Veronica Mars: Annoy, Tiny Blonde One. Annoy Like the Wind.
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I loved the one-fan Veronica Mars fan-club! He was adorkable. Of course geek boys would idolize Veronica. The German accent cracked me up something fierce.
I have never listened to the Olive Garden commercial, believe it or not, and thought Cliff was doing some kind of Godfather impression. (I know, I know.) But he had a fake Italian accent and was talking about family in a sort of menacing way, whilst brandishing a piece of meat! What was I to think?
I am NOT happy with Wallace-the-cheater. I know it does no good to put a character on a pedestal, but I sort of do, with Wallace.
At first I thought he got caught cheating, but how would the prof know so quickly that that was the case? I'm thinking he wrote a confession on the exam.
I think Wallace's friend (and teammate, right?) set him up, and that's how the prof knew so quickly. A teacher would be suspicious that a struggling student is the first one to turn in an exam, (and possibly get a perfect score???). If someone set up Wallace (and the teammate is a prime suspect, because he's the one who kept dragging Wallace away from his studies in the first place), that someone also would have dropped a dime.
I figure there are three likely scenarios:
1. Wallace was set up to cheat and get caught, and someone dropped a dime on him
2. Wallace wasn't set up, but cheated and got caught
I think there's also an outside chance that...
3. Wallace figured out he was being set up, and dropped a dime on the cheating network on his exam paper, because he figured out he was being set up.
He has been hanging around with V for a while. We saw evidence he's learned from her, in his prison experiment clock switcheroo. I'd love it if Wallace Fennel was smarter than us, too. And the emotions on his face and resignation are still understandable, because Wallace would feel badly that a teammate set him up and that he had to turn in the teammate.
He could have confessed, but why? Why not just rip up the paper, instead?
I couldn't figure out what was going on with Wallace and the test either--if he'd been caught for cheating or confessed. I just loved the whole bit about him having always wanting to be a mechanical engineer and now he was failing his first mechanical engineering class and how sad he was about that. It seemed very real to me and un-TV like.
What were Logan & Veronica supposed to be dressed up as?
i'm not understanding where people are seeing ambiguity.
Because we got no confirmation of what happened. We don't know if Wallace just cheated, or if Wallace was set up, or if Wallace confessed.
(Or my spec-crack theory that Wallace decided to sting the people who were setting him up).
Apparently Logan and Veronica were the White Stripes.
I like the idea that Wallace just wrote about what happened on the exam.
(Don't most colleges have legitimate tutoring offices that Wallace could have discovered?)
Apparently Logan and Veronica were the White Stripes.
Really? Logan was not nearly greasy enough. Were they even wearing red and white?
(Don't most colleges have legitimate tutoring offices that Wallace could have discovered?)
Yes, but for some reason, a lot of students either don't know about them or are embarrassed to use them. (From what I've seen, there's some stigma associated with Academic Support, but not so much with a private tutor.) At my campus, you can get a tutor from Academic Support for $15 an hour. As a private tutor, I charge, at minimum, $40 an hour, as does everyone else in my department, and we've all got plenty of students hiring us.
Apparently Logan and Veronica were the White Stripes.
That's who they were?!? Ah. That would have been funnier with Duncan, before the paternity reveal.
Although, generally speaking, it's harder to call cheat on somebody who only has the questions in advance. There are a lot of departments (okay maybe not mathy departments) where it's standard to put out the questions before the exam. The student is graded not on how quickly he can react to an unexpected question, but on how well he covers all the aspects of a question.
(Because, he still had to come up with an answer -- so, he's still learning the material. It's only when the answer is supplied for him that he's not learning.)
Also, when you've got the questions in advance, but not the answers, you're just as likely to still get answers wrong, to have to struggle through parts, etc. etc. It doesn't follow that Wallace should have been able to finish the exam way early, unless he memorized his answers verbatim.
Or wasn't actually taking the exam at all.
when you've got the questions in advance, but not the answers, you're just as likely to still get answers wrong, to have to struggle through parts, etc. etc
Just as likely? Give me my book and extra time outside of exam hall stress and I think I can change those odds. Otherwise everything would be open book take home.
I don't know how I feel about this episode, but it made me feel like I needed to shower. Veronica was so nasty. I know the whole "Neptune is corrupt" and "Veronica is flawed" thing, but this was like the counselling eavesdropping in S1. Weevil's comment about how many friends she has was right on point.
