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dangermousieIf you want to read SEVERE Battlestar spoilers for the finale (and by that I mean detailed ep summaries), go here. I can't wait. There is no mention/discussion of these spoilers anywhere in this post, so feel safe. If anyone mentions anything in comments, I will add a note to that effect.
Also, I think I am anime-d out. There are only so many bambi eyes I can take at the moment (probably because Marmalade Boy really annoyed me. It wouldn't have been so bad if it wasn't 76 freaking episodes. It's as much as Cowboy Beebop, Trigun and Ayashi No Ceres put together. And those three manage to deal with redemption, pacifism, scifi conspiracies, not to mention love and family relationships and other complicated plot stuff in the time it takes MB to get very dull people dully together. The pace (the one that was non-existant) was killing me. This show even managed to make sibcest angst boring) so I am taking a little break.
In other news, I am re-reading Margaret Irwin's The Stranger Prince, which is a novel about Prince Rupert I read years ago and it's just as good as I remembered: intelligent, tightly plotted, angsty (and indirectly relates to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kitsa's question: yes, I like stories with angsty heroes without OTPs, as if there is OTP I haven't gotten to it. Btw, ancarett, I did find and read Poul Anderson's The Midsummer Tempest and it was delightful.
I have also been thinking about Veronica Mars and the bus crash clues. Here is all we have so far. (I am sure someone else has done it, but this is for my logical thought process anyway).
1. Bus crashed on going back from stadium and seven students, plus a journalism teacher, plus driver died
1a. Meg actually survived to be in a coma (the only passenger not to die on the spot), have coma baby of Duncan's and then die. She also had crazy religious parents, but I'd imagine the chances of them crashing the bus are slim to none as they wanted daughter to repent not to keel over.
2. Bus driver was planning to leave his wife and had no intention of ending it all (though Lamb of course thought he did). Bus driver not responsible, according to 2.02, Driver's Ed. I'll eat my favorite hat if the bus crashed because the driver did it, after all.
3. There was a bad smell on the bus, resulting from a rat being nailed to one of the seats. Who nailed it and why? Unknown.
4. Said smell possibly caused Dick to get off the bus on the way back and invite all the rich kids in his father's limo. All the kids went except Veronica and Meg. Only the poor kids (and Meg who refused out of spite) were on the bus and thus died.
5. The Mayor's daughter, Gina, told the cops that her father told her not to take the bus back.
5a. The Mayor of the town, the owner of the stadium/team that the kids were on the trip to see, is interested in incorporating the rich parts of the town into a separate municipality. Also, hellbent on getting Keith on his side, for unknown reasons.
6. The journalism teacher was stalking Jackie's father, famous baseball player Terrence Cook who was at the stadium having an unpleasant argument (subject unknown) with Mayor Goodman. Their relationship was very sour.
6a. Explosive devise on bus had traces of a baseball. This said, if Cook did it, I'll at least take a bite out of my hat as all of this came out mid season, ergo what's the plot or shock value.
7. Logan was loitering around the bus right before the trip (which he didn't go on) and told Veronica (who in the summer left him and got back together with Duncan) "I'll miss you." This said, if Logan did it, I'd eat my hat AND my shoes. The moment RT has the male lead, the show's it boy, and someone who 90% of the fandom wants with the heroine be the murderer, I'd know the end of the world has come.
8. One of the people who died was a member of Weevil's gang called Cervando who was smart enough to be on the honor roll and boasted of cheating Fitzpatricks, a local drug-dealing Irish gang. Fitzparticks are tied in with Weevil's gang, as unknown to Weevil, his gang has been dealing drugs for Fitzpatricks.
9. A man named Curly Moran was at the bus memorial and was earlier at a biker bar where Weevil beat the hell out of him. He later washed up with Veronica's name written on his hand. Curly was an Aaron Echolls fan and was the stunt coordinator on Aaron's first big hit, coordinating a stunt which involved a bus going over a cliff. Aaron, of course, has ample reason to want Veronica, chief witness and the one who found out he was a murderer, out of the way.
9a. Courtesy ofbluehyacinth. Following people have met Curly: Veronica (at the memorial), Aaron (shoot), Weevil (bar), Dick Sr & Jr (took car to Curly's repair shop), Goodman family (Curly fixed Gia's car). Possibly also the Cook family and Kendall as Curly had pictures with sports stars and cheerleaders.
What does it get us so far? No idea.
Also, I think I am anime-d out. There are only so many bambi eyes I can take at the moment (probably because Marmalade Boy really annoyed me. It wouldn't have been so bad if it wasn't 76 freaking episodes. It's as much as Cowboy Beebop, Trigun and Ayashi No Ceres put together. And those three manage to deal with redemption, pacifism, scifi conspiracies, not to mention love and family relationships and other complicated plot stuff in the time it takes MB to get very dull people dully together. The pace (the one that was non-existant) was killing me. This show even managed to make sibcest angst boring) so I am taking a little break.
In other news, I am re-reading Margaret Irwin's The Stranger Prince, which is a novel about Prince Rupert I read years ago and it's just as good as I remembered: intelligent, tightly plotted, angsty (and indirectly relates to
kitsa's question: yes, I like stories with angsty heroes without OTPs, as if there is OTP I haven't gotten to it. Btw, ancarett, I did find and read Poul Anderson's The Midsummer Tempest and it was delightful. I have also been thinking about Veronica Mars and the bus crash clues. Here is all we have so far. (I am sure someone else has done it, but this is for my logical thought process anyway).
1. Bus crashed on going back from stadium and seven students, plus a journalism teacher, plus driver died
1a. Meg actually survived to be in a coma (the only passenger not to die on the spot), have coma baby of Duncan's and then die. She also had crazy religious parents, but I'd imagine the chances of them crashing the bus are slim to none as they wanted daughter to repent not to keel over.
2. Bus driver was planning to leave his wife and had no intention of ending it all (though Lamb of course thought he did). Bus driver not responsible, according to 2.02, Driver's Ed. I'll eat my favorite hat if the bus crashed because the driver did it, after all.
3. There was a bad smell on the bus, resulting from a rat being nailed to one of the seats. Who nailed it and why? Unknown.
4. Said smell possibly caused Dick to get off the bus on the way back and invite all the rich kids in his father's limo. All the kids went except Veronica and Meg. Only the poor kids (and Meg who refused out of spite) were on the bus and thus died.
5. The Mayor's daughter, Gina, told the cops that her father told her not to take the bus back.
5a. The Mayor of the town, the owner of the stadium/team that the kids were on the trip to see, is interested in incorporating the rich parts of the town into a separate municipality. Also, hellbent on getting Keith on his side, for unknown reasons.
6. The journalism teacher was stalking Jackie's father, famous baseball player Terrence Cook who was at the stadium having an unpleasant argument (subject unknown) with Mayor Goodman. Their relationship was very sour.
6a. Explosive devise on bus had traces of a baseball. This said, if Cook did it, I'll at least take a bite out of my hat as all of this came out mid season, ergo what's the plot or shock value.
7. Logan was loitering around the bus right before the trip (which he didn't go on) and told Veronica (who in the summer left him and got back together with Duncan) "I'll miss you." This said, if Logan did it, I'd eat my hat AND my shoes. The moment RT has the male lead, the show's it boy, and someone who 90% of the fandom wants with the heroine be the murderer, I'd know the end of the world has come.
8. One of the people who died was a member of Weevil's gang called Cervando who was smart enough to be on the honor roll and boasted of cheating Fitzpatricks, a local drug-dealing Irish gang. Fitzparticks are tied in with Weevil's gang, as unknown to Weevil, his gang has been dealing drugs for Fitzpatricks.
9. A man named Curly Moran was at the bus memorial and was earlier at a biker bar where Weevil beat the hell out of him. He later washed up with Veronica's name written on his hand. Curly was an Aaron Echolls fan and was the stunt coordinator on Aaron's first big hit, coordinating a stunt which involved a bus going over a cliff. Aaron, of course, has ample reason to want Veronica, chief witness and the one who found out he was a murderer, out of the way.
9a. Courtesy of
bluehyacinth. Following people have met Curly: Veronica (at the memorial), Aaron (shoot), Weevil (bar), Dick Sr & Jr (took car to Curly's repair shop), Goodman family (Curly fixed Gia's car). Possibly also the Cook family and Kendall as Curly had pictures with sports stars and cheerleaders. What does it get us so far? No idea.
