Tonight's Castle

[icepixie]

I liked this one a lot. More Montgomery is always a good thing. And whoever wrote it has a reasonably good handle on teenagers; I downright chortled at Alexis's "You violated my civil rights!" and Castle's "Technically I can't do that unless I'm the government." But though I can totally see Alexis thinking, "I'll just pay for the shoplifted goods," rather than, "maybe I shouldn't be friends with these people," I question whether even Castle The Awesome Dad wouldn't insist she quit hanging out with said criminal friends. (Yeah, I know they were going for the connection with the case. Still not buying it.)

The last scene was adorable. Geek!love! Beckett, will you please just dump Josh already?

In other news, the relentless advertising ABC has been doing during Castle, as well as the awesome personification of snark that is Dana Delaney, has convinced me to watch Body of Proof tomorrow. DD's character seems like someone I'll like, even if it is Yet Another Crime Show, Dear God, Are There Any Other Concepts Out There In TV Land?

Comments

[jemster.livejournal.com]

He was relying on her to do the right thing which she did in the end by going back and leaving the money on the counter. She caved into peer pressure which, speaking from experience, is a very powerful thing. My opinion is that she will realize on her own that if these "friends" are not really friends at all if they continue to demand stuff like this of her.

[icepixie]

But as Castle points out, it wasn't the right thing--the kids who stole should've paid, not Alexis. She did a nice thing, but not the right thing. And if she doesn't want to fall into a pattern of getting taken advantage of, she might want to stop doing that. I just found it hard to believe that even Castle--maybe especially Castle, who probably has had people try to take advantage of his wealth--wouldn't push harder against that. Whether he trusts her not to shoplift is immaterial; it's the way she's not standing up for herself or trying to distance herself from these other kids that would bother me. This just seems like another situation of the type last season, where Alexis called to say that Paige had drunk too much and Castle took over, insisting her parents be called, an ambulance, etc.--not really a place for such hands-off parenting, in other words, but rather one for some life lessons.