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).
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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
