XY, XX, Castle and Beckett separating?
What’s going on here? #Castle #Caskett
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OK, so the season opener of Castle was
really a two-parter not listed as such with each part telling one
side of the same story from a different vantage point. As you
probably guess by now, yes the views were from male and female
viewpoints.
With Castle seeing the mayhem produced
after his wife disappeared on her first day as police captain over
her old precinct division, XX is Kate’s side. Pushing all the way
back to her brief stint working in DC, she gets a distress call from
a local FBI agent in town because of a database search she did years
ago. The search was on her mother’s murderer and how or if it
connected to Senator Bracken. Long story short, it did connect to
Bracken but she had already put him away for conspiracy to commit her
mother’s murder last season. But there was even more dirt to be
uncovered.
Suddenly, Beckett found herself in the
middle of a theatre shootout where she had to kill three people, got
shot herself and narrowly escaped with the FBI desk jockey who sent
out the SOS. On the run, she made sure the diabetic got his insulin
shot and did a little patchwork on herself as she listened to his
story. What is essentially another overwhelming mystery for Kate to
obsess about, the series gave vague details about what is happening,
only telling us that this is even bigger than Bracken as it has the
disgraced, imprisoned senator scared for his life—worthy fears as
he is murdered in solitary confinement shortly after.
There are also two teams of people
looking for Kate and this special agent just to make a clean sweep of
anything linking them to Bracken’s death and the death of the three
other agents in the theatre. But things supposedly aren’t all they
seem as Castle and the crew find out that the guy Kate’s protecting
lied to get into the FBI and is supposedly a mole/traitor. That is
disproven when the guy saves Kate from a shooter in an air hangar.
Then, it is discovered that the woman who brought an FBI team to the
precinct to catch whoever was chasing after Kate and the supposed
traitor was, herself, the turncoat. But when they go to arrest her
she is already dead from an apparent suicide leaving the mystery of
who was behind all of this wide open.
There were a few side stories/pop-ins
from extraneous characters that really didn’t add much to the story
in my opinion. Just as the new black detective lady (a new series
regular from what I’ve read) added little to Castle’s point of
view, Castle’s supposed mother-in-law/spy added little to Kate’s.
What they did say was how both Castle and Kate can no longer be the
way they once were as they embark on new careers semi-apart from each
other. Even more to the point, Kate couldn’t start obsessing over
this new mystery as she did her mother’s murder—the thing that
drove her to become a cop—if she wanted a happy married life. And
what did she choose?
In a terrible twist of the show, she
chose the case... her work... again... like she’s been doing for
the last couple of seasons. This time, she didn’t even give Castle
the benefit of truly weighing in on her decision (unlike when she
chose to go to the FBI or not run for senate or become a captain).
While I understand this might actually be the natural progression of
the character, I don’t find it that enjoyable. I wanted to see them
become more of a Bones kind of couple where they still manage to find
happiness when their work intertwines rather than become a real life
couple where work overpowers both the relationship and the
individuals. All in all, it was a good episode, though we will see if
viewers are satisfied with the changes.
What did you think? Did you like the
extra guests on the show to help both Kate and Castle on their
individual journeys? Do you think this new mystery will enliven the
show? What about the changes? Do you think Castle’s PI business
will thrive or will something happen to make Kate get a demotion and
the two of them wind up as partners again? Let
me know what you think in the comments below.
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Until next time, “We have met the
enemy and he is well-dressed.”
P.S. Ha! I got you this time. Not a
direct quote, but a modified quote. Hey, who doesn’t love a
well-dressed enemy. I’ll keep thinking of something.
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