>>76930660Well, What's New had a flashback to when the gang first adopted Scooby Doo, and it was animated in A Pup's art style, so presumably those two shows and Where Are You? were meant to form a loose chronology. And IIRC, the Hex Girls appeared in at least one episode of What's New, so that implies at least some of the DTV movies were considered canon to the shows, or maybe they were just another version of the same band like MI's - I never actually saw that episode. Since then, it seems they've let the movies be their own thing, while each show is its own self-contained thing.
Y'know, MI is kinda like the Daniel Craig Bond of the franchise, in that it's a pseudo-reboot to a franchise that was never really particularly concerned with continuity, but loved to homage its own history in spite of how improbably long it's been. They both have cute references to older material (the Aston Martin in Skyfall, the old monster museum in MI, Judi Dench as M, Alice May's
phony backstory) but are presented as being more or less a clean slate, as an excuse to bring new angles on characterization and darker themes to the series. The end result though, is that both series ultimately come full circle after a point - Skyfall basically ends with Bond in the same iconic status quo that Connery's Bond began with, and is going to take on a rebooted SPECTRE now. Similarly, MI ends with
the timeline being altered to remove much of the grimdarkness that permeated the series and set our heroes off to explore and solve mysteries in the light-hearted road trip adventures we all know from Where Are You? onward.
But Crystal Cove is still distinct from Coolsville - they don't even though in a reference to it being their childhood nickname for their hometown or anything. Ironically, Coolsville IS the name of their hometown in the live-action continuity. 
