#the planespheric disk

[alphashley14]

The beginning of the end… 💔

Scooby Doo! Mystery Incorporated Season 1, Episode 25, ‘Pawn of Shadows’

[broke-on-books]

☕️

The SDMI portrayals of the gang

Ummm well so basically I liked sdmi as a kid, it was coming out right as I was kinda in the latter part of my scooby phase (not that I ever left that but) so it wasn't like a "childhood favorite" to me but like a scooby show that I'd seen the majority of, if slightly out of order, because cable tv and like being 10. And I liked it! I liked it then and I liked it when it got put up on Netflix and I finally watched the whole thing in order.

And so like I guess I havent always been an sdmi hater. Like I've seen it like 2/2.5 times the whole way through. I just.... watching sdmi doesn't really give me joy anymore I guess? Like there are moments that are funny or entertaining or whatever but it's just not some where watching it makes me happy or relaxed which are the emotions I like to get from scooby. Like scooby is my comfort show and sdmi just doesn't give me that feeling because I just start feeling sad at how mean the gang are to each other or annoyed at all the dumb relationship drama. Like I just want to beat every writer on that show with a frying pan and tell them "they're best friends, damn it! Have them act like it!".

I don't know, I just really hate how they have the gang members treat each other. They don't feel like friends to me there and that's always been a core of me enjoying the series and so without that... idk it just feels hollow like it isn't it to me. And it makes me angry or annoyed or sad while watching and that's now something I want to feel when watching scooby.

Also I dont like the art style. OR their characterizations really (excepting fred mostly my boy autistic af there and we love that for him). And I especially hate how some people will talk about sdmi like it's the pinnacle of all animation (which like I know you asked specifically about the gang portrayals so I won't go into that) BUT like 1) it's very much not and 2) "it's the first scooby with an overarching plot" it literally isn't but okay

Anyways I didn't really go into my specific opinions on the gang to much here other than "they're mean to each other and I don't like that" but thats really what it mostly boils down to. I'm just not a fan and I've decided to not waste my time being unhappy about it and not watch sdmi anymore (or talk about it too much really)

Like I feel like I very much have an sdmi timer. Like idk its draining to think about it as opposed to the rest of scooby where talking about it normally GIVES me energy. So while I have sdmi opinions I guess you generally won't see me get too far into them at a time.

I was gonna say something else what was it

Oh yeah like you can still see posts about sdmi if you go back in time on this blog (the planespheric disk is cool as fuck and I stand by any old doodles people may dig up) and like I have some great sdmi posts out there that I genuinely do love thinking about (fred machine my beloved <33333333) but the show itself just isn't my jam. Like I liked it but much of that like has kinda been beaten out of me by the stupid sdmi takes ive seen and just the inability to talk about other things by some (not you anon youre chill I promise)

So yeah. It's complicated.

[myguyjoe]

Prologue:

Ben 10: universe: Ben, Gwen and max are enjoying a picnic when a portal with a hand reaches through a portal, but anotherother portals open up which sucks Ben and Gwen into it, max quickly jumps in after then after grabbing a plumber blaster

Scooby dimension- the gang gets sucked into the mysterious portal after assembling the planespheric disk. Scooby retreats into the crystal cove with the disk

Some other dimension- other heroe

Weather wizard in 9-1-1 universe

Episode 1

[oblivious-aro]

Hit the nail right on the head with it feeling like it was written by insecure Scooby-Doo fans.

I remember liking it when I watched it over my little sister's shoulder as a teen, but thinking back the show consist of a lot of boring bland writing choices, and the good are far between and often not as good as I remember.

There are some banger jokes and fun plot points, but you have to slog through long stretches of generic Scooby-Doo plots that take themselves way to seriously. And also the gang kind of tend to be grumpy jerks. Who banned fun?

I remember Fred and Daphne being enjoyable, but it turns out it's really just Fred. His obsession with traps and obliviously upbeat attitude are charming, and they are a decent couple, but watching Daphne consistently try to be coi with Fred when he clearly isn't picking up on her hints is annoying. "If only someone would ask me out, sigh, hint hint Fred." JUST ASK HIM OR YOURSELF THIS IS TERRIBLE.

I don't think I need to go too in-depth about Velma and Shaggy.

As for the central mystery with the old ganf planespheric disk...well...let's just say my sister stopped watching the show (I think someing scared her), and I never felt compelled to go back and finish it, despite being very close to the end and having positive feelings about the show.

If you like Scooby-Doo and this is your favourite Scooby-Doo media, there's a good chance you either don't actually like Scooby-Doo, or you've gotta learn to be less secure about your interests.

Noticing that you've actually been really nice recently in your asks and your hot takes haven't made anyone angry for a fair few months, so here's an ask to permiss you to go fucking wild. Make a flame baity comment that'll lose you at least one follower. I love to see it, darling :)

Yeah okay sure!

Here's one-Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated is fucking garbage and I'm tired of pretending it's not

Grow up, get some taste, and just watch The Walking Dead or Supernatural if you wanna slob the knob of some boring lingering threads set on an ugly washed out slime green backdrop with tacky, shallow characters who snark enough to make you think you're watching kino if you shut your terminally online brain off.

[dogdogdog]

fun fact about me! I misremembered an alternate ending to mystery incorporated.

I first watched Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated when it first aired on tv (i was about 10 or 11) and i rewatched it about 2 months ago for the first time since. and right up until i actually finished the show the second time I could have sworn that I had the ending of it ingrained into my memory. However, when I actually watched it, i was surprised to find that the scenes i vividly remember did not exist. The elements needed to set them up were there. But they never happened. 

the divergence happens at season 2 episode 2, so the last canon thing i remember was Marcie (Hot Dog Water) joining the gang.

The Evil Entity didn’t exist 

the planespheric disk still led to a cursed treasure, but it wasn’t an evil entity.

“Old Crystal Cove” was an important part of the plot. The town like, set up a dam to drain the town and there was a thing about the planespheric disk needing to be placed in a very specific part in the town on a very specific time to reveal a clue. 

there was a lot to do with the clock tower? 

and then someone blew up the dam? and they had to escape? or else like, drown. 

so they had to escape. 

There was no universal reset, and no world ending monster.

Nibiru was the alignment of starts needed for the aligning of the planespheric disk mentioned above. 

that episode was so clear in my head. 

Marcie stayed joined with the gang. 

pereclies still recruits Brad and Judy to work for him, the two gangs fight back and forth with the disk pieces. (i actually remembered the man in the mirror (s2e21), so this still happened in my version) 

Scooby’s dog girlfriend Nova just died, she was in a coma for like, the end of the episode but im pretty sure she didn’t stay in one, she just died. 

I remembered most of a night on haunted mountain(s2e8) but the ending had some changes mainly centered around the lore and the Marcie stuff

i remember it ended with them leaving Crystal Cove but it wasn’t because of the universal reset, it was because they realized how shitty their town is. (and of course like, university stuff).

anyways. this probably obscures my opinion on the actual show but hey, i like mine better. I don’t know what amalgamation of shows these memories come from, all I know is that i was horrendously shocked when I was rewatching the show and I realized that it was way different than I remembered.