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Okay, the first and most pressing issue is this: Are Veronica and Wallace really going to go to college at Buffy's high school, too? Really?
No, really?
The second and only slightly less pressing issue, is hey! How about the fact that I absolutely loved this episode? In fact, for the first time since the season started, I can't wait for next week. If the rest of the episodes for this season could be like that, I think I'd sit up and start really paying attention again.
It really worked as a setup for Veronica and college, I think. It's a good idea to show how much Veronica doesn't want to stay in Neptune, and doesn't want to go to Hearst, so that way, when she ends up going there for whatever reason she's going to have to go there, she'll still be able to be a little bitter. Plus, maybe they'll be able to talk George Michael into guest starring a couple more times, and what can be bad about that? The only little teensy thing is Wallace's basketball scholarship. I mean, I'm totally willing to overlook it because they aren't breaking up the best BFF ever, which I really thought they might do, but most smallish liberal arts schools don't give out athletic scholarships, because most smallish liberal arts schools don't compete in NCAA Division I. And the reason I know this is because I would be a millionaire if I had a dime every time I got asked this question while giving a tour over the course of three years at a smallish liberal arts school. But! Wallace has to want to go there, and so I will stop nitpicking. :)
(Oh, but also, I love Troy and his fun, sexy times. I do. I'm not going to deny it. I wouldn't mind seeing him around now and again next year, either. And it's not like Aaron Ashmore is doing much else. And if they're waiting to resolve this rape case until next year, I guess it makes sense that he'll have to show up again, right? Which also means that we might see Maeby again, too, yeah?)
The thing that sticks out the most, though, is how much I really liked Veronica. And maybe it was just the nature of the MotW, but she actually connected with the other characters, and some of that old vulnerability that I originally identified with resurfaced, and I really appreciated that. It's not that I necessarily want her to go back to being the way she was at the beginning of S1, because, hi, character growth, but I'd like her to be more than just going through the motions, and she seemed to be doing that here. Now, if we can just keep that up and then get her to wear some cuter clothes again, things would really be looking up.
Anyway, how funny was this episode? I'm still laughing at the mental image of Cliff handcuffed to the hotel bed--and the fact that the person he calls is Keith. I'm kind of loving the idea of the two of them being best friends. I can already imagine Cliff heading over to Keith's apartment the first night Veronica's at college, vodka and bad movies in hand. Or maybe they'll watch the South Park movie and eat lasagna. Hee.
And then there's Logan. I've seen some people complaining about this, and maybe I'm just severely dense or maybe I'm blinded by character love, but I thought it worked really well. I don't believe for a second that Logan actually loves Hannah. He might think he does, or that he could, but that's really not what's going on. The guy has absolutely nothing going for him, and he feels guilty about all the awful things he did to this one person who actually trusted him, and so of course he's going to try and find some comfort with her. When he was asking her to forgive him, I didn't get the it's-because-I-love-you-slash-care-so-much-about-you vibe at all. It was a selfish move, his body language was screaming "Please don't leave me alone." Logan's just been beaten down so much and then beaten down some more, that I completely buy the idea of him giving up his tough persona for even just a little while. Overall, I thought the whole scene with Dick and the cake and the drinking and then going and asking Hannah (and just so you know, I wrote Veronica there first) for forgiveness was a nice bit of show-don't-tell that's been lacking lately.
So, I'm excited about what's coming up, and with the airing of that episode, I'm officially spoiler-free again, and for the time being I guess I'll stay that way. It's nice to be excited about next week and have no idea what's coming again. I'd almost forgotten what it was like.
ETA: Spoilers for the promo only in the comments.