Veronica Mars 2.13
Feb. 11th, 2006 04:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenakDue to the heavy snow in Munich, I didn't arrive until late in the evening, and the airbus from Frankfurt was packed with other Munich-bound travellers. On the bright side of things, I spent a longer time at the Vienna airport, which is way nicer than the Frankfurt one.
I also got the latest Veronica Mars, which was nifty.
I think I finally see why Jackie is in the credits. As opposed to the more gimmicky use of her last episode, this felt organic, and the actress did a nice job with the entire carnival sequence.
You know, ever since Logan started to beat up that undercover police guy who he thought was threatening Veronica, he never was more "son of Aaron Echolls" than in this episode with Hannah. Because this was very much the son of an actor playing a role, using his charm to get something in a manner disconnected with actual feelings for the girl he's charming. I felt far more chilled than when he's destroying lamps belonging to Keith Mars.
Meanwhile, our former vice-principal and new headmaster shows he doesn't suffer from amnesia. Having used Veronica's sleuthing skills himself to oust his superior, he doesn't dismiss them. Am very happy with the way both he and Sheriff Lamb got from caricatured figures of authority to real people this season.
Rob Thomas can do money and greed as motives. So many people going for noir narratives can't or ignore it in favour or sex. I thought of this in the episode where we see the teacher getting ruined by Casablancas Senior's swindlings, and now again with Ms. Hauser, and Terrence' backstory.
Keith and Terrence the fallen sports star getting drunk together: touching without being mawkish, and I'm assuming Keith is right in his judgement regarding Jackie's father. Guilty of criminal activities but not a killer.
Speaking of touching scenes: the one with Wallace where he gave his ex-girlfriend a short reprieve by aiming his balls elsewhere was predictable but nonetheless made me saw, aw, Wallace.
That last scene with Veronica and Weevil makes me wish we'd get more of those again. Also, if Weevil is indeed growing his hair after being expelled from his gang it makes for an odd but fitting counterpoint to Veronica cutting hers back in the day.
My mother just called and announced my father is depressed and needs cheering up, so she's sending him to me and both of us to Bad Wiessee to ski before I get back to work and travel next Tuesday. Filial duty in the snow, here I come!
I also got the latest Veronica Mars, which was nifty.
I think I finally see why Jackie is in the credits. As opposed to the more gimmicky use of her last episode, this felt organic, and the actress did a nice job with the entire carnival sequence.
You know, ever since Logan started to beat up that undercover police guy who he thought was threatening Veronica, he never was more "son of Aaron Echolls" than in this episode with Hannah. Because this was very much the son of an actor playing a role, using his charm to get something in a manner disconnected with actual feelings for the girl he's charming. I felt far more chilled than when he's destroying lamps belonging to Keith Mars.
Meanwhile, our former vice-principal and new headmaster shows he doesn't suffer from amnesia. Having used Veronica's sleuthing skills himself to oust his superior, he doesn't dismiss them. Am very happy with the way both he and Sheriff Lamb got from caricatured figures of authority to real people this season.
Rob Thomas can do money and greed as motives. So many people going for noir narratives can't or ignore it in favour or sex. I thought of this in the episode where we see the teacher getting ruined by Casablancas Senior's swindlings, and now again with Ms. Hauser, and Terrence' backstory.
Keith and Terrence the fallen sports star getting drunk together: touching without being mawkish, and I'm assuming Keith is right in his judgement regarding Jackie's father. Guilty of criminal activities but not a killer.
Speaking of touching scenes: the one with Wallace where he gave his ex-girlfriend a short reprieve by aiming his balls elsewhere was predictable but nonetheless made me saw, aw, Wallace.
That last scene with Veronica and Weevil makes me wish we'd get more of those again. Also, if Weevil is indeed growing his hair after being expelled from his gang it makes for an odd but fitting counterpoint to Veronica cutting hers back in the day.
My mother just called and announced my father is depressed and needs cheering up, so she's sending him to me and both of us to Bad Wiessee to ski before I get back to work and travel next Tuesday. Filial duty in the snow, here I come!
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this is my Logan icon
Date: 2006-02-11 07:59 pm (UTC)And Logan Logan Logan; very good use of the character -- I knew there was a twist coming but didn't expect that one.
Overall, a nice solid whodunit episode. And I'm really digging Weevil's story -- unlike some of the other plots, this one keeps going places I don't expect.
Re: this is my Logan icon
Date: 2006-02-11 08:21 pm (UTC)Weevil: the anti-Gunn? (re: the recycled Gunn plot until season 5.) Or am I being unfair?
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Date: 2006-02-11 08:30 pm (UTC)Hmm, maybe. The two characters definitely come from the same prototype; but the constantly recycled Gunn-plot seems to have been a result of Gunn's backstory (or really, much of anything about the series from Gunn's POV) seems to have been poorly thought-out, so that whenever they needed a personal story for Gunn, they kept going back to the same well. Though I also read somewhere that Tim Minear originally "This Old Gang of Mine" to have a story in which Gunn was homeless/living in his truck (even after having worked for Angel for a year!) but was too proud to admit it. I'm quite thankful they scrapped that, personally --
Honestly, if I was going to make a comparison of Weevil to a Buffyverse character, it would be to the early version of chipped Spike.