Oh, Veronica

What reason does the CW have to tease me with the "season finale" teasers? It's giving me false hope. I don't like false hope. Oh, yeah... SPOILER ALERT.

So... where to begin. Veronica and Piz... the dweeb-fantasy hookup is kind of a signal of the "we don't have anything better to do with this show's story." Perfect reasoning for the time line fast forward to post-graduation Veronica working at the FBI that was the original plan for next season. She grew up into a PI quickly in the past two episodes and it seems like a good fit for the show.

But grown up doesn't work for the CW. Serials don't work for CW either, but that was the genius of this show. The continuing storyline has been reduced to the silly sheriff's election. There was a little too much wrapping up this evening for my taste, making this false hope a little more false -- Back comes the Kane family and their enforcer. Back are Keith's ousted deputies. Back is jealous Logan, angered that someone's embarrassed his love yet again (though he had a lot to do with that in season one). Back are some other old storylines, too.

Seriously, hadn't we moved past the Logan/Veronica thing? That'd be too grown up, I suppose. No, we need brash Logan who beats up on the dweeby radio host who's somehow scored Veronica's attention (man, if beating the stuffing out of radio hosts isn't social commentary...). Yeah, we need to stay immature and teen-hip -- like they did with Dick, who somehow became this teary, emotional mess over his dead brother and jailbound father for five minutes over the last three episodes. More roads to nowhere.

That's not how this show works and its sad how the creative process got stifled.

Plot-wise, we get back into the bread and butter of the show... Veronica (after another successful attempt to save her little project, the gangster with the heart of gold, Weevil) gets to solve another case for herself. With Wallace as prime suspect numero uno. That would never work obviously, but it leads to one more team-up with Wallace. They've always worked extremely well together, and you get a nice healthy dose of them (as well as her other strong relationships with Keith and Weevil) in this last episode.

But, despite my love for the characters, the rehashed stories aren't going to work. I said earlier that the show's creativity was stifled (forced into one-shot stories), and that may be. I could also be blinded by my unconditional love for this show.

In all, I'm happy they left it in a place where it could claim a clean end or come back if so called upon. If it's gone, I'll miss it. If it comes back, I hope the network treats it with the respect it deserves. The show still remains smart. It still remains humorous. And it still remains geniusly adolescent-awkward.

(I don't ask for much... but could someone give me a little bit of credit for never mentioning the massive crush I have on Kristin Bell this entire time? That took some real self control... oh... wait... darn.)

Later on, Veronica.