Comments | musesfool: ought to be easy, ought to be simple enough

musesfool

ought to be easy, ought to be simple enough

Sep 20, 2011 09:36

Dear MTA:

The time to send me the email about the A,C,B, and D service being fucked is not ten minutes after I am on the platform, and can't actually access email until I'm on the surface again.

no love,

me.

*

Dear Castle,

( spoilers, the non-squee portion )

sports, tv: castle, don't make me shoot you, nyc

Comments 9

alethialia September 20 2011, 16:16:59 UTC

Kate Beckett is a grown-ass woman. She is practically fucking BATMAN. YOU DO NOT GET TO MAKE DECISIONS ON HER BEHALF WITHOUT HER KNOWLEDGE BECAUSE YOU THINK YOU KNOW BEST FOR HER, CASTLE. AAUUUUUGH.

GMTA, man. I posted the exact same thing. Possibly with extra profanity. I just...I don't even get how this is supposed to be romantic and not creepy/patriarchal/a complete insult to her as a thinking person. He values her so much...enough to completely undermine her ability to make her own choices? This is love?

If it is, can we drop the love thing and go back to flirtation?

I mean, it was framed as him letting her have more time to heal, but still, Castle (the character) rubbed me every wrong way last night.

Yes. Precisely. You even give him more credit with the time to heal thing. Because, just, no. The way he's treating her is just so...condescending. 'I know better.' Well, fuck you very much.

Ahem. I may have Opinions about this.

I am guessing this will be a minority opinion, but I like her. I like a lady who runs a tight ( ... )

musesfool September 21 2011, 17:50:06 UTC

I just...I don't even get how this is supposed to be romantic and not creepy/patriarchal/a complete insult to her as a thinking person. He values her so much...enough to completely undermine her ability to make her own choices? This is love?

Right? It's "protecting" her by making decisions for her and taking away her agency. Ugh. So not love between equal partners. I wish Hollywood screenwriters would get that through their heads!

it's like they were telling us she was the Smart Tough Female Cop, but what we were seeing in her behavior was someone who wasn't that smart or savvy.

I think it's just bad writing. I enjoy the show a lot, but it is not very well-written at all, outside of the banter.

florahart September 20 2011, 22:45:12 UTC

Yeah, I was all oh Castle NO (and also, for a smart guy, not much with the learning there; hasn't he tried to decide a thing for her before? Why yes, yes he has. And it didn't make for smiling Kate.) about that. I was like, look, dude. Let me help you with that. You say, 'I found out this thing and it scares the crap out of me because I am worried that your response will be something I'd rather it weren't, but you are an adult and so I am telling you. *tell*' See? Was that so hard?

Re: Worf: Yes, so we have Counselor Worf (one hopes he learned a thing or two from Troi? Or that's going to be the worst counseling evar... Today: good day to die.) and, also from DS9, Casady Yates, which, goddamn it could they have NOT named her a word that rhymes with Yates? Confused me all night.

musesfool September 21 2011, 17:53:09 UTC

Let me help you with that. You say, 'I found out this thing and it scares the crap out of me because I am worried that your response will be something I'd rather it weren't, but you are an adult and so I am telling you. *tell*' See? Was that so hard?

But, but, Flora, that doesn't allow him to come over all manly and protective! It doesn't allow him to make her pain all about him! Clearly, that is untenable!

Yes, so we have Counselor Worf (one hopes he learned a thing or two from Troi? Or that's going to be the worst counseling evar... Today: good day to die.)

hee!

I didn't watch DS9, so the actress is not familiar to me, but I liked her!

viridian5 September 21 2011, 00:02:41 UTC

Last season's finale had Montgomery and Castle taking Beckett's agency away a few times, plus Castle telling her how she was feeling and that it was wrong, so I worried that I'd get more of the same in the season premiere... and I was right.

I feel that Gates is doomed to get the villain edit, so I'm not becoming attached to her.

musesfool September 21 2011, 18:03:48 UTC

I felt less annoyed by the season finale in part because I was so surprised by the serious turn everything took, and also because at least for part of that, I can understand the urge to remove someone from an area in which there will be shooting, and also Montgomery was in part accepting his responsibility for the mess, so it was about him as much as it was about Beckett.

I feel that Gates is doomed to get the villain edit, so I'm not becoming attached to her.

You're probably right, but I'm hoping that like Cam on Bones, they do something more interesting than the cliche.

madeline871 September 21 2011, 01:36:07 UTC

WORF IS BECKETT'S THERAPIST!

I figured he'd be a bad guy too when I was his name in the credits, so it was a welcome surprise.

Hopefully I'm not betraying the sisterhood too much by being bothered by Beckett's behavior and somewhat understanding of (though not pleased by) Castle's behavior.

After everything they've been through I just didn't like the way Beckett froze Castle out for those months after the shooting. Even if it was because Beckett REMEMBERS EVERYTHING and she wants to try and diffuse the love situation. And I think Castle is holding back on what he knows more because he's aware that Beckett isn't ready to handle it right now - he saw some chinks in her armor even though she has her gun back. She voluntarily went to see Dr. Worf, so she knows herself well enough to admit she's not all there yet. His little subterfuge is meaningless anyway, because once Beckett is all there, she's going to figure out what Castle's been keeping from her, she's too smart not to.

musesfool September 21 2011, 18:06:23 UTC

After everything they've been through I just didn't like the way Beckett froze Castle out for those months after the shooting.

I think Beckett is wrong for lying about remembering, but I think she's entitled to feel how she feels and to take some time to deal with it as she's recovering from a life-threatening gunshot wound. I mean, it's not the best course of action she could have taken, but I feel like when someone really cares about another person, they should attempt to give them space to deal with their shit if that's what they ask for.

His little subterfuge is meaningless anyway, because once Beckett is all there, she's going to figure out what Castle's been keeping from her, she's too smart not to.

which is why he should know better than to keep it from her! It never ends well, and not only is it annoyingly paternalistic of him, it's just poorly manufactured drama.

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musesfool September 21 2011, 18:07:20 UTC

It's just so paternalistic and the show needs to knock that shit off!

Seriously! And even beyond that, it's just a cheap ploy to manufacture drama, because it's not like she's not going to find out, and Castle knows that keeping it from her can only end badly. Ugh.