SF Video Review of Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated up on Fantastic Worlds
When I was a small child, I encountered the very first version of Scooby-Doo, namely Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! [sic}(1969-71), and watched it faithfully. As I got older, of course, I outgrew the series. The action was silly, the plots repetitive, the humor pure formula, and the characters dull and unbelievable.
The series remained popular and became a "franchise," with numerous revivals, including made-for-TV movies. Some of the revivals were interesting -- especially movies such as Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island -- but all failed in that none managed to establish believable characters against a consistent background. The series, precisely because of its popularity and hence value to corporate types who wouldn't have known good from bad writing, or cared if they did, would in any case be repeatedly rebooted and the premises changed each time to match the suits' delusions as to what made it fun or relevant.
I had long ago lost hope in the series: I think it may have been Scrappy who killed it for me, and the occasional good movies weren't enough to persuade me to invest any interest in the concept as a whole.
Then I saw Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated. And I was hooked.
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