jducoeur

The last three major roles I've seen him in (Buffy, Firefly, and now Castle) are similar in that he gets to be charming and rueful, but the preacher character in Buffy was a whole lot darker and creepier, possessed as he was by evil, than anything I've seen him do. On Firefly, his character was broken in some very fundamental ways, but continued on because he loved people who needed him. Rick Castle, on the other hand, has never broken. He knows a lot about murder and murderers in the abstract, but his profession has kept him apart from the reality of it.

I think they're very different characters. Because they're being played by Nathan Fillion, they're going to have some similarities in the way he expresses them, but I don't think he's being typecast at all.