Veronica Mars finale thoughts
May. 11th, 2005 05:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
angela_oA lot of bandwidth has already been used over the VM finale and most of it seems to be squeeing of the "it's the greatest thing evah!!" variety. I found it to be, well, disappointing isn't exactly right, but strangely unsatisfying comes close to summing things up. I'm still mulling over exactly what didn't work for me and will in all likelihood post more about that at a later point, but there were some things that I great enjoyed.
So, here's a random sampling of the very good.
Loved the use of "Boris and Gilda Kane". What a great shout out to the noir comparisons that have been bandied about all season. Boris Ingster was the director of the film that's generally considered to be the first full length noir and Gilda and Citizen Kane are two prime examples of noir. Someone on the writing staff has been doing their homework. :)
Loved that Veronica had absolutely no hesitation about signing away any claim on the Kane money. She's made her unequivocal choice. No matter what, Keith is her dad. And he is. The relationship between Keith and Veronica is one of the most loving parent/child relationships that I've ever seen depicted on television.
Wallace's mimic of Veronica's head tilt paired with the "I need a favor" was very funny. Girlfriend is going to need some new tricks next season.
Also loved that Backup liked (and licked) Logan while attacking Aaron. Animals know more than people think that they do. Too bad Veronica isn't as discriminating.
Veronica's last "vision" of Lilly was incredibly bittersweet. Floating in their hot pink bathing suits in a pool of lilies. For all Lilly's faults, she did burn brightly and Veronica's life is never going to go back to the way that it was before.
Loved that Veronica called Alicia to come to the hospital. Veronica's letting go of her childhood illusions, painful though that may be.
Celeste's comments about becoming Republicans. It was a touch of humor from the Ice Queen. Who knew she had it in her.
Veronica checking her seat belt before crashing the car. I guess she read up on the statistics that show you should do whatever possible to get out of the car with a suspected killer. It ups your survival rates.
There were a number of great continuity elements. Veronica deciding to keep her walkie talkies in the car due to the dirt in her locker is one that jumped out at me.
Beaver, I mean Cassidy, deciding to think for himself and do the right thing. There's hope for him as a human being yet.
The double entendre of the title. I'm amazed that one made it past the censors. Although the fact that there are brothers named Dick and Beaver also amazes me for much the same reason. lol
The acting. Was almost uniformly excellent. Even Teddy Dunn was tracking closer to the rest of the cast in this episode. Although Veronica might want to stop and think about the fact that even though it turned out that she and Duncan aren't related, he still thought that they were siblings when he had sex with her. Uh, disturbing.
More later I'm sure.
So, here's a random sampling of the very good.
Loved the use of "Boris and Gilda Kane". What a great shout out to the noir comparisons that have been bandied about all season. Boris Ingster was the director of the film that's generally considered to be the first full length noir and Gilda and Citizen Kane are two prime examples of noir. Someone on the writing staff has been doing their homework. :)
Loved that Veronica had absolutely no hesitation about signing away any claim on the Kane money. She's made her unequivocal choice. No matter what, Keith is her dad. And he is. The relationship between Keith and Veronica is one of the most loving parent/child relationships that I've ever seen depicted on television.
Wallace's mimic of Veronica's head tilt paired with the "I need a favor" was very funny. Girlfriend is going to need some new tricks next season.
Also loved that Backup liked (and licked) Logan while attacking Aaron. Animals know more than people think that they do. Too bad Veronica isn't as discriminating.
Veronica's last "vision" of Lilly was incredibly bittersweet. Floating in their hot pink bathing suits in a pool of lilies. For all Lilly's faults, she did burn brightly and Veronica's life is never going to go back to the way that it was before.
Loved that Veronica called Alicia to come to the hospital. Veronica's letting go of her childhood illusions, painful though that may be.
Celeste's comments about becoming Republicans. It was a touch of humor from the Ice Queen. Who knew she had it in her.
Veronica checking her seat belt before crashing the car. I guess she read up on the statistics that show you should do whatever possible to get out of the car with a suspected killer. It ups your survival rates.
There were a number of great continuity elements. Veronica deciding to keep her walkie talkies in the car due to the dirt in her locker is one that jumped out at me.
Beaver, I mean Cassidy, deciding to think for himself and do the right thing. There's hope for him as a human being yet.
The double entendre of the title. I'm amazed that one made it past the censors. Although the fact that there are brothers named Dick and Beaver also amazes me for much the same reason. lol
The acting. Was almost uniformly excellent. Even Teddy Dunn was tracking closer to the rest of the cast in this episode. Although Veronica might want to stop and think about the fact that even though it turned out that she and Duncan aren't related, he still thought that they were siblings when he had sex with her. Uh, disturbing.
More later I'm sure.
