this week's castle & psych and some links to meta essays
read two thoughtful meta essays on Joan Watson and Loki, two of my favorite fandom characters (for different reasons and for different feels):
♥ Different for girls: Joan Watson's extra shift
♥ META: Another Literary Ancestor for MCU!Loki
Castle
RYAAAAAN ♥♥
Ryan is the heart of this whole show. No. He is.
Oh, that's how you pronounce Siobhan.
Yeah, Ryan, I don't think that's gonna work.
Nope, that didn't work (talking to Siobhan behind bars).
Fenton O'Connell is hot sure, but I find Kevin Ryan hot too.
I know critics had their beef with this episode, but I personally loved it. Would it have been awesome if this turned out to be a 2-arc episode to flesh it out more? YES. But I'm also content with what we got, however little of it there was or how fast-paced it felt. I know it's the Castle and Beckett Show, but Esposito got his chance to shine, and I'm glad it was Ryan's turn now. I love Ryan as the comic relief character, and I love him as the nervous, suited up, squeaky clean cop but there's more to Ryan than that superficial layer. He wouldn't be a good cop otherwise.
And I don't find his character boring at all. Compared to Beckett and Castle (and even Esposito to some extent), he hasn't been as fully fleshed out so of course it would seem that Kevin Ryan is a one-dimensional character, but as this episode highlighted, Kevin Ryan is so very awesome at going undercover and he is a BADASS. OK?
I just have a lot of love for Kevin Ryan. maybe even more than for the other three main characters of this show. who are they called again?
(Yes, the Castle/Beckett at the end with the whole Jordan thing was a lovely shipper moment, though totally random and like out of nowhere. I think it helped Castle share something personal with Beckett and totally proved Meredith wrong when she warned Beckett about not knowing anything personal about Castle. Don't get me wrong--I love Meredith, when she appears--but it's nice to know Beckett won't have to worry about that. Or at least, I hope she won't. The Jenny/Ryan scene was nice too; if it makes Ryan happy to be a family man, then kudos to him. HE IS MY FAVORITE. I j-just can't contain my love for him. No seriously, I think it's becoming debilitating.)
Psych
I gotta be honest and say I'm not a fan of this 'vote and choose your own ending' interactive schtick shows are doing now. I'm not sure how to explain it besides saying that it defeats the purpose, for me at least, of a cohesive plot line for a show if you have multiple endings. Now I'm probably the only one who feels this way, and I do still participate in this interactive schtick I seem to be wary of so I am a hypocrite, I can totally acknowledge that, but on the other hand, I do love the sentiment that TPTB try to include us in this way. It's like hate the way the message is conveyed, but don't hate the messenger or their intentions in a sense? (The Psych crew is so very good to their fans.)
Anyways, I do love a good homage episode and Clue is one of my favorite movies and I love the board game so there was really a whole lot to love here, even if we didn't find out who the killer was until like the last five minutes. It felt really rushed at the end too. The episode did spend a lot of time developing the characters and motives. But again, I felt like the interactive voting skewed the show in a narrative sense so that by the end all that build up to who could've have done it falls to the sideways because it all depends on outside forces (ie the fans) and not inside forces integral to the narrative (ie the fictional people). And that's what I have a problem with. But, IIRC, the movie, Clue, had different endings to who could've been the killer as well before Tim Curry's character finally revealed who the real killer was so it works in a sense too? I dunno, man, I'm so confused on why I don't like these fan endings. Maybe the more shows do them, the more I'll warm up to them?
BUT! 100 episodes! Yay. It really is, I think, the little show that could. For the first three? or four? years, it felt more like a cult show that only a handful of people heard about, so I'm loving that social media has been such an integral part in spreading its awesome delicious flavor over everybody. The way I describe it sounds gross, but you get what I mean.
~*~
This entry was originally posted at http://dahlia-moon.dreamwidth.org/254468.html.
comments @ DW
♥ Different for girls: Joan Watson's extra shift
♥ META: Another Literary Ancestor for MCU!Loki
Castle
RYAAAAAN ♥♥
Ryan is the heart of this whole show. No. He is.
Oh, that's how you pronounce Siobhan.
Yeah, Ryan, I don't think that's gonna work.
Nope, that didn't work (talking to Siobhan behind bars).
Fenton O'Connell is hot sure, but I find Kevin Ryan hot too.
I know critics had their beef with this episode, but I personally loved it. Would it have been awesome if this turned out to be a 2-arc episode to flesh it out more? YES. But I'm also content with what we got, however little of it there was or how fast-paced it felt. I know it's the Castle and Beckett Show, but Esposito got his chance to shine, and I'm glad it was Ryan's turn now. I love Ryan as the comic relief character, and I love him as the nervous, suited up, squeaky clean cop but there's more to Ryan than that superficial layer. He wouldn't be a good cop otherwise.
And I don't find his character boring at all. Compared to Beckett and Castle (and even Esposito to some extent), he hasn't been as fully fleshed out so of course it would seem that Kevin Ryan is a one-dimensional character, but as this episode highlighted, Kevin Ryan is so very awesome at going undercover and he is a BADASS. OK?
I just have a lot of love for Kevin Ryan. maybe even more than for the other three main characters of this show. who are they called again?
(Yes, the Castle/Beckett at the end with the whole Jordan thing was a lovely shipper moment, though totally random and like out of nowhere. I think it helped Castle share something personal with Beckett and totally proved Meredith wrong when she warned Beckett about not knowing anything personal about Castle. Don't get me wrong--I love Meredith, when she appears--but it's nice to know Beckett won't have to worry about that. Or at least, I hope she won't. The Jenny/Ryan scene was nice too; if it makes Ryan happy to be a family man, then kudos to him. HE IS MY FAVORITE. I j-just can't contain my love for him. No seriously, I think it's becoming debilitating.)
Psych
I gotta be honest and say I'm not a fan of this 'vote and choose your own ending' interactive schtick shows are doing now. I'm not sure how to explain it besides saying that it defeats the purpose, for me at least, of a cohesive plot line for a show if you have multiple endings. Now I'm probably the only one who feels this way, and I do still participate in this interactive schtick I seem to be wary of so I am a hypocrite, I can totally acknowledge that, but on the other hand, I do love the sentiment that TPTB try to include us in this way. It's like hate the way the message is conveyed, but don't hate the messenger or their intentions in a sense? (The Psych crew is so very good to their fans.)
Anyways, I do love a good homage episode and Clue is one of my favorite movies and I love the board game so there was really a whole lot to love here, even if we didn't find out who the killer was until like the last five minutes. It felt really rushed at the end too. The episode did spend a lot of time developing the characters and motives. But again, I felt like the interactive voting skewed the show in a narrative sense so that by the end all that build up to who could've have done it falls to the sideways because it all depends on outside forces (ie the fans) and not inside forces integral to the narrative (ie the fictional people). And that's what I have a problem with. But, IIRC, the movie, Clue, had different endings to who could've been the killer as well before Tim Curry's character finally revealed who the real killer was so it works in a sense too? I dunno, man, I'm so confused on why I don't like these fan endings. Maybe the more shows do them, the more I'll warm up to them?
BUT! 100 episodes! Yay. It really is, I think, the little show that could. For the first three? or four? years, it felt more like a cult show that only a handful of people heard about, so I'm loving that social media has been such an integral part in spreading its awesome delicious flavor over everybody. The way I describe it sounds gross, but you get what I mean.
~*~
This entry was originally posted at http://dahlia-moon.dreamwidth.org/254468.html.
comments @ DW