Veronica Mars: Annoy, Tiny Blonde One. Annoy Like the Wind.
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I couldn't take
The Inside
too long, either. Had the episode in which Tim kills Scott ever aired, I wouldn't have watched it, because it was the "feel good dead baby episode of the year." Couldn't do it.
Several of my LJ buddies who love the show have expressed similar discontent--not with the quality of the show, but with the grimness. One of them even went out as far as to say that she wouldn't watch S3 if the culprit turned out to be Beaver, because that'd be just too horrific for her.
I really think it is Beaver. I've just finished my spec. It's pretty comprehensive, rationalizing clues that we've been given, and sorting out the ratred herrings, and analyzing everything from chlamydia to Terrence Cook.
I think I've touched on everything except who put Veronica's name on Curly's hand, because about that? I have no clue.
I do mention the title of the episode, and discuss the TV-broadcast promos for the episode, so fair warning to those who are going to check it out.
Journal is here: [link] and the entry is the one up top, right now. I'm linking to the main journal page, so people get a second chance to look at the warnings, before they click on the cut tag.
For people who happen by this post in a day or two, the permalink URL for the specific entry is: cindywrites.livejournal.com/117545.html.
I do mention the title of the episode, and discuss the TV-broadcast promos for the episode, so fair warning to those who are going to check it out.
I didn't see anything at all from the promo in your post. Did I miss something? I sent someone over, telling her it was safe.
Also, I don't know if you guys heard, but we're hiring a plane.
Oh, P-C. Now I don't know. I wrote the disclaimer before I composed the post, and essentially repeated it, here. I don't think I did mention the promo, after all (by promo though, I mean what aired on UPN on the TV. I don't watch the cold open, or whatever that is).
who put Veronica's name on Curly's hand,
In the promo, it looked to me like Curly himself wrote it.
Hee! I rewatched it last night, and thought the opposite. I do think Curly writing it himself, is the most likely explanation for it being on there, but something about Veronica asking Weevil if noticed whether or not her name was on Curly's hand when Weevil beat curly up, felt to me like it was supposed to be drawing it to our attention.
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I read through Topic!Cindy's live journal. I haven't thought it all the way through, but here's some comments:
1. Beaver was on the Little League team -- I agree that the "Not Pictured" is him. He was abused and Mac does find this out. I like my theory that she finds it out by doing her computer mojo and cracking through the deleted portions of the tape, but other ways are possible too. I wonder if Beaver rejects her advances again in such a way that she realizes he's been abused.
2. Beaver is engaged in the real estate business -- through Kendall -- and it looks like he bet on incorporation failing. So he's still my candidate for sending that edited tape to Woody.
3. Woody could have tried to plant the bomb -- by giving to gift package to Peter. That Woody told Gia not to take the bus back supports this conclusion. However, it is also possible that Woody simply did not want his daughter to be alone with one or more of the kids he molested.
4. If the bomb was in the Sharks gift package, it means that Dick inadvertently contributed to the bomb being on the bus and those kids getting killed. I agree with the comment that this is a nice parallel to Season 1 where Madison's decision to have Veronica take a Trip to the Dentist -- by spitting in a drink and giving it to Veronica -- meant that Veronica also got the drugs that Dick intended Madison to take. Which lead to Veronica being used as a party favor and sex with Duncan.
5. I am really fighting the conclusion that Beaver arranged for the bomb to be at the stadium. Why would he -- as a warning to Woody? Which Beaver was supposed to detonate from the road? Lordy, that's risky. How would he know that someone wasn't standing near the garbage or where ever the bomb was supposed to be planted at the time it went off? (If Pete is actually the one who put the bomb in the Sharks gift bag, doesn't he have the same problem -- how does he know that there are no innocent spectators around?) Or was someone supposed to be watching the stadium to make sure that no one was around when the bomb went off and was unaware that the bomb was no longer there? (This could only be Curly, since Lucky was in the hospital, right?)
I like my theory that she finds it out by doing her computer mojo and cracking through the deleted portions of the tape, but other ways are possible too.
I like this theory, too.
Beaver is engaged in the real estate business -- through Kendall -- and it looks like he bet on incorporation failing. So he's still my candidate for sending that edited tape to Woody.
Mine too (unless Lucky did it for him, but I think Beaver is behind him gettnig the edited sound file, as it came with the stop-incorporation email.
Woody could have tried to plant the bomb -- by giving to gift package to Peter. That Woody told Gia not to take the bus back supports this conclusion. However, it is also possible that Woody simply did not want his daughter to be alone with one or more of the kids he molested.
I really don't think Woody did it. I can't remember him not telling her to take the bus. I only remember her saying that to Lamb, so I don't know why. I can easily imagine he either didn't want her on the bus with Pete and Marcos, or even just that she complained of the stench, and so he told her not to go back on the bus.
(This could only be Curly, since Lucky was in the hospital, right?)
Yes. I erroneous included Lucky as a possible accomplice. I don't know when you read the lj, but I have since crossed that portion out, and edited around it. I like the theory that Curly was watching for the bomb. I like it a lot a lot a lot.
Maybe Curly the stunt man was even going to let himself get injured. He'd know how to get hurt in a way that didn't hurt too badly.
Jon, the journal is here: [link] the post to which Narrator is referring is here: [link]
Includes the episode title, (possible) discussion of the promos that have aired on TV on UPN (I disremember). Assume complete spoilers through 2:21, and mystery speculation on 2:22.
