Veronica Mars

I wonder if watching the first season on DVD, one after the other, colored my view of it - the writing was tighter and more cohesive, not too many characters got in the way. This year the mysteries have been boring, too many b-plots get in the way (girlfriend in a coma, etc.) and not enough screen time for Wallace.

That said, I thought last night's episode was the best one in a real long time. All of the various subplots got an interesting scene or two, the plot-of-the-week had some twists (even if it wasn't all that interesting), and look at all the characters who showed up. Cordelia, Harry Hamlin, the lawyer guy, Vinny Van Lowe.

i am trying very hard not to read all of this; try with me.

i actually really liked the twelve angry men episode. just me?

season two doesn't seem so bad until i remember that the first season had the poker game / party stabbing / echolls suicide where this had the limp, limp 'donut run' deal and all the slightly inconclusive feeling stuff leading out of it. it's still, uh, 'highly watchable'. but if in season 3 they really go with having veronica go to college in her hometown (most hatable american tv readymade of them all) i very much doubt i will be able to carry on.

I'm still enjoying this, and the guessing game of how everything's going to be resolved, although I'm guessing that the guessing will turn out to be more fun than the real ending. And I'm still worried that it's all going to be down to the secret society (and that the sheriff is a member and has framed the baseball bloke). The secret society even had a cameo the episode after I had the thought, apparently just to remind the audience that they still existed (speaking of which, continuity weirdness? Last year they were ultra secret and Veronica had never noticed the school's logo had a trident, etc, this year they streak at the school fayre and Veronica's going "oh those wacky secret society types, it just wouldn't be the school fayre if they didn't run through it naked every year").

So where is Neptune, precisely? Between LA and San Diego, in "Balboa County" ie Orange County? Last season Keith was a big Padres fan, now it seems there's another mysterious MLB club somewhere in the vicinity. And do OC'ers really go to San Diego more than LA, which the kids in this show seem to do? Did they shut Camp Pendleton down, turn it into a beach community?

seeing the arrested development guys was funny (thought george michael was gonna turn out to be the rapist, for a sec!!)

I really love the lawyer guy

this is still fun

have last nights but not seen yet

although i may have been blinded two weeks ago by michael cera - i mean, he wasn't even all that good, but, like, michael cera!

it was still very funny, though.

they were just cycling through all poss baddies (w/ the weevil and w/ the gay radio kid and the pwt sister/family etcs)

despite the varying pace, ep to ep, it seems to be managing to juggle quite a few threads OK

the kendall casablancas revelation is a bit of a weird one. makes you wonder why she was hanging around w/ logan and desperate w/ duncan and stuff, when she has the fitzpatricks behind her, etc

I'm still enjoying it

wonder what happens when they graduate

They waited too long to wrap up too many loose ends, some things read like major deus ex machinae. Unless the season finale is like four hours long or something and then it's all good.

Did I just overestimate how close Wallace and Veronica are - what's with the "I'll miss you" speech in the hall?

this season did fuck up the timing of the main arc, but this episode was decently suspenseful, so I'm hoping the finale will be, too.

And yeah, just being more demonstrative, and then they're presumably going to see each other at graduation/parties and during the summer.

aw, graduation parties. i just had a burst of nostalgia. it's true, it was a little dramatic, which might have been hedging of bets in case the show doesn't get renewed.

I sort of think that the end of the episode was Veronica's dream, from the moment Keith shows up alive until the end. it was just so bizarre.

Meg's parents hired the guy to find Woody when it became apparent that he was involved in her death. Pretty straightforward.

Just a thoroughly satisfying conclusion to a lot of plot arcs, no matter how stupid the Echolls trial happened to be.

Does this mean that Duncan's baby has the clap?

Too many threads wrapped up too quickly (as though this finale was for the series?!?! re: VM no longer being lock for making the CW schedule next year), which diluted the OMGness of thee BIG REVEAL. But I refuse -- nay, STRONG REFUSE to believe that Keith might have bought it and that the ending "THE MARS ARE GOING TO DELAWARE NYC!!" was a dream, even if the cinematography was washed out like her actual dream sequences in the episode. But (jone) dayam, V's heartbreak at the airport equals ~*tear*~

I struggle to care what was in Kendall's briefcase, but I just can't. Still, I loved the finale.

What would prevent them from being friends? Little Dick is not his brother's keeper.

I'm almost disappointed they didn't kill him, really. It seems like that would be a radical move for a series like this. Parents die, but never ones so integral to the series and so connected to the main character - it would be like having the Cohens suddenly die on the OC.

xp - I didn't think about the public linking teh Guttenberg to the bus (only the kiddie-touching), but there's still something unexplained about that situation. Why did they bail out the crazy guy who attacked Woody's daughter?

It didn't work out too well for Eight Simple Rules....

Keith and Wallace are the spiritual core of the show, imo. Killing either of them off (or getting rid of them) would be a huge mistake on RT's part.