Linchpin

Another example of the writers trying to force Beckett and Castle character development by putting them together in unrealistic life or death scenarios that they quickly get out of.

Castle and Beckett are so f-n boring now.

During the last episode, both Castle was certainly all that and Beckett not much better. But so were the writers. My biggest complaint was that Beckett and Castle were idiots and should have been killed at least twice if not 3 times. And they do it again in this one.

In the last episode the CIA hijinks were stupid. Now it's just silly. Sophia gives Rick a clue. They agree that because it's a domestic bank, the CIA can't go after it. Trouble is that the CIA crew were way past that a long time ago. If they hadn't brought it up, it could have been ignored, but the writers want it both ways.

There are some interesting twists in the big crisis story. The problem is that Beckett and Castle were mostly spectators and victims except for one quick observation by Castle. This episode was a lot of hullabaloo just to make Beckett jealous.

This show was pretty good & fun to watch for three seasons then came season four. This whole season has been bad, but the last two episodes were truly awful. The writing for this season is just dumb & so unrealistic. It's so unrealistic the absurdity of the storyline borders on the comical. It's really to bad because the actors are good for the most part & have a good chemistry. But the plots just keep getting worse with each passing episode to the point you wonder if they were trying to torpedo the whole series. Hopefully they get better the rest of the season as I finish the series but I'm not crossing my fingers.