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So, they're making a Veronica Mars movie? Maybe? I would be really, really excited about this if Mars, Bars had never happened. Because a movie without Lamb I'm not sure is one I want to see. Um, maybe they could get him in flashbacks or something? And, like, the plot could involve him (and his death) in some way? I AM CONVINCED THAT THIS WAS ORIGINALLY GOING TO BE THE THIRD ARC OF SEASON THREE, PLEASE DON'T DISILLUSION ME. Because I was recently going through old Veronica Mars pages for semi-fic, semi-nostalgia related reasons, and I read this interview, where he says that:
Because everyone hated Lamb, right? Especially Wallace, who called him gay. Haha. Because being gay is, like, totally an insult. Veronica Mars, I love you, but your attitude towards gayness is very much not awesome.
Anyway, in my head, the third arc was totally going to be about Lamb, and maybe his murder was going to be this actual mystery thing, and people would actually have, like, reactions to his death or whatever. Other than besmirching his name at every possibly opportunity, of course. Like, I get that he's a jackass, but he's dead, you know? But then, instead of having a third arc, they did stupid stand-alone episodes (FOR RATINGS, which I think is Veronica Mars' entire problem. Instead of trying to figure out what made season one good, Rob Thomas says he tried to figure out what made it popular, which is not the same thing. And does not work, obviously. I have a feeling the same thing happened to Logan and Veronica in season three, when fans wanted them together, and RT didn't really get it as much, but he wrote it anyway, only he wrote them all happy and schmoopy and then angsty, and it was not good). And they had Lamb die anyway because ... they'd already decided that was what happened? IDK. And he was killed by RICHARD GRIECO, which. 21 Jump Street, you are dead to me.
In conclusion to this unintentionally rambly piece of whatever: FUCKING STEVE BATANDO AND YOUR FUCKING BASEBALL BAT, FUCK YOU.
If anybody actually does know what the third arc was supposed to be, though? I would love to know.
But if the movie does actually get made, of course I'm going to see it. And squee about it. But, sigh.
In other VM news, I've written over 21,000 words of the What Goes Down sequel in five days, and my thumb is bruised, because I stupidly write everything longhand. And I don't want to stop writing, but at this point, it's causing me actual pain. Like, I took painkillers so I could keep writing, even though the universe was sending me clear signals to stop. (The pain was probably one. My brand new pen running out in less than a day and the fact that I went through four more trying to find one that worked might have been another.) Probably not my best idea ever, but, what are you going to do?
Um, this post was supposed to have a point, I think? Possibly that Lamb is awesome, which I'm pretty sure you already knew I thought.
Now, I think I'm going to weigh up the merits of not causing myself permanent injury vs WRITING YAY.
[The third arc will] be a mystery unlike any of the others we've done before. I've wanted to get a mystery in which our nice characters like Wallace and Mac could be fully involved. You know, Wallace has always been sort of absent from the big mystery because no one's going to believe him as a suspect, you know? I can tie up Logan and Weevil into a mystery, because they have that moral ambiguity. But no one's going to believe in Wallace as a suspect. No one will believe if, like, the big clue was in Wallace's locker. And so, in choosing a third mystery, I wanted a mystery in which Wallace and Mac could be key players, where they have really interesting stuff to do. So that's all I'll say about that.
Because everyone hated Lamb, right? Especially Wallace, who called him gay. Haha. Because being gay is, like, totally an insult. Veronica Mars, I love you, but your attitude towards gayness is very much not awesome.
Anyway, in my head, the third arc was totally going to be about Lamb, and maybe his murder was going to be this actual mystery thing, and people would actually have, like, reactions to his death or whatever. Other than besmirching his name at every possibly opportunity, of course. Like, I get that he's a jackass, but he's dead, you know? But then, instead of having a third arc, they did stupid stand-alone episodes (FOR RATINGS, which I think is Veronica Mars' entire problem. Instead of trying to figure out what made season one good, Rob Thomas says he tried to figure out what made it popular, which is not the same thing. And does not work, obviously. I have a feeling the same thing happened to Logan and Veronica in season three, when fans wanted them together, and RT didn't really get it as much, but he wrote it anyway, only he wrote them all happy and schmoopy and then angsty, and it was not good). And they had Lamb die anyway because ... they'd already decided that was what happened? IDK. And he was killed by RICHARD GRIECO, which. 21 Jump Street, you are dead to me.
In conclusion to this unintentionally rambly piece of whatever: FUCKING STEVE BATANDO AND YOUR FUCKING BASEBALL BAT, FUCK YOU.
If anybody actually does know what the third arc was supposed to be, though? I would love to know.
But if the movie does actually get made, of course I'm going to see it. And squee about it. But, sigh.
In other VM news, I've written over 21,000 words of the What Goes Down sequel in five days, and my thumb is bruised, because I stupidly write everything longhand. And I don't want to stop writing, but at this point, it's causing me actual pain. Like, I took painkillers so I could keep writing, even though the universe was sending me clear signals to stop. (The pain was probably one. My brand new pen running out in less than a day and the fact that I went through four more trying to find one that worked might have been another.) Probably not my best idea ever, but, what are you going to do?
Um, this post was supposed to have a point, I think? Possibly that Lamb is awesome, which I'm pretty sure you already knew I thought.
Now, I think I'm going to weigh up the merits of not causing myself permanent injury vs WRITING YAY.