Episode Report Card Couch Baron: C+ | 3 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Who Mourns For Saint Blonde?
By Couch Baron | Season 2 | Episode 10 | Aired on 12.06.2005
Anywhere But Here. Veronica is having a tiresome argument with C of I, who calls her "Barbie" and says he'll never send two boys from good families to jail "on the word of that Mexican whore!" This prompts the other not guilty vote to switch sides, and then C of I blusteringly and blatheringly does the same. It's pretty cool how the effects people made him look so real, given that he's a cartoon. But with the show's budgetary constraints, I think the money might have been better spent elsewhere. C of I says that the boys will appeal and win, and that's the smartest thing I've heard all day. Veronica thanks him for the lesson in civic responsibility, and he does look a little mortified at the reminder that he brought this on himself. I guess he'll remember the name "Veronica Mars," although I'm surprised there's anyone left in Neptune who isn't familiar with it. But it's no different from the blank stares I get in response to telling people what show I recap, except those make me a lot sadder. Also, if Veronica's theory is correct, Aneesa is guilty of violating her parole by owning a firearm, and also of perjury, but I guess that isn't pertinent to the message.
Sometime later, most of the jurors seem to have left, so given that they weren't allowed to leave until a verdict was rendered, Veronica must have summoned the bailiff and gotten a note to the judge, who then convened the court and heard the decision. Around here, though, that probably took all of eight minutes. The African-American woman approaches Veronica and, after telling her how impressed she is with her, suggests that she'd fit right in at "Hearst," which is apparently a local university. Well, we knew this had to happen at some point, and I will give credit to the show for getting it over with and at least trying to make it seem more organic than some other shows (let's all turn to SOAPnet and wave at 90210)! Veronica says that she was planning on leaving town at top speed after graduation, and also that the tuition would be a problem. The woman says that Hearst has some very generous scholarship and grant programs, and that she'd fight for Veronica. Veronica looks interested, but also regretful that she didn't know about this last week. If only that Kane scholarship hadn't been so important to her, she really could have let Celeste have it.
Cut to the exterior of a diner, where Veronica discovers that "MUCHAS GRACIAS, BITCH!" is written on her windshield. Well, I guess we know what language Madison Sinclair is taking in college. VMVO speculates that now she's right back where she was a year ago, socially speaking. Well, except for the fact that you're still going out with Duncan. But if that's foreshadowing, it's among the most fragrant I've ever smelled.