The Death Knell Cometh
As Veronica would say, "I'm officially calling life unfair."
Veronica Mars has been cancelled, and I was too depressed to talk about it when news broke yesterday. But after crying myself to sleep (and fantasizing about ways I could inflict a slow, painful death upon Dawn Ostroff), I think I'm composed enough to say something now. It's sad, but not surprising. Once I heard the season was being shortened, the mystery arcs were being dropped and the show was taking a two month hiatus, that was probably the beginning of the end, in retrospect. I mean, channels don't do that to shows they plan to keep. So I've had since March to get used to the idea and kind of come to terms with it. And actually, I'm kind of relieved that we won't have to see how the FBI story would've worked out. The worst thing for me is not that the show is ending, but that there are a lot of things that will likely be left unresolved when it does. The show isn't going to get the proper send-off that it deserves, and that's a real shame. I guess the silver lining is that then you are free to imagine it ending anyway you like, and have it live on through fanfic or other creative expression, but that's of little comfort right now.
This may sound silly, but it almost feels like losing a close friend. Out of all my favourite shows, Veronica Mars is the one I connected with the most. I was a shy nerd, and consequently a loner, in high school. Veronica is the kind of friend I wish I'd had back then - someone whip smart, who took no one's crap and said and did things that I never would have dared. And even though high school was a long time ago, that shy, nerdy girl is still very much a part of me. So for being an outcast I can relate to, and for the show being equal amounts of funny, tragic, heartwarming and suspenseful, Veronica Mars will always be special to me.
- Interlude: this week's episode. -
Dick's scene with his father was amazing. Totally took me by surprise. I was like, "Holy shit, Big Dick! What's he doing here?" I love that he confronted his father. It's been a long time coming. Personally, I've always found it rather morbid that he and Logan still live in the hotel where their respective family members died. So it's good to see that Dick still thinks about stuff like having to walk past the spot where his brother went splat, or if he was somehow to blame for his death. And they really had contests to see who could make him cry? Wow, no one wonder he jumped. Poor, murderous little psycho.
- I picked up on the reactions Logan and Veronica were having to their boyfriend/girlfriends summer plans, but I think there was also another parallel between Mac and Veronica being bright, motivated woman who are both attracted to slackers. I don't know what that's supposed to say about them.
-The Keith and Veronica scenes were cute. I love that he showed her up about getting a higher mark on the exam and was so happy for her when she got the internship. And I don't know what kind of pen that was (Was it a monkey? A cat? Hard to tell), but it was cute too. And Vinnie's ad was very amusing.
Basically, I'm going to echo airylli's post on TWOP:
"Stories of hope turned into fabricated lies? Moral ambiguity between hard truth and the greater good? A sheriff back in power only to be probably ousted again for a corrupt son of a bitch (who knew Ken Marino could bring the menace)? Dysfunctional family relationships of questionable paternity and legitimacy that ends in a hearfelt reunion? Other dysfunctional family relationships that just suck? A protagonist so jaded and yet secretly an eternal optimist? Veronica getting fooled for once and then for the greater good again? Ah, my noir, how I've missed you!"
I'm grateful that we got these three seasons. It's all I could really ask for. I still think one of the problems is that there just weren't enough people who knew about the show. Maybe it could have found a larger audience. But who can really say?
Veronica Mars has been cancelled, and I was too depressed to talk about it when news broke yesterday. But after crying myself to sleep (and fantasizing about ways I could inflict a slow, painful death upon Dawn Ostroff), I think I'm composed enough to say something now. It's sad, but not surprising. Once I heard the season was being shortened, the mystery arcs were being dropped and the show was taking a two month hiatus, that was probably the beginning of the end, in retrospect. I mean, channels don't do that to shows they plan to keep. So I've had since March to get used to the idea and kind of come to terms with it. And actually, I'm kind of relieved that we won't have to see how the FBI story would've worked out. The worst thing for me is not that the show is ending, but that there are a lot of things that will likely be left unresolved when it does. The show isn't going to get the proper send-off that it deserves, and that's a real shame. I guess the silver lining is that then you are free to imagine it ending anyway you like, and have it live on through fanfic or other creative expression, but that's of little comfort right now.
This may sound silly, but it almost feels like losing a close friend. Out of all my favourite shows, Veronica Mars is the one I connected with the most. I was a shy nerd, and consequently a loner, in high school. Veronica is the kind of friend I wish I'd had back then - someone whip smart, who took no one's crap and said and did things that I never would have dared. And even though high school was a long time ago, that shy, nerdy girl is still very much a part of me. So for being an outcast I can relate to, and for the show being equal amounts of funny, tragic, heartwarming and suspenseful, Veronica Mars will always be special to me.
- Interlude: this week's episode. -
Dick's scene with his father was amazing. Totally took me by surprise. I was like, "Holy shit, Big Dick! What's he doing here?" I love that he confronted his father. It's been a long time coming. Personally, I've always found it rather morbid that he and Logan still live in the hotel where their respective family members died. So it's good to see that Dick still thinks about stuff like having to walk past the spot where his brother went splat, or if he was somehow to blame for his death. And they really had contests to see who could make him cry? Wow, no one wonder he jumped. Poor, murderous little psycho.
- I picked up on the reactions Logan and Veronica were having to their boyfriend/girlfriends summer plans, but I think there was also another parallel between Mac and Veronica being bright, motivated woman who are both attracted to slackers. I don't know what that's supposed to say about them.
-The Keith and Veronica scenes were cute. I love that he showed her up about getting a higher mark on the exam and was so happy for her when she got the internship. And I don't know what kind of pen that was (Was it a monkey? A cat? Hard to tell), but it was cute too. And Vinnie's ad was very amusing.
Basically, I'm going to echo airylli's post on TWOP:
"Stories of hope turned into fabricated lies? Moral ambiguity between hard truth and the greater good? A sheriff back in power only to be probably ousted again for a corrupt son of a bitch (who knew Ken Marino could bring the menace)? Dysfunctional family relationships of questionable paternity and legitimacy that ends in a hearfelt reunion? Other dysfunctional family relationships that just suck? A protagonist so jaded and yet secretly an eternal optimist? Veronica getting fooled for once and then for the greater good again? Ah, my noir, how I've missed you!"
I'm grateful that we got these three seasons. It's all I could really ask for. I still think one of the problems is that there just weren't enough people who knew about the show. Maybe it could have found a larger audience. But who can really say?