Fans of Castle, Nathan Fillion, and/or folks who just like to see TV shows give nods to fairy tales themes, this week’s Castle episode has a fairy tale theme. “Once Upon a Crime – When two women are found dead dressed as fairytale characters, Castle and Beckett must race to find the killer before he strikes again.”
Castle is a crime drama-comedy series following Richard Castle (played by Nathan Fillion), fabulously popular crime novel author who shadows NYPD Detective Kate Beckett as research for his next book series. Of course, Beckett is completely annoyed by his presence at first, but slowly warms up to him as he proves himself useful. It’s a fun, playful story that really highlights Fillion’s awesomely twinkle-in-his-eye yeah-I-went-there humor. You can catch Castle on ABC Monday nights at 10pm.
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Convention news: Gina will be appearing at MomoCon in Atlanta, GA on March 16-18. You will find her set up in the Dealer’s Room with lots of cool merchandise. She will also have some Erstwhile promo bookmarks. If you’re going to be at the convention, stop by the booth and pick one up.
An episode of Castle last year received praise from the extended fandom community, for its fairly accurate portrayal of Steampunk fandom, which on the rare occasions it had been mentioned in US television drama had been rather misportrayed. The fact that Anthropomorphic fandom continues to be subject to being presented as if its most erratic elements were its norm has still not be addressed, and that comic, non-media science fiction, fantasy, and gaming fandoms are often portrayed in as being as pathetic across the board as their most unsociable elements is another injustice still waiting to be rectified. At least the horror fandoms are starting to come into their own, largely due to the popularity of Twilight (for what that’s worth), the aspects highlighted still too often focus on characters who cannot separate their roles in costume from their day-to-day lives. (Alas that Harry Potter has not accomplished this much for the fantasy fandom, which, now that I think about it, tends to be largely ignored.)
Aww, I really need to catch up on Castle. It’s such a great show. :)