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[watching_ghosts]

The only thing I had seen of the Castle finale was the picture of the[spoiler]swingset, and I'd tried so hard to avoid worrying about the outcome. So I ended up going into this episode with very few expectations and I was so not emotionally prepared for what happened. Not at all prepared.

[castle - spoilers]

• I wasn't a big fan of the case. It would have been fine for a normal

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[limonatafic]

She said that's not where her heart is - Beckett's damn amazing, we all know that (or at least most people, haha) but this is just so out of left field, and I don't really feel it for her. But if she wants it then cool? But I feel like everything we've been shown so far, she wants it because it's a promotion to a huge job that she'd be good at. She'd get to be good on a bigger scale. I just don't feel like we've been shown that it would be great FOR HER - just that it's great in general.
Castle isn't the most rational person (and this part seems to have been out of Martha saying with Beckett he's too different from the rest of his life. Not sure if I like what he took away from that)
he's showing her that he will be there with her no matter what - this was good, but I just feel like THEY SHOULD HAVE TALKED ABOUT THIS, like two weeks ago, so it felt a little like a band aid over a bullet hole.
Not until they have talked through all of the things that have been going on between them recently, all the things they talked about to Lanie and Jim and Martha, but not each other. - so important, jesus. This whole time I was like, CAN YOU JUST HAVE A FUCKING CONVERSATION?

All of this. I was so not into this finale but it was only about an hour ago so my feelings haven't really developed, lol. But it's a hell of a cliff hanger, especially after a few episodes which were just not bringing it for me. So I'm a little disappointed with how things have gone down. Their relationship has been really weird lately and I do not like! :c I'm tired of manufactured problems instead of legit character developments and things that would naturally surface from who the characters are, if that makes sense. EVERYTHING WAS FINE. YOU'RE JUST STIRRING UP SHIT. Beckett wasn't particularly ambitious and chomping at the bit for engagement before, and Castle wasn't particularly insecure in her loyalty or about to rock the boat by proposing to his thus-far easily-scared girlfriend. Whyyyy.

I'm also somewhat... confused (?) by how Beckett seemed almost ready to cut and run as soon as he didn't tell them where they were going. Which was a little like... you want it to be serious so instead of asking if it is, you're thinking about leaving? IT'S SO SERIOUS. Are they blind? HAVE I BEEN WATCHING THE WRONG SHOW? What were the last five years?!

AUGH I DON'T KNOW, IT'S TOO SOON FOR SENTENCES. Haha I'm such a calm and bored mess about this. :(

[watching_ghosts]

It is so out of left field. And I just can't imagine that being the sort of thing she would like to do. It always felt as if it was that connection to the victims and their families which she found the most rewarding in her job, and if she took the job in DC, I can't see her carrying on with that sort of thing.

Ugh, yes they seriously need to talk. So much has been going on lately, but if they'd talked they would have been completely fine but it all built up and then this happened :( I'm pretty sure that they'll manage to fix it next season but it's so stressful right now. It's like we're back in series 2/3, because they are both so blind to the state of their relationship, but it made more sense then because they weren't a couple. Now it's just ridiculous. I just can't see their characters actually acting that way. The relationship is so important to both of them, and you'd think that they would do everything to try and keep it.

They could have done a much better job with this story if it's really what they wanted to do. They could have slowly built up Beckett's insecurity and made it feel more realistic. And they could have shown us why Castle wasn't pushing forward with their relationship, even though everyone knows that he loves Beckett. Idk, it could have been so much better. I've read a lot of fics which manage to make the whole thing make sense, and it just sucks that we didn't get that from the show itself :(

IT'S SO STRESSFUL, I can't cope D:

[limonatafic]

THIS TURNED INTO A RAMBLE, oops.

Exactly, it would be so corporate and uptight and helicoptery, where she'd just drop in and fix things and leave again (which technically kind of happens now, but it's SO NOT THE SAME, I can't really explain it and I'm in a hurry, sooo) . I don't think she'd enjoy that. This feels so out of character for something written by her creator.



OH WELL.

There is a vague legitimacy there for those issues though. It just was so rushed. As I said somewhere in my reaction post, I couldn't see how they would deteriorate the relationship that much in two episodes.

Fic indeed. For the first few seasons of the show I didn't read any fic at all, exactly none, partly because I wasn't really presented with it and I was somewhat alone apart from the fandom, but then because the show was just so fantastic for so long that I honestly didn't feel tempted to it like with other shows. And also because a lot of the fic I had come across had porn in it and I could not deal with them in that context, haha. But in the summer before season 5 I went on a fic spree and now I'm so so grateful that there are all these interpretations rolling out and some of them do help. But a lot of them seem off too, like these wonderfully talented people are trying so hard to rationalize this and it still doesn't quite fit.

I'm not sure which participants would be whom here but I feel like this gif is relevant?