RichardCastle-related stories
Posted Nov 24th 2009 1:30PM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free, Castle
(S02E10) ""A wife and a fiance catfight ... please can we stop for popcorn on the way?" - Castle
Molly C. Quinn is such a cutie. I loved the storyline this week where she volunteers to categorize evidence, and in doing so, uses her skills to help return someone's precious "brag book" to them. She takes after her dad in the "big heart" department.
Castle is good about that. They could have made Richard Castle as a roguish playboy who chases women and loves a good time, and while he's got some of that in him (see above quote), he's also a dedicated family man. The writers are good about the characters that way. Beckett is a hard-nosed detective, but she's also good with people, excelling at giving them bad news in such a way as to soften the blow.
Continue reading Review: Castle - One Man's Treasure
Posted Oct 27th 2009 2:28AM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free, Castle
(S02E06) Ooh, several
Joss Whedon references in the first few minutes, including "space cowboy" and Buffy's vampires. Throw in a reference to Frank Miller, and it's a geeky fantasy paradise. I also got a little of my vampire fix, even if they weren't the real thing. I don't know that Kona's that into vampires, so I'm glad this episode aired on my week to review
Castle.
It was the usual whodunnit frolicry, with Castle and Beckett trying to piece together a murder mystery involving vampires, werewolves, and a murder that took place 18 years earlier. And the vampires and werewolves were as close to the real thing as a human can get -- with implanted fur, fang veneers, and a disease that made it impossible to go out in the daytime, lest the person catch on fire. There was even a cemetery and a stake through the heart.
Continue reading Review: Castle - Vampire Weekend
Posted Oct 20th 2009 9:12AM by Kona Gallagher
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S02E05) I'm really glad this episode ended the way it did, because I was about to be
pissed. Obviously Castle isn't going to stop writing the Nikki Heat books and leave Beckett, so I was expecting him to make some asinine excuse to his book agent about why he couldn't take over the James Bo-- er, a "British secret agent with lots of gadgets" series.
But in the end, the excuse of, "hey, my publishing house is going to just dump sacks with dollar signs printed on the front of them on my doorstep so I can make a Scrooge McDuck-like swimming pool out of gold, so screw that British agent and his gadgets," kind of works for me. However, all things being equal, if Castle had gotten the same offer and he had been following around, say, Esposito instead of Beckett, I feel like maybe the prestige of writing the British spy series
may have won out over more gold doubloons for an already-rich Castle.
Continue reading Review: Castle - When the Bough Breaks
Posted Oct 13th 2009 4:03AM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S02E04) "A con man isn't just about the money; it's about the game." - Castle
This week's episode of
Castle continued the theme of a puzzling whodunit that takes viewers on a little journey to solve the crime. I was kept guessing the whole time, which is one reason I love
Castle. The other, of course, is the lovely rat-a-tat banter between Castle and Beckett. Like a classic movie starring Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn.
And it's clear that Beckett is trying hard to hide her intrigue over Castle and his work -- making a date with herself to soak in a sudsy tub, drink wine and read his novel based on her. And then the end scene where he catches her in the bathroom looking for the steamy sex scene in the book. Oh my.
Continue reading Castle: Fool Me Once
Posted Sep 29th 2009 3:00AM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, OpEd, Reality-Free
(S02E02) "What is it about full moons that brings out the crazies?" - Castle to Beckett
That line above exemplifies what I love about
Castle. Richard Castle is enjoying the bizarre perps and collars traipsing through the police department; he's eating snacks and having fun, while Kate just rolls her eyes at both him and the people. They're such total opposites -- Beckett so cool and controlled and Castle like a giddy kid -- and I hope they don't mess it up by having them hook up. I was just reading a story in one of the entertainment mags, where Stana Katic says that, too. She doesn't want them to get together because it's so cliche.
Continue reading Castle: The Double Down
Posted Sep 27th 2009 3:01PM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: TV on DVD, OpEd, TV Squad Lists, Reality-Free, Jane After Dark
This week in
Jane After Dark, I caught up with season one of
Castle. I'm a sucker for fun whodunits, especially when they feature great male and female characters who've perfected the art of the snappy banter. Specifically, here are five reasons why I'm loving
Castle:
1. Nathan Fillion is boyishly charming. I've been a big fan of this Joss Whedon favorite since seeing him in 2005's feature film
Serenity. I finally completed that awesome circle by watching
Firefly last winter. Fillion has the ability to be goofy one minute and deadly serious the next. In
Castle, he plays Richard Castle, a best-selling mystery author who's raising a 15-year-old daughter Alexis (Molly C. Quinn) -- and, in many ways, his free-spirited live-in mother Martha (Susan Sullivan), as well. Having killed off his latest fictional character, Richard found inspiration in NYPD detective Kate Beckett, after being called in to advise on a case. Now they're working as pseudo-partners.
Continue reading Jane After Dark: Five reasons I'm loving Castle
Posted Sep 22nd 2009 1:44AM by Kona Gallagher
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S02E01) Look, I'm just going to say it up front and get it out of the way:
Nathan Fillion is the most charming man on television. All I could think of when I was watching the season premiere was, "wow." Also, how could Beckett resist him? Sure, he went against her express wishes and reopened her mother's case, which brings with it the distinct possibility of opening a Pandora's box of despair and obsession that could ruin her life and career -- but has she seen him smile? Come
on.
Ordinarily, I have very little patience for obviously inconsequential tension like we have in this episode with Beckett refusing to partner up with Castle. It's the season premiere -- obviously, she's going to take him back; it's kind of the premise of the show. However, they manage to conclude the storyline in such a way that it doesn't overshadow the rest of the episode, and instead of retarding the pace, it actually ushers in some new character development.
Continue reading Castle: Deep in Death (season premiere)
Posted Aug 10th 2009 1:01PM by Kona Gallagher
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Web, Watercooler Talk, Reality-Free
It all started with an innocent trip to The Hamptons. Fictional fiction writer, Richard Castle, was worried that his daughter hadn't returned from her walk with a new boy. He set off on the beach to look for her, and instead found...
a foot.
Castle, ABC's quirky police procedural starring
Nathan Fillion, is working overtime to snag viewers. In addition to the release of
Heat Wave, an actual novel written by and based upon the fictional characters in the show, "Richard Castle" has also started a
Twitter account. While his updates started off innocently enough, with tales of drinks with his neighbor
Jerry Seinfeld, things quickly took a darker turn when a severed foot turned up on the beach.
Now, Twitter followers of
@WriteRCastle can go along with the writer as he searches for clues, first to the victim's identity, and then, hopefully to the killer. He's been on the case for a little more than a week, and has already turned up some interesting information--
with accompanying pictures.
Continue reading Have you been following the Castle mystery on Twitter?
Posted Apr 9th 2009 2:10PM by Kona Gallagher
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Web, Interviews, Reality-Free
When I was preparing for my
Nathan Fillion interview, I knew that I had a big responsibility: people love this guy. I mean
love-- in a slightly disturbing way. So I reached out. I went on Facebook and
Twitter and asked people what they wanted me to ask him, so I would get the fewest number of
Firefly fans pissed off at me as possible. Luckily, the questions submitted were mostly along the lines of, "will he impregnate me?", so I wasn't too worried about not asking something someone was dying to know.
"Hey, I've got a quick question for you: How long do you think this 'internet' fad will really go?" But before I could ask a single question, that's how Nathan Fillion starts our interview. "Um, you know, I think it's on it's way out. I give it a month, maybe two at the most." I could understand where he was coming from. I was just one in a long line of reporters he was talking to today, so he has to keep himself interested somehow. Why not joke around with me about the fall of the internet?
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