Castle - He's Dead, She's Dead, S03E02

Richard Edgar Castle (Nathan Fillion) wants to believe. He loves unexplained phenomena, and the possibility of the supernatural actually existing - whether mummy curses or psychic powers - gets his pulse beating just as quickly as any of his convoluted conspiracy theories. Kate Beckett (Stana Katic) is far more interested in catching killers then getting caught up in Castle's excitement over the extremely improbable. Still, she can't help admiring his enthusiasm, and we can't help admiring how awesome that makes their dynamic.

I'd say there a few things more disturbing than finding your mother murdered with an ice pick and stuffed in a pull-out couch, but I'm sure shows like Castle could prove me wrong in a matter of episodes. Still, when she is a psychic, and her daughter has some of those powers, but neither of them saw it coming clearly enough to stop it, that has got to be upsetting. Good thing Momma had the foresight to send the cops a letter predicting her death and leaving some rather interesting clues.

I've always liked the idea of psychics and the supernatural; obviously, as half the shows I watch are in that genre. Still, the ability to believe it could actually exist in this world...I side with Beckett. Until I see some real evidence, I'll continue to believe that Patrick Jane from the Mentalist is what a good psychic really is. I'm pretty glad that, in this show which is supposed to take place in the real world, the cops don't base their cases on the unprovable.

And while the powers to see things on a different plane of existence did not solve the case (thank you hard evidence and intuition, hahaha), they did tell us something we already knew. A man named Alexander is very important to Beckett, and has saved her life more than once. Thank you, Richard Alexander Rogers. Though I will laugh if Beckett's next boyfriend is actually called Alexander.

I want to add the final note that I am not unhappy about where Beckett and Castle's relationship is. I feel like at the end of last season, they missed the boat, and right now, to continue that metaphor, the boat is completely out of sight. It will come back. Of course, it will come back. But for the moment, it's not distracting me or supposed to be the focus of my interest. Is it yours?