Okay, so we finally watched Veronica Mars last night. It was Tuesday, it was 8 p.m., the previous show was over, nothing else was on, Margie asked “Do we dare?” and I said “Sure” …
And — yeah, well … those who like that sort of thing will maybe find it the sort of thing they like.
The main VM plotline (Veronica goes all Nancy Drew over the guy upstairs who she thinks has done in his gal) had some moderately witty dialog, leavened with clunky and difficult-to-suspend-disbelief plotting. Frankly, I found Buffy a lot more realistic. Heck, I found Nancy Drew more realistic (and Pamela Sue Martin was hot) …
The B-plot (the snarky white rich kid and the snarky Hispanic gangsta kid engage in a war of wills with a cranky teacher) just didn’t float my boat. Perhaps I am too much of an old codger (and former teacher) to get my kicks out of smart-ass kids triumphing over stodgy school disciplinarians (though I thought it was done quite nicely — and with real humor — in Ferris Bueller and any number of other movies and shows I’ve watched, all the way to Recess). It just fell flat for me, and made me want to give them detention scrubbing out the toilets or mucking the stables or something. Or, perhaps, a good box to the ears.
So … I’m glad for all you VMaddicts that the show has been renewed, and Whatever Gets You Through the Night. But I don’t see me going out of my way on future Tuesdays to watch it. If it happens to be on, and nothing else is … maybe. Or maybe not.
A real shame that that’s the episode you decided to watch — easily the worst episode of the show that I’ve seen. Easily. Way easily… this episode was to Veronica Mars what Teacher’s Pet was to Buffy’s first season (the one with the Praying Mantis substitute teacher, ironically). I started to wonder about half-way through if the writer had ever seen the show. At all.
So, once bitten, I guess — just wish it hadn’t been such a crappy shark 🙂
Heh. That well and truly figures.
The only thing that would have fit into Murphy’s Law of Recommended TV Shows is if you guys had come over with the explicit intent of sitting us down and convincing us to watch the show … and that was the one that aired.
Heh.
Okay, I’ll nudge the “Maybe watch again” slider up a notch or two, on your recommendation.
(Ironically, btw, that’s the one BtVS early seasons ep that I never saw.)
There’s a reason — they never re-ran it. Ever.
But Xander had a lot of self-deprecating fun referring back to it. 🙂