Epic...not so much

So, Veronica Mars is gone. I guess it's been a long time coming. Hmm, it's gradual slide towards cancellation looked a lot like Arrested Development's slow demise. Two great, critically acclaimed seasons, and then a begrudgingly granted by the network, shortened, less than stellar third season.

Boy is probably right. The show should have done the jump to the future after last year and avoided the college thing altogether. I don't know why that high school to college transition is such a show killer. It's deadlier than Paula Marshall.

The worst part of the situation is that One Tree Hill did get picked up and is using this new jump four years into the future concept thereby allowing the characters and writers to skip "college" and get on with the more entertaining "life." I personally feel that One Tree Hill should have tried the more amusing tactic of having the characters stay in high school forever. 10 years from now Chad Michael Murray could still be trying to play varsity basketball but now struggling to overcome not just a genetic heart defect, but also, tons of illegitimate children, several ex wives, a mortgage and a receding hairline. And all of that with no logical explanation at all.

I'm just glad the CW didn't pick up Barnes, the pilot about a college kid, played by Veronica Mars' Mercer (Ryan Devlin), using his geekiness and gadgetry to solve mysteries. They would have been cancelling Veronica Mars to make room for Guy Veronica Mars.

All in all, season three of VM has been limping along since the end of the Hearst rapist arc. It was probably still better than anything new that'll start next year, and it had great character moments, but it wasn't exactly justifying its own existence. I'm just disappointed that it won't get to have a really good pre-planned ending.

With Veronica gone and the upcoming TV tough girls, Bionic Woman and Sarah Connor, being brunettes, Starbuck is the only ass-kicking blonde on TV, and she might be dead.