Cable for One – Veronica Mars – 3-12

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The VCR saga continues. Last night, I was pretty worried it was going to give out completely, which certainly would have inhibited my ability to watch this week’s episode of Vernoica Mars. Fortunately, after about the 6th VCR cleaning so far this week, it actually worked pretty much perfectly for most of the episode. In any event, I think I shall have to buy or build some sort of replacement within the next week or two (next week I work earlier so I will be home in time to watch things when they first air anyway).

Watching this week’s episode, I wasn’t so sure a single morning after pill would actually cause an abortion, so I checked out the article on RU-486 Wikipedia. It seems that the drug can be used for abortion purposes within the first couple months of a pregnancy; however it requires a couple doses of the drug, both of which are at a higher strength than the normal ‘morning after’ pill (the ‘morning after’ version mainly just prevents implantation from occurring in the first place). When you factor in that had to have been fairly far along in her pregnancy (at least long enough for her to find out about, and then for her doctor to blab to her parents about it, and for Tim to decide that he would marry her (and he only found out after the parents sent balloons)) it does seem a bit unlikely that the a single morning after pill would be strong enough to cause Bonnie’s abortion. Then again, I’m only basing this on two minutes of Wikipedia research so perhaps it would indeed do the trick. Anyone out there in reader land with more definitive knowledge on the matter, feel free to educate me.

As for who slipped Bonnie the pill in my mind there were only the two suspects for most of the episode. I figured it was either her parents or her best friend. For some reason, as soon as the mystery was set up, I had the feeling that whoever the culprit was, they would have given her in the pill for what they thought was her own good. When we found out that Bonnie’s dad was a televangelist, it changed his possible motivation from one of helping his daughter to protecting his own image; Even though that seemed a very plausible reason, I was still pretty high on my original motive so my suspicions of Phillise were heightened. Then, when Veronica met with Bonnie’s dad, and he openly told her about Bonnie’s pregnancy, and talked about how excited he had been about having a grandchild, it pretty much eliminated him from contention, leaving Phillise as the only real suspect. To the show’s credit, they did manage to get me doubting my theory somewhat with their focus on the pastor’s creepy assistant though.

I’m not sure if Bonnie’s father was just a really understanding and tolerant church guy, or perhaps a little too over the top. He was fine through most of the episode, but he seemed way too forgiving of Phillise for what she had done, what with his urging Bonnie not to blame Phillise and talking about how anger only hurts us. You would kind of expect at least a little anger on his part. He did seem visibly shaken by the news of what Phillise had done though so I guess it works. And, of course, the real reason he needed to give his speech about not giving in to anger was that Veronica could hear it.

Throughout most of the episode I thought Veronica seemed a little too irrational with her hatred of Madison this week. Sure she hated Madison already, and the thing with Logan really hurt her (side note to Logan, if you’re leaving trying to apologize to your ex via drunken voice-mail, you may want to leave out the angry ranting at the start of your message), but paying Weevil to steal and then crush Madison’s car? That seemed like a somewhat excessive retaliation. So I was glad when, in the end, Veronica realized that perhaps committing a felony was not the best way to go about getting her revenge on Madison.

On the Dean O’Dell front, it would seem that my random guess of Tim as the killer way back when they first showed the dean’s death hasn’t panned out so much. I mean I suppose Tim could have killed the Dean and was investigating clues to help him pin someone else if he really had to, but that doesn’t seem too likely.

I was originally going to complain about the eggshell Keith found on the dean’s car, giving it has been around 2 months since the car was egged. But, I suppose it is possible Mindy doesn’t like to drive the car since her husband’s death. Also, seeing as the O’Dell’s have a one car garage, it seems likely that the mini-van is parked directly in front of the garage door, so it would be a hassle to take the car out for a drive.

The show certainly is taking a far more leisurely approach to the dean’s murder than they were to the serial rapist storyline. Not that a more leisurely pace is necessarily a bad thing, it’s just odd we haven’t had an episode yet where the story really centered on the dean’s death. Doesn’t look like next week will be doing so either, as Veronica works with an accused murder and manages to get herself arrested.

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