Castle season 4 finale SPOILER POST
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avevale_intelligencerSPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS
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Is that enough warning for everyone? I certainly hope so.
I'm wondering, having watched the finale of the latest season of Castle, whether there will be a firestorm of feminist rage about it. I think there should be, if there should be about anything. Consider.
To me it's a given that human beings in general lie quite a lot of the time, and that love is often the reason, but at the same time we loudly insist that honesty is the ultimate prerequisite for a loving relationship and a lie discovered is often the breaking point for such a relationship. It's just one of those crazy human things. Now here we have Kate Beckett, a woman who makes absolutely no secret of the fact that finding her mother's killer is more important to her than her own life, and Rick Castle, a guy who claims to love her. When Beckett gets shot, Castle makes a deal with the Forces of Evil (who are obviously the government, from the hints that keep getting dropped and the succession of corrupt cops that keep turning up) to prevent her pursuing the goal of her life in exchange for her safety, and of course does this without her knowledge because he knows she would repudiate such a deal. In the episode we just watched, when she gets a further lead and her life is endangered again, he is eventually driven to revealing this deal to her, and responds to her entirely justified anger by abandoning her and walking away to spare his own feelings. (Does love do that?) One of Beckett's two remaining male myrmidons refuses to help her, with the result that when she comes up against the latest pawn of evil*, he beats her seven ways to a Sunday and leaves her dangling over a precipice. Then, the missing myrmidon shows up to save her life, having first ratted her out to her boss who hates her. Angry words, suspension, and Beckett does the only logical thing an honest cop working for a thoroughly corrupt police force can do; she resigns.
Beckett is now, entirely thanks to men who thought they knew better than her how to run her life, bereft of everything that gives her life meaning; her calling, her supposed true love, her life's purpose, her friends and her source of income. This being television, and the show being called Castle and not Beckett, she goes back to Castle and apologises for being mad at him, and love triumphs, which is nice; but given the things people do get heated about on the net, I would think there would be some flak coming the writers' way for that.
Or maybe I'm wrong?
*Who appears to have superpowers, or at any rate to be tougher than she is, which takes some doing.
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Is that enough warning for everyone? I certainly hope so.
I'm wondering, having watched the finale of the latest season of Castle, whether there will be a firestorm of feminist rage about it. I think there should be, if there should be about anything. Consider.
To me it's a given that human beings in general lie quite a lot of the time, and that love is often the reason, but at the same time we loudly insist that honesty is the ultimate prerequisite for a loving relationship and a lie discovered is often the breaking point for such a relationship. It's just one of those crazy human things. Now here we have Kate Beckett, a woman who makes absolutely no secret of the fact that finding her mother's killer is more important to her than her own life, and Rick Castle, a guy who claims to love her. When Beckett gets shot, Castle makes a deal with the Forces of Evil (who are obviously the government, from the hints that keep getting dropped and the succession of corrupt cops that keep turning up) to prevent her pursuing the goal of her life in exchange for her safety, and of course does this without her knowledge because he knows she would repudiate such a deal. In the episode we just watched, when she gets a further lead and her life is endangered again, he is eventually driven to revealing this deal to her, and responds to her entirely justified anger by abandoning her and walking away to spare his own feelings. (Does love do that?) One of Beckett's two remaining male myrmidons refuses to help her, with the result that when she comes up against the latest pawn of evil*, he beats her seven ways to a Sunday and leaves her dangling over a precipice. Then, the missing myrmidon shows up to save her life, having first ratted her out to her boss who hates her. Angry words, suspension, and Beckett does the only logical thing an honest cop working for a thoroughly corrupt police force can do; she resigns.
Beckett is now, entirely thanks to men who thought they knew better than her how to run her life, bereft of everything that gives her life meaning; her calling, her supposed true love, her life's purpose, her friends and her source of income. This being television, and the show being called Castle and not Beckett, she goes back to Castle and apologises for being mad at him, and love triumphs, which is nice; but given the things people do get heated about on the net, I would think there would be some flak coming the writers' way for that.
Or maybe I'm wrong?
*Who appears to have superpowers, or at any rate to be tougher than she is, which takes some doing.