{"id":394,"date":"2013-10-13T21:56:36","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T01:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fysdetective\/?p=394"},"modified":"2013-10-13T21:56:36","modified_gmt":"2013-10-14T01:56:36","slug":"veronica-mars-the-world-weary-detective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fysdetective\/2013\/10\/13\/veronica-mars-the-world-weary-detective\/","title":{"rendered":"Veronica Mars, the World Weary Detective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <i>Veronica Mars,<\/i> Veronica is a social outcast who spends her time observing the social hierarchy present in Neptune High and the surrounding community. She is ostracized for many reasons, including her financial situation, her unsolved rape, and her tendency to befriend other social outcasts. However, one of the most prominent reasons for her isolation is her family\u2019s disgrace.<\/p>\n<p>Early on in the pilot episode, we learn that Veronica\u2019s father, the ex-sheriff of Neptune, is almost universally disliked because of how poorly he handled the Lilly Kane murder case. Veronica\u2019s mother left the family as a result of this fall from social grace, leaving Veronica alone with her father. From that point on, Veronica became an outsider in the social hierarchy of Neptune High. Her isolation is best depicted in the scene where Veronica is sitting alone at lunch, as the rest of the school passes her in a blur. Here, her feelings of rejection and betrayal are apparent in her facial expression and the way she stabs angrily at her food. She also appears very alone in the scene, since she is the only one in focus while her classmates are out of focus.<\/p>\n<p>Veronica\u2019s bitterness is a defining aspect of her character throughout the pilot episode, and probably follows her throughout the series. In the opening scene of the pilot episode, we see Veronica in a dimly lit car, next to a sketchy motel on \u201cthe wrong side of town.\u201d Everything about the scene\u2014Veronica\u2019s narration, the lighting, the music\u2014gives an impression of edginess. From the very beginning, we see Veronica as a strongly cynical character, one that fits well into the hard-boiled detective motif that is common in film noir. Although Veronica is young and female, distinguishing her from traditional noir detectives such as Sam Spade or Jeff Jefferies, she follows in their footsteps in her sense of world-weary cynicism and alienation from society.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-395\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2013-10-13 at 9.10.40 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fysdetective\/files\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-13-at-9.10.40-PM-300x187.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fysdetective\/files\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-13-at-9.10.40-PM-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fysdetective\/files\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-13-at-9.10.40-PM-1024x640.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fysdetective\/files\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-13-at-9.10.40-PM.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fysdetective\/files\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-13-at-9.19.03-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-396\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2013-10-13 at 9.19.03 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fysdetective\/files\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-13-at-9.19.03-PM-300x187.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fysdetective\/files\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-13-at-9.19.03-PM-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fysdetective\/files\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-13-at-9.19.03-PM-1024x640.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fysdetective\/files\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-13-at-9.19.03-PM.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Veronica Mars, Veronica is a social outcast who spends her time observing the social hierarchy present in Neptune High and the surrounding community. She is ostracized for many reasons, including her financial situation, her unsolved rape, and her tendency to befriend other social outcasts. However, one of the most prominent reasons for her isolation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fysdetective\/2013\/10\/13\/veronica-mars-the-world-weary-detective\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Veronica Mars, the World Weary Detective<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1778,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fysdetective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fysdetective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fysdetective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fysdetective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1778"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fysdetective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fysdetective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fysdetective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fysdetective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fysdetective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}