1#Kendall drops by the Neptune Grand to see Duncan, and it doesn't look like anything happened between them before it doesn't? bcs he rebuffs her now? but she was nude in his room I dunno, but it does lead to Trina and Kendall having a Buffy-reunion smackdown, although it's Logan who gets one of the best lines of the entire series. what was that? I did like the bit about the joke being on Trina who came over to borrow his video camera " and does like a good exit line" - but one of best lines in the series? *see below. A second Neptune Grand smackdown ensues between Veronica and Celeste, teaching the Buffy alumnae how it's done. nice.
2#The prom baby, it turns out, is Trina, but her mom isn't Celeste -- it's a mute woman who's worked at the school for years. Also, Trina's dad is the principal. Surprisingly, both these revelations bring out the best in Trina, and in the end, Clemmons is principal, and what's more, that was his plan all along. I knew I liked him.
recap last page 14 : Cut to Clemmons switching out his "Vice Principal" nameplate for one that reads "Principal." He smiles in satisfaction. Nice, even though I'll miss the "Vice" part of his title. It sounded so bad-ass and yet hilariously incongruent incongruent bcs it's always him dealing with the students and we previously never saw the principal?. Until now, that is.
3#And finally, Veronica stops by the hospital to get Koontz's things, and discovers that Meg is pregnant. I guess I owe the posters a Coke.
and Meg wakes up. And is pregnant. Yup, they went there. (show page recap list vignette )
recap last page 14 : Well, I was hoping they wouldn't go there, but I will admit that it was well-foreshadowed without being anvilicious (outside of this episode with the school carry-around-a-baby assignment and prom baby, but I suspect that was intentional). the foreshadowing? The Meg bitchiness, the Duncan visits, the laptop right Meg's sister bringing it to Duncan. also her parents hating him (but that could simply have been bcs he broke up with her. why did he break up with her?? I suppose we won't here him say and so it's just the more or less obvious reason that he was still into V and now knew she was not his sister ) -- I was hoping that whatever secret Duncan and Meg had ok wasn't this, but it's hardly a surprise.
Veronica leaves. Will she EVER rip Duncan a new one? huh? what, has he had it coming to him bcs acting distant, unwilling to talk about Meg (as re hospital visits) ~ ?
. . . TwoP 2.9 Meeeeooooow! (Ffffft!) recap p4: Veronica: 'Yeah, thanks anyway. I can't act.' Give the girl an Emmy for that line delivery right there.
Trina tells Veronica she's got presence, and that they should talk later, but right now, her company needs her.
She overacts, "The play is my master and I am its whore."
I'd make a comment, but frankly, I'm so pleased by seeing not a trace of Willow in that scene that I'll let it pass... [.. p5 ..] ...in favor of noting that the choice of person to cut to off that line is Kendall. Heh.
She's appeared at Duncan's door in order to hit on him. When he tells her Logan's not there, she says he should loosen up, since she's been in both their beds. There was disagreement on the boards about whether this indicated that Duncan actually did something with Kendall. I think, from her too-coy reference and the way Duncan acts around her in this scene, that the answer is no, but there's no, um, hard evidence either way.
Kendall then offers to take Duncan for a ride, which isn't actually a euphemism -- she's got Big Dick's Maserati, which she's trying to sell by telling him he'd look so great in it.
Duncan: "Can't I just be loved for me?" Well, I admit I've been recapping for few hours here, so I could have missed a recent fundamental turnaround in board opinion. But I still feel pretty safe in giving this answer: probably not.
Kendall offers to teach Duncan to drive stick without leaving the couch, which I'm sensing leads us back to euphemism territory,
but Duncan firmly picks her up and plants her next to him. She asks if they "chemically castrate you boys over at that school," and it's this little exchange that makes me think nothing happened between her and Duncan.
...Kendall kisses Logan, which he's not too psyched about, and then talks about the car while employing lots of double entendres. Trina butts into the conversation, and after some commentary about Logan's penis size. she does?? I don't remember, what did she say? oh: Trina: Are you, like, sleeping with my little brother?! What is he, thirteen?! Kendall: Thirteen? He wishes.
After a bit more snark, Logan introduces the two "girls": "Rode Hard, meet Put Away Wet." I'm still laughing from that line of Logan's. * ah so that's 1# "one of the best lines of the entire series" of mention in the recaplet. I did not note it bcs don't get it. I tht it was "road hard" like one of them was hard worn; that's cleared up now. but, Put Away Wet? Seriously, I cracked up, loudly, on first viewing, which doesn't happen to me very often even with this show.
boy everyone loves this line:
I Heart TV: my mother, the fiend (veronica mars 2.9): The meeting between Trina and Kendall (aka the Buffy reunion) was okay, but Logan had the best line with 'Rode hard, meet put away wet.'
also noted in this blogpost, good questions:
It was awesome to learn some more about the Jake-Celeste-Lianne history, but I still want to know more. How did Lianne end up with Keith? How did Lianne and Jake end up fooling around again, and how many times did it happen and for how long? When and why did she start drinking, if she was such a great person in high school? We never did find out whether Celeste was pregnant--if she had been faking it all along, why didn't Jake then dump her and get back together with Lianne? There's a lot more we can learn about this whole situation, and I hope we will. I have the idea we will not but I'd like to.
Speaking of Celeste, there has to be another side to her. Yes, she's mean to her servant, but it is pretty nice that she would offer to send her to grad school afterwards. When Lianne's old friend mentioned that Celeste had to move away and attend Pan High, I thought maybe there was something there. Maybe she was really rich and her family lost all its money? Why does she hate Lianne so much, if she stole Jake from her to begin with? And one thing that has always, ALWAYS bothered me about Celeste is that we've never even been given a hint of why she hated Lilly, her own daughter. Obviously parents have favorites, but it seems like it was a little extreme. Why? No one on this show is all evil! hmm. well sheriff lamb comes close but today I saw somewhere - this blog? no I think it was marsinvestigations.com or whtvr that site url is re 2.7 lamb going back to the abused girl's house. and there was discussion about how the way he treated V re raping her was bcs he did not believe her. also I had thought why didn't they do tests - 'a rape kit' - but I wonder, does that help identify if it could have been any number of guys? probably you *can't* "round up the sons of all the best families in town" or any whole group of guys and ask them for samples to test - or can you?
What's Alan Watching?: Eko... Eko... Eko...: Far too many highlights to list 'em all, so I'll give just a few: the Cordelia vs. Willow smackdown (though the best line in that scene -- and possibly the season -- was Logan's 'Rode Hard, meet Put Away Wet.' everybody loves this line why exactly); Logan and Weevil doing the whole '48 Hours'-style 'We'll team up, but only after we kick the crap out of each other' thing in the men's room; the (now former) vice-principal manipulating Veronica into doing his wetwork; and Trina Echolls showing actual emotion (her hug with Lunchlady Doris put almost as much dust in my eye as the Rose/Bernard hug last week on 'Lost'). The alternate ending link no longer words I wonder what it was on AOL.com was an interesting little bonus feature, but I'm glad the real show didn't go in that direction. Without spoiling it (and, if you haven't seen it yet, the only change is in the last two minutes), it would paint Veronica and the show into an uncomfortable corner that would take weeks, at least, to get out of.
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