Castle 4.something: "The Blue Butterfly"
Feb. 6th, 2012 10:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icepixieWell, I worked hard to keep my expectations as low as possible, and it actually worked! Even the atrocious accents everyone was sporting didn't ruin this! (...But seriously, guys, have you never actually seen a film from the 1940s? Because they did not talk like that. Beckett and Lanie sounded relatively decent, but Castle, Ryan, and Alexis all made me very sad.)
It was fun otherwise, though! I especially liked Castle acting like a damn writer for the first time in what feels like ages. Wanting to know how the story ended! Getting so engrossed in the diary that he walks off in the middle of whatever Beckett's saying! Trying to get Ryan to say "boyo" because he was imagining him as the Irish gangster! "Why am I narrating?"! I also liked Beckett being all, "Don't tell me a story that doesn't have an ending!" and him responding that if she wanted a beginning, middle, and end, he had 27 novels she could choose from.
They did telegraph a lot, such as the emphasis on the broken brick at the beginning. Knew that was going to come back. And I'm guessing absolutely no one took the "Vera and Joe died in a fire" story at face value. Though I figured they would've faked their deaths and run off to California or something rather than staying in New York where anyone could find them, geez.
Loved Tamala Jones getting to sing.
Beckett letting Vera and Joe go at the end seemed...out of character, but hell, at this point I don't even care. The rest was fun, the sets and costumes were pretty, and I can live with that.
(Though I have to admit, Moonlighting did this general concept so much better. But one could say that of many things they did.)
It was fun otherwise, though! I especially liked Castle acting like a damn writer for the first time in what feels like ages. Wanting to know how the story ended! Getting so engrossed in the diary that he walks off in the middle of whatever Beckett's saying! Trying to get Ryan to say "boyo" because he was imagining him as the Irish gangster! "Why am I narrating?"! I also liked Beckett being all, "Don't tell me a story that doesn't have an ending!" and him responding that if she wanted a beginning, middle, and end, he had 27 novels she could choose from.
They did telegraph a lot, such as the emphasis on the broken brick at the beginning. Knew that was going to come back. And I'm guessing absolutely no one took the "Vera and Joe died in a fire" story at face value. Though I figured they would've faked their deaths and run off to California or something rather than staying in New York where anyone could find them, geez.
Loved Tamala Jones getting to sing.
Beckett letting Vera and Joe go at the end seemed...out of character, but hell, at this point I don't even care. The rest was fun, the sets and costumes were pretty, and I can live with that.
(Though I have to admit, Moonlighting did this general concept so much better. But one could say that of many things they did.)