I made a decision a few years ago

[giandujakiss]

Not to watch Castle. For some reason, I decided to watch this season's finale, even though I'd never seen an episode of the show before.

Oh my god, did I make the right call initially.



So I guess this was part of a long arc having to do with Kate searching for the man who killed her mother. In previous episodes, she'd been obsessed with finding the killer, and had even been shot as part of an attempt to thwart her investigation. At some point, Castle had - without her knowledge - made a deal for her life. The bad guys agreed they'd back off if Castle thwarted her from continuing the search.

In this episode, she revives her investigation. Castle comes clean about his earlier actions, but says they were justified because he loves her and wanted to keep her safe. She says he had no right and she's not a child - he betrayed her by interfering with the most important thing in her life; he says that if she wants to continue, fine, but he won't partner with her anymore because he doesn't want to see her get killed.

She continues the investigation on her own. She fights a bad guy, loses, he throws her off a roof and she only survives because Castle shows up and saves her. ETA: Correction - apparently I wasn't paying close enough attention. She thought it was Castle - she thought she heard him - but it turned out it was another male character who came to her rescue.

Her police captain then suspends her, and in response, she quits. She visits Castle in his apartment, tells him that she doesn't care about the investigation anymore, she almost died and realized that all she cares about is her love for him. Then they have romantic sex.

I swear to god, this was Fringe-"I throw my identity away for your love"-level of squick. EEeeeewwww.......

Comments

[killabeez]

Whut.

This kind of storyline will never, ever, do anything for me but make me want to throw things.

(Thank you for this post, btw. I watched the first few eps of Castle, then stopped, but lately had been thinking of taking it up again. Glad for the warning.)

[giandujakiss]

You're welcome. I was just so appalled....

[monanotlisa]

Could see this one coming; stopped watching early this season (if still too late). Yuck, yuck, yuck. So glad I did.

Of course still on tenterhooks for the Fringe finale. 4x21 put Olivia back where she belongs, front and centre, but we shall see...

[giandujakiss]

Yeah, I loved that it was a woman who had to take over the man's fight - but I actually don't have a whole lot of hope for the rest of the show because the show seems to be interested in giving only one character a consistent story - Peter. It's reoriented itself around him.

[ide_cyan]

He fits my Cuckoo theory of the Mary Sue problem in so many ways.

[trouble]

Oh lord. :( I'm so glad that I stopped watching. :(

[giandujakiss]

Yeah, I can only imagine how much worse this would have been if I was actually invested in the show.

[libitina]

Wow! The show lost me at the end of the first paragraph.

Actually, I was so turned off by the promos for Castle before it aired that I resisted it for years despite people talking about how awesome the female characters were and how it's about him learning to respect women. And I am going to save this post and show it to people who try to get me to watch it in the future.

And, yeah, same goes for Fringe. I was majorly squicked by the first episode and haven't been willing to watch more despite assurances that it becomes delightful by the second season and despite Leonard Nimoy.

I was talking to a bus driver last night about science fiction, and I'm realizing that I don't think a single thing I'm watching these days is science fiction. I'm a bit sad about that.

[giandujakiss]

Yeah, the promos for Castle were actually the reason I refused to watch, as well - despite many protestations that the show was better than the ads.

[amadi]

I'm so glad I never got into the show. I tried a few episodes and gave up, because the writing was on the wall from Day One that the ultimate B-plot of every episode and every season was going to be "when do they screw?" And I'm so weary of that, I just can't any more.

This is why I'm not even going to bother with Elementary, btw.

[giandujakiss]

See, I'm fine with "when do they screw" as long as there's a foundation for it other than "they fight a lot." Because generally speaking, het romances based on "they fight a lot" never work out well for the woman.

But if it's a pure buddy thing with a subtext of "when do they screw"? I'm totally there.

That said, Castle promos annoyed me because they seemed to be about how hilarious it was for an unprofessional guy to interfere with a professional woman's job, fail to take her anger seriously, and mock her sexually. Not relevant to my interests.

[amadi]

ITAWYC

The other thing that got me about the promos was the implied reverse damsel in distress thing, and how it was so hahahaha funny that it was the dude who got himself into horrible positions and the woman had to come ride to his rescue. Meanwhile, he did so at the literal imperilment of human life, so not so hilarious.

I have no time for that sort of humor.

[sothcweden]

I have never watched Castle, but this sounds awful. And that ep of Fringe bugged the hell out of me, too. I kept thinking that Olivia's passivity in that ep was some kind of red herring, and there was going to be a surprise at the end. And then the surprise was not what I'd hoped. At all.

[giandujakiss]

Yeah, I just don't think Fringe is going to really redeem itself after that.

And I avoided Castle because I thought it would be exactly this way - sadly, I have never been so unhappy to be proven right.

[ealgylden]

It wasn't actually Castle who saved her. He was at Alexis's graduation, and it was really Ryan to the rescue. She thought it was Castle, because he's saved her before, but no, she was just hearing things. She hallucinated him. 'Cause hey, women are nuts, amirite? Sigh...

[giandujakiss]

Whoops! I shall correct the post. But yeah, it doesn't actually make it better.