Tomorrow, the BBC is going to start showing The Shadow Line" with Christopher Eccleston and Chiwetel Ejiofor. Damnit, BBCA had better be showing it, and soon!!!

Oops, I think I tripped and hit the download button. Shame how that happened.

While that stuff usually drives me batshit, for some reason it's not bugging me on Castle (as opposed to, say, Bones or Chuck). I'm not sure why.

Me too. I think it's that I've taken it as a given that they will, and the only question is how they're gonna get there. I was unaccountably pleased that almost dying in each others' arms - like, twice - was *not* the catalyst for a sudden outpouring of true feelings and a meaningful shag. I'd almost rather it happened after just, a little shared smile and them leaving the station together, off-screen even, and maybe it takes even the audience a couple episodes to figure that they really finally did.

Someone over at TWOP had linked to this story in TV Guide that answers why Tony had his hair so dark in the flashbacks.

"The flashback hair was a lot of fun. They wanted it to be a little darker, which I at first was a fan of, then I wasn't a fan of, but then I got into it. What I conceived of was this idea that Tony had been undercover recently, and that he had some kind of assignment where he had to be on the streets with dark hair. But there's another part of me that thought actually maybe Tony dyed his hair dark when he was a Baltimore homicide cop because he was insecure about his honey-colored hair. He thought, 'My name's Anthony DiNozzo, and nobody's gonna [expletive] take me seriously unless I have dark hair that matches the name.' So maybe that's the real answer — style over substance."

As for the cut of the hair, if not the shade... well, believe it or not, that's "R.J. hair." Irony alert! Effort was made in this episode to go back to something approximating the cut Weatherly had when NCIS (or Navy NCIS, as it was known then) started in 2003. And at the time, the young actor had just come off a TV movie where he played Robert Wagner... who, of course, would go on to play DiNozzo's dad in two highly regarded episodes of this series.

I'd almost rather it happened after just, a little shared smile and them leaving the station together, off-screen even, and maybe it takes even the audience a couple episodes to figure that they really finally did.

I suspect the network might not let them get away with that (not enough of a very special episode), but if they did, I wonder who would suss them out first.

I wonder who would suss them out first.

Lainey.

NCIS--if you need that much meta to explain his hair colour, pause and consider if it's not just distracting. I expect the cut to be different, but random darker hair on a guy is weird.

Lainey.

I was thinking her, which would be fair since Beckett and Castle were on to her and Esposito first.

I was also thinking it might be Alexis or Martha.

I was also thinking it might be Alexis or Martha.

They do, as it were, have the home ground advantage.

I think that it should be Ryan, since he's so oblivious. He would keep seeing random moments and everyone would tell him that he's crazy

Castle: is anyone kind of tired of the will they or won't they?

I'm with Zen. They will. It's just a matter of when she's ready. I kind of love how much they've built up the friendship this season.