Okay, I actually liked the new music! I was dismayed to see that so many people here didn't like it. I thought the visuals and the music over the new titles was a distinct and appreciated improvement.

I really liked this season opener. In general, I've been disappointed with a lot of the new fall series and I was thrilled with VM's opening. I thought it was a bit predictable in parts, but that's okay.

I hope it gets good ratings.

OMG what were those Aerie Girls doing during commercial breaks? Besides setting my teeth on edge that is.

Wrod. Wrody McWrod with wrodcakes. Actually, all the CW promo stuff is gratingly annoying. I'd take "Fresh from the Frog" over what I've seen so far.

Wouldn't Veronica still need a scholarship to go to Hearst? I was under the impression that that was an expensive school as well.

After all my bitching above, I will have to say that I had a lot of fun watching the episode, and even the Cormac parts were palatable at the time of viewing because, KEITH!!!! but the way that played out in the end had me lying in bed later boggled, confused, and kind of irked.

I am happy to have VM back, I missed it lots. It was happy-making to me.

I am just a-feared that this Fitzpatrick thing will confuse new viewers, when even I, who read TWOP and Livejournal, and this thread, and get these things explained and debated from every direction was like, Hmm.... WTF is this weird boring confusing mess?

Also the hackeysack scene had me laughing LIKE A LOON.

Also, "And what does that make all of us, Sargeant Sacks? WINNERS!"

tiggy, thanks for the link. Guess what I'm getting for my birthday next week?!

Also the hackeysack scene had me laughing LIKE A LOON.

"It's a white man's game."

Hated the new credits, so draggy and blah. I liked Piz but not as potential love interest (although I get why he instantly digs on Veronica, I mean, der!). He made me miss Undeclared.

I'm totally confused about the Cormac/Kendall thing as well. AND am confused about when it was decided Veronica would be going to Hearst.

But I loved Mac, loved Dick, loved Wallace as always, and loved Veronica. And her hottie professor.

Oh! And FRACK! hilarious

I'm with the consensus on the credits, and the totally confusing Fitzwhatever plot. A criminology department, though? @@

Life as We Know It! That's where I know him from!

I'm starting to remember professor too. Wasn't he the guidance counselor and not the principal on JoA?

The criminology professor doesn't seem to be in the IMDB credits. Huh.

Read back through the thread, and thought some more about the episode.

I thought Dick's "I messed up" was kind of meta. At least that's the way I read it. Yeah, he possibly said it because of something he'd done that night, but also that he'd fucked up with Cassidy, as well as his life in general.

I'm not buying Dick as a suspect for the rapes. I suppose he could have been hanging around the Hearst campus last year, but why? Also, Dick is lazy. He may be an opportunist when it comes to sex, but I kind of don't see him as even motivated enough to roofie all those girls, and then shave their heads. Why would he? (Unless, of course, Dick turns out to have uncharted depths -- or shallows -- the way Cassidy did.)

I'm also not buying Piz as a love interest for Veronica, at least not from her perspective. I can buy him falling hard for her, and maybe pursuing it past when he should get the "not interested" message, and thereby causing conflict, but them together? No. Just...no.

The more I thought about the Keith/Kendall/Cormac thing, the more confused I got. And then I got pissed off. I don't get it. I love Keith. But like Teppy said, that storyline needs to be over.