It's from the Barbie web-series (http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB4C82F2A68D62AA8&feature=plcp) (never thought I'd say those words in my life) and it's actually really, really hilarious.
I think I'm going to get through re-watching (because it's Scooby-Doo and the mystery solving half of the show is just so bloody awesome and Matthew's voice, sigh) season one trying to justify Velma's behavior by putting Shaggy in the "celebrity crush" section of Velma's heart/mind. Because she fan-girls like only a fan-girl could at times, and if she didn't love Shaggy and just idolized him for whatever reason, her acting like a shrew, as you've so wonderfully put it, makes a little more sense.
Shaggy, though, I don't really know. What he did was so painfully out of character, even if he was high on Fred brainwaves, because I don't think Fred would kiss Daphne in such a situation, but then again, even Fred's character has been through the shredder. I mean, the guy's a little dense at times, sure. Mostly when it comes to females (which guys aren't, really?) I wouldn't say he's obsessed with traps either, I would think he'd be obsessed with solving mysteries, if he was to obsess over anything at all. Or maybe the "I can bench press 220" he had going on in WNSD, even though that never came across as an obsession to me, just a cute/dorky attempt at trying to be all "I'm a manly man, roar, roar, roar. MUSCLESSSS" and just failing terribly. Such a cute dork.
I digress.
I'm pretty sure all the writers thought was "they are teenagers/young adults who solve mysteries with a talking dog" and they just splashed stereotype all over them and that was that. It's like they worked on the show, as a whole, and then the main characters found themselves put in the picture half-way through the entire process. And then Velma, Scooby and Shaggy were pulled out and slapped back near the end.
(this turned out longer than I wanted, my apologies. I think I need to rage about this, but where? .-.)
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Date: 2012-08-15 10:11 pm (UTC)I think I'm going to get through re-watching (because it's Scooby-Doo and the mystery solving half of the show is just so bloody awesome and Matthew's voice, sigh) season one trying to justify Velma's behavior by putting Shaggy in the "celebrity crush" section of Velma's heart/mind. Because she fan-girls like only a fan-girl could at times, and if she didn't love Shaggy and just idolized him for whatever reason, her acting like a shrew, as you've so wonderfully put it, makes a little more sense.
Shaggy, though, I don't really know. What he did was so painfully out of character, even if he was high on Fred brainwaves, because I don't think Fred would kiss Daphne in such a situation, but then again, even Fred's character has been through the shredder. I mean, the guy's a little dense at times, sure. Mostly when it comes to females (which guys aren't, really?) I wouldn't say he's obsessed with traps either, I would think he'd be obsessed with solving mysteries, if he was to obsess over anything at all. Or maybe the "I can bench press 220" he had going on in WNSD, even though that never came across as an obsession to me, just a cute/dorky attempt at trying to be all "I'm a manly man, roar, roar, roar. MUSCLESSSS" and just failing terribly. Such a cute dork.
I digress.
I'm pretty sure all the writers thought was "they are teenagers/young adults who solve mysteries with a talking dog" and they just splashed stereotype all over them and that was that. It's like they worked on the show, as a whole, and then the main characters found themselves put in the picture half-way through the entire process. And then Velma, Scooby and Shaggy were pulled out and slapped back near the end.
(this turned out longer than I wanted, my apologies. I think I need to rage about this, but where? .-.)