I just love how Rob Bowman likes to “play” with the lights. Angles and lights. I already said it about “Kick The Ballistics” which he directed too. He’s amazing.

I was thrilled to see how awesome is the scene in the Hudson River, after Castle got him and Beckett out of the sinking car. Bowman just uses the natural lighting coming from the reflex on the river to create almost a magical aura around Kate and Rick. As if those golden lights were warming them, enlightening the scene. It’s amazing.

And the scene that Sofia is going to kill them both? That super clean space, super bright as a hospital. It’s senseless and fearless just like Sofia. Those big white lights crossing the whole ceiling as if they could break through the almost palpable tension into the room.

I love how he “plays” with shadows and textures that the lights can provide him. From “gold” to super clean. From dark to red and brown. He creates feelings using colors, as when you smell that great scent of a fresh baked pie and you remember sundays morning on your grandma’s home. He brings us something we couldn’t feel with just simple images, so he uses all the shadows and colors he can.

When they’re at the precinct, a familiar place, the color is warm, the footage is comforting, already known angles and places. When they move to the CIA base, he uses cold colors, everything have shades of blue and grey and the angles are new, lots of close ups.

I don’t know, maybe I’m just talking bull here. But I like to think he’s playing with our minds as he plays with the colors and textures.