Castle without Becket?

[osprey_archer]

Apparently Stana Katic - the actress who plays Kate Becket - is leaving Castle at the end of season 8. In a sense this doesn't effect me at all, because I'd already decided to stop watching at the end of season 7 (the season finale struck me as a perfect cap to the series, and I was already hearing questionable things about season 8), but...

How can they do the show without Kate Becket? I mean really. I realize that the showrunners sometimes think that Castle is the main character and Kate is the love interest (hence the fact that he gets more backstory and more focus on his family) but the show is always best when they treat Castle and Becket as co-protagonists. I love a lot of the other things about this show: Castle's conscientious, driven, delightful daughter Alexis, his eccentric but wise mother Martha, Ryan and Esposito's bromance, the zaniness of a lot of the cases (they had a steampunk case! A steampunk case!) -

But the thing that really holds the show together is the banter and spark between Becket and Castle. If Katic is leaving, they might as well cancel the show now.

Comments

[silverusagi]

How can they do the show without Kate Becket?

I honestly have no idea. Seems like the 'producers think the woman is an accessory to the story and not HALF OF THE SHOW' thing is going around lately....

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

I hope that season 9 crashes and burns. I will feel a faint whiff at sadness at seeing a show I loved go out that way, but they totally brought it on themselves.

[silverusagi]

Part of me is amazed they would even try S9 without her, but the other part is not, since all successful network shows these days are extended until the last possible season, no matter how crappy they get.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I bet goldenusagi is thinking about Sleepy Hollow, and yeah, I have to just shake my head in bafflement. You don't just slice out a co-protagonist!

If you have access to, and like watching, TV series on Netflix (which I never did until about a month ago), I highly recommend Jane the Virgin. We're five episodes in, and it's intensely likable and entertaining. I realize you didn't ask for recommendations, and finding a new good show doesn't make sadness over an old favorite go away, and who knows whether this one will continue good? But you'd get at least five episodes of fun. (It's a homage to telenovelas in which the main character, Jane, a 23-year-old who is putting herself through college working as a waitress at a hotel, gets accidentally artificially inseminated--having never had sex. On the one hand the situations are crazy-over-the-top, but on the other hand, people's feelings and interactions are done with sincerity... it's very surprisingly good! It has a narrator who's quite funny, too.

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

I've just started Orphan Black, so I'm not really looking for a new show at the moment, but you are not the first to recommend Jane the Virgin to me. Maybe later on I'll give it a try.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I've heard *very* good things about Orphan Black

[entwashian.livejournal.com]

Honestly? I watched the show for less than 2 seasons, and this doesn't surprise me at all.

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

They've always thought of Castle as the main character. I thought they would wise up eventually, but nooooo, apparently not.

[ladyherenya]

I haven't watched any of Castle in ages - got as far as season five - but you can't have Castle without Becket!

I wish TV shows knew when to end. They always seem to be either cancelled too soon, before the story is adequately resolved, or else dragging on and on...

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

I think miniseries have a big advantage in having a fixed ending point, so the writers can tell the story and that's it. It won't get cut off in the middle, and it won't drag on and on forever.