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wisdomeagle[to be safe, expect spoilers through the most recently aired episode in the US. Incest is a given.]
This is the episode that made me fall in love with Weevil. At the end, where he tells Chardo, "You're out," and then lets the gang beat him up -- but then makes sure they don't go too hard on him, and then drives off. That... that makes me love Weevil so very, very much. I was expecting it this time, of course, and thought it might move me less? But it still made me gasp and stroke the screen a bit. It's just that powerful a moment for me.
This episode has V rearranging reality to her own liking. Or, if not reality, at least the situation at hand. She likes Weevil (owes him a favor from the previous episode, I suppose) and so pursues the case to the end and makes sure Weevil gets what she thinks he deserves. V's sense of justice is totally situational -- I guess I'm thinking of "Like a Virgin" where she totally lets Mac get away with it because she likes Mac and strongly feels that 09ers deserve whatever happens to them. But this episode made me think... just how she's standing there, watching Weevil and his grandmother reunite, and I was like, "Wow. She arranged that. V is POWERFUL." Like Willow? Rearranging reality to suit her purposes? More inspired by a sense of justice than Willow is, but still very personal and based on Veronica's very, uh, individual sense of what's right and what's wrong. 09ers bad, V's personal friends good.
The presence of Caitlin in this episode felt slightly odd to me, since she seemed more than anyone else to epistomize the 09ers that V keeps talking about but whose presence I don't really feel? Caitlin is a hideous catty bitch who thinks V deserves to be ostracized because of what her father did to the Kane family, and in a sense her existence justifies Veronica's bitterness.
I'm also really sort of... intrigued by this conversation between Chardo and Veronica.
Chardo: Blah blah Caitlin's going to marry me. You don't know us. She loves me.
Veronica: Know her? I know her all right. Caitlin's a thrill-seeker. Doing you was like doing the Dew, nothing more.
And the sense in which Veronica knows Caitlin? I kind of feel like she's talking about Lilly. And given what we now know about Lilly and Weevil, which is the obvious parallel with this episode and its realtionship... I like that. And also it reminds us that Lilly was an 09er. That fact makes Veronica's current social position sort of strange and problematic, given as in some ways she feels like Lilly's death drove her to the fringes. But it's really her father's decision that did that, and...
And yeah. This was also the episode that started me on the long and slightly disturbing road towards Keith/Veronica 'shippage, since when she said she'd made that decision to stick by her father, right or wrong, I knew, knew that K+V was what this show was all about for me. Loyalty. Family loyalty -- that's another connection, a theme in this episode. You do right by your family. If you don't, you're just out. Doesn't matter.
It's not because he fucked a white girl that Weevil kicks Chardo out -- it's cuz he betrayed family.
Weevil tells Veronica that she still thinks like one of them. And in this episode, when she makes that decision not to go to Troy's party, when she doesn't think she was the least bit wrong, when she once again chooses her family over her friends... this is a moment when the intentionality of V's lifestyle is made evident. Veronica feels like fate dealt her a cruel hand in the murder of Lilly Kane, in the defectino of her boyfriend, in the pettiness of her classmates. And perhaps it did. But Veronica also makes choices, and in these first couple of episodes, those choices are shown us so that we realize that whoever Veronica has become, it's not her only option. She could go back -- maybe not at any time, but by this time. By this time, she could once again have friends who are rich and popular, but she doesn't, because she's made a different choice.
"Why did you go after Jake Kane?"
"Why do you care?"
"Because it's the question that defines our existence."
I love that. And it certainly puts S2 in a new light, since really, the WKLK? (Who Killed Lilly Kane?) question does define Veronica in S1, and with that question answered... S2 means she's got to find a new identity. On a meta level, so does Veronica Mars, the show, of course.
Ah, Veronica Mars. Which is about choices, and identity, and justice, and ethics, and finding a role in the universe and a way to make existence meaningful in the midst of randomness, to forge friendships in the face of complex issues of class...
This is a show about Keith telling Veronica that he doesn't want thoughts of Lilly's death filling her head. The truth is that that's not the case. Keith loves the woman Veronica has become, and she's only gained this strength because of the grief she had to endure. Later in the season and even more in S2, Keith's parenting is called into question many times, as other adults point out that he treats Veronica like an adult, not a child -- and that struggle that the two of them have, to create a new family after Leanne leaves, to figure out what role Veronica should play at Mars Investigations, how actively she should investigate her best friend's murder... these are, to me, the questions at the center of the show's arc.
Yes, flist, it really is all about the K/V for me.
Meanwhile, when Logan finds out that he's been cuckolded by Chardo, the look of anger on his face? Scary as frell.
This is the episode that made me fall in love with Weevil. At the end, where he tells Chardo, "You're out," and then lets the gang beat him up -- but then makes sure they don't go too hard on him, and then drives off. That... that makes me love Weevil so very, very much. I was expecting it this time, of course, and thought it might move me less? But it still made me gasp and stroke the screen a bit. It's just that powerful a moment for me.
This episode has V rearranging reality to her own liking. Or, if not reality, at least the situation at hand. She likes Weevil (owes him a favor from the previous episode, I suppose) and so pursues the case to the end and makes sure Weevil gets what she thinks he deserves. V's sense of justice is totally situational -- I guess I'm thinking of "Like a Virgin" where she totally lets Mac get away with it because she likes Mac and strongly feels that 09ers deserve whatever happens to them. But this episode made me think... just how she's standing there, watching Weevil and his grandmother reunite, and I was like, "Wow. She arranged that. V is POWERFUL." Like Willow? Rearranging reality to suit her purposes? More inspired by a sense of justice than Willow is, but still very personal and based on Veronica's very, uh, individual sense of what's right and what's wrong. 09ers bad, V's personal friends good.
The presence of Caitlin in this episode felt slightly odd to me, since she seemed more than anyone else to epistomize the 09ers that V keeps talking about but whose presence I don't really feel? Caitlin is a hideous catty bitch who thinks V deserves to be ostracized because of what her father did to the Kane family, and in a sense her existence justifies Veronica's bitterness.
I'm also really sort of... intrigued by this conversation between Chardo and Veronica.
Chardo: Blah blah Caitlin's going to marry me. You don't know us. She loves me.
Veronica: Know her? I know her all right. Caitlin's a thrill-seeker. Doing you was like doing the Dew, nothing more.
And the sense in which Veronica knows Caitlin? I kind of feel like she's talking about Lilly. And given what we now know about Lilly and Weevil, which is the obvious parallel with this episode and its realtionship... I like that. And also it reminds us that Lilly was an 09er. That fact makes Veronica's current social position sort of strange and problematic, given as in some ways she feels like Lilly's death drove her to the fringes. But it's really her father's decision that did that, and...
And yeah. This was also the episode that started me on the long and slightly disturbing road towards Keith/Veronica 'shippage, since when she said she'd made that decision to stick by her father, right or wrong, I knew, knew that K+V was what this show was all about for me. Loyalty. Family loyalty -- that's another connection, a theme in this episode. You do right by your family. If you don't, you're just out. Doesn't matter.
It's not because he fucked a white girl that Weevil kicks Chardo out -- it's cuz he betrayed family.
Weevil tells Veronica that she still thinks like one of them. And in this episode, when she makes that decision not to go to Troy's party, when she doesn't think she was the least bit wrong, when she once again chooses her family over her friends... this is a moment when the intentionality of V's lifestyle is made evident. Veronica feels like fate dealt her a cruel hand in the murder of Lilly Kane, in the defectino of her boyfriend, in the pettiness of her classmates. And perhaps it did. But Veronica also makes choices, and in these first couple of episodes, those choices are shown us so that we realize that whoever Veronica has become, it's not her only option. She could go back -- maybe not at any time, but by this time. By this time, she could once again have friends who are rich and popular, but she doesn't, because she's made a different choice.
"Why did you go after Jake Kane?"
"Why do you care?"
"Because it's the question that defines our existence."
I love that. And it certainly puts S2 in a new light, since really, the WKLK? (Who Killed Lilly Kane?) question does define Veronica in S1, and with that question answered... S2 means she's got to find a new identity. On a meta level, so does Veronica Mars, the show, of course.
Ah, Veronica Mars. Which is about choices, and identity, and justice, and ethics, and finding a role in the universe and a way to make existence meaningful in the midst of randomness, to forge friendships in the face of complex issues of class...
This is a show about Keith telling Veronica that he doesn't want thoughts of Lilly's death filling her head. The truth is that that's not the case. Keith loves the woman Veronica has become, and she's only gained this strength because of the grief she had to endure. Later in the season and even more in S2, Keith's parenting is called into question many times, as other adults point out that he treats Veronica like an adult, not a child -- and that struggle that the two of them have, to create a new family after Leanne leaves, to figure out what role Veronica should play at Mars Investigations, how actively she should investigate her best friend's murder... these are, to me, the questions at the center of the show's arc.
Yes, flist, it really is all about the K/V for me.
Meanwhile, when Logan finds out that he's been cuckolded by Chardo, the look of anger on his face? Scary as frell.
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Date: 2005-11-21 02:23 am (UTC)