Thank you for articulating why I can't quite get into Castle. I wanted to, I really did. I even watched the season premier yesterday hoping it had gotten better since the two episodes I watched last season. Because I adore Nathan Fillion to pieces, and even thought Castle's an asshat I do think he's played brilliantly.

But I never really gave it more than I glance, and I could never put my finger on it. And this is totally it.


Which I think is one of the things I enjoyed about the Good Wife. Title issues aside, the pilot episode was basically everyone assuming she was some poor little politician's wife, a tool of her husband, etc. And then she went around and proved how she was 10 times more awesome than all of them.