Let’s begin with a disclosure/disclaimer: I was a fan of Veronica Mars when it first premiered in 2004, and remained a fan through its three-season run. While I was disappointed when it was canceled, I didn’t spend the seven years since mourning it too much; in fact, it wasn’t until the morning that series creator Rob Thomas unveiled his record-breaking Kickstarter campaign for a film-length follow-up that I realized how much I wanted to see that movie.

So, like 25 percent of the film’s more than 91,000 backers, I contributed to the campaign at the $35 level, and over the last year I have thus received a T-shirt, stickers and almost 90 Kickstarter emails from Thomas about the progress of the project. Friday, I received the final rewards from my pledge — digital copies of the film and the screenplay. I also went to see the movie at a…