Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Before The Avengers, Joss Whedon brought to life one of the strongest female characters in tv history. Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar) lives in Sunnydale California, student by day vampire slayer by night. It may sound like a cliche story line but I do promise laughs especially at the have ridiculous 90’s clothing but the writing is solid. Emotional, realistic, and witty. The characters each go through major transformations throughout the series and the bad guys are as scary as they are symbolic. Alyson Hannigan from How I Met Your Mother plays Buffy’s best friend Willow who dabbles with magic! Buffy is on Netflix and October is a perfect time to start binging on this 90s treasure.
The Following - Kevin Bacon delivers an amazing performance in this terrifying story of an Edgar Allen Poe obsessed serial killer who is fascinated with Bacon’s character. I was surprised this show was so enticing, considering the finale of season 1 left me staring at my television with confusion. To be honest, this show was made for people with strong stomachs, there is no holding back when it comes to blood, gore, and the fate of adorable puppies. If you’re an Edgar Allen Poe fan I strongly suggest giving The Following a shot, there are many references. Season 3 comes back in January on FOX!
Veronica Mars - Another strong female character, Veronica is a high-school student who is savvy, resilient, and determined. Her dad, Keith Mars was the local sheriff until Veronica’s best friend Lilly (Amanda Seyfried) was found murdered - and Keith believed Lily’s father to be the killer. Keith becomes a private eye and Veronica, who appears to be just his secretary, picks up some skills and takes on solving Lily’s murder. Set in Neptune, California V. Mars fans (known as “marshmallows”) have come to love this mystery show so much that kick-starter fund was created to help produce a Veronica Mars movie! If you like mystery/thrillers, romance, puns, and California surfer boys, Veronica Mars is for you and also available on Netflix.
I hope Kristen Bell’s daughters watch VM when they’re older and fall in love with Logan as a character and then get angry when they discover that it was partially their mum’s idea to kill him off and then maybe she’ll see some sense and realise how stupid it was (:
As someone who watches Veronica Mars on a biannual schedule, the new season is literally everything I could ever hoped and dreamed of… as long as they keep Veronica and Logan together. They can annihilate the entirety of Neptune if they want; I just need Veronica and Logan to be happy!
Also if we could save Weevil from whatever is happening I would really appreciate it!
Maybe give Father Mars some happiness in his life too!
If Wallace could also be present and accomplished I would also sincerely love that!
Perhaps some Mac with her continued self confidence and lesbian vibes flourishing also!
Also consider the return of Duncan and his daughter from Australia too!
I don’t think I’m asking for too much, just copious fan service to fuel my endorphins! Thanks xo
Author:His-Beautiful-Girl Veronica Mars English, Rated: M Romance/General Characters: Logan, Veronica Chapters: 1, Words: 7,004, Reviews: 0, Rated: M, Complete
Logan finds himself playing Santa for the kids. He wonders if it might be the time to propose as well. He gets a little help from an elf and a Christmas miracle occurs.
I love Veronica more than words could ever express, but Logan is my HEART.
Everything he does makes perfect sense to me, because I was also a fiery, passionate teenager who lashed out and self-destructed spectacularly whenever I felt rejected or unloved.
The aching sympathy and compassion this character inspires in me gave me the ability to bestow that same grace upon myself. He’s come a long long way since high school, and so have I.
Every series starts out with “a Logan” - there’s a reason Veronica calls him the obligatorypsychotic jackass - and OUR Logan comes by it more naturally than most.
His home life is a nightmare amalgamation of physical trauma, emotional warfare and neglect. He’s deprived of parental love, but showered with material possessions, which, alongside his father’s celebrity, are supposed to make him “better” than everyone else. At the same time, he’s regularly being gas-lighted by his father. If he wasn’t such an entitled brat, Aaron wouldn’t be obligated to beat the shit out of him. His parents are in and out of town, presumably, leaving him in the care of “the help” (those same people his mother dehumanizes). Nobody protects him. The dominant messaging is ‘don’t make us look bad’vs. ‘be a genuinely good person’.
If a “How to be a Bully Handbook” existed, it would be Logan’s nightly bedtime story.
Every school has an obligatory psychotic jackass. Decades later, most of them still are. For every CEO raping the environment and destroying the economy to funnel money into their million dollar bonus checks, for every politician hysterically screaming over a woman to keep her from reading a letter, every Supreme Court justice who just really likes beer and sexual assault, there’s somebody who knew them in high school. Somebody who could say “They’ve always been this person.” That’s how it works. Bullies grow up and find new ways to bully.
Nobody watching early season 1 for the first time would be surprised to hear that Logan was still the psychotic jackass fifteen years later. Apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, after all.
The true surprise is that he ISN’T.
Loganchose to reject that path. He rebelled against seventeen years of parental programming telling him he was both unworthy of love and better than everyone else. The glittering pageantry, the fame, the notoriety, the insincerity. He rejected his father’s example of hurting others to make himself feel better.
And he did it all on his own.
At the worst point of his life, when he’d lost everything- both parents, his lifelong best friend, the girl he adored. At a time when the town wanted his head and an MC gang wanted him dead, nobody would be surprised if Logan only wanted to spiral. To drink, to get high and numb the pain and forget about everything he’d lost. Or worse.
Instead, he….went to high school.
He kept going to high school, he did his homework, he graduated. All on his own. No parental figures. No mentors. No help. Sure, there were some backslides, some foibles. It wouldn’t be realistic if there wasn’t. But he’s extremely self-aware. He acknowledges his mistakes, learns from them, reassesses, and keeps moving forward.
He chose a career where he was almost guaranteed to fail. For every 1000 applicants to the Naval Academy, 3 will become fighter pilots*. Logan beat the odds, put in the time, focus, and dedication required to achieve his dream when so many others fail.
Logan Echolls is indomitable.
He’s decent and kind. He’s loves joyfully and whole-heartedly, despite his near-constant heart break. He’s not afraid to be vulnerable, even when his vulnerability has been weaponized against him in the past. He’s fiercely loyal, regardless of the loyalty shown to him. He’s nurturing when he’s never been nurtured. He’s a stabilizing influence when his upbringing was anything but stable.
Logan Echolls is a brilliant, snarky, world-weary, force-of-nature in orange.
He’s the most layered, fully-realized character I’ve ever encountered, and the fictional love of my life.
* prediction for class of 19 found in a quick Google search. Didn’t have time for a deeper dive. Don’t @ me.
Totally love this post and I agree with it entirely !!
It’s been 7 months and I still haven’t recovered from that awful Veronica Mars Season 4 finale. I don’t think I’ve ever been so viscerally angry about a TV show.
