Firefly's Fillion Moves into Castle

[Hunter Rider]

Fantastic episode, plenty of neat twists and turns a bit like an Agatha Christie story.

 

[aNarcHy2day]

I think the premise was great but the mystery was so very apparent, I kinda lost interest. But I see your point about it being Agatha Christie-isque.

 

[Teelie]

I thought the second one was a bit of a let down. It might have been because of my mood at the time but it just felt so uninteresting and overdone. How many times are we going to see Castle abducted (Alexis even quips about it)?

And Locksat needs to die already. They are trying to do the "who killed Beckett's mother" story from the beginning of the series, going so far as even tying it into that story but like Castle's latest misadventure it feels worn out and definitely not interesting.

They also reversed the story so Castle and Beckett are "seperated" like the beginning of the series before they got together in some lame attempt to recreate that time. Again a failure.

 

[Hunter Rider]

Castle Presents "The Rickies"

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[Dark Raven]

Saw the episode where they were locked in a room. One of the best this season. At first I thought it was all going to turn out to be a prank by Stephen King until we found out Beckett was also a captive. I suspected the minister though.

 

[Tvar10]

Is this show going to get cancelled?

 

[Teelie]

Almost certainly. Not definitely but they took a huge hit with this season's bumbled storyline. And that's amid rumors of a restless cast.

 

[blksuperman2]

Saw the episode where they were locked in a room. One of the best this season. At first I thought it was all going to turn out to be a prank by Stephen King until we found out Beckett was also a captive. I suspected the minister though.

That's what I thought as well. They set it up as a lighthearted episode in the beginning and then it just turned into "Saw". I enjoyed it though.

 

[aNarcHy2day]

Ya. That snake case episode was pretty boring.

 

[Dark Raven]

At least Alexis seems to be doing something with her life now other than just helping out at the PI agency, which Castle himself doesn't seem all that interested in.

I wish they would just be done with this Locksat case and return them to the status quo with Castle openly helping out with the police investigations instead of trying to find ways to keep him involved.

And I thought they were done with the plotline about Castle missing last year. They seem to be revisiting that now. I guess next week's episode will be about him going to LA?

 

[Teelie]

I would rather have seen Alexis take up the primary lead at Castle's PI agency and let Castle just be the figurehead but I think instead they got tired of trying to figure out her role in the agency and missed the obvious by making her a ESL teacher instead.

 

[Hunter Rider]

I would rather have seen Alexis take up the primary lead at Castle's PI agency and let Castle just be the figurehead but I think instead they got tired of trying to figure out her role in the agency and missed the obvious by making her a ESL teacher instead.

I agree, there is no need for Hayley at all, Alexis should be taking the lead on the cases for the PI agency while Castle goes back and forth between her and the NYPD.

 

[Paradox1]

This latest episode was god awful 15 minutes in and I was done with the episode. I don't understand how a show I use to look forward lost its way so badly.

 

[Hunter Rider]

It was cool to see Summer Glau and I liked the clandestine detective club, but the jokey tone was odd for a cross coastal serial killer story.

I liked how Castle mentioned Phillip K. dick and then later in the ep he got the video message he'd left himself, ala Quaid in Total Recall. I think tying in Castle disappearance with the Locksat story is a good idea, it streamlines the shows two loose strands.

Strange that Becket wasn't in the ep at all, but damn does Molly Quinn suit that shorter hairstyle!

 

[blksuperman2]

Yeah, I rolled my eyes at first when he mentioned Locksat but once I thought about it I really like the idea. It takes 2 horrible storylines and gives them a way to salvage both.

 

[Teelie]

I haven't seen it yet but I am going to get to it this weekend.

Anything that progresses Locksat closer to it's end is good. I am so done with that story. It was a bad idea to reboot Castle with it and the ratings back that up. That they tied into Castle's disappearance is kind of weird but if they can tie up those loose ends as well, all that much better.

 

[Dark Raven]

It wasn't a great episode, and they didn't even explain where Beckett was this week. But there were quite a few things that were key, so I guess in one sense it was an unmissable episode.

Hopefully Castle will tell Beckett about it this time round and not just keep the info to himself. I don't want them prolonging this longer than necessary. They should end the Locksat storyline as soon as possible, so I'm hoping next week will be the resolution of it and not later down the line.

 

[Hunter Rider]

Next ep looks really good.

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[aNarcHy2day]

Yeah, I rolled my eyes at first when he mentioned Locksat but once I thought about it I really like the idea. It takes 2 horrible storylines and gives them a way to salvage both.

That's what I thought too.

The episode on the whole was kinda alright. Of course the selling point being the Firefly reunion.

 

[Dark Raven]

It was rather Castle-lite this week, with most of the story centred on the training academy. But that wasn't necessarily a bad thing. We've had stories which have been Beckett-lite or she has been completely absent in the past.

I hope the end of the episode spells the end of the fake separation between the two, and that they don't bother to keep up this facade any longer. At least they aren't having these staged public fights anymore and seem to have dropped that, which was annoying. I would like to see an end to the Locksat storyline and hope it is picked up straight away next week and not left lingering for a few more weeks.

 

[aNarcHy2day]

I didn't quite mind the episode but given that now both are invested in the LockSat story it would touch on that a little more.

 

[Hunter Rider]

I liked the ep with Kate going back to the academy to catch the killer, it was a good backdrop for a mystery.

 

[blksuperman2]

Just when I thought the writers were back on track we get an episode like this. So now Javier has a secret ex-fiancee'? I guess these writers had no clue about his character. I can't really begin to detail how absurd this storyline is to what we know of him in the past.

 

[Dark Raven]

What do we know of Javier's past? I know he was in the military, but has it ever established he hasn't been engaged before?

Why are Beckett and Castle still not investigating anything together though? I know she's a captain now, but that hasn't stopped her investigating before.

 

[blksuperman2]

Yes for one he was in the Special Forces but in the episode they completely overlook that. So now he's always wanted to be a cop and that's why he had to turn her in. As close as this group is someone would find out that Javier had to arrest his fiancee'. These have to be the worse detectives. And it's silly to think that you can have a fiancee' and no one in your neighborhood or family not know that she was arrested, and imprisoned for 9yrs. Seriously? This must have been written by a 12yr old.