Tee Vee

Frank and I finally caught up on Veronica Mars the other night. Yet again the A-plot wasn't half as interesting as the B-plot (in this case, Weevil and Logan bond in detention). Right after the flashback where Duncan breaks up with Veronica, I turned to Frank and asked "So do you think he found out they were really brother and sister?" Frank responded with "I think this show could stand to be more John Sayles-y." (I would have gone with "Sam Shepard-y," but to each his own.) It would explain a lot, wouldn't it? Jake and Veronica's mom's relationship (past and present) as well as Celeste's open contempt for Veronica. Then again, that doesn't explain Lilly's murder in the slightest. Anyway, I thought I was a total genius detective, figuring I had finally gotten ahead of this show, but then towards they end they hammered the brother/sister possibility to obviously that it has to be a red herring. I am also hoping that Weevil and Lilly's relationship is a red herring, because I just couldn't take it if Weevil was the killer. My money is still on Celeste, thus far. But then, I am a lousy detective. It's why Emory is Batman and I'm just the Flash. Perhaps I've said too much.

Veronica Mars is the best new show this season in a walk. It's not startilingly brilliant television, but the mystery is really involving, and I like the show's focus on class boundries in the high school setting. If the mysteries-of-the-week were just a little more compelling, then the show could easily achieve greatness.

This week's Lost was also a big improvement, and no wonder, since David Fury wrote it again. They so clearly gave him all the episodes that actually develop the mystery of the island. The flashbacks are still kinda dumb, but Sayid's was better than usual (at least danger and intrigue fit in with his established soldierly background) and again, this episode actually addressed the island, which goes a loooooong way to holding my interest. I guess the next episode will focus on the pregnant girl, and I'm just hoping whoever knocked her up wasn't a spy or a gangster. I'm also hoping her baby isn't some sort of genetically-engineered superbaby or whatever. But we'll see.

Meanwhile, The Wire and Arrested Development continue to kick great, big, monster ass. "That's George-Michael's girlfriend? What, is she funny or something?" Oh, Will Arnett, I love you. I'm sorry your wife came on to me.