No, no, I pretty much agreed with your comment and didn't have more to add.
Yeah, this last episode wasn't helpful. I'm having Buffy S6 flashbacks and not enjoying it at all. I figured out that "normal" was bullshit when I was 10, and I have really no interest in watching yet another supposedly intelligent young woman retread the same tired old territory that Buffy obsessed pointlessly over for seven years.
And perhaps it's old Joss issues, but I have no faith whatsoever that the writers are on the same page as me.
I also realized there's not much point watching a show in which my favorite character is defined as a romantic interest. Think about it: when the character is a lead, that character is *allowed* to be fucked up, because it makes the character interesting. The *point* of the character is to pursue some quest or purpose or whatever, and the fucked-up-ness just makes that more interesting. (For example: Mulder. Or Angel.) The were fucked up and that was part of the story, but the point of the story wasn't to "fix" those characters (although yes, they would go through arcs and deal with various issues).
Now, when the character I love isn't the lead but is the romantic interest, suddenly the whole story turns into "can this character be 'fixed' in order to turn him into an acceptable life partner and mate for our hero." UGH. Reminds me why I'm single and why I hate the entire romance genre to begin with. I have no interest whatsoever in starting with an interesting character and either 1) watching a show that constantly judges him as "not good enough" or 2) watching all his rough edges get sanded away so that he can breed with our precious heroine.
So yeah... Veronica Mars... I'm close to giving up on it, and honestly, I'd have stopped watching already if Logan wasn't so compelling.
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Yeah, this last episode wasn't helpful. I'm having Buffy S6 flashbacks and not enjoying it at all. I figured out that "normal" was bullshit when I was 10, and I have really no interest in watching yet another supposedly intelligent young woman retread the same tired old territory that Buffy obsessed pointlessly over for seven years.
And perhaps it's old Joss issues, but I have no faith whatsoever that the writers are on the same page as me.
I also realized there's not much point watching a show in which my favorite character is defined as a romantic interest. Think about it: when the character is a lead, that character is *allowed* to be fucked up, because it makes the character interesting. The *point* of the character is to pursue some quest or purpose or whatever, and the fucked-up-ness just makes that more interesting. (For example: Mulder. Or Angel.) The were fucked up and that was part of the story, but the point of the story wasn't to "fix" those characters (although yes, they would go through arcs and deal with various issues).
Now, when the character I love isn't the lead but is the romantic interest, suddenly the whole story turns into "can this character be 'fixed' in order to turn him into an acceptable life partner and mate for our hero." UGH. Reminds me why I'm single and why I hate the entire romance genre to begin with. I have no interest whatsoever in starting with an interesting character and either 1) watching a show that constantly judges him as "not good enough" or 2) watching all his rough edges get sanded away so that he can breed with our precious heroine.
So yeah... Veronica Mars... I'm close to giving up on it, and honestly, I'd have stopped watching already if Logan wasn't so compelling.