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startredder

You can tell it's spring by the strong stench of cow manure

Mar 29, 2006 11:44

Sketch. I think I need to spend some time with clothes catalogues to get a better idea of how these things are supposed to work. I can fake it okay when I'm drawing shirts and pants and things, but otherwise, man, I am /lost/.
I was talking to Kismet about my scant consumption of televised media these days, when the only thing I regularly go to the ( Read more... )

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peripheralsight March 29 2006, 18:19:26 UTC

I'd totally wear that outfit.

startredder March 29 2006, 18:20:42 UTC

I inexplicably find this highly complimentary. Yay!

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startredder March 29 2006, 21:40:24 UTC

I guess I just expect to feel like there's more of a reaction on the part of Veronica. I'm loving the other storylines, but I wish I was feeling inclined to /speculate/ about the bus crash the way I was about Lily's murder.

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startredder March 29 2006, 21:50:17 UTC

I think that's it exactly. It's really hard to compare to the first season because, for the most part, it was /solid/. I was so hoping to see that again, but ... not so much.

I just get frustrated because I think it's becoming increasingly obvious that Veronica doesn't have a whole lot invested emotionally. I'm pretty sure she only just found out the identity of another bus crash victim two or three episodes ago? Which, yes, it's for the convenience of the plot, but at the same time "... Dude, Veronica, shouldn't you be proactively investigating that kind of stuff yourself, /especially/ after you start thinking it may have been an attempt to kill /you/?"

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nyonyo March 30 2006, 00:16:51 UTC

I think it's two things:
1) That Veronica does not give a fuck about the bus crash, Keith has done 95.4% of all bus-related investigations, and the only clues Veronica found were out of sheer dumb unmotivated luck. And then the fandom bitches that Veronica doesn't care, so why should we, and then the writers go, "Okay, then!" and Veronica announces, "WOOOOOOEEEEE THEY ALL DIED BECAUSE OF MEEEEEEEEEEEEE," and, that said, proceeds to carry on exactly as she was before without the caring or investigating.
2) Lilly connected everyone. It kind of saddens me that just because her murder was solved, that connection everyone had who was hurt by her death seems to have gone out the window as well ( ... )

startredder March 30 2006, 00:23:31 UTC

I miss Veronica's passion. I mean, I love that Keith's all over the detectin' and stuff, but the show isn't called Keith Mars, eh?

It's weird that with Lilly's murder finally being solved, people seem /worse/ off in some ways than they were where the series started, if not in the same place. Veronica threw herself into all that and ... her father didn't become sheriff again, she still isn't really in with the in-crowd (although I think we can agree we'd like her to be /less/ in with them), the town's still trying to eat its own ... Sad, really.

I've been /enjoying/ the episodes more since Robot Boy left, but I don't think re: the bus crash they've gotten better. There's just been less screen time devoted to Robot Boy and thus one less thing for me to seethe over. I admit that the only regular glee I get is over the stuff with Cassidy, although other areas are picking up, somewhat (speaker of, I started watching a new HBO series ... with Lilly, Mac, and Beaver in it).
Hmm~ Any way you can hint at season three mystery without spoiling ( ... )

nyonyo March 30 2006, 00:44:56 UTC

I do, too. What saddens me is that she honestly does not seem to care about...well, anyone or anything at all, lately. Mysteries? Not so much. Wallace runs away? Let's email him! A LOT! (last year she would have been in the Le Baron running red lights all the way to Chicago, and dragged him back to Neptune bound and gagged, snarling, "If I have to suffer by living there, you damn well do too!") Keith says he'll Never Trust Her Ever Again? Whatever. Logan's going to prison for murder? Some halfhearted helping every once in a while, but not enough to earn her points. It's not just the bus crash, it's her apathy towards everything. The only things I've seen her approach with enthusiasm this year are the Robot, and needling Lamb. The fabulousness of the latter does not make up for the painfulness of the former.

Well, Robot Boy did suck up a lot of screentime (which, hey, went ABSOLUTELY NOWHERE). I think they gave his to Logan/Hannah, which I'm comfortable with.

HBO series with...?! What is this called? <333 ( ... )

startredder March 30 2006, 00:54:16 UTC

God, I'm /so/ annoyed over the Wallace thing. Unless it turns out that Wallace's dad is actually the one who engineered the bus crash, that has to be one of the most useless subplots in the entire season so far (I think it and Robot Boy's subplot are right up there, because the only way Robot Boy's ties to the bus crash is the fact that he kidnapped buscrash!baby, which was yet /another/ very dumb thing, all of which could have been disposed of for, you know, something cool).

I'm /enjoying/ the Logan/Hannah subplot. I wasn't sure if I would, but, /damn/, it's more enjoyable than Robot Boy and Veronica were to watch!
It's called "Big Love", a series about a polygamist and his three wives. Amanda Seyfried plays the oldest daughter, Tina Majorino plays an absolutely adorable Mormon girl and would-be friend to Amanda's character, and Kyle Gallner plays the best friend of the oldest son (I'm also getting serious gay vibes off Gallner's character). It's ... the only HBO show I've ever seen that doesn't use 'fuck' ever five minutes! I'm ( ... )