Veronica Mars Beaver Watch!
May. 23rd, 2006 10:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ocvictorNo, I'm not referring to Kristen Bell's Maxim photo shoot.
I'm rewatching "Veronica Mars" from the beginning of season two, and trying to figure out how well they set up the final reveal. Two episodes in, and well...
... I'd have to say that "Veronica Mars" has a weakness for understatement. Sometimes, in the interest in not being anvilicious, they play things perhaps just a bit too close to the vest.
In the first episode, "Normal is the Watchword," we learn that Cassidy "Beaver" Casablancas was on Woody's Little League team, but we see no real sign of animosity. Mind, there were two other Woody victims there, too, and none of them were showing animosity. Maybe, in his delusion, Woody really believes he was "helping" these kids, and they love him for it. He wouldn't be the first sicko to have convince themselves of that, even if some part of them knows enough to cover it up. That's pretty much S.O.P. for these sorts of mental illnesses. And Peter, Marcos and Cassidy were all looking to set Woody up one way or another, so one imagines they had reason to play nice.
Here, we get one piece of salient information about Cassidy, and then it's dropped. Then, in "Driver Ed" (which on its own merits really holds up as an excellent episode) you get more Woody and Little League, and signs of the distance between Cassidy and his father. When he finds the condom at the end, you have no reason not to believe his ire's for anyone other than Kendall. So is that look actually anger, or has he just figured out how to set up his dad?
In hindsight, it's the latter, but honestly, we're not given any glimmer of any of this yet. At this point, we're not really given any insight into Cassidy at all.
In unrelated notes, I'd forgotten what a big deal Terrence makes of sending Jackie back to New York to her mother: it does come off than her just being a shipped off to stay with dad for awhile. Also didn't realize this is where we first met Jane. On crutches no less.
And the scene with Logan and Big Dick Casablancas at the shooting range. It really does bokend nicely with Logan taking the gun from Veronica at the end and not using it.
I think I need a "Veronica Mars Is Smarter Than Me" icon.
I'm rewatching "Veronica Mars" from the beginning of season two, and trying to figure out how well they set up the final reveal. Two episodes in, and well...
... I'd have to say that "Veronica Mars" has a weakness for understatement. Sometimes, in the interest in not being anvilicious, they play things perhaps just a bit too close to the vest.
In the first episode, "Normal is the Watchword," we learn that Cassidy "Beaver" Casablancas was on Woody's Little League team, but we see no real sign of animosity. Mind, there were two other Woody victims there, too, and none of them were showing animosity. Maybe, in his delusion, Woody really believes he was "helping" these kids, and they love him for it. He wouldn't be the first sicko to have convince themselves of that, even if some part of them knows enough to cover it up. That's pretty much S.O.P. for these sorts of mental illnesses. And Peter, Marcos and Cassidy were all looking to set Woody up one way or another, so one imagines they had reason to play nice.
Here, we get one piece of salient information about Cassidy, and then it's dropped. Then, in "Driver Ed" (which on its own merits really holds up as an excellent episode) you get more Woody and Little League, and signs of the distance between Cassidy and his father. When he finds the condom at the end, you have no reason not to believe his ire's for anyone other than Kendall. So is that look actually anger, or has he just figured out how to set up his dad?
In hindsight, it's the latter, but honestly, we're not given any glimmer of any of this yet. At this point, we're not really given any insight into Cassidy at all.
In unrelated notes, I'd forgotten what a big deal Terrence makes of sending Jackie back to New York to her mother: it does come off than her just being a shipped off to stay with dad for awhile. Also didn't realize this is where we first met Jane. On crutches no less.
And the scene with Logan and Big Dick Casablancas at the shooting range. It really does bokend nicely with Logan taking the gun from Veronica at the end and not using it.
I think I need a "Veronica Mars Is Smarter Than Me" icon.
