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Ok I have posted about this in a few other TV related threads but I thought it deserved its own so heres an amalgamation of my previous posts Just out of interest does anyone here watch Veronica Mars? It airs opposite Lost in the states and is currently the second most popular show on that night of the week behind Lost. I watched the first series over a 3 day period and its absolutely fantastic at times I enjoyed it even more than lost its dark and funny and steals the best of everyone elses ideas. Basically It involves a super hot 17 year old girl called Veronica Mars whos best friend is murdered while she is dating the murdered friends brother. Her dad is the local sheriff and tries to pin the murder on her boyfriends father. He gets away with it when a man confesses (very dodgy cover up) and her boyfriend dumps her, she is drugged and raped at a party in the aftermath and her whole world collapses. The public sack her father as sheriff for going for the wrong man, he becomes a private detective and she helps with his caseload. It mixes ideas from without a trace, buffy, the oc, csi and the guessing qualities of lost. You get a little mystery each week for her to solve with this massive coincidence and conspiracy theory hidden behind it. So its satisfies from week to week but still leaves you longing for answers like all the best dramas do. Go find it and give it a shot Series 2 has just started to air in the states. Series 1 is also being showed 6pm weeknights on Living TV of all places albeit with heavy censor cuts. However if you don't start from the beginning it just wrecks it so wait for the re run if possible. Also Series 1 has just been made available on DVD in the US Veronica Mars Series 1 Box Set £31.99 Delivered 6 Disc set from playusa.com Im currently up to Series 2 Episode 3 and the general consensuss from most forums I visit seems to be that most people are taping lost and watching this at the moment. So thoughts and no spoilers if possible for the new people if we need a thread for that we can create a seperate one. EDIT: ARRGGGHHH can a mod edit this so its not in "Gaming" Cheers Edited by Huntcjna at 11:18:34 13-10-2005 |
The Official Veronica Mars Thread
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Huntcjna 13,890 posts
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LaundroMat 1,443 posts
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Registered 20 years agoSo its satisfies from week to week but still leaves you longing for answers like all the best dramas do.
Not my definition of "best drama", but I will have a look though. Thanks for the pointer. -
morriss 71,293 posts
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Registered 17 years agoWhat this got to do with 'Gaming'?
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Huntcjna 13,890 posts
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Registered 17 years agotengu wrote:
You got me interested in this with your post in the Lost thread a couple days ago fella, I ordered the box set to give it a looksee. If I don't like it, I'm blaming you.gif)
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eviltobz 2,609 posts
Registered 18 years agoi've been enjoying this a lot. and with kevin smith appearing in s2e2 and joss whedon coming up in s2e6, it like a fanboy's wet dream for me -
quedex 3,135 posts
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Registered 17 years agoThe first season was quite patchy. It had some really great eps, some badly written filler stories, and a couple of storyline "handbrake turns".
Hopefully, now that they know they've got the full support for the whole year it should be a lot more consistent.
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Huntcjna 13,890 posts
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Registered 17 years agoStill loving this I have the latest episode to watch over the weekend did anyone else pick it up/find it? -
jellyhead 24,355 posts
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Registered 18 years agoGreat Show, just finished Season 1 and loved it.
Oh and Kristen Bell, she's in Pooty Tang riiiiiiight at the very end in the credits.
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Huntcjna 13,890 posts
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Registered 17 years agotengu wrote:
Well, just finished the first season DVD set of this and all I can say is: awesome, awesome show. Thanks very much for putting me onto it Huntcjna
Why on Earth hasn't this been on terrestrial TV yet? Far as I can see, it's wallowing on the shitfest channel 'Living TV'. Travesty.
Im really glad you enjoyed it tengu I wasn't really in any doubt the new ep's have been great too anything that involves Steve Guttenburg also peaks my interest ten fold. -
Huntcjna 13,890 posts
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Registered 17 years agoThis still remains one of the best shows on US television at the moment the fact that its rotting in daytime hell on Living Tv here of all channels is rather worrying.
Anyway the whole point of this post is to let any interested party's know that movietyme.com currently have the first season box set region 1 on 24 hour uk delivery for an astonishing £23.99.
Thats 6 discs and over 20 Hours of complex crime action.
Buy me, buy me now -
Flightrisker 18,139 posts
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Registered 16 years agoI really really really wanted to like this show. Big Buffy/Angfel/Firefly/Lost etc fan so I thought I would , but I just couldn't get into it. Got about 10 episodes in before giving up. I just found the show very juvenille
It's not that it's bad, it's just that there's a lot of stuff I consider to be in a different league to it. I just found BattleStar Galactica. Oh man what a show! No spoilers please!!n Only 5 eps in, Sharon Valerie is a godess.
At least the show's getting a good push in Ireland. It's shown here at 2:30 in the afternoon on a kids station
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jellyhead 24,355 posts
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Registered 18 years agoI really liked the first series but the second wasn't as good.
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Huntcjna 13,890 posts
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Registered 17 years agoFlightrisker wrote:
It's not that it's bad, it's just that there's a lot of stuff I consider to be in a different league to it. I just found BattleStar Galactica.
It seems kind of strange that you would consider it juvenile in say relation to Buffy. The scripting is ten times better on Veronica and a lot more guilt edged at time with plenty of strong sexual humour.
Obviously we all have different tastes I for one thought Galactica was utter toss.
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Flightrisker 18,139 posts
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Registered 16 years agoHuntcjna wrote:
Flightrisker wrote:
It's not that it's bad, it's just that there's a lot of stuff I consider to be in a different league to it. I just found BattleStar Galactica.
It seems kind of strange that you would consider it juvenile in say relation to Buffy. The scripting is ten times better on Veronica and a lot more guilt edged at time with plenty of strong sexual humour.
Obviously we all have different tastes I for one thought Galactica was utter toss.
Each to their own I suppose.
The difference with Buffy was it grew up with it's audience. So while early seasons we're juvenille, this suited the target audience. The show then matured with them and became a very different show by the end.
I'm not saying Veronica Mars won't do this, but it's entry level is to juvenille for me to get into it.
It's like if Buffy started today from season 1 there's no way I'd be able to get into it.
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quedex 3,135 posts
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Registered 17 years agojellyhead wrote:
Season 3 starts 3 October.
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jellyhead 24,355 posts
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Registered 18 years agoI was hoping someone wouldn't say that, i'm nervous now.
She has to be in uni this season unless she drops out.
Hopefully it's more of the first season rather than the second, i've not looked to be honest for fear of disappointment.
I'll wait for one of my friends to float it my way in the flood.
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Vinicity 252 posts
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Registered 18 years agoJust a quick heads up:
Season 2 of Veronica Mars starts this Thursday on Swedish SVT2 at 8 pm.
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quedex 3,135 posts
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Registered 17 years agojellyhead wrote:
A couple of the interviews with the showrunners have suggested that even they thought they got season 2 wrong. So this year there are going to be a bunch of smaller mini-mysteries instead of one huge convoluted mess.
She has to be in uni this season unless she drops out.
Hopefully it's more of the first season rather than the second, i've not looked to be honest for fear of disappointment.
... MINI SPOILER ...
The first mini-mystery is going to wrap up the rapist storyline introduced when Veronica went on the Uni visit last year.
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jellyhead 24,355 posts
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Registered 18 years agoI thought they'd already solved *that* mystery at the end of 2? -
Tricky 5,088 posts
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Registered 20 years ago/still doesn't see what was "wrong" about season 2 :-/
I liked season 2 even better than season 1, personally. Still think that channel 4 missed out on a ratings winner by not buying this one up. They probably couldn't afford it, what with having already bought Desperate Housewives and Lost.
Don't get what you're going on about though Flightrisker, about VM being juvenile. As a contrast, I tried watching series one of Buffy recently and it definitely didn't gel as well as I remember it doing when I first saw it, but I only saw series 1 of VM last year and it never once struck me as being immature; quite the opposite, in fact. It features some of the best writing currently around on TV.
Utterly agree with you on BG though, mate.gif)
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Wobble 1,028 posts
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Registered 16 years agoi watched the first 5 or so eps of this when it was run on living on saturday mornings at 11.. then they started messing about with the scheduling and put it on at 10 one week.. when any self respecting person would still be asleep, then they skipped the next week entirely.. and well it just pissed me off, so i decided to get the boxset, and have been waiting for it to come out sub £20 since...
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quedex 3,135 posts
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Registered 17 years agojellyhead wrote:
Nope, they solved pretty much everything else though.
I thought they'd already solved *that* mystery at the end of 2?
The episode I'm talking about is the one where she went on the open day to uni and met Troy there (her boyfriend for a few eps in Season 1 who turned out to be a drug dealer and scarpered to Mexico). They all went to a party, Troy got himself accused of raping a girl he met there, Veronica proved that Troy didn't do it, but never found the person who did. Which is where... -
Knighty 1,326 posts
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Registered 16 years agoOooooh loved series 1 and 2, so looking forward to series 3. And Kristen Bell.....
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jellyhead 24,355 posts
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Registered 18 years agoaha, quedex I'd forgotten all about that one, i thought it was the *other* rape.
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warlockuk 19,519 posts
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Registered 17 years agoWhat -is- Veronica Mars anyway? Veronica's Closet in space? -
Carlo 21,801 posts
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Registered 16 years agoIs series 3 'out' yet? -
jellyhead 24,355 posts
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Registered 18 years agoArrrr, bucko. It's the first post o'the thread you need to be reading.
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jellyhead 24,355 posts
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jellyhead wrote:
The first post said Series 2 Ep 3 didn't it?
Arrrr, bucko. It's the first post o'the thread you need to be reading.
Arrrr.
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