Awww, poor Castle.

Didn't NF play that moment wonderfully? He does that sad face sooo well.

I loved it when Demming got shut out by the Beckett-Castle dual conversation, something they should have trademarked by now since they do it so often and the timing is perfect.

The casting agents were on fire again tonight--loved both Benny (the hotel clerk with the hangover from Atlantic City) and the crying lab tech.

Oh, and the Canadian promo for next week has different scenes from the US one.

Benny was just so (un)believably scuzzy-- he was perfect.

And the "girl cry" translation was priceless.

I thought it was a very dull episode. Points for having Beckett mostly clueless about pining Castle, but characters pining for each other in cop/caper shows is not a selling point for me.

I'd really love to see a Castle that was done from the Ryan and Esposito viewpoint - one where they'd be front and center and Castle and Beckett would be in charge, but in the background.

Watching the Dynamic Duo interviewing their own collection of quirky suspects would be fun.

What I enjoy most about Castle is it doesn't suffer--too much--from "if the non-regular character has lines, he must be the perp" syndrome. They have weird people and red herrings wander through, and everyone has to puzzle through it all. My biggest bitch with the CSI type shows is that they waste time with musical montages showing lab techniques that could be spent on, well, plot. Or character interaction--except that would all be soap opera stuff. The "It's Sex and the City with boys!" bit wouldn't appear on CSI. (And I was quite tickled that they said "boys", as opposed to "guys.")

The crying lab tech was hysterical! (er, pun not intended!)

Add my vote for the Ryan 'n' Esposito Show.

I love when they bring Garcia along on cases, and this week was no exception. Kirsten cried up a storm, and my platonic OTP was in full force.

My favourite CM episodes are the ones with a hidden unsub and good team interaction, so this was a win. Okay, second favourite. Most favourite is an artful torture of our team members.

But this was great.

I'm a little curious about how NCIS is going, since Gibbs did a very bad thing, and they've been hammering that home for episodes. When it was just lightly mentioned I thought it was okay for them to slip it under the vengeance exception, but now I have no idea how they're going to get out of it. And I don't truly trust the writing.

I am an unabashed MG shipper, and there was such good stuff. I even was inspired to make a new icon. [link]