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Castle: Get A Clue Review

After last weeks episode of Castle, which was a huge disappointment for me (especially for a MilMar episode), I wasn’t as enthusiastic about Get A Clue, as I hoped I would be. The last two episodes of Castle were pretty disappointing with all the characters on the show not growing and going ahead with their lives, but getting back to the way everything was (except for Alexis of course).
But I was pretty happy after I saw Get A Clue last Monday. The case was really fun and interesting. Castle tackled a lot of fun subjects already, and a hunt for a treasure is a nice addition to that.
The episode started with Castle and Martha visiting Alexis in her new place, where she lives with Pi. Of course Castle acted like an ass, like you could have expected, which gave some painfully fun moments. If only Castle had listened to his mother…
The case, what started with a ritualistic set-up crime scene, that went to a killer monk, who ended up not to be a killer, to a treasure hunt with old symbols, which turned out to be a game, which turned out to not be a game, was a good written case with a lot of plot twists. There were some minor impossible things I spotted, like how there was light shining through windows in a secret chamber, but that didn’t bother me too much in enjoying Castle finally being right about the case being a conspiracy. And the sword fighting scene was just awesome!
But then… Castle went to Alexis to apologize for his behavior when he visited Alexis last time. She was mad. And she had a good reason to be. Only she doesn’t have a reason to suddenly act completely out of character by moving in with a guy she only knows for a month. I’ve no clue where this behavior comes from. Where is the smart girl that felt too guilty for not paying for one ride in the public transport that she next time swiped her card twice. Where is the smart girl who is the most responsible teenager you probably ever have seen? Yes, some people get a crazy period in their lives like Britney or Miley, but I would have never expected Alexis to be like this (in a lesser way of course). Her father apologized and promised to do his very best to try to accept Pi and the new situation. But she acted liked a spoiled little kid, what she never was before. What changed? That Castle will marry Beckett? I’m pretty sure, like the rest of us, Alexis could’ve seen it coming. I loved Alexis how she was. Finally a smart and responsible teenager on TV. So, I hope she will come to her senses soon and see the mistakes she made.
But for the actor who plays Pi, Myko Olivier, I’ve to say he does an excellent job in playing a character everyone loves to hate. For a starting actor with the few minutes screen time he had on Castle, he does a great job. Pi is now the most talked about character this season yet.

Elementary: We Are Everyone Review

As a big fan of the British BBC series Sherlock, I was very hesitant to watch the American Elementary. I even didn’t watched the first season, but now the second season started and the general thoughts about Elementary weren’t as bad as I expected, I was willing to give it a try.
Tonight the 3rd episode of the season, We Are Everyone, aired. I can’t help myself to compare the show to Sherlock. And compared to that, Elementary is of way lesser quality than the BBC show. But if I try to watch it without Sherlock in mind, Elementary is a pretty decent show. A female Watson seemed like a bad idea, but the chemistry with this version of Sherlock Holmes is working pretty well.
The plot of We Are Everyone is loosely based on the leaks of qualified information over the past years with Wikileaks and Snowden for example, and the hackers group Anonymous. The writers worked this out into a very interesting story, in which Holmes figured out the solution as usual in a way that is quite impressive.
The back pilot of Watson having a profile on a dating site isn’t the most interesting (except for the trains and pizza’s), but there are ways it could turn out to be interesting after all, as long as it won’t be a next Irene Adler/Moriarty type of character.
Overall We Are Everyone was a decent episode, although it didn't win me over yet as a fan yet.

The Tomorrow People Pilot: Review

As a fan of pretty much everything superhero-ish, I looked forward to the premiere of the new CW series The Tomorrow People. And it didn’t disappoint me. Yes, it is not the best season premiere of this season, but by far not the worst either.
In CW series you often see a lot of young pretty looking people, which was the case in The Tomorrow People too. That is one of the reasons why the acting of the CW shows often isn’t from the highest quality. And yes, the acting wasn't the strongest point of The Tomorrow People. But it was just the pilot and there is plenty of room for improvement, especially with the lead actor Robbie Amell, the brother of Arrow’s Stephen Amell. Stephen didn’t start out as the strongest actor either, but he is growing in his performance and is taking his show to one of the best series on TV. So there is definitely hope for his little brother too.
The plot line of the Pilot episode sounded familiar, as The Tomorrow People is a remake from a British show. But it was nonetheless very interesting and I can’t wait where the writers will take the show to in the coming episodes. One thing was pretty questionable. That is that Stephen Jameson didn’t know he had any powers and a few hours later he suddenly was able to teleport pretty easily out of a room where his powers weren’t supposed to work for whatever reason. He seemed to have his new powers under reasonable control quite fast. The struggle to learn their new powers, is for me normally one of the things I find more interesting in super powered people.
The best moment of the episode was that Jameson by accident teleported himself in his sleep in the bed of his neighbors house.
Verdict: Although there are plenty things to improve, the pilot looked very promising. Thumbs up!