Veronica Mars begun

[selenak]

A bunch of episodes from the fabled Veronica Mars arrived, thanks to monanotlisa and her sister, and I've watched the first four while stealing time from the post-60th birthday cleanup at home. (Said 60th birthday, of my father, went splendidly, but we had a whole lot of people around, so I was running around pretty much all of yesterday and yesterday night.) First impressions: me likes. Veronica herself most of all. Structurally, though, I wonder whether this show will go the way of Twin Peaks. Meaning that once the Who Killed Laura Palmer? mystery of TP was cleared up, the show struggled (not aided by David Lynch being MIA until the finale) to find a new momentum, and Windom Earle didn't quite cut it. If Veronica Mars makes Who Killed Lily Kane? so central, there could be a smilar trap door waiting. Though so far, the cases of the week Veronica solves (which wasn't something really on the menu in Twin Peaks) have been interesting on their own merit while the ongoing Lily story smoulders in the background.

Can't help but notice some similarities between the Lily/Veronica and Laura/Donna relationships, which automatically makes me suspect Old Man Kane of being Leland Palmer. (Clearly, Veronica's father has watched Twin Peaks as well.*g*) Mrs. Kane, otoh, seems to have wandered in from Manchurian Candidate, new version? so does that make Duncan Liev Schreiber? She was rather insistent on those anti depressants...

Also: Using the name "Kane" is a bit cheeky, Mr. Thomas. We'll see.

In other news, yahtzee63 has started a new Alias epic, set immediately after season 4. It's probably good for me that I now have to return to the cleanup operations, or else I would stare on the screen for hours, trying to conjur up the next part. Works-in-progress are mean.

Comments

[vonnie-k.livejournal.com]

Yay, Veronica Mars!

Rob Thomas, the creator of the show, has plotted out another season-long mystery for S2. Whether it would be as personally resonant as Lilly's murder and Veronica's own rape remains to be seen. As a fan of the show, I think it'd be damn near impossible to do better on S1, but the show has surprised me before, so we shall see.

The names are very deliberate on the show. There is even an "Abel" to the "Kane".

Since you're a fan of Alias and of Jack Bristow in particular, I think you'll end up digging the dynamic between Keith and Veronica in particular, which ended up supplanting Jack & Sydney relationship as my favorite father & daughter relationship on TV ever by mid-season. Oh! And avoid fan sites and such as they are likely to spoil you.

cheeky Kane

[likeadeuce.livejournal.com]

you'll notice a lot of name puns in the series -- Mars/Neptune is just the start. (The Kanes later encounter an Abel, for example). I think the blatancy of this makes it forgivable :).

incidentally, here's Lily's dad in happier days (he was a series lead on Homicide: Life on the Street one of my first fandom-obsessions). looking frighteningly young.

Re: cheeky Kane

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Good lord. He does look like a child.

Abel as in Abel Koontz? Yes, I noticed.*g*

[likeadeuce.livejournal.com]

ah yes, Kyle Secor was the official downy innocent of Homicide before he went off the deep end in late seasons (but then, so did the show).

he's been in a lot of crap and cancelled shows since then, but I think with VM he's been reinvented as a "mature" actor.

I still haven't seen most of VM because the local station pre-empted it all the time, but I'm hoping to catch up with the DVDs soon.

[kathyh]

Belated happy 60th birthday to your dad!

yahtzee63 has started a new Alias epic, set immediately after season 4.

One day I'm actually going to catch up with Alias enough to read all this fic! The idea of yahtzee fic is terribly tempting but I must resist until we've finished season 4 (only 2 eps to go).

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Once you've seen those two episodes, I could give you a list, you know.*g*

[kathyh]

I might take you up on that! We should finish it next week before we go on holiday. I've enjoyed Season 4 much more than Season 3 and even the Rambaldi stuff is starting to make the kind of sense that doesn't really, but might if you squint at it for long enough *g*.

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Season 4 might just end up as my overall favourite. The only reason why I hesitate is that season 2 has SpyMommy throughout, but otherwise, I love 4 to bits.