There was a lot that was groundbreaking about Veronica Mars … that’s why we’re celebrating the show all week long. The spunky show with the spunky girl broke ground with every episode as far as I’m concerned, with the unique storytelling devices, intricate characters and relationships and general Veronica Mars-ness.
For me, one of the most groundbreaking things this little show did was to resolve a previously-resolved storyline from the first season in the second season. I’m not sure any show had ever done this in quite the same brilliant way it was done on Veronica Mars. I know, soap operas throw shockers in there all the time, usually when they need to spice things up with a jaw-dropping story line. We’d find out that a certain two characters had affairs, illegitimate children and everything else, right?
Not the same. In season one, Veronica spent time trying to find out who drugged and raped her. She eventually got to the bottom of it, finding out that Dick drugged her (meant for Madison Sinclair) and Duncan was also drugged (by Logan, so he’d relax) and so they slept together. So all this time she had thought she’d been raped when all she really did was have sex with her boyfriend. Case closed.
Um … no. Because in the season two finale, “Not Pictured,” we find out that after all that happened at the party, Beaver saw drugged out Veronica in the bedroom and figured he’d take a round at her — not saw her and covered her up like he said he did. So in fact, Veronica was raped.
This whole piece of the episode was quick and as Bob would say, nearly glossed over. It’s not made a big deal of anywhere. But for me, this was a big deal. Huge. Groundbreaking. What do you think?
Clacked by Debbie McDuffee
on Dec 14, 2010 @ 11:00 EST5EDT
The fact they went back and made Beaver this completely different character, and just the way they rewrote history, that whole episode actually, is groundbreaking in how god awful it was. It was up there with the baby episodes for “jumping the shark” with me. I thought season 2 was bad, I re-watched it a couple times and realized as long as I ignore the baby episodes and the season finale it’s actually a really good season.
Too bad I can’t agree with Oreo. I think going back and watching the second season shows many more subtle clues as to who Beaver really was.
Nor do I understand your hatred of the baby storylines. If for no other reason they were the catalyst for Duncan to leave town, they were worth every second :)
My problem with it is that everyone else on the bus was killed, but Meg lived! She looked fantastic and her baby was fine too! She lived just long enough to save the baby and then dropped dead. That is soup opera of soup opera trashy cliche. So I ignore it.
Yeah, I can’t argue much with that. I mean, I don’t remember how long she had to recover while in the hospital, though. I recently met a man who had been injured in Afghanistan, but was in a coma for nearly five weeks before he woke up. Kind of makes you wonder how much he’d recovered before that.
However, what I still don’t buy, is that Meg was able to carry the child through that type of trauma.
What i loved was the introduction of logan as a serious love interest, he was such a duche, that i totally didn’t see that coming…
I love this final above all for Beaver (and the Logan/Veronica reunion..of course..wink) euh..i mean Cassidy yes we finally discover all the horrible things he did, finally it was him the “villain” but such a multi-dimensional, complex, sweet, vulnerable at times but still a villain, actually in my book he was above all a lost, tortured soul, a lost little boy..so endearing despite all his terrible acts..i cried when he did jump..really heartbreaking.. so sad..and the actor was so good in his portrayal of this complex human-being. Just heartbreaking and unique.