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Castle: The Time of Our Lives (2014)
Is this an alternate universe where this show sucks?
Oh my goodness, this episode is so beyond stupid. I had heard that this show goes downhill after season 5 but I never could've imagined that it could get this bad. I thought the invisibility thing was silly but this is a whole other level. Castle and Becket's relationship has had its moments and even carried the show at times, but lately the writers seem to be using them purely for fan service. We have known since day one that their relationship is why the show exists, Castle is there helping the NYPD because they have a connection and she is his "muse" or whatever. We do not need it spelled out to us how important they are to each other, and we really really really don't need this well written, GROUNDED, whodunnit cop show to have an alternate universe episode so to explain what the protagonists mean to each other. Then the corniness, from the I love you bringing him back to the sunset last minute moment with one of the worst green screens I've ever seen. I'm convinced they had them ((spoiler!!! Get married in this episode purely so fans wouldn't want to say that they hated it. I liked them together to some degree so I'm genuinely upset that this is how they got married)))
That is 45 minutes of my life I will never get back. Plus I hate to say it but their chemistry in this episode just isn't what it was in the earlier seasons, I think the writers must've thought that the show needed their yearning slow burn bs back but they utterly failed to recapture the magic. And a finial point, chalking up Castle and Alexis' entire relationship to his books selling well is deeply disrespectful to both characters. I mean geez oh man it's a procedural cop drama, could you really be THIS out of ideas?
Castle: Still (2013)
Clip shows are a plague on humanity.
There's some good stuff in this episode don't get me wrong, but this is supposed to be a cop show not a rom com. Look, great romance in crime dramas can overshadow the plot, yes. But the flashbacks to make us nostalgic and remind us of how much better their dynamic was in the early seasons is so useless. Good writing could give us these insights into their feeling without spending the majority of the episode showing us a montage of other episodes. I know these episodes exist because they don't have the budget for full seasons but there are better ways to fill the time, some of the best episodes in the history of television have been bottle episodes that exist for this exact reason. It also doesn't help that Castle and Becket's characters are annoying caricatures of themselves in this episode, by far the worst episode of the show so far. The fact that they tried to make the audience emotional at the end is a slap in the face and an insult to their intelligence.
Last note, Castle was definitely following her around at least partially because he liked playing cop.