Castle 4x23 Review
May. 15th, 2012 09:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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The end of this episode left me with a bad taste in my mouth so a couple good things first:
- Ryan/Esposito and how their storyline played out was very believable and well done.
- Esposito and Ryan having Beckett's back in their own ways.
- That it was Ryan who saved Beckett on the roof not Castle like I was expecting.
- The fact that both Castle and Beckett's feelings are now out there which hopefully means that there is no going back to dancing around it. Also I do love them so it was great to finally see them kiss for real.
- The fact that during the fight at Beckett's apartment she did get to call Castle on making choices about her life and treating her as a child and even called what he did a betrayal.
... and I can't think of anything else. Mainly I'm just left mad about the whole Castle/Beckett situation and how it was framed. Castle going behind Beckett's back and making the deal and the way that was equated to Beckett faking amnesia of her shooting has always annoyed me but I figured (hoped) that in the end both things would be addressed in a satisfactory way. That Castle would realise that he made the wrong decision and why and then help Beckett as a true partner.
Instead he never seems to realise that what he did was wrong. There is a line between protecting someone and making life choices for someone as if they can't be trusted to make the right ones for themselves and Castle crossed that line. But the show framed it as if the audience is supposed to agree with Castle's decision. That he was justified in making it (after all, she almost died again pursuing it because she didn't listen to him).
That final scene between Beckett and Castle was infuriating. Beckett goes to Castle's and then apologises to him. Are you fucking kidding me?! So angry. Was her line "All I could think about was you. I just want you" supposed to be romantic? Maybe in a different context it would have worked for me (actually it probably would have) but in this one with her apologising and declaring that she doesn't care anymore about what has been the driving force in her life for over a decade it just made me angrier. Her determination and unwillingness to give up on a case is such an important part of who she is.
And even beyond all that just the way it plays out - that Beckett had to come to him, his attitude towards her and the fact that he doesn't once apologise or even acknowledge that he might have made a wrong choice (out of understandable fear and need to protect her but still wrong) is just - arg.
- Also Castle's line about how he's be waiting for four years for Beckett to open her eyes and see him as more than a partner rubbed me the wrong way. It implies that they were never truly just partners, that Castle always had an ulterior motive, which makes me unhappy.
The end of this episode left me with a bad taste in my mouth so a couple good things first:
- Ryan/Esposito and how their storyline played out was very believable and well done.
- Esposito and Ryan having Beckett's back in their own ways.
- That it was Ryan who saved Beckett on the roof not Castle like I was expecting.
- The fact that both Castle and Beckett's feelings are now out there which hopefully means that there is no going back to dancing around it. Also I do love them so it was great to finally see them kiss for real.
- The fact that during the fight at Beckett's apartment she did get to call Castle on making choices about her life and treating her as a child and even called what he did a betrayal.
... and I can't think of anything else. Mainly I'm just left mad about the whole Castle/Beckett situation and how it was framed. Castle going behind Beckett's back and making the deal and the way that was equated to Beckett faking amnesia of her shooting has always annoyed me but I figured (hoped) that in the end both things would be addressed in a satisfactory way. That Castle would realise that he made the wrong decision and why and then help Beckett as a true partner.
Instead he never seems to realise that what he did was wrong. There is a line between protecting someone and making life choices for someone as if they can't be trusted to make the right ones for themselves and Castle crossed that line. But the show framed it as if the audience is supposed to agree with Castle's decision. That he was justified in making it (after all, she almost died again pursuing it because she didn't listen to him).
That final scene between Beckett and Castle was infuriating. Beckett goes to Castle's and then apologises to him. Are you fucking kidding me?! So angry. Was her line "All I could think about was you. I just want you" supposed to be romantic? Maybe in a different context it would have worked for me (actually it probably would have) but in this one with her apologising and declaring that she doesn't care anymore about what has been the driving force in her life for over a decade it just made me angrier. Her determination and unwillingness to give up on a case is such an important part of who she is.
And even beyond all that just the way it plays out - that Beckett had to come to him, his attitude towards her and the fact that he doesn't once apologise or even acknowledge that he might have made a wrong choice (out of understandable fear and need to protect her but still wrong) is just - arg.
- Also Castle's line about how he's be waiting for four years for Beckett to open her eyes and see him as more than a partner rubbed me the wrong way. It implies that they were never truly just partners, that Castle always had an ulterior motive, which makes me unhappy.
