Once people start watching, they can't really stop. Over the second season, the viewership continued to increase every episode. At the beginning of the season, not whole lot of people tuned in for the amazing and fantastic Hallowe'en episode, even though Fillion's Castle was dressed as a Space Cowboy (brown coat, boots, suspenders, and everything), but by the terrifying cliffhanger during March Sweeps, so many of us were desperate to know if Kate Beckett (Stana Katic), Castle's partner, had survived the explosion of her apartment that the show got an early third season pick up.
Once you watch one episode of Castle, you want to watch all the others. Fillion and Katic have such great chemistry, and so far the will they/won't they tension still makes sense given their relationship and personalities. I suspect that it will not be something simply left in a back corner with the promise that in the last episode our heroes will finally hook up because if they hook up any sooner than that our ratings will crash like they did for Moonlighting. If the couple tension is all that you have going for you ***cough*Bones*cough*** then you've already jumped the shark.
Regardless of how great the leads are, the rest of the cast of characters are equally responsible for the quality of the show. Beckett's other partners, Esposito (Jon Huertas) and Ryan (Seamus Dever), give the police work legs so that we get a sense of what else is going on in the investigation - it's so simple that one person can do it all herself. They also play perfectly off each other, and when you add Castle to the mix, you feel like these are three normal guys just having a laugh at work. Plus, Castle's mother and daughter remind you of his family values, which prevents him from being too smarmy when he decides to turn on the charm. Not that he can ever do it without a sense of humour.
As a season, we only had two episodes regarding the bigger mystery - what happened to Kate's mother. The finale did not touch this subject. But it is there. Plus Castle's writing career also gives form to the series, so it doesn't just feel like we are watching a bunch of slightly interconnected crime show episodes tied loosely together by one romantic connection. The connection is there and is an important part of the whole, but every other relationship is equally important and Castle and Beckett both have personal developments to make in the context of the whole.
My advice, don't change. Continue to advance and develop and make us laugh, but don't wait too long before something happens between Castle and Beckett. If you've read Heat Wave, you know it's possible to keep the show entertaining without only relying on requited but denied love.
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