Doing as near as back to back reviews of a show is always tough, seeing as you more often than not end up saying a the same things all over again, but using newer and shinier words. The same thing goes for season 2 of Veronica Mars, cos there ain’t that much new under the sun. What was good last season is good this season and what they needed to improve upon (if anything) is still not quite there.
However, I’ll try to take a stab at what I found a lacking with this season. Just keep in mind that I absolutely adore this show now, so I’m saying these negative things about it to prevent myself from soaring off the side off planet, driven solely by my own praise song…
First off, I thought the beginning of the season was too slow, and they didn’t even manage to introduce more than a singe worthwhile character (Jackie) during this “Hey, let’s mess around a bit until we get the season arc off its ass” period. The season arc itself was also not as good as the one we had in season 1, but that one would be hard to top with any kind of story. The only conceivable way they could have made a much better arc was if they had laced more background story into the first season, which would have dragged it down and bugged it.
But all in all, this was great season. Nearly everything about it is as good as the first season (excepting previously mentioned *failings*), and maybe it wasn’t as continuously engaging, but that’s understandable.
8,5 /10
Can’t wait to see what I make of the third season. I have a hard time believing it’s going to be really bad. Why? Because I can’t say that I’ve seen a single crappy episode of Veronica Mars so far. Let’s hope it doesn’t break its perfect record.
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No, no crappy episodes in the third one, in fact, there’s numeours very good ones. No crappy season plot, either. But that’s ’cause there’s virtually no season plot at all.
9. December 2007 @ 12:46 ( Permalink )
Well, there are two, as far as I can tell. None of them occupy too much time in any one episode, as far as I can tell (excepting the resolving eps, of course), but combined, they get at least some screen time.
And no, the season is not crappy at all. I’m in the middle of it now, and will probably finish it later tonight, and I have to say I love it. Sure, it doesn’t have the excruciating season plot of 1 or 2, but its still fairly good. Some might say that the episode plots are a bit weak, but episode plots usually are. And I never watched VM for the episode plots in the first place, I watch mainly for characters and stuff like that… :\
(Rushed post due to time deficits; probably shouldn’t have posted, but…)
10. December 2007 @ 05:15 ( Permalink )
hey bro, so you have finally accepted I am right and you are wrong?? I rememeber your comments about this show as I followed it ( a long long time ago…) and I want a SORRY! 3rd season is ok, though I kind of got the feeling, seen it before…
10. December 2007 @ 12:33 ( Permalink )
I will of course never accept that I was wrong with not watching Veronica Mars until now. I simply waited for the most opportune moment to arrive so that I would in fact enjoy it.
10. December 2007 @ 13:42 ( Permalink )
He means “he just waited for someone to send it to his lazy ass so he could watch it without doing anything more tiresome than putting DVDs in players.”
10. December 2007 @ 14:58 ( Permalink )
‘m torn between principles here, and loyalties as well. On one hand, I want to support the Sister’s demand for an apology, or something a bit more diffuse, I don’t know what, for the boy’s behaviour earlier.
But on the other hand, as a fellow younger brother, I can appreciate the principle of never accepting to an elder sibling that that sibling was right, and that you, the younger one, was wrong.
Luckily, neither I nor anyone else really care, so I can safely sit this one out.
11. December 2007 @ 02:12 ( Permalink )
You should respect your elders. That includes older siblings.
And way more importantly, you should admit to being wrong if you think that you are wrong. It’s, like, the very basis of my moral code. People who don’t adhere to it go to Hell before anyone else does if I get to decide.
11. December 2007 @ 05:47 ( Permalink )
Ah, but you see, in sibling language, the previous comment was an apology. I’ll admit it wasn’t a very good one, but that’s how she’d interpret it. If she says anything else she’s just messing with.
Which is what siblings do, after all…
11. December 2007 @ 10:47 ( Permalink )
Btw, my own personal moral code is “Deny till you die!”.
I think I heard it in a Scrubs episode
11. December 2007 @ 10:49 ( Permalink )
I have siblings too. Three, as a matter of fact. I haven’t had qualms about apologising to them if I do something poorly or wrong since I was, what, thirteen?
Of course, I’m thrice the man you two are aspiring to be.
11. December 2007 @ 14:16 ( Permalink )
Yup.
AND you’re the only one of who’s pretentious enough to use a god’s name as a webnick
12. December 2007 @ 04:11 ( Permalink )
Actually, he’s a Jotnir, I don’t think you qualify as a god if you’re adopted.
But it’s not as a webnick. I’m really him. (Some of the time) Just don’t tell anyone, we’re trying to keep it a secret.
12. December 2007 @ 07:54 ( Permalink )
Huh… I’ve always heard him (you?) spoken of as a Norse god. D’oh!
12. December 2007 @ 09:37 ( Permalink )
Well, depends. If you define gods very broadly as powerful beings whose existance is somehow elevated above humans, then yeah, he is. But then so would, say, Midgardsormen be. So, what’s your definition of a Norse god? He’ll fall within some definitions, outside of others. As for the Norse expression “Aesir”, he is an Aesir by adoption, so that’d again be a question of definition.
12. December 2007 @ 10:45 ( Permalink )
Well, I haven’t given this much thought, but I guess that I’d call someone a Norse god if someone prayed and made offerings to them, and were somehow elevated above normal humans. Don’t know if people made offerings or prayed to Loki, but at least he fills one criteria.
12. December 2007 @ 11:05 ( Permalink )
It’s… unclear, whether or not people made offerings or prayed to Loki. We have very litle by way of sources to Norse cult. Myth, yeah, quite a bit. Cult, next to nothing. But there’s no definite proof he had cult, no.
12. December 2007 @ 13:46 ( Permalink )
Proof, roof, who needs it? I’m calling Loki a god and no one can stop me doing so
13. December 2007 @ 10:18 ( Permalink )
Well, if I *am* a god, I could probably smite you. Which would prove you right, true, but it’d also kill you, so you’d never know, and I’d have effectively stopped you from calling me one.
Bwhahaha.
(God of Mischief indeed!
)
13. December 2007 @ 10:53 ( Permalink )
“It’s… unclear, whether or not people made offerings or prayed to Loki. We have very litle by way of sources to Norse cult. Myth, yeah, quite a bit. Cult, next to nothing. But there’s no definite proof he had cult, no.”
Then again, as far as I’ve been able to gather from my very few archeology lessons, there’s hardly any definite proof of any other deity’s cult, either. There are a lot of indications, sure, but hardly proof.
Also, am I sick if your little discussion here made me want to read Loki’s term paper “What is a god?” again?
(On a concluding note, I absolutely agree with you on the whole “admitting to be wrong” concept, Loki. Sure, I’m intellectually vain beyond belief, and so it’s hard to live up to a principle like this one, but easy principles are hardly worth having, eh?)
13. December 2007 @ 15:21 ( Permalink )
Yes you are, the censors didn’t like it. I didn’t like it. (Well, okay, I thought it was fun to write, but I knew it sucked academically) Spending fifteen minutes of my exam talking about its weaknesses (even though it didn’t technically count) did not help with avoiding the C.
(Yay! No smiting for you, then. ^^)
13. December 2007 @ 15:38 ( Permalink )