TWoP Veronica Mars 3.3 Wichita Linebacker (watching & enjoying this episode as a repeat tonite):
She continues that in college, one is supposed to expand one's horizons 'past video games and binge drinking.' Oh, Veronica, this is Logan we're dealing with. And as you should know, given that you can't give up your taser or your rapier wit, you gotta dance with what brung you.
Logan, however, is busy because he has class until ten. Veronica does not say, "Call me sometime when you have no class" which is very sad for all Back To School fans. (What? No respect?) I don't know the source but I like the line

In the locker room, some football player goes to his bag. He does a charade that conveys that something is lost. Awesome -- now do Desperate Housewives! hehee
... The football player from earlier enters and asks "Trish" if she saw a binder in his room that morning. She says no, and asks what's wrong. Football Dude: "It's nothing. I'm just dead." I was totally going to guess that! Dude, you're good.

Ed Begley Jr. is using a pool cue to bang on the vent in the ceiling of his office. Now, I have to admit that Ed was awesome on Arrested Development, but I still haven't forgiven him for Six Feet Under. oh! oh oh oh oh oh that's where I knew the Dean from. on SixFeetUnder he was whatshisname Ruth's last husband. George. Maggie's dad. of course

[Football guy] tells Veronica that the book was in his bag the whole time he had it: "I never unzipped it until today." Well, if he didn't even bother studying the plays, the stated reason he took the book in the first place, perhaps the people who would cry "Waste of a scholarship!" have more of a point than even they realize. Trish pipes up that if he loses the scholarship, they'll figure something else out, because his grades are great and she's got "the whole Pell Grant thing" figured out. Pell Grant, eh? Those must be rather new, considering they weren't around when Veronica was applying to Stanford. I'm liking the recapper Coach Baron
[Cut to Veronica] infiltrating the office of a "Dwight Fry" ... Even though I thought he was supposed to be the coach, and Veronica in fact refers to him as such later in the episode, his office doorplate bills him as "Defensive Coordinator." Okay.
Also, it looks like the team is named the "Rough Riders," which would be unfortunate enough in a season where rape wasn't a prominent theme. Anyway, Veronica sees someone coming, so she's forced to duck under the desk. ... the printer finishes processing the job and starts up. Veronica jumps out, squealing in "embarrassment" while blatantly kicking out the printer plug, and explains that her sorority told her she had to break in and steal a jock -- "The little underwear, not, like, kidnap an athlete!"

Larry, exhibiting more patience than perhaps I'd expect, tells Veronica he's just a painter. Veronica: "Yeah, well. So was Hitler."

Outside, Veronica and Logan quickly get into it, as Logan calls Veronica "Big Brother," and she snarkily asks him if he read 1984 in weightlifting class. He accuses her of judging him, and then tells her that he's going to Mexico with Dick and Mercer that weekend (Mercer, who runs the casino, is planning to be out of town when the football game is played and when the students are out of class and have the most free time to gamble? I. Don't. Think. So.) but promises to keep a journal of his "bad thoughts" in case she wants to stick his face in a cage of rats when he returns. At her look: "Sorry. 1984 is the only book I read." He leaves.

int: Okay, here's the thing. I understand this plotline is supposed to bring Veronica's trust issues to the surface. The problem is that her feelings weren't unreasonable. I mean, she expressed to Logan that she'd like it if they spent more -- for want of a better term -- quality time together. For all her relationship-based faults, that's a pretty clear and direct request, and even if Logan isn't into that, it at least deserves a direct answer. It does not deserve a phone call with admittedly conveniently contrived language to increase Veronica's insecurities. I mean, the "getting lucky" thing was just stupid -- like he'd call and tell her if he was hooking up with another girl -- but blowing her off that casually with the party sounds in the background? A lot of people thought Logan would never be that insensitive. I just don't think he'd be that guileless.
Okay, you'd rather gamble than visit your girlfriend in the library. I don't completely buy that from Logan "Ours Is An Epic Love" Echolls, but he was hammered when he said that, so let's go with it. But do you have to blow her off quite that crudely?..I think if the point is for Veronica to Realize That She Has Deep Trust Issues, it would have been stronger to make her fears seem less rational.
..I don't think it's being overly harsh to say that this was not one of this show's stronger or more exciting episodes. The thing about changing to mini-arcs is that it doesn't leave a whole lot of time for dillydallying, and, labored comparisons to the MotW notwithstanding, the Logan/Veronica stuff felt way too self-contained to spend so much time on. In the past, when the two of them have had issues, they've been directly tied to important plot points [links to examples] That's one of the things that's made this show great in the past -- layering in complex and important relationships while not actually being a relationship-centered show. I only hope they go somewhere with the gambling thing, because otherwise, in my opinion, this episode will have been a total waste of time. On that happy note, see you next week!
hmm well I thought it was entertaining. if nothing special I guess. probably not as rewatchable as season 1, the first four episodes of which have I've already more or less watched a second time happily.

p12 (last page of recap) Wichita Linebacker: Logan appears and asks if it's the help desk, as he needs help. Veronica: 'Let me guess. You have this pathologically suspicious girlfriend, and you hope maybe there's a guidebook?' Geez, Veronica, I am right here.
hehee. meaning, You don't have to shout.
meaning, state so baldly that we are supposed to see you as pathologically suspicious, ie having trust issues. right? some of Coach Baron's sarcasm or whatever seems subtle enough to me that I am not sure of it and hence want to document my tentative understanding. there were a few cases of that. or not subtle, maybe, just: not obvious, to me. not totally spelled out.
here, maybe it's just that I don't share his sense of the situation. I don't find what she says to be "shouting" ~ too heavy-handed ~ bcs dsn't strike me as esp for our benefit, ie expository, but just actual believable dialogue. but Couch Baron has mentioned anvils falling about trust issues, so I think he feels this is heavy-handed. anyway even if I don't feel the occasion for his comment, I do enjoy the delivery . "I am right here."