I finished up the first season yesterday. I have two main issues with the second half of the season:
I thought Veronica was occasionally a little too full of herself, getting way too cocky and self conscious and started to proceed with somewhat questionable ways. I understand she's 17, but but the way she proceeds to do dangerous things time and again despite her father's warnings had me annoyed more than once.
Lilly's killer. I mean, seriously?I usually find it eye-rollingly troublesome to bring in the actual killer at the last minute, not even giving us the chance to have a guess at him. Pretending to be a whodunnit for 23 episodes and then present us somebody completely out of left field? I understand the show is from Veronica's perspective, we are supposed to know what she knows, but this was a bit too much.
At to watch the first episode of season 2 right away, just to see how certain things panned out... Cool season starter! Only the über-slow reveal of the boyfriend was a bit overdone.
Well, no spoilers please. I hope they are just digging her a hole she can crawl out of later on, once she fell of her high horse into it.
She falls into that hole in the final episode if you ask me.
Well, no spoilers please. I hope they are just digging her a hole she can crawl out of later on, once she fell of her high horse into it.
She falls into that hole in the final episode if you ask me.
Of course I had to read :bag:
So they keep digging throughout the season, then climax with the fall to get a starting point for season 4, just to get cancelled...? :o
So they keep digging throughout the season, then climax with the fall to get a starting point for season 4, just to get cancelled...? :o
Basically...
Can't be much worse than SOAP.
That ended its thrid season with a whole onslaught of cliffhangers (one of them being mortal danger for a main character) just to not return with season 4.
So they keep digging throughout the season, then climax with the fall to get a starting point for season 4, just to get cancelled...? :o
Basically...
Can't be much worse than SOAP.
That ended its thrid season with a whole onslaught of cliffhangers (one of them being mortal danger for a main character) just to not return with season 4.
Veronica gets cocky again and puts herself into trouble way over her head. And that shitload is big enough to not only cover her, but other people as well.
PS: What is SOAP?
I recently watched the second season of Veronica Mars. I decided to post about it in this thread instead of starting a new one.
Veronica Mars: The Complete Second Season
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Who knocked on Veronica's door at the end of Season 1: Duncan? Logan? Someone even more surprising? "I was hoping it would be you," the teen sleuth said. Now you can see who rated that rare Veronica smile, then uncover the newest mystery to envelop the town of Neptune. It begins when Veronica misses the bus – a school bus that minutes later plunges off a cliff into the Pacific. It may be a tragic accident. Or suicide. Or murder. It may (or may not) be tied to Lilly Kane's murder. But you know Veronica's on the case, even when other mysteries lead to danger and double crosses, even when her love life takes a couple of dives onto the pool deck, even when...well, wait and find out. Season 2: new characters, new revelations, same drop-dead dialogue and dead-on cool. Return to Mars. It's everything you like about Neptune.
Episodes:
1. Normal Is the Watchword
2. Driver Ed
3. Cheatty Cheatty Bang Bang
4. Green-Eyed Monster
5. Blast from the Past
6. Rat Saw God
7. Nobody Puts Baby in a Corner
8. Ahoy, Mateys!
9. My Mother, the Fiend
10. One Angry Veronica
11. Donut Run
12. Rashard and Wallace Go to White Castle
13. Ain't No Magic Mountain High Enough
14. Versatile Toppings
15. The Quick and the Wed
16. The Rapes of Graff
17. Plan B
18. I Am God
19. Nevermind the Buttocks
20. Look Who's Stalking
21. Happy Go Lucky
22. Not Pictured
My Thoughts
I enjoyed this season a lot overall, though it is difficult to like some of the characters at times. The story arc with the bus accident is interesting, but not as compelling as the one tied to the first season about Lilly's murder. The mystery aspect of the show still works well, though some of the mysteries do seem weaker. The plots are entertaining and interesting, though at times, things are brought up and then dropped without being fully resolved. I kept waiting for a few things to come up again. A couple of things tied back in to the resolution of Lilly's murder turn up again. I expected some of what happened, but I was also really surprised by a few other things.
It seems like things have to be complicated for Veronica. Just when something starts to calm down a bit, some other complication has to rear up. I don't always like how she handles things. She is basically a smart, likable character, but she does some incredibly stupid things at times. It is hard to like her in some episodes too. There really weren't consequences for some of what she did though.
Like in the episode when Duncan takes Meg's baby. Veronica's dad is really upset with her in that one scene at the end of the episode. He says he won't be able to trust her again. Which is perfectly understandable in the situation. Then that isn't brought up again really...once Veronica makes one of her smartass type cracks about him trusting her and that is about it.
The relationships between the various characters are even more complicated I think..especially some of them. I didn't always care for some of the developments, though they did help keep the show entertaining. There is a bit of action in a few scenes as well as some violence. Some things that come up could be a bit disturbing to some people. The characters are still interesting overall even when they aren't always likable. More of the characters have issues to deal with and it does seem like things aren't as tied to Veronica even though she is still involved in much of what is going on.
The second season of the show is really well done and very entertaining. It is definitely worth watching.
I did get a review posted on Epinions.
Veronica Mars: The Complete Second Season (http://www0.epinions.com/review/mvie_mu-1162963/content_524426972804)
Reviving an old thread, since I'm late to the game to the show.
I just finished season 1, and like some others I'm not too happy about the final episode. Not so much because the killer came out of left field, but because "the killer is in the back seat"
is such a horrible cliche. Hm, maybe the spoiler tag was redundant? I guess pretty much all of you have already seen the show. But apart from that I liked the show quite a lot. I must have, otherwise I wouldn't have finished the whole season in 4 days. (OK, it helped that I had a cold and didn't feel like going outside)