Castle isn’t a science fiction show per se but there’s a lot of geekery that happens on that show. I must admit to having gaps in my viewership of the show. When sexual tension gets obnoxious and painful to watch I need a break. This season Beckett and Castle FINALLY get together and surprising it didn’t ruin the show. Let’s just hope they don’t introduce a pregnancy too soon. We wouldn’t want to go all 9th-season-of-X-Files just yet.
I started watching again just because and I’m glad I did. Last I watched, Esposito and Lanie were having a “thing”, Montgomery was still running the show, and Beckett and Castle were still seeing other people. Now we have a different captain, Lanie is giving Esposito the cold shoulder, Kate and Castle (Caskett) are sneaking around, and each episode is funnier than the next.
One of my favorite episodes is the one where they had to have a band’s documentary crew following Castle and the gang around with cameras. They hammed it up so much for the camera. My favorite was Esposito wearing tight shirts and making a muscle saying “Welcome to the gun show.” My next favorite episode starred none other than ED QUINN! This episode involved a murder at a convention and a fan experience for a science fiction TV show that lasted only 12 episodes called Nebula 9. Ed Quinn was the drunk, washed-up captain wearing a very tight space uniform. It was glorious.
I’m looking forward to next season. I think they may have found the guy that killed Kate’s mom but I’m not really sure. That isn’t the important part of the show to me; it’s the cast chemistry.
Castle airs Mondays 10/c on ABC. It is streaming for free on abc.go.com and Hulu.
I don’t usually watch Castle, but I made sure to give the Nebula 9 episode a try. It was pretty well done and amusing. Like a lot of mainstream shows that allude to sci-fi, they took the easy route with references to Star Trek, Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, and Lord of the Rings. If they really wanted to go full geek, they could have alluded to Stargate, Babylon 5, Buffy, Alien Nation, Eureka, Chuck, Game of Thrones, etc. But, they went the easy way. At least there was that sly reference to Firefly. ;)
I was just there for Ed Quinn. Does he count as the Eureka reference?
Castle is pretty mainstream. I’m pretty sure if they talked about Vorlons and the Hellmouth that it would go right over the heads of their core audience.
True, but even Gilmore Girls occasionally made references to things like Spike & Drusilla from Buffy, Aragorn from Lord of the Rings, and the final Obi-Wan vs. Anakin showdown from Star Wars: Episode III, and that wasn’t even a geeky show. If you’re going to do an episode based in a sci-fi convention, then, if no other time, do you have an excuse to go all the way with your references.
Casting Ed Quinn from Eureka was kind of a meta reference. Same with casting Erin Way from Alphas, Armin Shimerman from Deep Space Nine, and Jonathan Frakes as the director of the episode and in his un-named cameo.