Seven more episodes have been ordered of Veronica Mars, adding up to twenty total. I guess CW is too cheap to put in a full order of twenty-two, most likely requiring them to cut the planned third arc to only four episodes. In case anyone who follows the show hasn’t heard by now, instead of having one season long mystery, CW is catering to people with shorter attention spans by having three arcs this season.
All in all, it wasn’t a good week for CW’s Tuesday night girls. Veronica got an unexpected hair cut (which would have been even more dramatic if they hadn’t shown the parking lot scene in all those previews). Meanwhile, Lorelai Gilmore got married to Christopher, and in the end appears to have second thoughts. I bet we haven’t seen the end of her and Luke. Personally I don’t care if she’s with Christopher, Luke, or anyone else. I just hope they can recapture that dialog from the Amy-Sherman Paladino days. Every now and then there’s a glimpse of it, but no consistency.
We’re waiting for Veronica Mars re-runs so by the time I catch up, the show will be over. But Gilmore Girls, oh, I miss the writers. There seems to be little joy, with the exception of the Zack/Lane/Lane’s Mother storyline, which I love and is the only light left in the series for me.
IMO, it’s almost criminal to take a series this good and then decide not to pay the writers/producers or actors what they’re worth (after they’ve created a hit for the network!) and so doom the end of the story to junk. But that’s television. Same thing happened to La Femme Nikita. Lovely, dark series that totally jumped the shark by the end. At least the producers went on to create “24.”