Veronica Mars: Not Pictured (finale) - TV Squad:
Aren't great finales so bittersweet? I'd been excited to see this episode all day, though at the same time I was sad that the season would be over, and we'd have to A) wait until next Thursday to find out if this show is indeed making it to the CW network, and B) wait for the new season to start.
Something that none of us guessed was that Cassidy was responsible for Veronica's chlamydia, having raped her last season. That was in credible, that the writers took a major plot point from last season and placed it at the end of this season.
Quote of the episode: "Where's your brother?" "I think he took Ghost World up to his room. They're probably up there making loooove. Or playing Dungeons and Dragons. Or both. At the same time. They're both, like, 12th level dorks."
UPDATE: OK, I may have to make this the new quote of the episode. Thanks for the catch, Vince! "CW?" "It's a done deal."

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Vince -Cassidy took Mac's stuff so that she couldn't leave the room. And you don't actually have to wait until thursday to know if it is going to the CW they said in the show: Duncan: "CW?" Clarence: "It's a done deal"
-Nice catch, Vince. There's no way that was a coincidence...
-Vince: That quote is amazing! When I heard it, I knew something just sounded off about it, but it really didn't hit me until I read it here. yeah it sounded weird but I was not thinking of it. pretty great.
-Its not like we thought that Duncan was breaking down that fourth wall, it was just a little nod included for those of us... I mean, for Vince, nice that were paying a little better attention.
-Rob Thomas confirms in his Ask Ausiello interview that that is what the writers meant.
-Damn. Probably one of the best season finales ever. I didn't actually remember the name of the new channel so I hadn't picked up the double meaning of CW but heh, Rob Thomas is a genius.

-Duncan hiring Clarence Weidman as a hitman to finish off Aaron Echolls is in line with what CW does.It was awesome that it was Duncan, Mr. Stands Idly By nice recall, who did that. Wow.

-Question, though: Cassidy built his portfolio betting against incorporation. ...
-Cassidy was blackmailing Woody to make the incorporation issue die. ah ok. That's why he was betting against it because he knew Woody wouldn't want it to become public what he did. Which brought about the whole girl in the hotel room thing with Keith etc. ok, so Woody used Keith to get the story of the girl in motel out as a way to get public approval to turn from him and therefore from incorporation? (Keith says to Woody: you were blackmailed and you used me. I wasn't sure how that worked. hmm. did we know he was being blackmailed? we knew he got the creepy video of his family at home. that was from Cassidy?)
I don't think he raped Mac because she was saying it was okay, we have all night, etc. He couldn't get it up when he heard that Woody was found and on his way back to Neptune. ah good point, I did not connect that. they were told that as they headed up to their room.
-To answer Evadne's question: Cassidy was the one blackmailing Woody, the other kids never got around to it. He knew for a fact that incorporation was going to fail, one way or another. He registered recorded? the conversation with the other molested guys and edited the file himself, there was a flashback in this episode showing how he did it. oh I missed that he was taping that. ok. He killed those guys because he didn't want his name to be discredited, once he killed them he could threaten Woody even more saying he caused the bus crash because those two guys wanted to come out. ok, this is fitting. He didn't want to murder Woody until after the vote, hence why he said "now I have no more use for Woody" to Veronica.
-Cassidy crashed the bus to quiet Marcos and Peter. Then he enlisted Veronica to follow Kendall in order to expose his father, allowing him to get his trust fund and stick it to his dad who basically ignored him. He used his trust fund to start his Land Trust and blackmailed Woody with the molestation info, leading Woody to set up the passed out woman in order to kill the incorperation plan. Cassidy probably used Lucky to stalk the Goodmans and possibly sent the emails himself from Lucky's computer (I can't remember how Keith and Veronica figured out that the emails were Lucky's).
Mr. Manning probably bailed out Lucky because of their church connection. Meg mentioned on her computer that the Mannings were big fans of Lucky's.
-I do wonder about the connection between the Mannings and Lucky .. and I would *really* like to see the Manning family pay for how they abuse their children and -- as much as I don't like Duncan -- I want the whole kidnapping rap to go away.
-Mac was crying because she couldn't understand what she was doing wrong to make Cassidy not be able to sleep with her and then take all her clothes, the sheets, etc while she was in the shower. other comments said her reaction suggests he raped her. I agree with this: Like it had all been some huge joke on her by a rich '09er who was slumming hanging out with her in order to humiliate her. Imagine being in high school and being crazy about some boy and he can't get it on with you and then he strands you in a hotel room? You'd be mortified as an adult let alone as a teenage girl. It was her graduation party. What was she supposed to do now/ She probably thought Cassidy was down there partying and having a good laugh at her expense as the worst case or simply didn?t want her around in the best case. Mac simply told V Cassidy took all her clothes and asked why he would do that. If he had raped her I don?t think confusion as to where her clothes and the sheets were would be top in her mind.
-I thought Beaver was setting Kendall up to take the fall with the land trust thing, but it seems to have made money. What's up there? What was Beaver's plan for Kendall? yeah maybe he just really did need her as an adult to front the thing.
So Beaver put the rat there to get Dick and the gang off the bus. huh.

-I note that while studio heads focus on "black viewers", VM, while feeding us the obligatory "Jackie" as the bland black sexually non-threatening platonic friend type sidekick's love interest who basically just chewed up TV time to no purpose, also gave us some great minority characters from other groups that studio heads would be wise to pay more attention to. Besides gays and Asians shown not all good or all bad, whites from the working poor class - VM put good focus on a diverse, interesting Hispanic community. While the top two were thugs Weevil and Thumper (nicely acted by Tom Molinas!), we had sweet Felix, smart Cervando, coconuts, the honest truck driver, Weevil's cute niece, the bus crash family, etc. And despite fears Weevil would have a diminished role in S2, they really grew him past a cartoonish character , making him one of the most interesting and complex main characters, instead.

-One question, I thought the dream sequence was a bit confusing. Was V seeing what her "perfect" HS world ending would have looked like and later realized (through dream Wallace's comment "oh. you're one of those." and the cheering she got when she did walk) that her life is good troubles and all?
-I really like the dream sequence. it seemed like a way for the viewers to say good-bye to the world Veronica existed in for two seasons. sort of the writers' way of saying they were done with Lilly and the Veronica-Duncan thing and Neptune High. I also liked that we, and Veronica of course, got to see a glimpse of what her life would have been like if Lilly had never been killed .. and got to see that Veronica likes the person she's become better than the person she would have been. hmm how did we see that? I guess as noted in parenthetical comment above.
-V's dream in the beginning shows that no matter how many voiceovers she does claiming Duncan is her soul mate, her subconscious knows who it really is. Why would a dream where Lilly is still alive have V with Logan? Because he is the one!!