thoughts before tomorrow's finale
all theories are just the product of my feeble brain, and they are totally spoiler-free. i am uninformed and naive.
UPDATE: michael ausiello says:
Words cannot express the awesomeness of this episode. There are so many twists and turns that your head will be spinning off its axis. (Note: Have some Kleenex handy. You'll need it.) And the excitement won't end with the closing credits. In tomorrow's thrilling Ask Ausiello (which goes live at midnight), I'll have an exclusive interview with Rob Thomas featuring answers to many of the big questions raised in the finale. Mr. Veronica Mars will also offer up scoop/prattle/poop on (fingers, toes crossed) next season!
UPDATE II: and here's a bit from today's chicago tribune:
The "Veronica Mars" (8 p.m., UPN-Ch. 50) season finale is a real twister. And there are twists within the twists, as the show finally resolves the season-long mystery that has occupied the young sleuth of the title and her father.The episode came with a list as long as your arm of things that reviewers should not mention. So, here's one thing that can be said: Kristin Bell and Jason Dohring, the star-crossed friends and sometime lovers at the heart of the show, are the two finest young actors working in television.
Dohring in particular has masterfully navigated a tricky part all year; his character, Logan Echolls, could easily be a bitter, one-note quipmeister. But in this episode, and especially in the recent episode "Look Who's Stalking," he showed an enormous range of emotions, from romantic yearning to confused regret, often without saying much of anything at all.
It's acutely painful to sound like a network suit, but it might be nice if next year's ongoing mystery did not require a PhD in Veronica-ology. Even the most faithful watcher of the show had to have been confused at least a few times in the course of this season's bus-crash mystery.
Harry Hamlin, by the way, gets another juicy turn in the season finale; his parody of an over-the-hill hambone actor is dead-on and quite enjoyable. As Mac, Tina Majorino supplies steady support, as always. Even Steve Guttenberg is surprisingly good as the increasingly sleazy mayor of Neptune.
And it would be impossible to imagine "Mars" being anywhere near as great as it is without the wonderfully understated Enrico Colantoni as the young detective's grounded, fiercely protective dad.
so. it's gotta be beaver, doesn't it? i say this not because i have any sort of insight into his character, but because there are approximately 32 billion storylines involving beaver that have not yet been resolved and presumably will need to be resolved in the final episode. therefore i'm guessing 50%+ of the final episode will be devoted to beaver stuff, and why else would you devote that much time of a season finale to a character unless he is rilly rilly evil?
here are the unresolved beaver lines:
-who is sally?
-who is amber?
-what's up with his incorporation shiznit?
-what's the point of having had cervando bully beaver after dick sprayed his jeans with bleach?
-what's the deal with beaver not wanting to sex up the totally cute mac?
what are beaver's possible motivations/problems? as hashed out with emily some suggestions:
Emily: that's a really good reason
but maybe he's going to have multiple personalities or soething
me: or an evil twin!
Emily: I can't imagine him trying to kill veronica or just being coldblooded
me: yeah me neither
Emily: or maybe he's really veronica's brother
me: he's too adorable
Emily: or he's pregnant
me: ew
with an alien baby
Emily: or has amnesia
but really, i do not know. but i do that in the preview to last week, we saw
if the real reason has to do with beaver having been molested by woody, though, i will be pretty disappointed. that seems too obvious.
UPDATE: on the other hand, this note about dick and his character makes a convincing case for him as the suspect. if we're going to base speculation off the way things went in season one, then the real killer would be someone who has shown signs of being really depraved and, if not utterly evil, kind of pyschotic throughout the season. aaron fit that; so does dick. but i have even less idea of what his motivation may have been.
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Ah ha! it all makes sense if we add in one word... he's an amnesiac SCIENTOLOGIST pregnant with an alien baby.
did you know the actor who plays logan is a real scientologist? this makes my life a little sad every day.
I know! Dohring... so talented, seems like a really nice guy in his interview at TWoP, but, alas.
I was guessing that Beaver had to be the 3rd voice on the recording, and therefore a molestation victim (explaining his general twitchiness and his Mac-non-sexing) but wouldn't Veronica have noticed him in the little league picture even before she recognized Marcos and Peter? Or was Beaver's connection to Woody just "rich people hang out" rather than the little league thing?
They have a LOT to wrap up in this last episode. Aaron's cellmate who stole Cliff's briefcase? Aaron's old movie buddy who had VM's name on his palm, was beaten up by Weevil, and had some connection to the Fitzpatricks? Beaver's incorporation-related real estate scheme? Kendall? Why did Mr. Manning bail out Lucky?
This comment is pretty interesting. I mean, it has to be someone that will shock Veronica (based on her "it was YOU!" in the preview) and Beaver would be pretty shocking.
LOGAN IS A SCIENTOLOGIST??
You just broke my heart.
he's also married.
Yeah, I knew that part. Before he was unattainable, now he's unattractive. It's tragic, really.
Ohmigosh, those reviews just made me really excited! All focus on my job has officially been thrown out the window for the day.
And by the way, the more time goes by, the more I think it's gotta be Beaver too. But I'm still hoping against hope that we're wrong.
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