Nearly two years after we finished the second season, Courtney and I finally finished up watching Veronica Mars on DVD. Raf, who lent us the DVDs and warned us that the season wasn’t the show’s best, turned out to have a point. Still, the show was still clever, funny, and interesting enough to keep you guessing with most of its mysteries.

Veronica’s transition to college was fairly smooth, if it was a bit coincidental that so many of her old pals from high school all decided to go to the same college in the same town. And it did feel like there were too many characters too fit in – many times this character or that was “out of town” just to explain why they weren’t in an episode or two. And the remix of the theme song?  Not necessary or cool.

The third season also didn’t have one long mystery that played out from the premiere to the finale like the first two seasons; instead there were two longer arcs and a few standalone episodes at the end. The campus rapist arc was a great story, while the death of the dean felt a little forced. I did, however really enjoy the standalone episodes at the end of the season, and I really felt like the show was picking up steam right as it ended. Go figure, right?

I watched the “trailer” for Season 4, where the showrunners pitched a concept of having the next season jump forward a few years to Veronica’s first day on the job at the FBI. The trailer showed promise, and I think that would have been a decent show – although it would have been somewhat irksome to have not followed up the cliffhangers from the season finale.

They say that a Veronica Mars movie is still possible,so fingers crossed for that.  But even without a movie, it was still a great show over three seasons, which is definitely impressive.