It seems I may have spoken prematurely. The lovely miss Kristin Veitch updated her blog later on Friday with new information about the future of Veronica Mars, and it seems like the series hasn't reached the end of the proverbial line yet. To quote the CW rep from the above link "The final decision will be made on May 17."
Still, it looks like the show as we know it may be over for good, as it is presumably heading for a total make-over, with the rumored new season taking place 4 years after the events of the season three, at a time when Veronica has become an FBI agent. These are all just rumors yet, but they are strong rumors.
I'm kind of torn on this. Throughout the second half of the third season it has been heavily hinted that V could very well join the FBI in the future, so this isn't a surprising development, but it may be a premature one. I'm not sure how well I'd stomach a fast forward to the future, with most of the main cast gone.
But what I'm mainly worried about is what the tone of the series will be. CSI: Neptune? The uh, VM-Files? Monk 2,0? There's so many things that could go wrong.
On the other side, there's also a lot of things that could go right. After watching the second (and arguably worst) episode of the first season, Credit Where Credit's Due, on television again, I realized just how much better it was than anything we've seen recently. I keep mentioning this, but the first season was just so much edgier than the following two. Even visually, all the moody colors that gave VM a certain cool neo-Noir feeling that made it stand out of the rest of the TV shows out there are gone. Plus, my favorite bit is gone; no more brooding monologues from the protagonist herself. Heck, even all the characters seem to have lost their realistic flaws that made them so endearing to us.
Perhaps an all new, FBI-based, setting could provide with the darker atmosphere that the show is sorely missing since its first season, especially if it will be targeted to an older audience than season 3. You see, the execs decided that season 3's target group would be teenage girls, and that's why we got all that groan-inducing relationship drama between Veronica and Logan. Rest assured that there's a special place reserved in Hell for people who mess up that much with a good story *nods*.
Furthermore, a new cast could mean that the supporting characters wouldn't feel so out of context anymore, and they would also be as dark and deeply flawed as the ones in season one.
What can I say, I really love the first season of Veronica Mars. It's one of those things I'm pretty sure I'll still love in twenty years from now, which is more than can be said for most of the things that are on TV or in film these days. I like Lost, Heroes, 24, but in ten years from now I'll probably look at them nostalgically rather than say "Damn, this show is still great even now!"
P.S.
While Credit Where Credit's Due is pretty mediocre by season one standards (Paris Hilton is in it, 'nuff said), it also has one of the best lines in the entire series:
Troy (looking at V's flat tire): "Flat?"
Veronica: "Just as God made me."
More sardonic humor like that, less teen-drama, please.
Sunday, March 18
Friday, March 16
Farewell, Ms. Mars
Rather unsurprisingly, it has been pretty much confirmed that Veronica Mars will not see a fourth season. With the way the ratings were going, it's hardly earth-shattering news, of course.
Still, it's kind of a shame since the recent three or four episodes were really damn good. The dialogs and acting were always good throughout the season, but in these latest episodes they managed to provide us with good storylines too that made us care for the characters again. Also, I really liked the ending to the main arc, which is a first.
I guess, at the end of the day, it's for the best. It seems like Rob Thomas and Co. could never top the excellent first season, so it was all downhill from there. In other words, it's better to cancel the show now, while it's still one of the best shows on TV despite its declining quality, than let it drag on and become awful.
Anyway, since a certain person insisted that I'd provide a link for Sarbel's Eurovision song "Yassou Maria" because he wanted to listen to it, here's a link for ya.
Still, it's kind of a shame since the recent three or four episodes were really damn good. The dialogs and acting were always good throughout the season, but in these latest episodes they managed to provide us with good storylines too that made us care for the characters again. Also, I really liked the ending to the main arc, which is a first.
I guess, at the end of the day, it's for the best. It seems like Rob Thomas and Co. could never top the excellent first season, so it was all downhill from there. In other words, it's better to cancel the show now, while it's still one of the best shows on TV despite its declining quality, than let it drag on and become awful.
Anyway, since a certain person insisted that I'd provide a link for Sarbel's Eurovision song "Yassou Maria" because he wanted to listen to it, here's a link for ya.
Sunday, March 11
Oh and I saw 300
This information needs a separate post, just because.
Anyway, of course I saw 300. I was there on the opening day, March 8.
It's exactly what you'd expect from the trailers. 2 hours of ass-kicking, badass action involving Spartans. It goes without saying that I loved it.
It really is a shame that a few of the best moments of the graphic novel were lost during the transition to film. I guess they were too quiet and somber for the badass feeling the director was aiming for. *shrugs* Stuff happens.
Apparently the movie had a great opening in the Box Office, I hope it keeps this pace and ends up making a buttload of money. That way, the movie version of "Gates of Fire" may actually become a reality (with Michael Mann at the helm, please!)
"Zeus Thunderer! Hellas and Freedom!"
Anyway, of course I saw 300. I was there on the opening day, March 8.
It's exactly what you'd expect from the trailers. 2 hours of ass-kicking, badass action involving Spartans. It goes without saying that I loved it.
It really is a shame that a few of the best moments of the graphic novel were lost during the transition to film. I guess they were too quiet and somber for the badass feeling the director was aiming for. *shrugs* Stuff happens.
Apparently the movie had a great opening in the Box Office, I hope it keeps this pace and ends up making a buttload of money. That way, the movie version of "Gates of Fire" may actually become a reality (with Michael Mann at the helm, please!)
"Zeus Thunderer! Hellas and Freedom!"
The (sorta) unthinkable has happened
No, I'm not referring to my updating this blog again after 10,000 years. Between being out of the city for several days, getting a new PS2 because my old one was stolen and other random things, I didn't have much of a chance to write anything, plus I really didn't have anything interesting to say.
Anyway, I'll start with something interesting. Tom made a series of posts on his blog about MMORPG's, they're really well-written and accurate, definitely worth reading if you're into that kind of games, or just gaming in general.
At this point I'd like to point out that I didn't change my site's description because he did it, hell, I hadn't even realized that the word "musing" is derived from the Muses (pathetic, I know), I've just been meaning to do so for a while. So there!
Now that that's out of the way, I'd like to refer to the title of this post, which is a reference to the fact that a local channel has started airing Veronica Mars (Message to all Greeks: Κυριακές στο Star Channel, 3.30 με 4.30, να το βλέπετε μη σας πάρει ο Διάκολος!)
I guess since the series is getting cancelled in the States at the end of this season, its royalties must be pretty cheap now, so that even a Greek channel can afford them...
:(
Sorry 'bout that. The good thing is that it will be on the same timeslot that Smallville was on previously, so the target audience is there. Almost.
As for the show itself, watching the pilot again (for like, the 12th time) has made me realized just how much better season 1 was compared to the following 2. Season 2 had its moments and season 3 is pretty solid, but it feels like the writers were a lot more concentrated during the first season. It's kind of like what I read on a forum, the characters in Veronica Mars were created with a specific storyline in mind, that of season 1 of the series. Once they're out of that context, they just seem out of place, we can't relate to their stories as much anymore. But I'll be damned if that whole season isn't among the finest I've ever seen on TV.
Another thing that becomes painfully obvious if you watch any episode of season one of VM today is that its darker elements were lost on the way. No more Noiresque voice-overs by Veronica, hell she's gradually becoming less and less of a badass with every episode. At least some of the storylines are still pretty interesting, and often delightfully cynical.
I think this show will never get over the fact that it tried to go head-to-head with Lost on its second season. Talk about a bad idea.
While on the subject of TV shows, last week's Lost and Heroes were pretty great. I mean, a Lost episode that actually provided some answers, what the fuck! Last weeks "Tricia Tanaka is Dead" was a fun and enjoyable episode, but it was just filler material. This week it was great. But it was a Sayid episode, Sayid episodes are awesome by definition.
I've been wondering why the writers don't show Sayid more often since he's easily one of the best characters, but I think that he's too much of a badass for his own good. If he were always around when a mystery or an Other/Hostile popped up, he'd find a solution in nanoseconds, but we can't have that, can we?
Heroes is really shaping up as well. I never cared much for the writing and the somewhat awkward dialogs, but the plot is finally becoming interesting. Plus, hey, who doesn't love superheroes? Peter Petrelli Vs Sylar, fight!
Anyway, I'll start with something interesting. Tom made a series of posts on his blog about MMORPG's, they're really well-written and accurate, definitely worth reading if you're into that kind of games, or just gaming in general.
At this point I'd like to point out that I didn't change my site's description because he did it, hell, I hadn't even realized that the word "musing" is derived from the Muses (pathetic, I know), I've just been meaning to do so for a while. So there!
Now that that's out of the way, I'd like to refer to the title of this post, which is a reference to the fact that a local channel has started airing Veronica Mars (Message to all Greeks: Κυριακές στο Star Channel, 3.30 με 4.30, να το βλέπετε μη σας πάρει ο Διάκολος!)
I guess since the series is getting cancelled in the States at the end of this season, its royalties must be pretty cheap now, so that even a Greek channel can afford them...
:(
Sorry 'bout that. The good thing is that it will be on the same timeslot that Smallville was on previously, so the target audience is there. Almost.
As for the show itself, watching the pilot again (for like, the 12th time) has made me realized just how much better season 1 was compared to the following 2. Season 2 had its moments and season 3 is pretty solid, but it feels like the writers were a lot more concentrated during the first season. It's kind of like what I read on a forum, the characters in Veronica Mars were created with a specific storyline in mind, that of season 1 of the series. Once they're out of that context, they just seem out of place, we can't relate to their stories as much anymore. But I'll be damned if that whole season isn't among the finest I've ever seen on TV.
Another thing that becomes painfully obvious if you watch any episode of season one of VM today is that its darker elements were lost on the way. No more Noiresque voice-overs by Veronica, hell she's gradually becoming less and less of a badass with every episode. At least some of the storylines are still pretty interesting, and often delightfully cynical.
I think this show will never get over the fact that it tried to go head-to-head with Lost on its second season. Talk about a bad idea.
While on the subject of TV shows, last week's Lost and Heroes were pretty great. I mean, a Lost episode that actually provided some answers, what the fuck! Last weeks "Tricia Tanaka is Dead" was a fun and enjoyable episode, but it was just filler material. This week it was great. But it was a Sayid episode, Sayid episodes are awesome by definition.
I've been wondering why the writers don't show Sayid more often since he's easily one of the best characters, but I think that he's too much of a badass for his own good. If he were always around when a mystery or an Other/Hostile popped up, he'd find a solution in nanoseconds, but we can't have that, can we?
Heroes is really shaping up as well. I never cared much for the writing and the somewhat awkward dialogs, but the plot is finally becoming interesting. Plus, hey, who doesn't love superheroes? Peter Petrelli Vs Sylar, fight!
Friday, March 2
Yassou kai esena
It's crazy, everybody in this damn country had only one thing to talk about today, the song that was selected to represent Greece in the contest that embodies all that's wrong with the world today, the Eurovision. Unsurprisingly, the song (Yassou Maria *groans) that was selected represents everything that's wrong with modern-day Greece, and for some fucking reason it's been stuck in my head all day long. Gah! And I love the use of the word "Yassou", it looks so stupid. What's with the two "s"'s too, huh? (Yassou/Geia sou being the Greek version of "hi").
I refuse to talk more about this topic though, the less said about it, the better off we all are. Instead, I'll talk again about 300, the other topic that's sure to be all the rage here in a few days. Better yet, I won't say much about it, as I've already established that I'm really looking forward to this movie, and chances are I'll love it. Instead, I'll let the following clip do all the talking for me:
Link because embedding doesn't want to work: Clickez moi.
I believe "Holy shit" are the words you're looking for.
I refuse to talk more about this topic though, the less said about it, the better off we all are. Instead, I'll talk again about 300, the other topic that's sure to be all the rage here in a few days. Better yet, I won't say much about it, as I've already established that I'm really looking forward to this movie, and chances are I'll love it. Instead, I'll let the following clip do all the talking for me:
Link because embedding doesn't want to work: Clickez moi.
I believe "Holy shit" are the words you're looking for.
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