#is it useful to kno that we are unreal if the stakes we face are no more or less real to us having learned this???

[stargod]

U kno

Im not a super smart or super well-researched person, but sometimes i enjoy sitting down and Thinking about scooby doo.

Im not totally sure why, but Scooby was one of my favorite tv programs up into my teens. And every once in a while ill see something about what a grungy scooby reboot or "more realistic" scooby franchise would look like a la that one supernatural episode or the new powerpuff girls reboot et cetra. And im not sure why, but its always urked me that daphne, fred and velma are constantly framed as not Believing in monsters, esp. Velma. Like thats how theyve been framed in the show right from the start, so ive never been sure Why it bothered me. But i think i might have figured it out whilst i was thinking of the lach ness movie the other day.

Again. I didnt go back and watch or reread the movie transcript, at all. this is all based on my spotty 15 year old memories, so im not sure Any of it is 100% accurate but bare with me, here.

See, one of the things that Makes scooby doo is that As often as not, there Is a mythical creature in the show. For instance. In the lach ness movie. They catch the lach ness and its a robot, but then near the end we, the audience, get to See Nessy Watching all this go down. Scooby doo has never been especially anti-supernatural, its a kids show after all- they dont want to Kill the magic. And then it occurred to me. Of Course Everyone in the gang believes in the supernatural. The Main Character Of The Show is A Talking Dog. Sure every angsty bitch and their mom has had the thought that scooby doesnt Actually talk or only shaggy can hear him because ~*Drugs*~. But if we focus on just the original show, even If the monster ends up being a person Every Episode, Of Course not single member in the gang Wholly denies the possibility of the supernatural- They Travel The World Solving Mysteries with the help of a Talking Dog!!!

So even if, every episode, Velma says "theres no such thing as ghosts" she can still be So incredibly non-plussed by the concept of Real Magic because she Works with a Talking Dog!!!

Like daphne, freddy and velma all obviously have a healthy dose of scepticism because theyre the foils and the straight men of the show and also because they Solve Mysteries for a living, but even when theyre proven wrong in, like, Every Other Movie, and they discover Real Magic, theyre never incredibly overwhelmed by it because!!! Duh! Just because Theyre in the business of Unmasking Fakers, they still live in a world with talking dogs, of course its not beyond the realm of possibility to run into the Actual Supernatural.

Anyway this has been a long and repetitive way of me once again saying Fuck You to everyone involved in the script of the supernatural scooby doo episode. The kids are not fucking stupid and they deal with real magic every other movie, theyre not gonna have a brain hemorage over your incredibly unexceptional mayonaise men 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄