Confession time

Posted by Dan February 23rd, 2007 at 01:57pm In Veronica Mars

Okay, so I have been super late getting on the Veronica Mars bandwagon.

You see, I don't watch anything on the CW.  Or UPN/the WB in its day.  The most experience I had with the network was playing the Seventh Heaven Drinking Game.  But I always heard great things about the show, so I was curious.

So along comes Christmas and I'm bored off my ass.  No one's at work.  Everyone I know is out of town, with visions of sugarplums dancing in their goyisha heads. Taking this opportunity, I began to binge on Veronica Mars season one DVDs.

And holy shit.  This show is really good and I'm preeeetty much the last person on earth to know it.

I'm probably a little more than 2/3 of the way through season two and I have no idea how it's going to end.  I went through the entire first season thinking it had been spoiled for me and that Duncan did it.  So then, I was thinking that Duncan did it in the second season and BAM! he runs off with Meg's coma-baby.  If you can help it, please don't spoil/hint about/Brustein it for me.

So here is a list of disjointed, unconnected thoughts (the only kind I have, for the most part) on seasons one and most of season two. 

• Kristin Cavallari = worst lesbian ever.  On a variety of levels.  Lord knows I'm no fan of Paris Hilton, but at least she knew the limits on her acting chops (playing a vapid rich princess).  Or maybe the producers knew the limits…  Hmmm…
• Sometimes I feel like Veronica and her dad are going to start making out.  They both arrive home and the other is making dinner.  They share a bottle of wine.  It's the same way my roommate thinks that the Petrelli brother should start making out (which, the powers that be, I am in complete favor of).
• I appreciated the Arrested Development kids' appearance on the college tour episode.  Generally, all the stunt casting is well done with few exceptions (see first bullet).
• Throughout the first season, I had a hard time thinking that Lily Kane didn't predict the weather with her breasts. (Fun fact: Amanda Seyfried originally auditioned for the part of Veronica)
• Logan Echolls (or, more appropriately, Jason Dohring) is too goofy and boyish-looking for me to take seriously as a badass.  That said, he is ripped.
• Weevil is the most heady, sophisticated murderin', leather-clad gang leader I've come across.
• The whole who-killed-Felix subplot is confusing and not that interesting. 
• It was fun watching that journalism teacher at the beginning of season one be written out with one off-hand sentence from Veronica about how she got pregnant.