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I need to talk with Caskett fans that are also LnC fans about the most recent finale.


[Adding spoiler warning to header just in case - LabRat ]

I raise my hand. I just saw the finale. Hubby and I analyzed the heck out of the ep.

Artemis

I loved how the proposal happened just as the episode ended. It reminded me so much of the LnC season finale of Season 2 (only in the proposal cliffie).

I see it as Marlowe using the finale to rile up the fan base so everyone will be talking about it all during the off season.

The number of fanfics that have come out in the last few days since the episode (and even before) is incredible.

Marlowe cleverly left things open for a lot of interpetations coming back. Kate was offered the job, but we don't know her answer. Castle proposes but doesn't exactly project an enthusiastic attitude. Lots of room for fighting coming back.

The fans were told that Castle and Beckett wouldn't be breaking up, but there will be some 'bumps' along the way.

Tank (who isn't saying that Kate (Stana) needs to go back to a short hairstyle, but the producers definately need to dial back the current length... too many buns, and ponytails)

I didn't like the (apparent) reasons for the proposal. Castle seems to want to bind Beckett to him no matter what she chooses in regards to the job offer. It's kind of sweet but at the same time a little suffocating. He's putting her under even more pressure and they still haven't talked about where they stand in their relationship. Complicated as always.

I'm looking forward to next season (already confirmed!) to see how Marlowe plays this one out. I haven't been disappointed in the ride so far.

His timing is rotten, I suspect that she will not be happy.

They also seem to confuse writing for a TV show and writing as a novelist. He certainly can afford a second home even at DC prices and if he goes to the publishers once a month that is about 4-5 times as often as most writers see the publisher in person.

Considering how much I expect he's paying for the NY apartment, it's very likely he could afford it. I hadn't thought about how his timing was but if you think about it, that's not much different from out other favorite couple (proposing BEFORE the secret anyone?)

It's been a while since the last message but I thought it made more sense to resurrect this topic rather than open a new one.

The thing is: I just saw last night's Castle and I really needed to get this out of my system . Major spoiler ahead!

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Was it me or that wedding was a lot like the one on L&C? I've always thought there were many similarities between both shows, but this time it felt extreme. How Castle tells Kate to just marry him right then, the cliff, the sunset,...

I'm WAY behind on this show these days (having to get the 2yo to bed by 9 is difficult, not falling asleep in the process is impossible these days!) so I'll have to squeeze with you guys in a week or so.

I said that exact same thing to my husband as I was watching it!!! Homage or blatant rip off?

I haven't seen the episode yet--moving literally out of our house as I type this (and the tvs were packed yesterday during the day...Argh! )--but I saw the ads for this episode, and just even from the advertisements I was thinking the same.

No wonder we are liking Castle, huh?

Must-Catch-Up-On-Castle!
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The whole season so far has reminded me very much of the amnesia and delayed wedding plots from L&C - next episode someone will probably abandon a baby outside Castle's door...








Yes, the whole amnesia plot this season

A better explanation for the amnesia however.

Haha, um, they kind of already did that in "The Good, the Bad, and the Baby" ... :P

First time back in a couple weeks, happy to find this thread! Just watched last night's episode and was excited, but a little disappointed in some ways. It did feel a *LOT* like LnC to me (which is what prompted me to hop back on over here) and I didn't mind that, I just was hoping to see a little bit more. Felt like they squeezed it in last second.

But I can't wait for next week's ep!

Speaking of next week's episode. The thing looks a lot like Castle does SoulMates with the Old West theme and them dressing up and Kate letting go with the pistol.

I personally did not like the fact that they had the BIG wedding planned and then this time the groom did not show up and was missing, when they get him back he has amnesia and while he knew everyone, they then have this episode where everyone does not know him (the reverse of Forget Me Not), then the decision to have a hasty wedding that everyone has pointed out looks just like it came from the L&C REAL wedding. I am beginning to get annoyed as they are playing us just like L&C did the last of Season 3 and beginning of Season 4. Back and forth, wedding, no wedding, wedding. What next? I know Castle or Beckett will get framed for murder and get sentenced to death. No there must be clones, this is not the real Richard Castle!! As Mouse said they have already done Family Hour...

One of my problems with TV is the total lack of imagination and innovation but this seems to be taking it to the extreme. The show is very good when they have a case to work on but the relationship approach seems so much like a clone (there's that word again) of the L&C series.

Mike

I've often wondered it I like it for the show itself or because it reminds me of L&C. I like the characters, I like the chemistry but then come times like yesterday watching the wedding... And the thing is I actually liked that it caught me by surprise; I don't know if the promos hinted at it, but I'm not too curious for them and TV in Spain is a few weeks behind on every show (it used to be over a year behind in times of L&C (!) when there was no other option but TV to watch a show) so avoiding promos is fairly easy. But still, it wasn't quite enough. I kept thinking how fake the sunset looked and how there was something not quite right, just like with L&C. And how much like the actual L&C wedding it was. I wondered for a moment if they might share writers, but then thought that no writer would copy himself so blatantly, right?

So overall I guess mixed feelings. I hated the end of last season and I've hated the games, but I thought the first two episodes of the season were pretty solid -and I felt last season had only a handful of truly, solid, well constructed episodes-.

Both Hubby and myself like Castle because it is a detective show and one without much blood. We've also read the books, including Derrick Storm. We are not into Supernatural, Vampires, Blood Suckers of any ilk. I'm doing Flash, Arrow and Doctor Who, but hubby is not. We're still loyal to NCIS in all its incarnations because that is our past. So yay Castle.

Artemis

Cristina is right! This is so familiar to LnC's wedding. Right down to only having immediate family members. Javi, Lanie, Kevin and Jennie were left out completely.

Huge Castle fan over here. I got into it after season 4 had aired, but then basically marathon-ed the whole series in about a week. I have developed what I believe to be a healthy obsession with it ever since; fanfiction and tumblr blogging, mostly. If anyone is looking for Castle FF recs, I can offer up a metric tonne that could satisfy.

As I rewatch L&C after nearly a decade away (as evidenced by the last time I posted on these MBs), I'm reminded why I love this show and it's fairly clear to me why Castle appeals to me as well. A lot of similarities in their dynamic and emotional chemistry, if nothing else, to KB and RC. So glad to see that L&C's community is still active and fics are still being written while the favourites of my day are still available to read! (Reading Wendymr's Poison if anyone is interested in reading a classic!)

So glad to be back!