TWoP recap 2.17 BY JACOB: What A Non-Incorporated Municipality Without Pity Can Do p4: Beaver and Mac stare up at the Sadie Hawkins banner, and he sighs loudly. She asks about the particulars of his damage, and he says dramatically that he's just standing there wondering why Mac's ashamed of him. They are so lame and made for each other. Beaver looks up, all yearning, and requests her continuing approval and love like a kicked puppy. Mac: 'Fine. You wanna go to the big dance, Cassidy?' In a very funny, very dorky voice. Man, I thought -- knew -- I liked Tina Majorino and Amanda Seyfried, but have you seen Big Love? That show rocks so fucking hard, and they're right there in the middle, both of them blowing it out of the water. It is so great that Majorino, especially, is getting recognition. 'Yes,' Beaver replies, 'and if it blows as much as I think, we can cut right to the good stuff.' Mac reacts with fake surprise, because she knows how it is, with the sex and the high school of it all, and Beaver laughs fakely. "Pizza Quest '06! Get your mind out of the gutter!" That's...not funny. Considering he led her directly toward a place that was specifically not pizza, it's kind of like he was lying in wait around the "you're a whore" corner of the conversation. We'll see.

working forward through this recap, I was looking the mayor-logan-bicep scene. meanwhile enjoying the comments of the sub recapper jacob.

p5- Woody Goodman. Still giving me the all-over shudders. He says to his telephone that "Father Fitzpatrick has blown this way out of proportion," and mentions the facts in favor of incorporation, again: more law enforcement immediately, the eventual bounce-back of property values...And then Furonda from America's Next Top Model shows up, huh did not notice her at allranking somewhere between Kim and Naima on the ANTM-Suck Scale, but to be fair, she's a lot closer to Kim. so Naima was worse huh. She also looks way less weird, prettier here than she usually does on her show, and that's an accomplishment. I wonder if she gave Woody a list of how she would and would not prefer to be treated, on her first day. heh. Furonda tells Woody that the intern has arrived, and he asks her, "Beverly," to get some photographers or whatever for the PR.
Woody's jaw drops just a bit when he sees that the intern is Logan, but to be fair, they're kind of alike in a lot of ways. They shake, and Woody's all, "Great essay," but quickly tells Bev to cancel his last request for the PR yeah it's smooth "cancel my last request", because Logan is a famous fuck-up now, instead of just being the child of a couple of them. Bev's like, "Um, okay?" and gives Woody a Bible to swear Logan in for his fake job. I wonder if Logan will spontaneously...oh, Logan makes the joke instead of me nice. what's the reference here? is it witches that burst into flame when they touch the bible? was that the belief in Salem?, hissing and pulling back as though it's burned him. He apologizes to Woody, all kinds of flirty, swears in quickly, and then runs off to fire Sheriff Lamb. Bev and Woody laugh like he's not deadly serious, but Logan's funny/scary ratio isn't something you can pick up right away. Woody brings up the incorporation, since it's all he ever wants to talk about, and Logan gives a funny and very off-the-cuff speech about how he so supports the incorporation.. They are very smiley with each other. It is scary. They are two scary men, Logan and Woody, and if you think about how scary, you probably will freak out. Woody asks Logan -- before mounting the revolution -- if he'd start by separating the bins of mail into pro- and anti-incorporation piles, and while Logan would prefer to see Beverly do it, she smartly offers him a letter opener, and Woody goggles and grins at him: "Beats selling burgers at a Woody's, right?" Logan's like, "I wouldn't know, you're the one who's served twenty billion." Dirty! Logan winks (Too dirty! Reverse your current dirtiness vector before it's too late!) and Woody gives him some finger guns. The first time I watched this, I thought, "They should have their own show!" and the second time I watched it, I thought, "I've seen their own show, and it was so scary I took it back to the porn store, and was still shaking as I asked for my cash back!"

p6 - Bev leaves Logan, now quite pissy, alone with the mail bin, and Keith enters. (Hi!)aw. Keith: "Logan, is that you?" Of all the fathers across whose brain the image of Logan Echolls is emblazoned, Woody Goodman fucking included, you'd think Keith wouldn't need the second opinion. Logan corrects him, explaining that he's the Honorary Deputy County Commissioner,..or whatever, and Keith fake-laughs as Woody calls him in, all hail-fellow-well-met. Poor Keith. Just seeing Logan blows his mind, and not in the cool way.
..Over Logan's shoulder, Keith and Woody watch a DVD from the mail pile, showing some very creepy Lost Highway footage of the Goodmans' house. It travels down the creepy hall with all the creepy storage bins, across creepy glass door to the creepy patio .. and into the creepy but spacious dining room, where the horrifying-in-an-unspecified-way Goodman family is having a tense and silent dinner. Soo creepy! Even if it wasn't the Goodmans, it would still be creepy! Logan red-herrings the second-best misdirection of the episode huh.(?) : "So I'm guessing this goes into the anti-incorporation file."

p7 But I guess Veronica knows about that already. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if she and Logan were playing First Date every weekend since the beginning of the season and we didn't know about it. I don't trust her ass anymore, not after "Normal Is The Watchword" and "Donut Run." Not in a bad way: She's fallible, as a narrator as well as a bad-ass, and I love it. She holds her palm up for a high five, and he returns the serve. That is probably my favorite part of the episode. She runs with wolves, in that "I appreciate where you're coming from, Weevil, but let's try this due process thing first and then you can murder whoever you like" kind of way. I respect her more for joking with Logan about the Hannah issue, because it's clearly a huge gash across Logan's desire to be a good person while being a well-played bluff at the same time, and Veronica's intimate with both. "Her dad and your dad should go bowling," Logan murmurs, pointedly bringing Veronica back into the post-breakup spotlight mmm, but they spot the guy.
.. "Here's another way of looking at it: if I stopped and chased off the bikers and called 911, I'd be the guy who saved your life." I don't know that I would keep pushing at that point, because: word, but this is Logan: "I was planning on sending a fruit basket...from prison!"

What A Non-Incorporated Municipality Without Pity Can Do P8: So just like that, I've got fitty bucks riding on Cassidy Casablancas being horribly abused all of a sudden, in the quick click of a pause button, and that's eighteen kinds of horrible, because you don't want hateful people having to go through that, much less lovely people like the Beav. huh. can't tell how much I'd have liked Beaver bcs I had seen something about him being the one who blew up the bus, though I kept it vague in mind.

anway around here I lose interest in jacob's recap, he seems to go on with a humor I don't like. including the next page or so when he gets the mayor touching logan.
is jacob the recapper I saw mentioned as cld learn sth from couch baron about how to interject analysis? I think it was re BSG recaps which he does so maybe.
yep: Asking the Wrong Questions: Boom Goes the Dynamite: Scattered Veronica Mars Thoughts: and by the way, if TWoP's go-to SF guy, Jacob, ever wants to find out how to incorporate a healthy degree of analysis into a recap without rendering it entirely humorless or unbearably pretentious, he could do a lot worse than study Couch Baron's recaps.
I am not that into what this blogger Abigail Nussbaum says about VM though, it doesn't tend to hit the mark for me.