Today’s Guest Clacker is Jeremy “Jermsington” Fogelman, a sometimes writer/blogger and amateur voice actor, and full-time television watcher based out of Washington DC. Some of his attempts at writing and talking can found at his website.
Castle uses a similar formula to all crime procedurals in most episodes:
The interesting and entertaining thing about Castle is the characters and the interplay between them — including Castle’s family. This episode is no exception, although it does have a few fun surprises. This particular episode wasn’t a theme episode like many we’ve gotten, but that’s not a bad thing; too many of “cute” themes can burn out the viewer.
Several guest stars showed up — including some you may actually have heard of: Justin Bruening (Knight Rider), Erik Palladino ( Make It Or Break It), Brendan Hines (Lie to Me), Andrew Lawrence (United States of Tara), and Josie Loren (Make It Or Break It). One of the more interesting cameos was Brendan as Alex Conrad, the protege and “muse thief” of Castle. This led to a fun set of fake websites Castle used, including www.RichardCastle.net — which is also apparently newly created and shockingly well designed. For a promotional television website, it’s quite decent.
The Captain had some fun with the new rival, needling Castle about Beckett and Alex’s chemistry — although we’ve heard it all before, of course. And the clever defusing of the possibility of that relationship with more cameos, this time of authors Michael Connelly and Dennis Lehane. As for the mystery, it was reasonably convoluted, although the typical early introduction of the Actual Criminal happens just as expected — but sometimes it’s about the journey, not the destination. Considering that in most crime dramas, the destination is usually “Crime solved,” originality needs to come elsewhere. All in all, a decent Castle episode that slowly but surely moved things along and had a somewhat original mystery to go along with it.
One serious problem with the episode: I can’t believe they used “Leprechaun toss” as a throwaway joke without showing any leprechauns. And Romania without vampires? It just seems a shame.
But at least now Beckett is a “one writer girl” — can we get that in writing?
Clacked by Guest Clacker
on Apr 12, 2011 @ 14:00 EST5EDT
Love that Beckett is a “one writer girl”, but not sure about the looks that Castle and Beckett shared at the end. It seems they tend exchange these looks, but can’t get the words … or any words to come out of their mouths. Only a few episodes left. I hope we get some kind of resolution.
Jeremy – glad you wrote up the post! Props to a Castle LiveClacker!
I particularly liked the homage to Stephen Cannell at the poker game. Kind got me “right here”.