Castle!

[annathepiper]

How awesome was last night’s Castle (which, as is the Murkworks wont, we watched tonight)? Pretty damned awesome!

As is the Murkworks wont, we watched Castle tonight since spazzkat‘s early bedtime means he’s in bed by the time it airs on Mondays. jennygriffee joined us as well as per usual, and man, we all quite enjoyed tonight’s episode even if it was all Serious Episode Was Serious.

I’d had the Big Reveal already spoiled for me thanks to following the major Castle fan site CastleTV.net, so I knew what was coming–but I didn’t care, since I was all EEEEEE! about it anyway, and I happily went WOO HOO! when the Smooching finally occurred. :D

It ain’t like it wasn’t telegraphed the last few episodes anyway, so I was enjoying the buildup as much as the payoff. I was a little sad that the relationship with the ex-wife was terminated pretty much off-camera, but we knew that was going to happen that way regardless since she’d barely had any screen time at all–but still. I really liked the understatedness of the scene where Beckett overhears Castle breaking it off with her on the phone and very quietly backs off the way she’d come.

And Castle having those little epiphany looks the last few episodes… aw man! I love, love, love Nathan Fillion’s “OMG I love you” looks he gets. He’s so excellent at whipping those out. So far he has a fairly limited set of characters in his repetoire, but within those characters, oh damn those expressions. <3 Watching Castle react to the growing realization of his feelings for Beckett has been very, very sweet.

Which brings us around to tonight and ZOMG Serious Episode Was Serious. Lots of OHNOEZ RYAN AND ESPOSITO AUGH, and Beckett losing it, and Martha reacting to Castle nearly getting shot (and how excellent was she in that scene, wut?). And Beckett whipping out “Rick” rather than “Castle”, and of course the SMOOCHINGS! And the double whammy of it as smooching #1 is all distraction but smooching #2 is all ZOMG SMOOCHING and yeah, I’m all fangirly-squee about this and will be for a bit, I think. :D

YAY! SMOOCHINGS!

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Comments

[prettyshrub.livejournal.com]

I loved how poleaxed Castle looked after the smooching.

[annathepiper]

That was excellent. The "what the hell just happened? And can it happen AGAIN?" look. :D

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

You don't know me, but omigosh, yes. The man has poleaxed down to a science.

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

I have one lone complaint about last night's episode (aside from the fact that I have to mute people like the guy Beckett slammed against the wall because Being Cruel is Not Funny -- in the sense that no one should ever enjoy it the way he did). I didn't get my Castle/Alexis interaction fix.

But Martha. Whoa. She's always been so laid back, but it was still so totally in character. The writers were brilliant, and Susan Sullivan was bloody brilliant.

[annathepiper]

We all noted the lack of Alexis in this week's episode, yeah! I wondered at the lack, but then, not sure if there was a good place to have had her in a scene.

And oh man yeah the cruelty of that dude Beckett interrogated. >_< On the other hand, WOW that actor had a stunning voice. Shades of James Earl Jones.