Castle 4.08: "Heartbreak Hotel"

[icepixie]

Meh. I spent the entire episode thinking, "Oh, that was meant to be funny. I should laugh at that," and then not laughing. I guess the show has finally become a victim of its own success, because rather than being amusing, Castle and the boys in Elvis suits just felt de rigueur.

Although Esposito's "Elvis can't be brown? I'm Elvez" was pretty amusing, I must admit.

Over in Beckett's story, I felt like the show was basically shouting, "Here we are engaging in something called 'character development' where we humanize Captain Gates. Look how human and not-bitchy she is! Do you like her now? You should have new respect for her, because we said so!" I mean, I guess she's not terrible? But I'm still not a big fan, and I'm not thrilled with her being minced into bite-sized pieces for my delectation.

Alexis's party was kind of funny in the sense that it was completely accidental, but as a story it did absolutely nothing for me.

The next episode (two weeks from now) looks like it will be full of Castle lying to Beckett for her own good, which is sure to make me rage. I think I might give it a miss and see what the general online consensus is before I watch.

Comments

[rowdycamels.livejournal.com]

Okay, here goes, this is me choosing to ignore a new episode of Castle.... feels kinda good, actually? (Thanks for the warning!)

[rensong.livejournal.com]

There was sadness when I logged into Hulu and could not get the new episode to play. There was more sadness when I tried at ABC.com an also failed (everything else in my queue will play, so I'm thinking it's ABC's fault). So I decided to get a sort of Castle fix by reading your spoilers, and now I am not so sad that the episode won't load. Elvis costumes? Really?

And next week's episode sounds like it shall be made of lose. One of my BIGGEST PET PEEVES IN THE WORLD, OMG is other people lying to people they care about "for their own good". This is why I still refuse to read any of the Dresden series between book 2 and where I picked up the series again around books 4 or 5ish.