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So, uh, tvguide.com is reporting that Veronica Mars is getting picked up for 13 episodes next season. Uh, yay? If it's true, I don't really know how I feel about this. I mean, 13 episodes > 0 episodes, but 22 episodes > 13 episodes. The thing is, I'm afraid that if it were renewed for 22 episodes, and then the ratings sucked at the start of the season, then it would be cut down to 13 anyways, and maybe not in time for everything to be wrapped up. So I don't know. I mean, any Veronica Mars is better than none, but I have this sinking feeling that, if it's renewed for 13, then that's it. Unless it starts getting killer ratings and many more millions of viewers each week, then it's over. blah. I'm so tired about stressing over this. I really need to stay away from all the ratings/season 3 threads at TWoP and just wait until Thursday.

Anyways. Hope everyone had a happy Mother's Day! For Mother's Day, I "gave" my mom my VM S1 and Firefly DVDs. Not really a present, but I've hinted to her enough that she should watch them, and now I'm kind of forcing her to. But, I mean, I forced her to watch Wonderfalls, Arrested Development, and Doctor Who, and she loves them all, so I don't see her not loving Firefly and Veronica Mars. Since that wasn't really a real present, I also made her a mix CD of a bunch of songs, so hopefully she'll like that.

Edit: Of course, the same person reporting VM's pickup for 13 is also reporting Everwood's cancellation, and he seems even more sure of that than VM. So, I guess that kind of puts things in perspective. I mean, with the ratings VM gets, we should be thankful for any sort of pick-up, really.

None of this is set in stone, by the way. Nothing's official until Thursday, so don't start freaking out now.

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Heh, I know how you feel. 3 more days, and we'll know for sure.

And keep in mind that even if it's only picked up for 13, if it does well enough, then the CW can choose to pick up the back 9 episodes later. I heard that actually happened to Angel in its 5th season (though I wasn't paying attention to the ratings then): it was only picked up for 13, but then it did well enough that the WB decided to give it an additional 9. Oh, and I'm pretty sure that happened to Prison Break. Before it even premiered, the first season was only supposed to go 13 episodes, but then it did so well in the ratings, that FOX decided to have it go a full season.

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I hope it would get picked up for the rest of the episodes. It's such a good show, it's disappointing that more people don't watch it. But maybe the switch will help gain some publicity - since I feel like a lot of the problem was that it was on UPN. I didn't start watching until just a few weeks ago, and I think a lot of that is just that I don't watch anything on UPN, so I would never see commercials for VMars when watching other shows or whatever.