one thing the writers of veronica mars get so so wrong is they seem to think viewers literally only care about veronica. it’s different from other teen dramas because veronica is the main character and technically everyone else is a side character, even though she mainly deals with a small cast of the same people. but i think because the show treats veronica like the only main character and subsequently the only character to really matter (besides her father), they justify doing literally EVERYONE ELSE so dirty all the time.
and yes, i’m mainly talking about logan because what the fuck was that. but i’m also talking about duncan and piz, who are completely written out of the show when they’re no longer viable love interests (despite both having arguably interesting character design and storylines). and wallace, who is a staple character for every single season but for whom we only see a few short-lived, never fully fleshed out storylines. and weevil, who they screw over time and time again until they basically ruin his character. same sort of goes for mac, and meg and parker and nicole who all have potential for plot lines they never get to see because everything is either veronica mars lore, an ongoing mystery, or a short term mystery.
and believe me, i like the formula of the show and i really really really enjoy this show and the mysteries and whatever. but every single season it feels like the writers simply cannot let anyone stay happy for more than two seconds as if that will suddenly make the show boring despite the multiple mysteries always going on. and as a result they hurt their ratings because, despite what the writers seem to think, people care about characters like wallace and logan and weevil etc etc just as much as they care about veronica, and we want to see them happy! and it just pisses me off that they treat characters that i love so much like absolute garbage to keep the show “interesting”. you can only get so far on shock factor, and unfortunately the multiple cancellations of VM as a concept seems to constantly prove that.
