{"id":359,"date":"2005-11-30T20:35:12","date_gmt":"2005-12-01T00:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/?p=359"},"modified":"2006-04-05T13:39:42","modified_gmt":"2006-04-05T17:39:42","slug":"keeping-track-of-veronica-mars-s2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/30\/keeping-track-of-veronica-mars-s2\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping Track of Veronica Mars, S2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2005\/11\/XL_VM03cast.jpg\" width=\"390\" height=\"390\" alt=\"\" title=\"Veronica Mars Cast\" class=\"alignright\" \/>So, you&#8217;re wondering why I&#8217;m such a fan of Veronica Mars? I could go into the fabulous writing and acting, the excellent mystery plot, the way each episode of the first season was a subtle homage to certain mystery tropes, etc. However, instead of doing that I will just continue to recommend&#8211;as I have been doing for two seasons now&#8211;that you just watch the show and decide for yourself. Everyone I&#8217;ve made this challenge to, who has actually tried the show, has become a serious fan (with the exception of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2005\/11\/nelly.jpg\" title=\"Neil A. MacFarlane, Esq.\">Neil A. MacFarlane, Esq.<\/a>, who, as we all know, has seriously misaligned life priorities.) <\/p>\n<p>After such a good season 1, I was quite worried that Season 2 would be terrible, especially when I heard that the network had a lot of &#8220;notes&#8221;. Well, everything that I liked last season seems to be taken up a notch this season, especially the plotting. (And it seems like the notes must have just been &#8220;lets have more sex on the show&#8221;, since the number of gratuitous sex scenes \/ references has taken a huge spike from last year&#8211;but that&#8217;s actually not so bad if it&#8217;s the limit of the network meddling.)<\/p>\n<p>The rest of this post is an attempt to summarize the current open questions in the season&#8217;s background arc. Bear in mind that this is like 8 episodes into the season, and that most of this stuff is subtext, and in the few cases where it&#8217;s explicit, it&#8217;s in the B-story. Each episode also has the &#8220;wrapped in an hour&#8221; A-plot as well.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This list is shamelessly lifted from a list prepared by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sk8jesus.com\">Dan Evans III<\/a>, who is one of my pop cultural gurus.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Veronica:<\/b> <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>May be the target of a huge murder conspiracy.\n<ul>\n<li>because she brought down the big real estate consortium?<\/li>\n<li>because she is the target of revenge by Aaron Echolls?<\/li>\n<li>complete coincidence?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Investigating the guilt of Logan\n<ul>\n<li>still has blackmail tape of Sheriff Lamb?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Meg<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In a coma\n<ul>\n<li>in coma because she was on the bus?<\/li>\n<li>why did she survive?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>What is in the letter?<\/li>\n<li>What is on her computer?<\/li>\n<li>Why is her family so freaky?  Witness Protection?  Mob ties?  Scientologists?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Duncan<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Has a previously unknown connection with Meg\n<ul>\n<li>Did he knock her up?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Is he still on his meds or is he beating hoboes?<\/li>\n<li>Is it possible that he killed Lily like Aaron is now claiming?<\/li>\n<li>Did he bone Kendall? Did he give her money? Something else?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Logan<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Connected to murder on the bridge\n<ul>\n<li>Sets off Neptune Class War<\/li>\n<li>Sets off gang war between PCHers and Fighting Flannigans<\/li>\n<li>Did he do it?<\/li>\n<li>Why are the Fighting Flanigans involved in the murder?<\/li>\n<li>Was he just a good fall guy for Mayor Guttenberg&#8217;s plan to create Gated community?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Do we really believe it was a coincidence that Aaron was at the jail at the same time as Logan?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Wallace<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why is the dad back?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Weevil<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is he losing control of the PCHers?<\/li>\n<li>Is he being set up by his own boys?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>The S2 Mysteries, in General<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>The Bus<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li>Why did the stunt guy blow up the bus?<\/li>\n<li>Was the seperation of students intentional?<\/li>\n<li>Does beaver know more than he is letting on?<\/li>\n<li>What Blew up?<\/li>\n<li>WTF is up with the GD RAT???<\/li>\n<li>Why is he dead, with VM&#8217; s name on his hand<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Abel Coontz&#8217; Daughter<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li>OK Seriously?  WTF?<\/li>\n<li>Sorry.<\/li>\n<li>She was happy in Europe, then she bolted?  Or was she abducted with a cover story?<\/li>\n<li>A diplomat killed her and stuffed her into an Ice machine???<\/li>\n<li>WHAT DOES SHE KNOW???<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Meg&#8217;s family<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li>Is sis covering for Meg or herself or for something else?<\/li>\n<li>Seriously, how f&#8217;ed up is that family?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Tessa and her dad<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li>What&#8217;s up with the psychic?<\/li>\n<li>Why did she leave NY?<\/li>\n<li>Is her drug use (addiction) tied into The Irish Methheads?<\/li>\n<li>What did her dad do to get blackmailed by Lamb?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Evil Mayor Gutenberg<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>How does real estate deal tie into evil Mayor Gutenberg&#8217;s plan for a rich super community?<\/li>\n<li>Why does the mayor want Keith so bad? To keep enemies closer&#8230;.becuase he likes Keith&#8230;.or hates Lamb?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">So, you&#8217;re wondering why I&#8217;m such a fan of Veronica Mars? I could go into the fabulous writing and acting, the excellent mystery plot, the way each episode of the first season was a subtle homage to certain mystery tropes, etc. However, instead of doing that I will just continue to recommend&#8211;as I have been doing for two seasons now&#8211;that&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/30\/keeping-track-of-veronica-mars-s2\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-5N","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}