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Like any true blue Nathan Fillion fan, I set the DVR to catch the premier of Castle last night. And promptly got SCREWED. SmallChild was here so of course we were tied up in uncounted repetitions of Gullah Gullah Island until she finally crashed. Then I got my favorite munchies together (Girl Scout Thin Mints and ice cold milk) and settled in to enjoy… and it wasn’t there.

AAAAAAAARrRRRRrrrRRRRrrgggghghhhghghghg!111!!111!!!!

So I waited until tonight to check the ABC site and found you can get it there. Sweet! So here’s what I thought. And yeah, I’m spoiling it.

It’s definitely a pilot. Here’s hoping the banter stays, but comes down off the edge of that cutesy cliff and mellows a bit. Don’t like the mother character. It’s your cliche cougar lady on show tunes and not done well at all. That actress has always played a little over the top anyway. Love the daughter and the interaction between her and Castle. The detective team will never match The Closer’s camaraderie so let’s hope they don’t go there. Don’t think I’m going to like the lady detective either. She’s got nothing, no personality, no connection, no chemistry so it’s no wonder Nathan is overplaying a little to compensate.

I liked Castle for the most part, but for one huge glaring STOOPIT towards the end. I know Nathan Fillion is computer adept. The man is online all the time. And the character is a well-known fucking WRITER (ala JC Hutchins or Scott Sigler or maybe closer to Stephen King) and yet there’s a scene where he’s home, at his desk with his feet up pretending to type on a laptop. Pretending I say because for a the entire camera sly-by the man never moves his fingers off the same keys. By the time a dozen of your books are published, chances are you can type. And don’t give me examples of writers who don’t type, THEY SHOW HIM TYPING and they need to do it right.

Huge pet peeve of mine. If they’re going to show someone typing (or playing the piano) have them IN FACT type or play something. We’re not stupid and it’s glaringly obvious when people are faking it. Takes me right out of it. Ruins the whole show.

So, I give the pilot a three out of five. I’m hoping this gets better with time but you know how these things work. IF they don’t get a huge share right away they’re doomed. Fucktard money hungry suits. Give it a chance, I am.

Because a bunch of my LJ friends are finally embracing twitter I thought I’d list a few pointers here:

1. Avoid the public stream. There are a few people in the world who want to keep up with the goings on of billions of twitter users but I don’t think any of my friends will want to. Find and follow your friends, see who they respond to, and follow the ones that seem interesting. There are some celebrities on twitter but only follow those that actually appear to have conversations. Because twitter is about communicating both ways.

2. Do not accept follow requests from people without checking their page. If they only post business links, have only posted once or twice, follow hundreds of people but only have few followers – AVOID. Don’t sign up for any autofollowing crap.

3. If you want to respond openly to a specific person: @theirname with no space. Most clients (twhirl, twitterberry, tweetdeck, etc.) highlight your @name. If you want to talk to someone privately: d theirname with a space – that’s a direct message that won’t go out on your timeline.

4. Use your real face for your avatar. Seriously, twitter is about communication and real people. Us local Phoenix users meet up all the time and it’s easier to identify new people by face than wonder if that person over there is a new member of your group or just some random guy – who we inevitably get on twitter anyway.

5. Don’t use 4 or 2 or U or any of that crap unless you absolutely HAVE to. We get that 140 characters ain’t a lot so shorten your comment rather than shortening your words.

6. Tell us what you’re doing, what you’re watching, what you just found that is amusing or interesting, or just that your sox don’t match today and you just figured it out. Send out questions. Report when something interesting happens in your neighborhood or town. Just not all at once. Don’t go on and on and on about nothings.

I imagine twitter as a giant cubicle zoo and you know how you might pop up and mention something funny or something interesting to the person in the next cube? That’s twitter. Short, quick and to the point.

Welcome and have fun. Any questions? Anyone have any other pointers to add?

PS. Twitter seems to be having issues over the last couple of days. It’s not usually this slow or problematic. They’ve come a long way since it started. Hang in there and have patience and pretty soon she’ll be back to normal.

“Fidelity”: Don’t Divorce… from Courage Campaign on Vimeo.

How can anyone look at the faces in this video and all of that happiness and deny these people the same rights as everyone else? What the hell is wrong with you haters? And don’t give me benign political or business reasons to be against gay marriage, that’s bullshit. You’re either a supporter or you’re a hater. There IS no grey area, there is no justification.

Period.