Veronica Mars Question

[weaktwos]

So, here's a some thoughts for those who followed Veronica Mars this season:



One of the things that annoyed me about the season finale is that in the midst of all that trauma--Beaver jumping to his death, Veronica realizing that she was raped and got Clemidia, Kendal walking out of the room to the bathroom in Aaron Echoll's room only to return to find him shot dead -- everyone is back to normal a few days later when Veronica is heading to New York. Kendal is calmly seeing to money matters. Logan and Veronica do the Pieta hustle and are back to snogging in the hallway. That was way too much of a transition. I'm amazed she fell for the "epic love" line even after catching Kendal with Logan the next morning after the Alterna-prom.

I want to know why Kendal wasn't tied up with Echolls' murder. Possibly she snuck out without calling the cops. But surely the surveillance cameras would have picked her up, so it's likely she called the cops. If she wasn't phased by seeing a man shot in the head, just what kind of trouble has she seen in her life. Just what are those Laker Girls involved in when they aren't cheering?

And what kind of job does Kendal have for Keith Mars that would cause him to leave his daughter stranded in an airport for her graduation trip? Does he need to find Richard Casablancas?

Anyway, enough of my rambling. Time for bed.

Comments

[reannon.livejournal.com]

Funny, none of that bothered me. What bothered me:

• Beaver as the black-hat villain, twirling his mustache. The chlymidia connection was not enough. It felt like a bullshit grab, or to give them the benefit of the doubt, like the actor hadn't been told at the beginning, "You dun it," and so was playing innocent all season. Plus it pretty much ruins everything that was good about "Leave It to Beaver" last season, when he definitely was playing innocent.
• Her panicked phone call to Keith, since Veronica's too smart to forget that cells don't work on a plane, plus wouldn't it have been cooler and more in character for her to use that call to alert Logan?
• Beaver as mad bomber. Maybe I missed it in the zoom o' subplots this season (about four too many) but when exactly did he learn to blow things up? By himself? Things like planes, even small private planes which kind of have some extensive security around them these days?
• Aaron Echolls' death. Yeah, yeah, but he was such a fun bad guy. Pout.

I thought Veronica's meltdown was appropriately timed, and I imagine finding out her father is alive after all helped her recover from the rest of it. Remember, Veronica's best trick is internalizing trauma that would leave the rest of us curled up in a fetal position.

As far as taking Logan back, well, he's pretty sweet when he's not psychotic. Plus there's the whole just-saved-my-life-and-cooked-me-bacon thing. Though I was amused by how fast he hightailed it out of the apartment when Keith showed up. At least no lamps got broken this time, eh?

Also, Kendall has to be the single most self-absorbed, reliably cold-hearted bitch I've seen outside a soap opera. I have no problem with believing she stepped over Aaron Echolls' cooling corpse to hightail it out. And I bet the deal she's offering Keith Mars has something to do with it.

Though I must give them grudging kudos for Weevil's disaster. We've never hated the sheriff more. You want to arrest the boy? Let him graduate high school and then arrest him. If their intention was to twist our guts in pain, it worked.

[weaktwos.livejournal.com]

The phonecall to Keith was cheesy. However, I give Veronica a pass for momentary lack of judgement. Likely losing her only remaining parent is a fear of hers, since her Mother is filed under "lost cause".

There was some foreshadowing. Beaver was deminstrating evil genius tendencies--being smart enough to create his own business while folks thought his father was still pulling strings. That's good work. I could see the "powder keg" aspect. There was no way he was innocent given his brother. The only way he wasn't as sexually agressive as his brother had to be due to some trauma.

I guess Hamlin was getting expensive. His death was way too convenient, though. And quite a development for Duncan.

Logan is sweet when he's not an angry white boy, true. There's no doubt about that. And yet, if you think Veronica is smart enough to not call her father in a plane, she's definitely smart enough to avoid a budding psycho like Logan. But, I'll take it. I know they are going to take it away from us next season, only to have them snogging again by the season 3 finale unless we can be introduced to some hot replacement. Until then, it's an Epic Lovecoaster.

Oh, that sheriff needs some major karma. Did you catch the allusions to him sleeping with Miss "Trip to the Dentist"? That was interesting. I think I missed the first allusion to it, if there was one. I just remember Veronica at Alterna-prom making all those hints about the "law" to Madison. Funky.