I’m not sure what my experience of this movie would be like if I hadn’t seen the series before. It was so completely tailored to those who know of every transgression, indiscretion and witty comeback. The show paid homage to its past incredibly well, but turned what could have been a depressing look at what could have been into a celebration of the show that won so many of us over. [Major Spoilers!]
The Veronica Mars movie is unprecedented. It shouldn’t have happened. I had completely resigned myself to the fact that the last we would see of Veronica was her walking into the distance on that rainy California day. It stung that we’d never get to see what happened after that. It stung even worse that the series didn’t see resolution in almost every plot it left dangling. I don’t think it fully sank in that the series I loved so much has finally lived on until I saw that first frame of Kristen as Veronica. Naturally I had built this movie up a lot in my head, but I was also a little worried that it might disappoint the legion of devoted marshmallows who contributed to its creation. As far as I’m concerned, it absolutely did not. [This is a spoiler free review!]
