Veronica Mars - The Complete Third Season dvd movie.|
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List Price: $59.98 Our Price: $38.99 You Save: $20.99 Features • Anamorphic • Color • Dolby • NTSC In Theaters : 2006 DVD Release : 23 October, 2007 |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Has it's moments but pales in comparison to the early days |
| I loved the first season of Veronica Mars. The second season was good despite it's faults. The third left me with a giant mental question mark. Part of the problem was that the show switched networks and had to accomidate a new audience that would be coming in with little to no knowledge of what happened previously on the show. To deal with that, the writers decided to abandon the season long mystery arcs that the show had used earlier (Lily Kane's murder in Season One and the bus crash in Season 2) in favor of 2 "mini arcs" several episodes each and final five stand alone episodes. While I see the reasoning behind the decision to do this the show suffered from a lack of cohesiveness. But that was a minor problem for this season.
When we first met Veronica she was a high school junior whose world had been turned upside down. Her best friend had been brutally murdered, her boyfriend had dumped her, her father had lost his job and her mother had left town. To top it all off she'd been drugged and raped at a party. We see her in that first season, intelligent and determined to put her life back together. And we cheer for her as she does it- she doesn't recreate the life she once had but she creates something new. Fast foreward a few years to the third season. Veronica is begining college at the prestigious Heast College, with her high school friends by her side, including her boyfriend, Logan Echolls. She's still beautiful, still smart and sarcastic, but the good heart and plucky determinism is wearing a bit thin. Her first case: catch the rapist who has been drugging coed's, raping them, and shaving their heads. For Veronica this case should hit close to home. Perhaps a bit too close to home. But it doesn't. She approaches it as just another case, forgetting that she's a survivor of the same crime, and only bringing it up to the victims when it can be used to her advantage. It makes her seem a little cold. A little less sympathetic. Almost each case Veronica takes on this season involves sex in some way: the hooker with the heart of gold trying to escape her pimp, the faux sex tape making it's way around campus, and much of the time it's exploitive. None of which seems to phase Veronica. Her personal connection to these crimes is quite simply ignored by the writers. That's a huge fault in my book. The characters have also lost some bite. Logan Echolls, Veronica's soul mate and sometimes nemesis has always had a sarcastic wit to match Veronica's. He's been able to think on his feet and joke his way into and out of sticky situations. That's what makes his scenes with Veronica a treat: Watching their chemisty as they butt heads and occasionally meet in the middle. But when this season begins Logan has lost his sense of humor. He broods, he cuddles with Veronica but there's nary a snarky comment. Veronica and her father once had one of the best father/daughter dynamics on television. They were pals, coworkers, and family. They'd joke with eachother but there was always a genuine affection underlying it. But in this season their banter crossed the line from friendly to disturbingly sexual. It was almost as if the writers forgot that they're father and daughter. *spoiler alert* Continuity, never the shows strong point, is pretty much discarded this season. Veronica's best friend, Wallece, disappears for a large portion of this season but his absense is never explained. He shows up again with no explanation as to where he was and no one bats an eyelash. Such gaps are par for the course here. We do have some good moments in this season: we have several surprising revelations, a few tense moments, and some witty scenereos. The episode where Veronica uncovers the identity of the Hearst rapist is a winner for example. That's why I'm giving this season two stars. But when I compare it to what once was it's clear that this show really jumped the shark in it's third and final season. |
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