We just this morning finished watching the last two episodes of Veronica Mars, the short-lived show about the teenage girl who moonlights as a P.I. and solves crimes. (In case you've never heard of it, it's one of these cult shows with a dedicated fanbase that complains about its unjust demise at the hands of the television network heads.)
Anyway, I see that the show aired for two seasons on one network before it spent its last year on the CW, whatever that is. Actually, I know what it is, it's the network that apparently gets fussy if there's even a single show in its lineup that isn't about pretty young people and their uninteresting love lives. Seriously, the show was great in its first two seasons, but the CW morans really tried hard to make it boring and dumb when it moved to their network.
Okay, I liked the fact that they changed the one-big-mystery-per-season thing for that last year. She had a couple of big mysteries during that last year, and that allowed for a little more excitement during the year, as well as making the show appear a little less like a big tribute to Buffy (not a bad thing). But every single episode during that last season had at least one scene where we were "treated" to her and Logan whining about their relationship. Gaaahhh, enough already.
The last disc of the set has a look at what they wanted to do in the event that the series was renewed for a 4th season: Veronica at the FBI. Hey, that has potential. I guess the network clods passed because they wouldn't be able to shoehorn a bunch of crap about pretty-boy college students in there.
It's too bad, too, because the show was really excellent without the network meddling in it. Even the third season wasn't bad, it just wasn't as good as the first two were. I guess you can always depend on the suits to fix what ain't broke.
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