I've only watched the first four episodes so far (I'll probably finish the season this weekend), but I'm basically as spoiled as you can get at this point. My first inkling that Logan was toast came several weeks ago, when a critic I follow on Twitter posted that the new season was very good, but that something in the last episode was going to make a lot of fans "very, very, very, very mad." She used a lot of "very"s, and my immediate thought was "uh oh, Logan's gonna die," because nothing else could upset VM fandom more.
I do think that it was very ill-advised of Rob Thomas to go there and not understand just how great the backlash would be, I especially worry about what it means for the show going forward, but I must admit that I’m more frustrated at the moment that the twist seems to be all that most people want to talk about.
Yeah. If they wanted the conversation to be about a successful reboot (and I think it is successful!), they shouldn't have ended it this way, because now all the fandom is talking (raging) about is Logan. The thing is, they could have just written him out by sending him on some kind of long-term Navy assignment and either breaking him and Veronica up or having them be in a long-distance relationship in which we just never see him. I know both of those option would be frustrating and upsetting for the 'shippers too, but at least they leave a door open for fanfic and wishful thinking. Instead, Rob Thomas permanently blew up all of the goodwill the fandom had for him after the movie. I get that he basically wants to reboot the premise of the show, but it feels like there was maybe a less divisive way to go about that.
Anyway, I've always been more into the "snarky female private detective" parts of the show, so I'm interested in seeing what a potential S5 looks like.
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I do think that it was very ill-advised of Rob Thomas to go there and not understand just how great the backlash would be, I especially worry about what it means for the show going forward, but I must admit that I’m more frustrated at the moment that the twist seems to be all that most people want to talk about.
Yeah. If they wanted the conversation to be about a successful reboot (and I think it is successful!), they shouldn't have ended it this way, because now all the fandom is talking (raging) about is Logan. The thing is, they could have just written him out by sending him on some kind of long-term Navy assignment and either breaking him and Veronica up or having them be in a long-distance relationship in which we just never see him. I know both of those option would be frustrating and upsetting for the 'shippers too, but at least they leave a door open for fanfic and wishful thinking. Instead, Rob Thomas permanently blew up all of the goodwill the fandom had for him after the movie. I get that he basically wants to reboot the premise of the show, but it feels like there was maybe a less divisive way to go about that.
Anyway, I've always been more into the "snarky female private detective" parts of the show, so I'm interested in seeing what a potential S5 looks like.