Nothing worse than sitting down, looking forward to a new episode, and BAM.

Based on the preview I was fully expecting a clip show. And based on the premise I fully expected this to be the episode in which Beckett finally said those three little words.

I still maintain they can be done well--Andromeda pulled off a doozy. It's not the format, it's the choices.

I've seen decent ones and really, really awful ones (I'm looking at you, SG-1). The Castle one was basically okay fan-fic mixed with decent fan-vids.

Andromeda's angle, the episode that justified the series' existence, even though Sorbo was onscreen, was an alternate timeline, where the man who had betrayed him to spur the series didn't die, but Dylan, Sorbo's character had. So he took on the mission Dylan did in the main timeline out of a sense of culpability.

This meant that every flashback was filtered through the AU premise, and all of them meant something different now--a fascinating story which made me want to watch all those episodes again, and think about what they would have been like with that change in captaincy.

Since Sorbo was still the lead in them, though, I didn't. But it was a brilliant move, and I doff my cap to Stentz and Hewitt Wolfe for it, going so far as to tell Zack so (I don't remember if that was TT or just IO9--I always bring this up when the topic arises, and he happened to read me doing so at least once).

I haven't actually finished watching this Castle yet. Although I like them together, I feel Katic's acting is weaker portraying this particular emotional vulnerability and openness. Which is a damned shame--she's more than good at being a kick assed cop (in inappropriate shoes) and an angry and wounded Iniga Montoyette. So I find myself delegating it to last -1 (H50 is last) when catching up on the night's TV.

I got tired of Castle when it became all about Beckett's Mom. I'm also tired of the "I am driven by this great unsolved tragedy in my past!" thing. I don't watch Grimm that often, but I like the "I was just a normal guy till this weird thing popped up" premise. The bad things occur as part of the story.

Adding to the Castle problem for me was when they started the romance. The inevitable "wacky" misunderstandings annoy me.

I was trying to work out if it's all about her mother now, but I realise I can't judge that, because I don't know what trips the switch for that.

I did kind of like that last week's wacky relationship misunderstanding wasn't a misunderstanding (and therefore not wacky), but then turned out to be irritated that Castle was right and Beckett so passive.

And, Jesus, the way they described unwanted touching this week made their foreplay sound like harassment. Way to take the bloom off the rose, guys!

Watching the Castle clip ep now. Kate's ability to ingest food seems to be in inverse proportion to the length of her hair.

They didn't air Castle's clip show here. I guess they felt it was still too soon to air an episode about a bomb in Massachusetts, but it was available On Demand, so we were still able to see it. As clip shows go, it wasn't that bad, but those shows always make me think of The Golden Girls and their cheesecake episodes.

I want to see that Andromeda clip show, ever since ita first mentioned it (possibly when it aired? Possibly) but I don't think I want to watch the rest of Andromeda - I saw the first couple of episodes but the way it was syndicated made it hard to catch, and then I think I heard my favorite character died.

Who was your favourite, -t?

Unfortunately the episode lacks impact without the context shifting, so if you only know the premise is inverted there's not as much there there. But that's pretty much where you should stop watching--it goes off the rails worse than X Files, even though it was nowhere near as good to start off with.

I thought the episode was kinda boring, but the "oh, fuck my family, I'm going to hitch my wagon to your demise" thing bugs the FUCK out of me, and this is even worse than H50.

The Nietzschean, uh, crewmember? Man, I remember virtually nothing.

How far along does the clip show happen?

They didn't air Castle's clip show here. I guess they felt it was still too soon to air an episode about a bomb in Massachusetts, but it was available On Demand, so we were still able to see it.

Ohhhhhh! I just went to play the episode my DVR recorded, and it's clearly and old one, and I couldn't figure out what was going on. Will On-Demand it.

Edit: But apparently I can't. But also apparently no loss!