Not really a two-part episode, but the last two episodes are on tonight starting an hour earlier than usual. Adjust your recording devices accordingly.
I don’t want to hijack, but I know that the show is going off the air real soon. I’ve seen about 10 minutes of Veronica Mars, and it’s not too bad.
I just wanna show love for Kristen Bell. Rowr.
So help me Rob Thomas, this had better not end in a cliff-hanger!
Only small ones.
Overall, a solid season ending pair of episodes. It’s pretty clear from the finale where next season would have headed, had there been one that wasn’t a timeskip to VM: FBI. Not the way to send off a series but with the CW holding off on cancellation news so long it would’ve been rather difficult to wrap everything up and not leave the show anywhere to go next season.
Good that we got to see everyone in at least one of the last two eps.
Even with a timeskip I could see Veronica coming back to Neptune next season to see the direct consequences of her actions. Neptune is going straight to hell because of her. I have no doubt that Keith would get off since there isn’t evidence against him and the other investigation is closed, but corruption is going to run rampant (to say the least). Veronica as a fed trying to clean up the corruption would have been an interesting story arc…
Due to my stupidity, I managed to record only the audio (I get teh CW off a x.2 digital subcarrier. My DVR isn’;t normally hooked to my set top box. I hooked up the audio OK, but screwed up the video cable)
Brian
Sigh. I was resigning myself to know more VM, especially as the last three episodes kinda sucked. But this one was so perfectly Veronica, with all the revenge and gadgets and the weebles wobble joke. Now I’m really going to miss it!
So here’s how we left things:
- Logan is likely to get whacked.
- Veronica is likely to lose her internship and will certainly lose her scholarship.
- Weevil is going to go crazy with that ID card box.
- Dick will enroll in Adult Siblings of Criminal Masterminds therapy.
- Jake will remember that, oh yeah, Veronica helped my son gain custody of my granddaughter and flee the country, and will drop the charges against Keith.
- Keith will lose the election anyway. Has already lost it, in fact.
- Veronica will get soaked.
Did I leave anything out?
I wondered idly if we’d see Lillie’s ghost again tonight. We sort of did (the portrait). Nice way to tie the whole series together, I thought.
I thought this was a great episode, particularly tying in the Kanes from season 1 and the class conflict motif.
You’d think Jake would have some positive feelings towards Veronica. After all, she was the one who tracked down his daughter’s killer, and nearly got herself killed doing so. Plus she seriously helped out his son. Although with that level of emotion involved, it’s hard to expect anything approaching rationality.
Yeah, you forgot that the Fitzpatricks and 09’ers are going to run Neptune with the complacency of their best buddy the sheriff.
Veronica isn’t likely to lose her scholarship or her internship. The video will raise some eyebrows but it won’t cost her anything and none of the illegal actions she took are likely to have direct repercussions on her (especially with the blackmailer’s dream hard drive).
Jake isn’t involved with the charges against Keith; that’s the DA. Jake at the end of the episode has apparently let his complaint go without comment, but the possible evidence tampering by Keith is something the DA would still be angry about. Like I said in my previous post, there’s no evidence against him and the DVR could have been mishandled by anyone so that would likely just go away after an investigation but not soon enough for the election.
I think she is likely to lose both. Each of those things can easily be done behind the scenes by any number of people from “The Castle,” with Veronica’s having no way of knowing exactly who did it. Unless she wants to scattershot her way through the entire blackmail list, which would be entirely against her nature, she’s screwed.
I think you underestimate the potential of mutually assured destruction. A simple “Screw with me and the whole thing is public!” means that any members of the Castle would have to be suicidally foolhardy to try to manipulate things against Veronica. As Veronica said in this episode, “After all these years you still haven’t learned to be afraid of me?” The people who would care enough to destroy Veronica are the ones who would know the high likelyhood that they’d bring down everyone in the secret brotherhood by taking those actions.
Veronica is happy with walking away and Kane is happy with walking away (perhaps taking a some satisfaction in hurting Keith). If Kane went to his fraternity and told them that Veronica had all of their secrets then someone might be stupid enough to try something but he isn’t likely to go around advertising how he’s endangered all of them.
But what I’m saying is that the sort of low-level machinations that would be required to get her scholarship or her internship revoked could be so easily made to seem to have no involvement from an outside force that Veronica would have to behave wildly out of character to go after the entire Castle. A quick phone call to someone placed at the FBI and there are any number of things from Veronica’s own background which can be used to reverse the internship decision. Her background includes multiple arrests, suspicion of obstruction of justice in the Duncan Kane search, a recommendation from a mentor who turned out to be a murderer, and probably lots of other stuff that I’m forgetting. Any one of those things would disqualify her from an internship, in fact, that she got the internship at all is a big stretch of credulity. A letter to the effect of “an error in your background check leads us to rescind the offer” and she has no way of knowing what was behind it. Is she really, based on what we know of her, going to try to bring down hundreds of powerful men with no proof of any sort that any of them are connected to the problem?
Um… yeah. That’s *exactly * how Veronica does things. She goes on her hunch, and she’s frequently wrong. I love Veronica, but she has (quite properly, IMO) a chip on her shoulder about the power structure in Neptune, she flies blind an awful lot, and she just as often lucks into the right answer as investigates into it.
Now, would she be willing to risk her father’s life over it? Of course not. If she stopped to think about it for a second. Which history shows us she usually doesn’t.
Right, but what I’m saying is not that she would suspsect The Castle and take everyone down, but that The Castle can easily bring about the loss of her internship and scholarship without it looking like there’s any involvement. I don’t think that even VM would, at getting a letter revoking her internship because of a claimed error in her background check, make the leap to “The Castle did it” and then start a campaign against hundreds of people. Yeah, if she knew they were behind it she would but I’m saying she wouldn’t know it or think it.
I enjoyed the banter they had going when they arrived at the beach, including the declaration that “Rob Thomas is a whore!”
Last night’s episodes really were like classic VM. Where has THAT show been all season? Argh!
Goodbye, show. You were awesome, and I will always enjoy my DVDs.
My reaction to this one was
ARRRGH!!!
It was the kind of episode that made me remember why I loved this show. It would have been a great end of season, but thanks to CW's jerking arround, I'll never get to find out how Veronica gets herself out of this mess ( and a huge mess it is).
Maybe they could pre-empt an episode of skankycat dolls for a tv movie that wraps it all up.This episode was an utter mess, just like the rest of the season.
Having the plot initially revolve around a sex tape of VM is silly; PIs don’t solve cases about their own dirty laundry, they solve cases about other people’s dirty laundry.
Having it then stray into some kind of Da Vinci code territory seems just a bit much for VM and her dad. I am intrigued by a secret society that enlists roundball players, though.
Okay, so bitch, bitch, bitch. I will say that the dialogue, at least, at times was a return to the series’ earlier form. So was the class consciousness that initially underpinned the whole series, and gave VM the chip on her shoulder. Too little, too late, though.
It’s really a shame this show never found its audience early on. It could have been a contender.
Hey, this was the second time Veronica’s had to deal with a secret society! It makes sense that if there’s a well-established college society, dumbass high school boys might want their own version.
“Say, ‘repressed homosexuality!’”
If I had mad PI skillz and a sex tape of me got loose on the internet, you can bet I’d drop everything else until I found out who did it. This time it’s personal, etc.
I don’t understand this criticism at all. VM has on a number of occassions investigated mysteries that involve her in some way. Like tracking down her mother. Or tracking down who roofied her. Or, you know, figuring out who murdered her best friend.