# "Castle" - Season 2 starts tonight **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 21, 2009, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/castle-season-2-starts-tonight/511023 "2009-09-21T23:39:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2009, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/castle-season-2-starts-tonight/511023/21 "2009-09-25T03:17:57Z")
> [@Number](#): > > _After_ spotting the guy with the fake finger, and knowing backup wasn’t close by, Castle flat-out tells the table full of murderous gangsters everything he knows about them. Why? Would just asking them to shoot him have been too subtle? I don’t think he _did_ spot the prosthetic, the cops did on the video. I could be wrong, though, as I was deliberately not paying close attention to that scene. I find it hard to watch awkward situations like that. Presuming that he didn’t notice the finger, his actions become a little more plausible; he may have been trying to get one of them to say, “Oh yeah, my associate did something like that the other night.” It worked with the cat burglar in _Home Is Where The Heart Stops_, so he probably figured he’d get lucky again. > [@](#): > > The poker was execrable, even by tv standards. No-limit five card draw? And he still wins even though everyone is colluding against him in another language and probably cheating on the deal as well? Yeah, that bothers me. Castle might be the best player in the world, but you still have to work with the cards you have, and sometimes you’re just given crap. And if they’re colluding, which they certainly would be, it becomes even harder. It’s just lazy writing. Keeps the action moving, but it’s lazy. > [@](#): > > Beckett suddenly has backstory that allows her to understand Russian, but rather than distract the gangster by actually _speaking_ Russian, she does silly Boris and Natasha accent. Somehow this works. Bozhe moi! Best I can say here is maybe they started speaking TV Russian, helpfully translated automatically for us viewers, but I find it hard to swallow. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2009, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/castle-season-2-starts-tonight/511023/22 "2009-09-25T04:17:52Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > Apparently [Stana Katic](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stana_Katic) is second generation Croatian and fluent in it. Maybe her “Russian” accent got pulled in that direction? (unintentionally (heh!) blocking her egress from the set) Stana! Is there anything I can do to help you that does not involve me moving my arm? Really, this show wasn’t cancelled? ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2009, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/castle-season-2-starts-tonight/511023/23 "2009-09-25T14:42:51Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Really, this show wasn’t cancelled? Good writing goes a long way. The plots may be riddled with more holes than swiss cheese, but I honestly don’t notice because I have fun just watching the interplay between the characters. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2009, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/castle-season-2-starts-tonight/511023/24 "2009-09-25T15:28:30Z")
Wouldn’t a good poker fleecing strategy (one design to hook someone and then play him for everything he has including his first-born child) start with letting them win? Build the confidence (like salting a fake goldmine). Then start taking it away. At every turn your mark is going to think his luck is going to change if he can play just one. more. hand. StG ---
**Author:** ![Tal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/54ee81/32.png) [@Tal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tal)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/castle-season-2-starts-tonight/511023/25 "2009-10-05T02:35:28Z")
I’m really looking forward to some of the stuff coming up - I’ll spoiler for those that don’t want to know! The Halloween Episode is said to feature a lot of references to previous shows related to the cast/crew - but the best bit (really, this is a huge spoiler…) Nathan Fillion dressed as Mal Reynolds from Firefly! Also coming up is an episode written by Jose Molina who also worked on Firefly as Story Editor for the series and the writer of the episode Ariel (including the Mal/Jayne/Airlock scene) and co wrote Trash too. This is going to be a GREAT episode. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/castle-season-2-starts-tonight/511023.md?page=1)