After yesterday's all day Veronica Mars circle-jerk- a-thon here in My...Pants I'm sorta hesitant to keep posting more information about the show today - fanatics get fatigued too! - but TV Squad's got the inside scoop on what exactly that preview thingy that Rob Thomas created for the possible retooling, which would've skipped ahead to Veronica having just graduated from the FBI Academy as a full-fledged Agent Mars, so I feel the need to point it out. Their source found the footage lacking and, after detailing exactly what they saw, they say:"The reason I disliked the promo so much was because it was a complete and total ctrl-alt-del reboot. The network was looking for the cheapest possible way to essentially keep Kristin Bell and jettison everything else. There wasn't a single character other than Veronica that came over to the FBI version of the show. Seriously, not even her dad, Keith, on a phone call. The writing was still top-notch, Veronica's wit was still intact and Rob Thomas set up the new world really quickly and completely, but the whole thing was just surreal. It turned the show into a standard-issue procedural about rookie FBI agents. It was way more charming than your average FBI procedural because Veronica was in it, but everything else that was great about the show was gone.
I should say that it wasn't a rough cut at all. It looked great. It looked like a show that could easily be on the air and be pretty decent, too. I just felt like they ripped the heart out because basically her dad wasn't there. It was clear that the show's emotional center was gone - replaced by an "episodic" engine that would require Veronica to go undercover in a different hot outfit every week. Basically just another procedural fed show."
I do think the source is a little preemptively dismissive - this was just a tiny little preview and surely Rob Thomas would've found ways to fit Papa Mars or other characters into the show. This is the man who found a way to include (highlight for spoiler) Lilly (!) in last night's finale, after all.
TV Squad says it's only a matter of time before this thing makes it's way onto YouTube, though, so that'd be good news - even if it's tiny and unfulfilling, I think I speak for the lot of us VM fans when I say I NEED MORE.
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Interesting. Sounds to me like cheap was the operative word. I've heard a lot of people say they didn't like the idea of this FBI show -- but I think it could have worked well if they could have kept the dad and Wallace. I doubt any of the people on VM besides Bell have a steep price tag.
I don't know if I've ever been as sad to see a show go. Dropping a show after it's third season is tough. You've gotten to know these charcaters a little too well by this point. Recently I was sad to see Andy Barker, Smith, and Kidnapped cancelled but with less than one season you can't get too attached. With a show like Buffy, sure, it's sad but you also know that it's due.
I agree that the FBI show wouldn't have gotten rid of Keith -- it's too bad they didn't work him into the quasi-pilot. That is, if this source is to be believed at all.
THEIR summation sounds awful for sure. And doesn't the CW know Alias (which is MOST akin to undercover VM in hot outfits) ultimately failed?
It made me think of Alias, too, Evan. And honestly, I'd love to see Veronica Does Alias. Wigs galore!
Keith is so integral... WAS so integral (god that was tough)... to the show that he'd have had to be around in some form. HAD TO BE.
Also, the idea of TV movies for some of these departed shows has always been a really fucking good idea. There was this sort of talk once Angel and Buffy died and it sounded good then and it sounds good now. But it works even better for Veronica. Think back to those Columbo episodes. Great two hour mysteries. It could be damn near perfect. They could have three two hour specials for the remaining college years and then retool the FBI show. Brilliant! I should be a CW network exec.
I was thinking about the Alias time jump too -- but by that point Alias was already lost. Excuse the pun. Some people say the third season of Veronica was disapointing, so their not that sad to see it go. I equate those remarks to the people who say the third season of Lost is disapointing. That is, big dummies.
Only in comparison to VM's first two seasons would I say the 3rd was a little disappointing. Compared to 95% of what else is on TV, no, I would not say that. But you could see The CW's hands all up in what made VM so genius thru the 3rd season, and it was more scattered then it should've been because of it. Did I still laugh, cry, jump out of my seat during every single episode? Hell yes. But I really missed the season-long mystery.
But I totally love the idea of a TV movie here and there thru a season, like those Columbo specials. It's exactly what my boyfriend keeps saying, and it'd work smashingly.
But then, I jonesed hard for those Buffy ones too, and they don't seem to ever be happening, so my hopes? Not high.
CW execs probably don't know their theres either. They're the donut people. I apologize.
Anyway. I was hoping with the CW merger that those Buffyverse movies would come back to life but alas, no word.
It's not a stretch to imagine that the majority of these new CW shows are going to fail this upcoming season though. So bring out the Veronica/Buffy Tuesday Night Mystery Movie Petition. I'll sign it.
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