Review of "Setup" (A 'Castle' Episode)
A few thoughts on Monday's episode.
1. "Setup" and "Countdown" are not nearly as good titles as "Tick, Tick, Tick..." and "Boom."
2. I've developed a growing dislike of the habit of TV shows of starting the first few minutes with something dramatic that happens in the episode, and then cutting back to thirty-six hours (or whatever) earlier. It's bad storytelling for the sake of a cheap thrill, and they already did that in the season premiere. Stop it.
3. I don't really understand - and at the same time found really amusing - Ryan so desperate for someone to reporting his findings to that he ended up reporting them to Castle.
4. Luxury yurts?
5. The bit where the radiation detector goes off and Beckett's all panicky and still grace under pressure? Was cool.
6. Beckett was wearing a radiation detector why?
7. I'm still processing Beckett's conversation with Castle about Josh. Basically, I'm not sure how I feel about it.
8. The radiation detector was not well-designed. Maxing out for a reading that would cause no health problems seems marginally useful at best.
9. I also wasn't quite sure what to make of the interrogation scene. To prove that Homeland Security guy was cynical about everything? Or was it setting the stage for something later?
10. During the gunfight, I had a quote from "The Hunt for Red October" running through my head -- something about not shooting at the nuclear reactors.
11. Locked together in a freezer? Cool! Oh please oh please oh please let them huddle together for wamth!
12. Hmmm, not sure why my comments came out to be so negative; I liked this episode pretty well.
1. "Setup" and "Countdown" are not nearly as good titles as "Tick, Tick, Tick..." and "Boom."
2. I've developed a growing dislike of the habit of TV shows of starting the first few minutes with something dramatic that happens in the episode, and then cutting back to thirty-six hours (or whatever) earlier. It's bad storytelling for the sake of a cheap thrill, and they already did that in the season premiere. Stop it.
3. I don't really understand - and at the same time found really amusing - Ryan so desperate for someone to reporting his findings to that he ended up reporting them to Castle.
4. Luxury yurts?
5. The bit where the radiation detector goes off and Beckett's all panicky and still grace under pressure? Was cool.
6. Beckett was wearing a radiation detector why?
7. I'm still processing Beckett's conversation with Castle about Josh. Basically, I'm not sure how I feel about it.
8. The radiation detector was not well-designed. Maxing out for a reading that would cause no health problems seems marginally useful at best.
9. I also wasn't quite sure what to make of the interrogation scene. To prove that Homeland Security guy was cynical about everything? Or was it setting the stage for something later?
10. During the gunfight, I had a quote from "The Hunt for Red October" running through my head -- something about not shooting at the nuclear reactors.
11. Locked together in a freezer? Cool! Oh please oh please oh please let them huddle together for wamth!
12. Hmmm, not sure why my comments came out to be so negative; I liked this episode pretty well.