We miss you lots sweetie. Thanks for sending the snow.
Wednesday, February 28
Happy Birthday Emily
If Emily were still with us, she'd be 11 today. Or maybe she'd be 10; she never did talk about her age.
We miss you lots sweetie. Thanks for sending the snow.
We miss you lots sweetie. Thanks for sending the snow.
Veronica Mars
I hit the nail on the head with the killer and basically with the details. I've unhidden my analsys/prediction in the previous post. Of course there were some key reveals in the final episode so being unspoiled I didn't have everything figured out.
Veronica Mars returns May 1. What will I do for the next two months on Tuesday nights?!?
Veronica Mars returns May 1. What will I do for the next two months on Tuesday nights?!?
Wednesday, February 21
Veronica Mars: Dean O'Dell's killer
My theory is below, but it's white text on white background so you won't see it until after Tuesday's show It's now after Tuesday. I'm unspoiled, meaning I don't have any inside info though I have seen the previews for next week as well as reading the summary that shows up in TV guides and similar places.
The killer is Tim Foyle. Here's why:
Flow of the show/plot. Finding Mercer, getting him off, and finding he was actually the rapist was a neat twist. But the general M.O. has been to have red herring after red herring only for the criminal to be discovered out of the blue in the last or next-to-last episode. However, the character has been involved as a second tier character throughout the arc. And the key suspects, Mindy O'Dell and Professor Landry in this case, turn out to be possible answers but not guilty in the end. And the guilty party seems like a normal guy but we've gotten a taste of his evil side. Remember the scene where Tim confronts Bonnie at the frat party and flies off the handle. As well, Tim is in the final episode and is breaking into Mars Investigations. Of course, just because they've gone this route before doesn't mean they have to do it again.
Motive. Jealousy/revenge/inferiority complex. On a side, this is where I think Landry falls short. He's already humiliated the dean, why does he want/have to kill him? Tim is pissed that he's no longer Landry's teacher's pet and has been replaced by Veronica. Veronica has also become the dean's buddy. I suspect he saw Veronica's FBI internship application with Landry and the dean's glowing recommendations. He wants to prove he can pull off a crime which shows his true brilliance. Or perhaps his anger at the dean for calling Veronica "the brightest ever" inspires him to kill the dean. He also wants to get Landry, thus framing him for the murder. He already ratted out Landry's affair. And perhaps there's something more we don't know about related to why Tim doesn't like the dean. Or maybe he just figures the dean has so many enemies that they'd never think of Tim.
Details: I can't be coincidence that the fake suicide note is verbatim what Veronica wrote in her perfect murder paper. That makes people likely to have seen the paper the most likely suspects -- Landry, Tim, possibly Mindy. And if Landry and Mindy didn't do it, Tim did. It's also possible someone else saw Veronica's paper, but who and how? I don't believe it actually was posted on the Internet. He's added a twist to make it look like Landry did it and is framing Mindy's ex for it. Landry is too bright to dispose of his clothes where they'd eventually be found. He would have buried or burned them. I have no idea how/why Steve's fingerprints were on the keyboard in the dean's office. Did anyone check WHICH keys they were on? Maybe he and Tim were in on it together? Anyway, I don't have every bit figured out, but I'd be stunned if Tim wasn't behind the murder.
The killer is Tim Foyle. Here's why:
Flow of the show/plot. Finding Mercer, getting him off, and finding he was actually the rapist was a neat twist. But the general M.O. has been to have red herring after red herring only for the criminal to be discovered out of the blue in the last or next-to-last episode. However, the character has been involved as a second tier character throughout the arc. And the key suspects, Mindy O'Dell and Professor Landry in this case, turn out to be possible answers but not guilty in the end. And the guilty party seems like a normal guy but we've gotten a taste of his evil side. Remember the scene where Tim confronts Bonnie at the frat party and flies off the handle. As well, Tim is in the final episode and is breaking into Mars Investigations. Of course, just because they've gone this route before doesn't mean they have to do it again.
Motive. Jealousy/revenge/inferiority complex. On a side, this is where I think Landry falls short. He's already humiliated the dean, why does he want/have to kill him? Tim is pissed that he's no longer Landry's teacher's pet and has been replaced by Veronica. Veronica has also become the dean's buddy. I suspect he saw Veronica's FBI internship application with Landry and the dean's glowing recommendations. He wants to prove he can pull off a crime which shows his true brilliance. Or perhaps his anger at the dean for calling Veronica "the brightest ever" inspires him to kill the dean. He also wants to get Landry, thus framing him for the murder. He already ratted out Landry's affair. And perhaps there's something more we don't know about related to why Tim doesn't like the dean. Or maybe he just figures the dean has so many enemies that they'd never think of Tim.
Details: I can't be coincidence that the fake suicide note is verbatim what Veronica wrote in her perfect murder paper. That makes people likely to have seen the paper the most likely suspects -- Landry, Tim, possibly Mindy. And if Landry and Mindy didn't do it, Tim did. It's also possible someone else saw Veronica's paper, but who and how? I don't believe it actually was posted on the Internet. He's added a twist to make it look like Landry did it and is framing Mindy's ex for it. Landry is too bright to dispose of his clothes where they'd eventually be found. He would have buried or burned them. I have no idea how/why Steve's fingerprints were on the keyboard in the dean's office. Did anyone check WHICH keys they were on? Maybe he and Tim were in on it together? Anyway, I don't have every bit figured out, but I'd be stunned if Tim wasn't behind the murder.
Tuesday, February 20
We're #1
Continuing where the last post left off, and no, I'm not a drunken idiot who thinks his team is #1 beacuse it beat #1.
Vanderbilt's baseball team moved up to #1 in the college baseball poll this week. This is the first time Vanderbilt has been ranked #1 in a major college sport in 14 years. Sorry, women's golf doesn't count.
Go Dores!
Vanderbilt's baseball team moved up to #1 in the college baseball poll this week. This is the first time Vanderbilt has been ranked #1 in a major college sport in 14 years. Sorry, women's golf doesn't count.
Go Dores!
Monday, February 19
Vanderbilt basketball stuns #1 Florida
Had to post on this -- 83-70 on Saturday. It was front page news on ESPN.com for much of the weekend.
Vanderbilt hasn't been a basketball power in my lifetime. A season that ends with an NIT appearance is often a big deal. But not too long ago they used to be a force to be reckoned with at home, even when it wasn't a good year. Memorial Gym is the only one in the nation with the benches on the ends, not the sides and the student section is next to the court which creates a large home court edge. They had a series of upsets of top 5 teams in the 80s and early 90s and typically had only one or two home losses each season. But in the past 10 years, the program has really been down. In fact earlier this year, I harped on the fact that national power ratings had Vanderbilt not even in the top 100. At home, they had lost to noted power Furman ;), had close victories over Lipscomb and Toledo and beat Elon (4-20 and one of the 50 worst division one teams) by only 11. I noted this was embarassing and they should fire the coach.
Somewhere around the new year, this became a new team. They had a close loss on the road at Auburn which was perhaps foreshadowing. Then in the course of two weeks, they beat a ranked Tennessee and Alabama teams (who may have been overrated in retrospect) and went into Rupp Arena and beat Kentucky for the second time ever. They had a clunker at Tennessee but the turnaround hit a peak with the upset of #1 Florida.
What's amazing is that in six weeks this team has gone from playing like a not top 100 team with no post-season hope, to a top 15, or even top 10 team that's a lock for the NCAA tournament. ESPN predicted them as a 5 seed this week, but if they keep playing at this new level, they'd improve on that.
That said, I still think it's time to fire the coach. There's pretty clearly top 15 talent here; how bad do you have to coach to make them play like #115?
P.S. I guess the down period is a bit longer than I think. Vanderbilt is #17 in the AP poll this week, their highest ranking since 1993.
P.P.S. The Vanderbilt baseball team is #3 in the nation.
Vanderbilt hasn't been a basketball power in my lifetime. A season that ends with an NIT appearance is often a big deal. But not too long ago they used to be a force to be reckoned with at home, even when it wasn't a good year. Memorial Gym is the only one in the nation with the benches on the ends, not the sides and the student section is next to the court which creates a large home court edge. They had a series of upsets of top 5 teams in the 80s and early 90s and typically had only one or two home losses each season. But in the past 10 years, the program has really been down. In fact earlier this year, I harped on the fact that national power ratings had Vanderbilt not even in the top 100. At home, they had lost to noted power Furman ;), had close victories over Lipscomb and Toledo and beat Elon (4-20 and one of the 50 worst division one teams) by only 11. I noted this was embarassing and they should fire the coach.
Somewhere around the new year, this became a new team. They had a close loss on the road at Auburn which was perhaps foreshadowing. Then in the course of two weeks, they beat a ranked Tennessee and Alabama teams (who may have been overrated in retrospect) and went into Rupp Arena and beat Kentucky for the second time ever. They had a clunker at Tennessee but the turnaround hit a peak with the upset of #1 Florida.
What's amazing is that in six weeks this team has gone from playing like a not top 100 team with no post-season hope, to a top 15, or even top 10 team that's a lock for the NCAA tournament. ESPN predicted them as a 5 seed this week, but if they keep playing at this new level, they'd improve on that.
That said, I still think it's time to fire the coach. There's pretty clearly top 15 talent here; how bad do you have to coach to make them play like #115?
P.S. I guess the down period is a bit longer than I think. Vanderbilt is #17 in the AP poll this week, their highest ranking since 1993.
P.P.S. The Vanderbilt baseball team is #3 in the nation.
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