Castle without Becket?
Apparently Stana Katic - the actress who plays Kate Becket - is leaving Castle at the end of season 8. In a sense this doesn't effect me at all, because I'd already decided to stop watching at the end of season 7 (the season finale struck me as a perfect cap to the series, and I was already hearing questionable things about season 8), but...
How can they do the show without Kate Becket? I mean really. I realize that the showrunners sometimes think that Castle is the main character and Kate is the love interest (hence the fact that he gets more backstory and more focus on his family) but the show is always best when they treat Castle and Becket as co-protagonists. I love a lot of the other things about this show: Castle's conscientious, driven, delightful daughter Alexis, his eccentric but wise mother Martha, Ryan and Esposito's bromance, the zaniness of a lot of the cases (they had a steampunk case! A steampunk case!) -
But the thing that really holds the show together is the banter and spark between Becket and Castle. If Katic is leaving, they might as well cancel the show now.
How can they do the show without Kate Becket? I mean really. I realize that the showrunners sometimes think that Castle is the main character and Kate is the love interest (hence the fact that he gets more backstory and more focus on his family) but the show is always best when they treat Castle and Becket as co-protagonists. I love a lot of the other things about this show: Castle's conscientious, driven, delightful daughter Alexis, his eccentric but wise mother Martha, Ryan and Esposito's bromance, the zaniness of a lot of the cases (they had a steampunk case! A steampunk case!) -
But the thing that really holds the show together is the banter and spark between Becket and Castle. If Katic is leaving, they might as well cancel the show now.