I’m not really sure what possessed me but I decided to check out Veronica Mars the other day and it is quite the addicting show. Within the three days of watching it I’m already done with the first season and half of the second season. I had a paper to write which means I had a lot of free paper writing time set aside to watch TV with. I’m
the
worst
procrastinator
ever
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But anyway, it’s a really fun show. I love the whole light hearted film noir-iness and Veronica kind of reminds me of Lindsey Weir from Freaks and Geeks. Although, the show could use at least one family that isn’t broken up.
One thing I don’t understand though is the sheriff. He’s completely incompetent, corrupt and just a plain ass. The one and only human thing I’ve seen him do so far is releasing Veronica when she gets caught at the house of the child abuser.
Veronica Mars was really great for the first season, then pretty good for the last two. I think Kristen Bell fits perfectly as that character and I find it hard to accept her in other roles now.
The second season, unfotunately, didn’t have as compelling of a mystery for Veronica and the show suffered a bit for it. By the time they got to the third, the show got all shuffled around and there were smaller, shorter mysteries for her to solve, which was unfortunate.
I don’t know, I kind of liked splitting the big season mystery arc into shorter chunks. It prevented the formula from getting stale. There were other problems with season three, though, that didn’t have to do with the mysteries.
I loved that show too, even though I think it was intended for viewers who are younger and more female than I am. Three years is about the right length of run for a show like this, though, IMO.
Exactly. A recurring theme in the show is that those in power do not actually want law enforcement, and look down upon the Mars family for trying to get to the truth behind everything. Except, of course, for those times when they personally need something. Then they come to Mars with hat in hand and act like bosom buddies…at least until their case is solved. Then it’s back to the shunning.
I thought it started off fantastic but gradually went downhill after season 1. In any case, I’d still watch it just to see the smokin’ hot Kristen Bell deliver her sassy lines.
Agree. I saw the little teaser pilot (like 15 minutes or whatever) for the Veronica Mars as and FBI agent thing that never got picked up. I was interested enough because it was more VM, but it didn’t look all that promising. Still, I wish they’d made it if only for more VM
First season: Fantastic, easily one of the best shows on TV.
Second season: Good.
Third season: Meh.
I don’t think it’s really their fault, though- the show’s budget was being slashed, so much so that in the third season many of the supporting characters were only allowed to be in a few episodes. Also, the writers never knew whether the show was going to be on for the entire season, so they had to forgo a season-long arc (which I believe was the show’s greatest strength).
I keep hoping that the VM FBI series will happen. Kristen Bell is a really good actress, and Veronica Mars is too good a character to simply fade away.
Manduck- I don’t really think that’s true. If a problem stems from that, it’s that a lot of people consider themselves “too cool” to watch some high school girl fight crime, which is LAME. To this day, Buffy suffers from the same thing… no matter how good a show can be (see also: BSG) some people will never get past the one-sentence description.
And then, when the S3 order was shorted by a few eps, they scrapped the planned third mini-mystery arc and so the show whimpered out on mystery-of-the-week mode. (Though the last few eps were decently cool nonetheless :D)
Another thing that I hurt S3 is that they mostly lost the ongoing metaphor of the class divide, rich people paying for their own brand of ‘justice’, etc, and didn’t really have anything compelling to replace it with. The first arc, (shaving rapist,) had some interesting sexual politics stuff. The second murder arc didn’t have much of a theme beyond film noir and psych profiling.