# So disappointed in Castle Season 8 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 5, 2015, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-disappointed-in-castle-season-8/736766 "2015-11-05T23:53:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![DaphneBlack](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daphneblack/32/5389_2.png) [@DaphneBlack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaphneBlack)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2016, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-disappointed-in-castle-season-8/736766/61 "2016-05-16T11:49:32Z")
I’ve enjoyed this show for eight years and it’s been a fun thing for my now-husband and I to watch together (the show started when we’d been together for six months or so). We’re sad the show is ending, in a way, but neither of us wanted to watch Castle sans Beckett. We’d watch an Alexis/Haley spinoff though. I read about Fillion and Katic hating each other, and the whole past two seasons I was over-scrutinizing their scenes together, and I have to say, the original chemistry between them was almost completely gone. I felt that Katic was often gritting her teeth and bearing it. The whole wedding-kidnapping-amnesia thing was sooooo dumb. But I really like detective-comedy. I wish there were more detective-comedies out there (with real detectiving). ---
**Author:** ![vix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a88e4f/32.png) [@vix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vix)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2016, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-disappointed-in-castle-season-8/736766/62 "2016-05-17T03:20:12Z")
Well, that finale was pretty much the worst. ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2016, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-disappointed-in-castle-season-8/736766/63 "2016-05-17T03:25:24Z")
Huh? Alternate reality? Joint hallucination? What are we supposed to make of that? ---
**Author:** ![Reluctant\_A](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@Reluctant\_A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reluctant_A)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2016, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-disappointed-in-castle-season-8/736766/64 "2016-05-17T05:37:26Z")
The only thing I make of it is that what they should have done is tack the last 35 seconds or so onto the end of “Hollander’s Woods,” and pretend that Season 8 never happened. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2016, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-disappointed-in-castle-season-8/736766/65 "2016-05-17T06:10:28Z")
Well, that was a pretty decent season-ending cliff-hanger, followed by thirty seconds of WHAT THE FREAKING HELL WAS THAT tacked-on back-pedaling. Sorry, guys, but if this is how you wrap up eight years in an allegedly neat little bow, it was an epic fail. (granted, it might have been the best they could do given time and money constraints, but I still found it most unsatisfying) ---
**Author:** ![Tapiotar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3be4f8/32.png) [@Tapiotar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapiotar)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2016, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-disappointed-in-castle-season-8/736766/66 "2016-05-17T11:56:44Z")
The very few scenes that Castle and Beckett shared, I got the impression they were gritting their teeth and holding their noses in order to endure being in the same room with each other, and no connection between them. I think the last 30 seconds was not reality, not Castle’s or Beckett’s dying dream, but Andrew Marlowe’s dream of what might have been, had the current show runners not ruined everything. RIP Castle. The first six seasons were good, and not many shows are enjoyable that long. ---
**Author:** ![Reluctant\_A](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@Reluctant\_A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reluctant_A)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2016, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-disappointed-in-castle-season-8/736766/67 "2016-05-17T18:40:13Z")
This review in the Hollywood Reporter summarizes my feelings pretty well, particularly the comments about “The Moonlighting Curse”: [‘Castle’ Series Finale Strikes a Sour Note – The Hollywood Reporter](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/fien-print/castle-series-finale-strikes-a-894699) ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2016, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-disappointed-in-castle-season-8/736766/68 "2016-05-17T20:17:22Z")
I couldn’t decide if they actually survived, or were having a joint hallucination as they both bled out. ---
**Author:** ![Tapiotar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3be4f8/32.png) [@Tapiotar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapiotar)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2016, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-disappointed-in-castle-season-8/736766/69 "2016-05-17T20:21:34Z")
This was a good review. Thanks for posting it. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2016, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-disappointed-in-castle-season-8/736766/70 "2016-05-17T22:46:04Z")
Darn it. I was hoping they’d get that conspiracy crap done and get back to some fun cases. As long as Nathan Fillion does something else, I’ll be happy. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-disappointed-in-castle-season-8/736766/71 "2016-05-18T01:20:43Z")
I think if they had a two hour finale a lot of that episode would’ve worked better, and they could’ve spent the time to craft a better “alternative ending” that didn’t feel jammed in. As it is, it was abrupt, unmotivated by anything in the show or episode, and wasn’t even nicely shot. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-disappointed-in-castle-season-8/736766/72 "2016-05-18T19:05:40Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > Stana Katic has four movies filmed and in post-production right now and has been working pretty steadily in Hollywood since 2004. She’s from Ontario, Canada. She married her husband last year. Doesn’t look like she’s leaving Hollywood any time soon. oops heh I was going by what someone else said and a article about her wedding … ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-disappointed-in-castle-season-8/736766/73 "2016-05-18T20:01:07Z")
Did the LOCSAT thing make sense to anyone? Was the old guy in charge or was the lawyer dude really the mastermind? And why give himself away by killing/shooting Beckett and Castle? Everyone thought he was dead, no one was looking for him. Even if the plan had all gone pear-shaped, why not just ride off into the sunset while no one was looking or thinking about you? ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-disappointed-in-castle-season-8/736766/74 "2016-05-18T20:50:22Z")
I read the wikipedia page capsule summaries of this last season. BOY! Am I glad I didn’t watch them. My take on the ending is that none of the last 8 seasons are real, and that Castle is a normal guy who dreams stories (that we saw visualized), and that Beckett (if that is her real name) is just a normal (non-cop) woman. An allusion to St Elsewhere, if you will. Makes as much sense as anything else… ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-disappointed-in-castle-season-8/736766/75 "2016-05-18T21:01:38Z")
I havent watched much of this season, and I did not watch the finale- I’m going to remember the good times version of this show. My thought on the perfect ending would be - We see a large explosion in downtown Manhatten - its ‘frozen in space time’ (still shot, not by superheros) - and we learn that the past few seasons all happened during that moment between when Castle pulled the wires off the bomb and when it esploded. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/c-gpx5GVXWI/maxresdefault.jpg "Castle Beckett 3x17 Castle diffuses a bomb") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-gpx5GVXWI) Its a cheat - but its a better cheat. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-disappointed-in-castle-season-8/736766/76 "2016-05-18T22:42:52Z")
Last scene felt as tacked on as the ending to Quantum Leap was. Should have ended at the police station scene after they got canceled and didn’t need the cliffhanger anymore. And no, there was no need to wonder why whatsisface didn’t get incinerated on site. The whole body in a car was just bait to lure them in anyway, doesn’t matter who’s body it was. ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-disappointed-in-castle-season-8/736766/77 "2016-05-19T14:53:07Z")
My wife put it best: “I don’t actually care how it ends, but I’ve spent eight years watching this thing, and I need to see how it ends. Meh.” ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-disappointed-in-castle-season-8/736766/78 "2016-05-19T17:15:37Z")
> [@JSexton](#): > > My wife put it best: “I don’t actually care how it ends, but I’ve spent eight years watching this thing, and I need to see how it ends. Meh.” I used to think like she does. Seven years if ST Voyager cured me of that attitude. For me, Castle ended sometime in season 6. Burn Notice ended sometime in season 5. Not seeing the actual descent into stupidity means I can rewatch early episodes and not be angry. I waited too long for Bones, and it’s totally ruined for me. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-disappointed-in-castle-season-8/736766/79 "2016-05-19T17:19:48Z")
Stick with a show too long and you get **Lost**. ---
**Author:** ![vislor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vislor/32/5933_2.png) [@vislor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vislor)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-disappointed-in-castle-season-8/736766/80 "2016-05-24T12:47:09Z")
Interesting. Thanks everyone for commenting! I was also glad they ended it rather than try and do it without Beckett. I don’t think that would have worked. Interesting about Katic and Fillion not getting along. Probably that’s why she wanted a season of being apart? However, that didn’t work when the viewers want to see them together and it working. I also agree, it’s too bad they couldn’t go out on a higher note than they did but I enjoy the show we got. vislor [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-disappointed-in-castle-season-8/736766.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-disappointed-in-castle-season-8/736766.md?page=5)