Logan Echolls... p70 arabian:
"Logan's stares at VM are always very intense but they linger a bit too long for someone who feels only anger or hatred. I thought this again in the 'annoy, tiny blonde one' scene. He looks at her just a bit too long as she's walking away."
Yes, magnolia88! He HAS always stared at her just a tad too long. Going back to the pilot is actually where I first picked up on it. Plus, due to the other small changes, I think the idea to pair Logan and Veronica began when RT first saw JD and KB together and softened the original pilot accordingly. I wrote up a whole post on those changes here.
And about the looks specifically, in a post I wrote about the pilot, there was this bit:
[in the after the break-up] flashback scene, when Veronica turns from her locker and sees Duncan walking by and basically ignoring her, Logan is with him. And guess what he's doing? You got it ... staring at Veronica. Logan. Does. This. A LOT.
...Also, Logan is also the first one who we recognize who sees her at the party. A bigger deal is made of Duncan (because he's been macked upon), but Logan is who we first see staring at her. Of course, staring at her.
And then about You Think You Know Somebody, I wrote:
I loved the whole thing with her telling him to walk in front of the car to test whether they were better -Are you gonna play nice now? he says; Walk in front of the car, we'll see. she says- her revving the engine, him smacking the car with his jacket saucily - I think I read someone in the episode forum calling this saucy and that's right and then the kicker, him staring at her a few beats longer.
Why do I call that the kicker? Because as I was watching their scenes (all of them actually), I noticed that .. almost every single scene with them ends with Logan staring at her just a few seconds longer than he should. (She does a bit longer staring than she should also, but not to his extent.) I don't know if that was in the script of if it was an actor or director choice, but it certainly seems to give credence that there may have been some latent attraction there all along. He has an intense gaze, it may always be the kicker, the thing that makes him mesmerizing. he does probably stare at others too ?
If you watch all of their scenes back to back (I have them all downloaded and will have a little LoVe marathon every now and again), you really see just how much Logan was always staring at her just that little bit too much.