I really liked this episode. I liked all the plot threads, even if they were difficult to follow (I also don't know how to interpret Wallace's scenes), and I liked seeing some tension with Veronica and Logan ("Remember? It was right after you said 'Jump' and I said 'How high?'), and I got a kick out of seeing Jaime Ray Newman as the dean's wife (she plays Lt. Cadman on SGA, possibly my favorite minor character). And so much Weevilly goodness! Loved him calling Veronica on her shit.
Apparently Logan and Veronica were the White Stripes.
Really? Logan was not nearly greasy enough. Were they even wearing red and white?
Ha. I can see it; both their wigs were really awful. (She was wearing red and he was wearing white.) Though I was totally amused at Veronica, master of disguises, wearing such a lame costume for Halloween.
Jaime Ray Newman as the dean's wife (she plays Lt. Cadman on SGA, possibly my favorite minor character)
She was hot. And I looked her up, and holy crap, she's only 28. Damn, Dean O'Dell.
Though I was totally amused at Veronica, master of disguises, wearing such a lame costume for Halloween.
It reminded me of the anime wig she wore in TWOC.
Jaime Ray Newman as the dean's wife
she also had a role on General Hospital a few years ago. sadly, she fell victim to Sonny Corinthos drama.
my favorite scene was when Lamb came and arrested Weevil. that parting shot to Logan had me laughing for several minutes.
That was awesome.
I'm completely memfaulting on this - what was it again?
Otherwise everything would be open book take home.
Was, at my school. Seemed to work.
That said, as a teacher, I think that timed, memory tests definitely have their place. That ME class may have been one of them.
In my opinion, it feels like Veronica fought the Master over the summer and now she's all bitca but without the sexy Xander dance. Something just seems off with her.
Veronica's increased brusqueness is really souring me on the character. Like her side of the conversation with the pizza guy was all "Could you stop flattering me for a moment while we talk about me and my problems." Before, the people that drew Veronica's sass earned Veronica's sass but now she's just being flippant with and rude to strangers. Which is something, I think, the writers are aware and are evening out by making the one-off tertiary characters strange and rude. Is it weird that I'd enjoy the show much more if it had more polite exchanges?
No, I don't think it's weird.
Rob Thomas has been repeatedly quoted as reminding the writers to keep her porcupinely. And I get that. I want her to be sassy, hard-boiled, yada yada yada, too. But...
I think, though, that she needs to be more sympathetic in some way. In season one, she was so piled upon by everyone and everything that she was still a likable (or at least a sympathetic) bitch. It was warranted. Her bitchiness was also a little admirable -- at least it made me respect her, more (e.g. the scene in Hot Dogs, where she really went off on the boy who was so mean to Mandy, with the "Shut up! If I want you to speak, I'll wave a snausage over your nose," line).
I really think d hit it on the nose with that Buffy/When-She-Was-Bad comparison, except Veronica seems to have spent the summer having great sex, and now she's got a brand new car and is at college, and has more friends than she's had in a few years, so her prickliness is less sympathetic/admirable when it's just out of the blue.
I'd like to chalk it up to the aftermath of the Beaver case, and her current investigation of the rape case. It's got to be hitting her in the gut, but nobody's shown me that, too much, so far.
