Friday, October 27, 2006

Guess What


Guess who got a TiVo yesterday! Ding Ding Ding. Now, guess who's not leaving her apartment ever again! =oP

That's right. I got a TiVo! A real life TiVo. F u Comcast, you and your stupid DVRs.

TiVo Rules!

Saturday, October 21, 2006

V Mars: the Faltering of Epic LoVe

Case File C: the Faltering of Epic LoVe

What we know:
Logan Echolls first met Veronica Mars when he moved to Neptune at the age of 12. His first thought: she’s hot. A couple years later, they were in high school, dating each other’s best friends: Logan with the late Lily Kane and Veronica with the fugitive Duncan Kane (it sucks to be a Kane… except for all the money). The four of them seemed like normal, happy, beautiful and (except for Veronica) rich teenagers. Then, one day during sophomore year, Lily Kane was murdered (go watch season 1). After that, Veronica was shunned by popular society for numerous reasons (put season 1 in your Blockbuster/Netflix queue right now) and Logan became someone with whom she used to be friends, a long time ago (but I haven’t thought of you lately at all). And so premiereth Veronica Mars.

At the beginning of the first season, Veronica and Logan pretty much loathed each other. She got him in trouble by planting a bong in his locker and he bashed in her headlights with a crowbar (foreplay). But when Logan’s mom was presumed dead, he went to Veronica to find some answers. He suspected that his mother didn’t commit suicide, as it was reported, but instead that she ran off to escape her psychotic, abusive, adulterous, murdering, movie-star husband. During the investigation, Veronica got to see another side of Logan, the side that wasn’t, as she put it, a “psychotic jackass,” but instead was an abused, somewhat neglected yet overexposed, and rather softhearted boy. He started to see her in a new light also, seemingly impressed by her suave detecting skills and touched by her generous refusal of payment for her assistance with the case. They shared numerous phone calls, bunches of witty banter, and lots of screen time. Eventually, they discovered that Mrs. Echolls did, in fact, take that final dive and Logan broke down, crying on Veronica’s thin but strong shoulders.

One day soon after, JTT (or Jonathan Taylor Thomas to they layman) visited Neptune as an undercover, overzealous agent determined to find a bomb-happy student in Neptune, even if none existed. Skipping the details of this particular case (seriously, you gotta rent/buy season one), Logan laid him out, in an effort to save Veronica, behaving even more protective than her own trusty Backup. And cut to video…







So begins their secret relationship. After that, it was pretty much your classic love story: They were happy. She accused him of drugging and raping her the year before (he didn’t do it). They worked it out and were happy. She accused him of killing Lily (he didn’t do it) and tipped off the “police,” telling them that his alibi was falsified. Cue break-up number one:



Then, it got kind of complicated.

The lovebirds got back together. Without getting too into the sordid details (go watch season 2), Veronica stuck by Logan through the hard times of summer school and, oh yeah, his trial for murder (not Lily’s, another one… go watch season 2), but he was just stuck. Cue break-up number two:



At the beginning of season two, Veronica was back with Duncan and Logan was back to just being Logan. Fast forward to later in the season after Duncan fled the country having kidnapped his and the late Meg’s baby (go watch season 2) and cut to video:









And they lived happily ever after? I don’t think so.

Generally, epic love tends to end badly. Factor in that this is a tv show and it's all but inevitable – tragic as it might be – that our favorite couple in Neptune is, in the very least, headed for some rough times.

Raging clues:
• Veronica’s got some serious trust issues she needs to work out. Besides the fact that she keeps falsely accusing her boyfriend of some pretty heinous crimes, we also saw her use her detective skills for evil in this past episode: She used a cell phone tracker to hunt him down after he ditched their tentative plans and she almost used a tracking device planted in his car to keep tabs on him when he was supposed to go to Mexico. Okay, maybe her reasons weren’t exactly evil, but they were at least borderline crazy, code yellow.
• Logan’s still the bad boy we all love. True to form, he ditched Veronica to spend time with the boys and his gambling habit.
• They’ve got really different interests: she likes book readings and film festivals, he likes surfing and donkey shows. And though they’ve had a long and tempestuous history, they’ve never really had time to settle into a relationship and deal with these normal issues.

Suspects/Questions: Who’s going to screw things up this time? Will Logan not be able to give up his toxic bachelor habits? Or will he brood his entire life, along with Veronica, away? Will Veronica ever be able to trust him? Or will she succumb to her crazy girl tendencies and drive him away? Or will it be something as simple as their differences finally getting the better of them? And how is Piz going to work his way into the picture?

No matter how things unfold, one thing will always remain: You can’t spell Logan and Veronica without LoVe. Awww.

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Down with the Aerie Girls

I type, as a pool, having melted all over the CW last night.

First, on Gilmore Girls, Lorelai had her most perfect night. Though I’m one of the legions of Luke and Lorelai fans (LuLo, LoLu, Lukelai? I guess on a show as fast-talking as GG, they don’t need no stinkin’ abbreviations), I must admit that Christopher done good. After taking her to see Snakes on a Plane and provoking a rant including the point that Dances with Wolves wasn’t a whole movie about dancing with wolves, Christopher whisked Lorelai away on a very secretive date. The surprise: a make-shift drive-in with some unknown person hiding in the bushes, projecting Funny Face onto the side of a barn. Complete with popcorn and candy, and despite the unseen stranger wielding the projector, this date was absolute perfection for Lorelai (and me, if anyone was wondering). Adding the cherry to the night, the movie portion of the date came to an end when she got called to pick her mother up from jail. That’s right, Emily Gilmore was arrested. Hilarious. And it all led up to Lorelai inviting Christopher to spend the night. Apparently, there's no aphrodisiac like seeing your mother in handcuffs. Wait... that's so wrong.

Other than the s’wonderful date night, last night’s episode covered Luke having April temporarily move in with him and Rory making a couple new artsy friends. Regarding Luke’s going over the list of restricted items at April’s school, I’m with Miss Patty: don’t f*ck with ballerinas. Also, does anyone else find April really annoying? And about Rory’s new friends, is that one girl contractually obligated to wear baby doll dresses in all her roles? When she was on VMars last season, I thought they were just trying to make her kind of creepy and really weird. Now, though I realize her character on GG also requires a certain level of eccentricity, I’m thinking maybe she just is kind of creepy and really weird.

Anyway, I don’t like when everyone has such disjointed storylines. I’m just waiting for the day when Lorelai and Rory can banter over a cup of coffee at Luke’s again and everyone can live happily ever after.

Second, I love Veronica Mars (and Logan) so much I cannot put it into words quite yet, just delighted squeals and blushing giggles. While I teehee and guffaw, straightening out my thoughts on the episode, here are some thoughts my taciturn boyfriend expressed during the show:

(In the middle of the show…) Weevil is a fat a** piece of sh*t. Logan’s an a**hole. Veronica’s crazy. What’s wrong with everyone?!? On the bright side, it’s good to hear that Mac’s hitting the treadmill.
(At the end of the show…) Awesome. I’m really looking forward to next week. Maybe next week, she could infiltrate the cheerleading squad and dress up like a cheerleader and that would be just great.

Thanks, baby. Clearly I hold the monopoly of words in this relationship.

What's on tonight? Tons.
My line-up: 30 Rock, Twenty Good Years, Lost, and the Nine (Yeah, yeah, I watch too much tv, but I think the very existence of this blog already established the fact that I have no life.)
And there’s also: Dancing with the Stars (if you’re into that sort of thing), America’s Next Top Model, Jericho, South Park
Man, my DVR’s going to be busy tonight. Oh wait, that’s right: Comcast sucks and I don’t have a DVR. Comcastic.