Knife Stupidity on the "Castle" TV Show

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My wife DVR'd "Castle" and we watched it last night. There was a scene where a coroner identified the wounds in a body as having come from a "damascus stiletto blade" and they matched them up with a Dalton Cupid knockoff they had found at the scene.

I can't imagine how a coroner could identify a blade as being damascus without seeing it and by simply examining the wounds. I was further puzzled by the Cupid clone not being damascus or a stlletto.

Later in the show, someone else identified the wounds in another body as coming from a "Special Operations Group" knife and produced a "mold" they made from the wounds that look like a plastic trainer. They then matched it with a SOG Desert Daggert. SOG, of course, stands for "Studies and Observations Group," not "Special Operations.
 
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I was unfortunate enough to be in the room as my fiance watched that. My ears perked up when they started talking about knives. I believe they said that there was steel shards found in the body from the "damascus" knife, and the SOG was the actual murder weapon. The murderer was ex-special ops, and therefore used the SpecOps knife to kill people cleanly with one stab, then used the "stilletto" to stab them a bunch and make it look like an amateur hit.



Pretty stupid.
 
This is funny. My fiance is into that show. She was watching it and I was here on the forum when I heard all of this about a damascus stilleto blade. She rewound the show so I could see the knife they were talking about. A Cupid copy is what I saw. And she wonders why I don't like the show besides it's ridiculous premise.
 
Tripton said:
I was unfortunate enough to be in the room as my fiance watched that. My ears perked up when they started talking about knives. I believe they said that there was steel shards found in the body from the "damascus" knife, and the SOG was the actual murder weapon. The murderer was ex-special ops, and therefore used the SpecOps knife to kill people cleanly with one stab, then used the "stilletto" to stab them a bunch and make it look like an amateur hit.



Pretty stupid.
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I left during some of the show and missed that...
 
lava_lamp said:
My wife DVR'd "Castle" and we watched it last night. There was a scene where a coroner identified the wounds in a body as having come from a "damascus stiletto blade" and they matched them up with a Dalton Cupid knockoff they had found at the scene.

I can't imagine how a coroner could identify a blade as being damascus without seeing it and by simply examining the wounds. I was further puzzled by the Cupid clone not being damascus or a stlletto.

Later in the show, someone else identified the wounds in another body as coming from a "Special Operations Group" knife and produced a "mold" they made from the wounds that look like a plastic trainer. They then matched it with a SOG Desert Dagger. SOG, of course, stands for "Studies and Observations Group," not "Special Operations.
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I like Castle. Mainly because I think the lead female police officer (Stana Katic) is really hot. I watch shows like this for entertainment. It's basically a comedy.

The guy who plays Castle (Nathan Fillion) is the same guy who played the captain on the sci/fi/cowboy series Firefly. That was a great series that I am sorry to see got dropped.

I don't watch any of this stuff for accuracy or authenticity, it is just for laughs and entertainment :D
 
Coldwood said:
I like Castle. Mainly because I think the lead female police officer (Stana Katic) is really hot. I watch shows like this for entertainment. It's basically a comedy.

The guy who plays Castle (Nathan Fillion) is the same guy who played the captain on the sci/fi/cowboy series Firefly. That was a great series that I am sorry to see got dropped.

I don't watch any of this stuff for accuracy or authenticity, it is just for laughs and entertainment :D
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To be honest, I sorta like the show as family entertainment. It's pretty clean viewing for my kids and the violence is mild. It has the tone of Charlie's Angels or something similar from the 1970s.
 
sircantaloupe said:
I watch it for Nathan Fillion. He is my absolute favorite actor.
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This.

The show is quite silly and unrealistic, but it doesn't matter because Nathan Fillion is amazing. The cancellation of Firefly is one of the world's greatest tragedies.

Stana Katic isn't hurting anything either ;)
 
Glad to see all the Firefly love in here! Great show, ridiculous dialogue, but I guess that was kind of the point :D

Can't say I was expecting much of Castle. Most of the crime dramas use similar ridiculous plot devices. It's just too bad they skimp on research.
 
Firefly! can't get enough of that show...glad they at least made Serenity for the fans...

Bummer about yet ANOTHER tv show talking about knives...and not know what they are even saying.
 
enderwiggin said:
Glad to see all the Firefly love in here! Great show, ridiculous dialogue, but I guess that was kind of the point :D

Can't say I was expecting much of Castle. Most of the crime dramas use similar ridiculous plot devices. It's just too bad they skimp on research.
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I hear ya. Firefly was as good as any of the Star Wars series. Besides Gina Torres (Zoe) and Summer Glau (River Tam) my favorite character was Jayne Cobb played by Adam Baldwin. He usually packed some kind of a big knife. He was a goofy, double-crossing, kill-em-all, let's-have-a-beer type.:thumbup:

Back to the topic: Producers don't want to spend money for somebody to do research on a knife which is only there for a few seconds.

Now let me go off topic again. I've recently discovered the second generation Battlestar Galactica. There was a special episode called "Razor".
There was a folder that was central to the plot, being passed along from character to character. I didn't identify it, can anybody here tell us about it?
 
What did you expect? All the CSI shows can nail the perp without even bothering to turn on the lights at the lab :D.
 
The only thing that was ever good about Castle was the Halloween episode where he dressed up as a space cowboy. ;)
 
Fellas....I don't know how to break this to you.....but not everything you see or hear in movies is.....well......factual....??

Just keep that in mind while you watch Avatar......:D
 
Firefly.... one of the best series ever to not make it, Nathan needs more work.
cannot believe they canceled and did not air some episodes, have the boxed set.

have not seen castle yet.
 
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