That was such an awful (not in a bad way, just a melodramatic no good way out) episode. I lurved it.

Oh, yes.

There's an outtake from that episode where PTV is sitting in Mac's loft, and he crosses his legs and says "Don't patronize me! I'm gonna get a job, and then I'm outta here!" and Mac and Ritchie crack up.

Alacazam, jackass!

BWAH!

Didn't early reviewers say we were going to get a "hint" about a possible Lainie/Esposito relationship?

Boy, the Castle team has a different idea about what a "hint" is than I do. Unless I missed something last time.

But I like them together and I love that everyone is on to them.

But I like them together and I love that everyone is on to them.

Definite shades of JJ/Will on CM. But I love that it's Castle being the romantic, telling the others to let them have their bubble for as long as possible.

And Nathan Fillion rocked with the facial expressions last night. Said so much without saying a word.

I can't help thinking, though, that if Castle hates "ordinary" in a relationship, anything he starts with Beckett is just going to end in tears. Unless he finds out that "ordinary" with someone he really cares about isn't that bad.

Yes, at some point it has to get to be "ordinary" - no matter how dramatically it beings or it's going to end.

But they have a whole next season to explore this! Yay!

Unless he finds out that "ordinary" with someone he really cares about isn't that bad.

I'm guessing that Castle doesn't really know from ordinary. If you think all the way back to how he was brought up, his parameters for ordinary are a little out of the ordinary for anyone else.

And he's using "ordinary" as a substitute for "bored."

I don't think he's ever had the opportunity to be a partner-- to be challenged, yet relied upon the way that Beckett already has. His first wife appeared to be sort of childish and impulsive from what little we saw of her and Gina, as his publisher, doesn't ever seem the type to let her guard down. She's a ball-buster, beginning to end.

Beckett, for as tough as she is, has already exhibited a vulnerability with which Castle's unfamiliar. I don't think he's ever had to be that person for anyone before within the context of an equal partnership. (He's been that for Alexis, so he does know what it's like to care for someone and we know he's very good at it, so.)

Not that I've given this a lot of thought or anything.. ::insert wry grin::

I'm very glad that we have proof of Castle's competent adulthood in the parenthood sphere, at least. It shows he just needs a reason to be a grown up and he can do it well.

Whoa. Just starting S5 of CM...during Hotch's 2nd flashback to being stabbed, Foyet asks Hotch if he believes stabbing is a substitute for sex, then says "you're going to have to review my profile" (paraphrasing, i can't stand to rewatch the scene) while grunting over Hotch's inert body....am i the only person who went to an incredibly disturbing wound/violation place there?