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Veronica Mars My Dah-lings, Veronica Mars! 

In light of the recent announcement that 2014 will herald the long-fan-awaited Veronica Mars movies, I decided to rewatch the entire series. All 64 glorious episodes. It hasn't taken me very long (scarily enough), but boy, oh boy, was it a rollercoaster. 

I was thrown back into the motions that my tweenage self went through. The drama! The angst! The friendship! The romance! The quips! I remember now why Veronica Mars + Chloe Sullivan (Smallville) were my heroes. These pint-sized, blonde haired, bitches were fantastic. Strong, smart, witty, independent, they made my feminist heart (albeit, unlabeled at the time) swell with pride. These girls did life the way I hoped to. 

They did it all while growing out their hair, falling in love, and making feminism powerful and sexy, rather than forced and too blatant for a TV show. 

Regardless, rewatching has got my LoVe (Logan/Veronica - for all you fandom n008zzz) feel all ablaze. Ah, Logan Echolls, the reformed bad boy we love to hate. We love him, his cute little smirk, surfer boy hair, and lanky yet shredded body. He was and shall, remain my California dream boat, followed in close second by Ryan and Seth from the OC (lets be honest, can we really have one without the other?). 

Every time LoVe broke up, we understood it, we sympathized..."GOD LOGAN, WHY?". And then he'd go and do something like save Veronica from poor little Cassidy Casablancas (aka Flash from Smallville. WHY FLASH? WHY? DON'T KILL ALL THE KIDS), and we'd fall in love with him all over again. 

Duncan was always too safe, and a little too uncomfortable with the whole "is she my sister?" Star Wars sitch. No one could keep up with Veronica with Logan. And need we even mention that first kiss? Yea, yea we do. That was one of those TV first kisses for the BOOKS. I don't care how old the actors are now...if we don't get some good ol' fashioned teenage make out seshes from LoVe during the movie, fangirls everywhere will die. Heck, I almost died at the ending of the series when we were left hanging as to our Neptunian friends' futures. What I have realized rewatching (in all my wisdom and sagacity), is while I do NOT agree with Veronica/Piz, I do have to say that's because I think Me/Piz would be better. Let's be real, Logan Echolls is the choice to make teen hearts raise to new heights, but solid 20yo me wants Piz. But I'll always LoVe you Logan. 

I won't go on listing everything I've gotten from this show, but I will say, if TV has taught me anything, it's that I GOTSTA have kids in California...if I want them to live proper HS lives. Veronica Mars, Teen Wolf, The OC...there needn't be anymore examples, that just about sells it for me. 

Anyway, I leave you with a quote, and a list of shows I watch. Do not be terrified by the fact that I have conquered all these shows, and am just a young-in. It's an artform, one I am proud to excel in. If it were a lifeskill I could put on a CV, you bet your asses I'd be hired by now. 

"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television" - Woody Allen

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8 Out of 10 Cats

Alias 

Arrested Development

Awkward

Better Off Ted

Bones

Castle

Charmed

Chicago Fire

Chuck

Community

Criminal Minds

Dance Academy 

Dawson's Creek

Desperate Housewives

Doctor Who

Dorm Life

Freaks and Geeks

Friday Night Dinner

Friends

Gilmore Girls

Girls

Glee

Grandma's House

Greek

Happy Endings

Hawaii Five-0

Hellcats

House of Lies

How I Met Your Mother

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Malcolm in the Middle

Melrose Place (2009)

Merlin 

Misfits

Modern Family

Never Mind The Buzzcocks

New Girl

Once Upon a Time
One Tree Hill

Outsourced 

Pan Am

Parks and Recreation

Party Down

Pretty Little Liars

Psych

QI

Revenge

Russell Howard's Good News

Scrubs

Sex and the City

Smallville 

Suits

Supernatural

Teen Wolf

The Big Bang Theory

The Carrie Diaries

The Hard Times of RJ Berger

The Inbetweeners 

The IT Crowd

The Middle

The Mindy Project

The New Normal

The O.C.

Torchwood

Undeclared

Vampire Diaries

Veronica Mars

Vikings

Weeds

What I Like About You

Workaholics 

boy do I need less time on my hands...OM SHANTI OM. hire me universe, or the list will grow.