What was the point of putting them together if their ultimate objective was simply to break them apart?
That's what's been pissing me off about this whole thing, too! As of episode 20, it doesn't look like they're getting back together. And even if they did, it wouldn't matter because their characterizations in this show are so unlikeable and incompatible that I can't bring myself to root for them (except to say, "they're both such loathsome idiots/assholes that they DESERVE to be stuck with each other").
It seems as if the messed up Velma/Shaggy/Scooby "love triange" (*GAG*) is intended to mirror something that Cassidy/Ricky/Peracles went through. That seems to be the "point" of all this nonsensical romantic "drama". And I wonder if Cassidy and Ricky's relationship will be just as stupid and badly written as Shaggy and Velma's. :P
Y'know what? If anything, this show's treatment of Shaggy and Velma only made me ship the TRADITIONAL versions of the characters more. The Shaggy and Velma (and Scooby) in Mystery Incorporated are barely recognizable as the characters we all grew up with. So if the Mystery Incorporated writers intended to use this show as "evidence" that the Shaggy/Velma ship could never sail, they failed. BIG TIME!
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Date: 2011-05-08 12:24 am (UTC)What was the point of putting them together if their ultimate objective was simply to break them apart?
That's what's been pissing me off about this whole thing, too! As of episode 20, it doesn't look like they're getting back together. And even if they did, it wouldn't matter because their characterizations in this show are so unlikeable and incompatible that I can't bring myself to root for them (except to say, "they're both such loathsome idiots/assholes that they DESERVE to be stuck with each other").
It seems as if the messed up Velma/Shaggy/Scooby "love triange" (*GAG*) is intended to mirror something that Cassidy/Ricky/Peracles went through. That seems to be the "point" of all this nonsensical romantic "drama". And I wonder if Cassidy and Ricky's relationship will be just as stupid and badly written as Shaggy and Velma's. :P
Y'know what? If anything, this show's treatment of Shaggy and Velma only made me ship the TRADITIONAL versions of the characters more. The Shaggy and Velma (and Scooby) in Mystery Incorporated are barely recognizable as the characters we all grew up with. So if the Mystery Incorporated writers intended to use this show as "evidence" that the Shaggy/Velma ship could never sail, they failed. BIG TIME!