OK, fellow OCDers, here’s the thing…  I keep reading these really amazing insights into the storytelling that’s coming out of Marlowe’s team on Castle from all over the forums.  I’m not a literature major nor am I a writer.  But I am fascinated by what I am learning here!  So with two posts from the Post 24 thread, I’d like to start a thread to pick the brains of any literature majors/writers or anyone else who sees what makes this writing a cut above; how they use literary devices, hero stories, meta…   

Thanks to jerryst316 for starting off the conversation… 

The first about Beckett’s hero’s journey 

Isn't that what you do to heroes on their journey? You tear them down completely, you allow the world to see the good they have been hiding, and then you build them up again. I would imagine that that is what season 4 will be about, building Beckett back up, probably into something just a little different, someone more trusting (after initially not being so) and someone who is at a better place with who she is as a person. I think in many ways there is confusion about whose show this is but make no mistake it is Castle's, and yet, part of what make's Castle relevant is Beckett's hero journey. What do I mean? He is there so we can learn about him and see him evolve, to grow into the better person he wants to become, but along the way, he needs a good story to tell because he is a writer and that story is Beckett's. Which makes this story all the more poignant and beautiful, IMO.

 And the second about the use of Josh as the ultimate meta/cliché character:

…. this show that loves to bring up the meta, that loves to play with cliche and double meaning, has created this character that is the epitome of a meta comment on romantic story-telling. In some way, that's why I think Josh is more important to the story than we know yet, this show loves to take those cliches and turn them sideways, and so while most of the time, the other person that keeps the main couple apart simply fades into the background, I think they will try and turn that into something more important and less cliche.

What do you think?  Dig deep.  Think about it.  How do they do it?  Tell us (me [Image Can Not Be Found]) more!