But worse than that, the writing (on a show about a writer) has gone off a cliff.

The cast looks painfully disinterested at times, and clearly Nathan Fillion's health continues to be an issue. It was pretty good once, but it's fallen off badly in a lot of ways. But worse than that, the writing (on a show about a It's really time to bring the show to a graceful end. It's really time to bring the show to a graceful end. Spend some of those millions on coaches to get you in shape!!! … Expand

Being on TV and being rich is all well and good, but money cannot compensate for being unfit and at risk for diabetes and a heart attack. It gets to where you want to stop watching because it's too disturbing, especially when you realize it's gotten to the point where the cameramen are shooting strategically to avoid showing how fat Nathan is. I feel a little like I did as I watched Jeremy Brett fall apart as Sherlock Holmes season to season. But Nathan is not growing up, he's grown out, way way out. In fact all the people who have been on the show from day one look the same, except the girl who plays Castle's daughter, but that's because she was a kid when the show started. Meanwhile Stana Katic looks the same as when she started the show. But Nathan is just so fat now, it's not a pretty sight. In the first couple of seasons of Castle it most certainly was the same guy. But in a mere decade, just 10 years, Nathan Fillion has let himself go to the point where - having watched a Firefly episode recently - I just can't view that guy in Firefly as the same person I see on Castle. But surprisingly it's not the age so much as it is how fat he's become. He looks so different at age 83 than he did in his early 30s on Star Trek. That is, I can no longer see Shatner as Captain Kirk. Now for the negative: Nathan Fillion has officially entered William Shatner territory. It needs to press that advantage and leave episodes with more ordinary crime show plots behind. So in this particular niche of the far out cop show plot, it is unique in all ways. Ordinary crime plots you can get from any of a dozen cop shows Castle gives you something those other shows do not, however, when it decides to weave in an alternate universe or time travel and it always somehow inexplicably does this without the ridiculous ambiance of a sci-fi show. I enjoy Castle, especially the episodes with the far-out plots. Ordinary crime plots you can get from any of a dozen cop shows Castle gives you something those other shows do not, however, In a nutshell The Good: Episodes with far out plots. In a nutshell The Good: Episodes with far out plots.

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