Veronica Mars - The Complete Third Season (2006)

Veronica Mars Third Season review

I found this final season of the Veronica Mars series to be highly entertaining. The package and DVDs arrived in excellent condition and the shows both touched and amused me. It was awesome to watch the special features disk and see the 4th season that never came to pass, as well as a gag reel and interviews from the actors and crew. This series should have been able to stay on the air - fortunately, thanks to DVDs, we can watch them whenever we like. July 4, 2008

OK, I admit, I was hooked on Veronica Mars the first time round

Seasons 1 and 2 both have an underlying thread throughout the entire season, where as season 3 had two or three such threads. When I first saw this season on TV, I remember thinking this was the one thing that let it down.

However, rewatching it on DVD, I just didn't get that feeling this time round. Maybe because as I watched Veronica, her father, her friends and the cool cases she always worked on, I knew this would be the last of VM. CW really blew it cancelling VM and I'm glad I now have all three seasons on DVD.

But it would be nice to know what happened to her after season three. June 30, 2008

The end of Mars.

Veronica Mars - The Complete Third Season is pretty much a mixed bag. This was the last season of this cult classic and I can understand why this show was cancelled. Kristen Bell who plays Veronica Mars is a good actress but the plotlines and glossy writing is too much. The characters were one-demensional and artifical. Stick with the first two seasons instead, season three was a snoozefest. June 23, 2008

season 3 is third best in the short line of VMs but still great!!!!

season 3 was ok. it wasn't as great as 1 and 2 but it certainly wasn't bad. It was a transition season, and like transition movies and books, it lost some of the charm the other seasons had because it had to convey a lot and keep its audiences while atempting to gain more fans. Moving from high school to college, meant a whole new staff, new story lines, new sides of neptune and still incorperating the original characters like Kieth.

When i bought Seasons 1 and 2 i couldnt tear my eyes away from the screen, but season 3 i was able to space out over days. The very last episode was proof that rob thomas hadn't lost his touch. It was pure veronica gold. The last scene of veronica walking down a rainy street away from the camera while the song "it never rains in southern california" plays was just haunting! It was perfect and as end to the series it did fine. It left hope for LoVe, showed us a forever strong bond between veronica and kieth, and keeps us thinking about veronica's future with the new knowledge of a secret society and its member's mishaps and jake kane's invlovment.

now, had they done a season 4 at the FBI, i think that would have been werid. as a promo on the dvd it was awesome! i loved being able to see were veronica would end up, but as a movie i really hope they do like a fourth season of the show with veronica still in college and answering some of season 3's questions in that brillant Rob Thomas fashion.

Overall season 3 is a must have for fans and curious newbies alike, not as great but still really really good. June 20, 2008

Goodbye my beloved show...

Veronica Mars. Short. Blonde. Petite. Sassy. Detective? A young incapable looking girl is a tough, action figure private detective in a town full of sin.

In the show's third season it adopted a new format. Instead of the season long mystery it had three mysteries that played out one after the other along with each episodes 'mini-mystery'.

The season starts out with Logan and Veronica finally together, letting the audience see what they really are like as a couple. Giving a good majority of the fans (self proclaimed LoVe shippers) exactly what they wanted: their favorite diminutive detective together with their favorite abused bad boy. The relationship, as always, is rocky and doesn't last. Logan is depicted as the ever accomadating boyfriend, only wanting to please his oblivious girlfriend. Veronica starts off in the good girlfriend role, attentive to a point and loving to a point, but eventually succumbs to her fear of commitment (something that seems to only happen when she's with Logan) and her inability to fully trust him (even though he saved her life and risked his own only a few short months earlier on the roof of the hotel he calls home). The relationship ends but is briefly revisited before Veronica learns that Logan has slept with her arch-nemesis: Madison Sinclair. She ends it this time and adds that she'll never forgive him.

The first mystery is the 'Hearst Rapist' story arch, which was introduced in the second season with the reappearance of Troy Vandergraff (the drug dealer Veronica briefly dated in season one). The Rapist terrorizes campus, and Mac's roommate (and Veronica's new friend) falls victim to him. The rapists' attack on the women of campus remind Veronica of her own rape and spurs her into action, along with getting vengeance for new friend Parker. The rapist goes after her and is basically the cause of Logan's breaking up with her (other than the fact that she completely pulls away). She catches the rapist and is nearly raped herself in the process. Sadly it turns out to be another associate of Logan's, making me wonder exactly why the writers want him surrounded by the dreges of humanity.

The second mystery is the murder of the dean, which is introduced in the same episode as the first mystery is concluded. During this mystery, Veronica loses her new mentor, her crimenology professor, when he is accused of the murder due to the fact that he was having an affair with the dean's wife. The reveal is shocking and comes after the framing of another character. Also, Veronica's father, Keith, is reinstated as temporary sheriff after Sheriff Lamb is killed in action.

The third mystery arch, well, there wasn't really a mystery that spanned the final episodes of the season/series. It was filled with mini-mysteries and romantic entanglements as Logan starts dating Parker and Veronica begins dating Wallace's roommate, Piz (yeah, that's the name they gave him).

It comes full circle in the last episode with Jake Kane and Clarence Weidman return. And you see huge oil painting portraits of both Lilly and Duncan Kane.

I loved this season as well as the first two and wish that it hadn't been cancelled. There was so much more they could have done with it. It reminded me of my previous favorite show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and surpassed it in it's three short seasons. Sadly the ratings weren't there, most likely because it was pitted against American Idol for most of its run. Some argue that the monstrosity that they aired during VM's hiatus, The Pussy Cat Dolls, did better in the ratings in the time slot, but that also coincided with the American Idol hiatus too. Sadly it was not enough to save a show that many people loved.

There is, however, talk of a Veronica Mars Movie. June 15, 2008

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