By Michael Seese
Nope. Not a sign of the Fonz or water skis.
"Need To Know" felt a lot like your "typical" Castle. Intriguing plot twists, lots and lots of lines and looks, a suspect who is written off and then is revealed to be the killer, and not one--but two--surprises at the end.
I loved the opening scene. Castle and Beckett, lying there, enjoying pillow talk. Then the camera pulls back, and we learn that they're (literally) miles apart, conversing via smart phone. Nice!
Which leads us to a great line / look.
Beckett: "Do you know what my favorite position is?"
Castle raises his head expectantly.
Her answer, of course, was "In person."
I also liked the side story which revealed that Ryan was a closet fan of the 80s teen show, "2 Cool 4 School." It reminded me of Captain Gates, and her obsession with the Gemini Dolls. As I said in that post, it's nice when they fill out the characters, and give them real quirks, those like the rest of us have. (So says the Rick Springfield fan.)
And, that particular schtick gave rise to most of the great lines.
Castle: "A former child star getting the book. Hoisted on his own petard. Hung out to dry."
Ryan: "That was a very nuanced performance."
Ryan: "You know what I don't get?"
Esposito: "You're wearing that hat. There's a lot you don't get."
Castle: "It's like Romeo and Juliet. With a nerdy Romeo."
Esposito: "And a smoking hot Juliet."
And a few one-offs...
Castle: "I don't know if I'm smelling a compost bin, or my daughter's rotting ambition."
Perlmutter: "Mister Castle, you're back. But not by popular demand."
Beckett: "Castle, you're not going to Castle me on this."
Castle: "This place could be teeming with bloodthirsty Cossacks."
IF YOU DON'T WANT THE ULTIMATE SPOILER, STOP READING NOW.
The last scene totally caught me off guard. I didn't see it coming. But once Castle turned serious and told Beckett he wanted to talk about "them," I knew he was going to say he was moving to DC. "I can write from anywhere." Where have I heard that before? Oh yeah...MY BLOG.
Then...
I guess the government shutdown has impacted the AG Office, as they've obviously let their HR department go. That's my snide way of saying my only gripe was that McCord would not have been the one to fire Beckett. But I'll forgive them.
Feel free to share your thoughts on "Need To Know."
By Michael Seese
So we FINALLY got around to watching the season finale of Castle. (Cut me some slack...I had to get "Eiffel" to Paris, then we went to Florida, then there was T-ball, and finally, I mangled my thumb last week.) And after all that, I thought "Watershed" was...
Just OK.
I suppose my main problem stemmed from what I perceived to be "faux" drama. In the previews, they showed the scene where Castle discovers Beckett's airplane boarding pass, and she confesses that she flew to D.C. for the interview. "If you take this job, that's the end of our relationship," he sniffs.
Excuse me? You, Richard Castle, write for a living. The last time I checked, there are authors living in the nation's capital. Or, if you don't want to relocate, fly out on Wednesday, stay a few days, then fly her back to New York for the weekend. Heck, you're amazingly rich...fly down every morning, and back to New York at night. The point being, people DO make long-distance relationships work. Admittedly, as my wife pointed out, it would end their working partnership. But still, I thought he was a little too much the drama queen. (The fact that Beckett violated his trust by not telling him...that's another issue.)
I recognized (did you??) that they ended the episode sitting on a swing set, just as Beckett did at end of last year's season finale. Just in case you didn't (by some weird chance) watch it yet, I won't say / spoil anything, other than to admit that the ending caught us both off-guard. It will be interesting to see how they resolve it. Though I had worried that "Always" represented the beginning of the end (a Jump The Shark moment), I thought this season was pretty strong. But once again I am concerned...
On the whole, there wasn't a lot of humor in this episode. I thought the best (and to be honest, only) noteworthy line was:
Esposito: "Crystal Sky. That name's so fake, it sounds like something out of your book."
So what did you think of "Watershed?" Share your thoughts, if you still remember.
Did Castle and Beckett reach a "Watershed" moment? Click to tweet.
By Michael Seese
I know... you've seen one SPAM, you've seen them all.
But something about this one struck me as REALLY funny. Remember my mantra: hover over the links to see where they want to take you. If you look at the bottom of the screen, you can see where the purple "Print Shipment Label" goes.
Since you probably can't read it, it says, "http://bitches-feet.strapon-tube.net/wp-content/plugins/wp_api/get.php?d_info=891_782254240."
Yes, nothing says FedEx like "bitches" and "strap-on." Click to tweet.
PS: I swear, one of these days we'll watch the season finale of "Castle."
