Neptune, California- a town without the middle class.

The Veronica Mars pilot aired 19 years ago today, on the 22nd of September, 2004.

Veronica Mars: Copaganda

Sorry, but a certain someone had to be covered by Veronica’s trusty camera after non-canon S4 (which isn’t real & doesn’t exist)

Remember how the first time we see Veronica call another woman her friend since Lilly’s death Keith literally goes “🫵🏻 NO. She’s not your friend, she’s a girl you talk to in the laundry room sometimes”

Slowly becoming a Keith hater I fear….

No one fucks up her life, sabotages her and makes her feel like a massive fuck up more than he does 😭

It’s a very unhealthy codependent relationship where he is FAR too controlling over her. UGH

Veronica: "Yo, Pops, check it out! This girl ain't gonna be nobody's bitch. You better recognize."

Keith: "What's that on your arm?"

Veronica: "I've had some free time."

ENRICO COLANTONI AND LAURA SAN GIACOMO in JUST SHOOT ME 2.18 "THE KISS" (1998) dir. Darryl Bates VERONICA MARS 3.06 "HI INFIDELITY" (2006) dir. Michael Fields

More VM

Just. I love non-sexual relationships in media. It's probably because I am asexual myself, but romance is so often forced into the foreground.

Like on Veronica Mars, season 1 is a story about friendship. V lost one friend and one friend (Wallace) found her. And I feel like that friend relationship, Lily-Veronica, Veronica-Wallace was really interesting. And after s1, it's forced love-triangle after love triangle to get "ratings" when it should be a father-daughter show and a friend show with some romance.

But some of these love interests are not interesting enough characters to sustain this much screentime.

I feel like Percy Daggs is being robbed.

acab does not apply to keith mars 🤷🏻‍♀️

Watching Veronica Mars in my 30s is a trip because I no longer am crushing on Logan in the slightest. Give me Keith Mars any day 😂❤️🔥

Keith Mars was so fucking hot. Idc what anyone says. All yall have extremely toxic body/beauty standards for men but I know that Keith Mars is a certified babe. Hard boiled single father detective with a hard shell and soft gushy inside. Balding, kinda short, rocks jeans and a sports coat over flannel??? Fuck HOT.

Like....i reallh dont care what anyone says. Keith Mars is peak masculine attractiveness for me.

Veronica Mars actor Enrico Colantoni (Keith) in Warehouse 13

season 4 episode 13 The Big Snag

Sailor Klance never run from a real fight✨❤️💙

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Keith Mars in You think you know someone:

Veronica I am so shocked and disappointed that you’re acting weird and not at all welcoming to me dating the closest thing you have to a therapist from the school who’s been nothing but cruel to you! You’re usually so warm and welcoming to new people! And this one is gonna replace your still missing mother whose disappearance is still a mystery! And this woman is clearly extremely desperate for your acceptance and approval making literally everyone extremely uncomfortable with her desperate plays to gain favor with you putting all sorts of weird pressure on you and was careless enough to call the house and leave a message which is how you found out which isn’t traumatizing for you at all!!

Like bro forgot who his daughter was and what her life has been like for the last year for a whole episode.

And the way he yells at her??? calls her snotty and is basically all HOW DARE YOU and claiming they considered her feelings when they absolutely did not 😹 they kept springing Mrs. James on her first at work and then at her house where she was just by herself for Veronica to find?? Basically just being like BE COMFORT WITH THIS BECAUSE WE WANT YOU TO BE. Only to end things after all that! Making Veronica feel INCREDIBLY guilty and like it’s her fault for taking happiness away from her father when he is the one who handled things horribly just like he did with Lilly’s murder investigation.

I genuinely CANNOT listen to him interviewing jake and celeste 😭 he’s being SO WEIRD and creepy and uncomfortable. Like bro there are about a billion better ways to handle knowing they’re lying that aren’t terrorizing powerful successful suspected murderers who just lost their daughter 😭

The older I get the less and less I like Keith Mars and the more I connect his behavior to making Veronica’s life so much worse

The show is all about criticizing the wealthy elite yet Keith Mars every chance he gets is pushing Veronica to become one!! “Got to and ivy league school and get a high powered corporate job and never think about private investigation again in your perfect life”

First of all thinking her life will be perfect just because she has a well paying job is CLOWNERY. Her best friend was murdered and her alcoholic mother abandoned her in the same year and she lost all of her friends because of how poorly Keith went about investigating said murder AND she’s sa’s twice in the same night once by her ex she gets back together with and a future mass murderer. Those are not the usual childhood things to happen to a person and a high paying job isn’t what’s gonna magically make her happy and give her a good life. It’s so frustrating that we get “oh my god they care more about spring break business than saving lives that’s soooo fucked up” yet Keith is like YOU MUST PLAY THE CAPITALISM GAME AND WIN OR YOUR LIFE IS A FAILURE every chance he can.

And when he finds out she helped Duncan kidnap his daughter and he’s like “I wouldn’t survive if you went to jail or something happened to you” ummmmmm codependency with your child much???!!!!?!?! Again SO MUCH PRESSURE ON HER telling your child can’t live without them is so inappropriate on so many levels because you’re literally saying my well-being is tied to yours which is literally the definition of codependency. So he forms this codependent relationship with his daughter but then is sooo disappointed with her that she wants to stay in Neptune and work with him like the mixed messaging is INSANE.

And while I don’t really view Lilly as the good person the show paints her as she was really good for Veronica because she helped her push back against a very overbearing, overprotective father which is really important for childhood development.

It’s another reason I HATE the finale of season 4 so much. She is literally EXACTLY back where she started in season 4 including being overly dependent on her dad while losing the only person who she cared for more than pleasing her father because she knew he didn’t want her to be with Logan but she did anyway because it’s what she wanted. She didn’t want law school, she didn’t want New York, she didn’t want Piz. Those were all to make her dad happy after everything that went down at the end of season 3. The movie was her finally, after NINE YEARS forgiving herself or at least letting herself off the hook for her mistakes and letting herself live her life the way she wanted again. She lived a life she didn’t want for almost a DECADE purely to please her dad.

I mean the fact that she never tells her dad about being sa’d, especially after Lamb doesn’t believe her - not because she can’t talk about it but because she’s afraid of what he’ll do/how he’ll react - that’s BAD. That is a sign of TERRIBLE parenting mistakes that your child feels the need to protect you from the awful things that happen to them.

I still don’t hate Keith and I do enjoy their dynamic a lot of the time still but Oooooooh does he piss me off especially when he’s adding to Veronica’s guilt or burden, usually in a very hypocritical way.

Veronica Mars, Season 4

I got Hulu to watch "Prey" so now I have access to stuff I didn't have before.

I'm a couple episodes into the 4th season of VM. Kind of a let down. Like the movie was.

I wish the writers tried harder to include Wallace and Weevil (although it's good this season focuses more on Keith). I do not care for this mini-me Veronica girl who is in high school. Why can't all her screentime be Wallace's? I love Wallace. He was voluntarily tortured for Veronica, and now we are to believe he has become boring? Tell me more about his adorable child.

And I did root for Veronica and Logan at one point but now he doesn't even feel like the same character anymore. He's a naval intelligence officer? Like Logan was great at joining things and following rules?

So far the best part is the bromance between JK Simmons and Enrico Colantoni. Just two older men acting like they are drunk and hanging out, exactly what you want from a Veronica Mars reboot.