Two Guys, a Girl and a Blog

Dear Dawn,

Can I call you Dawnie? I think its a cute name and for some reason the use of this nickname on Buffy The Vampire Slayer always made me like that character better and perhaps it’ll work here. So anyway how are you? I can not admit to hoping you’re fine. In fact I really kinda hope perhaps your home is infested with termites right now. I would hope for worse. Coming as a rant from someone on the internet I should be hoping for worse but then I would come off as a nut and more importantly termites are really effin annoying in ones home.So I just watched the Season 4 Pitch of Veronica Mars and I gotta say. It was really great. I don’t know why I hadn’t watched it before now. I suppose because watching it would solidify the fact that the show was gone forever. However having seen it I’m kinda okay with that fact. Season 3 took Veronica in a weird direction though admirably the first part of the season and the last part were somewhat decent and the final episode more than recovered what it had before. Of course it was too late by then.  But then you and others were presented with this Season 4 pitch and its new possibilities for the likable character of Veronica Mars in the F.B.I. world and you turned it down.

Why? I think I deserve an explanation. A true one. Not some crap about feasibility but something about why you’d turn that show down. Sadly America is more than happy to give its time to pretty much any policing force type drama out there so you already have that market. You have the possibility of that audience but what if? What if someone aimed for something more than a man putting on and taking off his sunglasses slowly? What if someone decided that dialogue and true mystery might work? You had it handed to you on a silver platter with Rob Thomas and Kristen Bell (who will be a star yet especially after her turn in Forgetting Sarah Marshall).

But forget all that…. What I want to know is how you saw that pitch and turned it down yet greenlight some of the things that make it on CW’s air. Is it just cost? I admit that despite the fact the public knows far more about the TV industry these days I can’t quite understand this reasoning. Yes its more expensive than a reality show but its far better than privileged. Do you just want to put crap on the CW? I know CW has a far, far way to go before it ever becomes an award winning network for ya know…excellence in TV but surely you want to try to get there. Do you think its going to be happening any time soon with Chuck Bass? I promise you if you had (or will?) put Veronica Mars Season 4 on the air then she would’ve landed you an Emmy. After all the show came pretty close in the obscure land of UPN (and how often did that happen? you worked there you should know)

So as you are(strike through) reading (strike through) this in your termite infested home I just want to know….why? and I want to suggest fixing this right now. What about being the little network that gave a damn about what it puts on the air? I’m not saying all 7 nights heaven forbid! Keep your Gossip Girl and America’s Next Top Model. Even keep your 90210 remake which is really, really not good but what about a tiny little pocket in there. How about Tuesday? How about 8/7c and how about giving Veronica Mars Season 4 the opportunity it deserves to be seen by an audience who is more than happy to spend money on your advertising dollars if you give it good TV. Because sometimes it takes years for some networks to find the show that defines them as great. You have the opportunity right now. So ya know call up terminix and then get Rob Thomas on the phone. He is not doing anything important whatsoever right now because

Dear Rob,

No! Bad Rob Thomas! I am not going to watch cupid! I am not! No! Stop working on that show right now and work on getting Veronica back out there either a movie (even made for TV would work, comic, or ya know how about Season 4?

Thanks,

A fan