Castle Catch All.

Oh hey! Yeah I failed at finding this a few months back, too.

Anyway: SUCH a good season 3 finale episode.

Woo-hoo there is an outlet for my unalloyed fanboy-ism of Castle right here on GWJ! I was definitely blown away by the reveals in the finale - that said, I feel like it was too rushed and some of this material would have worked better in a 2-part season finale.

September cannot come soon enough.

PS: I confess to having spent waay too much time on castletv.net yesterday

Soooo... who's going to be the new captain? Any guesses? Also, any major changes expected? Castle opens up his own PI business?

Also... subscribed!

I have been waiting to pick up the 2nd novel until the paperback released (which was 2 weeks ago) because last year the hardcover price dropped to match the paperback price on the first book and I snagged it on Amazon.

No such luck yet. I may just have to buy it for the full $15.

sheared wrote:

Soooo... who's going to be the new captain? Any guesses? Also, any major changes expected? Castle opens up his own PI business?

Also... subscribed!

Yeah talking about this the other night. Wifey thinks it will be a female captain. Who either hates Castle... or really likes Castle which would of course cause more trouble with him and Beckett getting together.

Stele wrote:
sheared wrote:

Soooo... who's going to be the new captain? Any guesses? Also, any major changes expected? Castle opens up his own PI business?

Also... subscribed!

Yeah talking about this the other night. Wifey thinks it will be a female captain. Who either hates Castle... or really likes Castle which would of course cause more trouble with him and Beckett getting together. :x

I want them to get together as much as everyone, but always wonder what happens to a show once the tension is removed with them becoming a couple and the "will they, won't they?" stuff dies down. Do you guys think the show can maintain this level of interest with a Castle-Beckett coupling? Or will it signal the end of the show?

Chuck has been fantastic still. They got together at the original s3 finale (ep 13, before extra 6 eps were ordered) and it has been strong all through s4, and appears to be heading for greatness for the final season 5.

Stele wrote:

I have been waiting to pick up the 2nd novel until the paperback released (which was 2 weeks ago) because last year the hardcover price dropped to match the paperback price on the first book and I snagged it on Amazon.

No such luck yet. I may just have to buy it for the full $15.

I am embarrassed to say that I did not realize this was a real thing till now. How I wish there was a digital edition of these books!

Stele wrote:
sheared wrote:

Soooo... who's going to be the new captain? Any guesses? Also, any major changes expected? Castle opens up his own PI business?

Also... subscribed!

Yeah talking about this the other night. Wifey thinks it will be a female captain. Who either hates Castle... or really likes Castle which would of course cause more trouble with him and Beckett getting together. :x

That sounds like a reasonable theory, but I excited by a suggestion elsewhere that they might bring back Adrian Pasdar as the new Captain, which would be just awesome (or not - the show is already far from its comedic roots, and his character had a pretty dark backstory)

Tagging now that I'm into Castle.

Heat Wave, Naked Heat, and coming in Sept, Heat Rises

For anyone else who wasn't aware. They seem to do a book between each season of the show.

avggeek wrote:

I am embarrassed to say that I did not realize this was a real thing till now. How I wish there was a digital edition of these books!

And here's another thing that's surprisingly real.

Stele wrote:

Chuck has been fantastic still. They got together at the original s3 finale (ep 13, before extra 6 eps were ordered) and it has been strong all through s4, and appears to be heading for greatness for the final season 5.

Good thoughts all around!

Castle is one of the handful of shows that I enjoy watching. I think it's at its best when it's not taking itself too seriously. That said, the finale was pretty cool all round. I actually bought Heat Wave for my wife for Christmas. It was very short, but ticked all the boxes for being how you would imagine Castle would write it.

I've been mulling for a while that the best Heat pun title is actually Dead Heat...

Stele wrote:

Heat Wave, Naked Heat, and coming in Sept, Heat Rises

For anyone else who wasn't aware. They seem to do a book between each season of the show. :cool:

Filthy enabler... my kindle just got a little heavier.

Also, I'm on board for the get together, I personally would like to see them adjust to being a couple. Lots of dynamics there still, plus you'd see how it affected their lives once they admitted how much the relationship effects their lives

Oh thank god someone found this thread! I hate with the passion of a burning son the Catch All TV threads. GRRRRRR! I often don't watch a show for weeks and am always afraid to venture into those threads and have something spoiled for a show that I have had on the back burner. For example I have yet to watch the second half of this season of Chuck. Can't wait to plow through all the episodes.

Anyways back to Castle. That season finale was great even though it was a little predictable. The final moment did catch me by surprise however. I also wish they played around a little more with the comedy. The early episodes were so great for that, and I have missed it now that it plays a little more dramatic. I guess it can be hard to find that balance sometimes.

As for Castle and Beckett, they need to move that relationship forward, and soon I think. You can only do the will they or won't they shtick for so long, at a certain point people just get fed up with the tease. Lots of good stuff to dive into if they have them hook up, it can bring a new kind of tension all its own. I guess we'll have to wait see.

Someone should get JC in here to edit the thread title and put a spoiler tag on it, so that people can talk freely about episodes already aired.

On the relationship front, in a recent interview (here - spoiler warning!) the show producer suggests that things will move forward, but not in a way "the viewers expect" - which could mean more of the same

avggeek wrote:

On the relationship front, in a recent interview (here - spoiler warning!) the show producer suggests that things will move forward, but not in a way "the viewers expect" - which could mean more of the same :(

ooo Lots of spoilers in that interview!

Spoiler:
Interview wrote:

So will you be adding a new boss at the precinct next season?
Marlowe: That's one of the opportunities we're looking to take. Everybody's getting along really well in the precinct, and we think there can be a little more conflict. We think it's interesting to grow Beckett and Castle by having somebody who may not look as favorably on Beckett as the Captain did or may not look as favorably on the Castle-Beckett relationship. That's all stuff we're plotting out for next year as we speak.

also, it sounds like they aren't going to get them together anytime soon.

Holla wrote:
Spoiler:
Interview wrote:

...Everybody's getting along really well in the precinct, and we think there can be a little more conflict.

Yes it's because of that statement that I started wondering if the Captain would be someone we have seen before, and who didn't approve of Castle/Beckett's methods for solving cases - i.e., Adrian Pasdar's character.

Read somewhere from a "TV insider" that Beckett was really shot and near the heart and it probably isn't a coincidence that her boyfriend is a heart surgeon.

Gaald wrote:

Oh thank god someone found this thread! I hate with the passion of a burning son the Catch All TV threads. GRRRRRR!

Excuse me, but all of your favorite shows are flawed. Let me tell you how as a spoil them.

I knew this was lying around somewhere.

Gaald wrote:

Oh thank god someone found this thread! I hate with the passion of a burning son the Catch All TV threads. GRRRRRR! I often don't watch a show for weeks and am always afraid to venture into those threads and have something spoiled for a show that I have had on the back burner. For example I have yet to watch the second half of this season of Chuck. Can't wait to plow through all the episodes.

You have a pretty good point. But the goal of each of those threads are to showcase the new shows each season. It's a good place to get impressions of the first few episodes of new shows. But it is a terrible place for jut continued show talk. And I'm guilty of that for some shows, like Survivor.

avggeek wrote:

On the relationship front, in a recent interview (here - spoiler warning!) the show producer suggests that things will move forward, but not in a way "the viewers expect" - which could mean more of the same :(

Whoa...

Spoiler:

What's going to be the driving force in Season 4?
Marlowe: There's going to be a real push and pull between Beckett and Castle. Beckett's going to want to look into [this new mystery man] and Castle's going to have very specific reasons why he doesn't want her to. He'll end up with a little more information than she has, and he can't be honest with her about it. It's going to cause a complexity in their relationship that's going to be interesting.

That's an interesting comment, and really makes me wonder who Captain sent that package to?

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Oh jeez is this going to be like the Firefly thread?

I guess it wouldn't be that much of a stretch.

I'm game!

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Jayhawker wrote:

I'm game!

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That photo makes me giggle every time....every time.

Stele wrote:

That's an interesting comment, and really makes me wonder who Captain sent that package to?

Spoiler:

I'm inclined to agree with the speculation on other forums that the package was addressed to Castle and will arrive at his doorstep, probably just around the time Castle & Beckett have to make a major relationship decision...

avggeek wrote:
Stele wrote:

That's an interesting comment, and really makes me wonder who Captain sent that package to?

Spoiler:

I'm inclined to agree with the speculation on other forums that the package was addressed to Castle and will arrive at his doorstep, probably just around the time Castle & Beckett have to make a major relationship decision...

Spoiler:

Agreed, since the Captain pointed out that Castle was the only one who could get eckett to walk away in teh final, I'm going to agree he sent the pack to Castle.

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