(Season 1, Episodes 21-22)

Well, I’ve finished season one of Veronica Mars. It seems like the popular opinion is that season one was the best, which has me a little nervous moving in to season two. I enjoyed season one, but didn’t fall over myself in love with the show. It’s a fun romp, but I didn’t think it was anything more than that. The season long mystery was great, but some episodes were subpar.

Just a little warning: I’m going to get a bit nitpicky after the jump.

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(Season 1, Episodes 17-20)

I’m a little surprised that I’ve gotten this far into the season without bringing up a very important point. How terrible is Veronica’s flashback wig? I can’t help laughing whenever the show flashes back and poor Kristen Bell is wearing that limp mop head of fake blonde hair. I understand that the show probably had a pretty small budget, but that thing is really the best they could come up with?

Anyways, onto the more important things, like Veronica and Logan suddenly becoming a couple. Yowza. Frankly, I’ve been enjoying Keith and Alicia Fennel much more than Veronica and Logan.

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(Season 1, Episodes 9-12)

With my expectations reeled back in, I’m really starting to enjoy Veronica Mars now. It’s a fun show, and the ongoing mystery is intriguing.  With that being said, I was promised smart and respectful treatment of real teenage issues. So far I’ve seen transexual parents, cults, children switched at birth, and secret societies. I don’t know about you, but I never dealt with any of those things in high school. Now, if there were an episode about a teacher getting fired for having an affair with a student, then I could relate (true story, that actually happened while I was in high school).

I’m poking fun a little bit here, because I enjoy the fun, slightly off-the-wall plots. The really crazy ones usually end up being some of the better episodes.

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First let me start out by saying that there will be quite a few potential spoilers in this post. So, if you’re not interested in learning a bit about what might happen later in Harper’s Island, you may want to tread carefully.

I say that there are “potential” spoilers here because, as you will soon find out, this show’s changed quite a bit since the original screener came out sometime last year. Out of any screener I’ve seen in the past few years or so, I don’t believe I’ve seen as many major casting changes as there were with this show. So, with the cast changed so much, who knows what’s happened to the story, since it looks as though most of it had to be entirely re-shot!

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