Castle!
As many of you know, my genre fiction of choice is mystery-I went from Scooby-Doo at six to Nancy Drew at eight to inhaling Agatha Christie at eleven and then I was off and running. I even belonged to one of those "book clubs" where you get books in the mail and a catalog full of mystery books.
So I'm very excited about Castle, a mid-season replacement on ABC. Yes, it's the Nathon Fillion show, and it a lot of ways it is The Nathon Fillion Show, but I'll get to the characters in a moment. The press release says:Castle is inspired by shows like “Rockford Files” & “Moonlighting” that are lighthearted with romantic tension and unlike the dark procedurals prevalent today Castle invites the viewer to invest in the relationship of two people having fun together and engaging in witty banter.
I am so ready for some of that; I'm sick of these dark shows that punish women for having a sex life. (God, remember Rockford Files? It's on hulu and at netflix. *puts in queue*) The two episodes so far are classic mysteries-police procedurals, to be sure, but closed mysteries that you can solve along with the team.
Fillion's character Rick Castle is catnip for ladies in their 30s: devoted single dad of sensible teenage daughter, bemused son of eccentric actress mother, wealthy successful author with many friends, charming rogue with a trail of ladies behind him. And it isn't so much that he's met his match in Det. Kate Beckett-although, thank goodness they don't make the detective either actually not a fan or pretend to be not a fan to look cool; that she's read all his books comes out early in the first episode-as that he's met someone that he finds interesting, when he'd become Very Bored Indeed. She refers to him as a nine-year-old on a sugar rush, which isn't wrong. He nails why she became a cop since "smart, beautiful women become lawyers, not cops"; sounds like a Batman-esque backstory. Now he's decided to base his new character on her, and between that and her being the actual professional in the team, it's a pretty nice balance of power without being obviously so.
If this were a series of mystery books, they'd have an awkward and reluctant courtship over the course of about three or four books, but the mysteries would go on well after they'd gotten together because the course of true love, etc. While it's very believable that it would take them a good long while to get together (without resorting to dumb plot devices) I hope that they don't get into that "well, when they do it's the end of the show" trap. But until then, I'm perfectly happy to watch them solve mysteries in the meantime.
So I'm very excited about Castle, a mid-season replacement on ABC. Yes, it's the Nathon Fillion show, and it a lot of ways it is The Nathon Fillion Show, but I'll get to the characters in a moment. The press release says:Castle is inspired by shows like “Rockford Files” & “Moonlighting” that are lighthearted with romantic tension and unlike the dark procedurals prevalent today Castle invites the viewer to invest in the relationship of two people having fun together and engaging in witty banter.
I am so ready for some of that; I'm sick of these dark shows that punish women for having a sex life. (God, remember Rockford Files? It's on hulu and at netflix. *puts in queue*) The two episodes so far are classic mysteries-police procedurals, to be sure, but closed mysteries that you can solve along with the team.
Fillion's character Rick Castle is catnip for ladies in their 30s: devoted single dad of sensible teenage daughter, bemused son of eccentric actress mother, wealthy successful author with many friends, charming rogue with a trail of ladies behind him. And it isn't so much that he's met his match in Det. Kate Beckett-although, thank goodness they don't make the detective either actually not a fan or pretend to be not a fan to look cool; that she's read all his books comes out early in the first episode-as that he's met someone that he finds interesting, when he'd become Very Bored Indeed. She refers to him as a nine-year-old on a sugar rush, which isn't wrong. He nails why she became a cop since "smart, beautiful women become lawyers, not cops"; sounds like a Batman-esque backstory. Now he's decided to base his new character on her, and between that and her being the actual professional in the team, it's a pretty nice balance of power without being obviously so.
If this were a series of mystery books, they'd have an awkward and reluctant courtship over the course of about three or four books, but the mysteries would go on well after they'd gotten together because the course of true love, etc. While it's very believable that it would take them a good long while to get together (without resorting to dumb plot devices) I hope that they don't get into that "well, when they do it's the end of the show" trap. But until then, I'm perfectly happy to watch them solve mysteries in the meantime.