tv_talk | Veronica Mars: Rewatch Home Base

Veronica Mars originally aired in 2004-2007.
It was created by Rob Thomas
It ran for three seasons before being canceled.
There are 64 epiosdes
There's also a Veronica Mars Movie being released March 14, 2014
We'll be watching four episodes a week for 16 weeks
February 1 - May 17 2014
Come in and comment on an existing episode thread anytime.

WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT NOW:

SEASON ONE:
General Discussion Thread: Talk about your general experience with Veronica Mars.
Fanworks Link Thread: Link to your own Veronica Mars fanworks past and present.
Discussion Threads for episodes: 1x01: Pilot, 1x02: Credit Where Credit is Due, 1x03: Meet John Smith, and 1x04: The Wrath of Con
Discussion Threads for episodes: 1x05: You Think You Know Somebody, 1x06: Return of the Kane, 1x07: The Girl Next Door, and 1x08: Like a Virgin
Discussion Threads for episodes: 1x09: Drinking the Kool-Aid, 1x10: An Echolls Family Christmas, 1x11: Silence of the Lamb and 1x12: Clash of the Tritons
Discussion Threads for episodes: 1x13: Lord of the Bling, 1x14: Mars vs. Mars, 1x15: Ruskie Business, and 1x16: Betty and Veronica.
Discussion Threads for episodes: 1x17: Kanes and Abel's, 1x18: Weapons of Class Destruction, 1x19: Hot Dogs and 1x20: M.A.D.
Discussion Threads for episodes: 1x21: A Trip to the Dentist and 1x22: Leave it to Beaver

SEASON TWO:
Discussion Threads for episodes: 2x01: Normal is the Watchword and 2x02: Diver Ed
Discussion Threads for episodes: 2x03: "Cheatty Cheatty Bang Bang", 2x04: "Green Eyed Monster", 2x05: "Blast from the Past" and 2x06: "Rat Saw God"
Discussion Threads for episodes: 2x07: "Nobody puts Baby in a Corner", 2x08: "Ahoy, Mateys!", 2x09: "My Mother, the Fiend" and 2x10: "One Angry Veronica"
Discussion Threads for episodes: 2x11: "Donut Run", 2x12: "Rashard and Wallace Go to White Castle", "2x13: Ain't No Magic Mountain High Enough" and 2x14: "Versatile Toppings"
Discussion Threads for episodes: 2x15: "The Quick and the Wed", 2x16: "The Rapes of Graff", 2x17: "Plan B", and 2x18: "I Am God"
2x19: "Nevermind the Buttocks", 2x20: "Look Who's Stalking", 2x21: "Happy Go Lucky" and 2x22: "Not Pictured"

SEASON THREE:
Discussion Threads for episodes:
3x01: "Welcome Wagon", 3x02: "My Big Fat Greek Rush Week", 3x03: "Wichita Linebacker, 3x04: "Charlie Don't Surf"
3x05 "President Evil", 3x06 "Hi, Infidelity", 3x07 "Of Vice and Men" , 3x08 "Lord of the Pi's", 3x09 "Spit & Eggs"
3x10 "Show Me the Monkey" , 3x11 "Poughkeepsie, Tramps and Thieves", 3x12 "There's Got to Be a Morning After Pill"
3x13 "Postgame Mortem", 3x14 "Mars, Bars", 3x15 "Papa's Cabin", 3x16 "Un-American Graffiti", 3x17 "Debasement Tapes"
3x18 "I know What You'll Do Next Summer" , 3x19 "Weevils Wobble But They Don't Go Down", 3x20 "The Bitch is Back"

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This is the discussion thread for Episode 1x14: Mars vs. Mars.
It originally aired on February 15, 2005.

How did yo like this one?

This episode picks up right where the previous one left off with Logan on Veronica’s doorstep asking for her help. She agrees to help him.

The main case of the story is one that both Veronica and Keith are working but on opposite sides. A beloved “cool” teacher Mr. Rooks is being accused of seducing a student. The student in question in Carrie Bishop who Veronica neither trusts nor likes. We get a flashback of soon after Duncan dumped Veronica and Carrie is gossiping with another girl and saying something about Duncan really being crazy and giving examples that may not but totally false, though probably isn’t the exact truth either.

Veronica is set to prove her teacher innocent and her father is doing the opposite. Of course they are both wrong, which Veronica finally figures out. Her former favorite teacher is not innocent but Carrie is not the victim, it’s another girl who doesn’t want the man to go to jail for statuary rape but wants him to pay somehow. She’s pregnant and he was a total dick about it. Veronica gets him fired at the end (or forced to resign) and all is cool.

Though her dad’s little joke of having ink spray out of her when she opened the safe was mean yet funny. She really shouldn’t have been breaking into his safe anyways.

Veronica is a busy little beaver in this episode because not only is she busy with the teacher case and Logan’s case but also she’s busy investigating Duncan’s medical condition, which ends up being type 4 epilepsy or something. I’m pretty sure stealing medical records is neither legal or ethical but it’s for a good cause, right? She also grabs Abel Koontz’s file because he shares a doctor with Duncan Kane.

We see poor sweet Leo again and Veronica explains why she used him and says she fell for him after. He’s so sweet. Poor thing. I loved Leo. I didn’t think they were right together but he was so sweet.

We get some Weevil fun in this one too. And awesome lines like this. Veronica to Weevil: “So, you got a trophy for a rim job?”
Weevil also helps out with the case with Logan’s mom and finds a freshman who’s been bragging about getting the jump on video, which he appears to have done. Weevil makes sure the kid won’t leak it and Logan is devastated by this proof his mother is dead yet minutes later Veronica gets a message that someone used Lynn’s credit card and Logan is given hope once again.

At the end Veronica visits Abel Koontz again just to show him she has his medical file and knows he’s dying and that he knew when he confessed. His face falls and we finally get the answer to the question: Why would Abel Koontz confess to a murder he didn’t commit?
This is another episode that makes the Kanes, especially Duncan guilty of Lilly’s murder. Though it makes it look like if Duncan did do it, it wasn’t intentional.

I like this episode for a few reasons, one being that Logan and Veronica grow closer as she works to determine whether or not Lynn is really dead. There's a great scene in the Mars office where she learns Logan intends to pay her, and he says they're not swapping friendship bracelets. "I'll stop braiding." But it's apparent trust is evident and being rebuilt. Even when Logan makes a VD joke, it's kind of a softball, and Veronica doesn't take the bait. And who can resist emo!Logan hugging himself? Certainly not Veronica, who knows what it's like to miss her mom, and tells Logan she'd do the same in his shoes. Even Weevil throws some sympathy Logan's way.

The other reason I like this episode is that we see what happens (or what could happen) when Veronica's awesome skills are put to use for the wrong person. We're reminded that Veronica can still be naive and prejudiced (in thinking a good teacher can't be a creep in his personal life, and that someone who's been awful in her personal life can't also do a good deed). And that Veronica, a victim of slut shaming, will still slut shame another girl (Carrie, to whom she later apologizes).

I also saw the case with an inappropriate, shady older guy/younger girl relationship as foreshadowing for the Aaron/Lilly reveal later.

Oh, Leo. He is a sweetie, but I don't think I ever saw that going anywhere.

Veronica Mars: Rewatch Home Base

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