Scooby Doo Mysteries

While it's true that my stories are based off the original show, I'd like to move past that, and I'd like people to realize that I'm trying to create something new from the great idea that is Scooby Doo. The original show, let's be honest, was addressed at kids. Sure, kids like ghosts, zombies, monsters and stuff, but for most of the times, these monsters were anything but scary, and their entrapping was anything but realistic. The original show received much criticism, the harshest ones saying that animation was lame, the humor was not even funny, and the mystery was anything but surprising. Any case, the original show was focusing more on the comedy side, and the patterns of the mystery and the investigation were almost always the same.

Now, I'd like to outgrow the cradle from which my stories were born. Of course the characters will be the same (the gang), and of course there will be mysteries involved, but I'd like them to be darker and more twisted. I'd like to focus more on the horror side, instead of the comedy side. But of course Scooby Doo's character guarantees some fun so it's not like I'd totally leave that out. It's not like I'd make an Inspector Rex out of Scooby. But we are talking about a great dane here, with a good nose- which he is willing to use for some Scooby snacks. There is more potential in Scooby than just that idiotic puppy some think he is.

If you watched the original show, albeit the animation was indeed lame, in some episodes, the atmosphere was still pretty dark. That's what I'd like to capture by adding these dark prologues, epilogues, and descriptions. But, there is always a ray of hope. The gang itself is that ray: that mysteries can be solved, the good can win. However, if I want to be realistic, we have to acknowledge that's not always the case. Even Sherlock Holmes had some unfinished mysteries- which doesn't devaluate his genius: it just shows that Sherlock Holmes is human after all. Mystery Inc and the gang are just kids too.