Veronica Mars season 3

Hmm I'm really at a loss as to why they made Mac, Parker, and Lamb regulars, some of those characters didn't appear for like 6 episodes in a row! And Wallace was also missing a lot. I was actually looking forward to Mac being a regular in season 3 and being the best friend to assist Veronica, but then in the end neither Wallace or Mac were used all that much. And I liked Parker's character fine but it just didn't seem like they had much of a plan for her character either

Really I suppose I was disappointed that we didn't see more of the ensembles as characters and getting interesting arcs, season 3 felt very focused on Veronica working with just the guest stars of the week, as opposed to previous seasons when usually Wallace and others were more involved and working with her. Veronica's interactions with anyone outside of her father and Logan felt very lacking this season

Dick kind of grew on me this season though actually, after I spend much of season 2 not caring about him one way or the other. It was especially nice to seem him get some depth in the first episode when he cried on Logan's shoulder, although it was disappointing that any mention of his family tragedy seemed to be dropped after that. Well and it felt a bit too rushed when his Dad suddenly came back and they just had a few scenes bringing up Cassidy again. They could have got a really interesting arc out of that if they'd spend a bit more time on it, ditto with Mac coming to terms with everything that had happened with Cassidy could have been an interesting storyline, but they barely mentioned it most of the time and a lot of the supporting cast felt like afterthoughts much of the time

And I feel mean for saying this, but Weevil was REALLY distracting me in certain shots because the actor had put on a lot of weight and seemed to have pretty bad acne as well, I'm not sure what happened there with the actor but it was very noticeable to me in the first couple of episodes especially and I just kept wondering what was up with that


And I'm still at a bit of a loss as to why people started disliking Veronica in season 3 :/ There was an extra on the DVD discussing what fans had disliked about Veronica's behaviour in season 3, and she didn't come off as especially mean to me in any of the clips they mentioned fans having real problems with :shrugs: The one thing that did bother me, and wasn't mentioned, was Veronica's attitude to Maddison. I really didn't like her telling Logan that Maddison roofied Veronica, umm no she didn't, she spit in Veronica's drink! I'm not saying that wasn't a mean thing to do but for Veronica to act like Maddison roofied her on purpose doesn't seem very fair when Maddison was the one being set up to be raped in the first place by Dick drugging her drink, she had no idea of the contents when she passed the drink on to Veronica.

Oh and after the DVD extras being kind of crappy for both seasons 1 and 2 it was nice to get a lot more extras for season 3, including all the in-depth commentary discussing the season and the look at the FBI pilot. Urgh I'm annoyed that the show left us hanging so much though, when VM was airing I remember people predicting every year that the terrible ratings might lead to it being cancelled, so you'd think they would have tried to give the fans at least some closure in season 3...