporter. If Shaggy was a tad more mature and didn't rely on Scooby so much, he and Velma would be very good for each other. In fact, the more I think about it, that may be why Velma seemed so controlling: To make up for Shaggy's shortcomings in their relationship. Thaaaat's right: Take up an issue with my point... >
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What's New Scooby Doo?
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Post by sharper on Oct 19, 2011 21:43:47 GMT -5
I like Velma. My mom recently got a haircut and my little 1st grade brother thinks she looks likes Velma! haha
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Post by Soupperson on Jun 7, 2016 12:50:12 GMT -5
It depends on which version, I love the original version but I hate the M.I. one.
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Post by russm on Jun 7, 2016 13:05:48 GMT -5
Obvious answer, but hell yes! Very much so, she's my favourite of the gang. I wasn't too keen on the MI version but that is not the show's only problem. Still find the Be Cool rather cold but I'm warming to her. The WNSD/DTV is my favourite version of her.
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Post by russm on Jun 18, 2016 17:20:23 GMT -5
Was having a look at Kokatu's review of Apocalypse #1 and got to browsing the comments... lets just say that Velma is very popular. One of the lines was the estimate that 25% of the American population had a Velma fetish, another suggesting that that figure was too low. All humorous banter but with a gem of truth.
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Post by lightbrownhair on Aug 12, 2017 17:50:12 GMT -5
I am no too fond of the first version of the character in Scooby-Doo where are you and the new Scooby-Doo movies. She is rather rigid, bossy, and thought she had a few funny moments when she lost her glasses or when she is with Shaggy and Scooby, she doesn't seem to have much humor. Also it sometimes seems she care more about solving mystery than about human poeple. Fred also give me this feeling. When they force Shaggy and Scooby to stay to solve the mystery, or to go somewhere they didn't want, they give me the feeling than the mystery is more important for them than the feelings of their friends. No matter how much they like to solve mysteries, friends are more important, no? They always put them in trouble, because the mystery is so much important. By the end of the Scooby-Doo show and the Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo show she seemed less rigid. It's hard to judge for the new Scooby and Scrappy Doo mysteries, since she didn't much appear and Daphne had become the leader. She seemed more relaxed, but also...less invested? I am not sure if i like it better, because even if Velma was not very warm in the first series, her determination for solving the mystery was part of her. The child version was interesting, it showed she was younger than the others. I rediscovered the serie after a few years when i saw Zombie Island, and i absolutely loved her in it. She was much more warm than in my memories, much more cheerful, smiling and friendly, without being in the background, she was the brain without being bossy, i really think it was there and in the following movies she was the better. The writters really found the right balance for her personality. I also like her in What's a new Scooby-Doo. I know the Mystery Incorporated version is controversed, but i think the writters did a good job with her, because while she can be annoying in season 1 (personally she makes me laught, but it can be because of the way the dubber make her sound in my language, i admit she is hard for Shaggy and at his place, many boys would have left her also) she had matured a lot in season 2. She had a good story arc. I have not see much Be Cool Scooby-Doo, so i can't judge, but from what i have seen, it isn't my favorite version of her. But i don't like much this serie in general, the design bother me much, even if the writting is OK.
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Post by barneynedward on Aug 12, 2017 17:53:58 GMT -5
I'm actually on Velma's side for mystery inc's version. She should have dumped Shaggy not the other way around. If he can't commit to making their relationship work, she's better off without him.
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Post by snesgamer83 on Aug 12, 2017 19:38:30 GMT -5
Each of the core members of the gang are essential to the Scooby experience - I have a hard time imagining someone hating one of them yet still loving the franchise, though I suppose it's possible.
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Post by snesgamer83 on Aug 12, 2017 19:41:07 GMT -5
I'm actually on Velma's side for mystery inc's version. She should have dumped Shaggy not the other way around. If he can't commit to making their relationship work, she's better off without him. I can only half-agree with that. Yes, Shaggy should've been more willing to commit, but... she was jealous of Scooby almost as if she thought he was Shaggy's side-lover or something (yuck!). After all those years of knowing each other, shouldn't she have known how close Shaggy and Scooby were together (in a pet/Master or buddy-buddy sort of way, not the other, again yuck)?
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Post by snesgamer83 on Aug 12, 2017 19:43:39 GMT -5
Was having a look at Kokatu's review of Apocalypse #1 and got to browsing the comments... lets just say that Velma is very popular. One of the lines was the estimate that 25% of the American population had a Velma fetish, another suggesting that that figure was too low. All humorous banter but with a gem of truth. Velma was my first (and I suspect was for many others), televison "nerd girl" crush.
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Post by lightbrownhair on Aug 13, 2017 7:33:46 GMT -5
To be honest, Shaggy and Scooby seems like a old married couple sometimes. Not only in mystery incorporated but in every series. So i didn't find the idea so impossible. It was new, for sure, but not impossible.
I think Shaggy and Velma are incompatible even without Scooby. They are too much different and are better as good friends. Without Scooby, their couple might have lasted a little longer but i don't think it would have worked. I think Shaggy is capable of real romantic feelings, but in my opinion Velma is not so much is type of girl. I think he might have dated with her just to have a girlfriend. There have been other girls he seemed much more interrested than Velma (the alien in the Scooby-Doo and the Alien invaders, for exemple) and even Daphne, they have kissed in season 2 and thought it was an illusion he seemed to have enjoyed it much more than when he kissed Velma. Their relationship was a courageous idea from the writters, it bring new things to both characters, but it showed they were incompatible.
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Post by russm on Aug 13, 2017 12:39:42 GMT -5
I'm actually on Velma's side for mystery inc's version. She should have dumped Shaggy not the other way around. If he can't commit to making their relationship work, she's better off without him. I can only half-agree with that. Yes, Shaggy should've been more willing to commit, but... she was jealous of Scooby almost as if she thought he was Shaggy's side-lover or something (yuck!). After all those years of knowing each other, shouldn't she have known how close Shaggy and Scooby were together (in a pet/Master or buddy-buddy sort of way, not the other, again yuck)? The writers went for 'drama' hence the dysfunctional nature of part of the characters personalities and their relationships.
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Post by barneynedward on Aug 14, 2017 19:37:53 GMT -5
To be honest, Shaggy and Scooby seems like a old married couple sometimes. Not only in mystery incorporated but in every series. So i didn't find the idea so impossible. It was new, for sure, but not impossible. I think Shaggy and Velma are incompatible even without Scooby. They are too much different and are better as good friends. Without Scooby, their couple might have lasted a little longer but i don't think it would have worked. I think Shaggy is capable of real romantic feelings, but in my opinion Velma is not so much is type of girl. I think he might have dated with her just to have a girlfriend. There have been other girls he seemed much more interrested than Velma (the alien in the Scooby-Doo and the Alien invaders, for exemple) and even Daphne, they have kissed in season 2 and thought it was an illusion he seemed to have enjoyed it much more than when he kissed Velma. Their relationship was a courageous idea from the writters, it bring new things to both characters, but it showed they were incompatible. Shaggy and Velma are fully compatible because their personalities while different both include traits the other desperately needs to be influenced by. Shaggy needs Velma's logic skills to rub off on him and I'll bet Velma was even more uptight before meeting Shaggy. Shaggy's needs her brain and she needs his laidback personality. To be compatible you don't need to have personality as your partner. You both just need to have a personality that compliments and augments their own with traits they themselves don't have as strongly. Basically they complete each other. Kind of like the dynamic between Spider-man and Mary Jane. Spidey can be VERY uptight but being around fun-loving partygirl MJ has a stabilizing influence on him.
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