Recoil
Regular
I admit it. I tuned into this show when it premiered for one reason: Nathan Fillion was in it. He is one of those people who I will watch whatever he is in because he makes it more awesome. I figured this was a broadcast network crime show so it might be a good vehicle for his personality and the ratings seem to reflect this in its second season.
The first season what really made the show wasn't as much the characters, but their chemistry, and Nathan was at the center of it of course. Additionally, its a FUN cop/crime show. When I started watching it I was a bit critical that the actual crimes and plotlines they were solving weren't really that interesting, especially when compared to the 100 other procedural crime shows on TV. Now I think that is the shows greatest strength. They have even made cracks in the show about "if this was a crime show on TV then we would just do X". "Castle" doesn't take itself too seriously and has fun with it. There was an episode a few weeks back where the Castle makes a bet with the other two detectives as to who will solve their case first, and the entire department gets in on it.
All this is leading to this weeks episode --- the typical Halloween episode many shows down. How does it start out? With Nathan Fillion pulling a futuristic revolver out of a holster and spinning it around. Then putting on a long brown coat. He emerges from his bedroom to show his daughter his costume --- Malcom Reynolds from Firefly. The dialog went sort of like this:
Daugher: What are you supposed to be?
Castle: A space cowboy.
Daughter: Weren't you that like, five years ago or something? Its time to move on.
Castle: But I like it!
And then he got called to a crime scene so we got to see Malcolm Reynolds walking around with his browncoat inspecting the scene.
For a Firefly fan that was pretty fun to see, and just reinforces my opinion that the people behind this show just want to have fun with it than to have it be a hard-hitting crime drama --- of which there are far too many on the air as it is. The show definitely does have some serious sides and crimes, and is very well done, but is more entertaining than others IMO.
Another small tidbit about that episode. At the end of it, Castle had his big annual Halloween and his friends from the Police department went as well. Two of the other characters in the series also went dressed as former characters they played on TV: Detective Esposito, was dressed up as in full desert/iraq camo, helmet and M16 --- a reference to former character Sgt "Poke" Espera from "Generation Kill." Detective Ryan went as an Operating Room doctor, a nod to his Dr Ian Delvin character from General Hospital.
The first season what really made the show wasn't as much the characters, but their chemistry, and Nathan was at the center of it of course. Additionally, its a FUN cop/crime show. When I started watching it I was a bit critical that the actual crimes and plotlines they were solving weren't really that interesting, especially when compared to the 100 other procedural crime shows on TV. Now I think that is the shows greatest strength. They have even made cracks in the show about "if this was a crime show on TV then we would just do X". "Castle" doesn't take itself too seriously and has fun with it. There was an episode a few weeks back where the Castle makes a bet with the other two detectives as to who will solve their case first, and the entire department gets in on it.
All this is leading to this weeks episode --- the typical Halloween episode many shows down. How does it start out? With Nathan Fillion pulling a futuristic revolver out of a holster and spinning it around. Then putting on a long brown coat. He emerges from his bedroom to show his daughter his costume --- Malcom Reynolds from Firefly. The dialog went sort of like this:
Daugher: What are you supposed to be?
Castle: A space cowboy.
Daughter: Weren't you that like, five years ago or something? Its time to move on.
Castle: But I like it!
And then he got called to a crime scene so we got to see Malcolm Reynolds walking around with his browncoat inspecting the scene.
For a Firefly fan that was pretty fun to see, and just reinforces my opinion that the people behind this show just want to have fun with it than to have it be a hard-hitting crime drama --- of which there are far too many on the air as it is. The show definitely does have some serious sides and crimes, and is very well done, but is more entertaining than others IMO.
Another small tidbit about that episode. At the end of it, Castle had his big annual Halloween and his friends from the Police department went as well. Two of the other characters in the series also went dressed as former characters they played on TV: Detective Esposito, was dressed up as in full desert/iraq camo, helmet and M16 --- a reference to former character Sgt "Poke" Espera from "Generation Kill." Detective Ryan went as an Operating Room doctor, a nod to his Dr Ian Delvin character from General Hospital.
