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A long time ago, we used to be friends


There was the world before Veronica Mars, and then there was the world after.

Earlier that day, in school, my friends and I had been discussing the previous episode in anticipation like we did every week, dissecting the storylines and proposing our own theories of who-done-it (no spoilers here — if you haven’t seen it, watch it!). The biggest was Lost, an instant network hit that had its own dedicated crop of TWoP recaps and forum threads discussing the Smoke Monster, the meaning of “see you in another life, brother,” and other oddly specific breadcrumbs that the show’s creators had left for its rabid fan base. The cozy insulated TV communities of 20 years ago might be a relic of the early 2000s, when the internet offered so much possibility but was small enough to make magic.

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