Review of "He's Dead, She's Dead" (A 'Castle' Episode)
Random thoughts about last night’s “He’s Dead, She’s Dead”
1. They could have come up with a better episode title. I could have come up with a better episode title. “Chatting with the Dead”, “Rare Medium”, “Visions of Death” … but “He’s Dead, She’s Dead” doesn’t even really make sense. I supposed at the end, there was one male and one female victim, but ... nah.
2. The B-story was touching. Interesting to see Martha’s dilemma about Chet, and how it affected her after he died. I liked that Castle wrote the eulogy, and Martha gave it - playing to their strengths for the best possible reasons.
3. It seems odd to have Alexis refer to Gina as “your ex-wife”. Presumably the three of them lived under the same roof for the duration of the marriage; why wouldn’t Alexis refer to Gina by name?
4. This episode completely validated TWO of my drabbles. "Life's a Beach". and "Belief System". Awesome.
5. The banter this episode - Castle believing in psychic powers, and Beckett not believing in them - was just okay. It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t spectacular either. I liked the moral of the story though - if Beckett doesn’t believe in magic, she’ll never find it.
6. I’ve officially decided that, while I like Beckett’s new haircut, I don’t like Lanie’s. She needs something with more body.
7. I wasn’t really expecting Ryan & Esposito to stay mad at Castle for more than one episode - and I was right.
8. I wonder if they’re going to do more with embarrassing Beckett with “was it your figure on those ‘Naked Heat’ posters”?
9. Is it just me, or does Ryan seem like more of a doofus this season? I'll have to watch it again to come up with an example, but I kinda got that impression.
10. Castle brought Beckett coffee again. No adorable facial expressions this time. But it's still a daily valentine (even though they can't see it).
11. Loved finding out that Castle changed his name from “Richard Alexander Rodgers” to “Richard Edgar Castle”. Not sure why that tickled me, but it did.
12. Also liked the medium’s daughter’s vision of “someone named Alexander will be important to you and possibly save your life”. Surprisingly not a romantic vision of things to come - both of these things have already come true.
It also follows my (just made up) "Rule of Hollywood Mediums". The Rule of Hollywood Mediums is this: If you have a detective/crime show that is not science fiction/fantasy, and you have a guest character that is a medium/psychic, and they are basically a good person, then that person will make one amazingly true prediction. This is true even if most of their predictions are wrong, and even if they are actually a charlatan/fraud - but they must be a good person. If the medium/psychic is a bad person, then they will not make an amazingly true prediction - any accurate predictions are the result of fraud.
1. They could have come up with a better episode title. I could have come up with a better episode title. “Chatting with the Dead”, “Rare Medium”, “Visions of Death” … but “He’s Dead, She’s Dead” doesn’t even really make sense. I supposed at the end, there was one male and one female victim, but ... nah.
2. The B-story was touching. Interesting to see Martha’s dilemma about Chet, and how it affected her after he died. I liked that Castle wrote the eulogy, and Martha gave it - playing to their strengths for the best possible reasons.
3. It seems odd to have Alexis refer to Gina as “your ex-wife”. Presumably the three of them lived under the same roof for the duration of the marriage; why wouldn’t Alexis refer to Gina by name?
4. This episode completely validated TWO of my drabbles. "Life's a Beach". and "Belief System". Awesome.
5. The banter this episode - Castle believing in psychic powers, and Beckett not believing in them - was just okay. It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t spectacular either. I liked the moral of the story though - if Beckett doesn’t believe in magic, she’ll never find it.
6. I’ve officially decided that, while I like Beckett’s new haircut, I don’t like Lanie’s. She needs something with more body.
7. I wasn’t really expecting Ryan & Esposito to stay mad at Castle for more than one episode - and I was right.
8. I wonder if they’re going to do more with embarrassing Beckett with “was it your figure on those ‘Naked Heat’ posters”?
9. Is it just me, or does Ryan seem like more of a doofus this season? I'll have to watch it again to come up with an example, but I kinda got that impression.
10. Castle brought Beckett coffee again. No adorable facial expressions this time. But it's still a daily valentine (even though they can't see it).
11. Loved finding out that Castle changed his name from “Richard Alexander Rodgers” to “Richard Edgar Castle”. Not sure why that tickled me, but it did.
12. Also liked the medium’s daughter’s vision of “someone named Alexander will be important to you and possibly save your life”. Surprisingly not a romantic vision of things to come - both of these things have already come true.
It also follows my (just made up) "Rule of Hollywood Mediums". The Rule of Hollywood Mediums is this: If you have a detective/crime show that is not science fiction/fantasy, and you have a guest character that is a medium/psychic, and they are basically a good person, then that person will make one amazingly true prediction. This is true even if most of their predictions are wrong, and even if they are actually a charlatan/fraud - but they must be a good person. If the medium/psychic is a bad person, then they will not make an amazingly true prediction - any accurate predictions are the result of fraud.