Another humility reminder...
Just because you are paid to write doesn't mean you're better.
During last week's episode of NCIS the wife of a director of a large federal criminal investigation agency offers assistance to a strange woman lurking in a car on the street at the front of the wife's house. Husband realizes it's a dangerous assasin and runs out of the front door, gun drawn, yelling at wife to get down. Long-time wife of this long-time agent turns to her husband and says...
"What?!"
in a beleaguered, confused tone of voice, and making no move whatsoever to get out of the line of fire.
Is it just me or is that possibly the stupidest thing any writer could have asked that character to say in that situation? Or maybe it's the director who's stupid and changed the lines. Heaven forbid that the actress actually lobbied to have her character be so utterly brain-dead.
If my husband had been an FBI type agent for most of our married life and came running toward me, gun drawn, shouting to get out of the way, I'd drop on the spot. I mean honestly, how many times does one's husband come running out all upset like that. You'd think that she'd some respect for his combat skills and ability to assess dangerous situations. Never mind how stupid it was to confront an unknown individual lurking in an unknown car without taking anyone with her or letting anyone know what she's doing. Even I mention that to my husband before I go out to check on something and he's not any sort of law enforcement agent.
*snerk* my first thought was "any fanfiction author worth his/her salt would have written it differently."
Thank goodness Castle is better written, so far. The twists and turns of last Monday's episode were highly entertaining. The only thing that lets me know when we don't have the killer yet is the time left on the clock. Anyone they arrest before 10 minutes to the hour can't possibly be the killer no matter how the evidence looks so far. I'd love to have them abandon that formula sometime, though. Go ahead, really suprise me.