When in doubt, do a grid

Well, you know I am the absolute furthest thing from a geek or a nerd, but even I occasionally think that it could be illuminating to construct a giant grid listing all of the major and minor characters on "Vernoncia Mars" and see where all of them intersect. A really serious nerd might also color-code the cells to distinguish season-one from season-two interactions. We were discussing yesterday how there really is a huge number of connections between different characters on the show, and there are rarely coincidences on this show, or loose ends that aren't tied off (damn you, Secret Message Pen! When will you reveal your secrets?).

This would be a good source for people to put into the grid. And wouldn't it be somewhat amusing to do up all the character descriptions for this show in the style of William Shakespeare?

syp and I were once seriously coinsidering reducing 90% of our email traffic to grid coordinates. I forget exactly what the rows and columns were going to be, but it was all very brilliant and all very never-quite-executed.

The truth is the grid could have saved me from the drudgery of typing out my thoughts. It would save so much time! I think the difficulty was making sure the grid topics were current. But we aren't here to talk about how to reduce our oh so meaningful conversations into a game of 'Battleship,' nope we are talking about Veronica Mars (in my head, I always hear it as Logan said it in AEFC when he's getting Veronica a pass onto the set to see Connor Larkin). As for the VM grid, it could be interesting. Probably better than the matrix I saw somewhere...

Oh, yes, where would that have been, oh woman who knows the last names of minor characters?