Castle 2.24: "A Deadly Game"

[icepixie]

That was officially THE MOST DISAPPOINTING THING EVER.

FAIL, Castle. Oh, so much fail. I counted on you to walk up to cliches and tweak their noses, not follow them as if they were freaking instruction manuals.

Ohhhhhhhh, I am so disenchanted right now.

Comments

[icepixie]

Seriously. Gina, really? The woman he has not said one kind word about for the entire run of the show? O HAI, PLOT DEVICE!

I was using Castle as my example of what Bones could be with competent writing. Was not expecting the PTB to pull a Bonesheaded maneuver like this.

[chiroho.livejournal.com]

I just can't get over the fact that there aren't any writers in US prime time who seem to have figured out how to make relationships work on screen in these sorts of shows. Yes, they seem to write shows like Gray's and ER where everyone jumps into bed with everyone else, but on these shows they have no clue. Can't they all go and watch Farscape or something, and see how to have ship and make it work?

[icepixie]

I know! I totally thought this show was going to be the one to do it. Over the past three weeks, I came to believe they would actually be spending season three making the ship work, and making it interesting along the way. It's like opening up a giant, gaily-wrapped Christmas present to find a lump of dog poo, or something.

(And it was such a great episode up until those last two minutes. ARGH ARGH ARGH.)

[chiroho.livejournal.com]

It really was a great episode, right up to the end. The case, the way that Beckett was totally thinking she could have her cake and eat it too with dating Demming, but really wanting Castle to be there because he's the one who makes her laugh. And then the realisation she has with him leaving and what impact that's going to have on her. But that was a really crappy bomb to drop right at the end.