Poor Mac. Though I suspect she was never in any danger from Cassidy--or at least not so long as she didn't get in his way. I agree. I assume that's why he took her clothes.
So, did Kendall let CW (hee) in? It's not like there was much of a time lag between her leaving Aaron's bed and Aaron getting shot. D'oh. Totally missed both the shoutout and this implication, which I LOVE. While I'm sad that Cassidy will no longer be on VM, I'm glad that Kendall will :)
Totally with you on Lamb, btw. Bastard enjoyed doing that. And yeah, who knew the Donut had it in him?
It didn't feel like a traumatized kid lashing out, it felt like a movie serial killer. You know? Though the suicide scene grabbed me. That hit the right tragic note.
I totally agree--that's exactly it--theatrical, but not supported by the plot!
However, it also made me NOT feel like Mac was safe. I mean, she was safe with traumatized-kid-lashing-out (or at least, safe-ish--sticks and stones vs. words), but freakish sociopath who blows up busses and airplanes with a crazy master plan? Who the fuck knows what he would do to Mac if she got in his way?!?!
Well, true. Thinking about it now, I think Veronica could've been legitimately worried about what would happen to Mac if the whole sex thing failed again. Even moreso, I wonder if she just wanted to get Mac out of the room before they got anywhere, you know? So as to spare her something.
I thought it was kind of weird of Veronica to be so worried about Mac--I mean, really, why would Cassidy hurt her?--but then I suppose one is entitled to emotional reactions when discovering a quasi-friend is a mass murderer, and besides, Veronica would want to protect Mac's emotions as much as possible, too.
I don't buy Cassidy as the killer. Oh, I buy the man on the roof with the taser as the killer and I buy that that could be Cassidy Casablancas, but as is I just, there wasn't enough. It's like they worked out all the logistics of it, all the things he would have to know and do to get it done, and then they forgot that, oh yeah, we have to emotionally justify this! We have to show that Cassidy is capable of this, because we can't have him not be until he is.
I agree the suicide scene really worked for me because I could see why he was doing it, what put him there. It wasn't the sadism that stopped me from believing the rest -- he is a Casablancas and I think that's something we've seen symptoms of from him before -- but the fact that. Okay. Either he's faking the calm, collected, coldminded scheme master bit or he'd still keep scheming. He had the ultimate leverage against Veronica and he didn't try to use it. If he had, if he'd tried to buy her silence with her father's life, then I could
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I don't buy Cassidy as the killer. Oh, I buy the man on the roof with the taser as the killer and I buy that that could be Cassidy Casablancas, but as is I just, there wasn't enough. It's like they worked out all the logistics of it, all the things he would have to know and do to get it done, and then they forgot that, oh yeah, we have to emotionally justify this! We have to show that Cassidy is capable of this, because we can't have him not be until he is.
Yeah. I actually think the clues pointing to Cassidy were laid out more clearly than the clues leading to Aaron last year, but when Aaron was revealed as the killer, my reaction was "yeah, okay, I'm there with you." The crazy-ass stuff with Veronica later was a little harder to swallow, but I managed it. This time... kind of tough.
Though the suicide scene grabbed me. That hit the right tragic note.
I saw that coming as soon as Logan and Veronica managed to get the upper hand. Still, the line about his name was perfect.
I don't love that for a second season in a row, we ended with a sobbing, victimized Veronica saved by a guy. And... I don't know. Maybe I'm being oversensitive; after all, she's small, she's eighteen, she's never been depicted as physically powerful, and in her defense she did get Logan up to the roof and tackle Cassidy. But I felt kind of icky about the scene beforehand with Cassidy taunting her. Felt gratuitous, somehow.
Yeah, she's a lot more like Lois Lane than Buffy. Granted, no superpowers, but even Cordelia and Fred used to show more moxie than Veronica.
Was anyone else weirded out by Logan And Veronica Do The Pieta? Just me, then? Okay.
Not just you. It didn't look very comfortable, wither.
Jackie's big revelation whatever
That was definitely WTF, who cares, and why bother?
But my objection to it from the beginning was that it felt too calculated for the Cassidy we knew, and as it turns out, that was fair; it's just that Cassidy wasn't the Cassidy we knew. And it feels... I feel a little cheated, I guess.
I was a little annoyed that one of the big pointers to his guilt when Veronica was laying it out for us was that she'd found out from that kid who made films that Cassidy had learned to make bombs from Curly Moran. She found out the week before, but we didn't, and it felt a little like the writers were cheating by hiding vital information from the audience. That said, Beaver leading such a dual life made emotional sense and was really sad, but I think the fact that they had to sell him as an evil mastermind in the space of 15 minutes led to a little over-the-topness. And along those same lines, I was not loving the sobbing, victimized Veronica, even though I could believe how utterly destroyed she'd be by Keith's death.
And along those same lines, I was not loving the sobbing, victimized Veronica, even though I could believe how utterly destroyed she'd be by Keith's death.
Yeah. I mean, it wasn't that I thought the reaction was unrealistic, or unreasonable--I mean, you put me in that situation and I'm willing to bet I would not be the Perfect Feminist Hero. But it was dissatisfying.
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I agree. I assume that's why he took her clothes.
So, did Kendall let CW (hee) in? It's not like there was much of a time lag between her leaving Aaron's bed and Aaron getting shot.
D'oh. Totally missed both the shoutout and this implication, which I LOVE. While I'm sad that Cassidy will no longer be on VM, I'm glad that Kendall will :)
Totally with you on Lamb, btw. Bastard enjoyed doing that. And yeah, who knew the Donut had it in him?
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I totally agree--that's exactly it--theatrical, but not supported by the plot!
However, it also made me NOT feel like Mac was safe. I mean, she was safe with traumatized-kid-lashing-out (or at least, safe-ish--sticks and stones vs. words), but freakish sociopath who blows up busses and airplanes with a crazy master plan? Who the fuck knows what he would do to Mac if she got in his way?!?!
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I don't buy Cassidy as the killer. Oh, I buy the man on the roof with the taser as the killer and I buy that that could be Cassidy Casablancas, but as is I just, there wasn't enough. It's like they worked out all the logistics of it, all the things he would have to know and do to get it done, and then they forgot that, oh yeah, we have to emotionally justify this! We have to show that Cassidy is capable of this, because we can't have him not be until he is.
I agree the suicide scene really worked for me because I could see why he was doing it, what put him there. It wasn't the sadism that stopped me from believing the rest -- he is a Casablancas and I think that's something we've seen symptoms of from him before -- but the fact that. Okay. Either he's faking the calm, collected, coldminded scheme master bit or he'd still keep scheming. He had the ultimate leverage against Veronica and he didn't try to use it. If he had, if he'd tried to buy her silence with her father's life, then I could ( ... )
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Yeah. I actually think the clues pointing to Cassidy were laid out more clearly than the clues leading to Aaron last year, but when Aaron was revealed as the killer, my reaction was "yeah, okay, I'm there with you." The crazy-ass stuff with Veronica later was a little harder to swallow, but I managed it. This time... kind of tough.
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I saw that coming as soon as Logan and Veronica managed to get the upper hand. Still, the line about his name was perfect.
I don't love that for a second season in a row, we ended with a sobbing, victimized Veronica saved by a guy. And... I don't know. Maybe I'm being oversensitive; after all, she's small, she's eighteen, she's never been depicted as physically powerful, and in her defense she did get Logan up to the roof and tackle Cassidy. But I felt kind of icky about the scene beforehand with Cassidy taunting her. Felt gratuitous, somehow.
Yeah, she's a lot more like Lois Lane than Buffy. Granted, no superpowers, but even Cordelia and Fred used to show more moxie than Veronica.
Was anyone else weirded out by Logan And Veronica Do The Pieta? Just me, then? Okay.
Not just you. It didn't look very comfortable, wither.
Jackie's big revelation whatever
That was definitely WTF, who cares, and why bother?
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No. I'm all, um, Logan, she is going to get an awful crick in her neck, and besides, who can fall asleep like that? I mean, really.
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I was a little annoyed that one of the big pointers to his guilt when Veronica was laying it out for us was that she'd found out from that kid who made films that Cassidy had learned to make bombs from Curly Moran. She found out the week before, but we didn't, and it felt a little like the writers were cheating by hiding vital information from the audience. That said, Beaver leading such a dual life made emotional sense and was really sad, but I think the fact that they had to sell him as an evil mastermind in the space of 15 minutes led to a little over-the-topness. And along those same lines, I was not loving the sobbing, victimized Veronica, even though I could believe how utterly destroyed she'd be by Keith's death.
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Yeah. I mean, it wasn't that I thought the reaction was unrealistic, or unreasonable--I mean, you put me in that situation and I'm willing to bet I would not be the Perfect Feminist Hero. But it was dissatisfying.
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