I was introduced to Dynomutt: Dog Wonder thanks to the USA Network “Cartoon Express” anthology block of old cartoons, back when TV networks would still air shows for kids rather than shoving them over to a handful of kids channels. One of HB’s parody superheroes and the rare case of one lasting a full episode length instead of a series of shorts (which also included many early superhero shows from Hanna-Barbera), it was still a good, fun superhero series and I really liked it.
That’s why I was disappointed by Mask Of The Blue Falcon. For all the love letters that show up in the movie, NOT seeing Scooby-Doo and company hang out with the real Blue Falcon and Dynomutt in what should have been a reunion just annoys me. I wanted to see everyone joining forces again, like they did in Dynomutt’s show and was denied that as the people making the movies were doing everything they could to retcon away anything remotely paranormal from the Scooby franchise, including The 13 Ghosts Of Scooby-Doo and the original Zombie Island movie that set fake and real monsters closely together. I don’t understand it myself.
In the following video, produced by YouTube channel Scoobytopia, we get a long history of Blue Falcon and Dog Wonder’s various crossovers with Scooby and a few bonus ones just for fun.
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How Diversity Writing Is Ruining Diverse Characters
If you think I’m somehow “against diversity”, read this article. And this one. And this one here, Oh, here’s another one. Want more? I have them. My host will love the ad revenue and I will prove that not only am I in favor of diversity but I grew up with it. Modern writers, either due to their own egos or their own worldview, only remember something old existed if they can convince Hollywood to make their movie and the script they’ve been pushing can rename characters to give it a squint connection to the prior work (as in if you squint you can see how this is totally that old thing on the surface even if the details don’t match up at all). The reason I don’t fully, and note I said fully, subscribe to the “looks like me” mentality is that I have connected to many characters who don’t look like me, even if you lump all white people together. Black characters, women, Asians, robots, aliens, dogs…they resonate with me because of how I see elements of my life story and personality in those characters.
That said, I do understand wanting to see someone of your race and gender doing all the cool things and being awesome doing it. And if that’s what was happening this article would be about the story behind some old song or a pro-Superman article or something. I’m sure I’ve written on this before but I’m still seeing it and I’m still driven to mention that the METHOD at which writers, showrunners, directors, and so forth are actually HURTING the cause of diverse characters rather than helping. You’re shooting yourselves in the foot. Let’s break it down.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on May 9, 2023 in Animation Spotlight, Comic Spotlight, Movie Spotlight, Streaming Spotlight, Television Spotlight and tagged commentary, Hollywood, Hollywood versus fans, representation, writing tips.
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