Veronica Mars Season 2 - Page 20

RT: I think everyone knows that Veronica's going to go to college. I think one of the things we're going to do away with is -- the biggest thing we're going to do in season three that will be a huge shift is we won't do a season-long, 22-episode mystery. Instead, we're going to do three long-arc mysteries. And they will be delivered in batches, hopefully uninterrupted by preemptions or repeats. The first mystery of the year might go eight episodes, and they would be eight in a row. I think some of the legitimate criticism we've received this year is for having too many threads going at once, having too many suspects, too many clues, too many red herrings. Part of it is the nature of it being hard to do a 22-episode mystery and only have three suspects and no dead ends. It needs to get a little tangential. There are other upsides of doing the three-mystery thing. It's easier to book guest-stars for like an eight-episode run. It's tough to get somebody like Harry Hamlin or Steve Guttenberg and say, "We want to use you in seven episodes over the course of 22." It's much easier to say, "We want you to do seven in a row." So I think it'll help us a little bit with casting. I also think it will help us a little bit with trying to bring in new fans of the show. One of the things we'll make a concerted effort next year to do is to really make the beginning of Season Three feel like it's a new show. ... When we wrote the first episode of Season Two, it was full of flashbacks and leaned heavily on the knowledge of year one. As Veronica goes to college, we wanted to -- while not giving up the "Veronica Mars" mythology, everything that happened actually happened and will effect her life, there won't be mystery elements that new fans will think, "What have I missed?"