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arabian

Why I am Surprisingly Content with the VM Finale ...

May 25, 2007 09:17

I watched all of the Logan scenes (well, I skipped a few Logan/Parker scenes) in the final five, including the finale, and while not ecstatically thrilled, I'm pretty durn content with how the show ended in terms of Logan/Veronica.

Gasp! Why? ( Read on ... )

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harper47 May 25 2007, 13:36:11 UTC

I just wrote an entry that I think I'm going to be okay with the final five and your entry just confirmed it. I'm still glad I waited to watch this all in a row because I think it will be better that way. I'm happy that we got what we did.

arabian May 25 2007, 13:56:30 UTC

Well, I do admit freely that it helped that I didn't watch any of the Veronica/Shithead stuff. And I tell ya, going three months without seeing Shithead/Chris Lowell and then seeing the little bit of him I did. Man, I just find him so unattractive. I'm sure he's a lovely person, but just ugh. And his voice, his mannerisms, everything just make me want to break my TV. But basically, not having to actually watch him/them, helped my frame of mind considerably.

But, yeah, considering what I THOUGHT we were going to get, I was pleasantly surprised.

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arabian May 25 2007, 15:59:39 UTC

Absolutely, 1000% times over by 100,000,000% times over 1,000,000,000% yes! If I and many others had not had the forewarning of all of the Veronica/Shithead stuff, this would have been beyond unbearable. Seriously. It's only because I expected NOTHING (thanks to your spoilers, which didn't tell the whole story because of how the direction/acting played it out) that I am able to be at peace with that open door we did get. Had I not been spoiled, I would have been so pissed off at all the V/Shithead stuff and that it didn't end with Logan and Veronica definitively together. By being spoiled, I was able to digest the bad, and get the anger, frustration, whatnot out of the way and deal with it so that I could contentedly accept what we did get.

musing_mia May 25 2007, 15:59:56 UTC

Yes. Regardless of how apathetic I feel, if I had watched any of S3 without knowing what I know now, I would have tossed my TV out the back door. If I had watched those final eps, not knowing about the silliness of L/P and V/Piz, I know I would have had an ugly meltdown. So for me, I was grateful. It's better to be prepared than not.

arabian May 25 2007, 16:06:00 UTC

Right, when you don't trust the writers (as harper47 said in a recent post), you need the spoilers. When it comes to bad writers, like the boy scouts, we must be prepared.

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tlace May 25 2007, 16:33:24 UTC

This is EXCELLENT!! I agree with EVERYTHING you said and I watched EVERY SINGLE SECOND!! I may link your post when I finally get around to sharing my own thoughts because I could not have said it ANY better :D

arabian May 25 2007, 16:39:47 UTC

Thank you. I'm glad to know that I pretty much got it (even without watching all of the Logan/Parker, any Veronica/Shithead scenes). Yay. Link, link away, I'm cool with that. :D

sowell May 25 2007, 16:58:28 UTC

I agree with you that the final moment made the arc. And it wasn't even Veronica's expression so much as Piz's that sold it. I don't find CL's acting all that offensive, but I haven't found it really impressive over the course of the season, either, until that last moment. Because his final look at Veronica sold me on the fact that he recognized he'd lost out in some way, and that made the moment for me ( ... )

arabian May 25 2007, 17:28:14 UTC

Oh, it doesn't make up for the season, but it does give US a way to go from here. And see your post is WHY I refused to watch the V/Shithead scenes because I KNEW that KBell was going to play it that way. On paper, the Logan/Parker scenes didn't play wrong, it was how Jason SOLD IT that made it really work. If KBell had done the same, that would have been lovely. But unexepcted ( ... )

p2880 May 25 2007, 19:06:01 UTC

Thanks for the wonderful analysis and isn't it gratifyin' to know that your predictions of the outsome are so on point! I think you did the right thing in avoiding the VP scenes. Rage would probably have colored your outlook. The red haze would have obsured your clear analysis.

One thing I'd like to point out is that only Logan and Weevil think that some response is needed to the release of the sex tape. Piz doesn't because he has no personality. But Wallace, WALLACE is more interested in avenging the Piz beat down than V's sexual humiliation!!! When did Wallace like Piz more than Veronica?