Veronica is my homegirl

Can you shut it off? That voice in your head that constantly sees the pieces of the puzzle when you watch something? I don't usually see a film or TV show for entertainment anymore. I see the parts coming together to form the whole. I see the decisions that must have been made to get to the end result, kind of like that scene in The Matrix when Neo looks around and sees green numbers everywhere.

This week's Veronica Mars got me in that way. Keith shows up with his scary dog to a woman's house to ask her questions about her husband's murder. He says, "I was just out walking the dog and thought I'd save myself a phone call. Did you know we're just ten blocks apart?"

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That was an odd line. It sounded to me like a discussion in the writer's room. A phone call is boring, so it's more interesting if he shows up at her house. But why? Why would he go there? He's walking the dog. So he lives nearby? Yeah. But how do we let the audience know that? He could just say it.

I think it's the "save myself a phone call" line that stuck out. In what world is it easier to walk over than to call?

But then later in the episode the same woman calls Keith to come over and stop a burglar because he lives closer than the cops.

Oh. Two birds, one oddly placed line. Still a little odd, but ok.

Did you notice that when Veronica went to talk to the preacher about the possibility that she might be an unwed teenage mother, she used the name "Hester"?

Hester Pryne. Get it? The Scarlet Letter. Doncha just love one percenters?

Then there was Keith's introduction of him and Veronica as Carson Drew and his daughter Nancy. It still took a second to connect that one. It was a lot more effective than having her walk in and announce herself as Nancy Drew because you still got to feel a little clever for getting the joke that the guy they were talking to obviously didn't get.

Then there's Dick. When Veronica told him that his ex-girlfriend banged her boyfriend, he acted like he didn't care. But in the split second before he put on his Dick Casablancas face, he slipped and showed all the emotion in the world. In Dick's case it's the emotions he doesn't show that tell what he's feeling. With all the crap his family has been through it's only natural that he perfect his aggressive persona to cover his pain.

In short, Veronica Mars is awesome.