Veronica + Logan = !!!

[orange_crushed]

Most of my waking hours lately have been focused either towards working on my thesis proposal or worrying about how I'm not working on my thesis proposal. The leftover time has been spent watching Veronica Mars, holed up in my bedroom in front of the little television. (I'm working on my fic for worldwouldend, the incredibly generous person who won my services in the Help Haiti auction.)

But I keep getting stuck on a single thought as I re-watch certain parts of season three, one that continually makes me giggle: it's like Piz has absolutely zero self-preservation instincts. In one of the first episodes of the season, he watches Veronica calmly hand Logan a taser so that he can stun the much larger dude who is beating up his drunk best friend in the school cafeteria. This establishes the rule that, had Piz only observed it, might have saved him a beating: Logan and Veronica are fucking crazy. No person in their right mind would get between those two. Lives ruined, bloodshed ? These are not metaphors. These are highly literal descriptive terms. At the time Piz was even wearing clothes left behind by Veronica's previous ex, who fled the country with his daughter by a deceased high-school classmate and was later accused of the murder of his own sister by Logan's crazy-evil movie star dad PIZ, AT THIS POINT, MAYBE YOU SHOULD RUN. If Piz was my friend, I would have taken him aside and been like "would you like to keep your optimistic outlook and all the bones in your face ? Maybe date Parker, or someone named Allison or Tracey or Stephanie."

Oh well. It's not a terribly serious thought. Just one that's making me both lol and pine for the epic days of Logan and Veronica.

Comments

[misssara11.livejournal.com]

What really got me about Piz was that he saw Veronica was in a relationship. That she was happy in this relationship. Was fine with the fact her boyfriend was a bit insane (she was herself) and yet he still persued her. Who does that? Who's a "good guy" and still does that? Wallace, her best friend, wasn't bothered by the relationship, how does he suddenly know better than any of them?

Yeah, if you can't tell, not a Piz fan. I haven't even seen the last few episodes of season three as I saw what was happening and couldn't handle it. (This means I didn't have to see my favorite douche, the sheriff, die, so it's all good.)This was one area the showrunner really fell down on. I know that Kristen Bell (who, I do love, just really disagree with her on this) didn't like Jason Dohring, but that part of being actor. You act like you like someone.

[orange-crushed.livejournal.com]

Yeah. The "good guy" thing... Piz was a nice, normal guy, I guess- which drove me crazy in the sense that Veronica Mars, the show, was a noir universe. The heroine was a tough, secret-troubled-history, gets-to-the-truth, revenge-driven, brilliant detective. Her boyfriend was the loyal, quick-tempered, loving but emotionally damaged son of a killer star. And Piz was... a sweet kid from a small town. I mean, in the noir model, what happens to the sweet kids ? He was not really a genre-savvy character: he kept thinking he was gonna get the girl and live happily ever after, but there's no such thing in noir.

Plus, like you said, he really pushed. He pushed and pushed and acted like it was his due that Veronica would turn around and like him. Nobody is entitled to love. Nobody is entitled to have their feelings returned. Love's a gift. But Piz just stood there the whole season with his hand out, expecting to get what he wanted. You can tell that the character rubbed me the wrong way, too.