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To rail against the whole Beckett going to Washington plotline.

Now, obviously I haven’t seen any of S6 and I’ve avoided spoilers so I have no idea where they’re going with it, but what I saw in S5 really pissed me off.

To be clear, I have no problem with the idea of Beckett wanting more than to be a cop. She wants to be a secret agent or whatever we’re calling these people, more power to her. I don’t even mind the whole moving to Washington idea. If I actually believed for a second that they were going to change the landscape of the show dramatically and either send Beckett and Castle to Washington or send just Beckett to Washington and show Castle negotiating a long-distance relationship and also working with a new detective, I would sort of love it. I like shows that aren’t afraid to break the status quo. Of the major regulars on Stargate: SG-1, only two had their spots as regulars in all ten seasons. On Angel, they sent the characters in S5 to work for the firm that was a major bad villain in all the previous ones. Change is good if it’s done right.

To repeat, Beckett being ambitious is not a problem for me. She is a smart, tough, capable woman and if she wanted to be President all of a sudden, that would be fine with me. The problem is that ‘all of a sudden’ is exactly what this is. Wanting more than to be a cop has never been part of Beckett’s character. I mean, if this was S5 of Sleepy Hollow (I don’t know if there will be, but I’m sure you see what I mean) and Abbie Mills had gotten a job offer in Washington and told Crane to go get someone else to annoy, I would be a 100% with it. Abbie was introduced as a character who wanted more. She was on her way to Quantico and out of Sleepy Hollow when this whole thing started and she decided to put what she actually wanted on hold to save the world and all.

But we’ve been told over and over that what Beckett cares about is speaking for the little guy. She wants to stand up for the victim and the people who cared about them. She wants to get justice and find the truth no matter how powerful the forces standing against her. The dude working for the attorney general, on the other hand, didn’t appear to do any of that. He seemed like just another government lackey out for blood who didn’t really care who got hurt along the way- and he didn’t seem to care much about the truth either. I mean, think about it- the killer turned out to be a angry teenager. If Castle had been right and this was a government conspiracy, do we actually believe for a second that that guy wouldn’t have been the first to step in and cover it up? Not only was it my impression that this was the read the writers wanted me as a viewer to take on this guy, I thought that was Beckett’s impression as well- and suddenly this is her big dream job?

So, my take away message from all this? It’s a plot-device and nothing more. I mean, the whole last few episodes of the season were stupid little scenarios meant to show Beckett and Castle that they don’t appreciate their relationship enough. She’s standing on a bomb and they don’t appreciate their relationship enough. Ioan Gruffudd’s still got it even though we had our doubts after The Fantastic Four and they don’t appreciate their relationship enough. She could go to Washington if he doesn’t do something and THEY DON’T APPRECIATE THEIR RELATIONSHIP ENOUGH!!!

Really, Castle? Really? This show has so many great characters that I thought they might- you know- want to be true to them once in a while.

(Also, while I’m pissed off, can I just say WTF is going on with this IT girl? I know that Los Angeles would fall into the sea if there was ever an unattractive woman in show business, and I know that there are pretty nerds in this world, but couldn’t they at least slap a pair of eyeglasses on her or something and pretend like they were trying? I could be hanging out with the wrong kind of nerds- and if so please do tell me where the other kind live so that I may go and marvel at their hotness from afar because God knows I’m not sexy enough to be in their number- but it’s my impression that they either aren’t very good looking, or they are but they spent so many of their formative years being told that they weren’t that they sort of stopped trying, and if Esposito was making bedroom eyes at them would be more likely to wince and avert their eyes than smirk.)