Relentless triviality is a sign of progress

[hirez]

Since I seem to have caused bits of FaceAche to take on all the charm and character that I had missed since abandoning the Usenet (nb: sarcasm), I shall have my relentless triviality here instead.

First Trivial Item: Those of you not watching the televisual entertainment named 'Castle' are missing a trick. For a programme which is basically a C21st version of 'Moonlighting' with the serial numbers filed off, it's really quite splendidly meta. Whichever one was on t'box last even contained bonkers fandom, explanations of 'shipping' (non-cargo-related sense) and arm-waving about plagiarism. I like to believe that the writers are having a whale of a time with it.

Second Trivial Item: Is it just me that gets stared at like a stuffed owl for bringing fruit into the office? Note that I don't actually work in a greengrocer's or some manner of meat-packing plant. I've worked next to a meat-packing plant, but not in one. Although when the weather was warm, it was hard to tell the difference.

Comments

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

TI#1: Agreed.

TI#2: Just you. Also, 'meat-packing'. *snigger*

[ivory-goddess.livejournal.com]

Castle is great - plus the leads are less annoying than the ones in Moonlighting! The writers also enjoy shoe-horning in references to Firefly at random intervals, which is a tad fannish...

[eljaydaly.livejournal.com]

I tried to hard to like Castle. But... I didn't.

[eljaydaly.livejournal.com]

SO hard, that is. Drat.

[andrewducker]

Julie and I are midway through season two of Castle.

I compared it more to Murder She Wrote.

But in case, good, silly, fun.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

It's like Murder She Wrote if Jessica Fletcher was a smoking hot, dirty-minded, sarcastic, probably (in my head) slightly kinky man.

Which is just wrong!

[cybermule.livejournal.com]

I don't think the FaceAche faceache was your fault. People use it as the equivalent of pushing anonymous shock buttons.

[bmlg.livejournal.com]

Watching older episodes of Castle on the laptop with husband. Also, Brisco County Jr, which may try a little too hard to be meta and ironic, but I like it anyways.

[kate mckinnon (from livejournal.com)]

Your recommendation has tipped me over to track down Castle.
I hope my having not watched Firefly will not diminish the splendid.