1.01 Flowers for Your Grave
a.k.a. The one with the two Ryans
Hello! And welcome to castle_rewatch. Thanks for joining us! We'll be doing the Pilot this week. Oh, and rewatching 1.01 too *g*
1.01 Flowers for Your Grave: "When a young woman is found dead under circumstances described exactly in a book written by acclaimed author Richard Castle, he is brought in to provide insight into..."
Yeah, yeah, but it's the eye!porn what we're all here for, isn't it? So lets:
So, this is where it all began. The Pilot of the new cop show with the odd-ball cases, the unexpected humor, the lady-detective and the cute writer who gets on her nerves.
'Nice' you probably thought. You maybe even kept tuning in/downloading for the entertainment factor. But please do raise your hand if you knew at this point that this show would end up making you its bitch4life.
Yeah. Me neither.
Now, as we try to ignore the fact that that S4 is still 23,423 weeks away, we have put together a few fun facts and some pix from the pilot episode. Because it's fun to reminisce. Especially if there's eye!porn involved.
BEST DIALOGUE:
Though the characters are brand new at this stage, some of their lines were killers already:
Castle: Looks like I have a fan.
Beckett (re perp): Yeah, a really deranged fan.
Castle: Oh, you don't look deranged to me
Beckett: Wh-what?
Esposito: Yo, check it girl you're totally a fan!
Beckett: Right...of the genre.
Ryan: Riiiight, the genre. That's why you're blushing.
Beckett (re Castle): What's he doing here?
Esposito: Maybe he likes you.
Esposito (to Beckett, re Castle): A control freak like you with something you can't control? No, no, that's gonna be more fun than Shark Week.
Alexis: If I have to keep bailing you out, you're gonna have to raise my allowance...by a lot.
Drunk!Martha: Mine too.
MEMORABLE MOMENT
Beginnings of a back story...
SCALE OF SMOLDER AKA EYE!SEX
Lets face it, there's more eye!forking in this show than actual murder plot bits. But we are hardly complaining. Surprisingly, the pilot already had a handful of these moments. Not a bad start.
Which one is the hottest in the Caskett* Scale of Smolder?
Moment 1
Moment 2
Moment 3
Moment 4
Poll 1.01
It's hard to choose, but I'm going with #4 myself. Even though that first shot of Rick's at the beginning of this post...? *fans self* But that one was not reciprocated, so it cannot count as eye!sex. Eye!wank maybe? Ewww.
What say you? Cast your vote! (LJ gods permitting)
CONTINUITY SHENANIGANS
It's kind of unfair to poke at continuity when we're talking about a pilot. They shoot on a budget (that of a small country, but that's beside the point), it precedes the 'network meddle of death' after pick-up, months may go by between it and the rest of the episodes, you lose actors to other shows, characterization is still in its infancy...
But lets anyway:
How many times has Beckett asked Castle to 'stay in the car'? How many times has she done her classic eyeroll, punctuated by the BeckettBoeing (equivalent to the KellerBell, for those familiar with PB)?.
This is VERY important stuff, obviously, so we're keeping counters:
Number of "stay in the car"s: 2.
BeckettyEyerolls: 2.
THE CASE
Erm...something about 'roses on her body, sunflowers on her eyes'...? Who the f·ck cares, really. Someone was guilty, someone was caught, lots of eye!porn in between.
Not that we're shallow rofl but plot, schmot. Except with the Raglan/Lockwood/Johanna eps. In those we do want to pay attention to the case. WE DO. But those are usually so LOADED with SHIP!STUFF and OMFG moments, that, just GAH!
So, yeah, we defer to IMDB on this. Go here for this ep's synopsis.
IN RETROSPECT
So many things have evolved into wow-ness since these early days. Beckett's hair, Beckett's makeup, Beckett's eyebrows...(OMG WE ARE NOT SHALLOW)
Castle. He was way more obnoxious in the pilot, wasn't he? And his attention span? Non-existent.
"You wanna hot dog? I wanna hotdog"
And Martha? Way drunker!
But going back to Beckett one last time for the day. Her 'mourning of romance every Saturday night' in the pilot and in a few episodes that followed? A little bit too Lilly Rush, wouldn't you say? (nothing against Cold Case!). I am glad they've left that behind, tho, and that KB has blossomed into the desirable Det with the healthy sex life that she is today. Beckett has plenty of good looking boys to pick from, and even does *slaps her*, helping the ship be about more than just omg-I-iz-deprived-and-must-boink-witchu-NAO!
*Yes, Caskett. :p
Hello! And welcome to castle_rewatch. Thanks for joining us! We'll be doing the Pilot this week. Oh, and rewatching 1.01 too *g*
1.01 Flowers for Your Grave: "When a young woman is found dead under circumstances described exactly in a book written by acclaimed author Richard Castle, he is brought in to provide insight into..."
Yeah, yeah, but it's the eye!porn what we're all here for, isn't it? So lets:
So, this is where it all began. The Pilot of the new cop show with the odd-ball cases, the unexpected humor, the lady-detective and the cute writer who gets on her nerves.
'Nice' you probably thought. You maybe even kept tuning in/downloading for the entertainment factor. But please do raise your hand if you knew at this point that this show would end up making you its bitch4life.
Yeah. Me neither.
Now, as we try to ignore the fact that that S4 is still 23,423 weeks away, we have put together a few fun facts and some pix from the pilot episode. Because it's fun to reminisce. Especially if there's eye!porn involved.
BEST DIALOGUE:
Though the characters are brand new at this stage, some of their lines were killers already:
Castle: Looks like I have a fan.
Beckett (re perp): Yeah, a really deranged fan.
Castle: Oh, you don't look deranged to me
Beckett: Wh-what?
Esposito: Yo, check it girl you're totally a fan!
Beckett: Right...of the genre.
Ryan: Riiiight, the genre. That's why you're blushing.
Beckett (re Castle): What's he doing here?
Esposito: Maybe he likes you.
Esposito (to Beckett, re Castle): A control freak like you with something you can't control? No, no, that's gonna be more fun than Shark Week.
Alexis: If I have to keep bailing you out, you're gonna have to raise my allowance...by a lot.
Drunk!Martha: Mine too.
MEMORABLE MOMENT
Beginnings of a back story...
Click to viewSCALE OF SMOLDER AKA EYE!SEX
Lets face it, there's more eye!forking in this show than actual murder plot bits. But we are hardly complaining. Surprisingly, the pilot already had a handful of these moments. Not a bad start.
Which one is the hottest in the Caskett* Scale of Smolder?
Moment 1
Moment 2
Moment 3
Moment 4
Poll 1.01
It's hard to choose, but I'm going with #4 myself. Even though that first shot of Rick's at the beginning of this post...? *fans self* But that one was not reciprocated, so it cannot count as eye!sex. Eye!wank maybe? Ewww.
What say you? Cast your vote! (LJ gods permitting)
CONTINUITY SHENANIGANS
It's kind of unfair to poke at continuity when we're talking about a pilot. They shoot on a budget (that of a small country, but that's beside the point), it precedes the 'network meddle of death' after pick-up, months may go by between it and the rest of the episodes, you lose actors to other shows, characterization is still in its infancy...
But lets anyway:
- Beckett called a suspect a perp. Katherine Beckett does NOT use the word 'perp'. EVA.
- Beckett calls Castle 'Rick' about a half a dozen times in the pilot. She also calls him 'Ricky'. Present-day KBecks has stuck to 'Castle' ever since 1.02, saving 'Rick' for the most OMFG*DED* moments in later seasons.
- The Beckett!watch is definitely NOT her well-known $3,000 black Omega in this episode (but it IS soon after this and continues to BE until today. Kudos to the continuity people here. I like a show that can keep track of its props. Though that Omega is hardly a prop, is it. I'm obsessed with that watch, btw, in case it's not already obvious o_O)
- Beckett wore what we can guess is her mother's ring on her middle finger in the pilot, as opposed to around her neck, the way she does in 1.02 and onwards. It's huge too, this ring. A cute look, though. I wouldn't have minded it, personally.
Exhibit A: PilotWatch and the HugeRing
- Now, onto the issue of Kevin Ryan duplicity. 'WTF?' You ask?
Exhibit B: Early Cast Photo (courtesy of castle-fans.org)
Hello! Pick the odd-one-out much?
The pilot is edited well enough for this not to be (too?) noticeable upon casual watching, just one Ryan and one Esposito and a few 'extra' detectives. But after looking at that cast photo? OMG, keep your eyes open for this Ryan 1.0.
Exhibit C: KB Intro
She comes in, flanked by her two sidechicos
Then, once they've entered the room (two seconds later), boy-on-the-left is suddenly up four points on the Nice Looking Co-star Scale. And Esposito has a different hairdo (and so does Becks!)
And like in the above scene, this pre-Ryan pops up EVERYWHERE. They seem to have re-shot some of Ryan's scenes (the ones with the most dialogue) to cut-and-paste Seamus Dever in, but not all of them, so this poor guy stayed hanging around like one of those movie ghosts. - Judging as well from that early cast photo, it appears Gina was going to be a regular? And Lanie wasn't. Interesting stuff.
How many times has Beckett asked Castle to 'stay in the car'? How many times has she done her classic eyeroll, punctuated by the BeckettBoeing (equivalent to the KellerBell, for those familiar with PB)?.
This is VERY important stuff, obviously, so we're keeping counters:
Number of "stay in the car"s: 2.
BeckettyEyerolls: 2.
THE CASE
Erm...something about 'roses on her body, sunflowers on her eyes'...? Who the f·ck cares, really. Someone was guilty, someone was caught, lots of eye!porn in between.
Not that we're shallow rofl but plot, schmot. Except with the Raglan/Lockwood/Johanna eps. In those we do want to pay attention to the case. WE DO. But those are usually so LOADED with SHIP!STUFF and OMFG moments, that, just GAH!
So, yeah, we defer to IMDB on this. Go here for this ep's synopsis.
IN RETROSPECT
So many things have evolved into wow-ness since these early days. Beckett's hair, Beckett's makeup, Beckett's eyebrows...(OMG WE ARE NOT SHALLOW)
Castle. He was way more obnoxious in the pilot, wasn't he? And his attention span? Non-existent.
"You wanna hot dog? I wanna hotdog"
And Martha? Way drunker!
But going back to Beckett one last time for the day. Her 'mourning of romance every Saturday night' in the pilot and in a few episodes that followed? A little bit too Lilly Rush, wouldn't you say? (nothing against Cold Case!). I am glad they've left that behind, tho, and that KB has blossomed into the desirable Det with the healthy sex life that she is today. Beckett has plenty of good looking boys to pick from, and even does *slaps her*, helping the ship be about more than just omg-I-iz-deprived-and-must-boink-witchu-NAO!
*Yes, Caskett. :p