Winter and Hawley said that viewers would really find it funny because the other characters in the show are not aware of the reunion of ‘Caskett.’
Hawley said that what they love about the situation is that now they are twisting the TV show where Rick and Kate are together, but the public face of them is still separate. He said that the situation allows the audience to be in on the joke with the couple. He added that it is going to be pretty delightful.
The second half of “Castle” shall also touch on the reason for the lengthy disappearance and memory loss of Rick Castle during the previous season.
It was Alexi Hawley who said about it during a recent interview. He said that the first half of Season 8 of “Castle” focused on the LokSat case but during the second half of the TV series, it would be the turn of Rick’s mysterious case to be on the spotlight.
Rick’s disappearance was featured during Season 7 and came about after an old prep school friend named Bilal broke free from al-Qaida and turned himself over to US intelligence. As part of his conditional surrender, he demanded to be turned over only to Rick Castle because he is the only one he trusts.
I would rather have an exciting story and a satisfying final episode than the other way around. Every episode should be made to be exciting and interesting but it looks like we are getting episodes that are only barely acceptable. The show runners should have been chained to a chair in front of a TV and made to watch seasons 1 – 5 so they would have known what made the series great. I feel that they still do not know because I understand that there is to be an episode of Castle, Alexis and Hayley going to LA leaving Beckett in NY – forcing them apart again instead of keeping them together where they excel.
With regard to the publicaly apart privately together “twist”, please do not use it for more than one episode because it will quickly become tiresome and boring.
With regard to Castle’s “lengthy” disappearance it was only 2 months. And I cannot in any manner rationalize how it could be connected to LokSat (except that the source of drugs discovered in LokSat might have come from Thailand). Or connected in any way to Beckett.
FYI, they weren’t married at the start of Season 8. They were married in episode 6 of Season 7. It was a low budget CGI scene with none of their friends present.
They lost 3M viewers after the Season 6 finale, when they pulled the plug on the their planned big wedding. They then lost another 2M viewers in Season 8 when they separated them. There is a complete disconnect with the fans.
Unfortunately I understand that episode 15 (or more) has been filmed and is “in the can” so the possibility of making corrections to their screwed up story line is getting smaller with each passing week. Although episodes are being written and filmed all I can find out about the future is who will be writing (or wrote) episodes 9 – 13 and that there will be an episode (14) where LokSat and Castle’s disappearance will be linked with some mention that Beckett may be linked to Castle’s disappearance. They may be afraid to tell us any more because it certainly seems foolish to pursue these story lines and we all might give up today. It certainly seems that the show runners have given up hope of salvaging the series in this season from the way they discuss the manner in which the final episode will be written.
It looks like are two arrogant show runners finally woke up at what they caused they there bold split and separation. And now they are going to try to make it what it should they been since episode 1 of season 8. At the end of episode 9 this separation of Rick and Kate should be over. If they would take a look at the Cartermatt polldaddy survey that is what a large percentage of the few fans you have left want. But I forgot we are only fans, and we really do not know what we want. Yes Castle has been up for cancellation before but Miller and Marlowe knew what fans fans wanted and we got past that point. These two do not have a clue. The separation would have worked better when they were not married, but they are and it makes no sense to stay apart. The bad guys just are not that dumb. So what is left of the wonderful love story of Castle is in the show runners hands, now are they going to fix what they completely messed in the first half of season 8. Do they have enough talent to do that, they have already told us on 11/24/2015 they did not have enough talent to write in a pregnant Kate. Maybe they need to have Miller and Marlowe come back and help.
I do not think this article is swayed the way The two Showrunners want it to be. They want Season 8 and are planning on Season 8. They are not conceding anything. ABC wants Castle back, and they have the real say. It will be helpful if Castle, Stana and Nathan can win PCA Awards this week. Castle needs some good press and the wonderful actors deserve these awards.
If ABC really wants the show back for a season 9, they need to come out with a statement saying that even if CASTLE does a 1.2 rating average for the 22 or so episodes, they will bring it back if Stana and Nathan want to return. I don’t think it can come back without Stana, but I could be wrong. The show runners(and possibly some of the writers) have to go. The season so far has been a disaster. Starting in January was the right thing to do. It would have given the show 2 months to build up ratings before Blindspot came back. 1 month isn’t enough. Can the show runners and writers fix the show with an extra month? I don’t know.
If I can watch episodes like in seasons 1 – 5 Castle would have no competition from Blindspot or any other show but that’s just me and that is what I ( and several million other fans) like. It seems as though the show runners do not understand very basic business practices – give the customers what they want and the customer is always right. What I would like would be to get rid of Vitram and Hayley because they have served no useful purpose because Casket could have done what little they did and better. Alexis should be given the PI business and phased out. Martha should join Casket from time to time as any mother would for a visit. Casket should be given more time ( with the absence of Vitram, Hayley and Alexis creating more time for them) like they used to do and excel at. I am ready for some real news as to what is planned instead of what we have been getting since episode 8 which has only been general conjecture repeated time and time again.
These writers are so egotistical that they don’t even care what the show watchers want. If we want suspense and intrigue there are plenty of other shows we can watch. We want the mystery and comedy and camaraderie of all these wonderful characters that the original writers gave us abd yes, the hints of sex also.
I love these characters and will definitely be watching on Feb 8.
I have loved this show from day 1. I agree, these new writers haven’t a clue what the fans see in this series and aren’t giving it to us. Please step it up, bring them together and stop with the separation. If you can’t write another Excellent season, get new writers.
Some one lost the original attraction to the show! The last season stunk! How many producers would love to have the ratings you threw away. If it is not broke, don’t fix it.