Giles, if you would like to get by in American society, then you are going to have to follow our traditions. You're the patriarch. You have to host the festivities, or it's all meaningless.

Buffy ,'Sleeper'


Procedurals 1: Anything You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You.

This thread is for procedural TV, shows where the primary idea is to figure out the case. [NAFDA]


askye - Feb 07, 2012 6:46:58 pm PST #8652 of 11838
Thrive to spite them

I thought he was going for that old style sorta mid Atlantic type accent.

I'm confused about the actual Blue Butterfly. If it was hidden in a brick outside the building how did the murder victim find it?

Also are we supposed to believe that the whole time the mob guy had it was paste? Because I think a 1940s mob guy would know how to get jewelry appraised.


§ ita § - Feb 07, 2012 6:58:44 pm PST #8653 of 11838
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Watching NCIS right now, and...I am not into this show anymore, I guess. It's just striking me as wanky and self-indulgent, when I can see what it's actually going for. My heart's just not where they're aiming.


DebetEsse - Feb 07, 2012 7:09:21 pm PST #8654 of 11838
Woe to the fucking wicked.

Askye, the dead guy knew where to find it because the old couple told him where to find it.


askye - Feb 07, 2012 7:10:29 pm PST #8655 of 11838
Thrive to spite them

Oh, okay, I thought that they just told him about the secret safe.

I still don't buy that big time mob guy wouldn't have had the diamonds checked out by someone to make sure they were real.


DebetEsse - Feb 07, 2012 7:26:11 pm PST #8656 of 11838
Woe to the fucking wicked.

He very well may have.


Connie Neil - Feb 07, 2012 7:29:03 pm PST #8657 of 11838
brillig

I think it may be something like The Maltese Falcon. The falcon turned out to be a fake, but the treasure hunters decided it was a decoy and set off to look for the real one.


sj - Feb 08, 2012 4:05:34 am PST #8658 of 11838
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

What was Castle/Joe's accent supposed to be? A variant on Bronx or something?

I used to listen to the old detective radio shows on CD, and he sounded a lot like those radio detectives, to me.


SailAweigh - Feb 08, 2012 7:50:57 am PST #8659 of 11838
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

It's just striking me as wanky and self-indulgent

I'm forgiving them. I do believe it was their 200th episode and that always calls for schmaltz. At least they didn't pull in a TV production company to make a movie about them.


Toddson - Feb 08, 2012 7:55:36 am PST #8660 of 11838
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

Actually, I liked this Castle more than I expected to. Too often, when a show does this kind of thing it comes off as overly wanky and self-indulgent but this time I was willing to go along with it. And I loved Ryan's "boyo" - past and present versions.


§ ita § - Feb 08, 2012 8:02:23 am PST #8661 of 11838
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

At least they didn't pull in a TV production company to make a movie about them.

That wasn't schmaltz, that was gold! I don't expect to ever see a better #200 than that, even if SPN ever made it that far.

I just dislike all the characters more than I did last week. An even more extreme effect than last week's Grey's had on me.