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Post by Pixi on Apr 9, 2005 21:23:08 GMT -5
Thanks, wykbb! Hooray!! YAH --- HOO!! Can't stop cheering
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Post by Lola m on Apr 9, 2005 23:20:30 GMT -5
Rob Thomas called Couch Baron from TWoP to announce the show was picked up for a second season.!!! This is like the Best. News. Ever!!! **starts doing the dance of joy** Thank you so much for posting this link, wykbbb! #clap# #clap# #clap#
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Post by artemis on Apr 13, 2005 10:41:10 GMT -5
from today's new york times, from the "arts, briefly" column:
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Post by Sue on Apr 13, 2005 12:10:39 GMT -5
from today's new york times, from the "arts, briefly" column: Thank you. Bad news that it ranked only above The Mountain---why can't viewers see the differences in quality. I guess folks just can't find Veronica or are unaware that it is so much more than the surface implies. (Hmm--where have we encountered that before.) I am SO glad to hear about the summer reruns for three reasons: 1. Maybe pick up new viewers. 2. Give us guys a chance to see the early eps. after we know the solution and see if it all hangs together well. 3. So many Scubies are now wishing they had taped the early eps. Also, I'll be happy to make VHS tapes and mail them to folks like Winter who don't get VM.
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Post by wykbbb on Apr 14, 2005 1:04:39 GMT -5
After this week's scary-Duncan-threatens-Veronica confrontation, I know you guys can't wait to see next week's episode. In preparation for "The Return of the Killer Donut," marsinvestigations.net would like to present part 1 of our interview with Teddy Dunn. Dunn Dunn DUNNNNNNN!
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Post by raenstorm on Apr 15, 2005 14:06:12 GMT -5
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Post by artemis on Apr 17, 2005 9:32:18 GMT -5
The New York Times has an interview with Amanda Seyfried in today's paper. I don't think it has any spoilers (though if anyone who doesn't mind mild ones wants to check and let me know, I can edit out any), and since the site requires free registration to view & articles expire in a week on it, I thought I'd post it here for you all. It's by the same person who wrote the tidbit I posted earlier this week. A Season-Long Whodunit Must Soon Say Who DidBy KATE AURTHUR April 17, 2005 IN the premiere episode of UPN's "Veronica Mars," we first saw Lilly Kane in a flashback. She and Veronica, her best friend, were washing cars to raise money for their school soccer team. Veronica asked Lilly why she seemed so happy. "High on life, Veronica Mars," Lilly replied. "I've got a secret. A good one." In voiceover, Veronica told the audience that Lilly had been murdered that night. The question of who killed Lilly Kane has been driving the plot of "Veronica Mars" since its September debut. The show takes place one year after Lilly's death. The 17-year-old Veronica, who during that year became an apprentice to her father, a private investigator, has unraveled the mystery bit by bit over the course of the season. Was Lilly killed by one of her billionaire parents? Or by her loving brother, who sometimes goes into epileptic rages? Was it her boyfriend, or the hoodlum she was seeing on the side? **snip*** The show's linchpin is that viewers must care about Lilly and see why Veronica (Kristen Bell) loved her: if they don't, why watch? So for a dead person, Lilly, played by Amanda Seyfried, is on screen quite a bit. She has been featured in eight of 18 episodes so far - in flashbacks, dreams, hallucinations and Veronica's imagined scenarios of the crime. In all of her scenes, Ms. Seyfried said in a telephone interview from Los Angeles, "I want to make people forget she's dead in the first place, like they're learning about her like a normal character." In flashbacks, she's the hell-raiser spurring her friends to action, which allows the audience to see more vibrant versions of the characters, who are now depressed. Rob Thomas, the creator of "Veronica Mars," said that he wanted Lilly to "represent Veronica's id." In a telephone interview, Mr. Thomas said, "That devil-may-care, 'I don't care what people think of me' attitude has greatly informed who Veronica is." The show's fourth episode ended with a video tribute to Lilly assembled by her boyfriend - she popped Champagne, mooned passers-by from a limo and mugged at the camera. Ms. Seyfried, 19, said it was fun to play someone so irrepressible. "She has such charisma. It was exciting to say the things she said." Since Lilly's death, the people in her life have been haunted by her memory, whether because they simply miss her, like Veronica, or for more insidious reasons. When Duncan, Lilly's brother, went off his medication and began to hallucinate, she appeared to him as a ghost with a bashed-in skull, and warned: "The truth is going to come out." At the time, she said, she didn't know whodunit: "I thought about it after I found out. I was like: 'Could I have changed anything? Could I have made it more mysterious?' " "Veronica Mars," which UPN renewed for a second season on Monday, is not the first television series to extract its dramatic arc from the mysterious death of a beloved character. This season's most successful new show, "Desperate Housewives," as well as "The Fugitive" and "Twin Peaks" before it, have all utilized that structure. "Twin Peaks," in particular, is rife with similarities to "Veronica Mars": a pretty, popular high school girl is killed, and everyone around her is a suspect. But where the murder of Laura Palmer on "Twin Peaks" veered into the supernatural and the psychosexual, Veronica's investigation of Lilly's death has been a realistic portrayal of a bereft girl who has lost her best friend.*snip* www.nytimes.com/2005/04/17/arts/television/17aurt.htmlnote: I did edit out something I felt would ruin the final episode for those of us who are spoiler-shy. technobot.
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Post by raenstorm on Apr 19, 2005 12:05:09 GMT -5
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Post by raenstorm on Apr 19, 2005 14:00:19 GMT -5
Me again... pimping an LJ essay. This one, by cadhla, is great! She explores the patterns in Rob's work up until now and what that says about VM and the relationships/characters so far: www.livejournal.com/users/cadhla/684552.html
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Post by leftylady on Apr 22, 2005 16:46:20 GMT -5
Me again... pimping an LJ essay. This one, by cadhla, is great! She explores the patterns in Rob's work up until now and what that says about VM and the relationships/characters so far: www.livejournal.com/users/cadhla/684552.htmlPimp away, Rae! (Ooh, say that 10 times fast!!!) For those of us without the time or resources to browse that much, your pointing the way is much appreciated! Thoroughly enjoyed both essays. A lot to chew on. The Iago slant gives an entirely different (and believable) way to look at the whodunit, regardless of how the mystery ends officially.
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Post by Patti - S'cubie Cutie on Apr 24, 2005 11:59:18 GMT -5
I may be the last person on the board to know this but in case not - was just clicking the remote and came across a 2001 movie "Sex, Lies, and Obsession" (looks like one of those Lifetime 'twisted problem d of the week' productions) starring Harry Hamlin AND the actress who plays his wife on VM - as husband and wife.
Her lips by the way look 1 or 2 collegen injections more normal.
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Post by raenstorm on Apr 26, 2005 8:50:49 GMT -5
I seem to be obsessed with VM. Passing along another LJ link, this one about the continuity of wardrobe in VM. It's kinda neat but what struck me most is how she points out what colors the characters consistently wear. I am wondering if the colors they wear/are associated with are indicative of their personality, etc. Oh well, interesting thought anyway... www.livejournal.com/users/lauranobaka/248796.html
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Post by Sue on Apr 26, 2005 12:09:34 GMT -5
I seem to be obsessed with VM. Passing along another LJ link, this one about the continuity of wardrobe in VM. It's kinda neat but what struck me most is how she points out what colors the characters consistently wear. I am wondering if the colors they wear/are associated with are indicative of their personality, etc. Oh well, interesting thought anyway... www.livejournal.com/users/lauranobaka/248796.htmlWell, if you are obessessed, we are most grateful. Keep the links coming!
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Post by raenstorm on Apr 26, 2005 13:48:43 GMT -5
Well, if you are obessessed, we are most grateful. Keep the links coming! Haha - will do I do have a question, relating to the last link I added above. In all of V's flashbacks to prior to Lily's death, is she wearing white or a really light colored outfit? I know all of her flashbacks to that time usually have a white-ish glow to them but I'm also curious if she is always in white. In fact, if I am recalling correctly, I think she's clothed in white up until right after her rape. From that point she's always wearing colored clothing. There's no real point here beyond the obvious loss of innocense symbolism. I just like noting these things... must be the English major in me
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Post by Sue on Apr 26, 2005 21:39:49 GMT -5
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