Veronica Mars S01E17
The episode that makes us ask ourselves, which is cheaper, a PI or college tuition?
In the last episode, Veronica spent her college fund to sober up her mother. Now she’s worried about how she’ll afford college. It seems to me that she makes plenty of money. A thousand dollars for a week’s work? She could easily afford Harvard at that rate. Plus, she can do it during finals week. I mean, if she works part time through college, she’ll have no trouble. It’s just another mirage to chase.
Similarly, we’re being set up to think that Duncan killed Lilly, and as I previously said, it’s a false lead. We probably haven’t even met the killer yet, or if we have, he/she/it hasn’t been linked to Lilly in any meaningful way. Bah humbug.
Logan was completely reasonable and even nice in this episode. And he managed to keep his pants on. Doesn’t make me like him. His story about Duncan throttling his own father is interesting, but I don’t think it applies to Lilly. I mean, if I were faced with Jake Kane on a daily basis and suddenly had my inhibitions removed, I’d throttle him too.
Finally, Koontz’s daughter seems like a nice enough girl and I’m wondering what all the security chief told her. He told the Mars clan that he just told her about her father’s health, but I think he is probably more crafty than that, and it would have taken more than that to convince her. I guess we’ll never know.
Well, it’s time to hang up my Veronica Mars hat until Sunday. Hopefully I can finish season one then. I’m so used to BBC shows that only have six episodes per season I forgot how arduous it can be watching an entire American series.
posted by Scott @ 11:43 AM
1 Comments:
So you're back to disliking Logan? We may have problems on Tuesday night! He is, after all, a deeply troubled boy who has been dysfunctional for quite some time. A complete emotional 180 seems like an impossibility. I think he is starting to see Veronica's investigation as something other than destructive. He is beginning to "get" her and his appreciation of her skills is pretty clear.
Maybe I'm just a girl who is a bit partial to the PJA personality type. I have dated my share. But they've layered Logan enough to make it understandable.
Again, I don't cry foul about the way they've gone about "solving" this murder. We are meant to see it as Veronica sees it. They use of flashbacks shows us what she remembers to remember (if that makes sense) about events that seemed different to her then. She's seeing them in a new light now as she discovers new evidence, and I think we're meant to view her solving of the murder the same way.
But clearly, you aren't a convert to that line of thinking. No matter. I'm happy you're watching it!!
(Oh, and there are a few things I would like to comment on but won't, as I don't want to give things away... but I will say some of the mystery, even though "solved" at the end of the season, still lingers in season two. We are reminded of certain things in season two we learned as asides in season one that color the way we view current events.)
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