So I didn't care for the WC's "Veronica Mars season finale" promos. They hurt my feelings. I get that maybe the show hasn't been that successful for the network, but I think they could have been a little more gracious to the fans and admit that these episodes were really the end of the series.
Otherwise, a pretty good set and an acceptable conclusion to the series. I really liked "Weevils Wobble But They Don't Fall Down": good to see Francis Capra, who's otherwise been absent from this last arc. This really argued in favor of the self-contained episode model: here you had a mystery that wrapped up in a single episode, but it had real weight, because Weevil's prospects are so bleak that it really mattered whether or not Veronica could vindicate him. (Of course, there's only so many times the show could have gone to that well.) Some of Kristen Bell's best comedic work here, too -- did you see the big showdown with the Aspen crowd, in which she replays the conversation? Veronica's smirk at her own line ("Are you going to turn me into a vampire?") was perfect.
"The Bitch Is Back" had some great stuff, too. I've complained in the past about Veronica doing really awful things (getting Weevil to jack Madison's car, for example), but here her actions seemed warranted. It was actually really enjoyable to see her tearing through Chip and that other kid. Then, of course, we also got the pay-off where there were dire, dire consequences for Keith. A little tantalizing to see how the Keith-Veronica law-vigilantism dynamic could have played out, had the show had more time. In fact, this particular episode would have benefited from being twice as long: too much to track in a single hour -- Logan, Jake, the election, the hard-drives, Russian mafia . . .
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