Exactly seems like that doesn’t it .

Whatever goes on off screen, these are professionals. the writers and show runners have done great stuff in the past. It is increasingly obvious that except for a few really sweet moments Stana and Nathan, Kate and Castle are no longer on the same page. At one time she loved and trusted him, now the exciting sexual magnetism is completely gone. Stana was once the most attractive female actress on TV, now an overly lipoed and botoxed aging ingenue, over dressed in inappropriate designer clothes. She can bearly read her dialog, and is totally expressionless.The final scene, a time out, is nothing more than a mechanical booty call. They don’t even end up in bed together. She brags about her prowess; was Castle not there during sex, checks briefly that Castle is not thinking about divorce and runs out without an I love you or goodbye. She already has new admirers (Vikram as a jealous lover) lined up. Castle needs to either speak up or move to the Hamptons with a new girl friend/ assistant and start writing again. P.S. Where is Beckett living? A Captain’s salary in New York doesn’t pay for a new apartment, furniture and a fancy wardrobe.

Fedup,I have also heard that Stana is the diva she needs off to go to fashion shows she would not comeback unless she had a producer title.Whomever is to blame they are professionals supposedly NOT it appears.

None of the current writers like writing Castle like an intelligent human being.

The only word they like more than great is fun. They once used the word undercurrent to describe how the separation affected things in the non-LockSat episodes. I think of it more as a pall that hangs over everything and makes the writers reach for things that make them do stupid things like the bit of Ryan shooting Esposito. These guys are veteran officers who know better than to take a shot when they don’t have a target in clear sight, especially when they are separated from their own partner.