SPOILERS. I can’t stress sufficient this put up is all in regards to the ending of the Veronica Mars‘ Hulu revival so except you’re cool with spoilers or already completed your marathon don’t learn on. Additionally, TW for mentions of rape.
Every little thing within the U.S. feels horrible and overwhelming and larger than something we will management, repair, or cease proper now. And that’s why my rewatch of Veronica Mars season 1 felt so comforting. She was punishing folks. Getting revenge. Making folks pay for being terrible and doing terrible issues. There was justice. Not all the time, however sufficient to really feel cathartic.
After which I used to be handed remedy Logan within the revival which had me wrap myself even tighter into my Veronica Mars consolation blanket. Right here she was combating in opposition to a few of the evils of the world and right here was the love of her life all grown up engaged on himself. Engaged on speaking together with her. Making an attempt to get her to work on herself—she is a sizzling mess on the subject of any relationship not together with her dad, egocentric a lot? It wasn’t her making an attempt to repair him, it was him making an attempt to repair her.
However foolish, foolish me this isn’t a consolation present. Veronica Mars was by no means meant to be a consolation blanket. Its origins was a teen detective who channeled all her rage from her greatest good friend’s homicide and her personal rape into fixing crimes and making an attempt to punish folks, in a presumably misguided try to be in management. If she had been a boy/man detective, his girlfriend/spouse would have already been kidnapped, raped, and murdered. Daughter, too. Rob Thomas primarily gender swapped the noir style and gave us the lovable woman because the alcoholic, grumpy, life-in-shambles detective. It was all the time meant to be a noir present. It by no means misplaced the ethical grey space the “good” characters navigated in, nor its cynicism; the sarcasm was all the time on level, however the bleakness had began to get misplaced underneath gooey marshmallows.
And so Thomas reminded us this was noir. And yeah, I used to be pissed. My good friend and I’ve photos of Logan as one another’s contacts in our telephones. I spotted what was going to occur and I screamed at my TV. And thru texts. I additionally had a nightmare the place Logan died in entrance of me—that is what occurs once I watch TV as a substitute of studying earlier than mattress.
The factor is, Thomas might have damaged our hearts by giving us remedy Logan and taking him away, however he’s driving the noir prepare and it was to be anticipated. So we cry into a bath of ice cream and mourn with Veronica—who has all the time gotten knocked down and channeled even more durable into her work—after which we sit up for her subsequent case.
Personally, I hope there are extra books and extra Hulu seasons, as a result of Veronica Mars fixing crimes and combating the world outdoors of Neptune is one thing I very a lot am wanting ahead to.
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