But I would say that as an episode in a vacuum, I liked 1x21 better. There were technicalities about it as an episode rather than as a season-ender that bugged me. Too much time on the action scene. Weird assed pacing. Too much, probably, packed into a single ep so that it felt like there was a good bit of lip service.
The dangling threads don't bug me -- I expected, even wanted, some of those. Everything wasn't tied up neatly with a bow, so there's more to tell next season.
What I find interesting is that I very often feel this way about season finale eps -- they work really, really well as capstones to seasonal arcs, but not very well internally as episodes. In VM, I think the difference is more pronounced because we've become trained to expect really well done A *and* B plots, and this one was single-threaded. Less metaphor, more action, etc. That created a bit of a gap for me, too.
But ultimately, I honestly found this particular way to wrap up the Lilly mystery more emotionally satisfying than any that might have been more technically "correct" for genre or surprise factor or twistyness. The show, for me, is all about Veronica. I find Logan equally fascinating, but it's about her. The mystery is (mysteries are?) just a frame for her journey -- from that standpoint, this ep worked exceptionally well for me.
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Date: 2005-05-11 03:48 pm (UTC)But I would say that as an episode in a vacuum, I liked 1x21 better. There were technicalities about it as an episode rather than as a season-ender that bugged me. Too much time on the action scene. Weird assed pacing. Too much, probably, packed into a single ep so that it felt like there was a good bit of lip service.
The dangling threads don't bug me -- I expected, even wanted, some of those. Everything wasn't tied up neatly with a bow, so there's more to tell next season.
What I find interesting is that I very often feel this way about season finale eps -- they work really, really well as capstones to seasonal arcs, but not very well internally as episodes. In VM, I think the difference is more pronounced because we've become trained to expect really well done A *and* B plots, and this one was single-threaded. Less metaphor, more action, etc. That created a bit of a gap for me, too.
But ultimately, I honestly found this particular way to wrap up the Lilly mystery more emotionally satisfying than any that might have been more technically "correct" for genre or surprise factor or twistyness. The show, for me, is all about Veronica. I find Logan equally fascinating, but it's about her. The mystery is (mysteries are?) just a frame for her journey -- from that standpoint, this ep worked exceptionally well for me.
I'm babbling.
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