Snowflake Challenge, Day 13
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sroniDay 13
In your own space, share a favorite piece of original canon (a TV episode, a song, a favorite interview, a book) and explain why you love it so much. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
I’m going to go with Veronica Mars, because this is the show that I remember falling in love with. Buffy started so early for me (fourth or fifth grade) that I don’t have that clear memory of why I fell in love with it; I just did. I started watching Veronica Mars in January of last year, and by the time my birthday rolled around, I’d seen the first season 17 times and the second one 8. Then my brother gave me Season Three for my birthday, and that was the end of that. I closed the year having seen Season One 54 times, Season Two 39, and Season Three 24 times.
That’s a lot of reviewing.
So, why did I fall in love with Veronica Mars so much? A combination of so much. The snark, the character interactions. I really liked “Just Shoot Me”, and Elliot was one of my favorite characters. I’ve seen a few episodes of Flashpoint, and I like Greg Parker. I love Keith Mars. Keith and Veronica Mars have one of the best TV parent/daughter relationships I’ve ever seen on any show. They’re not perfect. They lie to each other. They try to protect each other. They lie to each other (repeated intentionally, because they really do lie a lot). But everything they do towards each other is coming from love. They love each other so much that ((SPOILER ALERT!)) when Veronica’s given the chance to find out whether or not Keith really is her father, she decides to shred the DNA test she’d tricked Keith into giving some blood for (at 2 in the morning, and waking up Keith in the process, since the shredder was in his room). At the end of Season 1, Keith threw himself through flames to get to Veronica. His clothes were on fire, and he was still trying to get the burning fridge off Veronica. And then there was a throwback to the first episode immediately afterwards, while Veronica is putting the flames on his clothes out. “Who’s your daddy?” “I hate when you say that.”
So, dealing with Veronica and Keith, my favorite canon moment is the entire final episode of Season 1. The two of them have so many good lines, though, you should just watch the show.
Veronica and Wallace. Wallace is the best friend ever. Veronica has a tendency to use people. She doesn’t always do it intentionally, but she has a habit of looking at what she needs, and that this person can get it for her. A case in point is Wallace, when he works as an office aid during the first season. Veronica asks him to get so many student files for her that it becomes a running joke for Wallace to say it first, as soon as she turns to him. Wallace puts up with it, but he’ll call her on it when it gets to be too much. But he always has her back in whatever plan she’s come up with, and goes undercover with her a lot. And, again, the snark is fantastic. One of my favorite Wallace and Veronica canon moments is Pilot episode, and an episode in Season 3, Wallace has been caught cheating on a test. Veronica knocks on his dorm door, and Wallace responds, “Not here.”
Veronica: “And you would be …?”
Wallace: “Evil Wallace. And I know Veronica doesn’t hang with the evil and morally bankrupt.”
Veronica: “Evil Wallace wouldn’t have confessed and faced punishment. Nope, you’re regular Wallace.”
Veronica and Logan. I’m not going to try to sell them as a couple, though I do enjoy them. I enjoy them a lot. But in terms of pure snark, you’ve just hit the gold mine. One of my favorite lines from any TV show ever is, “Every school has the obligatory psychotic jackass. Logan Echolls is ours.” One of my favorite Logan/Veronica scenes actually doesn’t have Veronica in it. ((SPOILER ALERT)) Mercer and Moe are in a cell after Veronica was drugged by Moe and she discovered Mercer was the rapist. Through a window of the Sheriff’s office, you see Logan going at one of the Sheriff cars with a baseball bat. Two deputies run out, and the next scene is Logan being put in the same cell as Mercer and Moe. The look on Logan’s face told us everything we needed to know about why he was there. Veronica wasn’t in that scene at all, but she was the reason.
Veronica and Weevil: I’m not even going to try to find some of my favorite canonical moments with the two of them. Let’s just say every single time the two of them are on screen together.
Every.
Single.
Time.
Weevil and Logan: They don’t get along. They really, really, don’t. But one of my favorite moments on VM was Weevil and Logan fighting in the bathroom (YouTube video here). It’s actually one of my favorite fight scenes. Neither of them are technically-minded at all. It’s simply hit, and keep on hitting, and hit with whatever you can, however you can.
Speaking of favorite fight scenes, I enjoy the one with Duncan and Logan in Season 2 for a completely different reason: it reminds me of the one time Shawn Hunter and Cory Matthews fought on “Boy Meets World”. I don’t remember what caused that one, but all of a sudden, Shawn and Cory are going at each other, and Mr. Turner and the other teacher pull them apart, and Turner says, “Matthews?” and other teacher says, “Hunter?” and Turner says, “You guys did know that you’re fighting each other, right?” That just cracks me up. So, yeah. Duncan and Logan fighting reminds me of that.
I probably didn’t answer this question the way it was originally intended, but it works for me.
In your own space, share a favorite piece of original canon (a TV episode, a song, a favorite interview, a book) and explain why you love it so much. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
I’m going to go with Veronica Mars, because this is the show that I remember falling in love with. Buffy started so early for me (fourth or fifth grade) that I don’t have that clear memory of why I fell in love with it; I just did. I started watching Veronica Mars in January of last year, and by the time my birthday rolled around, I’d seen the first season 17 times and the second one 8. Then my brother gave me Season Three for my birthday, and that was the end of that. I closed the year having seen Season One 54 times, Season Two 39, and Season Three 24 times.
That’s a lot of reviewing.
So, why did I fall in love with Veronica Mars so much? A combination of so much. The snark, the character interactions. I really liked “Just Shoot Me”, and Elliot was one of my favorite characters. I’ve seen a few episodes of Flashpoint, and I like Greg Parker. I love Keith Mars. Keith and Veronica Mars have one of the best TV parent/daughter relationships I’ve ever seen on any show. They’re not perfect. They lie to each other. They try to protect each other. They lie to each other (repeated intentionally, because they really do lie a lot). But everything they do towards each other is coming from love. They love each other so much that ((SPOILER ALERT!)) when Veronica’s given the chance to find out whether or not Keith really is her father, she decides to shred the DNA test she’d tricked Keith into giving some blood for (at 2 in the morning, and waking up Keith in the process, since the shredder was in his room). At the end of Season 1, Keith threw himself through flames to get to Veronica. His clothes were on fire, and he was still trying to get the burning fridge off Veronica. And then there was a throwback to the first episode immediately afterwards, while Veronica is putting the flames on his clothes out. “Who’s your daddy?” “I hate when you say that.”
So, dealing with Veronica and Keith, my favorite canon moment is the entire final episode of Season 1. The two of them have so many good lines, though, you should just watch the show.
Veronica and Wallace. Wallace is the best friend ever. Veronica has a tendency to use people. She doesn’t always do it intentionally, but she has a habit of looking at what she needs, and that this person can get it for her. A case in point is Wallace, when he works as an office aid during the first season. Veronica asks him to get so many student files for her that it becomes a running joke for Wallace to say it first, as soon as she turns to him. Wallace puts up with it, but he’ll call her on it when it gets to be too much. But he always has her back in whatever plan she’s come up with, and goes undercover with her a lot. And, again, the snark is fantastic. One of my favorite Wallace and Veronica canon moments is Pilot episode, and an episode in Season 3, Wallace has been caught cheating on a test. Veronica knocks on his dorm door, and Wallace responds, “Not here.”
Veronica: “And you would be …?”
Wallace: “Evil Wallace. And I know Veronica doesn’t hang with the evil and morally bankrupt.”
Veronica: “Evil Wallace wouldn’t have confessed and faced punishment. Nope, you’re regular Wallace.”
Veronica and Logan. I’m not going to try to sell them as a couple, though I do enjoy them. I enjoy them a lot. But in terms of pure snark, you’ve just hit the gold mine. One of my favorite lines from any TV show ever is, “Every school has the obligatory psychotic jackass. Logan Echolls is ours.” One of my favorite Logan/Veronica scenes actually doesn’t have Veronica in it. ((SPOILER ALERT)) Mercer and Moe are in a cell after Veronica was drugged by Moe and she discovered Mercer was the rapist. Through a window of the Sheriff’s office, you see Logan going at one of the Sheriff cars with a baseball bat. Two deputies run out, and the next scene is Logan being put in the same cell as Mercer and Moe. The look on Logan’s face told us everything we needed to know about why he was there. Veronica wasn’t in that scene at all, but she was the reason.
Veronica and Weevil: I’m not even going to try to find some of my favorite canonical moments with the two of them. Let’s just say every single time the two of them are on screen together.
Every.
Single.
Time.
Weevil and Logan: They don’t get along. They really, really, don’t. But one of my favorite moments on VM was Weevil and Logan fighting in the bathroom (YouTube video here). It’s actually one of my favorite fight scenes. Neither of them are technically-minded at all. It’s simply hit, and keep on hitting, and hit with whatever you can, however you can.
Speaking of favorite fight scenes, I enjoy the one with Duncan and Logan in Season 2 for a completely different reason: it reminds me of the one time Shawn Hunter and Cory Matthews fought on “Boy Meets World”. I don’t remember what caused that one, but all of a sudden, Shawn and Cory are going at each other, and Mr. Turner and the other teacher pull them apart, and Turner says, “Matthews?” and other teacher says, “Hunter?” and Turner says, “You guys did know that you’re fighting each other, right?” That just cracks me up. So, yeah. Duncan and Logan fighting reminds me of that.
I probably didn’t answer this question the way it was originally intended, but it works for me.
