Season Finale Watch: Veronica Mars

Posted by Maggie May 9th, 2006 at 09:56am In Veronica Mars

Can you feel it in the air? The tingly, electric feeling like right before a thunderstorm? The sweaty-scented, acidy taste of fear and excitement as you're preparing to tell someone off? The heightened sense of color and feeling of interconnectedness, as if you were a poser on an annoying drug trip?

It's the season finale of Veronica Mars, and it's actually airing tonight at 9 PM, because the blessed Nets have arranged their sainted schedule so as not to piss me off.

Watch, as Veronica hopefully pulls together the numerous loose ends of a jam-packed season. Wonder, as she surely will escape a harrowing and violent attacker. Warning… I may be going overboard with the poetic soliliquizing.

And someone dies! Kristen Bell said so!

Adorable! If this doesn't make you want to watch this show, you have a heart of stone.

Update: In tvguide.com today (click the link in the sidebar), Rob Thomas answers and non-answers a bunch of questions. Most interesting answer:

Thomas: The biggest news is that we will be going to a three mystery-per-season format next year. This way, the mysteries will play uninterrupted by repeats or preemptions. We're hoping this will help us cast guest stars in smaller arcs, allow newbies to jump in easier, and lessen the too-much-going-on complaint we heard in Season 2.

Interesting idea. I don't know of any other show that does something like that. Sounds more like three miniseries, not a full season. Will the stories be as gripping and emotionally involving, if they're over faster and don't carry over? Will she still do the one-off mini-mysteries? Because I kind of like those. Something to think about…