Connections

Pretty soon it will be time for the show to start making some connections between the zillions of little mysteries and relationships they have been developing. I think by this stage in the first season there were a lot fewer things going on. This year the writers have been cooking a far richer stew of leads, liberally salted with plot points from last season. At this point I was going to list a few of the things I am thinking of, but there are so many that you can really just pick any character you want and as "When are we going to get to the bottom of [character X]?" And now it looks like Veronica's mother will be added to the mix. And what of the Secret Message Pen?

I suppose the whole Mac/Madison switched at birth situation will be allowed to languish as well. The touching hand on the glass scene must be the end of the story. And what about the not so subtle reference to the fact that Sheriff Lamb's father was abusive? Oh, what about Jackie's dad gambling problem? Is Veronica ever going back to the Java Hut? And what about Weevil's earring being at the scene of the crime with Curly Moran?

I think the little normal job has been an unstated casualty of normal no longer being the watchword. I think there was closure in the M/M story, though not a happy ending.

It occurs to me that perhaps the writers are not really introducing endless complications, but are just mining last season for interesting MotW (mystery of the week) possibilities. For example, the Koontz/Wiedman storyline in "Rat Saw God" could prove to have been a self-contained MotW story. But I prefer to think that when stuff from season one crops up, it's for primarily non-MotW reasons.