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[Missy1961]

Castle baby?

http://www.tvguide.com/news/mega-buzz-castle-baby-on-the-way/

 

[Missy1961]

and don't forget, Nathan Fillion will be appearing as himself on "Big Bang Theory" tonight.

 

[Missy1961]

Just watched Nathan Fillion on Big Bang Theory - it was a funny bit. And the episode was very touching.

 

[chirurgeon]

Just watched Nathan Fillion on Big Bang Theory - it was a funny bit. And the episode was very touching.

I was kind of hoping Nathan would be added to Sheldon's restraining order list. And I cried.

 

[Missy1961]

I was kind of hoping Nathan would be added to Sheldon's restraining order list. And I cried.

He might be first on Raj's list after that!

 

[NotUrsula]

The 2-parter was quite good; Amman rides again. ... And perhaps, so does 3XK? It never was fully resolved whether Boudreau was really Tyson or another doppelganger. If so, who did they shoot? Only time will tell.

FWIW, I recognized instantly that the phone call from Kate was a fake. The lines were nearly a straight homage to Star Trek's infamous "Help Me, Spock!" feint; and the sort of thing Rick would have spotted immediately for what it was if he had not been so distraught.

Oh, as for the Buick, it's his "PI car" of course -- commonplace and not too expensive, so that it won't attract too much attention during stakeouts. (And because ABC insists on running this show on a shoestring -- product placement does bring in cold, hard cash.) The Buick placement did get Bill Shatner's attention; he tweeted about how ironic it was for a character who was wearing a $3K Ball watch to be driving a Buick. Eh, we all have our priorities, and perhaps Castle has decided to cut back in the second car dept. now that he has a lease for that office to pay for, LOL.

One of the things that has me laughing about the show lately is Alexis' running off to the library to study when she doesn't have class, and not carrying a bag with her. The loft is in Tribeca, on Broome St. Even on the subway (IF you time it perfectly), it is a 30 minute ride to Columbia's stop from there -- nearly the full length of Manhattan Island. She's not going all the way up to campus just because the library is quieter than her very large and luxurious home. So ... when do we get to to meet the NYU student that she obviously must be dating?

PS: Adding a Caskett baby is a really bad idea, and I would hope that MILMAR know better than to venture into THAT shark tank. A pregnancy-related storyline is fine, but no actual baby, unless it makes its appearance in the very last scene of the series finale.

 

[Missy1961]

I'm like Castle - I always believed that Tyson was still alive, and that guy they killed was Tyson. I wondered for a moment - when Rick was holding the gun on him and he was reciting MB's info. But the look he gave Rick after Rick put the gun down convinced me. And I doubt crazy Kelly would hang out with anyone but Tyson. And then, DA said that Tyson was dead in every post show interview he did.

As to Alexis & her going off to study - she does have a bag in the opening scene of "Resurrection", and she never says what library she's going to. I do think we're going to find out that either she or her grandmother is moving out of the loft soon, possibly even in tonight's episode. If Castle comes back for Season 8, I have a feeling that Martha and Alexis will be recurring characters only. They were there in the beginning to ground Castle, to prove that he was a good guy under all the bluster. Now that Kate and Rick are married, they're not needed as much.

As to a baby, I've long had the opinion that they will either be announcing the pregnancy in the last episode, or she's giving birth in the last episode. Some of my reasons are practical - they can't film an infant too long, so I can already hear the complaints when an episode goes by with no baby. And I really don't see Rick leaving the baby home to work with Kate. To me, it's the perfect finishing point - Rick stays home with the baby, Kate gets promoted, end of Castle.

 

[Missy1961]

sneak peek #1:

 

[Missy1961]

sneak peek #2

 

[Missy1961]

That was a fun episode! and the ending made me tear up a bit, even if I did expect it.

 

[Missy1961]

“If you think that’s how I get pregnant, we need to talk.”

 

[Missy1961]

 

[Missy1961]

And as to a Castle baby, it's starting to sound more & more like it will happen sooner rather than later. Hey, they could make it work.

 

[NotUrsula]

And as to a Castle baby, it's starting to sound more & more like it will happen sooner rather than later. Hey, they could make it work.

Nah, not even Caskett could make that work long-term. No romantic comedy since I Love Lucy has failed to swiftly drop in ratings when a baby is given to the lead couple. Pregnancy is fine -- pregnancy is funny. Resident lead babies kill the romance in a very big hurry.

Never forget long-anticipated Baby Mabel Buchman -- or as Paul Reiser called her, the Grim Reaper.

 

[Missy1961]

Yeah, well, a lot of people thought making them a couple would kill the show, and it hasn't. Adding a baby will change it around, but they broke the Moonlighting curse so they could break the Mad About You curse too. Besides, I have a feeling the show won't be around much longer anyway, so why not add a baby.

 

[Missy1961]

nice ABC promo:

 

[NotUrsula]

Come on, Missy -- don't tell me you WANT a Caskett baby? I know I don't. (Sure, maybe as a touching finale, but not to watch every week.)

I love kids as much as the next Mom, but not on my grownup romantic comedies. Any time you introduce a young child into the central relationship of the plot on a continuing show, the dramatic focus ALWAYS shifts to the child. I don't want that to happen to this show, because my primary interest in it is the focus on the tension and interplay between two very complex adults. If it becomes all about the baby (and if there is a baby that *will* happen) then it becomes a totally different show, and one that I for one would have a lot less interest in watching. Comedy TV is overflowing with second-marriage parents and the foibles of re-adjusting to parenthood at a certain age. Castle stands out because it's different, and IMO, adding a baby would diminish that.

What I actually hope is that if they go down the road of a pregnancy, that it will turn out not to go smoothly at all. I think there is real dramatic possibility and character insight in having these people deal with a late-term miscarriage or something similar. (Though I have to say that I really don't want to watch a redux of the Buchman's endless infertility saga. I'd rather see difficulty from the other side of what can go wrong with pregnancy plans; it gives much more insight into character, and besides, it is hardly ever dealt with in film or television.).

 

[Missy1961]

Honestly, I do have mixed feelings about a baby, But since I also feel that the show probably won't go much beyond next year, I have a feeling they will be trying to get pregnant, or they might even be pregnant by the end of this season. They've been dropping clues all year, and TEM wrote last night's episode, and there were a bunch of baby mentions. And I don't see them going dramatic with it - I think they know they'd lose too many fans that way. So no infertility, no miscarriage, etc. So even if she has the baby next Nov. or Feb., they'll only deal with it for a few episodes, and then maybe he'll decide he's done enough "research" and stay at home with the baby.

Besides, as someone wrote on Tumblr, "they need to have a baby to have visual confirmation that at least once, Ryan didn’t interrupt and that Beckett ignored her damn phone." LOL

 

[Missy1961]

I really really loved "The Wrong Stuff"! A classic light weight Castle episode, and I really needed it after the intense two part episode.

Lots to love here:

Rick's glee at getting to wear a spacesuit and "go" to Mars. And then the way he walked once they were there.

Kate: "Are you done?"

Kevin's greeting: "Hey Castles!"

the title card and the music were perfect

Rick's "William Shatner"-esque narration:
“Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of Castle and Beckett. Their ongoing mission: to explore strange new motives, to seek out new witnesses and new suspects for murder, to boldly go where -- oh, right over here."

Beckett: "What are you doing?"
Castle: "Checking you for bites and scratches, making sure you didn't somehow get impregnated."
Beckett: "If you think that's how I get pregnant, we need to talk."

Beckett: "Castle, boost me up."
Castle: "Why am I always on the bottom? Yes, dear."

Castle: "Come on, Ryan, you're telling me you have no desire to go to Mars?"
Ryan: "I prefer my oxygen without a can."
Castle: "Where's your sense of adventure, of exploration, of destiny?"
Ryan: "If I want to fly thousands of miles to see a lifeless orb, I could just visit Jenny's grandmother. Same hostile environment, same freezing temperatures, same noxious atmosphere."
(My thought: wait a minute, isn't Sarah Grace named after her? I guess Kevin is hoping for some money in the will, LOL)

Rick's reaction in the first scenes at the loft. First, Alexis playing laser tag with someone else, who's wearing his gear and then his mother's guy wearing his pjs. Poor Rick.

Rick: 1 small murder for man, 1 giant mystery for mankind" Kate: Even when you whisper, everyone can hear you.

the scene right outside their front door, and the "get a room" "We would if there was one left!"

That the both of them wanted to go to Mars. Loved how she repeated his "we were fighting"

The look on his face when he said "the rover did it"

the black box satellite

And the last scene with Martha. So sweet, so perfect. Even though I expected it, it still hit me. Loved her "a few little Castles running around", the look on Rick and Kate's faces, Rick's "The unexpected in her speciality" and then them thinking the loft was too quiet.

One of the rare times I think the victim deserved what he got. The crime had lots of twists and turns, but I gotta say I think the ending felt a bit rushed. I did like the interrogation of MIRA.

So all in all, a really fun and really good episode. I've watched it a few times and I've laughed a lot each time.

Next new episode isn't until March 16th.

 

[Missy1961]

Today is the first of 2 Castle-less Mondays.