Veronica Mars

[lesbiassparrow]

And so I have finished season one and I have enjoyed it mightily. But I have questions! And points to make!



1. I don't dislike Veronica and Logan (mainly because I think the actors have a lot of chemistry) but I don't get how quickly she falls into his arms. She has no good reason to like him even though circumstances have flung them together and his personality has improved massively over the season. I guess going from floppy useless rich boy Duncan Kane to less useless rich boy Logan would make sense, but I would have expected her to be warier of people of his ilk.

2. How on earth would Veronica ever speak or be civil to people like Dick C. ever again? after all the party stuff was revealed? He is undoubtedly the biggest aristocratic waste of space since Alcibiades and wholly horrible - if I were Veronica I would be out slashing his tires repeatedly. And ruining his life as much as possible. I will be really annoyed if the show tries to redeem him because I think there are some things which are unexcusable.

3. I, er, don't like Lily Kane. She seems not terribly interesting and totally self-absorbed - I guess no different than one would expect from a horribly privileged 15 year old, but still there's nothing there to make her seem that interesting. I am sorry she died but it is hard to see her death as the GREATEST TRAGEDY EVER.

4. Aaron Echols is not only narcissistic but a fair twit. Who not only tapes themselves but keeps all of the tapes around and doesn't lock up the video set up?

5. The Kanes are messed in the head if their first idea upon seeing their son and their dead daughter is that their son killed her. Not exactly intellects of the ages.

6. Also I think the show would be more interesting if it actually had somewhat of a social conscience, which I am not sure it does. It sees there are inequalities in wealth and access to the good things of the world, but I don't know that it has a problem with that. Rather it assumes that all of this stuff will be sorted out on an individual level by smart as a button girl detectives. (And where did it get the idea that UCLA is a bad school? Or that you're settling to go there? Because I think the competition is rightfully fiercer to go there than many private schools. And most of the departments are far better than the private alternatives in Southern California, no matter what USC will say. I actually say this as someone who went to USC, too. )

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A few times they seem to have other ideas (like the whole Weevil at the poker game thing, with the casual racism of the others), but then they back away from it. I guess it's because the writer thought that almost everything can be solved through personality rather than through thinking the system might be horribly messed up and producing rather horrible, self-indulgent people.