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Hmm. Like last season, I liked the pre-finale episode better than the finale.
The pre-finale kicked ass. I had been thinking that in real life, Aaron Echolls, as a wealthy celebrity tried in the town he's from, would be impossible to convict even if he'd been caught on videotape bashing in Lilly's head. (If a major or even medium celebrity has ever been convicted of murder in Los Angeles, it's not a trial I remember.) But it was pretty shocking and awful to see that happen on the show.
As for the finale...
Weevil being taken away at graduation was heartbreaking, Duncan hiring Clarence Weidman to kill the splendidly evil Aaron Echolls was wonderful, and the contrast between who can hire justice and get away with it and who can't was tragic and completely in keeping with the show's themes.
The Jackie reveal was totally out of left field, and yet I liked it.
Cassidy, whom I now feel guilty calling Beaver, was a logical choice of killer, and his Grand Plot did tie many things together that I had expected to be left unexplained. However, while I could buy him as a killer, his moustache-twirling rooftop "Bwa-ha-ha now I will push a button and murder your father" seemed to come out of a different show. Lex Luthor would have been more subtle.
That being said, I had never really believed that he hadn't raped Veronica because he didn't want to, but had always figured that he might have if he hadn't gotten sick. So his admission that he had was, again, shocking and awful, but plausible.
However, I am hoping that next season will not have a season finale where Veronica is victimized and weeping and has to be rescued by a man. I appreciate that at least here she was more proactive than last time, but small favors. It continues to aggravate me that as far as I recall, we have not once on this show seen a woman successfully use physical force (I am not counting "equalizers" like Tasers) and women rarely ever even attempt to do so. Given the frequency with which Veronica's taser is taken away from her, it is amazing that Keith has never enrolled her in a basic self-defense course. Sure, she is small, but all the more reason for it! (Also, I bet I am smaller than her.)
The "Keith on the plane" thing had me going to the extent that I was ready to never watch the show again. However, I could have lived without it, because it was so intense that it completely overshadowed everything else that happened afterward, rendering the Logan/Veronica ending totally flat.
Who all is returning next season? Weevil better be back!
ETA: I have no idea what was in Kendall's case, nor do I understand exactly what was going on between Kendall, Aaron, Cassidy, Liam Fitzpatrick, the incorporation, the stalker tapes, and the land deal.
The pre-finale kicked ass. I had been thinking that in real life, Aaron Echolls, as a wealthy celebrity tried in the town he's from, would be impossible to convict even if he'd been caught on videotape bashing in Lilly's head. (If a major or even medium celebrity has ever been convicted of murder in Los Angeles, it's not a trial I remember.) But it was pretty shocking and awful to see that happen on the show.
As for the finale...
Weevil being taken away at graduation was heartbreaking, Duncan hiring Clarence Weidman to kill the splendidly evil Aaron Echolls was wonderful, and the contrast between who can hire justice and get away with it and who can't was tragic and completely in keeping with the show's themes.
The Jackie reveal was totally out of left field, and yet I liked it.
Cassidy, whom I now feel guilty calling Beaver, was a logical choice of killer, and his Grand Plot did tie many things together that I had expected to be left unexplained. However, while I could buy him as a killer, his moustache-twirling rooftop "Bwa-ha-ha now I will push a button and murder your father" seemed to come out of a different show. Lex Luthor would have been more subtle.
That being said, I had never really believed that he hadn't raped Veronica because he didn't want to, but had always figured that he might have if he hadn't gotten sick. So his admission that he had was, again, shocking and awful, but plausible.
However, I am hoping that next season will not have a season finale where Veronica is victimized and weeping and has to be rescued by a man. I appreciate that at least here she was more proactive than last time, but small favors. It continues to aggravate me that as far as I recall, we have not once on this show seen a woman successfully use physical force (I am not counting "equalizers" like Tasers) and women rarely ever even attempt to do so. Given the frequency with which Veronica's taser is taken away from her, it is amazing that Keith has never enrolled her in a basic self-defense course. Sure, she is small, but all the more reason for it! (Also, I bet I am smaller than her.)
The "Keith on the plane" thing had me going to the extent that I was ready to never watch the show again. However, I could have lived without it, because it was so intense that it completely overshadowed everything else that happened afterward, rendering the Logan/Veronica ending totally flat.
Who all is returning next season? Weevil better be back!
ETA: I have no idea what was in Kendall's case, nor do I understand exactly what was going on between Kendall, Aaron, Cassidy, Liam Fitzpatrick, the incorporation, the stalker tapes, and the land deal.
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