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Getting caught up on Castle
Sep. 17th, 2013 10:23 pmI'm having fun, insofar as that goes.
I wasn't wild about Castle and Beckett getting together, not because I dislike the pairing particularly but because they'd been playing the will they or won't they one step forward and two steps back game forever and shows that do that don't tend to go in for the whole actual functional relationship thing. I'm talking about Wes/Fred of Angel (about which my heart is a little bit broken over to this day. "Happy relationships don't make good television." Sigh. Sometimes I hate you, Joss) vs. Chuck/Sarah of Chuck (they fell in love, they angsted, they dated, they got engaged, they got married and they were happy and it was beautiful and there is nothing wrong with that). Anyway, I'm maybe halfway through season 5 and I'm tentatively saying that they may prove me wrong. Which brings me to...
Esposito and Lanie. Why, God? Why? I mean, they don't really have any chemistry, their relationship would certainly have an effect on their work nearly as much as Castle and Beckett's would, and just- Why? What purpose does pairing them together serve? I don't object to Ryan and Jenny in the same way, because they're adorable- but that relationship wasn't really necessary either.
In the first season, one of the many things that I loved about Castle was that there was a het pairing in Castle/Beckett and a slash pairing in Esposito/Ryan that I could enjoy separate from one another, because I hate having to write off a canon relationship if I want to enjoy a slash one. We knew nothing about Ryan and Espositio outside their work, which made them basically blank canvases as far as their love lives went.
Now, I don't expect popular slash pairings to become canon. I don't even expect shows to introduce gay characters, though I really wish more shows would. I just wish that every once and a while writers would be okay leaving that open so we can fill in the gaps in our own way.
I wasn't wild about Castle and Beckett getting together, not because I dislike the pairing particularly but because they'd been playing the will they or won't they one step forward and two steps back game forever and shows that do that don't tend to go in for the whole actual functional relationship thing. I'm talking about Wes/Fred of Angel (about which my heart is a little bit broken over to this day. "Happy relationships don't make good television." Sigh. Sometimes I hate you, Joss) vs. Chuck/Sarah of Chuck (they fell in love, they angsted, they dated, they got engaged, they got married and they were happy and it was beautiful and there is nothing wrong with that). Anyway, I'm maybe halfway through season 5 and I'm tentatively saying that they may prove me wrong. Which brings me to...
Esposito and Lanie. Why, God? Why? I mean, they don't really have any chemistry, their relationship would certainly have an effect on their work nearly as much as Castle and Beckett's would, and just- Why? What purpose does pairing them together serve? I don't object to Ryan and Jenny in the same way, because they're adorable- but that relationship wasn't really necessary either.
In the first season, one of the many things that I loved about Castle was that there was a het pairing in Castle/Beckett and a slash pairing in Esposito/Ryan that I could enjoy separate from one another, because I hate having to write off a canon relationship if I want to enjoy a slash one. We knew nothing about Ryan and Espositio outside their work, which made them basically blank canvases as far as their love lives went.
Now, I don't expect popular slash pairings to become canon. I don't even expect shows to introduce gay characters, though I really wish more shows would. I just wish that every once and a while writers would be okay leaving that open so we can fill in the gaps in our own way.
