Alright, but one of those episodes focused on the difficulty her character had in returning to work but her inability to back away from the job she'd defined herself by. And yes, it isn't a very good show, it would be completely intolerable if it took itself seriously. Though there are points that I like in the…

That's just damning with faint praise: At least they ripped off (homaged!) something I like rather than just gushing about the resolution on their new iPad. Yeah. Hooray.

I was actually thinking about her when I wrote this - i don't follow Castle  too closely, but I did catch the episode last night, where she did bring up the injury and how it still messed with her. She also has been in therapy, struggling at least a tiny bit (on a show that takes itself way less seriously)

Sure, there are exceptions, but that certainly doesn't mean that these writers, these television execs, and network execs in general are a daring bunch of iconoclasts who are looking to actually shake things up.

The only reason it bothered me was because it was just another part of the "investigation" work that they did that was pared down quickly from massive amounts of information and became their sole focus immediately only to be 100% correct. See also: the only place to fish. See also: sniper not finding his brass but…

yep, good points. They could have possibly even just used hammers and breaker bars to get through the wall, though that would be a lot of work. Maybe _that's_ what Hauser meant! ? That the geek squad and the 70-something year old man couldn't do it and they didn't have the ability to go hire some hammer swingers from…

I agree that the implication was that he had just appeared, but the writers of this show certainly could have him eating 50 year old canned food without painfully dying.

"- DeSoto randomly comes across the one hotwired car in an entire garage full of cars? Yeah okay…" 
That irked me too, as well as his immediate deduction that it was part of the master plan. Of course this is what Soto (and the show) does, make huge leaps based on minor details that are inevitably correct: "this big…

They couldn't even cut the door, according to Hauser, much less drill the locks or freeze and break the tumblers or make an image of the lock and fabricate a key from that.. etc. etc. Wait?! you expected them to use basic heist tech (right after a heist episode) instead of chase after the McGuffin that we all knew…

Seriously, you thought Soto was a compelling character?

Come on - the argument that a show still has potential holds for any show facing cancellation, I mean, The Firm was just finally starting to distinguish itself, if only it had gotten 6 seasons and movie to really squander whatever goodwill people might have mustered?

I guess I'm alone in totally hating the extended mustang commercial then. That was the part of the episode that I really got fed up with…

Likely to lead to his arrest? Or could in any way possibly testify against him at some hypothetical point? Because it came off a lot more as brutally over cautious (and slightly rip-offy of the Dark Knight) than efficient or necessary.

nope, not unless you really liked the weaker episodes of LOST.

She also let a murderer wander off with someone she knew he planned to kill.

Skylar : The problem isn't that it is simplified or that it sacrificed craft in order to be accessible, but rather that it is peppered with writing that could be simpler, that could be more accessible, and that could be better crafted. In the case of much of what I have read that could be said for quite a few sections…

Petronella : I don't think anyone is disagreeing with you.

HarbingerOfDuh : I have to agree with you there. I think Collins was shooting for a level of beguiling naivete, but the stubbornness that the character adheres to it, makes it seem a lot more like stupidity. I can think of numerous excuses for this, but none of them very good, nor addressed in any real way within a…

I did not loathe this book, I'm even slogging through the entire series as bit of light reading while my infant keeps me too sleep depped for good reading… but there is no excuse for sentences this bad: "Just the sound of his voice twists my stomach into a knot of unpleasant emotions like guilt, sadness, and fear. And…

beema: All fair points, I just hoped that his reputation could be used to avoid overmanagement from Fox (watering down any uniqueness into demographic appealing procedural). Whether or not this was reasonable or not… Well, probably not, but it was worth hoping that something useful would be done with it.