Flowers for Your Grave

The pilot manages to introduce several characters and set a background for Fillion's character extremely while keeping along a first murder plot. Both lead roles show extremely good chemistry, Nathan Fillion plays once again a cool character and manages to bring to the table that quirkiness that have made his characters so good in the past. His counterpart is not only pretty to look at but also provides a strong female role and not the standard damsel in distress. The pilot is promising: the writing is good for both plot and dialog, the cast is solid and the mandatory sexual tension flows really well with the witty dialog.

At the end of watching anything I ask myself, was I entertained? And the answer in this case was yes! Absolutely! I loved it!

Castle is the story of Rick Castle and Kate Beckett. Castle is a famous novelist and he's "hired" as a consultant in order to deal with murder cases. This develops into some real comedy and interesting chemistry between the lead characters, not to mention some interesting plot twists in later episodes. There's a hint of unbelievability to the show but not in a bad way. It's like a good mystery novel. In this way, Castle is different from typical crime shows like CSI, Bones etc. But I do think that this is part of the appeal. Perhaps I've got a little tired from all that forensics and science.

I must say that I've been starved of some Nathan Fillon. I thought he was brilliant in Firefly, a show that was also immensely entertaining to the audience, but underrated by the powers that be (Fox, I'm looking at you, shame on you). He is definitely a one-of-a-kind actor and he really carries this show with his wry humor and observations. I was hit by a wave of nostalgia with his familiar style. I want to see more. Much much more.

So far so good! Castle kicks off, not with a bang, but with steady assurance.

To Firefly fans I say watch out! Nathan Fillon is back. Coolness personified!

A crime novelist gets involved in a criminal investigation and has some friction with the detective in charge. So Jessica Fletcher is Castle and Kate Beckett is the town sheriff so to speak. Wow this is a novel (no pun intended, well maybe) twist. At least Jessica had some personality which is more than either lead in this series has. First the networks steal the premise of Psych and turn it into the Mentalist and now Murder She Wrote has morphed into Castle. Can a Monk rip off be far behind. Even the card game between Castle, Steven Cannell, and James Patterson was a steal from Two and a Half Men. Remember the Sean Penn episode? What happened to innovation and creativity? I guess it has migrated to USA and TNT. Maybe that's why they have Burn Notice and The Closer and Saving Grace and . . . well I am sure you get where this is going. I am not sure the 10 episodes will make it through the complete season but no doubt ABC will let fan, there must be one, watch the bulk of the shows online.

I usually like the 2 leading actors ( Nathan Fillion of Firefly & Stana Katic of Absentia ) so I though I'd give this show "Dick" "Castle" ( aka Richard Castle as the main character ) a shot but as soon as this "Dick" finds out 2 people have been murdered copy catting 2 of his books instead of being a normal human being this total "Dick Castle author" asks for copies of the photos of 2 dead people from their crime scenes so he can show off to his friends.

Not only would this make this guy a total idiot ( & possible psychopath ) for having no empathy for the victims or their families, it would also lead the police to believe he was a prime suspect taking time away from what as an audience we could only believe must be a different person as the killer.

If I really don't like this "Dick Castle" why would I watch the show as this whole disgusting scene lost me any inclination to want to watch this show.

If they had made the character totally drunk & was seriously told off by the lead detective Kate Beckett who should of been unbelievably horrified at such a request for "bragging rights" to people being murdered in the same way he wrote the books maybe, a then sober "Richard Castle" could have been horrified at himself for allowing himself be such an incredible jerk & sincerely apologise to Kate Beckett & promise to do much better as a human being then we might have been able to see the start of redemption for this seriously flawed character ( then when he met the victims family I would hope he would feel truly terrible & admit he had a serious problem with reality & how he needed to realise real life is not like his books at all.

However this "Dick Castle" was stone cold sober with a stone cold heart.

I don't blame the actors but the script & the director lost me right then!

( we had already seen "Dick Castle" was a Father so why would he be such a jerk at his age & without a good reason to explain it you lose your audience right away that have any feeling for the murder of 2 innocent people ).