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the show balanced murder mystery, high school and college drama, and social commentary with sarcasm and off-beat humor. The third season of ''Veronica Mars'' premiered in the United States and Canada on October 3 , 2006 , at 9 pm ET/PT on The CW and Sun TV (ET only) respectively, a time slot that remained unchanged throughout the season. The season featured two mystery arcs — one presented from its October season debut until the end of November, the other from late January 2007 until the end of February. On '', which aired in that time slot for its entire eight-episode run. ''Veronica Mars'' returned with the final five episodes on May 1 , 2007 . When the CW Network announced its 2007–2008 fall schedule on , 2007 Though talks had been reported between Rob Thomas and Kristen Bell and , 2007 CW Drops Several TV series Thomas has stated that he is interested in writing a feature film based on the series, in the interests of providing closure to the storylines and character arcs. He created a trailer that takes place years after the third season ends, with the working title "Veronica in the FBI". It is due to be released on the ''Veronica Mars'' third season DVD.2 As well as the feature film possibility, there have been talks of a ''Veronica Mars'' comic book series "Veronica Mars" Eyes Comic, Movie , ''Zap2It'', June 13 , 2007 in the vein of Joss Whedon 's '' Buffy Season Eight ''. PLOT SUMMARY See Also: List of Veronica Mars episodes Background events The series revolves around Veronica Mars, a high-school student and amateur investigator in the fictional Southern California seaside town of Neptune. The first season's main storyline centers on the murder of Veronica's best friend, Lilly Kane, and Veronica's search for Lilly's killer. The show begins with flashbacks of Veronica's life before the murder. As the daughter of well-respected County Sheriff, Keith Mars, she is living a fairly easy life, hanging out with the "09ers", wealthy students from the fictional 90909 ZIP Code , and for a time dating Lilly's brother, Duncan Kane. Since Lilly's murder, however, things have fallen apart for Veronica. Keith Mars' accusation that Lilly's father, billionaire Jake Kane, is Lilly's killer leads to a recall election in which Keith loses his job as sheriff. Afterwards, Veronica's mother Lianne develops a drinking problem and leaves town for unknown reasons. As a result of all this, Veronica becomes ostracized by her former 09er friends. After losing the recall election, Keith Mars opens "Mars Investigations", a detective agency, where Veronica works part-time. During the series, Veronica uses what she learns at the job to help solve crimes and conduct her own investigations. Season One In the course of other investigations, Veronica comes across two pieces of evidence about the Lilly Kane murder case that shatter the status quo. The first breaks the watertight alibi of almost everyone involved with Lilly, including the entire Kane family; the second suggests that Lilly's confessed killer, Abel Koontz, almost certainly did not commit the crime. Veronica resolves to find the true killer. As Veronica investigates Lilly's murder, she also works on unrelated cases each week, which are introduced and resolved in each episode. Other important investigations that span the season include Veronica's search for her wayward mother and for the person who raped her at the 09er party. Veronica is joined in her "non-09er" life by new allies: new Neptune High student Wallace Fennel ; Eli “Weevil” Navarro , head of the Latino biker gang the PCHers; and Cindy "Mac" Mackenzie , Neptune High's resident computer genius. Using her friends' resources, as well as those provided by her father and his contacts, Veronica gains a reputation for sleuthing and receives an increasing number of requests for help from her schoolmates. Her new friends also help Veronica deal with Logan Echolls , Lilly's boyfriend at the time of her death, whom Veronica terms the "obligatory psychotic jackass" of Neptune High. Logan indirectly blames Veronica for Lilly’s death and takes pleasure in making her life difficult. When he needs help with traumatic events in his own family, though, he ends up turning to Veronica for help, and near the end of the season they unexpectedly fall into a relationship, shocking both themselves and the other 09ers. Season Two The second season begins with the introduction of two ongoing mysteries. First, Logan, in a bout of drunkenness spurred by Veronica's readiness to believe the worst of him, picks a fight with Weevil and the PCHers and ends up accused of killing PCHer Felix Toombs, a charge he denies. The charges put Logan on the wrong side not only of the law, but also of Weevil and his gang. The pressures of the episode and its aftermath provoke Logan to revert to his former delinquent ways, which in turn causes Veronica to break up with him. Partway through the season, Weevil is finally convinced of Logan's innocence, and the two team up to find the real killer, with occasional help from Veronica. The second mystery is introduced in the final minutes of the first episode, when a school bus full of Neptune High students careens off a cliff, killing almost everyone on board. Veronica, who was supposed to be on the bus, makes it her mission to discover why the bus crashed. This season shows Veronica’s life returning to much the way it had been before Lilly’s death. After breaking up with Logan during the summer, she reunites with Duncan Kane and is again accepted, albeit begrudgingly, by the 09ers. However, her private-eye sideline and tough persona keep her from being truly assimilated back into the rich crowd, as is made evident in the ironically titled season opener " Normal Is The Watchword ." 09ers Dick and Cassidy “Beaver” Casablancas become regulars, and the season shows them dealing with a gold-digging stepmother, Kendall Casablancas , with whom they are left when their father flees the country on the lam from the SEC . Wallace also discovers that his biological father is alive, and moves to Chicago to live with him briefly before returning halfway through the season. In a slight departure from the format of the first season, the two main mysteries are solved at different times: the Felix Toombs murder five episodes before the end of the season (in " Plan B "), and the bus-crash mystery in the final episode (" Not Pictured "). Much emotional tension is resolved as well, with Veronica reuniting with Logan in the final minutes of "Not Pictured." Season Three The third season begins with Veronica and Logan starting their , Wallace’s roommate, and Parker Lee , Mac’s roommate. Mac and Sheriff Don Lamb also become regulars. The first mystery, introduced in the Season Two episode " The Rapes Of Graff ," follows Veronica’s attempts to identify the Hearst College rapist. This mystery is solved in the ninth episode, " Spit & Eggs ." The next mystery, a murder, is introduced in the same episode. and then again when he has a sexual tryst with Veronica's high-school nemesis Madison Sinclair while his on-again/off-again relationship with Veronica is off. At the end of the second mystery arc, Logan has begun dating Mac's roommate, Parker. Early on in the season, Keith adds to Veronica's cynicism by beginning an affair with a married client, Harmony Chase. Meanwhile, Wallace struggles to balance academics and sports, and his roommate, Piz, develops a crush on Veronica. Veronica and Piz become a couple after she and Logan have what appears to be a permanent split, in the middle of Season Three. Dick Casablancas, who lived with Logan until joining a fraternity house on campus, has a breakdown and appeals to Logan for help. Mac, meanwhile, despite having emotional scars from the previous year's incident with Beaver, takes up with a new love interest in " Show Me The Monkey ." She later dates one of Veronica's contacts on campus. Near the end of the second mystery arc, Sheriff Don Lamb is killed, and Keith Mars is appointed interim sheriff. Jake Kane reappears in the intended season finale as a leader of "The Castle," a secret order at Hearst College based on the The Order of the Skull And Bones . The fate of Mr. Mars's election campaign for sheriff (opposed by rival P.I. Vinnie Van Lowe ) is unresolved at the end of the final episode. Though Veronica is still dating Piz, the possibility of yet another reconciliation with Logan emerges when Logan and Parker break up over his continuing love for Veronica, and Veronica responds less negatively than might be expected to Logan beating up the man who spread a sex video of Veronica on the internet. CHARACTER HISTORIES Main characters
Recurring characters =Family
=Residents of Neptune
=Neptune High
=Hearst College
EPISODES AND AIRINGS See Also: List of Veronica Mars episodes United States The third season of the show aired in the United States and Canada at 9/8c on The CW . Throughout the third season, the series served as a lead-out following '' Gilmore Girls '', a well-established series with a similar audience. Previous pairings, including those with first-run or encore episodes of '' America's Next Top Model '' and sitcoms during its UPN tenure, were thought to be less compatible. U.S. television ratings Seasonal rankings (based on average total viewers per episode) of ''Veronica Mars'' on both UPN and The CW . ''Note: Each U.S. network television season starts in late September and ends in late May, which coincides with the completion of May Sweeps .'' ''Veronica Mars'' was officially greenlit on May 20 , 2004 , with the announcement of UPN's 2004-2005 television schedule. UPN's 2004-2005 schedule During the first season, the show aired Tuesdays at 9 pm ET and garnered low ratings, coming in consistently last in its time slot behind The WB's ''''. MTV presented an encore run of the series (only the first half of the first season); episodes aired about eight days later, on Wednesdays at 7pm ET. In July and August 2005, UPN's corporate sibling CBS also aired repeats of the show on Fridays at 8pm ET, in an effort to increase exposure for the series. The show's pilot episode was originally tested at CBS and almost picked up by the Television Network . The ratings it scored during its summer 2005 run created more audience traction on its home network, which could be seen when the second season began on UPN the following September. ''Veronica Mars'' was officially renewed for a second season on May 19 , 2005 . UPN unveils Fall 2005 schedule For the second season, the show was moved to Wednesdays at 9pm ET. Toward the end of the fifth cycle of ''Top Model'' in December 2005, the show garnered relatively high ratings, including one of its highest rated episodes of the season, " One Angry Veronica ." However, the show's ratings fell in part because of the failure of '' South Beach '', which ended up losing viewers and giving ''Veronica Mars'' a weak lead-in. '' Lost '' on ABC and FOX 's '' American Idol '', both scheduled in the same time slot, also contributed to ratings woes for the show. In addition, several UPN stations regularly carried weekday College and NBA Basketball games over the winter, causing ''Veronica Mars'' to be pre-empted and moved to a weekend time slot that was inconvenient for its regular viewers. On February 15 , two days before the scheduled new episode " Versatile Toppings " was due to air, the episode was substituted with a rerun, and shortly afterward, UPN announced that the show would go on hiatus until the beginning of ''Top Model'''s new cycle in mid-March. This development was met with mixed reactions, with some afraid the show would lose momentum being pulled through February Sweeps , and others thankful because the rest of the second season would air uninterrupted and with a much more solid lead-in. The show resumed on March 15 , but still struggled in the ratings. UPN had tested reruns on Tuesday night at 9pm ET for a few weeks before the show resumed new Wednesday episodes to see if ratings were stable in that slot. The former ''Mars'' time slot had been a disaster for the network since fall, with both '' Sex, Love & Secrets '' and '' Get This Party Started '' finishing dead last in the Nielsen season ratings chart for the 2005-2006 season. UPN decided to return the show to its former Tuesday time slot on April 11 , 2006 to avoid the ''Lost''/''American Idol'' juggernaut. Ratings dropped in the first week, but stabilized by the end of the season. Overall, in its second season, the show ranked 145th out of 156 in the season ratings chart. However, UPN renewed the show for another year. Some viewers believe they were given a heads-up during the season two finale when Duncan Kane, answering his phone, asks, "C.W.?" and is answered, "It's a done deal" — although this exchange also fits the plotline rationally in that the caller's name is Clarence Wiedman ("C.W.") and he has just completed an important job for Duncan. Airing of the show was consistent on Tuesday nights at 9pm ET in the network's final summer, although several UPN affiliates dropped the network immediately after May sweeps (like Salt Lake City station KPNZ ), pre-empted UPN programming often (as in the case of Green Bay 's WACY , which pre-empted the network's second hour where possible), or moved it to a low-viewed slot in the late night hours (like WBQC in Cincinnati ). Individual ratings for original episode broadcasts for season two can be found on the individual episode pages. On May 16 , 2006 it was confirmed that ''Veronica Mars'' would be part of the new The CW 's Fall 2006–2007 lineup once The WB and UPN ceased operations in fall 2006. The show was initially given a 13-episode order, with the option for more if it did well in the Nielsen ratings. On November 16 , 2006 a full season order was confirmed for the third season, although the number of episodes was scaled back to 20 instead of the traditional 22. THE CW TO KEEP 'MARS,' 'HILL' FOR (ALMOST) FULL SEASONS Although ''TV Guide'' suspected this was a sign that a fourth season was unlikely, the episode order of 20 more likely stemmed from the fact that The CW did not have enough money to produce 22. In December 2006, ''Veronica Mars'' season three was added to the ITunes Store and landed in the top 10 of Season Pass subscriptions, ahead of such notable series as '' Lost '' season 3 and Scrubs season 6. On '', in order to launch that show, and prevent the out-of-sweeps Rerun erosion common to serialized dramas. The hiatus began March 6 and ended May 1 , at which time ''Veronica Mars'' returned for the last five episodes of the season, which will have non-serialized plotlines. At the CW Upfront on May 17 , 2007 Ostroff announced that ''Veronica Mars'' "is dead", but Kristen Bell and Rob Thomas may collaborate on another project for the CW network. CW Drops Several TV series On June 11 , 2007 Michael Ausiello broke the news that Veronica Mars has been officially cancelled by the CW, after receiving an email from Rob Thomas.9 In July 2007 in preparation for closing the Veronica Mars forum on the CW website, a fan based forum Neptune Rising was established so fans could stay in touch and work on campaigns to save their favorite show. Neptune Rising Forum MERCHANDISE Soundtrack
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| A Group Of Devoted Fans On | "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/information/entry/LiveJournal" class="copylinks">LiveJournal who call themselves Cloud Watchers have been dedicated to this effort since the spring of 2006 in light of the then-approaching merger of UPN and The WB into The CW On May 9 , 2006 , the group hired a plane to fly between the UPN offices in Los Angeles and the future site of The CW headquarters in Burbank , pulling a banner that read "RENEW VERONICA MARS! CW 2006!" to get the attention of network executives, the press, and anyone else in the Los Angeles area They had previously sent future CW executives, those in charge at the new network's parent companies, and influential people in the entertainment media care packages including binoculars, information regarding the plane's flight plan, and ''Veronica Mars''-inspired gifts{{cite web url=http://wwwwatchveronicamarsnet/cloud_watchers/ title=About Cloud Watchers |
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