VERONICA MARS - The Rapes of Graff

Keith: My God, Cliff. You're like a wild animal. Is that what the kids call motorboatin'?

Three words: Jason Dohring Topless.
I'll admit, I didn't laugh as much as last week, but still, a classic episode. Anytime you bring back a classic first seasoner like Troy, you can't really go wrong. When you put that together with that first thing I mentioned and a Tegan and Sara song in the mix, holy crap...GREAT EPISODE. Man, you have no idea how tempted I am to just start at the beginning and review every single episode of VM ever. Ever. That is how obsessed I am with this show. If you read my comment on Grey Matter in one of the Grey's posts (BandAid Covers the Bullet Hole, I think) I made a snide comment about VM being so much better than Grey's. I bet when the writers read it they were all laughing their asses off at me. I bet they called all the writers in to read my post so they could all laugh at me together. It's alright. It's not like I don't know that Grey's kicks VM ass every week by about 20 million viewers. Its not like I don't know that VM is in serious danger of not getting picked up by CW. I know it. But here's the thing. I would give up a kidney if it meant Veronica got to come back next season and rock it for a third year. I'm betting most of those 2 million viewers would do the same, and I'm betting that Grey's viewers would do no such thing. So really, if you count it in kidneys, VM - 2 million, GA - 0. Take that! VM fans are hardcore.
Okay, I seriously digressed there. Back on track.

This episode was great, but I have one sliver of beef. I hesitate to say this, because in an interview, Rob Thomas wouldn't give this away when someone didn't know still after this episode, so I'll go ahead and preface it with...Don't read if you don't want next year's BIG mystery ruined. So after this week, its obvious, at least to me, that next year's mystery is this serial rapist. I know that because I already knew they were introducing it this season. My problem is, while I appreciated the variation by introducing the season long mystery in a different format, its just so not Veronica to leave a case unsolved like that. Hello? V has some serious personal ties to rape and there is a serial rapist right here in Neptune and she's totally cool with not catching the bad guy...yet? I just don't buy that that's in her character. Anyway, that's my only issue with this episode...swear.

Now, all kinds of people are peeing their pants over these Arrested Development kids, but I've never seen the show, and I couldn't even identify them in the episode, so, you won't be getting much from me on that front. I now know that they were the rape victim and the tour guide, and yes, they were good. So was David Tom, however, who used to play Billy Abbott on Y&R. So that's fun, at least for me. Overall, the MotW was good, and it was great to see where Veronica is...*cough*... might be going to school next year. Come on, like that's not obvious.

The hooker storyline got an A+ from me, but anything with Cliff pretty much does. I'm so curious about that darn briefcase though. PCHer? Fitzpatrick? Woody Goodman? Man. They get me every time! And the Lamb/Madison thing? SUCH an added bonus.

Last but not least, Logan and Hannah are seriously cute. But maybe its just Logan. Maybe it was just the Tegan and Sara song. I wasn't that sad that she left, but I still thought they were cute. My guess is she's gone for good though. I think the bottom line is...I need Logan dating someone he actually likes because when that guy is all vulnerable and sweet, it makes me weak in the knees.