Veronica Mars

i'm not sure how anyone in 2010 could still regard vampires and teens as a positive

you'll want to avoid monk though, they take even longer to solve the central mystery. and you'll totally want to avoid homicide - they never solve it!

just finished the first season of this, too -- thought it was pretty entertaining. but the "twists" there at the end kinda amounted to making the show a lot less subversive/dark than what it started out with -- the rape, the incest, etc, all turned out to be kind of warm and cuddly, amazingly enough. also sort of weird that lily was depicted as a horrible human being throughout the season ...

Everyone was pretty much depicted as horrible, save Wallace, Wallace's mom, Mac and Veronica's popular blonde friend. I kind of wish they didn't solve anything. "Forget it, Veronica. It's 09-er Town"

wow came in here to post about the new Harry Hamlin/Lisa Rinna reality tv show to find that the thread has been flooded with RONGness. what the hell is up with ILX lately???

This seems to be the implicit theme of any show about rich kids.

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, October 5, 2010 6:29 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this show is also emphatically not just about rich kids & frequently is aware of & confront class issues

which tbh was one of the best things abt it imo

I just thought it was sort of pointless to bring up the rape in the first ep if she wasn't going to follow through til the end. And in the end it only took an ep to solve something I would think would be even more damaging/horrific than the murder of your best friend. Just not needed, and really did reveal the on-the-fly nature of even that first season. I mean, I'm not even sure they knew what to do with the missing mom story! In the last ep, she she's basically back just long enough for Veronica to kick her out and write her off.

This is, like, so stupid as to be beyond words. Go hone your challops somewhere else, bud.

3rd season of this show might be my favorite TV thing ever.

amster you crazy

ya well S1 > S2 >>> S3 >>>>>>>>>> most everything else on tv anyway, so he does sort of have a point.

no, i'm not crazy. though admittedly i took a 2-year break between finishing s2 and starting s3, so maybe i just forgot how good previous seasons were? but seriously the episode in s3 with the guy searching for his prostitute soulmate was just shockingly good.

most episodes of this show have SO. MUCH. PLOT. not that this is by definition a good thing (see most soap operas) but it's usually handled so fleetly and deftly. i mean i can't believe the shit they pack into 45 minutes.

all the veronica mars fans i know irl think season 3 was awful which seems crazy to me also. i'm apparently the only person i know who thinks season two was best (and it's pretty far ahead imo). season 3 there's some definite cost cutting and heavy retooling on the go, anything to keep it on the air. plus tv shows set in high school always have such a awkward time transitioning to college for some reason. such a great character though. i wonder what that fbi fourth season would have been like. tempted to watch all the party downs again to see everybody pop up.

I always liked season 3, though watching episodes of it again recently I've found it somewhat wanting. It's alright, but it's not as good as the first two seasons.

there are some really great moments in the third season but also long stretches where they seemed uncertain of what to do w/ a # of characters (mac, logan, piz) & so didnt really do anything at all

i did think the switch to more self-contained episodes worked really well, and towards the end of s3 the show got really good again

I started season three with some hesitation four days ago and I'm already 2/3 through. Why oh why did I think it was so terrible? Too bad about the movie dying. Too bad / so sad.

just watched the pilot on netflix STREAMING VIDEO and lolllllll at this bullshit show

I will probably watch every ep by tomorrow or something tho

watch the first three or four before making a snap decision imo, but ymmv.

just watched the pilot on netflix STREAMING VIDEO and lolllllll at this bullshit show

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, February 7, 2011 4:48 PM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lollllll @ u imo >:[

I remember when I was a kid they used to be a promotional commercial for UPN where they had a bunch of kids dancing and jumping around shouting UPN all upbeat phonetically like "YEAHHHH OOP PEN!"

uh oh, you are TRIFLING with the WRONG MAMA-JAMA.

i REALLY disliked the first episode of this show, i was all "i can't believe how horrible logan is, i'll never like this character." then at the end of the season he was like my favorite character.

I started watching this the other day and like this show so far! I'll probably watch the first season by the end of the week.

Yeah awesome show! Jealous that you only discovered this now.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/559914737/the-veronica-mars-movie-project

guys

It would also be a semi-Party Down movie given all of the VM actors that were on both shows. I would like to donate money if I could add the caveat that Piz cannot be in it.

I was watching an episode recently on cable and was surprised to Jessica Chastain on an episode, forgot she was on there.

I bet Piz is working for Buzzfeed.

Piz: everything that is wrong with this world, basically.

cute but i don't a believe for a sec that this will fly

In just the couple of minutes it took me to skim through the pitch, they'd made another $20k.

Today is bad, but I might try to give $25 at least

I was skeptical until (like Johnny Fever) I noticed it went up about $25k in the three minutes or so it took me to read through all the options.

They're already over $300k now; I can almost see them making their goal by the end of the day tomorrow.

man, i had completely blocked piz from my memory

Lucky you!

close to $475K now!

who's piz again?

The TV show never got released on region 2 dvD (UK) I think. I was looking for something awesome to rent for my o/h when he was housebound but I'd have to stump up import prices :(

I forgot about Piz, but I don't remember disliking him particularly.

Weevil must be in this, obvs.

Piz was a corny indie fuck from Veronica's year at college.

close to $475K now!

― smh on the water (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, March 13, 2013 10:57 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

900

damn

Over halfway there already...

damn this is moving fast

Amanda Palmer will be grinding her teeth with envy.

17000 people averaging $70 apiece.

I need to come up with some kind of Kickstarter scam scheme product.

xpost -- don't even invoke her name, she'll find a way to be on the soundtrack

That is true.

I need to come up with some kind of Kickstarter scam scheme product.

ILX: the Kickstarter

Instead of pledging money, you send Buffy dvds.

Would pay for Party Down, would not pay for V. Mars, which fell off hard after season one.