Moonlightaholics

With Veronica joining the FBI it looks like it would have been a totally different type of show had it continued. Different 'feel'. I don't even know if there would have been a place for Logan and the other old characters. I understand she can't stay in school forever, but I'm not a person who likes it when shows I like change too drastically. It also was a bit hard for me to imagine Veronica in the FBI (it was going to take place a few years in the future but still). Not the way she skirted the edges of the law and sometimes stepped over them to do what she thought was right even if it was illegal. I'd need to see some character development to show that she had changed in order to make it believable. Or else see her getting into trouble and even kicked out of the FBI for that. True her father's last illegal act to protect her might have been enough to 'scare her straight'. But I liked that the characters weren't perfect and the good guys sometimes made bad decisions... In the long run, I found Veronica too 'shady' to be believable or desirable as an FBI agent. I would rather see her as a private detective in Neptune, struggling with her personal life, solving cases, and dealing with the co-dependent/enabling relationship she has with her father. That seems a lot more feasible to me.

Okay, quick precis if you haven’t seen this recently. Logan is accused of murder, and the one really damaging witness is a doctor who found him unconscious next to the body, with a bloody knife in his hand.

At the Neptune High Winter Carnival, Logan meets a girl (another skinny blonde who looks a lot like his previous girlfriends). She is very young and innocent, and seems to appeal to his softer side. He flirts with her, and makes a date to see her again. Just as her ride home pulls up, he kisses her. Turns out, her father is the witness against him.

Soon, he is stealing moments with her at school, although he ignores her, if he’s with his friends. He tells her later this is to protect her, given his bad experiences in the past.

However, when her father confronts him, he seems to tell the dr. that he’s only seducing Hannah to get to the witness, and possibly force him to recant his story.

There’s a lot of ambiguity here….and I’ve never quite been able to make up my mind about the whole thing. A lot depends on when Logan is lying, or when he’s sincere.

The possibilities are:

1) He was telling the truth when he claimed he had no idea who Hannah was when he met her, and he’s genuinely attracted to her sweetness and innocence. On one hand, he says he wants to protect her from his enemies, and he said much the same to Veronica at one point. He seems to feel that a key component in a relationship is one partner protecting the other (as he was not protected from his parents, when he was a small child, this makes a lot of sense). On the other hand, this is a young man whose most recent previous relationship was with an older, very sophisticated woman, and whose other girlfriends have been very smart, mature young women. Is he really that interested in a little girl? Hannah isn’t stupid, but she is naïve and sheltered.

2) He went after Hannah solely because of her father’s involvement in his murder case. Pretty calculated and manipulative, but this is Logan Echolls we’re talking about here. His “let’s hide our relationship” attitude seems to bear this out, but then again, once she figures out her father dislikes her seeing Logan because of the whole witness thing, Logan starts holding hands with her in the hall at school.

3) He first targeted Hannah because of her father, but came to have genuine feelings for her. In some ways, I’d like to think this is the case. He commented once that his first girlfriend “didn’t love him, the way he loved her,” and one of the problems he has with Veronica is that she doesn’t seem to need him.

There may be other possibilities, but this is what I’ve come up with so far. The series seems ambiguous on motivations, etc.