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Mar. 24th, 2013 02:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seekingferretThe talk about the Veronica Mars kickstarter got me to exploring the possibility of actually watching the show, and I discovered the first two seasons are streaming on the WB website. I'm halfway through Season 1.
I love Veronica. I've seen Kristen Bell in Heroes and House of Lies, so I already knew how versatile and interesting an actress she is, but Veronica really gives her so much room to play around. The flashback scenes let her show how different a person Veronica was before the show. And her disguises and costumes let her try out different new versions of herself.
I love Veronica and Keith together. I love Wallace and Weevil and I haven't seen enough of Mac to know I'll love her, but right now I like her a lot.
I just... I wish sometimes it weren't so heavy-handed. I'm not sure that's the word I'm looking for. The self-conscious storytelling and the attention to detail of plotting are great things that I always look for in a show, but they're foregrounded and blatant instead of naturalistic and integrated. It's very "ooh look at me, we're doing noir!" This show ought to be better than that. It should trust its audience more than it does, to recognize the clever things it is doing, since it is definitely doing clever things.
In other news, I keep making all the TSCC vids. It is kind of crazy how many I have in process at the moment, given that I just posted my first vid two months ago. I'm hitting the sweet spot with this show where I'm building up a solid ability to recall the episodes where shots exist. Vidding, when I have an idea, goes really fast. I built one vidlet in a single evening. I can't wait for all the vids from this fest to go live, and then I think and I realize that it's like a month and a half away... I'm really disoriented by being this ahead on an exchange. What happened to last minute panicking?
I love Veronica. I've seen Kristen Bell in Heroes and House of Lies, so I already knew how versatile and interesting an actress she is, but Veronica really gives her so much room to play around. The flashback scenes let her show how different a person Veronica was before the show. And her disguises and costumes let her try out different new versions of herself.
I love Veronica and Keith together. I love Wallace and Weevil and I haven't seen enough of Mac to know I'll love her, but right now I like her a lot.
I just... I wish sometimes it weren't so heavy-handed. I'm not sure that's the word I'm looking for. The self-conscious storytelling and the attention to detail of plotting are great things that I always look for in a show, but they're foregrounded and blatant instead of naturalistic and integrated. It's very "ooh look at me, we're doing noir!" This show ought to be better than that. It should trust its audience more than it does, to recognize the clever things it is doing, since it is definitely doing clever things.
In other news, I keep making all the TSCC vids. It is kind of crazy how many I have in process at the moment, given that I just posted my first vid two months ago. I'm hitting the sweet spot with this show where I'm building up a solid ability to recall the episodes where shots exist. Vidding, when I have an idea, goes really fast. I built one vidlet in a single evening. I can't wait for all the vids from this fest to go live, and then I think and I realize that it's like a month and a half away... I'm really disoriented by being this ahead on an exchange. What happened to last minute panicking?