Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-252417-20150721124335/@comment-252417-20150724231339

SonicFan wrote: I knew Daphne being with Starchild was a love triangle waiting to happen. That is what happens when you have a crush on a band member. That's the one thing that put me off, because I didn't want to have to go through with that whole tedious, awkward jealousy thing that we're always subjected to because the people at WB think we want to see this, when most of us don't. But most of the time, a studio will go the opposite direction.

Fred did get his own love interest in Shandi, and that was nice (better, in fact), but it wasn't enough to counter-act it.

Love the part where Daphne kissed Fred. Shows she stills cares about him and this is coming from a Fraphne shipper. I don't want to spoil this, but it would've been more touching if this hadn't happened after getting a snog from Starchild. Like her peck on the cheek could possibly make up for that snog. When she kissed Fred on the cheek in Cyber Chase, it was a lot better because she hadn't received a snog from a rockstar beforehand (and didn't tell him off for doing it).

They can't do an entire movie about Daphne and Fred being in love, and then have her fantasize after, about being with the likes of John Cena and Starchild, and anybody else. It makes her come off as a floozy. Sure, this is a time when attractions are allowed to happen (in the cartoons), and Daphne and Fred aren't official, but it's the principal of the creative team doing Stage Fright, and some of those same people making a mockery of it afterwards (because WB has the power to approve this). It doesn't portray Daphne in a positive light. You could say the same about Fred (when he makes a flirtatious comment, he's given bad looks for it), but it's not nearly as bad as Daphne (who doesn't get any bad looks for anything she does).

But then again, it's this whole tedious love side they have to constantly do. We know they like each other, they know they like each other, their friends know they like each other (Fred didn't exactly hide this to Velma); it's like it's supposed to be this way, and we're supposed to just accept it. Stage Fright should've officially put them together (and built on that afterwards), but instead they were just playing us (as they had every intention of doing, and that isn't fair to us or the integrity of Daphne and Fred). It makes it look bad for the two when Abracadabra-Doo and Camp Scare already made strong (and inevitably empty) hints that they were togther, and therefore made it look like they're basically cheating on each other (in the innocence that it has to be because in the end, this isn't a teenage drama, which Mystery Incorporated tried to be a little bit). It's great and everything for the older viewers, maybe, but it's a little inappropriate for kids. It's teaching them that it's okay to flirt with someone to make the person you're really interested in, jealous. That's okay for shows that specifically are supposed to do this. But not Scooby-Doo. I think a line has been crossed, and it should be fixed.

That's what you call a rant (and the worst of it all, WB feed on our disapproval (they probably know what we think, I can't imagine they don't know) and do more).