Oh, I really love Veronica Mars! Kristen Bell is amazing. Veronica and Keith are wonderful. Wallace is awesome.
Hmm. I hadn't thought of it that way. *thinks* I think part of it is having a chip on its shoulder about the "Nancy Drew, in high school, doing noir." I certainly know that when I was convinced to watch it, that was how my friend presented it to me, and I was highly skeptical. Some of it may, honestly, be Rob Thomas; I read his books, which I didn't like very much even though Veronica Mars is one of my favorite TV shows ever, and although I couldn't really articulate what I didn't like about the books, I think it was maybe this same kind of thing.
The pilot was sooooo dark that she had to reassure me that the rest of it was not that dark before I would watch any more of it :)
Have you watched The Good Wife at all? I have no idea whether you'd like it; our tastes in visual media vary so very much that I can't speculate, but when I started watching it, I said, "This is like Veronica Mars for grownups!" TGW doesn't have the precision microplotting (which I love) of VM, but it does rich characterization and morally complicated with a much more deft hand than VM. (That being said, I recced it to the friend who recced me VM, and she didn't like it, so...)
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Date: 2013-03-25 02:09 pm (UTC)Hmm. I hadn't thought of it that way. *thinks* I think part of it is having a chip on its shoulder about the "Nancy Drew, in high school, doing noir." I certainly know that when I was convinced to watch it, that was how my friend presented it to me, and I was highly skeptical. Some of it may, honestly, be Rob Thomas; I read his books, which I didn't like very much even though Veronica Mars is one of my favorite TV shows ever, and although I couldn't really articulate what I didn't like about the books, I think it was maybe this same kind of thing.
The pilot was sooooo dark that she had to reassure me that the rest of it was not that dark before I would watch any more of it :)
Have you watched The Good Wife at all? I have no idea whether you'd like it; our tastes in visual media vary so very much that I can't speculate, but when I started watching it, I said, "This is like Veronica Mars for grownups!" TGW doesn't have the precision microplotting (which I love) of VM, but it does rich characterization and morally complicated with a much more deft hand than VM. (That being said, I recced it to the friend who recced me VM, and she didn't like it, so...)