Wednesday, May 16, 2007

I Like This Show, it’s Tawdry week 9



If you missed last night’s episode of Veronica Mars, be sure to check out I Know What You’ll Do Next Summer at cwtv.com or download it from iTunes or Amazon Unbox. And do not forget to check out my Win a Copy of Neptune Noir Contest.

When there is no arcing mystery, be it season long or part of a season, there just seems to be less to talk about without dissecting every scene, trying to figure out what are clues and what are red herrings and then break down who you think the perp is this week. With that said, the show has filled the time with some hot button topics, two weeks ago they talked terrorism, and this week it is genocide in Africa, insert Paul Rudd in-between and you have some solid episode.

Unfortunately taking the place of the overarching mysteries we get boring character driven storylines like with Mac and Max, they were much more interesting during the courting phase, as well as the Logan/Parker part. It was a little humorous the scene with Parker’s parents where they asked him his plans which called back the dinner he had with Keith earlier this season and was a nice tie in to Keith telling Ronnie that it was nice she had a boyfriend who cared more about things that how high the tide was.

Which is a nice transition to the great relationship, Ronnie and her dad arguing over who would get and did get on there PI test continues to show there are the best father-daughter combination on television. Then there is the shocking family time with Big Dick coming back to Neptune to turn himself in. Holy frak! When Little Dick walked onto the screen I got a big grin expecting another classic Dickism but I never expected a Dick Sr. would return. And who knew Ryan Hansen could act.

The return may have not been as shocking it is always good to see Cliff again who had one of the best lines of the night, “I hope you’ll understand why you won’t have my vote in the upcoming election.” And just like I mentioned last week, it looks Vinnie Van Lowe is conspiring with the Fitpatricks to be their patsy, and of course Neptune would be a much more entertaining place with him in charge of the police.

As for the story of the week, it was very well down and it is always a nice change of pace when someone out smarts Ronnie like Apollo did to use Vee to see if the father was after his money or not. And don’t forget to check out the website that was mention at the end of the episode, invisiblechildren.com, to see what you can do to help children in war torn Africa countries from becoming child soldiers or having to live in horrible conditions in displacement camps.

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