On Monday nights, on ABC at 10pm, the show "Castle" airs. It's currently on it's second season, and has officially been picked up for a third. From creator Andrew W. Marlowe ("End of Days" & "Air Force One"), "Castle" is the story of Richard Castle, a best-selling crime writer who has writers' block. So, he calls in some favors to be allowed to tag along with homicide detective Kate Beckett (Stana Katic) and the NYPD as they solve murders.
Detective Beckett is a brilliant and beautiful cop who didn't initially warm up to Castle, finding him annoying and his slightly sexual anecdotes inappropriate to say the least. She tried all she could to get him out of her hair. But thanks to friends in high places, she's stuck with him. She soon discovers, however, along with her fellow detectives, Javier Esposito (Jon Huertas), and Kevin Ryan (Seamus Dever), that having a consultant who thinks about murder and death as much, if not more, than they do, does come in handy. Eventually, Beckett comes to rely on Castle, and enjoy his corky, boyish wit, perhaps a little too much?
Richard Castle is used to the high life. He enjoys his fame, indulging in lavish parties, beautiful women, and pounding away on his laptop in his high-rise apartment which he shares with his teenage daughter Alexis (Molly C. Quinn) and his ex-starlet mother Martha (Susan Sullivan). At times it seems that Alexis is the most grown up of the bunch. She is a remarkably well grounded teen who Castle chastises, lovingly, for being so goody two shoes. The author has met his match in Beckett, an intelligent and gorgeous woman who he can not charm, and who he can't write without, especially considering the fact that his main character, Nikki Heat, is based on her.
This show is awesome! Even if you've never even heard of it, you can jump right in and learn all the background you need just from the opening credits. Funny, and witty, the dialogue flows between the great characters so smoothly, that you can't help but smile as Castle throws a in a little writers' eccentricity, or as the plot takes it's trademark twist at the end. Just when you think you've got it all figured out...BAM...and it's usually Castle who comes up with the breakthrough.
Now, you're probably asking, what does this have to do with "Firefly"? Well, there was one particular Halloween episode that saw Richard Castle don a costume that only the fans would recognize, and one that made me giddy to see again... it was the wardrobe of Capt. Malcolm Reynolds, the captain of the "Firefly" ship Serenity. He laced up the leather, tied on his sidearm, and stood looking into the mirror, as he began pullin his gun to shoot his reflection over and over, Castle's daughter Alexis walked in...
(Alexis) "What are you suppose to be?"
(Castle, surprised) "I'm a space cowboy."
(Alexis) "Okay, first of all, there were no cows in space. Second of all, didn't you wear that like seven years ago?"
(Castle, putting his gun back in the holster, looks back meekly) "But I like it."
So do I Captain, so do I.
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