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Veronica Mars made its TV series debut September 2004 and lasted 3 seasons ending May 2007.  The show focuses on Veronica Mars (Kristen Bell ) the high school daughter of Keith Mars ex-county sheriff and new private detective.  The first season takes place a year after Veronica’s best friend Lilly was murdered and Keith claimed it was her billionaire father who did the murdering.  But another man had confessed to the murder and Keith was therefore kicked off the force.  This entire first season introduces us to the diverse and complicated characters of the small town of Neptune as Veronica takes on her own responsibilities as private eye along with her father and delve deeper into the mysterious case of Lilly Kane’s murder.

After Season One’s finale and the mystery solved, Season Two takes on a new overall arc.  On the way back from a school field trip a bus of Neptune High students mysteriously goes over a cliff.  Now with Veronica on the case this doesn’t seem to be just a simple accident and she is determined to find out the true cause.  While at the same time deals with relationships including a complicated romantic relationship with Logan, Lilly’s brother.

Season Three lacks a great deal compared to the first two suspenseful action-packed seasons.  The reason for this is the pressure put on Creator Rob Thomas by the new WB.  The WB decided that they didn’t want the show to follow its usual course of an overall arc for an entire season.  They thought by having shorter 5 show arcs it would be easier for newcomers to join in on the show and the audience numbers would climb.  Unfortunately this seemed to have the opposite affect proving that what was great was best left unchanged.  I personally preferred the original set up for the show and found it more interesting making it a show worth being dedicated to.  I think the WB underestimated its audience as unable to follow a complicated series.  Well the show LOST and its success would certainly prove those thoughts wrong now.  I don’t know what they were thinking in a day where a fan could easily watch missed episodes online therefore they didn’t need to do the 5 show arcs because people could catch up on what was going on by downloading missed episodes.  I believe Rob Thomas took back the show a little more at the end of the season because the episodes were better but it was just too late and he was forced to end the series because the show was being cancelled.  The finale is a powerful episode and it’s a very sad one at that, because of Veronica’s situation and also because of the show being forced to end.

Now there’s been a lot of talk about a Veronica Mars movie.  It would only be logical to have a film in order to give VMars fans what they deserve and the show what it deserves for being unfairly stunted.  Although the idea of a film seems to be just that an idea and lots of talk, I really do hope it will be made because then Veronica Mars will have the ending it was meant to have and VMars fans will finally be satisfied.

-Shavon Keller