Beckett's great in the room. I don't think that's where the show displays a procedural weakness at all.

Maybe not a procedural weakness, although personally I don't find the writing nearly as strong there. But that might be a personal preference for character interactions over the procedural stuff.

This is going to be the end of D'Onofrio on the show, right? That is what I'm gathering from the ads

I could spoil ya (obviously I wasn't hugely spoilt, or I'd have known the Cap was going to die) for that, but this isn't the place for it.

that might be a personal preference for character interactions over the procedural stuff.

They definitely are the show's strength.

I do wonder how much longer and how they will keep Beckett and Castle apart now that everyone has told Beckett she needs to hit that. They'd better learn from Bones.

trudy: firing a weapon into a crowd of civilians is a huge no no.

Like I said, NYPD...

(Granted, they've chilled out a bit in the past few years, but they certainly would have not long ago. I'm not saying that its legal or a great idea. And Beckett really is cool enough to not have done it. It was more disappointment with the IRL police that had me thinking it.)

I'm still not buying that its forbidden to shoot the serial killer kidnapper actively kidnapping an FBI agent. That's what the guys across the street were going in to do. If there is such a thing as a special sniper warrant surely they got one for that operation. (Then again, there didn't seem to be any snipers. Why WERE they there without any snipers? Everybody goes running in and there are no dudes with scopes on nearby buildings?)

I was, however, making flaily hands that she went into foot pursuit with even NOTIFYING cover units much less calling for backup. Plus, as soon as she ran into the subway she would have been on the phone with transit telling them to stop the bloody train.

That they can't do -- no cell service in the subway stations. I'm not even sure if they've straightened out the inter-department walkie talkies yet.

Though those backup officers certainly would have come in handy had she called them (or had Castle call them). One could have stayed at the top of the stairs and called NY Erin.

I don't look to Castle for real tight procedure either, its the "oopsyness" of the dumbness - the way it artificially prolonged the suspense -- that is annoying. I'll still watch it, but I'll have some trepedation about two-parters and what they'll do for suspense.

The thing on Castle that made me yell at the screen was the thermal hotspots. They didn't move and they were round and didn't change shape. A person bound to a chair wouldn't make a moving spot, of course, but the bad guy would have moved. Even if he was sitting in a chair, he'd have stretched out his legs or something.

So everybody missed there was a new Bones tonight? That probably doesn't speak well for the ratings.

I liked bits of it (especially the acknowledgment that Brennan couldn't write those books on her own), but found Daisy so Tracy Flick off-putting that Sweet's proposal felt like a bit of a death sentence. And I don't think that's how I was supposed to feel.

Thursday nights I don't get back from the Y until 9 this quarter. Bones is now computer-viewing.

I need to catch up.

I'm hoping my Tivo got Bones because I was watching Survivor. Hopefully I can catch it tomorrow.

The interviewer annoyed me with the continued refusal to believe that the people in the lab were not identical to the characters in the book.

I end up watching bones on the interwebs during the weekend as i have to reserve my vcr for vampire diaries since the &^(*&^(* CW often takes more than a week to post the newest episode and i hate being forced to wait. FOX and ABC, OTOH, post episodes in a timely fashion. Someday i might invest in two tvs and vcrs (or a dvr) to not be forced into this situation.