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maciver6969 t1_j4d4971 wrote

Reply to comment by DancesWithChimps in Mindy Kaling did not create or write Velma. Why is she taking so much heat? by [deleted]

and she had been promoting the fuck out of it too. If you spend that much time hyping something it better have something worth hyping. Shit writing, shit acting, and just horrible cringe everywhere.

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DancesWithChimps t1_j4d5511 wrote

So she signed a contract obligating her to do promotion? Still sounds like she chose to put her name on, except now she legally chose to do so

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maciver6969 t1_j4d9wj9 wrote

Yes, some are obligated to promote, but at the level she was hyping it was above normal promotion. There was shit on hbo with it, shit on youtube, her interviews, her "love" for the writing and more.

It is hard to look at her own words and see how anyone thought this was going to do anything besides crash and burn. Especially since they took a show we ALL know and changed damn near everything that we loved about the characters and make them into hot garbage with a shit sundae.

She literally said she loved the writing and how the characters have changed. And it was painful, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. The whole thing has been cringe so far, writing was so bad, characters are so bad, and she LOVED it. That is why she is getting the backlash.

99% of the backlash has been about the writing, acting and characters unlike when the asshole attack due to sex or sexual orientation. Nope it is fair to say she pissed directly into a hurricane on this one. MAYBE they can save it with a season 2 that shows Velma in a coma with the shit in season 1 a nightmare or something and bring in someone who at least WATCHED the original Scooby Doo shows...

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frooglybear t1_j4fi9t8 wrote

I'm not sure why you are being downvoted. When she signed the contract the project was likely still new. They probably had the diversity stuff out in the open, but most of the writing and animation would have been unknown to Mindy at the time of signing.

Despite the poor writing she is sticking with it. Maybe she doesn't have a good way out of the contract. It does seem like she's become the scapegoat imo.

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