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ABC's Castle: Nathan Fillion? ABC? Yeah, this won't last long.
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Yeah, it was a nice shot.
This show is becoming one of my favourite shows fast. Though that is probably due to my crush on Stana Katic.
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You know, you're allowed to have the perpetrator be someone you didn't introduce in the first 15 minutes of the show.
"Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do."
Well, yea... Castle and Beckett are kind of the lead characters, of course it couldn't survive without them.
Why bitch about the murders? Is it supposed to be a guessing game?
I just watch it for Castle and Beckett. They are quite hi-larious.
Who cares if you can guess who dunit? It's still funnier than half the crap on TV at the moment.
The fact that they always tell him to stay in the car but he always ends up in the middle of it is great.
It seems to me that's kinda the problem with TV whodunits (maybe whodunits in general). There are two conflicting desires at play, the first is to make the mystery accessible to the viewer. That is, provide the astute viewer with enough clues to allow them to make good guesses as to the perpetrator of the crime.
Opposing that is the desire to offer an interesting crime, with twists and turns and cool stuff.
The conflict here is that, if you're going to go with the latter impulse, you often have to reveal certain characters and motivations late, or "hide" clues. Basically, you withhold information from the viewer in order to ensure the viewer can't unravel the twist too early. That means a viewer can't ever actually solve the mystery until the solution is revealed. Sometimes that kinda sucks. On the other hand, if you err toward the former, your mystery is less mysterious, and even people who don't attempt to unravel the whodunit know the answer before the end.
I think in general either approach can function provided I feel interested in the outcome. I still feel like the Law and Order series generally give me reason to watch the show, even knowing I'll never be able to divine the mystery without the big reveal. Castle I love to watch despite the transparency of the crimes because Nathan Fillion (and the cast in general, really) are so compelling.
That said, I'm not sure I like Latino Cop Sidekick or White Cop Sidekick. Maybe not liking is the wrong way to say it, I'm just not sure they're particularly memorable or necessary.
First House, now Castle. What's next? Citadel?
House is Fox.
EDIT: Oh bollocks it didn't...
Ok, replace ABC with TV and away we go!
Well, House was so named because it is a play on the name "Holmes", which sounds sort of like "Homes", so they named their Sherlock-inspired Doctor "House".
There is also Bones, Buffy, and Angel.
Probably a lot more.
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. . What?
Yeah. What? I've never heard of a Bones, Buffy, or Angel building.
However, on another note, I think I need to pitch a police procedural that teams up a chicken farmer and a cop to solve crimes. It'll be called "Cock".
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Take the last show for instance.
The other thing was, the only thing that had me doubting that it was the sister was the sophistication of the kidnapper's methods. All the technology stuff, rerouting phone calls, using the unrecognizable machine voice, how the hell would the sister know how to do all that stuff? That wasn't ever really explained either, even with some silly throwaway "she was an electronics major in college" line.
"Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do."
Speaking of Sherlock Holmes, Doyle didn't even bother to give the reader any clues, so creating an engaging mystery doesn't necessarily mean that the audience has to be able to parse the clues. It may help, but still.
Because 9% think it's too high, and shouldn't be cut! 9% of respondents could not fully
get their arms around the question. There should be another box you can check for, "I
have utterly no idea what you're talking about. Please, God, don't ask for my input."
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Like I said, it's not necessary to serve both impulses, but I feel like those are the contradictory impulses at the heart of creating an engaging whodunit.
"Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do."
I was just elaborating my position for Fencingsax. I actually agree entirely with your assessment as you presented it here, and in your previous post saying something similar. I hadn't looked at it that way, but it makes sense.
Seriously, they just had to end the show right there this season.
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Imdb and tv.com shows only 10 episodes too, I think it is, and the way it ended was fitting of a season finale.
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Well word on the street is the Walken is in the Dr Horrible sequel.
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No later than the end of the month, usually networks release their fall schedule around now because they have to shoot the first batch of new eps over the summer.
Friday, supposedly.
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