I am not psyched about the idea of scrapping longer mysteries in favor of standalone eps.

an even more vague Heroes reference

It's not a spoiler if you've heard any of the promos.

Okay, Rob makes a reference to [about perceptions of the show, not the plot] the awful Entertainment Weekly review. What review is this? I thought the show was still adored by the critics . Anyone?

Hee. Yeah, that was fun times. It's mostly notable for being a major publication that steadfastly complained about the resolution to the rape mystery. Yes, this professional critic who writes television reviews thought the arc was over last week.

It is adored, but the asshat thought 3.08 was the last episode in the rape arc, in other words--thought the resolution was Chip getting raped and the fems shrugging.

eta...

Off what Jon said, I'd like to see short mysteries, but not weekly ones, because honestly, I don't think the writers are that good with coming up with the stand alones.

I'm thinking I'd enjoy a lot of two and three parters, with maybe the occasional 4 parter. It doesn't sound like that's on the menu, but I think it's time to bring back the old, "To be continued..."

I'm not interested in watching Veronica Mars She Wrote. Give me 3-5 ep length mysteries.

The door thing is simple -- Mercer and or Moe swapped out the standard dorm lock in favor of one that you can lock(/unlock) on both sides with a key. So all that Moe had to do to lock V. in was take the key that stays in the inside lock out, lock it from the outside, and there she was.

I want Clemmons to replace the dean, and I don't care how contrived it is.

Yes, please!

I'm not interested in watching Veronica Mars She Wrote. Give me 3-5 ep length mysteries.

This is me.

I don't like the idea of stand alone episodes. I would rather have the whole season arcs back with more stand alone subplots.

Good news from Rob:

Yeah. Big day for us.

Received congratulatory calls from Dawn Ostroff and Peter Roth.

More nights like that will bring us back for Season 4.

I asked him about the fact that they made a good promo and actually aired it:

Les Moonves actually called Dawn Ostroff yesterday and asked "why the upswing on Veronica?" She said, "Well, we did give it a bunch more promotion."

It couldn't've worked out better for us.

They promoted us. We went up.

Believe me, we're harassing them on this front.

That's so funny. And awesome.

My knee-jerk to the stand-alone season was "Nooooo!!" But that was my knee-jerk to the mini-mystery idea too, and I've come to really like it. Veronica is a detective, so I don't think the mysteries would be gone forever, but I think that maybe they might have longer mysteries that go over three or four episodes rather than defined mini-arcs. I think it's definitely a good idea to go stand-alone for the last four episodes, however, rather than attempt to squeeze a six-episode mystery into that smaller space.

he sounded pretty damn optimistic in that interview with a reporter formerly known as Wanda about a season 4.