hmm

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Trying to work out my feelings on this. See - I enjoyed, heaps, this movie. I was thrilled at all the fanservice, I loved SEEING everyone all GROWN UP and glimpses of their lives, that was all delightful to me. Like here are some things:

- The amazing cameos, shoutout to Leo, Cliff and Mac (omg what a babe Mac was
- omg VERONICA ASKING WALLACE TO LOOK UP A STUDENT RECORD! A++++
- I know it makes me the worst fan but I LOVED all the little callouts and references and stuff
- Dick was pretty flawlessly Dick

-- but --

-- at the end of the movie I felt profoundly unsatisfied. It was everything I wanted in terms of fanservice, and I liked the vast majority of the plot, but I really didn't like the way they wrapped the movie up by rebooting everyone to their high school characterisation. (I particularly HATED this when it came to Weevil. That was TERRIBLE and completely unnecessary; that scene with Weevil getting on his bike existed specifically so Veronica could narrate over it and the audience could go ooooh, yeeeah, just like Veronica and Weevil! Which I think is fucking bullshit and turns Eli into a pawn for Veronica's story and I HATED hated hated that.) But other than the Weevil thing I didn't hate it, I just felt dissatisfied.

Look, I'm OK with Veronica coming back to Neptune, I'm OK with Veronica being with Logan (in fact I ship that). But what I'm frustrated with is - the movie set Veronica up as happy. She had a nice relationship with Piz (ugh), she was moving on with her life. Adult, growing Veronica, in the context of this movie, is a Veronica who has moved away from investigating.

And so at the end of the movie they've pretty much rebooted Veronica back to high school. And not just Veronica - literally everyone in the movie. With the maybe exception of Logan, except we don't really see the transformed Logan - we just assume he exists because of his snazzy outfit.

As I'm typing this out, I'm beginning to wonder if this is the point. Like, this felt like an incredibly feelgood, fanservicey movie (with, uh, murder. I was pretty sad about Gia actually, I always liked her), but the ending is ... kind of incredibly dark but treated as a feel-good conclusion, and I feel really weird about that. Maybe that was on purpose, instead of by accident as I currently feel, and the movie is really a tragedy. But they didn't play it as a tragedy! IDK.

alllllso the whole women dying thing, I know it's a noir trope but it still sucks and will always suck. (They also really handwaved the whole "evidence" thing. I guess Veronica was still recording her convo with Gia?)