tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79953729582147632.post2911539085644201770..comments2024-01-31T02:49:46.927-06:00Comments on Castle Inanity: mxpw vs. Frea - Chuck vs. the A-TeamFreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15324572697846855260noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79953729582147632.post-49431567375237367742011-03-23T15:15:03.337-05:002011-03-23T15:15:03.337-05:00I'm a little nervous about Elle getting her da...I'm a little nervous about Elle getting her dad's laptop again. I don't want her getting in to the spy business. She has a family now. Chuck can do it easily and not because he's the intersect, but because of the person he is. I loved how the new "deeper" part of Castle just popped out on my screen in HD. It looked so real, which was pretty awesome. As a DISH Michael S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/03202360362658656076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79953729582147632.post-37793870105820404812011-03-19T07:38:35.670-05:002011-03-19T07:38:35.670-05:00John Clark, I don't think the lost time had to...John Clark, I don't think the lost time had to do with her downloading the Intersect, it had to do with Ellie getting caught up in something. <br /><br />The first time I played this game that had unlimited lives (I'm blanking on the name but it was a FPS) it felt like I blinked and it was 5 hours later. With Clara sleeping well because of the Jeffster bear and Ellie having something to Tamaranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79953729582147632.post-74739880081930476192011-03-17T02:34:44.737-05:002011-03-17T02:34:44.737-05:00"The time when the show's romantic tensio..."The time when the show's romantic tension partially depended on Sarah being an enigma has long passed"<br /><br />Hello Ayefah, was your tongue dipped in the fountain of the gods or something? Very eloquent and couldn't agree more. This comment section makes me very happy.Krishttp://swfangirls.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79953729582147632.post-72567589416845732652011-03-16T23:39:41.026-05:002011-03-16T23:39:41.026-05:00I think new castle would make my neck hurt.I think new castle would make my neck hurt.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79953729582147632.post-67872877204664489262011-03-16T21:54:47.484-05:002011-03-16T21:54:47.484-05:00Somebody on TWOP said it best, I think, that the f...<i>Somebody on TWOP said it best, I think, that the fact that Chuck and Sarah seem to only sit around waiting for the next mission to come and don't really seem to do anything in between is a tacit admission by the writers that they've given up on giving Chuck and Sarah anymore personal growth.</i><br /><br />Huh. That is a really cogent point. The show has presented "real life"Ayefahnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79953729582147632.post-75728430589343567752011-03-16T16:31:50.153-05:002011-03-16T16:31:50.153-05:00As Frea said, neither of us called Sarah "out...As Frea said, neither of us called Sarah "out of character." We, or since I don't want to put words in her mouth, I, just thought that Sarah was acting pretty ridiculous. And I realize that Sarah doesn't have any outside, independent interests beside spying and hasn't been shown to pursue any. That's precisely the problem Frea and I were trying to get at. It's been mxpwnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79953729582147632.post-85080260459255064522011-03-16T16:09:42.767-05:002011-03-16T16:09:42.767-05:00I gotta agree with MyNameIsJeffNThis name is too l...I gotta agree with MyNameIsJeffNThis name is too long to type out....<br /><br />In that I felt secure in Sarah's appreciation of Casey as a partner. It brought back all kinds of season 1 feelings for me. And because her hair in at least 3 scenes looked like it did in Vs Beefcake, season 2 feelings too. (I think it was something to do with the fringe... looked great anyway, I was getting so Beccanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79953729582147632.post-62344671432810957752011-03-16T16:02:52.586-05:002011-03-16T16:02:52.586-05:00The show tends to define all its female characters...The show tends to define all its female characters by their relationships to men. Julia Ling was the one who came up with the idea that Anna was into anime, and it was Ling's martial arts background that bled into Anna's character. Beyond that? She was just Morgan's girlfriend, just like Alex is Morgan's girlfriend and Casey's daughter and little else now. In four seasons the Ayefahnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79953729582147632.post-33397933890211885032011-03-16T14:08:29.114-05:002011-03-16T14:08:29.114-05:00I gotta agree about Sarah I don't like the ide...I gotta agree about Sarah I don't like the idea of her being defined by Chuck. We know the show goes overboard with certain themes but this one of Sarah was nothing before Chuck is a terrible one. They should of showed her teaching Chuck cons she did with her dad like three card Monty. Or since Cat Squad showed she like cards, how bout some strip poker.JChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18322704994322180104noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79953729582147632.post-13924577406594431682011-03-16T13:57:24.566-05:002011-03-16T13:57:24.566-05:00What's the point of having standards if you ca...What's the point of having standards if you can't have more than one set?Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02551951752391344433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79953729582147632.post-91930391142935940492011-03-16T10:17:19.106-05:002011-03-16T10:17:19.106-05:00Re: the Porsche-- I think that's solely a fanf...Re: the Porsche-- I think that's solely a fanfiction creation, actually. I've never seen anything on the show that shows Sarah is particularly attached to the car. <br /><br />As far as the rest of your comments go, neither of us has called Sarah's restlessness "out of character." We just both felt it was completely over the top, as Sarah tends to be a little more reservedFreahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15324572697846855260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79953729582147632.post-18159975673136511992011-03-16T09:57:08.140-05:002011-03-16T09:57:08.140-05:00I'm going to have to add my voice to the choru...I'm going to have to add my voice to the chorus of those suggesting that Sarah's stir craziness was not necessarily out of character. I can't help but think that your backgrounds as extraordinary fan fiction writers might be coloring you view of Sarah.<br /><br />While Casey, Chuck, Morgan and even Jeff and Lester have clearly been shown to have hobbies outside of their work life, Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02551951752391344433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79953729582147632.post-34017096657776103222011-03-16T09:56:02.136-05:002011-03-16T09:56:02.136-05:00While the comments seem to be focused on Sarah Lan...While the comments seem to be focused on Sarah Lancaster, I've been a huge fan of her hotness since the Sandworm ep, that Eve costume pretty much blew my mind. Ever since I've felt that there should also be such thing as EBP and that it should happen with nearly as much fequency as SWP.<br /><br />Also I'm kinda shocked there was no talk of the final scene with Ellie and the laptop. IJohnClarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08412660374174996847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79953729582147632.post-52878647135825403332011-03-16T09:20:09.239-05:002011-03-16T09:20:09.239-05:00Don't worry, JC, I'll protect you. I'...Don't worry, JC, I'll protect you. I've thought Sarah Lancaster was freaking gorgeous since her <i>Everwood</i> days (which is why the hospital in Fates is Madison Mercy). :)Freahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15324572697846855260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79953729582147632.post-50341690781653948782011-03-16T08:16:47.223-05:002011-03-16T08:16:47.223-05:00Since most of the mythology is such a mess a defin...Since most of the mythology is such a mess a definite answer on why Chuck is special has become my new white whale. I really don't expect to get answers about anything else but after this episode it really needs to be explained. <br /><br />And I know this might get me killed here but Sarah Lancaster blew Yvonne away tonight in hotness.JChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18322704994322180104noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79953729582147632.post-2553090020264752992011-03-16T07:45:53.057-05:002011-03-16T07:45:53.057-05:00i'm intrigued by the revelation that chuck kno...i'm intrigued by the revelation that chuck knows Japanese - I do believe thats a NES cartridge as opposed to a SNES cartride - so his comments about playing Final Fantasy II would be the Actual Final Fantasy 2 which was Never released in the US.<br /><br />The game released as final fantasy 2 in the US was a Snes game and was actually final fantasy 4. (this is the reason why to the US final Alrishttp://www.twitter.com/Alrisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79953729582147632.post-75055798704052493512011-03-16T07:09:31.458-05:002011-03-16T07:09:31.458-05:00"This is the government, since when do they c..."This is the government, since when do they care about doing things better?"<br /><br />They don't. That's the point. People in government care about doing things "their way", whether or not it is better. If Chuck was killing people, a different faction would say he was too lethal and there is a problem with the Intersect that needed to be fixed.<br /><br />I agree MyNameIsJeffNImLosthttp://www.fanfiction.net/u/2425126/MyNameIsJeffNImLostnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79953729582147632.post-72963059426294030682011-03-16T06:01:34.311-05:002011-03-16T06:01:34.311-05:00Does Sarah have hobbies outside of being a spy? Um...Does Sarah have hobbies outside of being a spy? Ummm, I’m pretty sure that would be no. Unless knife throwing counts. She doesn't like music. She doesn't know popular culture. We've never seen her read (except for paperwork). The only time we've seen her watch television or movies is with Chuck. She's never gone sightseeing at any of the places she's visited. The only Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79953729582147632.post-47346979223616901692011-03-16T05:36:32.529-05:002011-03-16T05:36:32.529-05:00Hmmm....
I gotta say, I liked it. A good solid ep,...Hmmm....<br />I gotta say, I liked it. A good solid ep, and leagues better than anything we've had from Wootton or DiGregorio.<br />I was surprised to hear the animus about Sarah's lack of hobbies. We've never been given any indication she has any hobbies. Chuck. Job. Porsche. That's pretty much Sarah, it seems to me. It might be poor writing not to have fleshed her out a little -Big Kevnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79953729582147632.post-29828873172066435302011-03-16T05:04:20.723-05:002011-03-16T05:04:20.723-05:00'Morgan had a funny line about the Intersect m...'Morgan had a funny line about the Intersect making the world a more peaceful place.'<br /><br />True. But Casey said almost exactly the same thing first. I thought it was a continuation of what we'd seen earlier, where Casey was training Morgan in how to deal with being questioned (and tortured).Buckleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09539163820208195402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79953729582147632.post-16490297080361435392011-03-16T04:29:37.925-05:002011-03-16T04:29:37.925-05:00The only thing that explains Sarah's first-hal...The only thing that explains Sarah's first-half neuroses for me is her competitiveness. As soon as the A-Team versus B-Team idea came into play, she had to ensure she was on the former. Casey's appendages were just collateral damage. <br /><br />Also, I just realized the little <i>Operation</i> scene in the beginning was foreshadowing the bomb-defusing at the end, which was a cute touch. Ayefahnoreply@blogger.com