Veronica Mars debuted last night. Funny how shows starting in October seem really late this year. I don’t have much to say about the season premier itself. It was a pretty good episode, clearly designed more to introduce new viewers to the characters than to deal with last season’s continuity. I would have liked a more compelling multi-episode mystery than the head shaving thing from last year. It will probably develop into something more, but I’d have liked to see something that we’d all be talking and theorizing about today.
The big thing I noticed was that they revamped the opening credits. You get used to hearing the same music and seeing the same basic visuals each week. For season three, there’s a new mix of The Dandy Warhol’s We Used to be Friends, and the images are… orange. It’s funny how much a change like that can affect one’s perception of an episode. I went from being excited about seeing the characters again to worrying the show was being retooled for a new network. I don’t have any indication The CW is meddling or anything, but certainly the creators know they need to pick up a lot of Gilmore Girls’s audience for the network to order the back nine. I’m sure once the season starts running my worries will melt away, and I’ll get used to the new intro, it was just a little unsettling not to have the familiar sights and sounds.