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Question About Timeline?

posted 11 years ago by spikeindustries-778-555729
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Hey all, I just had a thought to put out there. I've read a lot of internet articles that state that SD:MI takes place as a prequel to the original Scooby Doo: Where Are You? episodes. I guess I'm just wondering if anyone knows where this idea came from? I mean, obviously...

1. In the very first few minutes of the show, Velma is showing off some past villains on one of the spooky tours, and states that they were all fake monsters

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53eToAsbCP4

2. In one episode, a girl pretends to be a daughter of Mr. Cardswell, aka "The Creeper", from the original show. There is even a flashback of sorts to when the gang met up with the creeper.

There are also several other references back to the older shows, but those were the 2 main ones that were out in the open. Given this, there's no way this show could be a prequel, so why do people say that it is? Just wondering if anyone has any thoughts on this. Thanks!

[–] spikeindustries-778-555729 11 years ago

Well, and then these references to other shows as well...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUPXPyCjAkc

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[–] Silentwisdomofpsycho 10 years ago

More nerdier men than I have done a better job at this than me. But I think you're missing a bigger picture there.

The studio responsible for Scooby had an odd sense of continuity. In that when they cared about it they used it, when they didn't it didn't matter. Which to the point shows sometimes referred to others as fiction and then actually crossed over with each other. The only way we as fans can apply actual rules to this is to assume it's all one continuity is that the multiverse/timestream is screwed.

If we go with that assumption, we can kind of cop out that nearly everything happened in one universe. This specific show ends up getting itself eliminated for a very hilarious reason.

This show has us under the interpretation that a straight forward reboot could happen to put the gang in a lighter world like the original. But if we assure their timestream is faulty back then, a straight wide reboot is all but forfeit. Making MI has to be an AU. I assume this is an embarrassment on the writer's fault as this aims to be the nerdier Scooby yet it seems to have not watched enough HB cartoons to be able to write it out. You do also noitce they never dared touch any of HB's reality warper characters, and the most powerful one they did Vincent Van Ghoul isn't even an actual warlock.

Now over on the Scooby wiki, they regard all the shows except this and Get a Clue as canon. (I never really watched that one but I assume it also has a game breaker, or people just hate it that much)

The movie lines and games are all clearly in their own little worlds too. But it's either admit nearly all of them are in one continuity with a faulty timstream, or say every time they got something wrong it's a new continuity, which you'll probably have hundreds. Your call.

[–] Argyle1968 10 years ago

There are also several other references back to the older shows, but those were the 2 main ones that were out in the open.

There were a number of them, as I recall. One more off the top of my head was Cry-baby Clown mentioning Mano Tiki Tia and Redbeard's Ghost at the Town Hall meeting in the third episode of season 2. Also the mention of Scrappy Doo in one of the episodes.

To answer your question about the timeline, though, I think it was explained in the last episode in the series, in the kids' conversation with Harlan Ellison at the end. Apparently, by destroying the evil entity, Mystery Inc. altered the timeline of history in such a way as to essentially wipe out the evil that had been done to and by everyone, thus effectively "voiding" all of that other Scooby Doo history. In other words, all of those mysteries, chases and monsters never actually happened, once the evil entity was destroyed. That's oversimplifying it, but is essentially the jist of it.

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[–] eddy0081 10 years ago

I always assumed that (a version at least) Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! Came before Mystery, Incorporated and that after the final episode you can segway nicely into (again a version of) The New Scobby-Doo Movies.

[–] greenargyle42 10 years ago

Also, did anyone notice that in the flashback, Alice May (The Creeper's daughter) is super young (maybe 5 or 6) when he is caught, but now she's the same age as the gang? And she vowed revenge against the people who caught her father, implying that it was the gang. So, did they catch him when they were super young? That's pretty extremely against cannon...

[–] eddy0081 10 years ago

That's because it's a clue that she's lying about being his daughter.

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