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capri0mni'Cause I have Thoughts on a passel of television season finales. You have been warned.
If Becket says "Yes," Castle better follow her to D.C.. After all, you can write anywhere.
So: how much do you want to bet the first half of next season will be four months of flashback?
This is the final (??) wrapping up of the story arc from ... many ... seasons back, isn't it? The one where Ducky discovered that the people on his autopsy table had weird computer chip things implanted under their skin, and it was hinted that people high up in Navy command were involved.
...And then, that storyline was seemingly dropped cold. But now, I think not.
Which season was that, btw?
I wonder how many old mysteries will tie back into this season.
Of all the transformations from Doyle's world to ours, this was the most disappointing. But I can totally understand why it was done. This whole series was a massive experiment, and it might've failed and been cancelled after one season. If that had happened, leaving the Irene Adler storyline and the Moriarty storyline open would have been a massive cheat for the audience, given what a big driver each was for the season. So I can see why it was thought best to resolve both in one fell swoop, and (in case the series succeeded) cut the tethers to the Nineteenth Century source materiel.
Still, I look forward to the day when a troubled protagonist will allowed to have a deep and powerful love for someone that remains (relatively) pure, and untainted by evil. You know?
Oh, joy. An bad guy is tortured (and made disabled) off-screen. This turns him into Evil guy who wants two things: revenge and death...
I am not sure I can give this show my eyeballs, anymore.
If Becket says "Yes," Castle better follow her to D.C.. After all, you can write anywhere.
So: how much do you want to bet the first half of next season will be four months of flashback?
This is the final (??) wrapping up of the story arc from ... many ... seasons back, isn't it? The one where Ducky discovered that the people on his autopsy table had weird computer chip things implanted under their skin, and it was hinted that people high up in Navy command were involved.
...And then, that storyline was seemingly dropped cold. But now, I think not.
Which season was that, btw?
I wonder how many old mysteries will tie back into this season.
Of all the transformations from Doyle's world to ours, this was the most disappointing. But I can totally understand why it was done. This whole series was a massive experiment, and it might've failed and been cancelled after one season. If that had happened, leaving the Irene Adler storyline and the Moriarty storyline open would have been a massive cheat for the audience, given what a big driver each was for the season. So I can see why it was thought best to resolve both in one fell swoop, and (in case the series succeeded) cut the tethers to the Nineteenth Century source materiel.
Still, I look forward to the day when a troubled protagonist will allowed to have a deep and powerful love for someone that remains (relatively) pure, and untainted by evil. You know?
Oh, joy. An bad guy is tortured (and made disabled) off-screen. This turns him into Evil guy who wants two things: revenge and death...
I am not sure I can give this show my eyeballs, anymore.
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Date: 2013-05-20 04:52 pm (UTC)Ducky = NCIS? Does this mean there's another show I might need to watch?
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Date: 2013-05-20 06:07 pm (UTC)It's actually pretty good, compared to other television series in its genre (drama/police procedural/spy thriller), when it comes to how disability is handled on the show. I think that's because the writers actually respect the military, as an institution, and realize that they probably do have actual war veterans in the audience, who may be, you know actually disabled.
So when a newly disabled vet character starts going off on the old "My life is over!" spiel, the leader of the investigative team (Gibbs -- actor Mark Harmon) will say, flat out: "No, it's not. Life goes on, and you'll be fine, even if it is hard." So that's one reason why I've kept watching, I think..
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Date: 2013-05-20 06:18 pm (UTC)I still have happy Mark Harmon dreams from Reasonable Doubts — you remember that lovely lawyer-in-Chicago show starring Marlee Maitlin? The M.M. dreams were even happier — there's just an energy to that woman which makes me grin.
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Date: 2013-05-21 12:25 am (UTC)Wikipedia is your friend...
Just this morning, on NPR, there was a report on how television is still, in this modern media age, a major force in our social interactions, with being the driver of so many excited conversations about favorite shows, and the importance of "buzz." ... The report ended, however, with how NCIS is the exception to the rule: it's CBS's #1 show, with one of the most loyal fan-bases. But it hardly generates any buzz at all. Just keeps chugging along with its ensemble cast, and mix of comedy and drama (And geek pride).