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dear producers and writers of Castle:
Nov. 27th, 2011 08:03 amI came for Nathan Fillion; I stayed for the characters. However, you're pushing me perilously close to going away forever.
I get that there's a long and honored tradition of television programs that are set in New York City but are filmed in LA. And while for certain types of programs, stock outdoor shots from the supposed location will work, but not for a detective show, where the characters have to be in actual crime scenes. So I don't mind that nothing on Castle has ever looked remotely like it's in NYC; that's the price of doing business. And yes, most of your audience either hasn't been to NYC or has only visited briefly and doesn't pick up on it. Fine.
However, how hard is it to get someone who's actually familiar with your supposed location to LOOK OVER THE SCRIPTS? A sniper can't post himself on the East or West sides of Central Park because they're filled with high end apartment buildings, so instead, he'll have to go to the SOUTH side. Have you *never heard* of Central Park South, home of many . . . high end apartment buildings? Oh, please. Central Park *North* would have served your purpose; the forces of gentrification are looming but they haven't entirely taken it over . . . yet, but no, why pay any attention to reality?
But when you had Beckett say that the bus was coming up the GRAND ARMY PLAZA entrance? There is, in fact, a Grand Army Plaza, but it has NOTHING TO DO WITH Central Park. It's just outside of PROSPECT PARK, which is in BROOKLYN, ferchrissakes. (And yes, it was designed by the same landscape architects, back in the nineteenth century, but I'm sure you couldn't be bothered looking that up, either.) ETA: two people have told me that in fact, there is a small Grand Army Plaza at Central Park, but they assured me that it is rarely ever actually referred to as that, and the one in Brooklyn is way better known.
Seriously, I know you're just a fluffy detective-with-romantic-tension show; we might argue it's an alt!universe (certainly my steampunk friends wish that club you showed in the steampunk episode really existed . . . ), but it's simply not that difficult to maintain a minimum of geographic accuracy, is it? *Seriously?* You can't even Google it?
Bored now,
Me
I get that there's a long and honored tradition of television programs that are set in New York City but are filmed in LA. And while for certain types of programs, stock outdoor shots from the supposed location will work, but not for a detective show, where the characters have to be in actual crime scenes. So I don't mind that nothing on Castle has ever looked remotely like it's in NYC; that's the price of doing business. And yes, most of your audience either hasn't been to NYC or has only visited briefly and doesn't pick up on it. Fine.
However, how hard is it to get someone who's actually familiar with your supposed location to LOOK OVER THE SCRIPTS? A sniper can't post himself on the East or West sides of Central Park because they're filled with high end apartment buildings, so instead, he'll have to go to the SOUTH side. Have you *never heard* of Central Park South, home of many . . . high end apartment buildings? Oh, please. Central Park *North* would have served your purpose; the forces of gentrification are looming but they haven't entirely taken it over . . . yet, but no, why pay any attention to reality?
But when you had Beckett say that the bus was coming up the GRAND ARMY PLAZA entrance? There is, in fact, a Grand Army Plaza, but it has NOTHING TO DO WITH Central Park. It's just outside of PROSPECT PARK, which is in BROOKLYN, ferchrissakes. (And yes, it was designed by the same landscape architects, back in the nineteenth century, but I'm sure you couldn't be bothered looking that up, either.) ETA: two people have told me that in fact, there is a small Grand Army Plaza at Central Park, but they assured me that it is rarely ever actually referred to as that, and the one in Brooklyn is way better known.
Seriously, I know you're just a fluffy detective-with-romantic-tension show; we might argue it's an alt!universe (certainly my steampunk friends wish that club you showed in the steampunk episode really existed . . . ), but it's simply not that difficult to maintain a minimum of geographic accuracy, is it? *Seriously?* You can't even Google it?
Bored now,
Me
