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.)

[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...

[trouble]

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

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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...