The Girl Detective
I just finished watching the first season of Veronica Mars. Everyone had said, 'oh, it gets much better in the second half of the season'; I'd been enjoying the first half so much that I'd basically ignored them, but they were right. Somewhere around what I guess must have been February sweeps there's a tipping point, and you just have to keep
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There is a thesis waiting to be written, or possibly already written somewhere, on the relationship between the MEverse and the VMverse, and not in a shallow 'look, it's the new Buffy!' way. I saw somewhere that Rob Thomas said he hadn't seen much Buffy; that may well be true, but I'm pretty sure this show would not have been made in the form it's in if Buffy had not existed. There are things it shares with Buffy, and some things it does better and some it does worse, but for all that it's an easy comparison I think it's more than a superficial one. And it's an interesting comparison to Angel too, for different reasons, although I'm even more sure that's not deliberate (don't laugh, but I thought Veronica had a couple of Angel-ish moments, even). I already found this analysis of the moral universes of the two shows (spoilers up to VM 1x21), but I'm sure there's more to be said ( ... )
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I'm in agreement with you here. (Yeah, bet you're shocked. *g*) Moreover, it holds up remarkably well in rewatching. Generally, I think a given Jossverse season can be counted on to have more dazzling individual episodes than VM, but I have rarely seen anything to equal this season of VM in terms of sheer nconsistent excellence of storytelling and characterizations. In terms of the degree of affection/emotional investment in the characters, the VM peeps are already pretty high up there along with BTVS and Angel gang for me--which is something given that it only had one meager season to get me invested instead 7/5.
S2 worries me, because I fear we have no way to go but down. *beans self on the head for negativity*
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I echo Yoon's recommendation of ohimesamamama's posts. She writes probably the best in-depth essays in this fandom I've come across. I particularly adore her essay on A Trip to the Dentist, which was probably my ( ... )
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I would never have expected that! :)
Moreover, it holds up remarkably well in rewatching. Generally, I think a given Jossverse season can be counted on to have more dazzling individual episodes than VM, but I have rarely seen anything to equal this season of VM in terms of sheer nconsistent excellence of storytelling and characterizations.
Yeah, I think that's about fair. The closest B/A come for me is Buffy season three, which I would say has the highest average quality level of any MEverse season, and has a hell of an emotional throughline. But even there the overall plotting is ... less than tight. :)
But then, the formats are also very different. For all that the individual episodes of VM do stand alone, they don't stand alone as much as your typical Buffy episode. So in a way you wouldn't expect as many standouts, simply because there's less episode-to-episode variation. A closer comparison in terms of arc is probably Babylon 5, but with a one-season novel ( ... )
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I have good VM stuff in my memories. Though a lot of it is just fun things.
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