Flashback: Fall, 2005. Zoom in on a younger version of me and you’d find someone who never watched television.
Well, not never, but never anything on primetime. I’d watch a spare show here or there, but I wasn’t devoted to any shows. Television just wasn’t my thing. I hadn’t grown up with it and I certainly had no attachment to it then. Ironic, considering what I do now, right?
All my friends were talking about this new show, Veronica Mars. Apparently, it was the greatest secret no one was watching. It was smart, funny, sexy… everything you’d want in a show. So what the hell, I thought. I’ll tune into this show’s second season and catch up.
And that was the night my life changed forever.
Trying to describe what Veronica Mars meant to me is actually quite difficult. It was what got me through some of the worst years of my high school life, it’s what made me start along what would ultimately be a kind-of career, it was my friend that came on every Wednesday and totally blew my mind. It was, quite simply, the perfect show.
I instantly fell in love with Keith Mars (still the best dad ever portrayed on television), Wallace, Weevil, and as far as I’m still concerned, Veronica Mars in all her screwed-up glory still walks on water (thus explaining my lingering similar adoration for Kristen Bell). She was everything I wanted to be. She was snarky, smart, gorgeous, kick-ass, and had the best damn wardrobe I’d ever seen. Sure, she was raped (sorta), her mom left her, her life was totally screwed up, her taste in boys sucked, she was kind of a bitch, and her best friend was murdered, but whatever. I’d never wanted someone else’s life so badly.
And don’t even get me started on her and Logan. There was no couple I rooted for more than I rooted for these two. They were both so perfect together — so flawed, so damaged in a way only the other could understand, so fundamentally meant for each other, so, well… epic.
I guess all of this was why the third season was such an epic betrayal to me. Honestly, it sucked. It took all these characters and situations I was so utterly, utterly in love with and ruined them. Piz? Breaking up Logan and Veronica? Veronica’s weird curly hair? Where was Wallace? As far as I’m concerned, the third season never happened. Logan and Veronica had a gloriously weird, epic relationship and ran off into the sunset, solving crime, kicking ass, and taking names. Wallace was their best man at their wedding and Keith cried. Mac continued to be the Q to Veronica’s Bond, and everything was perfect. That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it come hell or high water. That is how my series deserved to end.
I guess my feelings for Veronica Mars can only be described by, well, a scene from Veronica Mars:
“Don’t forget ’bout me.”
“…I could never.”
Clacked by Julia Hass 
on Dec 18, 2009 @ 10:00 EST5EDT
Great post! VM was also the first show I watched regularly. And I, too, pretend like season 3 never happened.
Yeah three sucks…
Kristen Bell is so much fun! She’s on The Late Late Show rather often and she is so great, she needs her own late night show.
I agree with just about everything you’ve said (I still don’t think Season Three is nearly as bad as everyone else does, but that’s an argument for another day).
KB’s portrayal of Veronica Mars is one of the most enjoyable I’ve ever seen on television. She ranks up there in my top five characters of all time (Which is just her and Josh Lyman, and whatever three people I can come up with at any given time).
I actually think that the first arc from season 3 was better than a lot of seasons 1 and 2. It definitely fell apart in the end though.
A very fun show.
Maybe not better than 1 & 2, but I liked the first arc too. I’ve been jonesing for season 1 again … hope I can convince Keith to watch it during the winter hiatus!
After all of my DVDs spent most of this year in storage, it was the first thing I worked through.
I watch season 1 every winter. OK I have only had the DVD for one winter. lol
I have seen season 1 three times, season 2 minus the last horrible season finale two times and season 3 once. The only thing I like about season 3 is that it ended on a high note, I loved the finale episode and wish that was all of season 3.
This is sort of how I feel about Roswell, especially the “season three never happened”. I loved VM, but Roswell was my first “fandom” show. You never shake your first fully.
I will forever count season 1 of Veronica Mars as one of the best shows I’ve ever seen. My disappointment started in season 2, I guess because there’s really no way to really live up to such a perfect first season of the show. And when VM was good, boy howdy was it GOOD.
But I still maintain that the best dad ever portrayed on television is and forever will be Jack Bristow.
I totally agree about EVERYTHING you said about this wonderful show. It is like you talked for me ! love you ! lol
But now Kristen Bell kind of annoys me maybe i love Veronica Mars not so much Kristen Bell..her choices of projects sucks so i am disapointed i guess..
AND i miss Logan AND Jason Dohring, he is so talented it’s such a shame we don’t see him on movies or our tv screen..sigh..
Anyway Veronica Mars one of the best show of this decade for sure !!!!!!!
I agree with everything you said about VM. You basically summed up all my feelings about the show. I don’t, however, hate season 3 as much as everyone else seems too. I liked that the arcs weren’t as long and that Logan and Veronica were finally, it seemed, a real couple (I just block out Piz and pretend Logan and Veronica really did run off into the sunset). I’m still holding out for a movie, even though it looks like it will never happen, I still have hope. Veronica Mars will always be my number one favorite show of all time.