In order to entice programming executives at the CW to renew his show Veronica Mars, series creator Rob Thomas pitched a brand-new direction for a fourth season. In a six-minute trailer shown to the company brass, the program warped a few years into the future and put the titular detective in the FBI academy.
Word on the street was the execs liked the idea and were on their way to renewing the cult favorite.
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TVGuide.com's Michael Ausiello is reporting that the trailer shown off to execs will be included as a bonus feature in the third season DVD set, which has not yet been officially announced by Warner Bros. Home Video.
But that's not all. Ausiello also says that Thomas may be going the route of Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino. Thomas is reportedly mulling the idea of writing a script for a feature-length Veronica Mars movie in order to wrap things up for Kristen Bell and company.
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Friday, June 1, 2007
Veronica: The Movie?
Sort-of good news for Veronica Mars fans, from TV.com:
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
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.
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.
Wednesday, May 9, 2007
Lucky break for Veronica
It's as if the network aimed at teen girls is reading my mind, from Hollywood Reporter, via Yahoo:
The CW drama Veronica Mars is inching closer to a renewal for a fourth season after a trailer for the proposed revamped version of the series got a warm reception at the network, sources said.Hopefully this amazing show doesn't compromise its serial values. It's an amazingly great, smart, entertaining show and probably the best detective show on TV, as I've said before. For now, I offer a guarded "good work" to CW.
The new season would fast-forward a couple of years, and find the title character (Kristen Bell) studying at the FBI Academy. The cult favorite had been on the verge of cancellation, but its fortunes have improved significantly in the past week with the announcement that Gilmore Girls won't be coming back and because of Mars creator Rob Thomas' well-received fourth-season idea.
Thursday, May 3, 2007
Several points...
The Sopranos: So Tony has a gambling problem and his Jewish friend doesn't like holding a debt over the boss's head. And meanwhile AJ loses his woman and Carmella whines about her newly-sold house. Seems like a waste of an episode to me... at least a final-season episode. Let's take all the storylines no one cares about and only kinda wrap them up. And no, I'm not only whining because there was no blood. My real issue is that David Chase was giving people their due in the preceding episodes. Here, the only one who gets his is AJ, and that's only for being a doofus, it has nothing to do with his greater moral fiber. I'll rescind if this episode turns out to be just an interlude.
24: I'm a little disappointed at the complete turn the season took two weeks ago, switching storylines completely. Not that it's not staying interesting and energetic, it just seems to me there could have been much more done with a bunch of nukes flying around the country. Anyone else noticed that Doyle changes sides every three minutes. Stupid Nurse Flowers (that's a Scrubs reference, by the way).
Jericho: So, I've mentioned it two weeks in a row in my Wednesday suggestions. I don't know if anyone actually listens to me, but if you did, you probably were pleasantly surprised the last two weeks. It's probably climbed to the heights with the strongest serials going in that time (Lost and Heroes). Since its beginnings of "How will we survive without a government or infrastructure?!"this show has completely taken off and now the citizens of this podunk Kansas town are going to war. WAR! I'm not even kidding. Jake and Hawkins pass out weapons while Stanley leads a scout team to the New Bern army's camp in badass closing scene this week. The town goes from caring about running out of fuel to marching against the next town over (led by Major Dad, of course).
House: Does Omar Epps leave a top 10 show in its third season? I don't even want to research it and ruin the answer for myself, but the smart money would be on "no." I'd see him getting his own department at Princeton-Plansboro first... and clashing with House on a different level. Don't be too surprised if he does bow out, though. Or something else equally shocking on an all new House.
Veronica Mars: I haven't even watched it the deserialized new episode yet, but open letter to CW: Don't take my Veronica away. I'm begging. I'll watch the 7th Heaven finale and blog about it if you want.
24: I'm a little disappointed at the complete turn the season took two weeks ago, switching storylines completely. Not that it's not staying interesting and energetic, it just seems to me there could have been much more done with a bunch of nukes flying around the country. Anyone else noticed that Doyle changes sides every three minutes. Stupid Nurse Flowers (that's a Scrubs reference, by the way).
Jericho: So, I've mentioned it two weeks in a row in my Wednesday suggestions. I don't know if anyone actually listens to me, but if you did, you probably were pleasantly surprised the last two weeks. It's probably climbed to the heights with the strongest serials going in that time (Lost and Heroes). Since its beginnings of "How will we survive without a government or infrastructure?!"this show has completely taken off and now the citizens of this podunk Kansas town are going to war. WAR! I'm not even kidding. Jake and Hawkins pass out weapons while Stanley leads a scout team to the New Bern army's camp in badass closing scene this week. The town goes from caring about running out of fuel to marching against the next town over (led by Major Dad, of course).
House: Does Omar Epps leave a top 10 show in its third season? I don't even want to research it and ruin the answer for myself, but the smart money would be on "no." I'd see him getting his own department at Princeton-Plansboro first... and clashing with House on a different level. Don't be too surprised if he does bow out, though. Or something else equally shocking on an all new House.
Veronica Mars: I haven't even watched it the deserialized new episode yet, but open letter to CW: Don't take my Veronica away. I'm begging. I'll watch the 7th Heaven finale and blog about it if you want.
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