One of the seemingly standard plot threads that began in the premiere came into play here. Veronica’s discovery of Logan’s “side project” was inevitable especially considering the abundance of attention the series has been giving their separation. A lot of the second season involves Logan and Veronica throwing daggers at each other, figuratively speaking of course this isn’t a Joss show, and it gets tiresome after a while.
In ‘Cheatty Cheatty Bang Bang’ Beaver asks Veronica to prove that his step mother Kendall (Charisma Carpenter) is cheating on his father, but she uncovers a lot more than she expects to. Veronica has trouble getting used to Jackie, who is getting closer to Wallace.
This episode has all of the makings of a pretty standard episode. It lacks the power of the majority of the episodes we’ve seen so far, but due to the its importance in some of the season’s major stories, it ranks a lot higher than it should
Veronica had to uncover Logan’s after school antics, she had to. It seems that, despite what the early episodes of the series indicated about Veronica and Duncan’s love story, she and Logan have become the show’s defining couple, destined to fill tumblr after tumblr of gif’s and fan-fiction. Her confrontation with Logan goes down just as you’d expect it to. She disguises her obvious heartbreak with the usual sharp comebacks and some personal attacks, while he deflects it with his usual laissez faire attitude. I like that there’s hostility between them, it makes sense given who we’re dealing with, but it’s going to get tired fast if we don’t see them go somewhere new.
The Jackie/Wallace/Veronica saga has always been one that I’ve found myself very bored with, but it’s an obvious attempt to get Wallace into the game a bit more, especially considering the small roles he’s played since arriving in Neptune. I’ve already made allusions in previous reviews about the sibling-like relationship that Veronica and Wallace have, and just as we see Keith and Alisha (Cher?) continuing their relationship, we now see V pulling a big sister, and starting to become very over protective of Wallace, which is understandable especially considering all the heartbreak she’s faced in her own love life. Why shouldn’t she try to protect Wallace from suffering through the same?
Other than the interesting fraud twist, her snooping this week was minimally entertaining at best but you can see all the small things that become important later on thrown in here and there. A slightly disappointing episode of ‘Mars is still a great episode by most other series’ standards, though.
7.5/10
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