One of the things I appreciate about this show is that not only does it have interesting individual characters, but it also often manages to mix them up in surprising and cool ways.
I think it's a function of the way the writers have been able to create a very rich world with overlapping webs of interconnected relationships. Two characters may not have talked onscreen yet, but the viewer knows the friends they have in common, how they reacted independently to events that both experienced, how their histories overlap. It's one of the things about the show that's really well done, and makes Neptune seem like a three-dimensional, real place, as well as giving the writers tons of material to mine by putting different characters together.
I thought the trial seemed a little rushed and glossed-over, especially because it's looks like Aaron's going to be involved in the finale; it seems weird to have a plotline sleeping for much of the season and then suddenly bring it into the spotlight.The pacing has been fairly odd in general this
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The pacing has been fairly odd in general this season, not just with this plotline.Yes! I'm glad I'm not the only one who's felt that way. And there have been too many red herrings--it seems like practically every episode, there's a new suspect for the bus crash, and you just get desensitized after a while. I'm also a little perplexed at some of the characterization (Wallace's precipitous drop into asshattery, for example). Still, it's been enjoyable overall, and I'm sure we're in for a bang-up finish (quite possibly literally
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still wouldn't have guaranteed conviction. I doubt the defense strategy would've changed much.
Tapes or no tapes, there was no physical evidence to the actual murder, no home owner guy around to cooberate the attack to cover up the murder and the next-best suspect with a history of mental problems fled the country on kidnapping charges.
And with his celebrity and high-priced attorneys.... the tapes would've made things more difficult but he still could've easily walked.
The prosecution could've done a lot better though.
I do like that Veronica sacrificed her future for that one moment only to have it crushed and destroyed.
Yeah, I definitely see that point. I was also wondering--those tapes were admitted as evidence. Wouldn't some law type have had to look at them in order to support arresting Aaron in the first place? I don't pretend to know anything about police-work and such besides watching the occasional NYPD Blue, but since, as you say, the case was a little flimsy on evidence to begin with, I don't get how Aaron could have been held in jail without someone in authority seeing those incriminating tapes.
As you say, though, especially in Neptune, it seems like money = innocence. I don't know what kind of job the prosecution did, since we saw her ask all of, what, two questions? That was one of the reasons the trial felt anticlimactic to me--we saw so little of it.
I do like that Veronica sacrificed her future for that one moment only to have it crushed and destroyed.Yeah, that was painful. I do have to wonder, though, at Keith sending her a text message like that when he knows she's in the middle of finals. I can buy that he might not know
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I think it's a function of the way the writers have been able to create a very rich world with overlapping webs of interconnected relationships. Two characters may not have talked onscreen yet, but the viewer knows the friends they have in common, how they reacted independently to events that both experienced, how their histories overlap. It's one of the things about the show that's really well done, and makes Neptune seem like a three-dimensional, real place, as well as giving the writers tons of material to mine by putting different characters together.
I thought the trial seemed a little rushed and glossed-over, especially because it's looks like Aaron's going to be involved in the finale; it seems weird to have a plotline sleeping for much of the season and then suddenly bring it into the spotlight.The pacing has been fairly odd in general this ( ... )
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Tapes or no tapes, there was no physical evidence to the actual murder, no home owner guy around to cooberate the attack to cover up the murder and the next-best suspect with a history of mental problems fled the country on kidnapping charges.
And with his celebrity and high-priced attorneys.... the tapes would've made things more difficult but he still could've easily walked.
The prosecution could've done a lot better though.
I do like that Veronica sacrificed her future for that one moment only to have it crushed and destroyed.
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As you say, though, especially in Neptune, it seems like money = innocence. I don't know what kind of job the prosecution did, since we saw her ask all of, what, two questions? That was one of the reasons the trial felt anticlimactic to me--we saw so little of it.
I do like that Veronica sacrificed her future for that one moment only to have it crushed and destroyed.Yeah, that was painful. I do have to wonder, though, at Keith sending her a text message like that when he knows she's in the middle of finals. I can buy that he might not know ( ... )
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