For the record, I was raised on crime shows: Baretta, Starsky & Hutch, Magnum, the Law & Order franchise (and also a ton of British mystery, though I don't think that's relevant here) and a host of others. My mother can identify the plot of a Magnum, PI episode in its first thirty seconds, but can't remember what she had for dinner two days ago.
You get the idea.
And yet I don't think of myself as having a lot of particular insight into these shows: I don't want to solve the crime, because if I can figure out "whodunit" early, the writers haven't fully succeeded. Which is why I say, quite sincerely: Was the season finale of Castle really a shock to people?
I keep seeing it presented that way. Thanks to a lack of TV reception and a bad habit of forgetting about network schedules/the existence of Hulu, I see about four episodes of Castle a year. And every single time I did catch one, the chief acted funny whenever the subject of Kate's mother came up. Can someone (politely!) explain this to me? If you have more continuity from regular viewing, does the guy's concern come off as something else? I'm not used to being a detective-show savant, so I assume some other force is at work.
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