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friendly reminder that it’s 2015 in 36 days

landofgay

Shit

sinfonian-roo

Where's my laser gun and flying car?

edwardspoonhands

Wait, how often do kids pledge allegiance in schools in the US? Like is it once a month, once a week, everyday? How does that even work??

Every day…during the first class of the day everyone stands and together says:

"I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."

Except, of course, people who don’t believe in God…JUST KIDDING! No liberty for them! SAY THE PLEDGE HEATHENS!

Actually, you of course do not /have/ to say the pledge, and you can leave out whichever words you’d like. It’s just very expected and ingrained and…weird.

sinfonian-roo

We did this until 8th grade but not in high school, if I recall correctly. I remember that I had stopped believing in god by 8th grade and I always left that part out.

Interestingly, the original pledge never included the words "under God." They were added in the 50's to mirror a phrase that Lincoln said in the Gettysburg Address, and to "[reaffirm] the transcendence of religious faith in America's heritage and future" to quote President Eisenhower. It's commonly believed that the addition of "under God" was a jab at Marxist Communism's doctrine of atheism.

shortvideosandstuff

sinfonian-roo

Super cool!

incorrectshakespeare

Dear diary, my teen-angst bullshit now has a body count.

Hamlet, Act III, Scene IV (via incorrectshakespeare) Hamlet: He was emo before it was cool.

itsbrooklyn99

sinfonian-roo

See, a poorly written show wouldn't have had this scene. It would have had petty snark and gloating instead of character development. This is not a poorly written show. :)

wilwheaton

sinfonian-roo

THIS THIS THIS!!!

gameraboy

Jill St. John’s Robin disguise

sinfonian-roo

um, did she stuff her boobs inside the mask, too??

jackviolet

Three things I thought were really neat in the last Castle episode:

1. Kate’s cleavage bullet-wound scar. I’m impressed how the show remembers that she was shot and doesn’t just magically heal her. And keeps track of it several seasons later on.

2. When she threw that lasso over Castle, I thought “wait, how would she know how to use a lasso?” And then I remembered that Castle had made her take that hog-tying class.

3. At the end, after she shoots the gun out of the saloon owner’s hand, she twirls her own gun. Once again I thought “ok, she’s got plenty of gun experience and has been established as a very good shot, but twirling?”

Except that “Gun Spinning” was another one of the ranch classes Castle had delegated to her.

Yay continuity!

writingonthecastlewalls

I just love details like this.

kirkspocks

sinfonian-roo

If your turkey tastes like napkins, you're cooking it wrong! :p

rollasketch

Roll-a-Sketch #184

CACTUS + MERMAID + HELICOPTER + DINOSAUR

bigblueboo

tumblfall

got-the-wright-stuff

sinfonian-roo

How did this picture not melt the internet??

cruisevelocity-deactivated20160

In regards to that fight scene, here is what I like to think: Firing a Glock at a shooting range is very different from drawing and firing a Colt 45. With the adrenaline going in a pressure situation, fumbling the weapon is very common. So i think people complaining about this have got very unrealistic expectations about how good Castle is. Yes, he can shoot but he is not a shooter.

But it’s not just a Glock at a shooting range. It’s in firefights with psychopaths (‘Boom’), at drones strafing them in the middle of a field (‘The Human Factor’), it’s in shoot-outs with criminals in back alleys (‘A Deadly Affair’) or even rescuing Beckett from a serial killer with a vendetta (‘Probable Cause’). There’s a long and established canon of Castle being a relatively expert gun-handler and shot even in life-threatening and pressure situations, so it’s a pretty long bow to draw to the scene at the saloon. Honestly they didn’t need the juggling part at all, even just Becket walking and shooting the bad guy before Castle could would have been enough. Not to mention that he has been in many, many life-threatening situations and is a very different person to his general jokester persona- he keeps his cool, makes good decisions and is generally very good at saving his own life and of those around him (and I could list those episodes for days).

Plus this was just one instant in what I feel has been a season-long problem (cf. the physical comedy kindergarten scenes of ‘Child’s Play’ for example). It’s like the writers have decided to balance out the darkness and uncertainty of his overarching myth-arc by playing up the bumbling-buffoonery angle, which is completely unnecessary and a disservice to Castle and the audience not to mention poor continuity and characterisation with moments like this one.

ecrivainetflic

Honestly, I think you’re reading way too much into this one little moment. There have been a lot of other moments that have been cringe-worthy in regards to their treatment of Castle’s character, but this was not one of them. I could easily see Castle getting startled by Beckett’s shot behind him—something he definitely would not have been expecting.

You’re also missing the fact that Castle was the one who did a lot of the heavy lifting investigation-wise. He assigned them to classes and figured out who the married guy was. He figured out where the mine was (albeit ultimately on accident). And he made us (and Beckett!) have fun while he did.

cruisevelocity-deactivated20160

It’s possible. I’m not decrying this as an episode-breaking moment or anything, just something I didn’t particularly like. If you don’t feel it was cringe-worthy, that’s fine. My personal reaction to it was that it was relatively poorly handled and I stand by that, especially the notion that they went against their own continuity and characterisation in order to go for a joke that didn’t need to be made (they’d already hit that beat of Castle not being as cool as he thought, for example, with the moment where he walked into the saloon and the swinging doors rebound back onto him).

I’m not missing anything regarding Castle’s investigative abilities- neither the ask nor the answer was about that. Castle has a long-standing history going back to the pilot of being every bit as good a detective as Beckett, and especially in this setting where she had to work without her official standing, it made a lot of sense that he would contribute the lion’s share of the work and insight. That doesn’t have a lot to do with how the physical comedy is written or how Castle’s moments of characterisation play out in critical scenes like the one under discussion here, or the uptick in that kind of humour that I feel has been one of the negative parts of the season so far.

There are perfectly valid times when the audience is asked to laugh at Castle. That’s fine. My issue is that those moments are coming far more frequently than they used to, and it is affecting Castle’s standing as a character, and lowering the overall quality of the writing and the humour on the show. If you don’t agree, that’s fine, but it’s apparent to me that there is a section of the fandom/audience that feels the same as I do.

sinfonian-roo

...and you can count me as one of them. This is actually the first thing that I thought of when I saw this scene. You make a great point in that once or twice it's no big deal, but when it becomes a trend (and it has) then that's problematic for the character as a whole.

breathlifein

"I worked with a guy who taught the guys for 3:10 to Yuma and a bunch of other wonderful gun slinging scenes in film history, so it was fun to be able to go and play in that world. We shot in the Universal back lot and there were a lot of reenactors, too, doing the background work. We were riding around in a wagon…. It was just fun."

sinfonian-roo

I approve of this photoset. Just sayin.