Castle: Countdown

[mariness]

Castle, I love you. You are my mind-candy program, my show I watch when I do not want to do any thinking whatsoever. You are generally thoughtless, pointless, and filled with Very Large Plot Holes, Conveniences, and Things Actual Pathologists Cannot Do, but I love you anyway.

But.

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[hawkward]

We're in season 3, right? I just watched seasons 1 and 2 on DVD and tried to catch up on the DVR'd episodes of season 3, but it appears that the season premiere was eaten by snowstorms, and I don't even know if I've got all the episodes in order. Anyway, something struck me as very obvious and very odd between seasons 2 and 3: I do not like what they did to Stana's hair, or more specifically, her eyebrows. Her eyebrows are way lighter this season, and it throws off her look completely. It softens her classic cop-grimace too much, and her hair is way too pretty now to be cop hair. I am very unhappy with this decision from Hair & Makeup.

Right. Carry on.

[mariness]

And continuing on the shallow end, I'm also unhappy with most of her wardrobe this year - although they brought back the lovely fluffy scarf in this episode, which distracted me since I kept thinking the bad guys would just grab it and strangle her with it. She does wear the scarves well, though, I must say, so, yay impractical scarf! The shoes have moved on to beyond ridiculous and if she had lost a toe this last episode it would have been entirely because of the shoes and would have made sense.

Ahem.

Also, yes, her hair has gotten softer and fluffier and she looks like a model instead of a cop. Also, some very tight jeans in inappropriate moments although I admit to appreciating how she looks in them ;)

Carry on!

Oh, and yes, we're in season three. I don't know what number episode that was but the show's going to another brief hiatus now that February sweeps are over.

[cardinalximinez]

I don't know the mechanics of freezing to death _at all_, but I was wondering how they managed to recover so quickly. The wires, though, made more sense to me as an act of desperation because he had nothing to lose at the point. I was just happy they didn't use the tired cliche of having 00:01 left on the timer.

Either way, though, the thing to remember is that Castle is a conduit for showing off Nathan Fillion's awesomeness. As long as they keep doing that, I can forgive a lot of plot holes.

[mariness]

And more to the point, warming up can be painful after frostbite -- and given that they weren't sensibly sticking their hands into their armpits, which the Canadian actors would have known about (people do this in 40 degree weather, for crying out loud), their hands should have been HURTING. A LOT. And the standard treatment of "move mostly frozen people to a warm place and force liquids down them" does not generally include "and then let mostly frozen people stand around in relatively cool location (everyone around them was wearing jackets, not short sleeves) while wrapped in blankets and thinking happy thoughts about boyfriends not going to the warm locations of Haiti.

Anyway.

But yes, the show is for showcasing Nathan Fillion's awesomeness, and does a very good job of that. I am not grumbling much.

[cardinalximinez]

Technically, I don't think the EMT or doctor said they had frostbite. I remember them saying "mild hypothermia", which I don't think necessarily includes frostbite.

[mariness]

Yes. That was part of my objection.

If your body temperature drops low enough that you fall asleep (which usually means death, which is one reason you are supposed to try to stay awake by moving about and so on, or alternatively attempting to make a quasi shelter from things like, say, a convenient plastic sheet nearby that the corpse didn't need) when you have exposed extremities (specifically, both of their hands) which you have not put into armpits, those extremities will be frostbitten - hell, they can get frostbitten even if they rest of you remains conscious (I didn't get anywhere near hypothermia during the toe incident.) They showed ice crystals on their hands, so, frostbite, or at the very least, some redness and pain. It really threw me out of the scene.

Not that I should be quarreling with the diagnoses of fictional TV doctors, I suppose.