I’m keeping the Spoiler Alert warning up so that I can continue to discuss Veronica Mars.
I just want to note that Neptune is not a place for healthy full-parent situations:
- Veronica: abandoned by mother (again)
- Weevil: Being raised by his grandmother, apparently. I don’t recall if we’ve heard anything about his parents
- Wallace: Single mom
- Duncan: Father under arrest, likely to serve time
- Logan: Mother dead (I’ll add a “presumed” for you conspiracy theorists). Father arrested and likely to serve time (although not, I should note, for the murder of Lilly Kane; they should have him cold on assault, arson, B&E, and statuatory rape — California age of consent is 18, a mark I don’t think Lilly had reached — but all we got from him in regards to Lilly last night was motive, and that doesn’t constitute proof beyond a reasonable doubt).
Of course, you can add to that a season of people being raised by the wrong parents, abandoned by parents they believe to be dead, and so forth.
I re-watched Veronica this morning. Seemed even better the 2nd time around. I still think it’s Wallace at the door.
One minor quibble… Veronica drives a LeBaron, one that I know is slightly newer than my 1990 clunker (Chrysler did away with the headlight covers within a year or two after ’90). Mine has an airbag (which in fact I “tested” once by rear-ending a mail Jeep). So if mine has one, I’m sure Veronica’s does too. And yet it wasn’t deployed when she rammed the pole to try to get away from her “hitchhiker”.
Of course, it’s always possible it was faulty or something, but I don’t see why they would choose to NOT show it deployed. Either way the accident was serious and a deployed airbag would have made it seem just a little bit more plausible that she’d be able to walk away from the accident sooner. And yes, I know she checked her safety belt first, but she took a good whack at that pole (or tree or whatever it was she hit).
Oh well. It’s a trivial quibble and nothing to get hung up over, I admit. If that’s the biggest thing wrong with the episode….
I haven’t gotten a chance to watch it again, but I intend to. Then again, there’s a long empty summer to catch it in.
I suspect we’ll see the first season released on DVD around the start of Season 2, but I could be wrong.
When the Saturn got totalled a while back (guy in front of me stopped, guy behind me in the big van didn’t), the airbag failed to deploy.
It costs money to show an airbag deployed.
Yeah, it’s probably Wallace. It ain’t Mom. They’ve given Veronica too many “outs” — not raped, not a bastard, not incestuous — to let her off the hook for having invested her money, hopes, and love in her mother.
Well, I wanted to rewatch it while it was still fresh just to see if I could notice anything more that perhaps escaped my attention first time through. Don’t know if I’ll watch the full set of reruns. I might because I enjoyed it that much, but I don’t know.
One other minor quibble… VM is one of the few shows where I really enjoy the theme song over the opening credits each week. So I didn’t like that they failed to do the usual Dandy Warhols opening this week. I hope they’ll keep it for next season, but with Lily’s murder being solved I suspect they may change to something else.
And I hope Veronica gets the car fixed for next season. I just like the connection that she and I drive the same make/model of car (despite the difference of a year or two and hers is a convertible, but she can get by with that in SoCal). LeBarons are just soooo cool!
(That’s what I tell myself anyway.)
I suspect that the lack of a theme song wasn’t for any sign of change, but simply to give them an extra half minute in which to tell that story. Give ‘em all the half-minutes they want!
(Dandy Warhols? Didn’t know that. Like the song. Really liked the time they lead into it with “We used to be friends a long time ago” as the closing dialogue.)
Well, I couldn’t tell you one tiny little thing about the Dandy Warhols or that song, but I liked it enough that I made it a point early on to find out who did it by keeping a close watch on the credits. One of these days I’ll try to remember to check out some DW in a local used CD shop to see if I like them or just that one song. I don’t know if the tune is an old one of theirs or possibly something done just for Veronica. Not even sure of the song title since I think they just credit it as “Theme by…”
Just googled it. Title is “We Used To Be Friends” which is pretty much what I would have guessed. It’s “…off the Welcome to the Monkey House album (3/03)”