Spoiler warning: This post contains A LOT of spoilers about season four of Veronica Mars. You’ve been warned.
My Saturday started so well. I awoke to the news that the Veronica Mars revival was dropping a whole week earlier than announced on Stan at 6pm that very day.
I immediately cancelled my plans. Obviously.
Returning 15 years after the original series first aired from 2004 to 2007, with a bonus fan-funded movie in 2014, the fourth season of Veronica Mars delivered everything that made me fall in love with the series as a teen.
Take a look at the trailer for Veronica Mars season four. Post continues after the video.
There was the mystery to be solved in the spate of Neptune bombings, there was Veronica and Keith’s witty banter – hands down the best father-daughter relationship TV has ever seen – and there was the epic love story with Logan Echolls, Veronica’s on-again, off-again, bad-boy-turned-good-boyfriend since high school.
It was all going so well.
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Got to agree. It was a lazy way to write off an integral character and says more about a lack of ability to write a character who's capable of personal growth than anything else. It's insulting to think that Veronica can't be interesting while in a good relationship and the torture p*rn aspect of continually throwing horrible things in Veronica's way is boring.
What's particularly disappointing is that Kristen Bell had publicly said she wanted to bring Veronica back for her daughters' sake and yet we end up with an emotionally stunted woman continually suffering violent acts whose creator says can't be successful in her work if she's in a healthy relationship. Such a great role model.
I suspect Rob Thomas has lost the vast majority of his audience. I certainly won't bother if season 5 miraculously happens.