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Did anyone else think the daughter should have been Kaylee?
Yes!
I was hoping Beckett would show up with a suede string choker. XD
Yeah, I’m only an on and off watcher of Castle, but the wife watches all the time. She DVRed that episode and I thought it was funny as hëll to see him walking around as Mal for most the episode.
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Great injoke/nod to his Firefly fanbase watching the show.
Castle isn’t bad, and it isn’t very good, but I watch it. Missed that episode.
That is freaking awesome.
This was the first episode of Castle I’ve seen. It wasn’t bad, but without a doubt, the best part was in those first few minutes.
I like Castle. It’s a really fun show. Not deep, but fun, which I don’t get enough of from TV these days.
And the daughter is adorable. Kurt’s right, she’d have made a great Kaylee to match Castle’s space cowboy costume. If someone was casting a new Spider-Man right now, set in high school again, I think she’d make a great MJ.
I was cracking up during the whole opening. Kept looking for references to Dollhouse or Drive (Yeah, I know Fillion wasn’t in Dollhouse, but I figure the angel statue in the graveyard was close enough to an Angel reference to maybe make it a Joss Whedon thing rather than a Nathan Fillion thing…)
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I loved the daughter’s “Didn’t you wear that 5 years ago?” And it was awesome seeing Mal Reynolds back in action again.
They do know that “The Pit and the Pendulum” is not a novel, right?
Anybody here picked up the tie-in “Richard Castle” hard-cover? There’s some discussion going on in Amazon’s boards as to who might have ghosted it.
I had absolutely no clue that they’d done an actual version of the show’s book. That’s brilliant.
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Having not read a single word, I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Stephen Cannell had ghosted it because of his already existing connection with the show. If not him, then I’d vote for Max Allan Collins.
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Collins was my guess on the Amazon boards but somebody said there is copyright info in the book leading to someone named Tom Straw. He does have extensive screenwriting credits on imdb but only one previous novel listed on Amazon. Not to mention that Tom Straw sounds like a fake name itself.
Speaking of Stephen Cannell and “Castle,” last night’s episode ended with a charming tribute to him using an update of the end tag featuring Cannell typing on an IBM Selectric Typewriter, pulling a sheet of paper from the roller and tossing it. Here’s the HULU link to it: http://www.hulu.com/watch/184337/castle-punked
The message at the end of it appeared as though Richard Castle wrote it himself:
“Stephen J. Cannell – Colleague, Mentor, Friend. We’ll miss you, pal.”
I wonder who will join Castle and James Patterson in the next poker game now that their “buddy” has gone?
I’m not saying Castle is great TV, but it’s dámņ fun TV. It’s similar to Bones in that you’re not watching for the clever murder of the week (Bones is practically science fiction at this point), but to watch how the two leads interact. And they work very well together.
And hëll, Nathan Fillon is just plain awesome anyway. Although I was disappointed that he didn’t show up as Captain Hammer at the party at the end.
(Bones is practically science fiction at this point)
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Practically? The one episode I tuned in for featured the team using a holographic display tank to reconstruct a corpse from its skeleton. And to think I complain about the unrealistic tech in CSI: Miami…
I find shows like Castle and Bones fun, well as fun as murder can go. For me the mystery of the murder is secondary to the character interaction. As for the sci-fi comment to Bones, I thought at first it was a stretch and it didn’t bother me, but watch History channels Ancient Discoveries. They have a fellow on there who is a “3D analyst” who has this pretty wicked holographic setup with a solid physics engine. After that I don’t think its really sci-fi anymore.
Ok this will certainly prove that I watch way too much TV, but the 2 supporting detectives on the show appeared at the party in previous character get ups as well. One as a Doctor and one as a soldier. Jon Huertas plays Det. Esposito and he was previously on “Generation Kill” and Seamus Dever plays Det. Ryan and he was Dr. Ian Devlin on General Hospital (my wife DVR’s the soap daily) as well as a Dr. on Army Wives.
It’s a fun show and this episode was certainly the best to date.
Haven’t seen Castle, but I did see that clip which I quite liked a lot. This, and Monica Baccarin popping up on V, someone at work watched it and said they never saw Firefly so I lent them the DVDs, inspired me to watch about half the TV series and the movie again which I hadn’t seen in over a year or so. Great stuff. And “Serenity” I think functions perfectly well as a wrap-up to the series that doesn’t need a sequel. Sometimes it’s best to keep a work closed. So Firefly/Serenity can go down in history as something special and unique.
And yet, I still want a sequel.
yeah, I do too. I want one, but I don’t think the story needs one, which is a huge difference. However, if we don’t get it (and since the movie didn’t exactly tear it up) I feel as if the storyline of that began in the pilot episode was two major plotlines: Mal loses faith and decides to focus only on himself, and what the hëll is wrong with River Tam. Both of those wrap up rather nicely in the movie. Mal decides to go to the edge and possibly give his life for a higher cause, and River is less crazy and we know why and what happened to her. Only real lose end is the Hands of Blue guys, and they meet their end in the “Those Left Behind” mini-series.
I’m one of those people who read but rarely write. Today, as a fan of Firefly and Castle I felt compelled to write. I agree Castle is more of a fun show than murder mystery. Emphasizing good character dynamic and humor as opposed to being a well written “who done it?” Though there is one thing I love that the show does do to throw you off, it doesn’t always use a recognizable actor as the killer. Often TV shows will need an experience actor to pull off the “I didn’t do it” scene in the beginning only to reveal them as the killer later. The problem is when a recognizable actor plays the cable repair man it’s a little too obvious that they did it. Castle on several occasions used known faces as supporting roles only to have the killer be some no name that we saw only for 2 mins of the opening scene. The Nanny McDead episode was a good example.
The Richard castle book wasn’t the best book I read but I loved that some lines from the TV show made it in. Its fun marketing.
Castle is a great show. Nathan really makes it work. I wish he was braver, but he really pours on the charm to make a somewhat unlikable character, really someone you hate to love.
The show is very character driven too. It’s been compared to Bones; which is somewhat unfair in my opinion, but like Bones, the interactions between the characters along with the story really makes the show work. Especially the banter between Castle and Beckett. They really know how to push each other’s buttons and one up each other.
I’ve been watching this show from the start and I’ll continue watching as long as it’s written and acted so well.
Army Wives is a great drama tv series and i watch it often after my day job.*’:
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Did anyone else think the daughter should have been Kaylee?
Yes!
I was hoping Beckett would show up with a suede string choker. XD
Yeah, I’m only an on and off watcher of Castle, but the wife watches all the time. She DVRed that episode and I thought it was funny as hëll to see him walking around as Mal for most the episode.
.
Great injoke/nod to his Firefly fanbase watching the show.
Castle isn’t bad, and it isn’t very good, but I watch it. Missed that episode.
That is freaking awesome.
This was the first episode of Castle I’ve seen. It wasn’t bad, but without a doubt, the best part was in those first few minutes.
I like Castle. It’s a really fun show. Not deep, but fun, which I don’t get enough of from TV these days.
And the daughter is adorable. Kurt’s right, she’d have made a great Kaylee to match Castle’s space cowboy costume. If someone was casting a new Spider-Man right now, set in high school again, I think she’d make a great MJ.
I was cracking up during the whole opening. Kept looking for references to Dollhouse or Drive (Yeah, I know Fillion wasn’t in Dollhouse, but I figure the angel statue in the graveyard was close enough to an Angel reference to maybe make it a Joss Whedon thing rather than a Nathan Fillion thing…)
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I loved the daughter’s “Didn’t you wear that 5 years ago?” And it was awesome seeing Mal Reynolds back in action again.
They do know that “The Pit and the Pendulum” is not a novel, right?
Anybody here picked up the tie-in “Richard Castle” hard-cover? There’s some discussion going on in Amazon’s boards as to who might have ghosted it.
I had absolutely no clue that they’d done an actual version of the show’s book. That’s brilliant.
.
Having not read a single word, I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Stephen Cannell had ghosted it because of his already existing connection with the show. If not him, then I’d vote for Max Allan Collins.
.
PAD
Collins was my guess on the Amazon boards but somebody said there is copyright info in the book leading to someone named Tom Straw. He does have extensive screenwriting credits on imdb but only one previous novel listed on Amazon. Not to mention that Tom Straw sounds like a fake name itself.
Speaking of Stephen Cannell and “Castle,” last night’s episode ended with a charming tribute to him using an update of the end tag featuring Cannell typing on an IBM Selectric Typewriter, pulling a sheet of paper from the roller and tossing it. Here’s the HULU link to it:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/184337/castle-punked
The message at the end of it appeared as though Richard Castle wrote it himself:
“Stephen J. Cannell – Colleague, Mentor, Friend. We’ll miss you, pal.”
I wonder who will join Castle and James Patterson in the next poker game now that their “buddy” has gone?
I’m not saying Castle is great TV, but it’s dámņ fun TV. It’s similar to Bones in that you’re not watching for the clever murder of the week (Bones is practically science fiction at this point), but to watch how the two leads interact. And they work very well together.
And hëll, Nathan Fillon is just plain awesome anyway. Although I was disappointed that he didn’t show up as Captain Hammer at the party at the end.
(Bones is practically science fiction at this point)
.
Practically? The one episode I tuned in for featured the team using a holographic display tank to reconstruct a corpse from its skeleton. And to think I complain about the unrealistic tech in CSI: Miami…
I find shows like Castle and Bones fun, well as fun as murder can go. For me the mystery of the murder is secondary to the character interaction. As for the sci-fi comment to Bones, I thought at first it was a stretch and it didn’t bother me, but watch History channels Ancient Discoveries. They have a fellow on there who is a “3D analyst” who has this pretty wicked holographic setup with a solid physics engine. After that I don’t think its really sci-fi anymore.
Ok this will certainly prove that I watch way too much TV, but the 2 supporting detectives on the show appeared at the party in previous character get ups as well. One as a Doctor and one as a soldier. Jon Huertas plays Det. Esposito and he was previously on “Generation Kill” and Seamus Dever plays Det. Ryan and he was Dr. Ian Devlin on General Hospital (my wife DVR’s the soap daily) as well as a Dr. on Army Wives.
It’s a fun show and this episode was certainly the best to date.
Haven’t seen Castle, but I did see that clip which I quite liked a lot. This, and Monica Baccarin popping up on V, someone at work watched it and said they never saw Firefly so I lent them the DVDs, inspired me to watch about half the TV series and the movie again which I hadn’t seen in over a year or so. Great stuff. And “Serenity” I think functions perfectly well as a wrap-up to the series that doesn’t need a sequel. Sometimes it’s best to keep a work closed. So Firefly/Serenity can go down in history as something special and unique.
And yet, I still want a sequel.
yeah, I do too. I want one, but I don’t think the story needs one, which is a huge difference. However, if we don’t get it (and since the movie didn’t exactly tear it up) I feel as if the storyline of that began in the pilot episode was two major plotlines: Mal loses faith and decides to focus only on himself, and what the hëll is wrong with River Tam. Both of those wrap up rather nicely in the movie. Mal decides to go to the edge and possibly give his life for a higher cause, and River is less crazy and we know why and what happened to her. Only real lose end is the Hands of Blue guys, and they meet their end in the “Those Left Behind” mini-series.
I’m one of those people who read but rarely write. Today, as a fan of Firefly and Castle I felt compelled to write. I agree Castle is more of a fun show than murder mystery. Emphasizing good character dynamic and humor as opposed to being a well written “who done it?” Though there is one thing I love that the show does do to throw you off, it doesn’t always use a recognizable actor as the killer. Often TV shows will need an experience actor to pull off the “I didn’t do it” scene in the beginning only to reveal them as the killer later. The problem is when a recognizable actor plays the cable repair man it’s a little too obvious that they did it. Castle on several occasions used known faces as supporting roles only to have the killer be some no name that we saw only for 2 mins of the opening scene. The Nanny McDead episode was a good example.
The Richard castle book wasn’t the best book I read but I loved that some lines from the TV show made it in. Its fun marketing.
Castle is a great show. Nathan really makes it work. I wish he was braver, but he really pours on the charm to make a somewhat unlikable character, really someone you hate to love.
The show is very character driven too. It’s been compared to Bones; which is somewhat unfair in my opinion, but like Bones, the interactions between the characters along with the story really makes the show work. Especially the banter between Castle and Beckett. They really know how to push each other’s buttons and one up each other.
I’ve been watching this show from the start and I’ll continue watching as long as it’s written and acted so well.
Army Wives is a great drama tv series and i watch it often after my day job.*’: