Instead of catering to the desires of a vocal and energetic fanbase, it almost willfully avoids giving fans what they want. I asked Thomas if he found it freeing to not have to rely on fan funding for these new episodes. While no fifth season of Veronica Mars has been announced, Thomas hopes that if the fourth season does well enough, Hulu will renew the show and let him keep making more episodes. In a way, the fan service of the movie seems to have left Thomas with little choice. What do you do once Veronica Mars and a stable and mature version of Logan Echolls are together at last?
Even in these eight episodes, I had to work pretty hard to get Logan even tangentially involved in the case. I think if I keep trying to do that in future installments, it would feel phony. In theory, it was probably possible for Thomas and his creative team to keep Logan around and still turn Veronica Mars into a true mystery show. I would have enjoyed that version of the show. They write him like a character they feel they have to instead of like a character they feel is essential to the story.
In Veronica Mars season four, the characters who have grown, like Logan, are adults. They are aspirational. Veronica has remained static, and that is a tragedy for her, and the show knows it. And if Veronica Mars the show wants to continue, it seems to be arguing, it has to change, too. It means ditching the love story that built the show and broke the show. But my fannish heart still cries out against it. I watch upsetting TV all the time. I spoiled Emily VanDerWerff anyway.
Sorry, Emily. I wrote five paragraphs of feelings and sent them to my editor as a pitch, and they evolved into this essay. I went into work the next day and wrote about other things, but all I could think about was that death scene. But I fell in love with Veronica Mars way before I ever even thought about becoming a culture critic. I fell in love with it as a fan, and I still love it as a fan.
And that means I want all the possible futures of its characters to keep unfolding inside of my head, forever and ever, as long as possible.
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Reddit Pocket Flipboard Email. Hulu Veronica Mars is a show so inextricably linked to its fandom that, in some ways, to talk about the show is to talk about its fans. Spoilers for all of season four, including the finale, follow. I love Veronica Mars like a fan and not like a critic. The Veronica Mars movie was fan-funded. That means it exists to service fans.
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Interview Video Photos Top cast Edit. Veronica is just the same. When first we met Logan all those years ago, he was a prototypical bad boy, full of adolescent rage and daddy issues, spoiled and sadistic and gifted with a truly obscene amount of chemistry with one Veronica Mars. The romance that unspooled in the years to follow was tempestuous, tinged with a level of danger that some fans found intoxicating.
Show creator Rob Thomas has always been very outspoken as viewing the series through the lens of the traditional — but gender-flipped — film noir. So that dynamite dynamic was built in to the show, with Veronica serving as the hard-bitten private investigator and Logan the homme fatale.
But in Season 4, Logan is no longer fatale. Logan is fully reformed. The popularity of the film adaptation led Hulu to resurrect the show for a fourth season, released in The devastating ending per Vox — no spoilers here left many scratching their heads about how Veronica Mars could continue and, indeed, it didn't.
But, why was the show canceled in the first place? As The Washington Post reports, the simple matter of low ratings led to the show's initial cancellation following its third season.
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