Veronica Mars

well, the bizarreness is more to do with the characters. wallace makes sense, he got a full scholarship. but for two seasons both veronica and mac both have the "can't wait to graduate and blow this town" attitude, and after all the shit that has happened to logan in neptune, why the hell would he want to go to college there?

that said, i don't really care. logan is a dickweed, but he's great to watch. and mac is v. crushworthy.

I'll forgive a little deus ex machina when the other option is to throw out 90% of the cast and start out with just Veronica and Keith (actually, throw in Wallace and I'd be OK with that).

The new version of the theme song suuuuuuuuucks.

Me and my friends all had grand plans of escaping where we're from, but we didn't for a couple years. I don't think it's all that strange. Besides, Veronica's San Diego State money was spent on her mum. I miss the LeBaron.

The show plugged Top Model? ^_^

Slash vibes between Logan and DICK? 0_o

The Piz is very 'straight from the OC' isn't he?

Whether the shorter, simpler arcs are good or bad, I dunno - time will tell. If it's dumbed down at all, boo. The biggest mis-step from S1 to 2 was making Wallace less of a featured player, but maybe that's reversing itself.

lucky back as teaching assistant

theme tune back as bad version of theme tune

the unsolved rape stuff back as the unsolved rape stuff

logan

no cliff

etc

About Veronica being at this college, it wasn't made entirely clear, but I got the impression she traded in her school scholarship (the Kane scholarship? Or was that a different one?) for the chance to see Aaron get found guilty. She's talking a lot about how she needs to pass an exam to stay in the lead in the episode, then she skips the exam to go to the trial. So I'm guessiaccept the one the woman in the jury episode was talking about. And nevermind Neptune, why is Logan even at college at all?

I didn't like the theme tune either, and the credits were only about 4 minutes in. That feels wrong somehow.

I really can't believe that they had Keith buy Veronica an SUV.

Fucking up the theme is like the signal move--it's like even that assurance of pep has been chopped up.

The first 15 mins did sag with exposition, but that's inevitable, introducing new people, locations, etc.

Since their doing the three mystery arcs, I think some might be thrown by a new rhythm. There isn't as much Veronica and Dad just mucking about--more fioreshadowing of some big badnesses to come.

This one ep packed ALOT into 40 air minutes: the expo, dad's friend's deal, Kendall (maybe) getting shot, Dad getting shot, Dick all bloodied up after doing fuck knows what, about which you KNOW Logan is gonna do something that will screw up him and Veronica. And we haven't even gotten to whatever awful thing happened to Weevil.

I'd say that's some well-stocked entertainment.

yeah not sure what happened in the end though

liam had hired other PI to find kendall/cormac obviously but it is unclear who cormac shot

he said kendall wasn't such a good judge of character: he thinks keith led liam there and then cormac had to shoot liam/he said kendall wasn't such a good judge of character: he shot kendall? suppose the 2nd doesn't really make much sense

weird though

Hi RJG!

so cormac shot kendall because she could finger him for more jailtime?

and that was keith's gun he had? wonder why he let keith go out instead of just shooting them both in the house. so there would be a story I suppose

hi mary!

v sad

LIES!

it was not particularly good, but season openers are hard. and college just doesn't work as well as high school as allegory-for-life.

and it's true, it didn't look or feel noir-y enough. the tone was way too sunny for most of it. also, I hate Mac. am I supposed to like Mac? that comment she made about her roommate having a tip jar + being mean to her perfectly nice adoptive parents because they don't have money=she sucks.

I'm hoping this I-don't-give-a-shit-about-anything vibe Veronica's giving off is going to crumple soon, but I don't want it to be this Piz guy who makes it happen.

The backstage part was true!

Also, redheaded sorority chick is hot.

The Stanford Experiment story was nicely done, but it felt forced a bit.

And am i the only one who doesn't care much for Keith story so far?

The credits started too soon, and new version of the song sucks. Actually i liked till the very last bit where it kinda ruins the whole thing for you.

Also, I love the Battlestar Galactica references.