{"id":1910,"date":"2018-09-28T07:48:42","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T07:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/?p=1910"},"modified":"2018-09-28T07:48:42","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T07:48:42","slug":"now-i-wish-i-were-writing-veronica-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/2018\/09\/28\/now-i-wish-i-were-writing-veronica-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"Now I wish I were writing Veronica Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is no chance I&#8217;ll get to write Veronica Mars but what makes me ecstatic is that today there is slightly less of no chance. Because the show is coming back.<\/p>\n<p>So, true, it&#8217;s already written and presumably by series creator Rob Thomas. And true, I have absolutely zero chance of making my television drama writing debut \u2013 I don&#8217;t count Crossroads \u2013 on this show.<\/p>\n<p>But there is a series. It was over, then it was a movie, then that was over, now it&#8217;s back. Stuff writing, I&#8217;m getting popcorn, I&#8217;m ready.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t actually know when it&#8217;s coming and I do actually know that this news is old. It&#8217;s been a month or even two since the return of Veronica Mars was announced but I wouldn&#8217;t believe it at first. I needed an awful lot of evidence and here&#8217;s one of the last little bits: series star Kristen Bell talking about it:<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe title=\"Kristen Bell Warns That New Veronica Mars Episodes Will be Darker\" width=\"440\" height=\"248\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F0bJbeo67Z8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m a writer but I&#8217;m also a journalist and normally if you give me two credible sources plus some documentary evidence, I&#8217;ll believe something is true. Unless you&#8217;re in government. This time I didn&#8217;t because it was just too important to me.<\/p>\n<p>Five years ago I wrote a piece called <a href=\"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/2013\/03\/15\/i-wish-id-written-veronica-mars\/\">I wish I&#8217;d written Veronica Mars<\/a> and the title says it all. Except while I could&#8217;ve written that at any time during or since the show&#8217;s initial 2004-2007 run, I was writing it then because we&#8217;d had multiple sources and documentary evidence that a film version was coming.<\/p>\n<p>I wrote that piece partly because I couldn&#8217;t contain myself and partly because I was hoping aloud that around a year later I would be seeing this film and wishing I&#8217;d written it. Sure enough, four years ago, I wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/2014\/03\/14\/i-still-wish-id-written-veronica-mars\/\">I still wish I&#8217;d written Veronica Mars<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This time I&#8217;m just going to take it for granted that I&#8217;ll like the new show this much. It stands a bit of a chance.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s it, that&#8217;s all I wanted to exclaim about to you today. Except writing this, I&#8217;m conscious that I haven&#8217;t even said what Veronica Mars is. That&#8217;s not uncommon: if you try to describe the show it generally sounds so poor that you wonder how Rob Thomas managed to sell it. Veronica was a teenage detective and I want to write &#8220;but&#8230;&#8221; here, yet anything you say after that sounds like an apology or an excuse.<\/p>\n<p>No excuses. No apologies. Veronica Mars is great.<\/p>\n<p>Years ago, I remember someone insisting very seriously that The Bill was the greatest crime series ever made. And I remember telling her she should stay in more. <\/p>\n<p>At the time I would&#8217;ve been thinking of Homicide: Life on the Street, Hill Street Blues, Between the Lines, I&#8217;d have run out of fingers and borrowed yours to continue listing more forever. Today I&#8217;d just show her Veronica Mars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no chance I&#8217;ll get to write Veronica Mars but what makes me ecstatic is that today there is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/2018\/09\/28\/now-i-wish-i-were-writing-veronica-mars\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[1413,1268,457,1410,523,1412,1411,1414,1409,180],"class_list":["post-1910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-selfdistract","tag-cancellation","tag-detective","tag-journalism","tag-kristen-bell","tag-news","tag-revival","tag-rob-thomas","tag-teenage","tag-veronica-mars","tag-writing","has-featured-image"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/09\/Veronica-Mars.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4chyI-uO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1910"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1912,"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910\/revisions\/1912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}