Castle 4.07: "Cops & Robbers"
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icepixieNot bad! Not the greatest thing ever, but it could've been worse. I always appreciate it when a show built around murder cases and only murder cases finally does something different. I even admired their desire to make it about more than just the standard hostage crisis, even if it was a little difficult to make the other story compelling when it only got five minutes of screentime. (I'm not against cop shows as a rule, I suppose--I certainly watch enough of them, though that's more because half the shows on TV are crime-related--but I do wish more of them changed up their formula like due South did, with Fraser walking into a bank robbery or stumbling onto environmental violations rather than "murder comes across the desk, go investigate, solve murder" forever and ever, world without end. So yay breaking the formula!)
Granted, due South and Burn Notice both did far more entertaining things with the "hostages in a bank" plot, but two weeks ago I was ready to give up on the show, so. Baby steps, baby steps. At least there was some humor. Hee, "Okay, Castle Jr., wanna try thinking like a cop now?" Awww. Also, Beckett telling "Trapper John" that if he hurt Castle she would put a bullet through his skull was hilarious, in a "yay, Beckett!" kind of way. The chief hostage negotiator dude's reaction was pretty amusing as well.
Speaking of Trapper John, how did he not recognize Beckett's voice when she was in there posing as a paramedic?
Anyway, other good points:
Martha! Martha being awesome! Finally, they use her well. It feels like years since she got more than a couple lines in an episode.
THANK GOD Alexis and Ashley broke up. That storyline needed to end months ago.
Beckett being obviously thrilled to see Castle alive, to the point where Martha had to remind her there were other people waiting to have their zip-tie handcuffs cut off, was sweet. Beckett coming over for dinner at Casa Castle at the end was nice as well.
Granted, due South and Burn Notice both did far more entertaining things with the "hostages in a bank" plot, but two weeks ago I was ready to give up on the show, so. Baby steps, baby steps. At least there was some humor. Hee, "Okay, Castle Jr., wanna try thinking like a cop now?" Awww. Also, Beckett telling "Trapper John" that if he hurt Castle she would put a bullet through his skull was hilarious, in a "yay, Beckett!" kind of way. The chief hostage negotiator dude's reaction was pretty amusing as well.
Speaking of Trapper John, how did he not recognize Beckett's voice when she was in there posing as a paramedic?
Anyway, other good points:
Martha! Martha being awesome! Finally, they use her well. It feels like years since she got more than a couple lines in an episode.
THANK GOD Alexis and Ashley broke up. That storyline needed to end months ago.
Beckett being obviously thrilled to see Castle alive, to the point where Martha had to remind her there were other people waiting to have their zip-tie handcuffs cut off, was sweet. Beckett coming over for dinner at Casa Castle at the end was nice as well.
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Date: 2011-11-01 06:22 am (UTC)I was waiting for this, too. I can handwave it that she was speaking very lowly, but there were several such conveniences where the uber-comptent bad guys just...weren't. Simply to serve the plot.
Which is so typical, but hey. I'm willing to forgive when we get fun character moments.
Also, yes, MARTHA! Just awesome.
And Castle keeping score! Naturally.
I liked this one, too. Yay for that.
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Date: 2011-11-01 08:27 pm (UTC)I guess one can fanwank that since the entire plan was to get the the dude out of the bank, they didn't really care who did it, but at the same time surely they would have NOTICED it was her, and maybe been a smidge unhappy that she was seeing what was going on and might screw up their plans? Argh. (Also, the fake-robbers didn't mean to get blown up, did they? That was Evil Abusive Husband Dude's way of not paying them, right?)
P.S. Thanks for the spider!
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Date: 2011-11-02 02:43 am (UTC)No, they didn't mean to get blown up. Someone theorized that killing them was a way for the bad guy to cover his tracks (i.e. no one left alive who could point to him). The problem with that is that they characterized the robbers as super-competent mercenaries. Super-competent mercs are NOT gonna trust the explosives to some guy that's hired them, but won't be with the explosives. No freakin' way! So I really didn't buy that. It was just a plot convenience.
Thank YOU for the spider!
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Date: 2011-11-02 04:02 am (UTC)Seriously. Also, super-competent mercs aren't going to be wandering around putting their fingerprints on everything. I don't care how "not in the system" they are, if they ever want to do more than one job, it's really foolish to have, you know, traceable evidence that links multiple crimes to each other.
Perhaps these are cut-rate mercenaries from Wal-Mart?
Totally OT...
Date: 2011-11-01 01:55 pm (UTC)Re: Totally OT...
Date: 2011-11-01 08:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-11-01 04:35 pm (UTC)I KNOW, RIGHT? Also, they were making googly eyes at each other almost the entire time Beckett was in the bank. Considering Trapper John had been referring to Castle as her "boyfriend" pretty much the entire episode, you'd think he might get just a little bit suspicious?
Still, though, I agree on it being a decent episode. And Martha being awesome is always nice.
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Date: 2011-11-01 08:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-11-02 02:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-11-02 04:05 am (UTC)I could see them going on one date, him coming out of it basically looking like this, and her saying, "Maybe you need someone at bit less larger-than-life..."
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Date: 2011-11-03 03:24 am (UTC)Hoorayyyyyy no more Ashley!! Maybe now we'll get the old Alexis back!
Beckett being obviously thrilled to see Castle alive, to the point where Martha had to remind her there were other people waiting to have their zip-tie handcuffs cut off, was sweet.
That was so out of character for Martha! Martha is not gonna interfere with Epic Googly Eyes for the sake of a fiddly little problem like being handcuffed!
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Date: 2011-11-03 06:41 am (UTC)I used to do that when it was in its first season! And then as it kept exceeding my low expectations, I raised them higher and higher until it stopped meeting them. Sigh.
Maybe now we'll get the old Alexis back!
Perhaps!
That was so out of character for Martha! Martha is not gonna interfere with Epic Googly Eyes for the sake of a fiddly little problem like being handcuffed
Extenuating circumstances? ...Nah, you're right. She'd probably tell the other hostages to keep out of the Epic Googly Eye Moment too.
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Date: 2011-11-04 01:17 am (UTC)Oh, the danger of having faith in a show!
She'd probably tell the other hostages to keep out of the Epic Googly Eye Moment too.
Pregnant Teller: "I think I'm about to go into la-"
Martha: "SHUSH CAN'T YOU SEE THEY'RE HAVING A MOMENT??"