Castle 4.03: "Head Case"

[icepixie]

Okay, the writer of that has to be a Fringe fan, I mean really. Becket & co. wander, guns drawn, into a spooky cryo facility storing bodies in space age capsules? Esposito and Ryan find a homemade operating room of horrors in a no tell motel? The victim's frozen head is stolen? Hell, the ending, with Castle and Becket hoping the frozen lovers get their happy ending in the future, is kind of Fringey, both for the sci-fi aspect (not to mention the "using sci-fi to illuminate a story about love" method it uses) and the hopeful twist Fringe often ends its episodes with. Not to mention there was that completely unconnected opening where we track from space down to the city, which just set the scene.

Even at the very beginning of the episode, when Ryan said, "Ack, that word, 'pattern.' Jenny and I are..." I was sure he was going to finish that sentence with "watching Fringe, and now patterns freak me out." Because you Ryan is totally the type to get into that show.

So, yeah, that was basically what I got from that episode. There was also Alexis thankfully getting rejected from Stanford; maybe now they'll let up on her Ashley obsession. Poor kid, though. I've totally been in that place where you realize you were only good at school and now you have to find something else (haha, I've been in that place for about five years now), so I can certainly empathize with what she's going through. I was glad they at least gave us the one line about Alexis being disappointed because she wanted to go to Stanford on her own, not just because Ashley was there.

Back to the case for one moment: to use a pun Castle would be proud of, when chasing Dr. Whatshisface down the fire escape, why did neither Beckett nor Castle think to head him off at the pass the moment they heard the window break rather than sloooooowly following him down the fire escape? Presumably there was an actual staircase in the hall. Ah, well, at least it provided the impetus for some banter and one-liners.

Comments

[rowdycamels.livejournal.com]

Is it still technically Early Decision if she's applying to start school in January? How does one even apply for January-of-senior-year-in-high-school admittance into a fancypants school? Besides being Richard Castle's daughter and loaded, I mean? And wouldn't the application period be significantly earlier than three months prior to the intended enrollment date?

Still, I can't believe Castle and Martha let her cruise along in her "Well obviously I'll get into Stanford, dur!" mindset without making her squeeze out at least some sort of safety school, if not a fully-realized Plan B. October of your senior year is a bit late for beginning your "Hm, what sort of prestigious college might I like to apply to?" research, if I remember correctly.

the Stanford admissions people should have fallen all over themselves to accept Richard Castle's daughter

This too! Alexis is practically oozing money and fame for whichever school she ends up at! So much of this college subplot has so little to do with logic and reality!

Also, this episode leaves entirely untouched the shoe-dropping line from a certain prior conversation, about Alexis proposing to move in with Ashley.

...I had completely forgotten that. Possibly because the show pretended that it never happened. Why isn't Ashley the subject of the latest murder investigation? Why doesn't the writing for Alexis make any sort of sense anymore?