...The Hollywood Reporter, Kristin at E!, and various other outlets are reporting that our sweet, snarky teen detective is all but lost forever. Sure, the official word from the CW is that no decision will be made as to the show's fate until upfronts in May, but it's most likely that IF the show returns, it will be in yet another new format.
We'll jump past Veronica's college years and she'll be working at the FBI. I somehow doubt that Wallace, Mac and Weevil can all land jobs there, or that she'll still be living with her dad. And with Chris Lowell cast in the likely Grey's Anatomy spin-off, I guess Piz is headed back to Beaverton any way.
So maybe she'll still be on/off with Logan. It seems that relationship is thing fans are most rabid about, so I don't see them getting rid of him. But I also don't see how it can remain fresh.
Rob Thomas has made the show sparkle through format shake-ups in the past, so I guess I should put more faith in Veronica's creator to somehow come through this with something that resembles the show I fell in love with. I hope it comes back better than ever and that I have to eat my words, but until then, mark me down as skeptical.
In an interesting side note, a couple of months ago there was a rumor that One Tree Hill would return next season, five years in the future. At the time I thought it was a rockin' idea, mostly because there isn't a shark big enough for that show to jump.
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I, personally will be most disappointed if they abandon the "macro-arc" format from the first seasons. I thought the idea to break the series down into three smaller "mini arcs" in the third season was an excellent balance of serialization for the big fans while still making it accesible to new and casual viewers. So as long as this element stays intact I don't care where they set it. (And recently Wallace, Max, Piz, et al have been so relegated to the periphiery that if they don't make the jump I'm not sure I'll really miss them.
All that said, any Veronica Mars is good Veronica Mars as far as I'm concerned so I'd be elated just to see the series continue on in any form (whether that's "murder she wrote" style stand alone episodes or not).
I think the show's suffered a bit with the lack of Wallace and Mac (and Beaver, but I won't go there...). Along with Keith, they keep her from being totally jaded.
Right now I feel the way I did about Arrested Development's death knell: The show's brilliant and it's had it's fair share of chances to make the masses get it. They don't, so maybe it's time to go out on a high note. Kristin Bell can be a star and from what I understand, the writers are all hot properties around various network watercoolers. So everyone lands on their feet and we don't have to see it turn into the last seasons of Alias.
That's actually a very good point about it going out on a high note where all involved win.
The final shows of arrested developement where, I thought, brilliant and really wrapped the whole show, and all it's little running gags (I guess you could call them) up in a satisfying and consistent way -- as if they'd planned everything from day one. So I was complete at peace with its end.
With Veronica Mars, I totally dug what they were doing with the 3 arcs and thought the final of the first arc and launch into the 2nd was fantastic and had all this momentum to it. This 2nd arc seemed less impressive to me... maybe because I thought their specific avoidence of Tim made him obvious as the killer... but I felt like the 2nd arc finale kind of let a lot of the urgency out of the series -- for the first time I wasn't feeling like I couldn't wait for it to come back.
So the selfish part of me -- that loves the show and the characters wants to see them get to do something that makes for, I guess what I, again selfishly, feel is a more fitting and epic closure then what will obstensibly be a couple self contained episodes to finish out april.
Wow, I just re-read that and I made a lot of syntax errors for it still being the middle of the day.
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