Logan Echolls: Soft Underbelly...Or Rock Hard? p70:

depudor:
"The only major player whose behavior never let on that he might hide an important piece of the puzzle due to self-interest is Logan. Now you could argue that this is because he's the exception to the rule, but it's more likely that the fact that he lied would make an excellent last-minute reveal."
This is an excellent observation. And I agree that Logan is hiding something because...
"...it would also be Troy Redux. And Logan is nobody's redux."
On the contrary: the whole show is redux. Small cases are microcosms for larger storylines, subtly weaving the ethos of this universe, how the mysteries get solved. The clues aren’t in fingerprints or matchbook covers; they’re in being able to recognize patterns, to see the big picture, let go of your feelings/biases and judge objectively who people are. We see this pattern over and over again. The stories we’ve followed all season are like matryoshka dolls, nesting in each other.
Take the pilot as an example. We meet a girl (Veronica) and a boy (Wallace). She helps him; they form a relationship. I thought, “Ooh, a love interest…” Then we meet our bad guy (Weevil), and conflict ensues. But then, Veronica helps the bad guy, sparks fly, and next thing we know, the story twists around – now the bad guy is the good guy, who comes to her rescue by defending her against a new bad guy (Logan). That pilot is a microcosm of the rest of the season, wherein our heroine helps the bad guy (Logan), sparks fly, and the story twists again, and now he’s the good guy, coming to her rescue to defend her against the forces that threaten her. excellent.
What is Veronica Mars if not a high-concept, escalating pattern of redux? I don’t think Troy took the concept of “You Think You Know Somebody” with him when he left Neptune. I think it’s lurking in the shadows, waiting to return when we least expect it. nice.

Logan Echolls ... p 55 :

depudor Sometimes you want to be insightful, sometimes you want to be dirty.
ETA Does anyone know the make/model of that yellow SUV Logan drives?
contrarianfreak No no no, you want to be both at all times. lovely. no no no. at all times. check out other posts by contrarian freak as well as depudor? good writing re Vm esp Logan, great.
Ostrich Nissan XTerra with surf attachment thingie, apparently.
depudor Thanks, Ostrich. Wow, that's a cheap car. Starts at $22K, and even after I added every single option available (What? I'm curious! heh like rg) it was still under $30 grand. I would think a movie star would buy his kid a nicer set of wheels than that. No wonder Logan hates his daddy. The reason I bring it up is that I'm seeing that yellow XTerra everywhere in L.A. right now. I passed three of them yesterday on just one street. I kept having to fight the instinct to turn around and follow them. is depudor a girl I wonder?
Ostrich In the pilot script, it was a Lexus, I think. I'm sure the XTerra was cheaper for the production company.
depudor OK, now I'm going to cry. It must be so hard to make a show about rich people when you don't have any money. Meanwhile ER gets $13 million an episode to have people run around on one set with everybody wearing the same outfit. It's not fair.
But they really do need to buy Logan some new clothes.
So speaking of Aaron and money, you can tell a lot about the Echolls clan by looking at their house. It's very unimaginitive, very nouveau riche, plain with no sense of personality. Everything is just white and bland, not bland in a Mies van der Rohe less-is-more kind of way, but in a "We couldn't decide what color to paint the walls, so we just left them white" way. Also, none of the shelves have books on them; they have pictures. And almost all of the pictures are of Aaron. The leopard-print throws? Yeah.
Contrast that to the Kane house, which is a really cool place to look at. They clearly have a very expensive decorator. The style is contemporary/FLW/Zen fusion, with some very distinctive pieces that manage to fit together in a unified aesthetic. Smart people live in that house, people who care about art because of what it says, not because of what it says about them. I don't know if I'd call it old money, but it's definitely money that isn't surprised anymore when it looks in the mirror. It makes sense that Rob intended Duncan to be a real intellectual, with an interest in Eastern philosophy and a yen for his life to have purpose. It's too bad that none of that made it into the scripts or came through in the performance. well said.
Logan grew up in a family where everything is about the surface. nice. He clearly was never expected to have any intellectual pursuits, and consequently he's not an intellectual. But that could be why he's more grounded, more connected to life, than Duncan. Logan doesn't live inside his head, because there's not a lot going on in there. He's much more about people, relationships, parties, having a good time, beating people up, getting laid, crying. He deals in emotion and gratification, with high highs and low lows and not much of a center. He acts on his instincts and feelings without any introspection. He's kind of a Neanderthal in the guise of a metrosexual. If all of his emotional issues get worked out, he may end up being really boring in the long run. huh. nah that kind of anger doesn't leave you totally. and he's smart, he's super quick witted.

huh and this is addressed as the discussion continues onto next page 56
"Logan's taking calculus and physics in his junior year. That puts him on the upper track, fwiw."
depudor I do think he's very smart; he's extremely witty, and that says a lot. well there I go. But I doubt his family is academically inclined or that either parent went to college. I just don't think he's an intellectual like Duncan. He's not reading Kafka and meditating on the nature of his own existence. His cultural references are always movies and TV shows, not artists or philosophers or politicians. I'd be surprised if he watches the evening news. Duncan, on the other hands, is interested in politics and philosophy and law, and even though he's fairly closed off from those around him, I bet he knows what's going on in the world outside Neptune; I bet he knows how much his parents gave to the tsunami relief fund. So I certainly don't mean to imply that Logan's dumb; I had a roommate in college who got a perfect score on her SATs her - so d is a girl probably but was not an intellectual in any sense and never will be. She had two interests: her boyfriend and knitting.