Feel free to add your own review of Veronica Mars : Season 2.
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The Good:
* The Season's Secondary Mystery wasn't formulaic, and was solved on an episode-basis and not the typical, last-minute revelation style of the primary mystery.
* They had the balls to dip into one of last years main mystery's, and have the outcome changed.
* The Relationship between Duncan and Veronica got better as the episodes past. Deeper emotion and conflict on the way to Duncan's departure.
The Great:
* Rob Thomas had the foresight to avoid a "Dawson's Creek-esk" love-triangle featuring two former best-friends and the girl.
* The "dream-sequences" Veronica had seperated what she let on as what she wanted, and what she really wanted.
* They weren't afraid to give their bad-ass star character an STD, something that most shows and networks would oppose to whole-heartedly.
* The Tight-Plotting. Some people might think Season 1's mystery was better, because this mystery was more predictable -- though, we weren't given any evidence to implicate the season 1 villian until the last episode, where this season had tightly-plotted arcs that were revealed over the 22 episodes.
The So-So:
* The rushed Logan/Hannah relationship. Clearly originally designed to be a few episodes longer then it lasted, the relationship went through a lot in just a few episodes.
* The weak B-Plot heavy episodes. B-Plots are well and good when you need something to occupy the space between character development and primary story arcs, but don't base an entire episode around a B-plot without any development or arc follow-up. And I'm sorry, but a cliff-hanger arc-twist doesn't cut it anymore.
* Lack of face-time for people who aren't Logan, Veronica or Keith. Throughout the show, only three characters got any relevant individual face time; Keith, Veronica and Logan. Wallace's brief arc featuring his father, and the Mac/Beaver angle's were always kept under 3 minutes.
The Verdict:
As a whole, not quite as solid as the first season -- though, the bigger episodes were better done.
90/100.
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The Good:
* The Season's Secondary Mystery wasn't formulaic, and was solved on an episode-basis and not the typical, last-minute revelation style of the primary mystery.
* They had the balls to dip into one of last years main mystery's, and have the outcome changed.
* The Relationship between Duncan and Veronica got better as the episodes past. Deeper emotion and conflict on the way to Duncan's departure.
The Great:
* Rob Thomas had the foresight to avoid a "Dawson's Creek-esk" love-triangle featuring two former best-friends and the girl.
* The "dream-sequences" Veronica had seperated what she let on as what she wanted, and what she really wanted.
* They weren't afraid to give their bad-ass star character an STD, something that most shows and networks would oppose to whole-heartedly.
* The Tight-Plotting. Some people might think Season 1's mystery was better, because this mystery was more predictable -- though, we weren't given any evidence to implicate the season 1 villian until the last episode, where this season had tightly-plotted arcs that were revealed over the 22 episodes.
The So-So:
* The rushed Logan/Hannah relationship. Clearly originally designed to be a few episodes longer then it lasted, the relationship went through a lot in just a few episodes.
* The weak B-Plot heavy episodes. B-Plots are well and good when you need something to occupy the space between character development and primary story arcs, but don't base an entire episode around a B-plot without any development or arc follow-up. And I'm sorry, but a cliff-hanger arc-twist doesn't cut it anymore.
* Lack of face-time for people who aren't Logan, Veronica or Keith. Throughout the show, only three characters got any relevant individual face time; Keith, Veronica and Logan. Wallace's brief arc featuring his father, and the Mac/Beaver angle's were always kept under 3 minutes.
The Verdict:
As a whole, not quite as solid as the first season -- though, the bigger episodes were better done.
90/100.
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