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Rizzloli + Isles

posted 8 years ago by film_flam_man
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Saw S7E10 of Rizzoli & Isles the other night, and what should the plot revolve around? Maura still being married to a long-ago husband no one knew about. And she thought the marriage had been annulled, only it hadn't!

And if this isn't all familiar enough, who should be playing the long-lost (semi-lost) husband than Kristoffer Polaha (Caleb Brown). Sheesh. At least the Castle version was somewhat entertaining up until Castle's disappearance; IMO, the guest characters in R and I were really obnoxious.

Sad that they've borrowed from a lesser Castle episode (and badly at that).

[–] skip-49816 8 years ago

Yes, well. As we've discussed here before, every story is a version (ripoff?) of some other story. It was documented years ago that there are only seven basic storylines; everything else being a version of one of those.

[–] readerf61 8 years ago

I think the problem occurs when, in the middle of the show, the viewer thinks, hey...this is a ripoff....and not a very good one....

[–] wilya7 8 years ago

It was documented years ago that there are only seven basic storylines

There are different versions of this number, including 20 and 36, according to who makes this point. However I agree with you (and them), no matter how they group them, there are no new stories to tell, just new iterations of old ones. What makes the difference is how it is done. The devil is in the details.

[–] JDLail 8 years ago

Actually I can remember this being done on Bones with Angela even before Castle.

[–] seldon913 8 years ago

And on The Drew Carey Show even before that (Mimi and Eddy Money).

[–] spayer27 8 years ago

guest characters in R and I were really obnoxious.

And the slugmuffin that Beckett married in a drunken drive from Stanford to Vegas, at the age of 18 (when the drinking age was 21, mind you), that pretended to women that he was married to a woman in a coma...in order to not be married (when he was the whole time...to Beckett, who wasn't in any coma...of course) wasn't obnoxious?

And you thought that episode was entertaining? I did, too, I suppose. I laughed at most of the jokes, but...that story line, and the part where the "upstate New Yorkers" all had shotguns...kind of obnoxious, too.

[–] film_flam_man 8 years ago

Mildly entertaining. Beckett's husband was definitely a loser, but I didn't think he came across as being as mean as the characters in R and I; those writers took a bad idea and managed to make it worse. Casting the actor who played Caleb didn't help, either.

[–] wilya7 8 years ago

I agree with all that. Furthermore, the huge plot hole of a police cop and former federal agent not being subjected to a background check where al this would have emerged, killed it for me. I just couldn't suspend my disbelief enough to enjoy that attempt to make a funny screwball comedy.

[–] wilya7 8 years ago

R&I had had bad writing problems much earlier than Castle. I watched season 1 and 2, then I found it unbearable and I stopped.