Castle

I gotta say, the episode was fun and light hearted in typical Castle style; Nothing amazing, but certainly not a disappointment either. One thing I think this episode confirmed to me, however, was how far Castle and Beckett are from being ready to get together. A lot of people seem to focus on Beckett and her hang ups- she has a difficulty trusting people and a defensive wall a mile high. But Castle obviously isn't really ready for this either. Not only is he just as active in protesting that they are not together, but he obviously falls in- and out- of love far to easy for someone like Beckett to give her heart to. Beckett's mother might have died, but before she did her parents were obviously very much in love. Castle, on the other hand was raised in a very different environment. Obviously Martha loves him and did his best, but his past marriages and the way he is so easily swayed by a pretty face shows that he has a lot of growing up to do.

My only complaint about this episode is that the only glimpse I got of that beautiful car was in a photo! One lousy photo!



Okay, I have one other complaint: The bimbo's line, "you have no idea how hard it is to be a woman in Hollywood"...sob, sob... Honey, if you were a real woman, you would have no difficulties whatsoever. You might not be an A-lister but you'd not have to pull any bad "chick" scenes. I understand the need for this character...sort of...but she grated on my nerves for some reason. I'll get over it.



I easily pegged the side-kick for the deed, but all the intrigue in between provided quite the trip to the punch line. As for Beckett, she does jealousy really well. She displays it in well placed, never-miss-a-beat arguments, but a rose by any other name still makes Castle a happy man...and isn't THAT interesting!

Very interesting episode with a number of twists and turns. Unfortunately you have a pretty good idea who did it early on. One of the things this show does is hide motive. You have a group of characters to pick from as suspects. Basically you have to figure out who did it. Not on what you know, but on what you don't know and who you think the least likely person would be. They also have been known to pop a new character in at the end who is guilty that we've never met.



In this case, once we hear the motive it is obvious who is too blame. The only problem is we don't hear the motive until the last five minutes. This is not clever gritty writing. You need to lay the facts out and allow the audience to come to some conclusions on their own.



Fortunately this cast manages to overcome these little problems with tremendous quality acting and charisma. We see a great number of mind games being played between Beckett and Castle. A little jealousy rears its ugly head and then she puts the mojo on him. Of course you knew she was right. Only Castle was taken in. As we see later he could care less though. This is what this show thrives on. Castle's liaisons were a little surprising, but the writers feel we know Beckett is attractive and they wanted to make sure that Beckett knew that Castle is also a man who attracts other women.



The list of suspects was pretty standard with no big surprises in the end. I think that's the one area this show can work on. It has the charisma and the talent. Now they need to work on the stories. Thanks for reading...