Veronica Mars

Veronica Mars is a American Televised series in 64 42 minutes episodes, created by Rob Thomas and diffused between the September 22nd 2004 and the May 9th 2006 on UPN (seasons 1 and 2) and between the October 3rd 2006 and the May 22nd 2007 on The CW (season 3). In France, the series is diffused since the March 8th 2006 on 13th street and the February 19th 2007 on M6 and in Belgium, on Plug TV.

Synopsis

Veronica Mars is a high-school girl with Neptune High School, a Californian establishment where the children of the Jet-set cohabit the 3/9, wire of star, or richissime business men and those of the popular quarters.

The life of Veronica was disturbed by several sordid events: first of all his/her boyfriend Duncan Kane leaves it without any explanation. Then his/her best friend Lilly Kane is made assassinate. The father of Veronica (Keith Mars), Sherif of the city shows Jake Kane of the murder of his daughter. Following this charge, Keith Mars is made lay off and become private detective. Veronica then chooses to remain with him and receives the lightnings of his/her comrades while his/her mother flees. The misfortune of Veronica does not stop there since at the time of one evening it is found under the influence of the drug of the rapist, and discovers the following day that it had a sexual relation.

Between two investigations with the college and some knacks in the businesses of his/her father, Veronica will not have of cease to seek the true murderer of Lily, because she is convinced by it: Abel Koontz, the man who acknowledged the crime, is not that which made it. Moreover, she wants to know which misused her for finally being able to draw a feature on her painful past.

In Neptune, around Veronica, a gallery of characters contrastée  revolves;: Logan Echolls, wire of an actor millionaire and better friendly of Duncan; Weevil, the chief of the gang of motorcyclists latinos; Duncan, the former boyfriend mysterious and Wallace Fennel, only the real friend of Veronica, always ready to render service.

Distribution

Main characters

Supporting characters

First season

Second season

Third season

Episodes

First season (2004-2005)

In the first season, Veronica seeks the murderer of its best Lilly friend.

See also: Season 1 of Veronica Mars

      1 (1-  1) : Mars Investigation ( Pile )
      2 (1-  2) : Beautiful Life With Credit ( Credit Where Credit is Due )
      3 (1-  3) : In the Search Of John Smith ( Meet John Smith )
      4 (1-  4) : Deceived ( The Wrath Off Idiot )
      5 (1-  5) : Nothing To declare ( You Think You Know Somebody )
      6 (1-  6) : The Reign De Kane ( Return Off The Kane )
      7 (1-  7) : The Girl Of the Top ( The Girl Next Door )
      8 (1-  8) : The Test Of Purity ( Like has Virgin )
      9 (1-  9) : The Heir Reprogrammed ( Drinking the Kool-Aid )
    10 (1-10) : Part Of Poker ( Year Echolls Family Christmas )
    11 (1-11) : Secrecies Of Family ( Silence off the Lamb )
    12 (1-12) : The Tritons ( Clash off the Tritons )
    13 (1-13) : Gangsta Abduction ( Lord off the Bling )
    14 (1-14) : March Against Mars ( Mars vs. Mars )
    15 (1-15) : Total eclipse Of the Heart ( Ruskie Business )
    16 (1-16) : Betty ( Betty and Veronica )
    17 (1-17) : Kane And Abel ( Kanes and Abel' S )
    18 (1-18) : Countdown ( Weapons off Class Destruction )
    19 (1-19) : Lost dogs ( Hot Dogs )
    20 (1-20) : Assured Mutual destruction ( M.A.D )
    21 (1-21) : The Blow Of the Dentist ( has Trip to the Dentist )
    22 (1-22) : The Truth On Lilly ( Leave it to Beaver - Season Finale )

Second season (2005-2006)

In the second season, Veronica seeks to solve the murder of several high-school pupils assassinated in a crash landing of school bus.

See also: Season 2 of Veronica Mars

    23 (2-  1) : Normal, You Have Known as Normal? ( Normal is the Watchword )
    24 (2-  2) : Towards And Against All ( Driver ED )
    25 (2-  3) : Pride And Prejudged ( Cheatty Cheatty Bang Bang )
    26 (2-  4) : Loves, Money And Confusion ( Green-Eyed Monster )
    27 (2-  5) : To choose Its Camp ( Blast From The Past )
    28 (2-  6) : The Life Is Unjust ( Rat Saw God )
    29 (2-  7) : Somebody To protect ( Nobody Puts Baby in has Corner )
    30 (2-  8) : Pirate radio station ( Ahoy Mateys )
    31 (2-  9) : The Secret Baby ( My mother, The Fiend )
    32 (2-10) : A Simple Business ( One Angry Veronica )
    33 (2-11) : When the Child Disappears ( Donut Run )
    34 (2-12) : A Perfume Of Treason ( Rashard and Wallace Go to White Castle )
    35 (2-13) : Above Any Suspicion ( Ain' T No Magic Mountain High Enough )
    36 (2-14) : Master-singer ( Changeable Toppings )
    37 (2-15) : To play Cupidons ( The Quick and the Wed )
    38 (2-16) : Water Under the Bridges ( The Graters off Graff )
    39 (2-17) : Plan B ( Plane B )
    40 (2-18) : Nightmares ( I Am God )
    41 (2-19) : At the end of the Chain ( Nevermind the Buttocks )
    42 (2-20) : Harassing ( Look Who' S Stalking )
    43 (2-21) : Blood And Tears ( Happy Go Lucky )
    44 (2-22) : A Relation Épique ( Not Pictured )

Third season (2006-2007)

the third season is made up of three arcs. In the first, Veronica must elucidate a series of rapes which proceed on the campus of its university, in the second, it must solve the murder of the senior, and the last is made up exclusively of episodes having each one an intrigue which is clean for them, without real bond with the remainder of the season.

See also: Season 3 of Veronica Mars

    45 (3-  1) : Gift Of Welcome ( Welcome Coach )
    46 (3-  2) : Roleplay ( Conceited My Big Greek Rush Week )
    47 (3-  3) : A Question Of Confidence ( Wichita Linebacker )
    48 (3-  4) : False friend ( Charlie Don' T Surfing )
    49 (3-  5) : Hold Up ( President Evil )
    50 (3-  6) : The Cheaters ( Hi, Infidelity )
    51 (3-  7) : Those Which Love Us ( Of Vice and Men )
    52 (3-  8) : Strange Disappearance ( Lord off the Pi' S )
    53 (3-  9) : Here, now ( Spit & Eggs )
    54 (3-10) : Currency Of Monkey ( Show Me the Monkey )
    55 (3-11) : Reason And Feelings ( Poughkeepsie, Tramps and Thieves )
    56 (3-12) : Anger Is Bad Adviser ( There' S Got to Be has Morning After Pill )
    57 (3-13) : The Ideal culprit ( Postgame Mortem )
    58 (3-14) : Behind the Bars ( Mars, Bars )
    59 (3-15) : Suspects ( Papa' S Cabin )
    60 (3-16) : Gardens Of Babylon ( Un-American Graffiti )
    61 (3-17) : Rock'n'roll Roll Attitude ( Debasement Slaps )
    62 (3-18) : Veronica Mars, Private detective ( I Know What You' L C Next Summer )
    63 (3-19) : Trapped ( Weevil' S Wobble )
    64 (3-20) : After the Rain… ( The Bitch Is Back )

Comments

  • the series was cancelled two days after the presentation of the programs of The CW for the year 2007-2008 because of its catastrophic audiences (sometimes even lower than 2 million, which is the less good than audience realized on average in France) and of its loss of obvious quality noted by many fans.

  • the series belongs to the “great wine” of the televisual season 2004-2005 (at the sides of Lost, the missings , the 4400 , Desperate Housewives and Grey' S Anatomy ), which, according to criticisms, the revival of the American televised fictions marked. And although, contrary to its counterparts quoted above, Veronica Mars side of the audiences is not a “blockbuster”, it does not remain about it less one of the most outstanding and original series of these last years.

  • the music of the credits is We Used to Be Friends of the group The Dandy Warhols. To note that the singer of the group, Courtney Taylor Taylor made an appearance in episode 2.03 of Veronica Mars ( Cheatty Cheatty Bang Bang ).

  • the force of this series, unanimously applauded by the critics the beginning of his diffusion, holds in a rate/rhythm handled extremely well by the scenario writers. The projection in the mystery which this murder constitutes makes gradually, but he is never forgotten well a long time.

  • After several weeks of waiting to know if Veronica Mars would be renewed for one season 3 (thing which was not gained in advance, considering the weak audiences which the series with the length of its season 2 made), suspense is finally finished and the fans can be delighted: VM will be there for season 2006/2007! Thanks to the important mobilization of the very many fans and set on the series (which made feet and hands to draw the attention, like making gift of DVD of the series to libraries, or collecting money to be able to make fly a plane above saying Los Angeles with a streamer: " Renew Veronica Mars ! "), and with " the amour" what carries the director of the chain to the series, this one was indeed renewed. Initially, 13 episodes were ordered for season 3. The audiences being more where less correct, 7 additional episodes were announced, which changes to 20 the number of episode for the 3rd season. Veronica will thus be diffused on the new chain The CW (which begins in September 2006), fruit of fusion between The WB and UPN (this-last which diffused the series during 2 seasons). Even if it were very probable, even before the official announcement, that the series belongs to the grid of the programs of the new chain, concern were not made any less feel since to create a new grid of the programs starting from two different chains, each one having their clean series, there would be obligatorily sacrifices on the 2 sides. And The WB and UPN each one cancelled much their current series, making the happy ones and the unhappy ones. The fans of Veronica , them, belong to happy, their heroin being well of return!

  • the last episode of season 2 gave the indication that Veronica Mars would be renewed for one season 3. When Duncan receives a call on its mobile, he answers " C.W? " (the initial ones of its interlocutor (Clarence Wiedeman)). This one answers him " It' S.A. gives deal" (Regulated Business). The fans thus knew by the mischievousness of the scenario writers that the renewal was not almost any doubt.

  • At the time of its third season, Veronica Mars records very weak scores of audience, leaving him only few chances for a fourth season. Season which according to certain rumors should be completely altered to discover a Veronica, five years after, starting a formation with FBI. The leaders of The CW met the May 2nd to tackle the subject. After having announced that a decision would be made the June 15th 2007, The CW finally preferred to cancel the series two days after the upfronts (which is the name of the press conference organized by certain television channels American announcing the program of the next season).

Campaigns of fans

The series attracted a base of extremely honest and devoted fans which continues to grow. Communities developed via Internet and several of enters took part in minor or major campaigns to attract more televiewers and of publicity with Veronica Mars to ensure the success of the series.

A group of fans, on LiveJournal, which is called the Cloud Watchers , made several actions since spring 2006, when the stations UPN and The WB were going to amalgamate in The CW. The May 9th 2006, the group rented the services of a plane to fly between the offices of UPN to Los Angeles and the future site of the offices of The CW to Burbank, which drew a banner with the words " RENEW VERONICA MARCH! CW 2006! " in particular to draw the attention of the executives of the chain and the media. They had previously sent packages including of the binoculars, of information on the flight plan of the plane and the gifts inspired of Veronica Mars to the future executives of CW and influential people in the media of entertainments.

After the advertisement of the renewal of the series for a third season the May 18th 2006, the fans did not stop the campaigns. The Cloud Watchers began of it a news, this one to attract more televiewers with Veronica Mars while giving of DVDs of the first season to libraries everywhere in the United States. To the June 30th, they had given more: 18300 dollars of DVDs.

In spite of a new campaign of fans in spring 2007 (where they sent chocolate bars of Mars to the leaders of the chain) to ask for the renewal of Veronica Mars for a fourth season, The CW announced that the series was indeed finished. Rob Thomas nevertheless let imply that the series could return in the form of film or from comics.

Original soundtrack

  1. We used to Be friends - The Dandy Warhols (Generic)
  2. I hear the bels - Mike Doughty (2x20)
  3. I know I know I know - Tegan and Sara (2x16)
  4. I turn my camera one - Spoon (2x03)
  5. No sleep tonight - Faders, Inc. (2x05)
  6. Dakota - Stereophonics (2x08)
  7. Sway - The Perishers (2x17)
  8. Long Time Coming - Delays (2x01)
  9. One your porch - The Format (2x02)
  10. Ocean city girl - Ivy (2x08)
  11. Momentary Thing - Something Happens (1x18)
  12. The way you are - 46bliss (1x11)
  13. Lost & Found - Adrienne Pierce (2x21)
  14. Lilly Dreams One - Knitting machine Mather (1x22)
  15. the Money Woman - Air (1x01 & 1x07)

; Other songs

  • Now Is The Time - Damone
  • Breathe Me - Sia Furler
  • Finding Out True Coils Is Blind - Louis XIV (1x20)
  • One way gold another - Blondie, interpreted by Kristen Bell (1x12)
  • Such Great Heights - The Postal Service
  • Edge off the Ocean - Ivy (also heard in Grey' S Anatomy, just like I hear the bels and No sleep tonight )
  • How Can You Mend has Broken Heart - Al Green

See too

References

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