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There is always room for improvement BUT Veronica Mars has built a fan base,not only around Veronica but the newest additions to the cast. It would be a horrible decision to lose the show all together!! I would liek to see Veronica continue at Hearst, even if it's her last year there. Fast forwarding her too much will lose so much of the Veronica we know and love. Please CW, keep Veronica Mars!!!!

V should definitely stay in college. With all the rest - well, surprise me. And one more thing. The father needs a serious girlfriend with a 'nice' bitchy sense of humour, so that V is not the only one sharp-tounged lass.

i think the setting shuld stay at hearst college....they are many senarios that can come up ...plussss.......now that logan has "moved on"...veronica n piz can get together.....plus now keith is sherrif..therez definitely some episodes to make there......skipping ahead to her future as an FBI agent is pretty fast...the show is doing great now, ..i watch veronica marz for the relationships (which are very interesting) and mysteries (which are gaw droping)! ...i would definitely see mac , wally, logan, and piz stay....with pez and logan staying any emotions can occur...mac n wallas are veronicas right hand men , they can't go anywhere...you can include keith here and there...he doesn't have to be in every episode!!!!....anyways....jus keep veronica on the air!!!!...At first i hated this show but i grew to love it...it keeps me guessing every episode n sometimes even shocked!!!!!!!!!!!!

If it weren't for my sister who's name HAPPENS to be VERONICA... I would have NEVER been HOOKED on this show. The quirky - ALWAYS witty Veronica comments and the weekly interesting and mesmerizing topics and the MAJOR suspense produced in each episode- has gotten me ADDICTED! I love all the characters- though finally getting rid of the old SHERIFF was the like a prayer being answered - who's going to the be show's regular TOOL? Oh well ... Veronica is great no matter what! I would like her to finish college to then be able to progress to the FBI academy! Well regardless- I can't emphasize enough how I am happy to have shows like this on TV. Thnx

I never use blogs but I cannot seem to help myself this time. I have already commented on two other strings of your blogs because I strongly feel that Veronica Mars is a character that should be saved. If the format were to change dramatically loose ends should be tied up. eg. where her friends ended up.
Also, keep the Logan character minus the soft side. It was much better when they had that tension between them all the time.

What would I want to see happen next season?

Piz gone. Logan and Veronica back together. Plain and Simple.

I don't want to see Veronica Mars change. It's perfect how it is. The show is so witty and intellegent. We've come to love the current cast and it would be hard to forget them and embrace an entirely new setup. I vote to keep Veroica Mars exactly how it is. It couldn't get any better.

veronica Mars Is a great show. I have watched since the start and have never missed an episode. I am a film student and I Truely hope I can come up with something that is even close to how smart and funny veronica mars is.

if veronica mars gets cancelled me and ALL my friends WILL stop watching tv all 2gether...

I'm writting from far away land called Poland. I've watched at lot of tv shows (I'm kinda maniac whenever I have spare time)and must admit VM is marvelous.The script is definitely the best of the whole show and of course Miss Bell just perfectly fits into VM. You rule girl! I'm keeping fingers crossed for you and waiting for your next projects!
P.S. By the way, only 98% of Polish women are hookers, so Mr.Thomas be careful with stereotypes!

This is the best show ever! There is NO WAY they can cancel this show!! They may have a ton of VM fans knocking down their doors if they try!! --HELLO!!! If you have this many fans, why would you cancel a great show to put on something new that we may not like/watch???

if VM went off the air i'm pretty sure i would cry my face off...i love this show so much and have followed it since the beginning.

How sad to think that network big-wigs are only willing to keep pouring money into "reality" crap television and not allowing quality writers, actors and behind the scene people work. This continues the down fall of intertainment and society. Quit looking at the bottom line and the fast buck. It is all too sad.

Keep the show on the air. It is great.

Veronica Mars is one of the best shows on television. Up until about two months ago, I never watched VM once... not even once. However, I caught an episode one night and fell in love with the characters and the storyline. So much, in fact, that I went to the local video store and rented all of season 1 and season 2. Let's just say that even though I have a full time job during the day, I got through both seasons in less than two weeks! It is SOOOO ADDICTING! There is NO SHOW out there that is this great. NONE! Also, I am a loyal One Tree Hill fan. If I had to pick which one to keep and which one to let go, I couldn't! OTH was always better than the OC. It's more realistic and people can relate to it more. (Okay okay- most of it is more realistic.) VM and OTH always keep us on the edge of our seats. THEY CANNOT GET CANCELLED!!!!

it's sad to see Veronica Mars go and probably having the rest of the cast disappear if she becomes an FBI. Darn, I just Veronica Mars was still in Neptune High. It's not the same anymore. Veronica Mars (the show) should have more episodes like the episode Spit & Eggs. It had action, drama, and it shows that Logan still loved veroncia <33

I never do this..commenting on these blogs, but when I read this, I felt that I must. You CANNOT get rid of VMARS (or gilmore girls) I have been watching these shows from the beginning and it's the only ones that I've been hooked on. VMARS has such edge and suspense but she's smart and witty too. She's not those typical shows, but make you really frustrated but exicted when it's over b/c you'd have to wait for next week. Please keep it on the air. I wait every week and look forward to relaxing and watching it. Who needs the pussycat dolls show? we have enough of thos reality shows. Keep some of the worth-watching shows on air for once. PLEASE!!
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Veronica Mars is the best show ever. I want it to be renewed but stay in college years. I feel that if she goes to the FBI (as either a full time agent or a trainee) it will lose the whole premisis of the show. It will turn into a rip off of Alias. The show isn't all about Veronica solving mysteries. Its also about her realationships with Logan, her dad, and friends, and without them in the show, it wouldn't even be Veronica Mars anymore. It would be a totally different show staring Kristen Bell. Veronica Mars isn't only entertaining but also has a strong role model for girls. I am a 19 year old female and I still wont answer my phone or talk to anyone for the hour on Tuesday that Veronica Mars is on. This is the best show and I and many others would be devistated if it was cancelled. Look how far it has come since the first season and try and see how far it will continue going. Please renew Veronica Mars and keep college years!

If you even think about taking V. Mars off. I well cloud up and rain all over CW! Richard Allan O'Dea

I want Veronica Mars to be renewed! I absolutely love the show and don't miss an episode. I'm hesitant to support the FBI deal because of the predicted cast shake-up. The only way that I would support it is if Veronica was given an assignment in Neptune, CA.

However, my personal preference is for Veronica to remain at Hearst. With her dad being Sheriff, maybe he could win the election. Then Veronica could decide to keep Mars Investigations open and become a PI. She could still go to college of course. It could be that in order to keep MI open, she needs financial help and Logan offers to partner with her. She reluctantly agrees after insisting she will pay him back. Mac could come on board and do the computer thing and Weevil could help out through his street contacts. He could be the one sent out to chase bail jumpers. Wallace and Dick could just be around. Trying to be supportive of Veronica and Wallace. Oh an of course helping them to not quit because the other is getting on their nerves.

Well that is my 2 cents worth. Keep Veronica Mars on the air! Renew Veronica Mars CW!

First off, I just wanted to say that my friends and I will follow VM whenever and wherever it may go. That being said, I hope that they decide to keep the format they have now. I have greatly enjoyed watching the show and have never missed an episode. We even take over a local bar one a month to watch in a large group. The show has brought together groups that would not normally mix, just like the characters in the show. The CW would be making a big mistake cancelling VM.

I think the FBI idea is awful. I truely think it'll alienate the current loyal fanbase that continue to tune in week after week. Fans who enjoy the show as it is. I love the current format and was looking forward to Veronica's second year of college. The only thing that needs to change on the show is that we need to see more of characters like Mac and Wallace, who have been noticably absent this year. This is something that has attributed to fans perception of the show this season and something that could be easily remedied. Please don't cancel this show, please don't change it! In my opinion either bring it back as it is or don't bring it back at all. I wouldn't want to watch the show if it jumped four years because it would no longer be the Veronica Mars I love and no longer the show with the characters/realtionships I enjoy following. I wonder if this FBI idea is purely to bring in new fans and older fans at that? I fear the show would loose it's young/teenage audience... it would certainly loose me. That's something I never thought I'd be saying, this IS my favourite show, I hope I won't have to say WAS...

I love VM and would watch it in wherever the show takes it, as long as Kristen Bell is still on the show I would watch her watch paint dry! VM ROCKS!

Veronica Mars is brilliant on all levels, and I think that's credit to Rob Thomas' overall direction. My favorite part of the show is the noir feel to the show. Season 2 seemed a lot more hard-boiled in its atmosphere compared to the other two seasons. That brings up the very interesting opportunity for the Veronica to be in the FBI.

I would definitely trust Rob to produce the show in a way that it maintains all the loveable parts of the show, such as the relationships, the brilliant writing, great mysteries, personal growth, and the overall feel of the show. I realize sacrifices would need to be made if the show is catapulted four years into the future. Wallace could perhaps end up working near Veronica or Mac and Veronica could be sharing an apartment.

Truly, it doesn't matter in which format the show returns, just as long as it returns. Placing Veronica in the FBI would definitely be easier to reach a wider audience, and hopefully become more of a hard-boiled noir type of show. Noir movies of the 40s and 50s seemed to have surged in popularity as of late and if it's properly marketed as such I believe that could be a key to attracting a much larger audience.

If you do it, do it right! There's no way I can say goodbye to Mac, Logan, and Keith-- and Backup. (Lol.) The FBI thing can seriously make or break the show. The CW also needs to advertise this show WAY more. They're always advertising One Tree Hill, Smallville, Supernatural, and Gilmore Girls-- NEVER Veronica Mars! The only time it was REALLY advertised was for its arc one finale (Spit & Eggs.) Look what that did for the ratings... DUH! So, start advertising it mroe. The ratings will soar. And if Rob Thomas messes the show up next season I'll scream. And they'd BETTER bring back damn FULL SEASON mystery arcs!

Veronica Mars is the best show on tv.

and i will follow it anywhere just go get my Kristen Bell fix. I don't know what I will do if i dont have one of her witty one-liners to get me through my week.

To get rid of the ENTIRE cast would piss me off as a hardcore VM loving fan. If Mac goes i will be devastated.
But for some reason I trust Rob Thomas because he hasn't really let us (well ME would be the better term) down before.
VM as a FBI agent would give her better access to certain things, get up more peoples noses and there would probably be a lot of suspense. I think it will work if the show has some of the old cast in it.

Yep.

FYI you'd be morons to cancel VM. Really. Especially since everyone will pinpoint your reasons all because of that pussycat whores ratings. You would be a laughingstock.

let us viewers with a brain still have some enjoyment in our weekly viewing.

I love this show so much, and I would try very hard to follow it if, god forbid, they feel the need to change it, but this has made me think a lot about the show in general. Veronica Mars, being the title character, is very important, this is true, but so are the other characters we've come to love (LoVe) so much!! I'd give Veronica, Logan, and Keith each 25% importance to the whole show, i'd give the combined supporting cast of Mac Weevil, Wallace and Dick another 20% and the day players and recently added cast would get 5%, because no one's unimportant at Veronica Mars. But come on people!! This show has the support of so many awesome filmmakers. Joss Whedon himself called it "the Harry Potter of shows" and predicted that, although the future of television would consist mainly of CSI and Law and Order spin-offs, "Veronica Mars [would] still be on the air. I repeat. Veronica Mars will still be on the air."
All the cast members matter. LoVe matters. Wallace and Mac and yes, even Dick, matter. Keith MArs matters. They're all characters we've come to love and another reason, though I've stopped watching television altogether, I still make time every Tuesday night for one hour to watch this fantastic show. In an age where crappy reality shows permeate the airwaves, it's so refreshing to see great actors doing fantastic work. PLEASE don't cancel my show!!!
By the way, no one at my work watched the show until I started loaning out my DVD's, one person at a time. Now, I've personally added 18 viewers. I know it's not a lot in the big picture, but I'm just one person. Give us more time!!!

What would I like to see in season 4 of "Veronica Mars"? OK, you asked for it:

Fast forward to Veronica's senior year at Hurst. V has spent the past 3 summers in the FBI intern program. The credits she has earned in this program and through Advance Placement, she almost has enough credits to graduate outright, but not enough to graduate a semester early, so she has light schedule throughout the seaon. She is now a TA and teaches classes to undergraduates. While working at the FBI, she has impressed a lot of agents, but there are some that are threatened by her as well. As we open the season, Veronica is pondering whether she should join the FBI when she graduates or become a PI, and then...

Her estranged Mother is murdered. And to make things worse, there is evidence that Veronica is the murderer. Now, no one really believes it, but it puts her FBI future in doubt. The murder happens somewhere besides Neptune, so Keith can't investigate it. And the circumstances of the murder make it an FBI case and the guy placed in charge of the investigation is not one of Veronica's biggest fans. He is very old school and believes in following down every lead, even when there are some that show more promise than others. To her consternation, he heads off in a direction that she feels is going nowhere. So she is forced to perform her own investigation. The two spend all season butting heads, but by the end of the season, we realize that both lines of inquiry wind up in the same place and the two of them have half of the puzzle. When they put their halves together they come up with the real murder.

And why was Veronica's Mother murdered? Was it for the money? Was it drug related? Perhaps domestic terrorism or jealous lover. I don't really have a suggestion for that (and if I did I wouldn't reveal it here.)

"Would you follow Veronica to the FBI, or do you think there's a lot more to be explored at Hearst College?"

Let's keep her at Hurst a little longer.

"Do you watch Veronica Mars for the mysteries, for the relationships between the characters, for the writing, or for something else entirely?"

I mostly like it for the writing and the acting. The first episode that I ever watched was "Meet John Smith" and when I realized that Smith had been cleverly present in the episode all along, I thought "Wow, I didn't see that one coming." And when Veronica gave the kid a dressing down for rejecting his "Dad", I thought "Gee, I didn't think about that". So, a show with some surprises and some human interest is what attracts me.

"Which characters do you want to be saved?"

Wallace! Do more with Wallace. I've seen enough of Logan however.

"Could you see Veronica Mars as a more straight-ahead crime procedural,"

Not "No" but "Frak no"! If I want to see a procedural, I'll what one of the thousand or so CSI clones. I don't watch them because they're BORING!

"is that too far away from the premise that got you hooked in the first place?"

I really like the interaction between Keith and Veronica. I also like it when the show is light hearted. Not everything is blood and guts.

I'll follow Veronica where ever she goes. She rocks.

I believe cancelling Veronica Mars would be a mistake on the CW's part. It is fresh. No other television show on air is like it. I must admit I didn't start watching VM until it came on the CW, so I am VERY THANKFUL for them for picking up the show. After watching the first episode of season three I went out and bought the first two [YES, it was that good...].

I would rather the storyline stay put in college, but I'll be happy no matter what happens.

If VM does get cancelled, the CW better be ready for some mean fan letters and the loss of loyal viewers [like myself].

I love Veronica Mars and am willing to give the new format a try. It is the only TV that I watch live (yes, my Tivo is very busy) and I would love to see it continue. I trust that Rob can find a way to make it work. Plus, I'll give any show about the FBI a chance.

This is one of the best shows on tv with a talented crew of writers and actors. I'm excited to see where the show can go in the future. I think the FBI angle would be a great opportunity to take the show in a broader direction and entice new people to watch as well as letting the characters move forward with new challenges. Bring it on, CW!

I have to say, I didn't start watching this show until third season, but it is without a doubt the best show I have ever watched. I don't know what I'll do if it gets cancelled. :( I would much rather see Veronica still in college, than in the FBI, but if it means saving the show, I'll take what I can get. As long as its Veronica, you can be sure I'll watch.

I'm ready for the show to go. We got 3 good seasons (or 1 great season and 2 okay ones), and I'd rather it go out now than come back in some weird format where it dies on the vine. I just don't see the FBI thing working, and I think it would just end up being a stain on an otherwise solid record.

The proposed show really wouldn't be the show I signed up for and I don't think I'd have any interest in watching it.

"Veronica Mars" should NOT be a straight-ahead crime procedural. The show has incredible writing that showcases great characters we care about. A straight-ahead crime procedural would ruin that. I love the noir themes, the struggle between the have and have-nots and Veronica's blend of spunky cynicism. I think the FBI scenario has so much potential to lure new viewers while staying true to the core themes of the show. Why can't Veronica work on episode-long cases while trying to crack a season-long mystery in the FBI? I think the "teen" label and UPN baggage have been the primary reasons people haven't tuned in. They don't get what the show is about in a small soundbite so they don't watch. A new concept Veronica would rock. CW, make it happen!!!!

How about just allowing the show to die with dignity?

I can't imagine a major overhaul causing any substantial change in the ratings. If anything it will probably alienate some part of the show's existing audience, and as for all the people not watching the show now, it will just be another season of a show they already don't watch.

Let the show finish as the show it is. UPN and CW have kept the show around despite low ratings for three years now. There's nothing to be ashamed of in that. And sometimes it's better to let go of something you love then clinging to it in its death throws until it's nothing but a shadow of its former self.

I think Veronica Mars has long been plagued by the "genre" tag -- it's a "teen" show, or a "mystery" show, or for some reason it shouldn't appeal to the widest range of viewers. This sort of tag drive me crazy because it hits a lot of my favorite shows -- Supernatural, for example. These are great shows, and I hate that they're being dismissed because people think they can tell everything about it because of one aspect. The same thing happens in literature and movies and just about every other form or popular culture, but it still drives me nuts.

So in that aspect, I can see where fast-forwarding past college would help alleviate that particular problem. If she's out of college, it's not longer a "teen" show. Maybe that will bring more viewers who have (mistakenly, in my opinion) written off the show up to now. And if that's the plan, and it works, I support it.

But damn, I'd hate to see a lot of the characters and relationships we've seen evolve over the last three years go away. Keith and Veronica's relationship is a big part of the show for me, and the parent/child relationship undergoes a huge change when the kid is in college. I want to see them negotiate that. I want to see Veronica go through the questioning and probing and trying to figure out what the hell is up with her world that happens in college. A bit of that happens when you get your first job, but it's not the same thing.

So I'd be disappointed to see VM skip the college years, but I'd be devastated to see the show go away altogether. If VM, FBI is what is needed to keep VM on the air, I'll take it.

RichardAK -- I agree that the first season of VM was exceptional, in part because they had a definite arc to follow, a mystery to solve. And I agree that retconning A Trip to the Dentist was a mistake -- I thought one of the best, most heartbreaking and raw things to happen in Season 1 was the revelation that the rape was a series of accidents with no intention behind it. That was gutsy beyond belief, and backpedaling to make Cassidy a rapist destroyed that.

However, I disagree that everything after season 1 "would inevitably be, as they were, in the nature of sequels." There's a lot more these characters have to say. The mystery arc is only one part of what makes the show work, in my opinion. the rest is the characters, the relationships, the dynamics between haves and have nots, and just watching Veronica try to grow up and let down some of her defenses. No, the show hasn't matched its season-1 peak, but it's still better than all but a few things on TV now. I don't think it's time for it to gracefully bow out. I want it to stick around.

I first started watching Veronica Mars back at the very beginning, and I loved season one so much so that I would say, without fear of hyperbole, that season one of Veronica Mars may have been the most perfect season of television ever.

Having said that, I must now say something that will no doubt make me reviled by many VM fans: I don't know that there was any good reason to continue the show past season one. After all, the story ended with the discovery of Lilly's killer, meaning that any subsequent seasons would inevitably be, as they were, in the nature of sequels. And a sequel to a completed epic is inevitably bad; one hardly imagines, or wishes to imagine, Dostoevsky writing The Brothers Karamazov II: Fyodor's Revenge.

And indeed, what have we gotten since season one? Well, first they threw some extras off a cliff, and then ignored that they had done that for the next half-season so as to focus on the soap-operatic Duncan's baby plot-line. Then at the end of the season they grossly ret-conned the events of "A Trip to the Dentist," which was, in my view, the best episode of the series, all to make it seem as though making Beaver the killer made any sense. (It didn't work.)

And this season? First of all, they've been spending far too much time on Veronica's love-life. What made the Veronica-Logan pairing so interesting in season one was the possibility that Logan might be the killer; romantically pairing the detective with a suspect is one of the tropes of film noir. But now, Logan has no organic role in the story at all, except as Veronica's love interest. The same is true of Piz, and of Parker since the end serial-rapist mystery. I also think they badly mishandled the who-killed-the-dean mystery, because Veronica barely seemed to care until the very end, (Keith was the one really doing the investigating).

Would a change in format help? Would putting Veronica at the FBI make it better? It seems to me that that would just transform the show into a detective-procedural, like another Law and Order or CSI, although Karen Sisco might be the more apt comparison. In any case, the show might be good enough if competently written, but not really anything special.

What made the show great in season one was that Veronica was investigating the mystery of her own life. She was trying to find the cause of the very events (Lilly's death, her own rape, her social ostracism, her mother's leaving) that made her the person she had become. That's not a storyline that can ever be repeated, and trying to repeat it is not working. Had the show ended after season one, it would have left the fans wanting more, which is the state the audience should always be left in at the end of any entertainment. To end it now would be putting it out of it's misery.

Having Veronica grow into early adulthood could benefit the show by bringing in a wider range of viewers. It's a good drama for teens but does have the potential to pull in adult viewers.

I don't want Veronica Mars to be cancelled! I don't like the idea of fast forwarding through college. I love the father doughter relationship that veronica has. All of the characters like logan, wallace, keith, dick and mac should always be included in the show for it to be truelly good. I feel that by skipping years and getting rid of key people the show would loose its magic!

I would hate for Veronica Mars to be cancelled, almost as much as I would hate for her college years to just be "skipped."

If it comes down to the bar, I will still watch the show. But I rather watch her way through college instead of just skipping it. Perhaps they could just do A shorter year span?

I mean, she is a Freshman now, but she MUST be ending the year after everything that has happened...

(I guess her Criminal Profiling Class was a whole year... They just celebrated Valentine's Day and all...)

I think they could pull off her Sophomore/Junior year in the beginning/end of a season--perhaps focusing on the Summer?

Senior year could be dominated by an internship with the FBI and then enter Veronica Mars--FBI extrordinaire.

Veronica CAN'T be cancelled! I recently just got hooked and rented the first and second seasons on dvd and look forward to Veronica all week! I would follow Veronica anywhere, but I would miss Logan.. The show is Great!!! Smart and funny! I think you could do another season or two at hearst and than have her go to the FBI academy and than back to Cali to work in a field office. I love watching veronica and love her smart mouth! It is th anti-OC type show and I would be so sad if it went away! The plots are fresh and engaging. It would be such a bad move to cancel this amazing show! PLEASE DONT!

THANK YOU for finally commenting on this! Rob Thomas will be able to write a fantastic show either way. The college years have yet to successfully work for any show that started in the main characters high school years. While I would hate to loose Weevil and Wallace we aren't really getting much screen time with them this year anyways. Parker and Piz are kind of take them or leave them at this point, neither of them is very tied to the current story line. I definately disagree with your comment about Logan though. If Veronica were to skip ahead a few years maybe her and Logan could have gotten past all the problems they are experiencing now and have a chance for a real romance as "adults". The only character I would be really sorry to see leave is her father. Phone consultations on cases would only work for so long. Hopefully Veronica won't be the only original cast member to make it to the fourth season. The feel of the show changes a lot when you introduce new characters and it could end up being like a series premier all over again...Either way keep Veronica Mars on the air!!

I definitely think that Veronica Mars as a television show is designed to be a drama [about the life of] and a mystery [about the life of and the mini-mysteries too]. To lose one dynamic or the other would mean sacrificing the core of the show. I want V to come back next season, but I don't want to sacrifice the essential elements that I've grown to love.

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