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lillibet

Castle

Apr 28, 2009 02:06

Jason and I have been very much enjoying Castle, Nathan Fillion's new show on ABC. For those not watching, he plays Richard Castle, a very successful crime novelist who tags along with an NYPD detective and her team. While there are flaws (do they have to explain every single joke?) we've liked it enough to keep watching and generally find his ( Read more... )

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gilana April 28 2009, 10:40:20 UTC

Lalalalala... not reading this yet because I haven't seen the episode yet, but if I comment now, I can find it again when I have!

jason237 April 28 2009, 13:39:05 UTC

Actually, the episode name was "Ghosts"; "Home is Where the Heart Stops" was the previous episode that we both liked much better.

I'm now remembering a bit few episodes back where Beckett was giving a sheriff in NJ what seemed to me to be an unreasonably hard time because back when he was in NYPD he failed to treat a missing persons case as the murder it had now turned out to be. It has overtones of the myopic moralism of Stargate.

fenicedautun April 29 2009, 13:53:00 UTC

Interesting that they finally introduced the poker game in the very episode that this happened, no? I wonder if one of the writers caught it. Also, while I caught some of the sexism, I actually took the rejection to be more of the fiction versus truth writers. That if you're writing the "truth" you have more obligation to your subjects (although given Castle's outing of the jewel thief, still a weird line to draw).

gilana April 30 2009, 13:23:05 UTC

OK, finally got to watch the episode.

I think some of his attitude came from the true crime writer vs novelist thing, too. He looked down on her her from the beginning because of that. It seemed to me that he thinks that writing true crime is a lesser art than writing fiction. I can't quite articular what I'm thinking here, but I think he felt like she wasn't playing the writing game fairly, and her manipulating people into action was part of that. I don't think it was about gender at all, although I'll agree that he doesn't always recognize the power and class differentials he benefits from.

lillibet April 30 2009, 13:50:19 UTC

Yeah, I didn't think gender was his primary vector of oppression, but I thought it played into things--they were certainly playing with it in the episode, giving her an androgynous name and creating confusion over her role in the case at the start. But it did feel like a hard slam against the glass ceiling.

ironpoet May 4 2009, 14:53:31 UTC

First of all, we finally saw the episode last night, and I admit I've been very curious about the contents of this post! As for your reaction, I don't know ( ... )