I think there's some value to that argument. But it's basically not really a right wing or left wing take so much as it's a corporate profit motive chasing after trends that are themselves not well defined or thought out which is why they change constantly online.

With this show. I can't say much about it other than, I have no desire to watch it. I think they picked race swapped Velma just so they could pretend people were outraged about it. Now it's, utterly bizzare to race swap characters for no reason, but it's hardly a problem in and of itself so much as the indication that the writers are literally grasping at straws to find some way to make the show interesting.

It's Scooby Doo and has been done to death, poorly as well, a billion times. Who the fuck is the audience for this?

Like they did underwater Scooby Doo with a shark instead of a dog. They did five billion re-imaginings of the original with such boring bottom.of the barrel ideas already like, what if everyone were children. What if the monsters where actually totally real ghosts, and so on.

Now it's basically, what if we just do one of those corporate box checklist where we take the checklist we had before and do the opposite just cause we can.

If you want to redo Scooby Doo don't. The "teenagers solve mysteries" genre is done to death. So just make new characters, and if your plots and writing are good, people will watch it. But that's the thing, nobody can write for shit in Hollywood now, so they have no choice but to not only rehash old ideas, but rehash them in such boring and trite ways.

Pass on the torch to a new generation if you want it to be successful and you still want that "connection" to the old show, but for god's sake make new characters.