Viewer Identification with Television Characters - Essay Example

Viewer “Identification” With TV Characters Richard Castle(played by Nathan Fillion) is the lead character on the ABC hit show “Castle” which airs every Monday night at 9:00 PM. He is a “ruggedly handsome” kind of guy whom, despite his millionaire best-selling novelist status, is still just the epitome of the over-all Mr. Nice Guy. He is a single father who lives with his daughter and mother in a penthouse who happens to have this knack for solving weird murder mysteries together with the NYPD.

He is the unofficial partner of Det. Kate Beckett (Stana Katic), whom he uses as the inspiration for his latest book series titled Nikki Heat. The reason I identified with his character before was because of his boyish charm that made him irresistible to all women, except Kate Beckett who seems to be immune to his charms. If I ever become a millionaire, I would want to be the gentleman millionaire that he is. He treats the women right and in exchange, the women treat him like a god as well. Just like Richard Castle, I too am a very loyal friend who is always there when any of them need my help.

We are similar in the way that we treat our friends, more like family than some strangers whom I just met and have to find something in common with. We both exude this sense of familiarity that makes it easy for other people to get along with us even though we just met them. That is not hard to understand. After all, we both tend to bend over backwards for people just to make sure that we are liked. Castle was raised by a single mother just as I was. We both respect and and love our mothers to the extent that we would give our respective mothers the shirts off our backs if she asked us to.

That is the kind of gratitude that Richard Castle displays for his mother. Even though he sometimes acts like he is just putting up with his mothers presence (name any man who does not pretend that at one time or another with his mom), the reality of their situation is that he loves her deeply and would never want to see her hurt in any way by any person. We all know that men are constantly looking for their partner in life. Sometimes, men get married because they have found the one for them.

That is what Richard Castle did at one point in his life. The result was a an intelligent daughter named Alexis who was left in his custody after he divorced his first wife. His relationship with Alexis is the kind that I would want to have with any son or daughter of mine should I ever get married and find myself divorced, or even if I dont end up divorced. As for his loyalty to women, I only hope that I can emulate the way that he can be loyal to only one woman after he realized that the woman he really wanted was right in front of him.

He is the epitome of patient love and understanding for a woman, in this case Kate Beckett, who seems to want nothing more than to push him away. I have had admired women like that in the past and I never had the patience to wait things out in order to wear her down. Now, I wish I did have his kind of outlook about love, maybe then the woman I felt so deeply for in the past would still be a part of my life now. Richard Castle is an inspiration to me as a man because he has shown that men can have a sensitive side, and even be partly childish, without having it mean that he is an irresponsible person.

Instead, he has shown me that any man who knows how to love, embrace his sensitive side, and play like a child sometimes will always be welcomed and loved in any group that he chooses to become a part of. Richard Castle has turned being a man-child into one of the coolest roles to ever be portrayed on television. (Word count: 697)