Can't jump a fence mention leads to obligatory clippage:

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I'll add the Taken fence jump.
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Literally cackling at my desk.

" He’s out of shapes."

This typo tickled me, like Nathan Fillion ran out of circles or parallelograms, or something. Oh no! He's out of decahedrons!

His days of being a rhombus of love are done!

♫ "I'm all outta shapes set me free / and let me out of Geometry / oooh-ooh" ♫

Lol to me it was like he was "throwing shapes" on the dance floor but then ran out of moves.

....I actually really liked the first 3 seasons of Castle. Not as a show with deep plot mind you, but it was a good mindless folding laundry show.

I think I watched about 3 seasons too. It was fun, although Castle himself sort of ended up being the least enjoyable character.

Side note: Seamus Deaver was in an episode of Legion last season and I squealed with glee when he appeared.

I even bought them on DVD because I really liked them... and the first book...*chrm*

I bought the first book too! And then couldn’t get through it.

Lol, me neither, it was pretty terrible.

Did anyone else ever watch DRIVE, the series that Fillion did for one season about the illegal cross country car race? It was entertaining and intense, but FOX canceled it after 4 episodes. I would have loved to see how that series unspooled.

Unrelated, I know. I just hate the loss of Fillion potential and had to get that off my chest. You can watch DRIVE on Amazon, BTW.

GOD I loved every minute of that show. It had Fillion, Emma Stone (!), Melanie Lynskey (!!), Amy Acker, Dylan Baker (!!), Lindsay Crouse, Alan Ruck...
It was completely weird and fascinating and I loved it. I fucking hate fucking Fox.

Yep. Also Kristin Lehman, Taryn Manning, Cindy Williams, Kevin Alejandro, and Brian Bloom. Whomever was able to wrangle all of those people into the same cast deserved a standing ovation, not a cancellation.

Brian Bloom. *swoon* That’s a blast from the past. Looks like he has an excellent voiceover career too.

He does! And he's still hot. There's another series on Amazon called Blackout, which is fair to middling (it stars Hailey Duff among other complete unknowns, along with James Brolin who must have been bored that year), but is worth seeing for Brian Bloom as a very sexy villain.

I enjoyed Drive, but every episode someone had to say the phrase 'illegal cross country car race' and i found that hilarious.

Yes!! I remember watching that for Fillion, but I think there ended up being several interesting people in it and I was bummed when it was canceled. Thanks for the Amazon heads up!

It really was a great cast. It's too bad, really. I'd much rather see Fillion doing something like that instead of yet another cop procedural.

Wait, he's out of shape? Uh, almost every state and jurisdiction has a police academy you must graduate from in order to to be employed as a peace officer. If your out-of-shape-but-still-good-looking-for-40 ass can't pass the physical tests, you're not going to rookie shit.
I was thinking this could be interesting; when I was 12, my best friend's dad entered the academy at age 41 (!) and was a minor celebrity in town. He had put off his career goals to support his wife through Osteopath school & residency.

Yeah the whole premise is wonky. He became a cop because he could catch baddies but then once he is a cop, he's shown to not have the ability to catch baddies. So why is he a cop again?

I wonder how a 45 yr old man can live in LA on a rookie cop salary.

He said he lives in his wealthy college roommates house, which allows him to live on a rookie salary AND allow the show to be shot in a beautiful house with a scenic view.

same way the people on Friends could afford those Manhattan apartments. Special Section 8 for fictional characters.

Oddly, they DID try to rationalize it out...

If memory serves, Monica had one of those rent controlled apartments and Chandler did the heavy lifting cause he made good money...

They had that episode where they almost got kicked out, because the apartment was rent-controlled dirt cheap as it was in Monica's grandma's name. It was technically an illegal sublet. Joey become's the super's dance partner so he won't report them.

that was retconned in, though, wasn't it? I watched the first few series and it was never addressed, but when it became a cranky New Yorker talking point they came up with that, at least as I remember.

It was retconned in, but on the other hand, I'm not bothered by that kind of retconning. Presumably most of the characters already knew that information, so it wouldn't have been something they had to explain to each other at the beginning of the show.

I'd have to ask the warden, she's the bigger Friends fan than I am. It wouldn't surprise me though.

Especially a rookie who isn't grifting or grafting yet!

$62734 starting pay. Great pay for a starting cop. Except the cost of living in California. Detroit starts at half that.

Especially with alimony!

*quietly googles who the hell Mark Harmon is*

I don't care for TV Mark Harmon, but movie Mark Harmon is well worth checking out. Most notably in The Presidio, if you like well done crime movies, and Summer School, which is a complete classic.

St. Elsewhere or bust! One of my first early teen crushes. Also MacGyver.

I forgot he was on St. Elsewhere!

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(Frankly, I don't think Fillion is in the same league, and the stories about him being nasty to Katna - her crying on set & so forth, are hella red flaggy.)

He looks like such a baby in that a picture, a hairy baby but still...

IMHO, he Looks better on NCIS. ^^

He has aged well. Silver and blue always look good together.

Summer School was awesome! I really feel like NCIS has weighed him down.

Summer School is by far my favorite movie of his. I do think NCIS is bogged down in general by the same sameness of it all for the whole cast. It has gone on too long.

I will admit that I watched an absurdly amount of NCIS during law school breaks (it was a great background show because at no point did I have to care about the plot). But at this point they are just repeating the same 3 plots.

(Although a forensic person i once talked to said that the show was actually on the more okay end when it comes to accurately showing how forensic science works.)

Yeah, I liked it a lot originally. It had some features that are fairly rare in procedurals, which is a genre I've always kind of liked. It's just that it has gone on and on and on. You can only mine characters and a premise for so long before it gets real stale.

Yeah and I think it’s almost impossible for procedural to go on for more than 5-6 seasons before becoming repetitive. Even criminal minds started repeating the same 3 type of serial killer after season 5.

Exactly. They get tired.

I will admit I binged every season from August through September of this year. I liked the early years' of the show, but the past two-three seasons were a snooze-fest... but I wanted to defeat this show.

The early years were really great. After that it was just a re-hash. I think a lot of those crime of the week with quirky characters shows fall into that same rut.

The Show is - what? 16 years old now? Hot damn, not even Stargate had that much years under its belt.