Drinking the Cool-Aid, VM 1.09
Jun. 28th, 2006 09:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dangermousieI think I am in a minority, but I adore this episode. Not just because of the wonderfully warm Keith and Veronica scenes (waterbed, awwwwww) and the fact that the cult turns out to be a bunch of genuinely nice hippies (as opposed to Casey's greedy parents), but also because of those brilliant cracks about teen poetry: "I cut because I can" (and there are SO many great quotable lines in this ep) but because I like Casey. Actually, me=fickle. This ep I am all Veronica/Casey. Yum. Actually, it's odd, but KB has amazing chemistry with most of her co-stars.
I do find it interesting that VM continues to show us, in small ways, that tough attitude or not, Veronica is genuinely drawn to the Moon Calf people because she is a pariah at school (people poitedly excluding her from study groups). And she cuts Duncan dead, after finding out they could be half-siblings, which I think is both karmic payback to Duncan for doing it earlier, and makes his startlingly similar behavior earlier a lot more forgivable and understandable by showing that this is a default reaction (they were cute in the previous ep with the VD jokes and at the end of this ep. Heeee. But still, I just don't see the intensity there).
I find it darkly ironic that Casey got deprogrammed into the shallow non-idealist and I love the ending scene with the paternity test (just as Rain is better off in the colective than in the foster homes she is supposed to be, V is better with Keith. Family is what you make it).
I do find it interesting that VM continues to show us, in small ways, that tough attitude or not, Veronica is genuinely drawn to the Moon Calf people because she is a pariah at school (people poitedly excluding her from study groups). And she cuts Duncan dead, after finding out they could be half-siblings, which I think is both karmic payback to Duncan for doing it earlier, and makes his startlingly similar behavior earlier a lot more forgivable and understandable by showing that this is a default reaction (they were cute in the previous ep with the VD jokes and at the end of this ep. Heeee. But still, I just don't see the intensity there).
I find it darkly ironic that Casey got deprogrammed into the shallow non-idealist and I love the ending scene with the paternity test (just as Rain is better off in the colective than in the foster homes she is supposed to be, V is better with Keith. Family is what you make it).
