I thought the resolutions of the college plotlines were both a little lacking. And I thought both plotlines were, in themselves, kind of pointless.
The thing is, I'm not sure if they don't cancel each other out.
There were things about the sorority, for instance, that aren't explained by the "Whoops, the editor has a grudge," solution. That's way too much pot for one person. Who were those four sources? Is it really possible Parker just happened to get trashed at a party held in a sorority where they stole her key earlier and then she got raped and it was all a coincidence?
The experiment--what the heck was the point of that, if nothing was going to happen? The only one to go evil was the guy who went so evil so immediately that I assumed he was a plant. I kept waiting for the shocking twist, or whatever, except it never came.
I think maybe it only seemed pointless because we got false solutions, because I wasn't really dissatisfied until the ending, in both cases. I have a feeling we'll be revisiting these events eventually.
And I agree with Sweeney that a big character development plot point was that people who call you "one of us" are probably not people you want to be one of. This is kind of important, because Veronica's defined herself against the 09ers so far, and seemed to initially identify the Greeks as eseentially the same type of guys, and everyone else as... everyone else. But in fact, things are more complicated here, and that kind of simplistic thinking will just make her a tool of some other faction.
This moves her into a little more traditional private eye's world, where you can't easily tell the good guys from the bad guys. (As seems to have happened to Keith.) And it's important because Veronica already does some ethically shady things. If she's not certain she's doing them for the right reasons--she's got nothing.
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Date: Oct. 11th, 2006 04:40 pm (UTC)The thing is, I'm not sure if they don't cancel each other out.
There were things about the sorority, for instance, that aren't explained by the "Whoops, the editor has a grudge," solution. That's way too much pot for one person. Who were those four sources? Is it really possible Parker just happened to get trashed at a party held in a sorority where they stole her key earlier and then she got raped and it was all a coincidence?
The experiment--what the heck was the point of that, if nothing was going to happen? The only one to go evil was the guy who went so evil so immediately that I assumed he was a plant. I kept waiting for the shocking twist, or whatever, except it never came.
I think maybe it only seemed pointless because we got false solutions, because I wasn't really dissatisfied until the ending, in both cases. I have a feeling we'll be revisiting these events eventually.
And I agree with Sweeney that a big character development plot point was that people who call you "one of us" are probably not people you want to be one of. This is kind of important, because Veronica's defined herself against the 09ers so far, and seemed to initially identify the Greeks as eseentially the same type of guys, and everyone else as... everyone else. But in fact, things are more complicated here, and that kind of simplistic thinking will just make her a tool of some other faction.
This moves her into a little more traditional private eye's world, where you can't easily tell the good guys from the bad guys. (As seems to have happened to Keith.) And it's important because Veronica already does some ethically shady things. If she's not certain she's doing them for the right reasons--she's got nothing.