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A long time ago, we used to be friends but I-
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I love Veronica Mars! I think it's an absolutely brilliant show. It only had a short run of
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three seasons and only two of which were actually watchable.
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The third season has sort of been written off as a fluke, there was a lot of problems
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with it but I'll save that for another video.
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That said, you should go out immediately and BitTorrent, pirate, rent, buy whatever you
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have to do to watch Veronica Mars because it will totally be worth it.
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It's a show about a teenage detective. She actually learned the tricks of the trade from
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her father who's a private detective and she often solves mysteries at school.
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She even solves crimes that the local sheriff's department is unable to solve.
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The show is actually really funny, it's got great wit, great humour and I would actually
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compare it to Joss Whedon's writing in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and maybe even say
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it's a little bit better? Joss Whedon did a cameo during season two because
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he thought the show was so good.
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And so did Courtney from the Dandy Warhols and Kevin Smith.
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One of the things that immediately drew me into the show is how technologically savvy
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Veronica Mars is. It's a pretty rare representation to have young women shown
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as super knowledgeable about all sorts of different technologies.
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So you see her often using computers and having a really good understanding of how
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they work. She is also an excellent photographer, printers, scanners all that sort
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of stuff. She also has a lot of different spy gadgets, so she can take apart an ipod
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and put in a hidden camera that will take a photo every five seconds for example.
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Or track people through GPS or put recording devices in cars.
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There's also another teenage woman at Veronica's school named Mac who's
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also super tech savvy. Veronica met up with her because she needed some help with
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the computer systems at school and Mac knew everything about them.
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So throughout the television series she is constantly going to Mac asking her for help
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in how to break into wifi networks and how to create websites and how to hack into
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different things and they work together as a pair on various projects.
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Very little violence is used on the show to solve problems but it's not a world
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without violence. So it kind of comes in two forms on the show.
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The first is really awkward and clumsy. So you'll have two teenage boys beating each
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other up and throwing punches and kind of missing but it's not like they are trained
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in martial arts, it's just really awkward.
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The second way shows how horrific and egregious violence actually is.
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It makes your stomach kind of turn as you're watching the show.
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I think that these characteristics and representations of violence on Veronica Mars
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really helps to show us how violence is used on other shows to solve problems how easy it is to write
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violence as a solution as opposed to coming up with really creative ways to deal with
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different problems.
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"Well she's giving a statement at the Sheriff's department tomorrow. I'll drop by see
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if she's up for a chat." "Well I'll go with you."
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"Actually, despite popular opinion, you really can't beat the truth out someone."
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Instead of using violence Veronica gets really creative and clever with the way that she
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solves her cases. At the resolution of each show the viewer is left with this sense of
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poetic justice. An example of this poetic justice is, when Veronica gets back at her
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boyfriend, Troy who she finds out later on was sort of scamming her the whole time.
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"Troy what's with this girl calling me? You gave her my number?"
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"Whoa, whoa what girl?" "Some girl named Veronica" "You didn't tell her you'd be seeing
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me did you?" "She caught me off guard, what was I supposed--"
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