2nd Season Veronica Mars - Ain't No Magic Mountain High Enough -

"Ain't No Magic Mountain High Enough"
2-8-06 Veronica Mars

Jonathan Roberts...

A little too just-so: 3.5

5 stars (1990 and 1992)

0-1 stars (4-8-2004)

Grey Wolf...

4.25 stars. The opening seemed a bit wooden to me, but the rest of
the show was excellent.

thezeppo7628...

2.5 stars.

Is it just me, or was there a lot going on in this episode? Maybe too
much.

The best part IMO was the stuff between Keith and Jackie's dad.
Keith's facial
expressions going from awe to devestation over the course of the hour
as his
hero revealed new secrets was painful to watch.

Barry Margolin...

I was mostly distracted by the fact that it's such a TV cliche that the
guest character is the regular character's idol. Does anyone but an
obsessive teenager really fall in love with a celebrity and follow their
entire career? And the coincidence that the game he threw was the one
Keith happened to miss.

vague disclaimer...

I think there's a case for allowing that Keith was, by this stage in
proceedings, playing him to force him to tell all.

Best line of the night, "What's the Beav doing with that chick from
Ghostworld?"

I still find it hard to view Jackie in a sympathetic light after the
way her character was
written in the first half of the season. Likewise, the principal and
Veronica
working as a team to flush out criminals at Neptune High is a concept
that I still cannot
get my head around. I also didn't buy Beaver and Mac's revenge on
Dick? How exactly
did they set that elaborate plan up so quickly? I suppose that's what
they were researching
on Beav's laptop ("The Boston Gasms?"). But still......pretty far
fetched.

Sean O'Hara...

I don't think so. They went to an escort site, found a local tranny,
called her up and asked her to come to the fair, gave her some money
and a picture of Dick, and then sat back to watch the fun. Doesn't
seem like something that would take more than a few hours to arrange.

thezeppo7628...

Fair enough. I was under the impression that the whole thing went down
over a much shorter time period though. I guess the other thing that
I found troubling was the idea of a drag queen, all by her lonesome,
agreeing to play such a humiliating trick on a guy like Dick, with all
his 09er buddies just around the corner. It may work in TV-land, but in
the real world...I don't think so.

Electric Frog...

3.5 The 1st act was very pedestrian and I was thinking 2.5 but the final two
parts were a belter and turned in a fairly decent episode. However the sound
mix was pretty poor and frequently the supposed background noise intruded
over the dialogue and at least with the move to CW Comcast viewers in
Chicago may get a decent picture

Ian J. Ball...

This episode was really a random 'stand-alone':

3.5

It was kind of like season #1's parrot episode, except that I quite
liked that episode, but this one not so much.

The one thing I liked about it was Ever Carradine's little sister (come
on! I'm sure I'm not the only one who saw a resemblance!!) Hannah
'getting it on' with Logan. I guess Mac and the Beav' were moderately
cute.

But the rest of this episode was just kind of... blah. Madison and the
teacher are not good characters, and never have been.

And, I'm sorry, but I'll never *like* Jackie, so generating "sympathy"
for her is a pointless exercise with me.

Next week looks more interesting.

Clifford Blau...

Another obscure scoring guide. I'll give it 4 stars (would that be
1991?) Too much happening; it makes my head spin. As usual, too much
unlikely coincidence for my taste. But I liked the Mac/Dick/Beaver
story. Also, nice to see VM and Jackie getting along better.

The scholarship story line bothers me a bit. Even if VM doesn't get
the Kane Scholarship, surely she'll qualify for others. If she is at
or near the top of her class, has extracurricular activities, works 2
jobs, and has financial need, I think she'll get something.

Ken Ream...

She gets the Kane scholarship only if the show is definitely not picked
up for a third season. If it is picked up by the end of the year or if
its still up in the air (hope the WB/UPN merge doesn't mean the the end
of VM), she won't get it. She's not going to get a free ride to any
college of her choice if the show continues. Got to keep her in
Sunnydale... er...Neptune. You'll remember they suddenly dropped in that
there was an area college in the jury episode. One of her fellow jurors
taught there and implied she could get some scholarship for Veronica there.

Curse you, Don Tickles, Notary Public!