Last meaning "most recent", not "final".
1. You know what's cooler than hearing Tetris music coming from outside? Hearing the Tetris music coming from an ice cream truck. It's two of my favorite things, mixed up into one delicious, Tetris-y package! Of course, I had to wait on line after Justina, who was a brat and grew up into something worse. Yelling back and forth with her mother, like her sister and niece weren't there to carry a simple request back and forth. And then arguing with the ice cream truck guy because he was out of chocolate.
I was rather amused to note that the little kid's feet were bare, considering that her grandmother was always one of the most adamant that I'd someday step on a piece of glass and die. Hasn't happened yet! (I think she got disappointed that it never happened, and that's why she stopped warning me.)
2. Veronica Mars. The pilot was never one of my favorite episodes. In fact, it was so maudlin that I almost didn't watch the series because of it. I say almost. I correctly believed that the backstory would lessen in later episodes.
I liked it a little more this time around, and I'll explain why in my usual roundabout way.
One of the things I like about VM is that Veronica doesn't always do the right thing. And when she does something wrong, the script doesn't explain it away as really something good. Fans often seem to, or they ignore the things she's done, but the script doesn't do that.
Looking back at the pilot, I think this is the perfect example of that.
( Read more... )It's wonderfully not-good, and perfectly in character, and I love it. I like a show where our protagonists aren't always right, and, not only that, but their wrongdoings aren't "for the greater good" or a result of deep personal trauma that disappears in an episode or two.
This episode also lets use see how Logan acts, but that's an essay unto itself.
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