I’ve had a few weeks to digest the Castle season
finale, though I suspect I will need a few months, maybe more, to really come
to grips with it. I’m not one to cry at TV shows (surprisingly enough, because
I cry at nearly everything), especially not when the ending turns out to be
exactly what I wanted, but if twitter is to be believed, then tears were the
overwhelming response to the finale. The question is, why?
Are they tears of joy? This is what fans have been
waiting for since these two characters crossed paths, four seasons ago. Maybe
some fans, most fans, were just happy that the journey has finally brought them
together. Some were maybe mourning the end of the show as they know it. And
they may be right. Ratings would seem to prove them right.
I can say I don’t understand why most shows fail after
the two main characters get together, because I do. If that’s the only reason
you watched the show, and it’s already happened, then why continue watching? It
makes sense. But, is that really the only reason we watch these TV shows?
Not me. And lately TV shows seem to be betting on the
fact that there are more people like me around. Bones did it last season, after
all, and we’ve had a very fun, if somewhat shortened season, of Bones and Booth
being, well, a couple. The creator, Hart Hanson, made sure to introduce
something that would shift the dynamic between the two characters and still
keep us interested in how those two would handle it, even if they are now
handling it as a couple. Ratings seem to prove his bet has paid off.
Ten years ago, this seemed an unthinkable notion. I
watched nine seasons of The X-Files waiting for what Bones, and now Castle,
have given me. The X-Files seemed, if any, the perfect show to continue
strongly after the main characters finally hooked up. There were still aliens,
and a big conspiracy to deal with. There was a lot of new ground to be covered.
It just never happened, and now, after two movies, it feels a lot like …too little, too late.
Castle seems ready to continue along the same path
Bones took last season. Andrew Marlowe, the mind behind the show, has said that
he thinks there are still a lot of stories to be told, even if the two main
characters are now a couple. He also said that putting it off for any longer
would be even more unrealistic than getting them together.
There’s the crux of the matter, for me. For how long
are we supposed to believe that two people who are obviously attracted to each
other, who obviously care about each other, can’t find a way to be together?
Four years is a lot of time. Eight is absurd. At this point, this makes more
sense than keeping them apart.
And, I, for one, will still be watching when next
season starts. The question is, will you?
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