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dangermousieFirst off, I simply LOVE the title for "Clash of the Tritons." One of my fave titles ever. I have the bad taste to like puns.
Another ep where I find B-plot (Veronica eavesdropping on people's confidences about Lilly, Echolls family falling apart) more interesting than the A plot even though I really like A plot.
So, first off, I just love all the Veronica and Wallace interactions here. My favorite is their exchange about fake IDs "Veronica, I need a fake ID to buy fake alcohol for a fake cheerleader" (paraphrase). Heeee. And we get to see Veronica sing and Duncan is kinda fun in this ep. And we see Cliff again and is it wrong that I enjoy Veronica befuddling Lamb way too much? It must be so odd for her to be back in the room with him. She is a strong, strong girl.
But what really makes this ep for me is the B-plot. I find the way the characters behave at Ms. James' office is so indicative of their personalities. It's a brilliant encapsulation of their characters:
Veronica is prickly and uncommunicative. She gives nothing to Ms. James, throws sarcastic walls, and her shields remain intact. In fact, she manipulates the situation to get more information in morally questionable fashion. She is coping by not coping and it's so unhealthy and so her.
Logan. Oh poor Logan. He comes in sarcastic and shoots verbal barbs but actually his emotions pour off him in waves and he ends up pouring his heart and soul out and basically baring stuff that had to have been gnawing at him. His barriers, unlike V's, are made of paper, and come down with the least provocation. He is emotional and dramatic and way way fucked up.
Weevil. He conceals an inner romantic underneath tough, chip on shoulder about social stuff behavior. And his barriers come down too, though not as easily as Logan's. And when he says that Lilly had felt it too (I doubt it. Poor guy. The more I know about Lilly, the more I want to smack her), yeah that's the Weevil who promised to his Grandma to graduate, who yelled he loved Felix etc. Tough guy outside, sentimentalist inside.
Duncan. He is, in a way, calmly accepting. But he also has deep wells of reserve. Something naturally in-built, not as confrontational as V's but just as effective. He tells Ms. James things, but in a calm fashion, because he's decided he will.
Duncan and Veronica are both really good at walls which actually would make any long term ship between them problematic, IMO.
And I remember the shock it was to me to learn just why Logan was horrible to V. He blames her and it's displacing and he knows it's displacing and how in character that he acknowledges that. And I love V feeling like she got a revelation. I think this is where a lot of her guards against Logan come down: she realizes (something WoC started) that he is screwed up by Lilly's death, but this is is where she realizes that he has a reason (however dysfunctional) for hounding her, and he didn't just become horrid for the heck of it, and most importantly, that it all stems from his love of Lilly and that is something she can relate to: doing wrong things out of love for Lilly. Once V realizes how much Logan loved Lilly, they are halfway reconciled, aren't they?
And then we also get the fun family of horrors, the Echolls. Lynn is a weak-willed selfish woman, isn't she? That scene with Aaron and Lynn verbally dismembering each other, not even noticing Logan sitting in the between them, watching his world fall apart (better get used to it, kid), and what it's doing to him (I love that he tries to quip but it's clear it's mechanical and he is freaking out) is so indicative of how lousy they both are as parents.
Oh, and this highlights Aaron's absolute hatred of being found out. He is all about facades even when he doesn't have to be (like with Keith). He can't stand falling off his pedestal (now with Lynn). Maybe that's why Logan gets under his skin so much: Logan keeps rubbing his face into his hypocricy.
And yet another reiteration of the school pack mentality. It's not just V that's the victim. Meg, popular and liked, was victim of it in "Like a Virgin" and now it's Logan, who is quite high up on the school ladder. It's like sharks when they scent blood.
And in non-VM news, I'd like to rec two excellent Kara/Anders (from BSG) fics, by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lyssie. In fact they are so real about relationships and happiness without glamour, I'd rec them even if you don't watch BSG. Pornapalooza and Not a World of Magic Shows
Andlunasky has amazing, half-nekkid picspam of Italy's Football team that is to die for. Potentially not work-safe.
Another ep where I find B-plot (Veronica eavesdropping on people's confidences about Lilly, Echolls family falling apart) more interesting than the A plot even though I really like A plot.
So, first off, I just love all the Veronica and Wallace interactions here. My favorite is their exchange about fake IDs "Veronica, I need a fake ID to buy fake alcohol for a fake cheerleader" (paraphrase). Heeee. And we get to see Veronica sing and Duncan is kinda fun in this ep. And we see Cliff again and is it wrong that I enjoy Veronica befuddling Lamb way too much? It must be so odd for her to be back in the room with him. She is a strong, strong girl.
But what really makes this ep for me is the B-plot. I find the way the characters behave at Ms. James' office is so indicative of their personalities. It's a brilliant encapsulation of their characters:
Veronica is prickly and uncommunicative. She gives nothing to Ms. James, throws sarcastic walls, and her shields remain intact. In fact, she manipulates the situation to get more information in morally questionable fashion. She is coping by not coping and it's so unhealthy and so her.
Logan. Oh poor Logan. He comes in sarcastic and shoots verbal barbs but actually his emotions pour off him in waves and he ends up pouring his heart and soul out and basically baring stuff that had to have been gnawing at him. His barriers, unlike V's, are made of paper, and come down with the least provocation. He is emotional and dramatic and way way fucked up.
Weevil. He conceals an inner romantic underneath tough, chip on shoulder about social stuff behavior. And his barriers come down too, though not as easily as Logan's. And when he says that Lilly had felt it too (I doubt it. Poor guy. The more I know about Lilly, the more I want to smack her), yeah that's the Weevil who promised to his Grandma to graduate, who yelled he loved Felix etc. Tough guy outside, sentimentalist inside.
Duncan. He is, in a way, calmly accepting. But he also has deep wells of reserve. Something naturally in-built, not as confrontational as V's but just as effective. He tells Ms. James things, but in a calm fashion, because he's decided he will.
Duncan and Veronica are both really good at walls which actually would make any long term ship between them problematic, IMO.
And I remember the shock it was to me to learn just why Logan was horrible to V. He blames her and it's displacing and he knows it's displacing and how in character that he acknowledges that. And I love V feeling like she got a revelation. I think this is where a lot of her guards against Logan come down: she realizes (something WoC started) that he is screwed up by Lilly's death, but this is is where she realizes that he has a reason (however dysfunctional) for hounding her, and he didn't just become horrid for the heck of it, and most importantly, that it all stems from his love of Lilly and that is something she can relate to: doing wrong things out of love for Lilly. Once V realizes how much Logan loved Lilly, they are halfway reconciled, aren't they?
And then we also get the fun family of horrors, the Echolls. Lynn is a weak-willed selfish woman, isn't she? That scene with Aaron and Lynn verbally dismembering each other, not even noticing Logan sitting in the between them, watching his world fall apart (better get used to it, kid), and what it's doing to him (I love that he tries to quip but it's clear it's mechanical and he is freaking out) is so indicative of how lousy they both are as parents.
Oh, and this highlights Aaron's absolute hatred of being found out. He is all about facades even when he doesn't have to be (like with Keith). He can't stand falling off his pedestal (now with Lynn). Maybe that's why Logan gets under his skin so much: Logan keeps rubbing his face into his hypocricy.
And yet another reiteration of the school pack mentality. It's not just V that's the victim. Meg, popular and liked, was victim of it in "Like a Virgin" and now it's Logan, who is quite high up on the school ladder. It's like sharks when they scent blood.
And in non-VM news, I'd like to rec two excellent Kara/Anders (from BSG) fics, by
lyssie. In fact they are so real about relationships and happiness without glamour, I'd rec them even if you don't watch BSG. Pornapalooza and Not a World of Magic ShowsAnd
lunasky has amazing, half-nekkid picspam of Italy's Football team that is to die for. Potentially not work-safe.
