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EVERYONE loves the show so far.

Sorry, I can't get into too much details yet, but I will say that everything that's great about them - even everything that could be considered a "flaw" - has nothing to with their gender. They're just great characters. Daphne seems to be everyone's favorite in the new series. She is uniquely her own person in such a fun way. Velma was much more defined as a person going into it, so she needed less work to make more dimensional. In 1969 Daphne, however, was a cardboard cutout. "The Pretty One" and "danger prone," which means, to me, damsel in distress who needs rescuing by a big strong man. Daphne can take care of herself - in her own new, eccentric way, now, of course.

If we used the more realistic character models like the original, the DVD's or MI, then the style of comedy we're attempting wouldn't work as well. The style we chose allows us to a greater range of emotions and effects, from extremely pushed, silly, absurd comedy, to truly poignant, heartbreaking moments - and everything in between. MI looks very different from SDWAY and from Get a Clue, the only difference us that we're slightly more pushed than those to allow us more storytelling and character freedom. 

I'm glad you like Shaggy. We're altering the core of Shaggy (and Scooby) much less than the others because who they are has already been very established over the years. They are just growing as characters in relation to how we've tweaked the other characters. If you love Shaggy, then you will be less surprised and very happy to be getting a Shaggy much like you've always known him. 

I'm curious Sponge, what is it about Shaphne that appeals to you? Is it that you want to see Shaggy and Daphne dating? Or that you want a show with ONLY Shaggy and Daphne together in it, whether they're romantically involved or not? Or is it that you dislike Fred and Velma (and Scooby?) and don't want to see them? Why "Shaphne"? I'm honestly not offended by anything you've said on these boards. I'm just curious what's behind it, from a fan point of view. And, further, do YOU, personally, want Scrappy back? Why?

What about Scrappy appeals to you? To me, Scrappy always felt like the perfect example of what the Simpsons were making fun of with their classic "Poochie" episode. New characters added for comic relief because the writers are finding the old characters getting stale usually is a sign of two things (to me, this is only my opinion): 1. the writers are out of ideas, not the show. 2. The original characters weren't built quite right to remain interesting. Thus, we get Scooby Dum, Scooby Dee, Scrappy, and all these other new characters thrown in. It's strange that I've heard no one here upset that Scooby Dum isn't in the series. Isn't he just as a valid a character as Scrappy? Or is the difference that you, personally, didn't grow up with Scooby Dum, so he's not to YOU? 

Again, we went back to the original 1969, classic Scooby Doo Where Are You? Show, the series that started it all, and opened up the hood and looked at the engine to retool it. To correct what I saw as the original problems with the show that might have been giving the future writers the problems that caused them to grow bored with the main five characters. I went into the DNA of the show and the characters and made them all fully dimensional, well rounded characters with flaws and dreams and issues and put them back in the van and sent them on their way. We didn't remove anything from their personalities, we only added and enhanced. 

Now, that doesn't mean that the series after the original were BAD. Not at all. It also doesn't mean the new characters introduced after the original can't or won't make appearances in Be Cool. They very well may. We just felt, if we're trying to make a comedic, character driven series, it would be most interesting to hit the reset button and start from the original premise, Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy and Scooby driving around in the Mystery Machine solving mysteries - which no new audience has grown up with for 40 years. 

I'm sorry that the original, classic Scooby Doo idea doesn't appeal to you and others. You may be right that it fails. But I think its worth honoring it and giving it a chance with a new audience. It is what began these last 45 years of Scooby Doo and everything after it has been variations on its themes, so there MUST be something incredibly valuable at it's core that it's lived so long, evolving and mutating. Be Cool is a new, modern comedic remake of the original, classic series. 

My pleasure, but please understand that nothing is official. Nothing I say is official. In television, you can't really count on anything until you actually see it on your TV screen. 

I apologize if I misread or misunderstood your words, Cap. My response was less about your specific comments than it was to a particular concept that keeps popping up about why "change" Scooby. I was trying to finally address the issue once and for all - Scooby IS change. It's funny, because at Warner Brothers everybody has a different idea about what elements need to be in a Scooby Doo show to define it AS a Scooby Doo show. Literally nobody agrees. Everybody also has a different idea about what the audience NEEDS or WANTS or EXPECTS to see, which makes it tricky. So, basically, I've been in the trenches at Warners fighting these battles and sorting out the company's perception of the "property" and how to incorporate certain elements in a brand new series, which takes a different approach and is attempting to redefine what you can do with Scooby Doo. I guess it all came out in a rant, so I'm sorry if it seemed directed at you. Cheers.