Veronica Mars Rewatch "Normal is the Watchword" question

[zaftig_darling]

I am home, sick with a fever, and, in a strange way, enjoying the peaceful quiet of my house. (Husband and kiddos are all at school - one teaching, two learning

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[dragynflies]

Meh, Duncan's reaction was luke warm to V at best. I like Celtic_flicka's take on it a lot better! And Logan says "i'm gonna miss you" because he wasn't going with, I think, not because he knew what Beaver had planned. In my opinion, anyway!

[celtic_flicka]

Hee, thanks!

After watching that scene about 100 times when I was writing that AU fic, I concluded that yes, Duncan does react somewhat, and he didn't have more than a minute or so where he thought V was on the bus, but still--the reaction from him is still pretty lukewarm, I think, for someone who supposedly loves her. Veronica herself looks like she's about to throw up when she sees what happened to the bus.

Logan does say, "I'm gonna miss you," and the writers were probably trying to throw in a red herring there. But I think that what Logan was really doing was just trying to make Veronica realllly uncomfortable (as he also did later when he met her in the hotel hallway), because he knows he causes a reaction in her even if she tries to pretend he doesn't. "Honestly, how much easier would your life be if you were indifferent to me?" *swoon*

[p2880]

I've been following the community but I haven't been rewatching the episodes. Still too bitter, I guess! I much prefer the fanfic universe.

I think the writers wanted to cast suspicion on Logan. But did they really think that they could turn such a major character with a rabid following into a mass murderer with that little sentence? It was hard enough to believe it was who it was! They needed to show/allude to more psychotic behavior from each one if they wanted viewers to buy into whether each character could be a plausible suspect. Anyway the sentence makes no sense to me since Logan didn't know what was going to happen. I have no idea what Logan meant.

[p2880]

Get well soon!

[vanessagalore]

Pretty sure that I've read somewhere that the writers threw that line in as a definite red herring. I'll look for it. It was a weak red herring, though.

My whole reaction to that episode was "What the hell....??? She's with HIM???"

Feel better.

[medjunkie]

I think Duncan does seem upset about losing Veronica, but although not a bad actor, Teddy Dunn was not a great actor like JD. I think his face could have conveyed so much that his simple hug would have been enough, but he looks surprised as opposed to shocked and upset as opposed to devestated.
Logan's line about "I'm gonna to miss you" as a red herring had completely passed me by, in terms of thinking he had anything to do with the bus crash, I just saw it as Celtic Flicka does, as him snarking to make her feel umcomfortable and to hide his own pain.
If the writers were rather bizarrely trying to get us to view Logan with suspision for the crash, that might explain why we were denied a scene showing Logan hearing about the crash, which several really great fan fics have addressed