The original post: /r/television by /u/CriticalOne9 on 2025-10-12 07:15:49+00:00.
Note : Regardless of my rant here, please don’t spoil the series for me, I still want to complete it
I just started season 8 and the first few minutes of it made me tear my hairs out.
Okay, so I get it that Richard Castle is a character portrayed as a “man-child”, immature and stubborn. But now things are just unbearable. Kate clearly made her choice in the end of season 7. As Rita said, she or Rick weren’t in any danger, so her walking out was clearly a display of her priorities. Now I don’t think that she should’ve stayed, because that would just end up making her restless and unhappy, always wanting to avenge her friends. But since she decided to choose that over their relationship, what Rick is shown to do next is just outright pathetic. Whole series his character is shown to follow her around like a puppy. But now wanting to “win” her back is so hard to watch. It’s so difficult on the eyes that I just closed my laptop and started thinking about ways that this could’ve gone better. I hoped so much that he would’ve just realised that he isn’t her first priority and distracted himself, writing another book, moving to a different country. But now he’s gonna start parading around her and begging her to take him back, and the series will just end as a “happily ever after”? I don’t think the dynamics in their relationship will ever seem right after this. I mean what are they supposed to be like, Kate uncovers whatever the conspiracy is, then she goes back to Castle and he, as the idiot simp he is, will take her back, they’ll have wine and cuddle, and just wait for another corruption scandal for Kate to get obsessed about? I mean does the show really plan to justify Kate’s decision as the morally “right” one? And Lanie says that Kate accepted Rick back after two months so he should do the same. But that isn’t a fair comparison at all. First of all, Rick was clearly abducted. And when he was found, Kate didn’t just give him the benefit of the doubt at the first meeting. She went with what “the evidence” suggested and assumed that he left her on his own volition and demanded an explanation. And only after getting concrete proof that he wasn’t camping at that place did she believe him. But in Kate’s case she is choosing the conspiracy above him.
Please don’t give any spoilers from season 8