This isn't my observation, but this show works as a good study on how a narcissist perceives the world.
>>151937868>a good study on how a narcissist perceives the worldYou think so?
>few seconds into episode 1.jpgPoint taken.OP is correct.
I'm slightly more curious how these kinds of things got green lit. Do they just have no one in charge that could read the script and ask, 'why is your main character such an asshole?'And I mean for all productions of such quality.
>>151938870They’re scared to ask such a question because the writer would just screech about the asker trying to oppress her and get them fired.
>>151938870douchey MC's have been the "hot new thing" since Bojack and Rick and Morty a decade ago, and it takes a while to course correct.
>>151938870>Do they just have no one in charge that could read the scriptAs told to me by my professor in my screenwriting class "Producers hate reading and will just wanna skim to the parts that grab them to consider making it a show or movie"
>>151937868That's because it's made by narcissists. Mindy Kaling is notoriously egotistical and self-obsessed.
>>151939086I feel like it gets acknowledged more, usually. Even in Rick and Morty, most other characters in the show recognize Rick as fucked up, even if he is smart and all that. I can't think of another show off the top of my head where the main character is a total asshole and it's never acknowledged. This is also compounded because every other character in Velma loves her or finds her amazing, which just mindfucks anyone that's trying to watch it. It'd be like watching Rick and Morty but every side character loves Rick and is constantly saying how mature and thoughtful and handsome he is. It's madness.
>>151939086I don't think the studio fully knew they were greenlighting an asshole protag show, and I don't think the people who made it knew that's what they were making either. They thought they were making diverse, cynical, modern scooby-doo focused on a character that isn't Shaggy for once.Velma, as a show, does not fully believe that Velma, the character, is really all that bad, because they go out of their way to make every character around here equally stupid and mean or equally hateful, bitter, and petty. This is less surprising when you realize that Mindy Kaling is a one-trick pony and this is literally the same exact bit she's done for her entire career: Female character who is secretly amazing, but is surrounded by frustrating, childish assholes.
>>151937868I worked on this and I gotta say it was really weird how Mindy spent 8 hours each day in special room filled with mirrors just staring at herself and whispering "Me me me meeeee..."
