Question of the Week #71
[poll id=”29″]
If they made a Scooby-Doo series aimed at a older audience, would you watch it?
Likes
(0)Dislikes
(0)
(0)Dislikes(0)[poll id=”29″]
If they made a Scooby-Doo series aimed at a older audience, would you watch it?
(0)Dislikes(0)
Mature as in what?
@scoob16, Mature as in occasional (not frequent) sexual references (Fred waking up up next to Daphne or Shaggy waking up next to Velma), Violence and violent crimes (murder, arson, rape; although I don't think rape would work with the whole guy in a monster suit theme.) perhaps.
Mature themes doesn't have to equal to rape storylines.
They've tried to appeal to older audiences already to mixed success.
Mysteries that can be seen at an evening viewing like on The CW? Like that would happen.
I don't really think it would work. Scooby-Doo was invented as a children's television show. If it were made into an adult-friendly style series, it would become a parody of the original. Have you ever seen the Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law episode that features the gang as Birdman's clients? It's brilliant, but it's a parody at most. And I don't think if they took a serious route, we'd be able to take it serious. Mystery Incorporated was incredible, (I think most of you would agree) but if you tried to "adult" it up more, it just wouldn't work in my opinion.
They did SDMI, which is about as serious as it could ever be. It had violence, death and a few sexual scenes (Infamously that scene where Shaggy and Daphne are laying on a couch together). And as much as I liked that show I didn't prefer it over previous incarnations.
Going for a mature/adult series would be problematic and a lot of the classic Scooby stuff wouldn't be quite right in a mature environment. I mean in a show where people are murdered and having sex would a talking mystery solving dog really fit into that world all that well? At this point the real question should be would you watch Scooby Doo if he were shoehorned into a different genre? And for me I'd say no, I watch Scooby Doo for the comedy.
I guess that's not completely a definite no. Perhaps there is some magic formula to make a mature SD work, but for now I just don't see it working overly well. SDMI was as much exploration into mature territory as I want to see.
Ew, not that mature... I don't want a CSI Scooby... I'd prefer it if they stick it to the teenage drama.
The "teenage" drama is about as *mature* as Scooby can get. As I said, to mixed success.
A show with Scooby and the gang solving murders doesn't have to be serious like CSI. Haven't any of you ever watched Psych or Monk? The crimes can be violent but those two shows were also comedies as well as mysteries.
But Psych and Monk is a different type of comedy than what Scooby Doo uses. So in order to fit Scooby into that genre they'd have to change a lot of his antics.
New Scooby movie on 19 August.
Scooby Doo and the Frankencreepy.
True, Psych is a different kind of comedy. But in terms of silliness it's not that far off. I could see Scooby-Doo fit into that IMO.
I'd thought the 52-episode Mystery Incorporated series was aimed at a more mature audience than anything before. There are tons of pop cultural references, the gang experiences strong emotional feelings towards one another, some truly frightening monsters appear, etc. and the overall atmosphere is irony-noir. Isn't having Harlan Ellison as a guest voice mature enough? I bet guest voice actors like Jeffrey Combs, Lewis Black, Viveca Fox, and Florence Henderson weren't hired on to lure the tweens, either.