Some of Logan’s roleplaying can be traced to the difference between a father and a father figure; Logan had only the latter, and thus treats everyone as shadows on a cave wall. But the other high-school-age characters on VM, Veronica especially, have similar expectations – they don’t live, they perform themselves. They have individual soundtracks to their lives, just as Apple encourages them, and us, to do. I don’t doubt that there’s a show called Dick Casablancas in Dick’s mind (it airs on MTV). It has a Dick Casablancas Voiceover, just like we have a Veronica Mars Voiceover.
That's amazingly insightful, and also explains a *lot* of the twists we saw last night (like the revelation that Jackie has only been playing the spoiled rich brat--a performance she was quite convincing in). To me that even excuses the Beaver reveal, because I'm sure the voiceover in his head painted himself as the great puppetmaster, manipulating smart people (like getting revenge on his dad via Veronica, and blackmailing Kendall into doing his bidding), so when his own self-narrative was so drastically challenged by the threat that Veronica would reveal he was not the puppetmaster but in fact Woody's victim, he desperately tried to reassert himself as mastermind.
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Date: 2006-05-10 09:13 pm (UTC)That's amazingly insightful, and also explains a *lot* of the twists we saw last night (like the revelation that Jackie has only been playing the spoiled rich brat--a performance she was quite convincing in). To me that even excuses the Beaver reveal, because I'm sure the voiceover in his head painted himself as the great puppetmaster, manipulating smart people (like getting revenge on his dad via Veronica, and blackmailing Kendall into doing his bidding), so when his own self-narrative was so drastically challenged by the threat that Veronica would reveal he was not the puppetmaster but in fact Woody's victim, he desperately tried to reassert himself as mastermind.