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It wasn't that last episode massively offended me. It was that every single thing that I haven't liked about this season was still there, and there was no narrative drive or compelling character conflict or development.
The shrill, stereotyped, obnoxious feminists are still shrill, stereotyped, and obnoxious. Given that class wars and institutionalized misogyny, both issues involving prejudice, violence, unfair advantages, and the value of collective vs. individual action, were so well handled in the first season and to a certain extent in the second, it is rather shocking that the concept of college feminism seems to make the writers brains melt, so that all they can spit out is "rape is bad, but feminists can't do anything about it and their efforts only make themselves stupid, prejudiced, and bitchy."
Logan continues to be... nice. This makes him boring. I do not care about his child abuse and inner pain if he's going to be so damn reasonable about it. (He had so much provocation to punch the reporter that even that seemed reasonable.)
Are they going to do anything with Logan's half-brother? It seems a huge element to bring up for one episode and then abandon. Also, how in the world did the reporter know to bug the brother's phone when the only people who knew that Logan knew about the brother and might call him were Logan and Veronica?
Apparently due to budget problems ($ for actors), Mac, Weevil, and Wallace are MIA.
Keith's plot was extremely boring.
In the dinner with Logan and Keith, Keith didn't say anything outrageous and Logan handled himself just fine, so Veronica's constant and unfunny interruptions made her seem kind of nuts.
Her confession of having been raped herself fell completely flat.
I did like the scene with Dick. That was funny and had relevance to the overall themes-- something seriously lacking in the rest of the show.
The shrill, stereotyped, obnoxious feminists are still shrill, stereotyped, and obnoxious. Given that class wars and institutionalized misogyny, both issues involving prejudice, violence, unfair advantages, and the value of collective vs. individual action, were so well handled in the first season and to a certain extent in the second, it is rather shocking that the concept of college feminism seems to make the writers brains melt, so that all they can spit out is "rape is bad, but feminists can't do anything about it and their efforts only make themselves stupid, prejudiced, and bitchy."
Logan continues to be... nice. This makes him boring. I do not care about his child abuse and inner pain if he's going to be so damn reasonable about it. (He had so much provocation to punch the reporter that even that seemed reasonable.)
Are they going to do anything with Logan's half-brother? It seems a huge element to bring up for one episode and then abandon. Also, how in the world did the reporter know to bug the brother's phone when the only people who knew that Logan knew about the brother and might call him were Logan and Veronica?
Apparently due to budget problems ($ for actors), Mac, Weevil, and Wallace are MIA.
Keith's plot was extremely boring.
In the dinner with Logan and Keith, Keith didn't say anything outrageous and Logan handled himself just fine, so Veronica's constant and unfunny interruptions made her seem kind of nuts.
Her confession of having been raped herself fell completely flat.
I did like the scene with Dick. That was funny and had relevance to the overall themes-- something seriously lacking in the rest of the show.