I hope you like Castle! Serious, intellectual television it most certainly is not, but it's clever and witty, and Nathan Fillion is absolutely fantastic. And even though the plots are usually pretty predictable, it has such a deft touch with the awesome little details I hardly notice. It's very good fun!
Have just caught up through season two's fifth episode, and am just two minutes into 206, the one you're referencing here. I may have said, "Squeeeeeeee!" at the teaser and immediately paused it to comment here. :D
The extended V preview at the end of the ep showed Alan is very much alive. I think I read that he was intended to only be in one episode, but they decided to expand his role. I'm thankful for that because, right now, he's the character and actor I'm most interested in. Ryan the 'traitor' has potential. Chad could also be an interesting character, but I've read so many references to Scott Wolf and Jamie Bamber looking alike that I'm left with the opinion that Jamie would have done a better job in the role.
Oh, nifty! I wonder if we didn't get the preview in Canada or if I just didn't stick around long enough to see it. I will definitely tune in if there's potential for more evil!Alan Tudyk.
I want to think that all the characters will get more interesting: there's a lot of potential, in both the story and the characters, but I thought everyone in the pilot was so flat and stereotypical. Perhaps, though, it was just afflicted with pilot-itis and will improve. I'll give it a few more eps, at least.
I love your summation of Castle's relationship with fan culture; it's one of my favorite things about the show, and a surprisingly smart way of handling the fact that Castle is, in the world of the show, his own cultural phenomenon. I also liked that Alexis's deep investment in the singer was such a teenager thing to do.
Castle's handling of fan culture within the show (in terms of Castle himself as fannish object, the kind of thing we saw this week, and the fourth wall-breaking Mal Reynolds costume and Buffy references), as well as its relationship with its own fans (as with the actual publication of Heat Wave) is delightfully aware and sophisticated. It particularly stands out for a procedural, but I'm also hard-pressed to think of a genre show--an environment where TPTB are arguably much more aware of a fannish audience--that treats fan culture with such awareness and most of all respect. I'd be really curious to know who at Castle is behind these nods, and particularly curious how much, if any, of it can be credited to Nathan Fillion himself.
As for V, I'll probably give it another ep or two, especially now that I hear that Alan Tudyk's character is evidently not dead, but my hopes are not particularly high. It has made me want to watch the original in full, though. I had a former roommate who was a big fan of the original miniseries and would
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I've been saving Castle, and just watched the first four eps last weekend. They were very enjoyable, and I'm looking forward to the rest. :)
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I want to think that all the characters will get more interesting: there's a lot of potential, in both the story and the characters, but I thought everyone in the pilot was so flat and stereotypical. Perhaps, though, it was just afflicted with pilot-itis and will improve. I'll give it a few more eps, at least.
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I also thought V was deeply meh.
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As for V, I'll probably give it another ep or two, especially now that I hear that Alan Tudyk's character is evidently not dead, but my hopes are not particularly high. It has made me want to watch the original in full, though. I had a former roommate who was a big fan of the original miniseries and would ( ... )
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