Castle Catch All.

Excellent! Despite a less-than-stellar season, this is still the show my wife and I will watch before any other option.

The whole season has been really self-indulgent in the sense of "hey, let's do a Western", "Hey, let's do on omage to my favorite movie", "let's do a parody of...". Something like 2/3 of the episodes have been this way. "I've always wanted to..."

If that's not signaling the end...at least they've been having fun.

Roo wrote:

The whole season has been really self-indulgent in the sense of "hey, let's do a Western", "Hey, let's do on omage to my favorite movie", "let's do a parody of...". Something like 2/3 of the episodes have been this way. "I've always wanted to..."

If that's not signaling the end...at least they've been having fun. :)

I feel like it's been this way for a long time. "Oh, they're doing Taken this week. Last week was Star Trek."

Kinda feel like this season have mostly just been watching out of habit instead of genuine excitement for new episodes.

Infyrnos wrote:

Kinda feel like this season have mostly just been watching out of habit instead of genuine excitement for new episodes.

This show, for us, has never been a Person of Interest or a Justified. It's a fun couples' dramedy. Occasionally you get a little plot. It's reliably fun for me and my wife, and isn't trying to be much more than that. If it didn't have characters you really liked and cared about, it would have nothing.

Fedaykin98 wrote:
Infyrnos wrote:

Kinda feel like this season have mostly just been watching out of habit instead of genuine excitement for new episodes.

This show, for us, has never been a Person of Interest or a Justified. It's a fun couples' dramedy. Occasionally you get a little plot. It's reliably fun for me and my wife, and isn't trying to be much more than that. If it didn't have characters you really liked and cared about, it would have nothing.

Thats exactly how we view it, but this season has just been, well, I dunno, one of the last things we get to in a week on the DVR. Still really care about the characters, and its fun when we are watching it, but...

Yep, that season finale could have easily doubled as the show's finale, if they hadn't been renewed.

Hard to imagine them pursuing the State Senator or Captain storylines, unless they want to really experiment with changing the show.

The captain thing could be interesting, but her not being directly involved with cases would be weird.

I am wondering if the last two episodes we've seen were the additional episodes ordered for the season. Last nights was definitely an extra one. Next week will be the season finale and they always end on a cliffhanger.

Gaald wrote:

I am wondering if the last two episodes we've seen were the additional episodes ordered for the season. Last nights was definitely an extra one. Next week will be the season finale and they always end on a cliffhanger.

Last night was the finale, though.

Fedaykin98 wrote:
Gaald wrote:

I am wondering if the last two episodes we've seen were the additional episodes ordered for the season. Last nights was definitely an extra one. Next week will be the season finale and they always end on a cliffhanger.

Last night was the finale, though.

DOH! You are correct! I thought their season order got pushed to 24 episodes not 23. Kind of disappointing. I liked most of the episode, but the ending seemed rushed and tacked on. Like the person writing it couldn't figure out how to wrap up the story in under an hour. Oh well.

I keep hoping we get to see Nathan Fillion play a badass again. I kept thinking we might see that side of Richard Castle but somehow I don't think they'll go down that road.

Gaald wrote:
Fedaykin98 wrote:
Gaald wrote:

I am wondering if the last two episodes we've seen were the additional episodes ordered for the season. Last nights was definitely an extra one. Next week will be the season finale and they always end on a cliffhanger.

Last night was the finale, though.

DOH! You are correct! I thought their season order got pushed to 24 episodes not 23. Kind of disappointing. I liked most of the episode, but the ending seemed rushed and tacked on. Like the person writing it couldn't figure out how to wrap up the story in under an hour. Oh well.

I think they were trying to do a lot of different things with that episode, including provide decent closure in case the show wasn't renewed. The final conversation with the gang was painfully meta.

Btw, did you know that Ryan's wife is also Ryan's wife IRL? OMG!

Nevin73 wrote:

I keep hoping we get to see Nathan Fillion play a badass again. I kept thinking we might see that side of Richard Castle but somehow I don't think they'll go down that road.

Uh, he shot a guy point blank last night.

Ok so he used his wife's gun.

Stele wrote:
Nevin73 wrote:

I keep hoping we get to see Nathan Fillion play a badass again. I kept thinking we might see that side of Richard Castle but somehow I don't think they'll go down that road.

Uh, he shot a guy point blank last night.

Ok so he used his wife's gun. :D

I was expecting major backlash from that whole scenario. Becket asks Castle to break the law, she goes with him. He gets caught, she runs in gives him a gun and he kills guy. End result? Yay we killed a murder, and everything turned out great! What?!

Yeah seemed more appropriate for a Justified plot.

So... that Castle episode a few weeks ago, with a made up car company with airbags killing people in the chest...

Real life recall, millions of cars

Crosspost from another thread about some other show Fillion was on...

I really hate "to be continued".

Imagine if that had been last season's finale.

Does anyone here enjoy the "serious" Castle shows? My wife and I cannot stand them, and they give us a TWO parter to start the season? There was so many changes that have been used to set the stage and given us some light hearted, fun episodes, but, no they give us the brooding crap.

Do the writers understand their audience at all? Maybe we're the anomaly, and all of you live for these episodes?

I like both. The serious Castle is still infinitely more entertaining than any of the dozens of other cop shows out there.

Depends which episodes you consider the serious Castle. For example, the two parter where Alexa was kidnapped and James Brolin was introduced as his father probably makes my top ten episodes list (assuming we count those two episodes as one). On the other hand, I disliked most, if not all, of the buildup to his wedding and the whole Castle went missing story line,

sheared wrote:

Does anyone here enjoy the "serious" Castle shows? My wife and I cannot stand them, and they give us a TWO parter to start the season? There was so many changes that have been used to set the stage and given us some light hearted, fun episodes, but, no they give us the brooding crap.

Do the writers understand their audience at all? Maybe we're the anomaly, and all of you live for these episodes?

Even the "serious" Castle episodes have scenes like Castle's new PI office.

Me, I enjoy both types.

It's been awhile since I've seen the show. Does Castle not write books anymore?

Grenn wrote:

It's been awhile since I've seen the show. Does Castle not write books anymore?

I don't know!

For a while he was bumped out of the precinct, so he decided to open a private eye office since he couldn't tag along with Beckett anymore.

I'm not a big fan of the serious Castle episode, but there have been a few good ones. It's the brooding, serious Castle episode that are the worst. There was a Lot of action in this episode which I liked. It makes the serious tone easier to take. I actually enjoyed it quite a bit.

Still my favorite part of the episode was the first first scene at his P.I. Office. Funny Castle always trumps serious Castle in my books.

I'm all for more Alexis if she turns into Veronica Mars.

I'm all for more Alexis.

I like a mix of both kinds of Castle, but don't give me too much serious without going back to funny.

If they follow their usual pattern, as soon as this story wraps up, we'll have a silly one.