Castle

[jducoeur]

Okay, the pilot of Castle shows promise. It's not genius, but the writing is sharp, the chemistry is great, and Nathan Fillion is perfectly cast. (He's getting a tad typecast, but at least he seems to be enjoying it.) Definitely stays on the to-record list, at least for the time being...

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typecasting? i don't agree

[tashabear.livejournal.com]

The last three major roles I've seen him in (Buffy, Firefly, and now Castle) are similar in that he gets to be charming and rueful, but the preacher character in Buffy was a whole lot darker and creepier, possessed as he was by evil, than anything I've seen him do. On Firefly, his character was broken in some very fundamental ways, but continued on because he loved people who needed him. Rick Castle, on the other hand, has never broken. He knows a lot about murder and murderers in the abstract, but his profession has kept him apart from the reality of it.

I think they're very different characters. Because they're being played by Nathan Fillion, they're going to have some similarities in the way he expresses them, but I don't think he's being typecast at all.

[elizabear.livejournal.com]

We laughed, we thought it was fun, we'll keep watching it.

[dsrtao]

I'll watch it until the shark is jumped or the initial episode commitment is filled and not renewed (my bet, unfortunately).

Re: typecasting? i don't agree

[jducoeur]

I can certainly agree about Buffy, but there's something that feels very akin to me between Mal and Castle. I agree that it's exactly that one is broken and the other not, but somehow there's a certain "there but for the grace of God" to it.

(Although I was thinking more of Dr. Horrible than either Buffy or Firefly...)

Re: typecasting? i don't agree

[tashabear.livejournal.com]

Certainly Mal and Rick Castle are more similar to each other than either of them are to the Preacher, but Mal was self-sacrificing, where Rick is selfish. Even when everyone around him wanted him to be selfish and say that he wanted something, he didn't (ie, Inara), because he felt he wasn't good enough for her. In contrast, Castle is shallow and doesn't seem to care whether he's good enough or not -- he just sees something shiny and WANTS. It'll be interesting to see where they take the character and the relationship with the female detective... just like it would have been interesting to see where they took Mal and Inara if he'd allowed himself to heal a bit.

(I can't include Dr. Horrible so much as not only did he not get a lot of character development, he was a caricature of a caricature. That's not to say Fillion wasn't awesome in the role, but there wasn't much there to judge against other roles.)

[baron-steffan.livejournal.com]

Today's word is "picaresque".

Yeah, he's typecast, but he's about the best at what he does. auntie_elspeth and I were musing that every TV show and movie is, at some time, described as "X crossed with Y [crossed with Z...]". This is Murder She Wrote for a younger crowd, crossed with Moonlighting, with a dash of Hank Moody from Californication. But we're in, largely and simply because it's Nathan Fillion.

Re: typecasting? i don't agree

[rufinia.livejournal.com]

I think there's more to Castle than we've seen- sure he was pretty flip about the whole "some killer is copying my ideas" thing when around people, except when he was around his kid (who I love, by the way).

But I do love the chemistry between Castle and Kate- and I about died at the "I'm Just a Girl Who Cain't Say No" scene.

"Cain't Say No"

[msmemory.livejournal.com]

Long live Lwaxana!