I was on Entertainment Weekly's website and noticed an article. It talks about favorite actors having roles in so-so shows and Nathan Fillion is mentioned. The article is by Ken Tucker (I don't think he really cares for Castle) and it is quite interesting to read. For me, I have never watched Firefly (only seen bits of episodes), but I think Nathan is doing great work on Castle. What does everyone think?

Here's the link to the article.
watching-tv.ew.com/2010/07/17/favorite-actors-sela-ward-csi-nathan-fillion/

I saw that article, Ken Tucker wrote a similar one several months ago that was not very flattering either.  He really doesn't like Castle, which is fine, it's not everyone's cup of tea.  I get the vibe from both of his articles that he's fanatical about Firefly and would probably be unhappy with anything that Nathan Fillion did that was not Firefly.  I love Firefly, but it's over, time to move on.  Regardless of how well loved Firefly was, it wasn't a commercal sucess, which is the name of the game in TV.

Castle so-so?  Not in my book.  It's a funny, well acted, entertaining, successful show with actors that have charisma coming out their ears.  Now I'll get off my soapbox.

Hahaha… I love FF but to suggest that Castle is inferior is just dumb.

Firefly is kind of the Holy Grail for some shippers. Should a sequel ever be made with the original staff, I bet even that would be a disappointment to them. I like it too (I had started to see Castle because of Fillion), but as it was pointed here and in the comments over EW it is over. It was perfectly suited for Nathan, but I think it will partly a curse for him, because of the shippers who do not want to accept that you can have joy to see FF on DVD each day, but an actor wants (and needs) to play new roles. Some are better, some are worse, but as it was also commented, any actors trades a 10 epsiode cult show to a 10 year serie. Nathan himself is the perfect example to this. Remember that in some of his interview he noted that he almost could not handle the fact that Castle was renewed for the third season, as it never happened to him!

Beside this, Castle is opinioned as show which is loved because of its actors, not because of the visual stunts or the mind twisting cases. What could be a greater honor to an actor than something is successful because of him? So Ken Tucker has an opinion about Nathan Fillion and Castle what I'm sure that even Nathan Fillion wouldn't agree.

That one remark about him and Stana, that they hate each other was an "I'm almost sure that I read it somewhere" blurb, the poster simply mixed them with news about another show.

Leftfield said:

nalissa2 said:

Hahaha… I love FF but to suggest that Castle is inferior is just dumb.

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It's a bit like comparing apples and oranges. 

Ken Tucker is certainly not required to love or even like Castle but I'm not sure that he's being particularly objective.  His opinion looks to be colored by the fact that he REALLY REALLY likes Firefly.   

EXACTLY and that's why I said his opinion is dumb. Sure, he's entitled to have an opinion but being an educated viewer; ie one who writes about TV for a living and knows it's two different type of shows (each successful in its own right) to make a statement like that is just showing his bias. It is neither informative or objective. Not the kind of journalism anyone should listen to anyway. He's just trying to stir the pot like his last piece..