Castle, Flowers for Your Grave...

Over the past twenty-four hours I watched the first four episodes of Castle and thoroughly enjoyed it in just about every way I can think of. It's fluffy, but it's clever fluff. It's fun. I like the characters. There may not be a lot of depth, but there is a lot of feeling.

So: the Ten Things I like about Castle:

1. Nathan Fillion, getting his style back. Some actors are superb at playing villains. Fillion is not. He's at his best in roles like this; where he can lay on the charm, make mistakes and rectify them, a kid-at-heart-hero whose intentions are of the best.
   
   
2. Rick Castle. Reminiscent of Bruce Willis in Moonlighting, but I like him better. I like authors as heroes.
   
   
3. Kate Beckett. Great name. I like her hair. I like her loads more than Maddy in Moonlighting. I like her cop-demeanour, I like her dialogue, and if sometimes she protests too much about Castle, well, that's all part of the genre.
   
   
4. By the fourth episode, I've really come to love Esposito, Ryan, Parish and Montgomery. Their roles are underplayed and I had to look up their names, but they're individualistic, amusing, and delightfully in character as the back-up characters who double as straight men.
   
   
5. Alexis Castle, who looks a little like a fourteen-year-old friend of mine and whose personality sometimes reminds me of me at that age. A nice break from the teen stereotypes, and the annoying teens, and the loud teens, and she makes for good bits of humour, compassion, and exposition.
   
   
6. I like the combination of old-fashioned deduction and new technology.
   
   
7. I like it that each episode has a self-contained plot.
   
   
8. I like the 'little business' of mini subplots, like the coffee machine, and Alexis' school trip, and the release of Castle's latest novel.
   
   
9. I like Becket's mixture of trepidation and interest that Nicky Heat is based on her.
   
   
10. I like it that when they focus on the case, Castle and Beckett work so well together.

FIC: Torchwood - Nabbed (1/1)

Title: Nabbed
Author: fajrdrako
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters: Ianto/Lisa
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Not mine, no claims, all property of the BBC.
Notes: Pre-series. Mild spoiler for Torchwood series 2, episode 12, "Fragments". Cross-posted to my lj, to torch_wood, and to torchwood_fic. I made up Vera's Bramble Jelly, but Bubble Shock is from The Sarah Jane Adventures special, "Invasion of the Bane". With thanks to mad_jaks for the beta.

( Nabbed )