Angel: You're lying. Gwen: I'm fibbing. It's lying, only classier.

'Just Rewards (2)'


Veronica Mars: Annoy, Tiny Blonde One. Annoy Like the Wind.

[NAFDA] Spoiler Policy: Seasons 1-3 and the movie are fair game. Spoiler font two weeks for new content presented all at once (e.g. Season 4 on Hulu is fair game as of Aug. 9, 2019). New content presented as weekly episodes may be discussed with no restrictions as it is released.


Calli - Jul 02, 2019 7:55:15 am PDT #5691 of 5730
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Welcome back, VM thread! I'm looking forward to the new season. And watching the older seasons seems like a good way to celebrate July 4th.


Topic!Cindy - Jul 09, 2019 4:11:22 am PDT #5692 of 5730
What is even happening?

I, for one, would appreciate spoiler font for a little while.

I made the suggestion in Bureaucracy.

So the streaming version of the pilot starts a little differently; it's missing the teaser and opening credits. I had to pull out my DVD to make sure I wasn't losing it. Was the opening reworked for DVD, and we're back to as-aired, or...?

If I recall correctly, the version on your DVD (which opens with Veronica outside the Camelot Motel at night) is the version Rob Thomas first made.

Les Moonves, who then ran CBS (and so UPN) said it is a high school show, so it should open at the high school.

Rob didn't want to do it, but he did, and wrote what he thought of as a bad voiceover, hoping it would get the thumbs down, hoping that the network would reject it and instead would air his original version. They stayed with the opening at Neptune, however.

I do not understand why Hulu has the as-aired version. It must have to do with however they bought the rights.


Laura - Jul 12, 2019 3:49:20 am PDT #5693 of 5730
Our wings are not tired.

A nice review via NYT, very light spoilage. [link]


Una - Jul 14, 2019 12:07:34 pm PDT #5694 of 5730
when i die, please bake my ashes into a brick and use me to hit fascists.

Rob didn't want to do it, but he did, and wrote what he thought of as a bad voiceover, hoping it would get the thumbs down, hoping that the network would reject it and instead would air his original version. They stayed with the opening at Neptune, however.

Yeah, that opening is BAD. thanks for the info!


Tom Scola - Jul 19, 2019 10:54:20 am PDT #5695 of 5730
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500

Hulu just dropped Season 4, a week early.


Steph L. - Jul 19, 2019 11:00:04 am PDT #5696 of 5730
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

Awwwwwww YISS!!!!

It's going to be stupid hot and stupider humid all weekend, so I'm parking my butt in front of the teevee.


Vonnie K - Jul 19, 2019 12:38:28 pm PDT #5697 of 5730
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.

Oh sod it all, I am working this weekend. Better get the hell off all social media!


Tom Scola - Jul 19, 2019 3:21:51 pm PDT #5698 of 5730
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500

So Patton Oswalt's character tries to solve cold cases. That's super-specific casting.


-t - Jul 19, 2019 8:08:57 pm PDT #5699 of 5730
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I'm thinking created the role for the actor?

3 episodes in. Pleased so far. Showing some amazing self-restraint by going to bed rather than continuing to watch if I do say so myself.

I'm not surprised, exactly, but having some kind of reaction to noticing that I am not finding myself expecting VM to be Eleanor. Acting.

Digging the title sequence. Chrissie Cussing Hynde


Topic!Cindy - Jul 20, 2019 2:21:55 am PDT #5700 of 5730
What is even happening?

Oh sod it all, I am working this weekend. Better get the hell off all social media!

Vonnie's got the right idea. If you don't want to be spoiled, stay off of social media until you've watched all eight episodes.