{"id":7394,"date":"2019-09-13T13:00:22","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T20:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/?p=7394"},"modified":"2019-09-02T16:44:02","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T23:44:02","slug":"mark-watches-veronica-mars-s04e07-gods-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/2019\/09\/mark-watches-veronica-mars-s04e07-gods-of-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Watches ‘Veronica Mars’: S04E07 – Gods of War"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the seventh and penultimate episode of the fourth season of Veronica Mars<\/i>, a clear bomber suspect emerges, but it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make anything easier for the Mars Investigations team. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to watch Veronica Mars<\/i>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s still an episode left, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m already so, so stressed.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I admit that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m still worried that Penn isn’t<\/i> the bomber, and given the final scene, I think that Penn is going to prove that he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s really not who everyone thinks he is. But early in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Gods of War,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d it felt like he fit the identity of the bomber so<\/i> well. I actually thought the suspected motive was super strong! He mistakenly believed all the bombs had shrapnel, so in order to stay consistent with the bomber\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s M.O., he filled all the subsequent bombs with shrapnel and embarrassed the mayor with the threatening letter and even the limerick. Except\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 the collar bomb. That doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t fit, does it? And his scenes throughout the show have felt so genuine. Was he really<\/i> behind all of this? Would he really keep up with all this just so he could end up on top? I suppose it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s believable, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not like there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s any doubt over who was responsible for the Sea Sprite bombing and Perry Walsh\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s murder. All that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s left is nailing Big Dick (ha!) with the charge, determining how involved Clyde was, and figuring out who set the following ones.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Which\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 is still a lot, admittedly.<\/p>\n

And boy, does a lot happen from that epiphany of Veronica\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s in Matty\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s room until the final moments. The chief of police came around to Veronica and Keith, first of all, which felt like such a huge moment after she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d rebuffed the Marses so very many times. It sets in motion the APB, which leads to the raid on Penn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s basement apartment, which then led to the attempt to find Penn, which\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 whew. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll get to that scene in a moment. Throughout this, Veronica and Mars are tested, and not necessarily by the same things. Veronica continues to be tempted by Leo, but that temptation is lessened and she turns it down this time. That really unsettling dream with Wallace in it certainly helped. But I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m glad that Veronica was able to reconsider what she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d been doing and<\/i> how it affected Logan. Granted, a near-death experience is not the ideal way to figure this out, but at least there was<\/i> a moment of clarity for her. Again, I thought the writers were taking her down a much darker path. BUT SHE ACCEPTED THE PROPOSAL AND THE LOOK ON LOGAN\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S FACE WAS EVERYTHING, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT. This could have been so much darker!<\/p>\n

Well, I say that, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m dancing around the HORRIFYING shoot-out scene at Carol\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s cabin. Lord, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all, why? Why does this show do so much to me? While I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think it was quite on the same level, it reminded me a lot of the big climactic fight at the end of season one, at least in the sense that both Keith and Mars were on site, and it seemed real<\/i> believable that this was not going to end well. I am truly surprised that someone didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t die during this episode. But I also have to admit that I wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t sure if Weevil would come through for Veronica! After everything that went down after the film and over the course of this season, I thought that Veronica had burned that bridge. Not just that, but she kept<\/i> burning it down every time Weevil tried to reconstruct it!\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And yet. AND YET. When he found out from Claudia that Alonzo was going to assassinate her, he still came through. He still called off the hit. In that moment, Veronica was humbled because she knew that Weevil had her back regardless<\/i> of the shit they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d put one another through. And that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fucking powerful, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But all is not well, and my heart is CRUSHED by Keith\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s choice to retire so that he can take care of himself. Yeah, Keith Mars crying? I would like a return, please don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t ever do this to me again. IT HURTS TOO MUCH. This was his fear! He was worried that his memory would fail at a time when he and Veronica needed it, and I actually don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s anything wrong with him choosing to take time away so he can take care of himself. Though I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m confused by him being interested in another position. What does that<\/i> mean? And why would he go from one job to another?\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

There are so many threads left to be resolved, though, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m so impressed at how well-balanced they are. I think it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s safe to say that Nicole\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s story has mostly been resolved. I still don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the second bomber, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also quite obvious that she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s done with Veronica after Veronica abused her trust. As for Daniel, both the Carr brothers are dead, and no one seems interested in pursuing the Bitcoin payments, so that might be mostly wrapped up. But everything else? Well, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got Clyde realizing how badly Big Dick screwed him and then setting Alonzo and Dodie (I GOT HIS NAME) on Big Dick by revealing that he recorded Big Dick while the man admitted he was behind the bombing and Perry Walsh\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s death. So that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to be chaotic. Even worse, Matty, upset that Veronica and Keith pursued Penn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s arrest instead of Big Dick\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s has taken matters into her own hands. She Trojan-horsed her way into Big Dick\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mansion, and he caught her on camera, and now I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m worried there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gonna be a three-way fight between Matty, Alonzo, and Big Dick.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This finale is going to be a LOT, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The video for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Gods of War\u00e2\u20ac\u009d can be downloaded here for $0.99<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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