Veronica Mars Season Three Deathmarch

[james_davis_nicoll]

Short but spoilery



Colour me totally unsurprised that the writers decided that at least one of the rapes would turn out to be a hoax committed by (at least) one of the Lilith House Women's Libbers.

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[scifantasy.livejournal.com]

There was a certain amount of consternation about that from fans when it came out. I remember saying before that reveal that one concern I had was, it might cast doubt on the asshole who committed the other rapes ("he has an alibi for this one, he can't be our guy!").

She wanted to draw attention to the rapes on campus...but that wasn't really an effective way of stopping them.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Do any of the major villains ever actually do time for the crimes they commit in Neptune? Mooks go to jail but I thought the usual pattern was that the Named Villains always either avoid being charged or escape being convicted thanks to their plus-five Lawyer of Weaselness, only to fall prey to some extra-legal suitable fate like being Blowed Up Real Good by one of their victims or having Clarence Weidman drop by (or in the case of Thumper, being murdered thanks to the efforts of Weevil, the Fitzpatricks, Logan and the assembled tax base of Neptune County).

[scifantasy.livejournal.com]

Do any of the major villains ever actually do time for the crimes they commit in Neptune?

*shrug* That's noir for you.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Hey, at least one of the major bad guys in The Maltese Falcon gets arrested. Two if you think [spoiler] counts as a major villain and not just a minion.

[scifantasy.livejournal.com]

Oh, plenty of people get arrested in Neptune, too.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Spade seems pretty sure the person he has arrested will either do time or be executed.

[scifantasy.livejournal.com]

*shrug* Maybe the sleazy lawyer factor has gone up in the past fifty years. I dunno.

[orangemike.livejournal.com]

I believe the lawyer per capita ration has something like quintupled since Hammett's heyday.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Well, the legal system in Neptune is even more FUBARED than the one in San Francisco in the 1930s. Note that Keith appears to have been the only cop who was both competent and honest (1) and that e.g. nobody objects when Veronica's medical records are used as evidence in Echolls' trial.


1: since he hired the others or at least didn't fire them, what does that say about him?

[scifantasy.livejournal.com]

since he hired the others or at least didn't fire them, what does that say about him?

He's a pretty poor judge of character, or more specifically, he really wants to think of people as competent.

Or, slightly more charitably, he led by example very well, but those who followed him were too weak to continue his example given the laissez-faire leadership of Lamb.