I'm just so heartbroken.
Logan's death felt so unnecessary... Or more, him dying minutes after being married felt unnecessary. If they killed him off that would have been one thing but to do it after the wedding? It felt like a massive screw you to the fans.
This is an edited repost. Someone's baby ears must have been offended by my adult language. This has been edited. You people owe me the 5 likes it had.
First off I want to call Rob Thomas an any of the creatives who took part in this, a bunch of dirty bastards. I almost never give a shit about what character ends up with who in TV series. One of the very few was Logan and Veronica. It's like they just slapped my face and told me to f*ck off.
The shame of it is, I really like the whole mystery this season. I liked where all the parts went. I like the strange visiting characters. Other than missing Mac I was happy. There was no one answer. There were pieces that had to be fit together. It was great. I would have given the whole season an 8 or 9. The finale would have gotten a 9. In stead they end it by serving up a dung sandwich. Fu*k off.
[7.3/10] Well, that was bold. I have to give the show that much.
Let’s start with the big mystery reveal. I suppose I have a bit of egg on my face after my last write-up when I railed about how Penn couldn’t be the real bomber. The show gives him a good bit of motive and opportunity. We see him having been harassed and disrespected by all the Spring Breakers, which gives him reason to hate them and want them gone. And his interest in true crime gives him the understanding of how these investigations proceed to be able to (a.) potentially get away with it (b.) feed the investigators what they need and (c.) understand how the explosives work, something he’s been working up to.
You can also see how the whole Murderheads thing makes him love the spotlight, idolizing killers, until the two combine and he realizes the best way to hang onto the spotlight is to become one of the murderers he so admires.
But I don’t know, at some point it just requires too much contrivance to really make complete sense to me, less from motivation and more from action. Can you really picture Patton Oswalt lugging the body of his “friend” Don or getting the neck bomb on that kid? And at the same time, for his plan to work, he had to be able to play Veronica and Keith to a degree that feels impossible, requiring them to pick him up at just the right time so he could leave his bag in their car, and lead them to Don, and all this other stuff that just seems kind of implausible.
Beyond Penn turning into a Bond villain and delivering monologues to Veronica at the end (which you can at least attribute to him watching true crime shows and aiming for their same sense of grandiosity), beyond the sort of visceral implausibility of Penn managing to stage all these crimes, it just requires too much to go right for him for everything to work out the way it did.
Granted, I think of the 7 major mysteries the show has done at this point, I think I only found one of them fully satisfying, so there’s a fair argument that this sort of thing is just the show’s M.O. and a decade and a half after the series’s debut, you’re either on board with it or you’re not. I like Veronica Mars for the great humor and dialogue, the strongly-written character relationships, and the fun and twists of the mystery along the way, regardless of whether the answers make complete sense.
But man, those character relationships take some pretty big blows here! I admire the show’s boldness in killing Logan right when he and Veronica are at peak happiness. This show was often compared to Buffy the Vampire Slayer in its early days, and that’s a very Buffy move. The ethos for this show has always been that in Neptune, where everything is rigged, even when you win, you lose. To have Veronica solve the mystery, marry the love of her life, and get a clean bill of health for her dad, only to see the bomber take one last pound of flesh, and to have the corporate and gentrifying interests take over the beach anyway, feels true to what the show is and has been.
I’ll admit, though, that I don’t really like the fake out with it seeming like Logan was going to bail on the wedding. I understand needing to have some stakes in these moments, but it just came off cheesy to me, as did the whole “last recorded voicemail” shtick. Still, as a BSG fan, it’s always a thrill to see Mary McDonnel pop up, and I appreciate that the silver lining to all of this is Veronica accepting that she needed to deal with some shit and going to therapy.
I also neglected to mention that however contrived the situation is, I really like the scene at the heretofore unmentioned Kane High School commemoration. For one thing, it’s just fun to see Veronica show up and crash another Kane event (almost literally). But there’s legitimate tension when Veronica has to watch Keith stand there and try to convince Penn to confess and defuse the bomb before they’re both blown up. Say what you will about how the show crafts its mysteries, but it knows how to pull off a suspenseful scene.
Otherwise, I like where things land for the most part. I appreciate the reveal that Maddie is the one who stole the ring (Vinnie was right!), which establishes her rough-around-the-edges bona fides that makes her fit to fill Veronica’s shoes at Mars Investigations. I like that in the end, Keith still can’t abide what Clyde did, despite how endearing their bromance is, and I like that Clyde ends up with his girlfriend and his car dealership, underscoring the anti-”evil never prospers” message of the show. And I like that maybe, just maybe, Veronica is genuinely ready to move on from Neptune, to go see what else is out there, now that the best life she was living there has been ripped away from her.
Overall, I’m not entirely satisfied with the answer to the big mystery, but otherwise I really liked this season. It definitely had the tone and sensibility of the show right. It had some good personal developments with the main characters, and brought in a slew of interesting new fresh faces. And it made some bold moves here, that challenge our hero, and live up to the show’s perspective rather than sanding it down. Good, bad, and otherwise, this season was still very much the Veronica Mars that I remembered, and that’s a good thing.
Can't freaking believe they really thought this would be a good ending for Logan, the only one who's had some character development through this entire thing. The only point it makes is to show how Veronica will never have it all, she'll just keep going through a series of traumas 'cus that's what makes her a good P.I. Lame.
am i alone about loving the ending? ( that kind of works like season or show finale ) .
this is the worst decision rob thomas has ever made & there's no way this show is ever coming back in any form ever again.
Of all the TV shows that had comeback seasons recently Veronica Mars turned out to be one of the best. This season fit in organically, it didn't feel like forced fan service and some characters really had a character development. But was that final gutpunching moment really necessary?
From the minute he walked out the door I was damn sure something bad was going to happen to him. I just didnt know what, would he get shot, would there be someone in that car coming up? Well I'll be damned. Logan will be missed...
I refuse to accept that he died, and in that way
Nope Nope nope
Sad, yet moving ending. Makes it hard to want to revisit earlier seasons now though.
It was a great season, and a pretty good final episode. The twist back to the actual bomber is surprising, and the shocking event that everyone is so mad about is done well. Grow up, crybabies.
Trivia
Episode title references Logan's "epic relationship" speech in Season 2, Episode 20 "Look Who's Stalking"
Amazing. Amazing. Amazing! Great episode. Tight series. Very well done. I'm gonna miss this one.
Great season but unfortunately way too short with only 8 episodes. Because of this short season I especially enjoyed every minute of every episode. I spoilered myself on the internet and knew that Logan gets killed in the episode. I didn't know how it happens but it became clear very fast at the end. I don't know why they chose to kill him and I also don't think it was the best decision but on the other hand I would be so interested to see where a next season would take Veronica. Unfortunately they haven't announced a new season yet and the show again goes back into limbo. Overall it was a great new season and the story and characters still work all these years later. Sure the shot got a lot darker and more violent but that comed with the characters growing up and not going to High School anymore. It was also a nice touch to see Parker again and also having the brilliant Mary McDonnell guest starring.
I knew about the ending, but what I didn't know is that it wasn't till the end we would suffer so much....but still I enjoyed every single episode.
Season finale. It's been good, at the height of the series, I was going to say that I liked the end, but I can't say it, not understanding why
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What an explosive season! :boom:
I knew something was not quite right when I heard that line in the limerick. It was just a matter of who at that point for me.. But now I'm just left with this sinking sadness :sob::broken_heart:
Thanks Rob Thomas and crew for bringing the show back!