Comments | mrspollifax: this title likes castle but needs more coffee

mrspollifax

this title likes castle but needs more coffee

Nov 01, 2011 09:58

So. Tuesday morning Castle-watching, FTW. Way better than staying up and watching half-asleep. I miss too much that way. Plus this way, there's coffee for me!

( spoilery stuff for 4x07 Cops and Robbers )

castle, teevee

Comments 14

nynaeve_sedai November 1 2011, 16:30:52 UTC

I *loved* this episode. Hands down one of the *BEST* episodes EVER. *Guh* :: flail ::

What I adored was how grown-up Castle became during the episode - when this series started he was this rich writer guy coming along for rides and now he's *really* into this - he's really becoming *one of them* >.<

Also, yes, more Kate and Alexis please! (And I love Castle and Alexis any day of the weeeeeeeek - what a great father/daughter relationship).

This show is just amazing. I love it every week.

mrspollifax November 1 2011, 17:12:37 UTC

he's really becoming *one of them*

Yes, definitely - much more serious than he ever could have been at the beginning of the series. He always had it in him, just needed the right people to draw it out.

I would love more Alexis in general - I was really concerned they were writing her into a corner where she wouldn't be that relevant to what was on the screen anymore, but they seem to have dealt with that nicely, without descending into melodrama. So I'm very happy with that. :)

rdamel November 2 2011, 00:42:37 UTC

I have not liked, in general, what they've done with Alexis this season, so I hope last night's ep, which was great, will put an end to the drama associated with Ashley and she can now have a more normal last year of high school.

Am I alone in thinking she rather hated Beckett in this ep when they were hostages, and I felt she was thinking (rightly) that if Castle had never met Beckett, this would likely never have happened to him? Luckily it all turned out well at the end.

mrspollifax November 2 2011, 13:05:43 UTC

Well, based on what a-loquita says below, sounds like we can hope for some more varied storylines involving Alexis. I think they kind of had to split her up from Ashley, though - from a show point of view - because they'd gotten about all the character development they were going to out of that particular storyline. Definitely more avenues open this way!

a_loquita November 1 2011, 16:55:17 UTC

God, wasn't simply amazing!? Every line, every performance, all of it was wonderful!

2. They were too darn cute at the end. Makes me grin just thinking about it.

3. YES! YES! YES! I know I read somewhere an interview with Andrew Marlow where he said one of the things he wants to try to do this season is get Alexis a little more involved in the cases and the things going on at the station. Not like she's some kind of junior detective or anything, but just find reasonable ways to draw her into that aspect of the show. I would very much like to see that, and the resulting opportunities for Alexis to have more of a relationship with Beckett. You'd think Alexis want to, you know? She seems like she'd appreciate having a strong female role model in her life like Kate.

4. Very awesome! (see comments on my LJ post...)

5. Yeah, I guess I can see that, though it didn't hit me at the time. I think it might be the wording of "thinkin' on that" it's more... colloquial? Maybe? Than Castle usually is, and that's what makes it seem more like Mal.

mrspollifax November 1 2011, 17:09:05 UTC

Saw your entry but won't have time to read till later! But good info re: Alexis, thanks for that. :)

I think it might be the wording of "thinkin' on that"

It was absolutely the 'thinkin' on' - that phrasing is very ... folksy. And once I heard that I couldn't un-hear the good Captain for the rest of the bit. *g* It wasn't meant as a criticism, though, really! I watched a little Firefly a couple of weeks ago, so that probably had something to do with it. (Also, I might have cast Jewel Staite in my head as one of the characters in a novel I'm reading right now. Clearly I have Firefly on the brain?) It didn't scan as out of character, it just made me giggle. Look, it's Mal, trying to save everyone despite the odds! Nostalgia.

a_loquita November 1 2011, 17:23:40 UTC

That wasn't meant as a plea for you to go read my journal right this minute, if at all. But more like "I'm too lazy and don't want to retype all the stuff that I just wrote over there" LOL. Though I suspect you knew that :) And yes, you will need a chunk of time because I am very long-winded (this shocks you, I know.)

It wasn't meant as a criticism, though, really!

Ah! I get it now. Yes, you clearly have Firefly on the brain, and that's never a bad thing.

mrspollifax November 1 2011, 17:35:05 UTC

Possibly I should have phrased that as 'I saw your entry and that is a lot of words!! Which does not surprise me since the episode drew me to actually post something at all, so of course it made you write a lot of words about it!' Hee.

(Okay, now I really, really have to get off the computer. For real this time. *g*)

ziparumpazoo November 1 2011, 20:04:46 UTC

I have nothing to say about Castle, having not seen it, but I do want to say that I like your new layout. :)

mrspollifax November 2 2011, 12:56:47 UTC

It's one of the standard layouts. I was going for a) simple, and b) needed absolutely no customization. Maybe I'll feel more picturesque by Christmas or something. *g*

gabolange November 1 2011, 22:44:08 UTC

Oh, I also heard Mal Reynolds in that line! So much!

But yeah, this episode was awesome. I don't have many thoughts about it, but it made me smile from start to finish in so many ways. Yay Castle!

mrspollifax November 2 2011, 13:00:06 UTC

Hee, I'm glad I wasn't the only one. There's so little in common between the characters, mannerisms or speech patterns or what have you, that I was more tickled to finally notice something vs. being dropped out of the story or anything like that. :)

And yay Castle indeed! It's my happy place show right now, even when it is more serious.

arafel_sedai November 2 2011, 22:17:43 UTC

AH HA! I knew I had read someone saying Castle was all Captain Reynolds in this at the bank.... TOO RIGHT!

Loved it...and so glad you thought so too. ;-)

I too liked that Alexis was angry and hurt and scared and took some of it out on Beckett. They really do need more scenes together....

mrspollifax November 7 2011, 13:48:40 UTC

I loved the folksy sort of bit there - and the other thing I was thinking about there was something along this lines of 'HAH. You know that dialogue is totally going in his next book, verbatim.' *g*

I too liked that Alexis was angry and hurt and scared and took some of it out on Beckett.

Yeah, I mean, she had no one but Beckett there, so Beckett got the brunt of it. Hoping the showrunners liked how it turned out, too, so they'll engineer more scenes for the two of them!

(*fails at replying* Sorry, RL got annoyingly busy last week! Now I want a nap.)