What can I say? I like it when my existence is acknowledged.

[serrico]

I've been thinking about this whole "interactive storytelling" thing TV's trying these days, and the difference, for some shows, between what it says on the label and what's actually in the can.

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[madripoor_rose]

Great essay.

And one thing I liked about the Castle episode....I wasn't *that* surprised at an in-joke for Nathan Fillion, he is the series lead. The fact that they also had Esposito dress up as a marine, when the actor's last role was in Generation Kill really impressed me. I do wish, given the plot, that they'd made a ref to Stana Katic playing a vampire in the last Noah Wylie Librarian movie, but that might have been just a little too obscurely geeky.

[telepresence]

And Seamus Deaver has played a doctor in a couple of his roles. Meanwhile Beckett knew a lot about Frank Miller, and Stana Katic appeared in a Frank Miller movie recently. And in addition to the Firefly ref, Castle mentioned Buffy, which of course Fillion appeared on. Lots of fun stuff.

[dementedsiren]

You beat me to the Seamus Deaver ref! Ah well - it was still made of awesome.

[dementedsiren]

And Ryan's dressing up as a doctor, when one of the actor's last roles was as a (murderous) doctor on General Hospital. The fact that they didn't just play off Fillion, and that it was a wider nod to the fan community and the greater continuity of actors across shows, really blew me away.

[serrico]

Thanks!

Yeah, the costumes in that final scene were shiny fannish gold. (The people below beat me to Seamus Dever's in-joke, but as a disgruntled GH fan, it tickled me almost more than the FF stuff. *g*)