Alright, so “crime fighter” is a stretch.
After I posted my quasi-theory on what the Firefly Easter egg might be on the Castle set, a commenter noted that there was a rumor going around that Castle would be dressing up as the one and only Captain Mal Reynolds of the Firefly class ship, Serenity. Some quick searching found the right-side image (click to embiggen), which looks as though it was taken with a cellphone camera, but it certainly looks quite legitimate. The Castle set is definitely in the background, and that’s sure as hell Nathan Fillion dressed as Mal from Firefly. But was it ‘shopped? And, if not, is he wearing the get-up for an episode?
I have a super secret source of mine who, without stating definitively yes or no on the subject, seems to be hinting very much that this rumor is indeed true. While this is definitely very cool and fellow Browncoats will be giddy with joy upon seeing the episode, I’m not sure I’d call it an “Easter egg” to look out for. Maybe Fillion isn’t clear on what that means and, well, this is what we’re supposed to be looking out for.
I imagine we’ll see this play out in the October 26 episode of the show (close to Halloween, get it?), which apparently doesn’t have a title yet.
Clacked by Keith McDuffee 
on Oct 06, 2009 @ 13:00 EST5EDT
Most likely it is a Halloween episode and Castle is wearing a “costume”
So handsome as Mal.
Nathan tweeted a few weeks ago that he managed to slip in a Firefly reference in one of the early episodes of the season. I guess that was it. I’ll just have to fast-forward the DVR to see this one.
This would be just perfect and dammit hasta happen! LOL
*PS: LOVE “embiggen”… rofl…
I very much love the word “embiggen” and would stand behind making it a real, honest-to-Webster word!
Be still my Browncoated heart. I need to learn how to make this machine record…
“Embiggen” is indeed worthy of adoption.
There’s a Oct. 5th interview with Nathan Fillion and Stana Katic over at Huffington Post where Nathan states not to look for the Firefly easter egg before the Halloween episode:
Nathan Fillion and Stana Katic Talk Castle
As cool as it would be to have Castle dress up as Mal and believe me when I say there just isn’t words for this. I had a wackier thought, a convention or something where they have to deal with Nathan Fillion dressed as Mal as part of the convention.
I’m sure it’s just him dressing up for Halloween (insert fan girl scream already) but how come on Castle and Beckett taking on Nathan Fillion and the rest? Browncoats around the world’s heads would explode
As cool as it would be to have Castle dress up as Mal and believe me when I say there just isn’t words for this. I had a wackier thought, a convention or something where they have to deal with Nathan Fillion dressed as Mal as part of the convention.
I’m sure it’s just him dressing up for Halloween (insert fan girl scream already) but how come on Castle and Beckett taking on Nathan Fillion and the rest? Browncoats heads around the world would explode
“Insert fangirl scream already” – Funny! I actually heard that in my head! I fully intend to rip that one off from you at some point.
Man- I can’t wait! I would love to see Nathan dressed up like Mal again- especially on his new show :P
-Christian