#CASTLE REVIEW: 5x24 - "Watershed"

Just watched 5x24. And I’m so angry I wanna cry.

This is what Marlowe is going with? Kate will forever have walls that Castle can’t break down, she’s gonna keep stuff from him and he’s just gonna have to accept that? Is that seriously the extent of what Marlowe can come up with for this character? For this relationship? After 4 years of close friendship and 1 year of a romantic relationship, she can’t sit her boyfriend down and tell him, “Look, I’ve gotten this job offer and it’s something I’m interested in, but under no circumstances do I wanna lose what we have, so what do you think we (!) should do?” After 5 years, she couldn’t tell him that? So much for character growth.

And to top this off, Castle - who has every right to be pissed and should just help her pack her bags - proposes to her in the most unromantic way ever known to mankind in a desperate attempt to save their relationship? They barely even LOOKED at each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Excuse me while I haul things at my screen. I’m so beyond fucking angry and no one DARE to deny me my opinion or smite me for it. This is not a relationship, this is a farce. A fucking farce and it stems from the only roadblock that Marlowe can seem to come up with: Castle and Beckett cannot TALK. After 5 years. They simply can’t. Teenagers can communicate their feelings better than these two. And Kate sits there with Lanie and acts like she and Castle are victims. No you’re not. Open your mouths, no one stops you from talking but YOU.

Also this:

“I don’t know what we have. I don’t know if it’s real.”

Oh. My God. At that point I thought I was being punked. After countless times of them saving each other’s lives, after e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g they’ve been through, she doesn’t know if it’s real? Because there’s no ring on her finger?

Thanks, Marlowe, for the most epic character assassination I’ve ever seen. You’ve made Kate Beckett emotionally incompetent and mindblowingly stupid. By all means, Kate, please take the job. This relationship clearly makes no sense whatsoever. The dude sat with you on a bomb and stayed. If that doesn’t tell you it’s real, you’re beyond help.

And this started, when, 3 episodes ago? With no freaking build up whatsoever. Kate seems in love and committed and happy practically all season and now this? She’s doing the exact same thing Will did to her?

I’m just. And what happened to the whole Castle doesn’t open up about his daddy thing? Oh right, glossed over and forgotten. I was gobsmacked Castle and Alexis even remembered Paris. You know, after 9 episodes.

And that proposal. I’ve imagined it so many times. It sure as hell didn’t include them barely even looking at one another, Castle looking as though someone put a gun to his head, and both of them basically looking miserable.

No.

It fucking included an amazing, beautiful speech about their history; their eyes shining with happiness and it happened just because. Not because of a fight, not because someone else had to plant the idea in Rick’s head.

I wanna be done with this show because Marlowe has ruined it for me. He’s fucking ruined Castle and Beckett for me.

THANKS A LOT.