Veronica Mars season two: finale

[rachelmanija]

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.

Comments

Weevil

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

What evidence can Lamb have on Weevil? As far as I know, they don't even have a body for You Know Who. Whose to say YKW didn't just leave town?

Re: Weevil

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

There was a newspaper article saying Thumper's body had been found, and an eyewitness who saw Weevil attacking him. I'd say there's enough to bring him to trial.

Re: Weevil

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

But Thumper was left behind the vehicle. All Weevil did was rob him. If Weevil's defense team (Cliff) can find one witness that Thumper was alive _after_ Weevil mugged him, Weevil should be in the clear.

Re: Weevil

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Of course, the last time Cliff defended someone on a murder rap and it got to court, the guy ended up on death row.

Re: Weevil

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

I think it would be extremely difficult to make a case against Weevil for murder IF they tried to prove that he set up Thumper so that the Fitzpatricks would kill him. However, if no once saw Thumper alive after Weevil robbed him, they could make a decent case that Weevil drugged him, then left him tied up in the stadium. Given the level of destruction, I don't think they'd be able to get the Fitzpatricks' fingerprints, and even if they did, that wouldn't eliminate Weevil as a suspect. Weevil's best bet would be for one of the Fitzpatricks to take immunity in exchange for ratting out the others.

[lydzi-de-galles.livejournal.com]

I love the finale of the second season even if it broke my heart especially for Mac. That poor girl... I heart her ^^.

[justinelavaworm.livejournal.com]

To focus on the most important part of your post: Kirsten Bell's listed as 5foot1 (155), but a friend who saw her in ze flesh says that she's 5ft tops and prolly not even. That makes her shorter than you, right?

Though yes why she hasn't learned some self-defence boggles the mind!

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

I am exactly 5ft, so she's smaller than me if she's under that. But still!

[umadoshi.livejournal.com]

I haven't watched the season three opener yet (by the time I found a copy, it was so close to the broadcast date that I figured I'd wait and see it in higher quality), but I did watch the opening credits. There was squee. ^^

. . . I seem to be commenting in your journal a lot today.

[coffeeandink.livejournal.com]

Astonishingly, if you look at my vmars post, you will find practically exactly the same reaction to everything, including whether or not Cassidy raped Veronica.