I didn't catch the police car thing, but I was disappointed in the show. Maybe the second part will improve? (hope springs eternal and all that)
Looks like civilization finally caught up with us.
Mal ,'Bushwhacked'
Procedurals 1: Anything You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You.
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Toddson - Feb 15, 2012 10:58:09 am PST #8691 of 11831
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Ginger - Feb 15, 2012 11:15:32 am PST #8692 of 11831
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Castle is a much better show when it deals with more-or-less ordinary policing, albeit with more colorful victims and prettier police officers. The show's strengths don't play well to save-the-world giant secret conspiracies.
aurelia - Feb 15, 2012 3:14:13 pm PST #8693 of 11831
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
The previous two-parters were just constructed better. With this one we don't know enough about the presumed danger or the villan to be invested in anything more than Castle and Beckett not drowning. Plus, Jennifer Beals seems to be playing to a 1,500 seat house instead of the camera. It's odd, she wasn't like that on Chicago Code.
§ ita § - Feb 16, 2012 7:06:05 am PST #8694 of 11831
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Why is JJ so much my hero? I swear, she brings a tear to my eye more easily than anyone else. I like that it was so different seeing her squarely in the field, as opposed to how she was before. I like that they made a difference between JJ's old role and her new one.
I just want things to be okay between her and Will. I don't want him to be the ass that doesn't want his wife in an active role. Wife/spouse--it's not a gender thing. I'm just tired of so many spouses that don't make peace with such an integral part of their loved one's lives, one that existed before they showed up, and in this case was why they met.
More spouses like El, I'm just saying. Like it, love it, respect it, even get off on it. We need more of that.
Also, go Hotch!
Normally I don't like this much time spent with the not-unsub, but I think it worked out okay this time, since we weren't just watching him kill people, nor was it a trawl through his life that felt unrelated to the tension.
Toddson - Feb 16, 2012 7:44:34 am PST #8695 of 11831
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I loved seeing JJ get all tough and bad-ass with the bad guy. She's shown a little of it (when she shot the guy who'd shot Garcia), but this was flat-out Prentice-level toughness.
§ ita § - Feb 16, 2012 7:49:36 am PST #8696 of 11831
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The phrase "I can take it" flashed through my mind as she fought, and then I cheered the nad shot extra hard.
Vortex - Feb 16, 2012 9:22:22 am PST #8697 of 11831
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I loved the moment with Morgan at the end. It was a great character mOment, as well as giving some background on how suddenly JJ was a badass
-t - Feb 17, 2012 2:38:00 pm PST #8698 of 11831
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, H50, it's a good thing you're so pretty because you are ridiculous. (I'm way behind on this week's TV).
Vortex - Feb 17, 2012 4:42:15 pm PST #8699 of 11831
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Oh, -t, I gave up on sense with that show a long time I ago. I just like seeing Steve shoot things and hit people and watching Danny walk away.
-t - Feb 17, 2012 4:50:17 pm PST #8700 of 11831
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Me, too, for the most part. It is very pretty, after all. Every now and then I can't help but notice anew how silly it is, though.