Hi, George! Welcome!

Solid start to the season, but I missed the hell out of Frank.

Right — you get the feeling that with Fat Man and Little Boy, people were like, "Um… the air was on fire."

I am utterly unqualified to speak to this topic but my first impressions are (a) there's an impossible-to-overstate mental thing about having achieved this that would terrify an enemy, and (b) if, as with Hiroshima, 1 bomb killed at least 100K, as the target of said bombing you'd be like… "it would not take that many…

"Hey guys - we did this funny murder party stand-alone ep, and it was well received."
"Good - so we don't need to do more of that. Check it off the list."
"Yeah - let's get back to this senator thing. Maybe there's a guy everyone thinks is dead but isn't dead but dies then Beckett is all like 'he knew my mom'?"
"Perfect.…

I mean, Murder She Wrote lasted 12 seasons - Castle can at least keep it going for 1-2 more. Maybe they steal some plots, and visit a haunted irish manor? Maybe they visit a town in Maine and there are hysterical Cabot Cove-related in-jokes? Bring in some Psych-like vibe and get loose for its last years.

His renovated Bat Cave office made me really, really hopeful.

Maybe the network head was having office furniture moved around and the B&B cancellation memo from last fall slipped out form behind a cabinet?

It's like they took each other's schtick when they went to their respective new shows.

An afghan, a few shots of your favorite amaro, and The Player?

"You know what [left nostril] I think what really makes our weekly procedural so great is [right nostril] how we keep [left nostril] adding on to this running conspiracy plot that no one [right nostril] asked for because [one for each nostril] I mean, who's running this motherfucker? We are. They came looking for…

Well, actually, he was ageless, then aged quite a bit in between 2 seasons, then stopped aging again.

The fact they actually added a cast member for it shows an unsettling "can't read the room" vibe from the showrunners.

And in season 3 we'll discover Jane has a cousin Oliver, a dog named Poochie, Arnold will have sold his diner to Al, and Leo DiCaprio will be adopted by Agent Grumbles.

Which then seems like we're in for a "she's been chosen for this experiment since before she was born" sort of plotline, which is kind of annoying. I preferred the Bourne-like, "I'm an adult and I'm choosing to enter this program for what I assume is the greater good, although once I wake up it will be unbelievable…

So, in theory, if they stop trying to decipher the tattoos… we're all safe for the time being. Well played… well played indeed…

Tut-tut. Castle is ageless.

Just last night, i was thinking, You know, this is getting uncomfortably close to The Pretender, but with bluer lighting.

Well, the thing is, you're actually experiencing a bit of time compression, a la Breaking Bad - they're really decoding at a rate of say, 1 every other day (including travel time, etc.), so in 5 seasons, when they start to get about about 100 tattoos in, only about 4 months will have passed, even the the actors will…

"This is the type of show that makes you feel like a moron when you try to explain it to someone who doesn’t watch it, and a show like that has a small margin for error."