That was sort of my take as well on Castle. (The same thing happened on a lot of other male/female buddy cop series - which may be why they finally stopped doing the trope? Either that or it finally got stale.)
Interesting about Bones. It was my difficulty with the series - I felt the characters never really evolved, and the serial killer trope - I burned out on in the 20th Century and early 00s. Prime Suspect did it well, as did the Profiler, Medium, and the Mentalist. But mainly? I just didn't like Bones. Booth and everyone else was fine, but Bones irritated me.
Weirdly, I liked Castle better than Bones. But...got tired of the trope.
Fillion is doing very well with the Rookie, which apparently is more ensemble, and they don't appear to have issues on that set. So much of this is on the show-runner and who is running the set. But also personality conflicts between actors. I've been listening to the Mad Max Fury Road audio book - and Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron really clashed on that set. Also, Bruce Willis and Cybil Shepard clashed on Moonlighting - they were not speaking by the end of that series. Same with Remington Steele - Bronsan and Stephanie Zimbalist were barely talking and had clashed. On Bewitched - Dick York had injured his back, was on pain killers, and clashed with everyone. Agnes Moorehead hated him. So they replaced him with Dick Sargent. (It ended because it began to repeat storylines over and over again, and Sargent's character never evolved.)
It happens a lot apparently, more than I thought. There's a lot of down time on television and film sets, and a lot of redoing the same thing over and over again - and it tends to led to bad behavior.
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Date: 2023-08-06 05:18 pm (UTC)Interesting about Bones. It was my difficulty with the series - I felt the characters never really evolved, and the serial killer trope - I burned out on in the 20th Century and early 00s. Prime Suspect did it well, as did the Profiler, Medium, and the Mentalist. But mainly? I just didn't like Bones. Booth and everyone else was fine, but Bones irritated me.
Weirdly, I liked Castle better than Bones. But...got tired of the trope.
Fillion is doing very well with the Rookie, which apparently is more ensemble, and they don't appear to have issues on that set. So much of this is on the show-runner and who is running the set. But also personality conflicts between actors. I've been listening to the Mad Max Fury Road audio book - and Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron really clashed on that set. Also, Bruce Willis and Cybil Shepard clashed on Moonlighting - they were not speaking by the end of that series. Same with Remington Steele - Bronsan and Stephanie Zimbalist were barely talking and had clashed. On Bewitched - Dick York had injured his back, was on pain killers, and clashed with everyone. Agnes Moorehead hated him. So they replaced him with Dick Sargent. (It ended because it began to repeat storylines over and over again, and Sargent's character never evolved.)
It happens a lot apparently, more than I thought. There's a lot of down time on television and film sets, and a lot of redoing the same thing over and over again - and it tends to led to bad behavior.