Killing Veronica Mars (My Letter to the CW Network)

I'm sure you've heard this by now - but cancelling Veronica Mars is an enormous mistake. V. Mars is your network's only (pardon my bluntness here) quality, critically acclaimed show with, as I'm sure you've noticed a cult-like following.

Our numbers may be few, but we are a passionate bunch and we need our Veronica.

In addition to Veronica's fantastic writing and acting, the show also fills a more important social void - that is - strong, funny, smart, independent female characters. Veronica and Mac are two of the most unique (and true) female characters on t.v. today.

Veronica Mars, along with Buffy, (early)Gilmore Girls and Battlestar Galactica are the shows I want to share with my daughter some day. We need more shows like these on television. Smart shows that don't just offer "girl power" lip service, but bring real, interesting, powerful female characters to life and give young women an alternative to Paris Hilton and the Pussycat Dolls.

I'm not sure if you even noticed the irony in running the "Search for the Next Pussycat Doll" during V.M.'s regular time slot.

Anyway, as avid fan of the show and a woman I hope you will reconsider cancelling this remarkable and significant show.

I will be reposting this letter on my blog and asking my readers to contact you as well. Thank you for your time.

Tracy Medley
Salt Lake City, Utah

Holy. Frak.

I'm too tired to get into it, but Battlestar's season finale just blew my mind. Like totally.

A Fair Wind and a Fresh Start **CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR BSG 317**

Is Kara Thrace really dead? LAME. Is Kara Thrace one of the final five cylons? LAME. Will Kara evolve into some type of mega-being/ angel to guide the colonists to earth? Now, that's more like it. That would be an actual destiny as opposed to the cop-out of facing the abyss and decided to dive inside.

It's hard to imagine the show without Starbuck; one of the strongest, most interesting female television characters ever created. So, it would be a powerful move to show a woman, with all her faults transform into something/ someone better - something transcendent. Like Buffy - like Rose Tyler absorbing time vortex - Starbuck as goddess is wonderfully compelling.

There is precedent for this type of character in the mythology of both the old and new series: In the old series, there were "seraphs;" angelic, non-corporial alien beings that came to Galactica's aid...and claimed, "As you now are, we once were; as we now are you may yet become." They travel in a ship known as the Ship of Lights, which has the ability to show up wherever and whenever it's needed. (Like in the middle of a gas cloud right before your viper explodes??)

In the new series we have Baltar's "ChipSix" who has directed Baltar's destiny from the beginning and in turn Caprica Six has her own "imaginary Baltar." Kara herself was guided to her fate by the manifestation of Leoben.

In the episode, the oracle gives Kara the little angel and when Kara gives it to Adama later, it is to put at the front of his ship...she says, "she brings a fair wind and a fresh start." The idea of the angel, guiding Adama's ship cannot have simply been throw away imagery, in my opinion.

It may be too much to ask for - maybe she's really just dead, but as significant as her loss might be - her return as something unexpected would be so much better.